MY CHANNEL has now largely CLOSED. I may upload the occasional video from time to time, however. Videos will remain live for as long as people still view. Thank you to everyone that has watched and contributed.
Sorry to hear Mike. I know a staph infection can be serious. Do take care. The only contact i have with people it seems is in a store and out. And so much can be had online, delivered to your door. Im making Amazon rich. Anyways, take good care, talk soon. Bill
Hi Mike! Yes, its crazy, isn't it. It was time for me to get new specs and sunglasses. The last time i got glasses, the sunglasses were 300 dollars. This place wanted 675 dollars just for sunglasses alone. I walked out. The next place i got both pairs for about 600. This is still exorbitant, given that the frames are probably made in China and cost a few dollars to make. What a racket. I should have been an optometrist!
Hi Bill, Sorry I've not been in touch of late. It's partly connected with THIS saga. After I returned for my last refund, which was delayed due to staff illness. One of the staff told me she had been ill with sore throat and off work. I was worried by this. Two days later I had Covid for the first time. While I cannot prove that's where I got it from, it's most likely, as I lead a hermit's life and keep well clear of people. I had 2 days of doing nothing, I just stayed in bed. I week later I'm negative now but still have a cough. That's my excuse Bill. Lots to catch up on for sure. Mike
I don't have a way to test this chip. I have tested quite a number of Quad boards in the past, they all measure much the same. It's just an old design, good in its day, slow by modern standards.
Just bought two of these NE 5532 preamp boards....... Capacitors present and still Fake Chips.... When I come to use them I'll cut out the capacitors ( 1.1nF) and put some genuine RS supplied chips...
Hi Mike, I've just done the exchange rate to £. I have my eyes tested by scrivens or specasavers in Rugeley Staffordshire. I then take the prescription to an independent spectacle manufacturers which is adjacent to the above mentioned. I have rimless variofocals with transitions lenses. They cost about £230-£250.
Not from Port Solent (from Milton Keynes) but it is great to see this time window into another decade and era. We had The Point and it was very similar back in the 80's/90's also being UCI.
Hi Vinay. I started with UCI, then AMC at Milton Keynes. It was one of the first multiplexes in the UK. Needless to say, it was a very busy cinema. My least favorite of the group.
@@MichaelBeeny What didn’t you like about it? The Point is now sitting there as a rusted, dilapidated former shadow of itself. Xscape opened in 2002 and dealt the death blow upon it.
@@vinaymulukutla358 When I first applied for a job with, the then AMC. I was sent to MK. I was horrified by what I had seen. They used ushers to act as projectionists. Zero presentation, zero training, zero skills. One moment they were sweeping the floors and selling popcorn, next showing films. Needless to say, they had major issues. Many damaged prints, wrong sound formats, wrong aspect ratio. I could go on. I thought if this was the future of cinema, it's not for me. I reported back to the main man with my notice. He was amazed at my comments. Anyway, to cut a VERY long story shorter. I was given the task of sorting it all out. Firstly, I stopped all floor staff entering the projection area, hired proper projectionists. The rest is all history. I remained with AMC/UCI for 10 years a senior technical engineer, opening many new multiplexes in UK, and many other countries also. MK, being the first, it was made to the US market design. From then on things were more to UK tastes, thank goodness.
Thanks for this. I've been having weird issues with a project and just been though my stock of 90 ICs... around 50% were probably fake. Some I've had for years and others I've picked up when I've seen them going cheap, so I've no idea which ICs from from where. Tried the magnetic test but they are all magnetic. I'm going to order a couple from a proper supplier and see how they test.
Very sorry to hear of your troubles for someting that should be relatively simple in this day and age. The mis-matched nose pads and leaving sharp edges are both inexcusable and represent signs of neglect (or apathy) on their part. How did they expect you to wear them with any semblance of comfort and safety? My wife stopped buying her eyeglasses from opticians years ago because of similar experiences to yours and because of their sky high prices. Now she just gets the prescriptions from them and buys the actual frames and lenses through our local Costco (which isn't perfect either, but at least it is much less expensive). She always keeps a spare set of glasses around though because to get proper lens fits into existing frames they really do need to send them off to the lens grinding facility for fitting. Having engraved numbers on the lenses in the field of view would indeed be a problem. To me it would always look like they were dirty, or chipped perhaps. It seems like a very bad idea on the part of the manufacturers. Looking forward to future videos from you, as are a lot of other people..! Despite the subject of this one, it is great to see you making them again. 😀
This has happened to me (receiving glasses which still have numbers on the lenses) - luckily the e-tailer I purchased them from allowed me to purchase another pair. I tend to buy my glasses online and I've been with them for over 10 years so I put it down to just bad luck. I always have a spare pair at home as I can't see things like the numbers of buses or shelf labels in shops very well without them! Brick and mortar store prices for glasses are horrendous - I can easily be charged £400 a pair or more for varifocals (medium prescription, non-designer frames).
