my harman kardon avr 525 actually works very well, i just doesn't work all that well for me.
i had a harman kardon avr 5 and i really liked it so after a few years i upgraded to an avr 45. i liked the avr 45 so much i upgraded to an avr 525. these upgrades took place in the days when i was drinking a little too much. alcohol and music just seem to go together. the avr 525 works really well when it's set up correctly but it can be a real pain in the arse when the wrong button is pressed.
after i had it for a while it developed a nasty humming sound. after finally reading the manual i learned that static builds up around the high current amp and you have to unplug it for a while to let things settle down. fair enough, but somehow i often lost the settings i liked when pulling the plug and there must be hundreds if not thousands of different combinations of sound, equipment etc. this was fine when sonny was around to fix things. alas, he's gone.
a few days ago i noticed the static building up so i decided to pull the plug to let things settle down. it's not easy to pull the plug, there are tons of wires and there's not much room between the unit and the wall. also, i have this feckin dvd recorder plugged into the avr 525 that i never use, i just like the clock. every time i unplug the avr 525 the clock on the dvd recorder has to be reset and that isn't easy for me. so after getting rid of the annoying humming noise i sat down to watch a movie. the sound was terrible so i spent an eternity trying to get the right setting. i just couldn't get it to sound right. after a few days of aggravation i figured it out. i stepped on a feckin speaker wire while unplugging it and one speaker became disconnected. somehow having one speaker disconnected threw everything else out of kilter rather than just losing sound in the one speaker. the feckin thing is driving me nuts!!
the end of this clip is what i feel like doing.
of course the kirby would clean up the mess.
15 comments:
GOTTA love the electronics...at least that's what MY wife says...
I digress.
I still have no idea want a harman kardon avr 525 is and I have no need to know.
Hell, my boom box is 25 years old and it's all I use other than the radio in my truck that I also seldom listen to except for when I slip a George Carlin disk into it.
I like the music of a stream when I'm camping.
So that's how SCTV started. I couldn't get it where I was and I miss John Candy.
My $39 DVD player works pretty good and I have so much ringing in my ears that I can't see spending money on a great sound system when I can't tell the difference. Besides I spend most of my time doing away with annoyances in my life.
My Step Dad still has my first stereo with a record player and 8 track player. He still listens to his old tapes and LP's on it.
To be honest, I'm suspicious of the name Harman Kardon, which is almost anagram for Hard-on Karma. You know where you are with a Japanese product.
heff - electronic, can't live with them, can't live without them.
billy - i have no need to know about a 25 year old boom box.
mr wit - john candy was the king. i can watch the xmas special with johnny larue a million times and still laugh.
gorilla - hard-on karma! i like it.
We have a wonderful surround sound in our shop. But it and I do not get along very well if I want to play a video. It takes 3 remotes used in a certain order with a menu that may have been created by the Chinaman who pees on things.
Somewhere some geek who designs these things is laughing.
I too miss John Candy.
for once me and bbc feel the same..I don't know what it is..and gone 66 years without knowing what it is and not worried about it..but i sure did love the video..didn't they look so young? sigh*
Hard-on karma! That must be why it keeps having problems. Maybe it needs some Voltage Viagra.
I just had another one of my brain farts, some are amazing and some aren't.
Anyway, if it's dust on things that are giving you grief why bother to turn it off.
Take that leaf blower to the guts of that baby, that is if the Kirby with the hoses reversed can't cut the mustard.
We have a wonderful surround sound in our shop.
I'll be that when she goes camping she leaves her cell phone turned on.
ananda - i've heard the rug is not the issue.
yellowdog - i find myself agreeing withe billy more and more. he must be up to something.
mr wit - i was thinking a nice dip in the bath tub might take away it's hard on.
billy - i do use the kirby to vacuum the dust off the top of the receiver.
It is amazing how things work themselves out isn't it? Well I am glad you didn't go nuts and it is all good now. The older I get the less and less I feel comfortable around my electronics. It is all getting so complicated.
If your amp has a ground connection on the back, and you don't have it grounded out, your shit's always gonna sound fucked up, especially if the amp uses tubes. The interference will sound like a loud hiss/rumble or 60HZ AC hum. To remedy this (assuming Canada uses 60HZ AC like US) find a length of thick stranded wire and run from the GND terminal on the back of your set to the center screw on the closest electrical outlet.
mr shife - amen to that. i always thought life was supposed to get less complicated as we aged. live and learn.
ted - thanks for the tip.
In order to get itunes on my tv, I wifi from computer 1 to computer 2 to the tv then i turn on the amp, & lo surround sound. any deviance from the correct order produces chaos. my last hd installer nearly had a stroke when he saw the jumble of wires he had to deal with. maybe total hdmi will solve the problem...
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