You Know You Are Old When

[DFB]

And...?

 

[DFB]

Funny what you do hang on to over time.
Then again I have some tools from my teens.

Interesting comment

I still have a Metric SK 3/8" socket set I bought off my younger brother when he joined the army

I think that was like 45 years ago now

 

[sixdogs]

Exactly. Everyone knows you need a stack of components in a glass-front floor-standing cabinet, about chest high, and at least one pair of enormous 3-way speakers the size of small filing cabinets.

Put The Wall on the turntable, turn up the volume, and turn down the lights...

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How very true. Coming off the mono-sound of the 1960's and before, the stereo component system and 5 ft speakers of the early 70's gave a definition of sound that kids today will likely never know. I still have my system in the basement because nothing tops that sound. You can hear every string bend and every note was clear and crisp. The sound was magic.

 

[WinterDeere]

...it's like all wireless BT speakers now along with online streaming and satellite radio.

Yep. My house was done before the wireless BT speakers became a thing, and I suspect those probably have too many lag/phasing issues when trying to arrange as many as we have in this large house, so ours is all hard-wired to the utility room in the basement. Miles, and miles, and miles of wiring, to two big banks of impedance transformers, to match the 4 ohm output of each amp to the much lower impedance of many paralleled speakers.

If you have the ability to pull wire, I'd still favor that over going wireless, even today. Our system was actually set up by a local pro audio company for the prior owner of the house, but I've since expanded and improved it. I haven't counted speakers recently, but it's roughly 30, with about 20 indoors on one WiFi amplifier and another 10 outdoors on a separate WiFi amp. Bulletproof, no pairing or drop-out issues between speakers, etc.

The app that drives them allows us to run them together or separately, and they take streaming or wired inputs, so we can still play a CD or old iPod if someone brings one over. Mostly, we drive it thru Amazon music, and have something different playing out by the pool versus indoors.

My state of the art CD collection is pretty much boxed away.

Mine have been sitting in four large (20" cube) boxes in the basement. I started giving some away, because I'm not even sure they're worth selling. I think there were close to 800 CD cases, many of them doubles or even the occasional triple album, when I boxed it all up.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

I have at least four sets of stereo speakers stored away as the power units all gave up the ghost (cd player stopped working etc.), I kept all the speakers thinking I wire them up through out the place one day

Ya right it's like all wireless BT speakers now along with online streaming and satellite radio. I just replaced my SUV and no more CD player.

My state of the art CD collection is pretty much boxed away.
Gone the way of old vinyl it seems.

And, if you're an engineer, you will design and build your own Bluetooth receivers to power the old speakers rather than just buy Bluetooth speaker sets.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

Yep. My house was done before the wireless BT speakers became a thing, and I suspect those probably have too many lag/phasing issues when trying to arrange as many as we have in this large house, so ours is all hard-wired to the utility room in the basement. Miles, and miles, and miles of wiring, to two big banks of impedance transformers, to match the 4 ohm output of each amp to the much lower impedance of many paralleled speakers.

If you have the ability to pull wire, I'd still favor that over going wireless, even today. Our system was actually set up by a local pro audio company for the prior owner of the house, but I've since expanded and improved it. I haven't counted speakers recently, but it's roughly 30, with about 20 indoors on one WiFi amplifier and another 10 outdoors on a separate WiFi amp. Bulletproof, no pairing or drop-out issues between speakers, etc.

The app that drives them allows us to run them together or separately, and they take streaming or wired inputs, so we can still play a CD or old iPod if someone brings one over. Mostly, we drive it thru Amazon music, and have something different playing out by the pool versus indoors.


Mine have been sitting in four large (20" cube) boxes in the basement. I started giving some away, because I'm not even sure they're worth selling. I think there were close to 800 CD cases, many of them doubles or even the occasional triple album, when I boxed it all up.

I'm well past 2000 CDs, and occasionally buy more, if Amazon will "auto-rip" them to my digital library. And I hang onto the CDs so I can argue "fair use doctrine" for all of the mp3 files I ripped from them.

I'm currently going through the deceased Brother in Laws CD collection, of over 3,000, because he would get cash from the bank, and hide it inside the cases. Over $1000 so far. We didn't figure out he did that until we had boxed up about 1500 and dropped one on the floor. It popped open, and three twenty-dollar bills fell out. We started checking others and were over $500 in the next few hundred cases.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

Interesting comment

I still have a Metric SK 3/8" socket set I bought off my younger brother when he joined the army

I think that was like 45 years ago now

I have a Stanley tenon marking gauge, I bought at a hardware store which was closing when I was about six, would have been 1961 or 1962. I had carved my initials in it, before Dad took it from me. When we were cleaning up after Mom died, one of my brothers wanted to claim it thinking it had been Dad's. My initials, my tool.

And, I still have the 3/8 metric socket set, I bought in 1973 so I could work on my typing teachers Toyota Corolla. It is however missing the 12-mm.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

I knew I was old when:

I was walking through a mall, up ahead was a fine-looking young woman with a toddler, and her mom pushing a younger one in a stroller. She looked really familiar. After a few minutes I realized that Grandma was a cheer leader I went to high school with. I knew I was old.

 

[DFB]

And, I still have the 3/8 metric socket set, I bought in 1973 so I could work on my typing teachers Toyota Corolla. It is however missing the 12-mm.

HAHAHA so was mine missing the 12mm deep

I sneaked in a replacement one from TSC...markings are so similar almost can't tell the difference

You have to wonder where do they go?


These days its always seems it's the 10mm that goes AWOL

And they sell those in multiples now

 

[LouNY]

Don't think so, but until last year I still had a full USAF uniform hanging there for no reason other to remind me how much thinner I used to be. Been there through many homes over the last 40 years. Funny what you do hang on to over time.
Then again I have some tools from my teens.

Just noticed I have some military boots from those days I wear when all else is too wet to wear.

Carried a Marine Class A uniform around for many years and not a chance in heck that it would ever have fit again.