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09-17-2009, 08:13 AM
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So in offering some advoce in another thread, I came across the amplifier spec sheet. On it was this entry Quote:
I get that the wood end panels are not real wood. But gallbladder grade tubes?
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09-17-2009, 08:20 AM
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09-17-2009, 07:00 PM
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Was that a post by KLDGuitar?
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09-17-2009, 08:44 PM
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Computer translator I guess. 7 * (times) 12As = 12A X 7 grade gallbladder? type valve / valve type? What was the amp? |
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09-17-2009, 08:56 PM
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behold the wonders of machine translation
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09-18-2009, 01:04 AM
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It was that Yaqin MC-84L that Thatnaysayer asked about. it is Chinese, and obviously the trans-literation didn't work. I am having a hard time deciding what the gallbladder transliteration was intended to be.
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09-18-2009, 05:29 AM
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Using an online translator I reverse translated glaabladder and then copied the two Chinese characters (that mean gallblader in english) and translated those back into english... The result was... (drumroll)... gallblader But, when each Chinese character is translated the results are more interesting. The first character means "courage" or "bravery". The second means "bag, purse or sack" or "to put in a bag". This still leaves no clue (to me at least) about how that translation came about. Perhaps it means that it took real bravery and courage to put those tubes into such a sack of an amp. Chuck |
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09-18-2009, 11:33 AM
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the machine (the program) sometimes gets confused and picks something not related IME (well, seems that way) so maybe that's what it is. What the heck is the latter part though? "Not real, not famous", etc. Plastic? Faux-wood?
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09-18-2009, 08:22 PM
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Could "not famous" mean un-matched? And "grade" appears to refer to the pre-amp and "behind grade" the power amp. | |
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09-18-2009, 09:03 PM
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lol, puzzler... We need someone Chinese. Could be obvious to a Chinese person (or speaker).
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09-18-2009, 10:30 PM
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I feel pretty confident the last line means the end wood panels are English Walnut in appearance, but fake. SO it is not real English walnut wood.
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