Today’s restore visit.

[petek]

Here’s some pictures of the stuff available in our local Habitat for Humanity restore. An interesting.Haier portable washer for $75 Canadian about $50 US amongst other things.

 

[petek]

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[phillymatt53]

That dining room set with the highback chairs looks a lot like mine.

 

[petek]

They always have lots of dining sets and china cabinets and I doubt they sell most of them even when they have their 50% off sales.. Actually if you see something you really like and speak to the manager they usually will drop the price . There's a steady stream of great stuff going through here, like why would you buy a table saw or drill press new when you can pick one up here for a song.

 

[jmm63]

We have a ReStore not too far from here. But it doesn't have nearly as much nice stuff as yours does. It's always super busy but it's a lot of junk that really should be thrown away. I guess it's one of those places you have to pop in frequently.

 

[Alan]

There's some nice stuff there, and some stuff that reminds me of my parents' furniture.

 

[cfz2882]

That console stereo is a quite late model one,~1978-82.

 

[goatfarmer]

They closed our local HfH resale store. Closest one is about 20 miles away, but they usually have some decent pickings.

 

[philcobendixduo]

I wanted to donate a solid wood bedroom set (dresser, mirror, chest of drawers, full headboard/footboard, night stand) to my local H.H. Restore.
They wouldn't take it.
They said it was "too old" (it was from the late 1960's).
I ended up selling it cheap on Craigslist.

 

[good-shepherd]

We have a ReStore not too far from here. But it doesn't have nearly as much nice stuff as yours does. It's always super busy but it's a lot of junk that really should be thrown away. I guess it's one of those places you have to pop in frequently.

That must be the Restore in Dover. When they first opened years ago prices and selection were good.

Then word got out, now its usually overrun with mostly third worlders picking over the bones of stuff that didn't sell at estate sales and garage sale rejects at jacked up prices.

 

[petek]

There's very little to no trashy stuff here at our Restore. If the furniture is in good shape regardless of age they'll take it. Even have free pickup for larger stuff. They don't take tv/stereo entertainment units any longer because a few years ago they were being overloaded with the things. What surprises me is how often they'll get a complete kitchen which has been removed from a remodelling job somewhere in town and the cabinetry/countertops look better and are newer than what most people have,, usually it's very high end. My sister bought a kitchen someone had donated, beautiful cabinets and countertops for less than $2000 and had a friend good at carpentry fit it to her kitchen... probably saved about $15,000. I go a few times a week because you never know what's going to be there.

 

[good-shepherd]

wanted to donate a solid wood bedroom set (dresser, mirror, chest of drawers, full headboard/footboard, night stand) to my local H.H. Restore.
They wouldn't take it.

Yeah, those types of items don't usually sell at estate sales either unless they're high quality mid modern pieces in very good condition. Along with China Hutch/Cabinets.

 

[reactor]

I have shared this before, but my 1st cousin, Robert Woods was the founder and owner of Tel-Arc Records He was the first to have a digital recording onto vinyl in 1978, in the U.S. I have his first two digital albums released. On the back of his first album cover is a picture of the D/A converter. It was rather large, taking up a good part of a tabletop. Nowadays, this would fit on a chip.

I made the mistake one day of saying something to the effect when listening to music digital music you are not listening to the true waveforms created by the music, as you are in analog, but only listening to a computer's representation/recreation of the music based on it's sampling of the waveform. My implication was there are subtle ambiances that may be missed missed between the sampling and the recreation of a similar waveform. Apparently, he thought I was putting down his process and he was not happy with my comments.

Tel-Arc was very successful primarily (but not entirely) in the classical area of musical recording, and made an early switch from digital vinyl recordings to the then fledgling compact disk. Unfortunately, Tel-Arc foundered with changes in the music industry ( streaming, mp3, etc.) in the early 2000, and in 2008 he took a very lucrative offer from Concord Music and sold them Tel-Arc. It was a sad time, but my cousin Bobby left a nice legacy, 13 Grammys of which 7 were for "Producer of the Year, Classical." Personally, I will always be a fan of analog from start to finish (recording to vinyl printing with no digital processing in between), however, I must say digital was very good to my cousin and he is to be
commended for his foresight and having the first digital recordings released in the U.S.A.
Sadly, I can't tell him I am proud of him as he is in the clutches of Alzheimer's Disease.

 

[phillymatt53]

I have shared this before, but my 1st cousin, Robert Woods was the founder and owner of Tel-Arc Records He was the first to have a digital recording onto vinyl in 1978, in the U.S. I have his first two digital albums released. On the back of his first album cover is a picture of the D/A converter. It was rather large, taking up a good part of a tabletop. Nowadays, this would fit on a chip.

I made the mistake one day of saying something to the effect when listening to music digital music you are not listening to the true waveforms created by the music, as you are in analog, but only listening to a computer's representation/recreation of the music based on it's sampling of the waveform. My implication was there are subtle ambiances that may be missed missed between the sampling and the recreation of a similar waveform. Apparently, he thought I was putting down his process and he was not happy with my comments.

Tel-Arc was very successful primarily (but not entirely) in the classical area of musical recording, and made an early switch from digital vinyl recordings to the then fledgling compact disk. Unfortunately, Tel-Arc foundered with changes in the music industry ( streaming, mp3, etc.) in the early 2000, and in 2008 he took a very lucrative offer from Concord Music and sold them Tel-Arc. It was a sad time, but my cousin Bobby left a nice legacy, 13 Grammys of which 7 were for "Producer of the Year, Classical." Personally, I will always be a fan of analog from start to finish (recording to vinyl printing with no digital processing in between), however, I must say digital was very good to my cousin and he is to be
commended for his foresight and having the first digital recordings released in the U.S.A.
Sadly, I can't tell him I am proud of him as he is in the clutches of Alzheimer's Disease.

Barry, thanks for that!

Here's the thing that most people do not consider or know anything about.

First, sound travels through the air in waves..... analog waves.
Human ears, and other living creatures hear the analog waves as sounds, because humans hear and speak in "Analog".
Audio speakers produce sound..... in Analog.

Introducing "Digital" into the mix, regardless of how advanced it has become, is messing with the Original Analog signal.... period.
And further, changing it back into an Analog signal requires even more work, in order for a speaker to reproduce the sound.

I've seen plenty of audio sites that argue the point that digital is "better'.
And yes, it does sound nice....... if processed enough.
There's the key - the processing of the original sound.
And I don't give two craps who insists that I'm barking up a tree about this.
Lord knows I've had plenty of those "audiophiles" argue with me already.

Because the LESS you "mess" with the Original sound, the better.
Of course, marketing, the birth of CD's, all contributes to people believing that it's better.

I could put my Original second pressing, pristine copy of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" on my turntable and it would blow you away compared to any processed version.