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Re: The most dynamic, well recorded music you have heard to date....
Absolutely!
I've always thought that light waves somehow interfered with sound waves.Yeah,I know it's supposedly just a matter of removing distractions,but it seems there's something else going on there.
It has everything to do with removing visual stimuli from your listening experience. If you are staring at the speakers your mind associates the sounds coming from the two boxes in front of you to a certain degree. Turn off the lights, close your eyes you remove the visual stimulus of physically seeing the speakers and your mind can concentrate solely on the sounds and many times it's a different experience.
H9
heiney9
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Re: Coffee
stangman67 wrote: »I bought a Kaleido M1.
How's the Kaleido? I purchased the M2 (last Dec) to up my game, moving from a Gene Cafe that I've used since 2009. Didn't get the Kaleido tablet...went Pro to use w/the Artisan software. Have done 2 seasoning roasts but, unfortunately, in the middle of house renovations, so the Sniper has been neglected. Will say, holy $hite...my first roast went nuclear really quick and caused the roaster to shut down. Not a fault of the roaster, rather, my lack of understanding the software/parameters. Looks to be a learning curve compared to my years of using the Gene Cafe.
Don't know when I'll get time to experiment w/the M2. Roasting a predictable and consistent batch is #1 priority ATM vs. getting the Kaleido going until I have time to dive in.
Kaleido patiently waiting to replace the Gene Cafe....
So far so good, I struggled on the first roast. ET dropped sharply at the beginning and then I cranked the heat and the ROR was all over the place.
On the subsequent roasts I’ve gotten the base method down pretty well, preheat at 190C for 20 minutes. When I drop the beans, drum to 80 percent, burner to 50 percent and exhaust to 20 percent. And that does very well as a base with only needing minor modifications as the roast goes.
I think I’ll regret not going straight to the M2 but the M1 was about as much as I was willing to spend on my first foray into roasting.
stangman67
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Usher Mini Dancer 2
Some of my favorite speakers. I owned them for several years and sold them about 2 1/2 years ago to get the Rosso Fiesole. I had the opportunity to pick these up at a great price, so full disclosure, I’m selling them for profit to help fund my new integrated purchase.
These are in very good shape and feature the Diamond tweeter. They are boxed up and I’d rather not unbox them to take pictures, but I helped box them up and I didn’t see any blemishes other than the fingerprints we put on them from boxing them up. They are without a doubt living room presentable.
No shipping for now, but that could change. I’m in NE Texas and am willing to drive about 3 hours which would include west side of Little Rock, Tulsa, OKC, DFW, Waco, Lufkin.
$2400
If using PayPal, either F&F, or you pay the fees.
Combo deal: buy these and my Vincent SV-236MK for $3000. That’s a fantastic price on a killer system.
These are in very good shape and feature the Diamond tweeter. They are boxed up and I’d rather not unbox them to take pictures, but I helped box them up and I didn’t see any blemishes other than the fingerprints we put on them from boxing them up. They are without a doubt living room presentable.
No shipping for now, but that could change. I’m in NE Texas and am willing to drive about 3 hours which would include west side of Little Rock, Tulsa, OKC, DFW, Waco, Lufkin.
$2400
If using PayPal, either F&F, or you pay the fees.
Combo deal: buy these and my Vincent SV-236MK for $3000. That’s a fantastic price on a killer system.
PSOVLSK
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Re: Post a picture... any picture
mhardy6647 wrote: »Knew a kid in high school (Royce Hoffmeister) who had a Ford Cortina with a Ford V8 (289 or 302 -- memory's hazy at this point) shoehorned in it. The car was terrifying.
There was a guy called Jeff Uren who produced the Cortina Savage with an Essex Ford V6 for the Mk II. These were fully sorted and really good an desirable cars. The king of the hill was a Cortina Savage based on a Cortina 1600E. The 1600E in standard Ford form had a Cortina GT engine with the Lotus Cortina suspension and a luxury interior with leather and wood dashboard. It was well sought after in standard form, but the 1600E Savage with the V6 was Ford Cortina Nirvana.
Cortina 1600E interior:
OleBoot
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Re: How do I connect another 4 ohm speaker in series or parallel?
You'll get better performance out of the speakers with separate amplification. The Class D amps in the more recent Pioneer receiver models can handle 4 ohm loads without major issues though. Running 8 LSi15s is asking a lot from any receiver but the main front three speakers are the most active.
Emlyn
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Re: How do I connect another 4 ohm speaker in series or parallel?
Skipping right over the begged question Why do you want to do this?!?
Series vs. parallel is simple.
If the speakers to be so wired are identical:
series connection doubles the impedance load seen by that channel's amplifier.
parallel connection halves the impedance load seen by that channel's amplifier.
Two 4 ohm speakers in series = 8 ohm load (nominally)
Two 4 ohm speakers in parallel = 2 ohm load (nominally)
The latter could be troublesome or disastrous depending on the amplifier.
All this being said: Why the heck do you want to do this?!?!?????????
There is no good reason.
Series vs. parallel is simple.
If the speakers to be so wired are identical:
series connection doubles the impedance load seen by that channel's amplifier.
parallel connection halves the impedance load seen by that channel's amplifier.
Two 4 ohm speakers in series = 8 ohm load (nominally)
Two 4 ohm speakers in parallel = 2 ohm load (nominally)
The latter could be troublesome or disastrous depending on the amplifier.
All this being said: Why the heck do you want to do this?!?!?????????
There is no good reason.
mhardy6647
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Re: Post a picture... any picture
There were factory 6 cylinder (MGC) and V8 (MGB GT V8) versions. The MGC had a really heavy engine and the car just basically followed the engine around, often bearing no relation to where the wheels were pointed. The V8 used a Rover (ex Buick) aluminum engine that was in fact lighter than the 4 banger. It wasn't a bad car (apart from all the normal British Leyland faults like bits falling off) but the motor produced vey little power for a V8. As for modded MGBs, anything goes of course like all cars.
OleBoot
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Re: Post a picture... any picture
The MGB can be highly modified. Dropping a V8 in turns it into a rocketship.
F1nut
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