Getting fit (ish) again
It's amazed me how much a couple of weeks more or less in a hospital bed, a dose of nasty chemicals and a touch of kindergarten snuffles has knocked it out of me. Susan has kept me on my back legs tromping up and down the path at JBL - we're now up to a lap and a half (the long half, the clubhouse not quite being in the middle) a day now as well as much tromping up and down the basement stairs to retrieve things and put things away.
Yesterday I decided to upgrade the speakers on our main television. Oddly enough, Samsung (and, I suspect, all television makers) don't put external speaker sockets on their televisions. Maybe they regard that as confessing that their built in speakers are crap. So Plan B was called for - disembowel a pair of computer speakers to get at the amplifier and hook up a decent pair of speakers to it, bypassing the cruddy speakers that are in most computer speakers. Then plug it into the headphone socket. The sound is noticeably better but still muddy so I may yet be reduced to buying a soundbar or building a decent stereo amp. I was somewhat horrified to discover how knackered I was after doing this relatively simple job. OK, it did involve walking up and down to the basement a few times (30 stairs in each direction) and a bit of lugging around of furniture to get at the power sockets behind the television but I felt like I'd played a couple of games of rugby. Can't wait to see how the sound is for "Victoria" tonight - yet another TV series whose producer thought I would much rather hear loud music than hear the dialog.
Yesterday I decided to upgrade the speakers on our main television. Oddly enough, Samsung (and, I suspect, all television makers) don't put external speaker sockets on their televisions. Maybe they regard that as confessing that their built in speakers are crap. So Plan B was called for - disembowel a pair of computer speakers to get at the amplifier and hook up a decent pair of speakers to it, bypassing the cruddy speakers that are in most computer speakers. Then plug it into the headphone socket. The sound is noticeably better but still muddy so I may yet be reduced to buying a soundbar or building a decent stereo amp. I was somewhat horrified to discover how knackered I was after doing this relatively simple job. OK, it did involve walking up and down to the basement a few times (30 stairs in each direction) and a bit of lugging around of furniture to get at the power sockets behind the television but I felt like I'd played a couple of games of rugby. Can't wait to see how the sound is for "Victoria" tonight - yet another TV series whose producer thought I would much rather hear loud music than hear the dialog.
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