No kidding, I was offered all 4 for free, and when I realized what they were, I told her to Craigslist them and get some $$ for them. A year later she told me she didn't want the likes of people who look at Craigslist knowing she had good stuff, so, I could either take them or she was putting them on the curb.
Wound up with the speakers and some early 80s electronics to make all 4 speakers a quad system. I use the Cornwalls with the Sony big screen, and the pair of Heresys are upstairs on a smaller stereo system.
The most intense aspect of the Cornwalls is both cats are not declawed, have access to them (alternating days) and neither has sharpened their claws on them. I do take the precaution of grinding their claws down, but they could still do some damage, but I've trained them enough they aren't tempted.
They share a cardboard sharpening pad and a scratching post, and I think the dynamic between the two of them keeps them both using the same fixtures, and not the speakers, as neither one of them has ever tried, so no scent to attract the other.
#2 was easy enough to train, just yelled "NO GODDAM IT!!" about 3 times when he got within 3 feet of either of them and that was it for him. #1 is CONSTANTLY looking for food (despite weighing 15 lbs) and the Cornwalls are, even by his generous standards, totally inedible, and he has no interest in them.
The Cornwalls are connected to a modest Yamaha receiver (pretty much set for 'straight thru' and sources are an older Sony blu-ray (made when they still put all the damn jacks on them), a DirecTV Genie, and a DISH HDDVR.
I realize the Cornwalls should be hooked up to a really decent turntable, but that is down the road, hopefully in a few years and after a remodel for that part of the house. They are probably not sonically immaculate, but I have some old cassettes with party mix tapes made by a dear friend who passed 30 years ago, and I'd like to resurrect a cassette deck and listen to them again. I've got a decent JVC unit, not quite a Nakamichi, but it was affordable to me at the time, and it's not one of those dual cassette clusterfucks. probably should hook it up and see if it works. It did 2 years ago, let a neighbor use it to copy some tapes her kids had made when they were little to something more modern.
It doesn't work anymore, (and no parts to fix it) but I've got a Toshiba PCM recorder and quite a few digital mix tapes I made from CDs back in the 80s. LOL, I still have the CDs, I should just recreate them, but it would be fun to play the ones I made back then. Those tapes do have an auxillary Hi-Fi audio track, and the Toshiba unit did them simultaneously on the same tape, but there's a quirk in how the Toshiba handled the audio on that side of the machine and the fade-outs and fade-ins aren't 'right' even if they are listenable. And the Hi-Fi tracks, while analog, actually spec'd out pretty good. The challenge playing them today is finding a VHS Hi-Fi VCR with either no, or defeatable auto-volume on playback. I think I have a Mits that will do that, but it's not hooked up to anything these days.
I did take care when making the PCM recordings to 'peak scan' the CD tracks individually and adjust the record level accordingly to maximize the S/N ratio. Never dreamt of course, where audio would be in 30 years; compression, little tiny (and tinny) speakers, and host of other oddities. My goal then (and now) was to 'perfect' (within the funds I had available) the 'college dorm room sound' that represented what I was in to when my tastes in such things 'froze'.
LOL, compare the paucity of effort it takes a kid these days to fill up an Ipod with music from the internet, to the onerous ordeal I had to go through to make an 8 hour digitally copied mix tape in the late 80s. Hell, I have some mix tapes made from actual vinyl too, but I never had a turntable that cost more than a few hundred bucks.
Those were the days . . . .
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