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Originally Posted by Chicks
So these new clowns came from some computer gaming forum?! That explains a LOT, lol. 
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I spent many, many hours way back in the 'aughts playing MS Flight Simulator and MS Combat Fight Simulator. The wife thought it would be funny to buy me a case, PS and motherboard one xmas. I quote her, "You build shit, here build a desktop". A pile of c-notes later I had double video cards on a blazing MB with as much memory as I could stuff in it. Bought a processor that could actually handle Combat Flight Simulator without stuttering or locking up entirely and had a ball. Killer framerates on that desktop. Killed me some fuggin' Nazis like there was no tomorrow.
Never did hang out at any gamer forums.
Then I got bored to tears with it and found AudioKarma to my eternal bliss in '08.

Some old redneck named Jaymanaa got me interested in vacuum tube amplification and I got my first Magnavox amp 175. Now I'm pushing a pair of Magnavox amp 150 biamped monoblocks with 30 watts per channel from circa 1957. All refurbed and brought up to modern safety specs by moi and the good folk at AK.
I sure do miss old TwoDogs aka Jaymanaa. We used to joke about some California hippy showing up to his yearly TwangFest in Kansas. I threatened to build a human launching trebuchet on the dock at the CCC built lake where his house stood but it never came to pass. RIP Jay, you are missed.
There is something special about a pair of MCM looking tube amps sporting Russian 6V6GT power tubes and Mullard front end tubes. 12AT7s for the parallel push pull bass amp and 6AT6 SE treble amp on a single chassis. They were Magnavox's top of the line back in '57 and they sound great to this old nail pounder's ears though a pair of JBL L80t3s set up for nearfield listening. (grin)
Anyways, where was I?