December 13, 2011

  • Primare PRE30, Part 7

    25 years ago, I had P.E.  In the boys' locker room, someone wrote in graffiti: "Lowell sucks, go Licolin."  Yep, whoever wrote that misspelled "Lincoln."  Vicious. 

    Bwahahaha!  The photo above brings back memories.  I think this was outside of Lowell's gym/music room area.  For 25 years and counting, we've been proclaiming, "Audiophile sound sucks dick!"  But for me, very few songs spell late '86/early '87 like Salt-N-Pepa's "Push It."  While the girls' rapping ain't that great, "Push It" features one of the most awesome synth riffs ever. 

    In '86/'87, you could not walk past this part of the courtyard, without hearing "Push It."  Even though electronics were supposedly banned, students inevitably brought Walkmen and boomboxes to school.  I would eventually become an audiophile.  So whenever I hear "Push It," it damn well better not sound "audiophile warm."  It better make me feel like it's '86/'87 all over again, with those boomboxes sending chills down my spine.  It better conjure up images of my schoolmates jivin' and break dancing.  Hot.

    I already reported that the Primare PRE30's on/of switch is located under the unit.  In order to get the PRE30 out of standby, you don't push it.  Rather, you turn it.  The knob, that is.  Funny thing is, this knob is located on the far right of the unit.  If you are right-handed (6 out of every 7 people are), do not mistake this knob for the volume control!

    On the far left of the unit is the input selector knob.  The knob is continuously rotating.  It does indeed loop through the inputs.  So if you are at "B1," and wish to get to "AV," you do NOT have to turn the knob counter-clockwise through all of the in-between inputs.  You simply turn the knob clockwise, to get from "B1" to "AV."  Cool.

    Although "Push It" came out in autumn 1986, Salt-N-Pepa's album Hot, Cool & Vicious did not come out until early 1987.