I can do a bit of the old DIY, I have the tools, I can build things, if the math is third grade level I can keep up which means I can follow directions and build by reading a schematic, but if anything is wrong I am in trouble. I see this Burson stuff and know I will be going over to Blue Ray, HDMI cables and that the chances of 5.1 analog outputs on the blue ray machine are next to nothing.
I am a tube guy and I am a Single Ended Tube guy. For music I like triodes and have a fairly good DIY built years ago that is a SRPP using 6SL7s and 300Bs. Solid state rectification, which I don't like, but it is what it is and I would have to pay someone else to change it or try myself and then pay someone to fix what I have done.
So here is the deal. I need to use the single IC Dig output from whatever Blue Ray (BR from now on, I am a slow, bad typer), so to repeat I need to use the dig output from the BR for my surround sound. Right now I am using stereo because I wanted to use a remote for controlling the sound, and the surround on the Denon I bought is terrible. Stereo not much better. I don't watch many movies and listen to very little music. Too bad as I used to all the time, and I have a lot of time.
What I want is a remote controlled preamp that gets it's signal via a dig IC that controls 5 tube amps and the special effects sub if I need to. I have biamped the front and have a pair of isobaric subs for the lows in my music and can switch those into the HT.
I will have the HT and stereo separate but in the same room.. Yea, it is a lot of gear and speakers but my wife lets me do it so I do.
I don't know where to start other than starting to get the amps together and deciding on what I want to do about the center channel, I might need a stereo amp for that or a SE and a PP as I might need to make some columns with a bunch of 3"ers and a few larger for the lows. I just don't know at this point.
AS far as the Burson technology should I start off with the machines like the DVD players first or start the 5.1 preamp, and the remote controlled volume. That one is a head scratcher. Anyone selling just a remote controlled pot I can use as a master doing the small adjustments on each module?
I am at the mono block with a 100K pot getting a signal direct from the DVD player stage. I have to get up and adjust knobs or use bad sounding gear. I do not like either one.
To start another question, just how far can one go to upgrade a CD/DVD player. I really like the first one I ever bought which is a Toshiba that holds 2 discs that was maybe 3G as far as DVD players go, but I always liked it for music CDs. I would like to keep using it if I can do some upgrades. And what happens when the drawer breaks? Can something like that be changed out even if I go single drawer? I think it is about 10 years old and I use it on disc repeat and wear earphones all night listening to a disc designed for deep sleep brain waves, so it is getting often as much as 10 hours of play a day, 7 days a week. And I don't need high end for this, just better than fair should work fine, I am sleeping through most of it anyway.Anybody know if the $30 Magnevox at Wallmart does disc repeat? I don't want to wear out the good sounding player over something that doesn't need truly HiFi. MidtoHiFi is good enough.
That is enough for my first post. This aught to be fun to do and hopefully to follow. I am restricted by brain power in that I have some real problem with even easy math. I am a sculptor, can work on cars, or could on the ones from the 60s and 70s, am a so so carpenter, can sweat pipes in plumbing, do simple wiring in the house, cast bronze, lots of things, but not Ohm's Law even with a calculator. Ouch!!!!
One thing on the personal side; I was diagnosed with severe congestive heart failure (Dilated Cardiomyopathy) and was given 6 to 18 months to live.........in 1991. I live on Social Security Disability so money is very, very tight. I can not hold up my end of the finances for 2 people to live on, with the Doctors, drugs, non prescription supplements, tools, books, cable, mortgage, car payment, food that won't kill you, well you get the idea. I can't spend much, it is hard to save for large purchases, so DIY, one step at a time is how I have to work this out. Another thing is that I bought more pieces of old military electrical stuff than one could imagine. I have enough stuff to build a lot of amps, caddies of tubes, potted chokes, huge oil caps, virgin chassis, I have it. Resisters, capacitors, pots, knobs, Speakers, and horn tweeters, compression drivers, way too much stuff that I don't know how to use. Stacks of books on learning electronics that make no sense to me. The books did not help. I was never any good at it and have been having to use pain killers for my back, which do make you stupid. Really, Sometimes I can barely complete sentences, so the chances I will all the sudden understand it are low, and that is being nice about it. In
Well I am going outside to split a stump of very hard and heavy wood that I plan on carving into things of great beauty that I will never sell. I actually feel fairly good after swinging the slege hammer for too long yesterday, before I started cutting out the wood for open baffle speakers to hook up to the 1st amp I ever built, out of parts of other amps and low quality parts from the closeout electrical store. Only one in Dallas and only 2 hours of bumper to bumper at 70 mph for a round trip. Scares me to death.
What is the price of gas today?
I read something posted on an audio group last night that stated if every person who reads this emails 10 people who then email 10 people that it wouldn't take long until everybody who is on the internet will get the message, which is, Do not buy gasoline from Exxon/Mobil. Not just for a day. That doesn't do a thing. Stop completely and the price at the pumps will go down. The corporation that had the highest profits in history and aren't slowing down are doing it with our money. The truth is that the consumer controls the market by who they buy from. If nobody is buying from the largest, the largest will drop their prices, if you still don't buy they will drop them more. It is our money, so if we buy together we can change things. Pretty simple, just don't buy from Exxon/Mobil and the price of gasoline will go down. $2 a gallon is fair.
Get Congress to make it illegal to put power steering in a family car and the SUVs will go away. I have owned small pick ups with long beds that did not have power steering and sometimes it was hard to park, but 99.9% of the time I didn't need it. No power steering, the size of the vehicle goes down, gas usage drops, less gas used, price goes down. $1 gallon sound good enough to let the giant SUVs go away?
Well now I have 2 things going...but the real thing is don't buy from Exxon/Mobil, pass it on. Put on those thinking caps and lets get me a $100K HT for $3K. I know it can be done. The only thing that should cost any kind of big money (to me) is the HD Flat Screen, 3D movies with surround powered with vacuum tubes and BIG transformers. Should be fun!
Thatch
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