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[mandrix]

Sony 4K 65" OLED TV. Panasonic 60" 1080P plasma crapped out after 17 years.

Next project: 4K Blu-Ray player w/SACD.

Sure outpaces my recent purchase. All I could fit in the space in the audio room was a 43 inch. I went with a cheapo Roku, but it serves as my pc monitor and concert viewer.
So it had to fit between my audio gear and a closet door, barely.
I leave the "big ass tv" to my wife in the living room save maybe an hour of watching at night myself.
It's all good, all I need. Only took two factory resets on the AVR to recognize it was 4K. lol.

 

[Horbus]

BTW, LG manufactures all the OLED panels for other brands as well, I believe, SONY included!

Correct!

 

[Horbus]

Next project: 4K Blu-Ray player w/SACD.

Perfect match then would be the Sony UBP X800 M2 as multiplayer!

 

[Marplot]

This AC Infinty fan has been installed above my AVR.
Wow it does a stellar job keeping it at temp without fan noise.
I can already feel the difference between hours of music before and after I got it; the room is also cooler.

 

[gene_stl]

Not long ago my Samsung flat screen had another LED strip go out so I bought an LG OLED at Costco. Upped the size a little too.
Very happy with it. I am going to repair the Samsung both because that is what I do and also because it has 3D capability which is largely unavailable.
But the OLED is staying in the Bedroom where we mainly watch.

 

[mandrix]

Not long ago my Samsung flat screen had another LED strip go out so I bought an LG OLED at Costco. Upped the size a little too.
Very happy with it. I am going to repair the Samsung both because that is what I do and also because it has 3D capability which is largely unavailable.
But the OLED is staying in the Bedroom where we mainly watch.

Was not an OLED, but I had an LG 55" go out a few years ago, replaced both boards and.....NADA. I didn't feel like fooling with the LED's and chunked it.
Note I'm not a TV repair guy.
I have stayed at Holiday Inn though.

 

[DaveLaPorte53]

Sony 4K 65" OLED TV. Panasonic 60" 1080P plasma crapped out after 17 years.

Next project: 4K Blu-Ray player w/SACD.

if you buy a Sony Blu-ray player it will play SACD's, as a nod to their tech.

 

[barfle]

Got one side of my Marantz CD400B working yesterday. At least the test point showed a demodulated signal and the radar light came on with a 30kHz pilot provided to the phono inputs. The other side still needs some signal tracing. Found one break - considering bypassing the “direct out” switch - who would ever use that?

That Intek ‘scope has everything in it but a capacitance meter!

 

[gene_stl]

Was not an OLED, but I had an LG 55" go out a few years ago, replaced both boards and.....NADA. I didn't feel like fooling with the LED's and chunked it.
Note I'm not a TV repair guy.
I have stayed at Holiday Inn though.

When I used to travel, in very sharp contrast to my colleagues, who always tried to stay at the most spensive hotels to run their rewards programs up, I was in the great midwest, and center of the country a lot , and usually stayed at Holiday Inns. On the fireplace mantel, is a German Junghans atomic clock that I bought from their PriorityClub ( I think that is what they called it). It was so new,, that the guy on the other end of the phone (which shows you how long ago it was that there WAS a guy on the other end of the phone) , hadn't even seen it yet but it actually was in stock and it is still ticking away right on the second. Again to show how long ago it was, it was about a $450 dollar item when it first came out. Now of course they are free.
But I am the kind of laboratory nut that when I saw it available I knew I had to have one. And as luck would have it, I had just the right amount of Points in my Priority Club account.

I still think of Holiday Inn fondly.

 

[mandrix]

When I used to travel, in very sharp contrast to my colleagues, who always tried to stay at the most spensive hotels to run their rewards programs up, I was in the great midwest, and center of the country a lot , and usually stayed at Holiday Inns. On the fireplace mantel, is a German Junghans atomic clock that I bought from their PriorityClub ( I think that is what they called it). It was so new,, that the guy on the other end of the phone (which shows you how long ago it was that there WAS a guy on the other end of the phone) , hadn't even seen it yet but it actually was in stock and it is still ticking away right on the second. Again to show how long ago it was, it was about a $450 dollar item when it first came out. Now of course they are free.
But I am the kind of laboratory nut that when I saw it available I knew I had to have one. And as luck would have it, I had just the right amount of Points in my Priority Club account.

I still think of Holiday Inn fondly.View attachment 112598

Last stay at a Holiday Inn, I managed to lock the keys in my Z28. I was trying to fish the door open with a coathanger when some management dude came out and told me stop. I said well call a locksmith or a cop then, whoever, I'll pay for it.
Was a big deal to them.
Locksmith came out and wanted cash. I said Debit or CC or I'm back with the coathanger.
I somehow managed to piss off several people trying to get into my own car. So it goes. lol.

 

[MidiMagic]

My Mixer Geek Theremin

 

[barfle]

When I used to travel, in very sharp contrast to my colleagues, who always tried to stay at the most spensive hotels to run their rewards programs up, I was in the great midwest, and center of the country a lot , and usually stayed at Holiday Inns. On the fireplace mantel, is a German Junghans atomic clock that I bought from their PriorityClub ( I think that is what they called it). It was so new,, that the guy on the other end of the phone (which shows you how long ago it was that there WAS a guy on the other end of the phone) , hadn't even seen it yet but it actually was in stock and it is still ticking away right on the second. Again to show how long ago it was, it was about a $450 dollar item when it first came out. Now of course they are free.
But I am the kind of laboratory nut that when I saw it available I knew I had to have one. And as luck would have it, I had just the right amount of Points in my Priority Club account.

I still think of Holiday Inn fondly.View attachment 112598

My dad had a self-setting clock that I ended up with after he died a couple of years ago. My mom had replaced the batteries but (her eyesight was never bery good) put them in backwards. When I got them in correctly, the hands moved to 12:00 and sat there for quite a while. I got tired of watching nothing happen, but later, it was showing the same time as my phone.

Cool.

In other news, I found a bad capacitor in the other channel of my CD-400B, and both test points show a lovely demodulated 400Hz signal. The manual has a few more tuneups, showing me what waveforms ought to look like, but if they tell me where those waveforms are to be found, I haven’t seen that instruction. But I’m getting closer!