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I have a decent hi-fi system in my office, but recently the tuner has been giving trouble. Occasionally, for no apparent reason, the left channel on a stereo broadcast just cuts out. As I only listen to one station, and just for background music at that, I decided to stick a one input, two output (or vice versa) stereo RCA switch into the link from the tuner to the preamp so the when the left channel dies I can just flip the switch and feed both channels of the preamp with the signal from the right channel of the tuner.
I got out the switch and my bits-box of hi-fi connectors to set about it. I found a selection Y (pairing) junctions and a bunch of gender-benders - and then sat there for twenty minutes fiddling with the stuff like a brain-dead dumbphuque trying to figure how to do it.
I did find a solution after about twenty minutes, but what would your solution be - it's almost certainly going to be better than mine!
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Open the tuner and check the solder joints. Intermittent problems are often something getting hot and failing, or causing a bad joint to fail. When it all cools, it works again.
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I've had the lid off a couple of times, and re-seated all the (many) connectors and used a contact cleaner on them. As it was a top-of-the-line job when I bought it, I would be surprised if it were a solder joint - in any event, there are literally hundreds of joints on the main board and they all look good.
I suspect the problem will go away after a while, because it was sat in a cupboard for ten years as there were no FM stations worth listening to, but there is now a classical music and jazz station which I found by accident on my car radio. The periods between failure are getting longer, and usually now a few seconds off fixes it. I suspect it may be a dodgy electrolytic, but there are a lot of them to check!
Anyway, where's your wiring diagram? 
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Wiring diagrams are for pussies! 
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Real engineers don't read manuals. (And before anyone jumps in, yes they can read  )
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Chris C-B wrote: but what would your solution be
Buy a new hi-fi? Or if your station does a webcast, hook up some speakers to your computer or mobile device?
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Here was I hoping for some nice elegant solution to replace my spaghetti nest of wires, and all I get.
Bah humbug! 
Actually, I can stream the same content from the web, but it is heavily compressed and sounds like it's coming from under a thick blanket. Anyway, hooking up some speakers isn't going to hack it. I've got a pair of Mark-Levinsons bi-amped to a pair of six foot hybrid/ribbon speakers, so putting anything through the PC, even with its Bang and Olufsen sound system, makes everything sound distinctly muddy. Turgid, even. 
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Chris C-B wrote: I have a decent hi-fi system
Reading your answer below, stating that it's consisting of a couple of Mark Levinson and some ribbon-speakers, I call that the understatement of the year. Bordering on Bullshit!
My question: With that equipment, why do you bother listening to the radio?
As there are no PCI soundcards having a decent sound quality I would get a phone with a decent DAC and load it up with flac files.
Yes there's at least one. LG G7 for example has an ESS ES9218P QUAD DAC[^]
There's a cheapo version out now with the same sound chip: LG G7 Fit, for half the price having last years processor and half the memory, which doesn't matter since it has a memory slot.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Reading your answer below, stating that it's consisting of a couple of Mark Levinson and some ribbon-speakers, I call that the understatement of the year. Bordering on Bullshit!
Yeah, well, I like to be a bit modest about these things. 
Jörgen Andersson wrote: My question: With that equipment, why do you bother listening to the radio?
The particular station I listen to is genuine 'broadcast quality', and is generally as good as CD. It is part of the national broadcasting setup, and has very good equipment. I like to listen to it as it can introduce me to classical music that I am not familiar with, without having to take a punt on a CD that I then decide I don't like.
Jörgen Andersson wrote: As there are no PCI soundcards having a decent sound quality I would get a phone with a decent DAC and load it up with flac files.
Yes there's at least one. LG G7 for example has an ESS ES9218P QUAD DAC[^]
There's a cheapo version out now with the same sound chip: LG G7 Fit, for half the price having last years processor and half the memory, which doesn't matter since it has a memory slot.
I am currently in the process of replacing all the MP3s I have with FLAC, and a decent 'phone is definitely on my shopping list, so thanks for that tip - I'll check it out. I shall keep the USB stick I use in my car full of MP3s, as in a beat-up old 4x4 with off-road tyres, the ambient noise is enough to make anything better an exercise in futility!
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If it's an apple hi-fi, the answer is obvious.
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Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943): With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.
Not just England, but all sides, all countries.
100 years on, and none are left that fought and survived.
That's no good reason to forget the horrific sacrifices made so that our modern world could exist.
We salute you, because that is all we can do.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Not just England, but all sides, all countries.
So, both the Turkish (NATO) side and the Kurds (NATO) side?
Read the War Prayer by Twain.
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Yes, at the Menin Gate. I was talking to our church organist this morning after the service and she told me that her grandfather's name is inscribed there.
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OriginalGriff wrote: That's no good reason to forget
Someone's quote: If you forget the past, you are dooming yourself to repeat the same errors
I hope it will never be forgotten.
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You're preaching to the converted. Send it to a certain nation's president (who shall remain nameless).
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Matthew Henry (1662 - 1714): None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
Presidents don't listen to me.
Heck, my wife doesn't listen to more than one word in three (and then makes up the other two).
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Be grateful for your one in three  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's actually worse than not listening at all.
Me: "Can't be done"
She hears: "*** *** done"
Assumes: "Consider it done"
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Mine's more like Harry Enfield's "Only Me!" character.
Damn the fool who made strangling your wife illegal!
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That's part of it; my wife assumes all tasks require zero time and zero money.
Heaven help me if I reply "One thing at a time, please."
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My thanks to each and all who contributed to a previous thread which I started on the topic of face recognition.
Today I encountered this page...
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-services/face-api/
It is a truly attractive deal, if I understand it; which I quite probably don't.
Short version: For small operators, Microsoft says they won't charge anything for their Face API.
If I'm reading their page properly, it appears that you get...
- 30,000 (thirty thousand) "transactions" per month
- A detection speed of twenty faces per minute
I'm still learning what a "transaction" is and I'm trying to figure out how their API would work with the other parts of the (currently non-existent) system in mind.
Truly, this looks like it could get us started on a really good system.
Then again, it also looks like great bait on a very sharp hook.
=== QUESTIONS FOR THE SMART BRIGADE ===
- Has any reader here taken Microsoft up on this offer ?
- What questions am I failing to ask ?
- Who else can provide such an API ?
- Do I really want someone else's API ?
- What do you know that I don't ?
- How hard is the API to incorporate ?
- e.g., How many lines of code did you have to write ? (e.g., to interface between the camera, the database, whatever)
- What do I need to know before I start talking to Microsoft ?
- What haven't I considered at this point ?
I'm the novice here, feel free to display superior knowledge. (Please, educate me)
modified 12-Nov-18 3:13am.
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