The eye supply store in my humble country the Philippines 🇵🇭 in Mandaluyong Manila, Executive Optical is doing a better job in my opinion. Better service, good explanation, no rip offs in price the past 14 years. Again in my personal opinion, health care in Manila Philippines is better than in any other place in terms of price and attention to why you are there in the first place.
Hi Joey, my wife is also a Filipina. Her last pair of specs were obtained from Philippines on her last trip home. She is very happy with them. However, I could easily see the lasered code on the lens, but it did not bother her.
Same poor service and HIGH prices here in Australia. I bought a pair of progressive, multi-focal lenses on-line from China AUD1,000 less than OPSM. These are the 4th pair of glasses from China and they are GREAT.
Sad to hear about all yours problems. I used Specsavers (in Denmark Louise Nielsen) once and they cheated me with a cheaper framed that the one I have payed for. After a long fight I got my money back, and a short time later the store closed. I then use another optician and went to my eye doctor, and he wrote me a note "The Glasses don't' fit the eyes!" And I got my money back. For the 3 last glasses I have bought, I used a little Danish - not International - company Democratic Eyewear, and thery so good to me.
Nothing is like it use to be, but I guess that's just the way things go. I just went thru an ordeal buying new glasses and getting them to apply my insurance benefits correctly. After months of doing an appeal to my insurance and numerous phone calls to both the suppliers and insurance I finally got them to see they submitted the charges incorrectly in the beginning and got a refund of the overcharge. You have to be a "squeaky wheel" !
Hello Mike! I come back to your channel specifically for that video but what's my surprise? In Spain still available the original vídeo from 8 years ago. I would like to say thank you and please make another video of the Wharfedale E90.
I no longer have the E90s. I sold them some 3-4 years ago. I now have Monitor Audio Silver 500. I do have a couple of videos on them if you are interested. I had to take the original video down because of a copy right claim.
Hello Robert, thank you for your good wishes, most appreciated. Sadly, my health has not, and will not improve. I have good days but mostly not so good days. On the few good days, I will try to make a video. I will do my best.
Thank you for your new video. Today's manufacturers are not like before. Now they always hope that your things will not last long so that you will go back and buy new products as soon as possible. Nice to see you again, I wish you good health
Hey Man!!!! You have the comments turned off in your video from 4 years ago. It’s about numbers on your glasses…. I too have numbers on my progressive lenses and they are driving me nuts. Eye glass shop states I can upgrade to the premium lenses for another $120.00 US dollars to make them go away!?!?! WHAT!?!? I’m with you, WHY does the manufacturer put that on them!?!?!?
The numbers are to identify the proscription. Without these it's just a piece of plastic. These numbers are laser cut. It seems to vary from one manufacture to another. It does seem ridicules to have to pay more for something you should not see anyway. My answer is to simply reject the lens as unsuitable for purpose. This is law in many countries. I think I might suggest where to put the $120 extra!! My channel has now closed, due to health issues, I have removed comments from old videos to cut my workload down somewhat.
Sorry to hear about the health issues. Heading back soon. Wife got her glasses today, same options as mine, no numbers!?! What!?! That means they gunna fix mine for nothing!!! 😂
I was just watching your video on progressive lens markings mine wete bought in the UK for an extortionate amount and I too am a ‘fussy bastard’ as I can catch the outer one in my vision on my new set - I thought I’d got dodgy lenses until I started reading up. Bonkers. Also in agreement with this video. Thanks for posting the lens vid, I thought I was hoing mad.
How visible these numbers are does seem to vary quite a bit between different makers of the lens. Few people seem to even notice the code, sadly you and me CAN see them. I've noticed some people never seem to clean the lens. Personally, it drives me made if even a speck of dust settles on my lens.
Very nice to see you making videos again..! I totally agree with your premise for this video. We have had similar bad experiences with a couple of integral-battery "Dustbusters" over the years. The batteries in them are marginal to start with and only last 2-3 years at best. Were we to buy a new version it would have to be a model using removable battery packs. 👍👍
have missed u michael hope you're well, i feel your pain with these vacuum cleaners. i bought a makita one 35 quid off amazon and of course it takes standard makita batteries. I bought one of those ljm l12 amps you have, my days have i had issues with the DC offset. 75mv on the speaker terminals on a +-50v supply, and of course connecting a speaker sends the bias west. ended up having to modify the circuit so i can set the offset on a pot, same with the bias to like u did. got there in the end. look after yourself old pal keep well.
Good to hear from you James. If you have DC offset, it's normally the first 2 transistors out of balance. If you use a matched pair the offset should be under 10mV.
@@MichaelBeeny Yes, when I built my L12 amps I hand-picked matched pairs of transistors for the input stage and the offsets are very low on either channel. However, if you can add an adjustment pot to the circuit it can be made even better. I recently did that on a headphone amp which was running at around 27-29mv and now it is zero on both channels.
Сейчас почти вся бытовая техника ремонту не пригодна! Даже пульт от телевизора не разборный, а если разбирать то что ни будь все равно сломаешь! Рад вас видеть! Ждем новых интересных проектов! Будьте здоровы Михаил!
