Friday, February 15, 2013

Nicki & the Gramaphone


Several days ago, browsing at Goodwill for i forget-what-widget, i came upon a small Sony book-shelf stereo.  The casing was the same colour wood as the shelf in my living room and i thought it might look well there instead of the nice but useless filler-piece that was there.  Besides, i liked the drop-slot CD mechanism.

It was a day or so before i got around to wiring the speakers and yesterday evening i hooked them up and sat down to listen to some music.  It worked like a charm.







Once the CD started playing, Nicki perked up and came over to sniff one of the speakers.  After an initial sniff, he did a true RCA dog pose and then lay down between me and the speakers.  He's never given any sign of attention to the music coming out of the desk-top speakers.  Perhaps in that case his brain classifies it as ambient noise from somewhere up there whereas with speakers set near to the ground he can hone in on a source that needs investigating. 

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