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Vintage Receiver Vintage Stereo speakers floorstanding? I have a Kenwood that is 120 watts per channel & soon i’ll be getting some vintage HH Scott speakers with fuses that blow before t...

 

Vintage Receiver
Vintage Receiver
Vintage Stereo speakers floorstanding?

I have a Kenwood that is 120 watts per channel & soon i’ll be getting some vintage HH Scott speakers with fuses that blow before the speakers do will my Kenwood receiver protect my speakers if I accidently crank the volume all the way need advice my amp never clips
My speakers are 8 ohm vintage floorstanding speakers made by HH Scott I don’t have them yet but will be getting them from a friend soon as I have already blown my 200 watt Sony vintage floorstanding speakers that have no fuses

You scott speakers are fine quality.

They should be all right if you overload them for a short time but will blow if left overloaded. There is probably a cloth rim and paper cone that takes a real beating and still sounds good (and lasts a loooog time compared to the foam crap they make now). If you get a rattle, shim the coil and spray the cone with water mist.

The fuse is a nice touch and a good protection, but check that the right fuse is in them when you get them.

I might also suggest recapping the bridges on those vintage speakers to get the right fequency to the right speaker. That will make them sound their best and last the longest.

Enjoy.

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The term "expansion bus" is a term common in vintage computer terminology which requires elaboration. Much of the heritage of vintage bus systems are in our current computer systems today.

To begin with a bus of the "expansion" is a highway information databases of computer data to be driven in the bandwidth is essentially the number of lanes. The higher the bandwidth, more data can be sent. As examples of 8 megabytes of bandwidth means that data can be sent in 8-bit chunks. Our current systems use between 32 bit and 64 bit wide band.

An expansion bus is where cards connect to the computer, the cards have a limit of expansion, which fits perfectly aware bus as an electric plug fits into a wall outlet.

When the cards plug into the bus, which communicate with the system, sometimes through BIOS and others not. (The BIOS is the basic input output that tells the computer how to move data between components.) On 8, 16 or 32 bits wide band is an important consideration due to communication time between the cards. For example, you have a PC 286 16-bit and vintage is sending a 16-bit data: the video card is also 8 bits. If you have an 8-bit bus older, as in the first IBM PC and clones, the bus becomes a bottleneck in the system is like having 4 lanes connected to another 4 lane through a 1-lane road. In most cases, regardless of the speed 4 lane traffic will be slow – limited by the only two-way street.

Essentially, the 3 types of expansion bus available in old computers: ISA, MCA, systems EISA.

Each an important early development paved the way for later systems that we do have for granted today. This was both in terms hardware and basic concepts of our computer systems and technology, and the marketing team that we take for granted today as a simple basic facts of life without due consideration.

Basically, the new buses offer better performance on older technology buses.

The basic explanation of the buses are as follows:

The rules of 3 bus to the paper Industry Standard Architecture (ISA). Channel Micro Channel Architecture (MSA) and Extended Industry Standard (EISA) bus systems.

Industry Standard Architecture (ISA). This was also the original bus called ISA bus. It is the original 8 bit IBM PC bus, which was beaten to 16 bits at some point in their later development. Fine for a bit 16 286 or early 386 computer

Micro Channel Architecture (MSA). This was one of the first 32 bits of the bus system was not well received but laid the foundation for a consortium of major manufacturers IBM computer is not (at the time called "The Group of Nine) to develop the EISA standard bus.

Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA). The standard EISA bus is a rule in their own right, which was 32 bits, including bus mastering and most important is still compatible with most previous expansion cards. Systems 32 bits were the first to incorporate in later systems 386. Line 486 solidified standardized 32-bit systems in the established program of the day.

Backward compatibility at that time was a novel new concept which has remained an important consideration in the computer industry.

EISA slots would into account both the expansion slots for ISA and EISA hardware upgrades allow, however EISA expansion joints would be of little benefit, and rarely work in the ISA expansion slots of age.

Moreover, the Micro Channel setup was not compatible with earlier versions. On the one hand, developers Micro Channel were free to initiate new radical changes in computer development and hardware that would have allowed major new and useful features of software. However, the owners of the previous systems have become obsolete with the hardware then it would have been useless crop of no use and certainly little economic value.

So there was much resistance to the Micro Channel bus configuration.

He died a slow death with his legacy in life aspirations of features offered in the future development and standards.

Thus, death is fixed for the future of hardware standards and the role of software and marketing concepts of standard equipment we take for granted as breast milk today.

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