Хотя я и моложе Вас, меня такое положение дел тоже злит. А если подумать, какой экологический вред наносит алчность производителей, ситуация кажется безумной! Михаил, будьте здоровы!
I wish I could do more. Health is still poor at present, so my ability is somewhat limited. I appreciate your comment and would like to dedicate this video to you personally.
This 7-minute video took 3 hours to record and edit. Imagine how long it takes to make a more complex 30-minute video. Only 63 likes so far out of 360 views. Thanks to those 63 at least. Does that mean all the other viewers DON'T like it??
Get well soon MR. Beeny love from Slovakia. I found most help from your channel about the class D amplifiers and i noticed that the fake ones have the Ti logo the original chips do not have the logo instead they have undermarked G4 as with other TI chips hope the little info i found out helps you a little againts the fake TI ic's. Wish you the best ❤
Some tpas from TI do have the logo as with the tpa3116d2 i think all of the tpa311x series have a logo but tpa 3255 and some tdas don't have the logo which makes it really hard if its a fake one or not but all tpas have undermarked G4 and fakes only really have the G4 which sometimes isn't marked on fake ones and if there is a TI logo on a TPA3255 its most likelly a fake one unless its a newer version of the TPA3255 but i don't seem to notice the original having the logos beacuse there isn't really enough space to fit it
@@MichaelBeenythere also should be a dot under the model number and behind 3255 a round sorta cut-out if all of that is present theres a high chance its the original 3255
At last, a video which has comments turned on! Please Mr Beeny, before you criticise another amplifier for poor square wave rendition, just pass that square wave signal through a passive filter with a low pass of say 20 kHz. 3db point. It is an unusual human who can hear that high, middle aged people say 40ish may have problems above 12kHz. An amplifier with a pass band of 20 to 20kHz will not pass a 20kHz square wave as square. It will be more like a sine wave and attenuated. That's how the world works. A lower frequency square wave, say 100Hz may be useful as a quick check on frequency 'balance'. Used to be the in thing setting up tape decks using an analog scope. But today we have clever scopes and computers with frequency sweeps and FFT's to do that job on amplifiers.
Hi basically would i be able to grind the old speakers off from the rear and glue on new upgrades, making them look the same from the front but with better drivers
@@ranjitbhambhra5165 You would have to spend a lot of money to get upgraded drivers. If these were currently in production they would cost about £900-1000
@@ranjitbhambhra5165 Why would you grind them off - don't you own a screwdriver? 🤔 You could probably make quite a few hundred pounds selling the drivers on ebay, or don't you need the money? 🤔
There is a guy called Darko Velcek who may have some e information that may help your condition. health. Research is essential as your body is rather toxic based on your age and health challenges.
@@MichaelBeeny do fake opamps sound a certain way? I've installed one instead of an TL072 and I can't tell that it's better or worse. I expected it to sound a bit cleaner and brighter. It does, but I still don't know if it's real or fake.
@@InvisibleYetVisible The thing with fake stuff you have no idea way you are getting. Some may be manufactures rejects, some could be simply any old chip that looks the same, some just go bang on switch on. NEVER are they better. Most op amps sound quite similar anyway. The TL072 by todays standard are noisy and slow. Saying that, when you start at a high spec things just get better. Much of the better is not audible and only just measurable. As to which one is better, enters the SNAKE OIL region. Most fakes are dirt cheap and for less important application, they often work fine. The 5532 fakes are really not that bad, often little audible difference. Power amp chips are often very poor, high distortion, power issues and many just blow up sooner or later.
Hmm Im A Diabetic heart Patient too . Im 75 years, I can Identify with a lot of how you currently feel. Itchy, Chough, tired, Lack Motivation. I don't now take .. in my case Bisoprolol (sp), I told my doctor that I didn't want to become a fragile old man. That was in about 2018. I had a heart attack in early 2017. I had no problems dropping that med. My health improved over the next few years but a few months back I had another attack. I need a Stent but the procedure called a rotopasty was no available. I live in Colombia now.. The hospitals are as good as NZ if not better. I'm on Clopidogrel as a blood thinner whatever. probably wont ever get the stent never mind .. I feel basically ok . Incidently I watched your studies of the NE5532 etc. I too enjoy electronics and construction I was a professional once!! Take care , get off the Beta blocker mate!! maybe go for a wee walk ? get the heart to work a bit. sorry its what I do.
Thanks for all the info. I really appreciate that I am not alone having heart issues. I made the video really out of frustration of not knowing what to do next, Afterall we only have one body and one life. Unfortunately, we do need others to help us to survive. I think many people simply don't survive mainly because in older age they lose brain power or in some cases never had it in the first place. They don't go to their GP and if they do it can be pointless. Maybe they cannot explain the health problems or have any knowledge or equipment to explain with, probably most people. The consequences are the just die prematurely. Anyway, thanks for writing and good luck with getting your Stent. What is the issue? long waiting list or simply not available in your country?
