26 Apr
2012
26 Apr
'12
11:40 a.m.
Every few years I see what's happening in the
audiophool arena. It
seems to be getting worse, not better. Another portent of the end of
civilisation as we know it?
It would eb amusing if only people didn't believe it...
I always find looking at the manuals to be instructive. The manual for a
modern radio tuner I looked at had many pages on how to use the
controls. And that was it. The manual for my old tuner has 1 page on how
to connected it up and how to use the single control (RF tuning). It then
has a dozen pages on how to align the thing (which requries a calibrated
signal generator and a double-beam 'scope). Follwed by parts lists,
chassis photographs showing the position of all the components, and, of
course, a scheamtic.
-tony