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Anon hangs out with a coworker (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

I mean film is a family hobby. My dad spent forever building his dream sound system, and I built my "fuck yeah it works" system out of his discards (I have to recognize hardly anyone falls into great sound systems the way I did but by crab god, I'm a musician if I'm going to treat anything it's my ears). I got a decent working 5.1 system of 25 years old cones and tweeters, just spent some money a few years back to buy a severely outdated receiver because the one I had (have technically. still gotta clean it up and take down to the relic shoppe) was made before hdmi and was having difficulty communicating with modern devices over optical audio.

I guess my point (I need more coffee once already had too much) We decorate offa the things we do there. If his home is his goon cave, give him better things to do (help him goon)

[–] joan@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

what

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

guess my point (I need more coffee once already had too much) We decorate offa the things we do there. If his home is his goon cave, give him better things to do (help him goon)

[–] how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 2 points 20 hours ago

I mean film is a family hobby. My dad spent forever building his dream sound system,

Sounds like my mother. She was a film maker, worked on a lot of big films.

So upset she decided to get rid of 60 years of speakers and gear to the local hifi shop instead of her son (and we were by no means estranged or with some weird broken relationship ie I'm leaching off of her).

Just discovered it was all gone when I spent 3 months watching her die (too late for recriminations when the cancer has adled their brain).

and I built my "fuck yeah it works" system out of his discards (I have to recognize hardly anyone falls into great sound systems the way I did but by crab god, I'm a musician if I'm going to treat anything it's my ears). I got a decent working 5.1 system of 25 years old cones and tweeters,

Yup. Took her speaker shopping and had to watch her grimace cause all I could afford was some shitty Yamaha kit. Thanks Ma. You could have given your son something out of your vast dragons hoard. Maybe the Tanoy studio monitors that you had sitting in the spare room???

just spent some money a few years back to buy a severely outdated receiver because the one I had (have technically. still gotta clean it up and take down to the relic shoppe) was made before hdmi and was having difficulty communicating with modern devices over optical audio.

Got her outdated circa 2000, albeit, $3k Yamaha receiver because she had it as her editing den system (and she passed before she could break the room down).

We had goddam electrostatic speakers, 1 metre wide for godsake. I thought I'd be passing them down to my son and so on. But noooo she had to sell them along with the valve amps and solid state amps she built.

Sigh.

Goddam parents.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 23 hours ago

If his home is his goon cave, give him better things to do (help him goon)

True gooners give fellow gooners a helping hand.

And yes, that pun is 100% intended.