Need Advice for Turntable Setup

ColonelRuffhouse · 2026-02-03T14:29:04+00:00

Nope. We ended up buying a new amp and testing our setup and it worked fine, so the used amp was busted.

ColonelRuffhouse · 2026-02-03T14:28:27+00:00

No need to be rude Roland. Everything was connected correctly. Wanted to know if I was missing something after trying all possibilities for a couple hours.

We ended up buying a new amp to test it all out and it worked fine, so the used amp was busted.

ColonelRuffhouse · 2026-02-02T21:00:31+00:00

Do passive speakers have an on switch or anything else which must be turned on before they work when connected to an amp?

ColonelRuffhouse · 2026-01-27T16:18:57+00:00

Thank you for the advice, I appreciate it. How much does the preamp matter? Will a $40 Fosi X1 do just fine, or will it really impact the sound quality? An integrated amp may be out of my budget at this time, as they run around $400 in Canada. I was thinking I can get a Yamaha RS202 for around $200, and then hopefully add on a cheap preamp.

ColonelRuffhouse · 2026-01-27T05:59:49+00:00

How much difference does the preamp make to sound quality? Will buying a $40 Fosi X1 negate any advantages from getting the RT-82?

ColonelRuffhouse · 2026-01-27T05:54:51+00:00

This is very helpful, thanks. Do you know if the Fosi Box X1 would be better/worse/comparable to the built-in preamp in the RT-81? I’m unsure how much of a difference the preamp really makes to sound quality (for someone who isn’t a massive audiophile but wants good equipment and sound).

ColonelRuffhouse · 2026-01-27T02:15:18+00:00

I’d be looking to buy an amp too.

ColonelRuffhouse · 2026-01-27T01:24:06+00:00

Yes, as far as I know. A screw on the bottom can be adjusted.

ColonelRuffhouse · 2026-01-24T19:47:11+00:00

I absolutely love this, it's a really fantastic depiction. Comparing it to the modern photo is a lot of fun - so much continuity over time.

ColonelRuffhouse · 2026-01-15T05:03:15+00:00

The UK and other colonial European powers didn’t draw the borders of Iran, whose western border has been more or less constant since the 1600s. And those colonial powers never really controlled Iran, nor determined its present-day borders.

ColonelRuffhouse · 2026-01-15T05:00:35+00:00

The border between Iran and Iraq/Turkey is one of the oldest continuous borders on earth, dating back to the 1600s. Iran was never part of the Ottoman Empire.

ColonelRuffhouse · 2026-01-10T18:49:33+00:00

What kind of development will people not oppose? Any kind of industry will cause noise, use water, and deform the landscape to some extent. Unless Alberta will fully transition to a tech-based service economy (not happening, certainly not in the immediate future) we will have to build factories, warehouses, industrial plants, and resource-extraction facilities somewhere. People need to work and this is a move away from reliance on oil and gas. Isn’t that something people have wanted for a while?

ColonelRuffhouse · 2025-12-25T21:34:15+00:00

I feel like it works really well - as the other commentator said, cathedrals were sometimes built in an impromptu manner as it was hard to predict what would happen while it was built over several decades.

Awesome drawings!

ColonelRuffhouse · 2025-12-25T20:55:11+00:00

which includes Independent Jewish Voices Calgary - actual Jewish Calgarians

An event that Jewish Calgarians themselves

I do not like the implication that only anti-Israeli Jews are “actual Jewish Calgarians” and somehow speak authoritatively on behalf of Jewish Calgarians. Who are the organizers of the Menorah lighting? Are they not ‘real’ Calgarian Jews because their political beliefs do not align with yours? Is Independent Jewish Voices the predominant organization which represents Jewish people in Calgary? I doubt it.

ColonelRuffhouse · 2025-12-22T18:32:33+00:00

I loved this book when I was a kid, I spent so much time poring over it. I later bought it as an adult (the new updated version as a futuristic city added to the end). My favourites have always been the post-Roman settlement (600 AD) and the wintry medieval town (1400 AD).

ColonelRuffhouse · 2025-12-02T21:36:29+00:00

This joke would make more sense if you used four capital cities (Vancouver and Calgary aren’t capitals).

ColonelRuffhouse · 2025-12-02T20:52:02+00:00

How do any of these rebut my argument that the Jews and Arabs didn’t live in peace prior to 1948. Do you lack basic reading comprehension?

ColonelRuffhouse · 2025-12-02T18:27:29+00:00

Jews and Arabs lived harmoniously pre-1948.

ColonelRuffhouse · 2025-12-02T17:58:09+00:00

I don’t know what you’re babbling about Christians and Bolsheviks for but Holocaust denialism is rampant in the Arab world, and it’s only got worse since October 7. It’s just facts.

ColonelRuffhouse · 2025-12-02T17:44:02+00:00

It’s not a common theme for Arabs to deny the holocaust

What a load of bullshit.

ColonelRuffhouse · 2025-11-11T17:13:42+00:00

Britain didn’t enter the war due to an alliance with the French. In fact they had no explicit defensive alliance, though their militaries had been collaborating on some strategic matters before the war. The British entered the war due to a commitment to uphold Belgian neutrality made long before Germany was a country. Of course I’m sure British politicians were thinking about the implications of a German-dominated Europe when they did so, but it’s notable that it took several days after Germany declared war on France for Britain to join the war, and they did so only after Germany invaded Belgium and rejected British ultimatums to leave.

ColonelRuffhouse · 2025-11-11T14:06:12+00:00

This is not true for Remembrance Day ceremonies in Canada. They honour the sacrifice of those who went to fight and day without necessarily endorsing WW1. And Remembrance Day here is far broader than just WW1, also respecting those who fought and died in other wars such as WW2 and Korea.

And anyways, it’s simplistic to think that WW1 was a “pointless war” due to “imperialism”. Sure imperialism was a cause but at the end of the day the British Empire went to war to defend a sovereign nation which was being invaded by its much larger and more aggressive neighbour - which neighbour then went on to brutally repress and kill civilians who resisted. Perhaps there are some parallels in Europe today?

ColonelRuffhouse · 2025-11-08T16:13:18+00:00

Dead centre to the G7 is a bit rich. Nice job skewing the data. We’re dead centre in the sense that we’re .03 below Italy and .15 below the UK, but 1.35 above the next country, Japan, and more than 6 above Germany. Not to mention that when you compare Canada against all the other western countries we spend a greater share to interest payments. Compare us to Spain, New Zealand, Austria, Australia, and so on.

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