I grew up with electronic products from 25-30 years ago, which had a very distinctive aestethic and flavor of bad. Today, they are old enough to start attracting interest and collectors, so it's worth having a look back to remind ourselves what we are dealing with. A short time ago, I tried using a set of 2.1 PC speakers that had spent their whole life in the retail box because of a broken cable. This had been forced by a temporary issue with my usual 2.1 Creative system, whi

Bootstrapping is great , I said as much myself. Sometimes that love gets a bit too far, sometimes you build a whole career on it. Either...

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Anyone who has done any considerable amount of repairs and troubleshooting knows the importance of having a signal generator. For audio...

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