maybe everybody knew this but me

mhardy6647
mhardy6647 Posts: 33,905
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So, a recent "Legend Series" post led me to Crutchfield and a little quality time spent comparing (Crutchfield 'catalog'-style) various inexpensive -- and not-so-inexpensive -- small two-way loudspeakers.

Lookin' at the "Signature Series" Polks, I was struck by the term "Terylene". Now, I am not a polymer chemist, but I know a wee bit 'bout polymers -- and I didn't know what that was.

Turns out, it's polyethylene terephthalate (PET or PETE) -- the stuff soda and bottled water bottles are made from. In fiber (fabric) form, it is better known as Dacron or, generically, polyester.

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I like days when I learn something I didn't know previously. :)

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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,113
    FOR THE LOVE OF PETE!!!!!
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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,161
    We knew, but didn't want to make you look silly.
    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
    "Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
    Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    Mr. Hardy, step up your knowledge game my dude.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    Mark every day I visit CP I am edified by your wealth of knowledge! Terylene, hmm, I'll stick to PET! :)
    Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
    Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, Northstar Designs Intenso DAC, Antique Sound Labs AV8 Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
    Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
    Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Rotel RCD-1072 CD player, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
    Garage #1: Cambridge Audio 640A Integrated Amp, Project Box-E BT Streamer, Polk Tsi200 Bookies, Douglas Speaker Cables, Shunyata Power Conditioner
    Garage #2: Cambridge Audio EVO150 Integrated Amplifier, Polk L200's, Analysis Plus Silver Oval 2 Speaker Cables, IC's TBD.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,905
    Perhaps -- if we ever get another pet we'll name it Terylene.
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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,149
    ^^^ That's okay. Hope you don't have a daughter or grand-daughter named Laurel Ann. ;)
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Perhaps -- if we ever get another pet we'll name it Terylene.

    And of course your unique sense of humor! Love it! :)
    Basement: Polk SDA SRS 1.2tl's, Cary SLP-05 Pre with ultimate upgrade,McIntosh MCD301 CD/SACD player, Northstar Designs Excelsio DAC, Cambridge 851N streamer, McIntosh MC300 Amp, Silnote Morpheus Ref2, Series2 Digital Cables, Silnote Morpheus Ref2 Series2 XLR's, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Pangea Power Cables, MIT Shotgun S3 IC's, MIT Shotgun S1 Bi-Wire speaker cables
    Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, Northstar Designs Intenso DAC, Antique Sound Labs AV8 Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
    Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
    Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Rotel RCD-1072 CD player, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
    Garage #1: Cambridge Audio 640A Integrated Amp, Project Box-E BT Streamer, Polk Tsi200 Bookies, Douglas Speaker Cables, Shunyata Power Conditioner
    Garage #2: Cambridge Audio EVO150 Integrated Amplifier, Polk L200's, Analysis Plus Silver Oval 2 Speaker Cables, IC's TBD.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,905
    aprazer402 wrote: »
    ^^^ That's okay. Hope you don't have a daughter or grand-daughter named Laurel Ann. ;)

    When Mrs. H was preggers with our first child, we told people that, if it were a girl, we
    were considering Laurel Ann as her name. It (ahem, she) was a girl, but we didn't do that to her.

    Our second child's working moniker in utero was Gunnar Halvorson (for a boy); a manly name. As things turned out, he was a boy, but we made a runtime change in the name.

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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,161
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    we were considering Laurel Ann[d] as her name. It (ahem, she) was a girl, but we didn't do that to her.
    I see what you did there...or almost did.
    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
    "Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
    Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,905
    whenever our kids got mad at me/us for something we did (or wouldn't do), I would say to them "write a book about us when you get older" B)

    amazingly, so far, they're not racking up big therapy bills :|

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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,305
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Perhaps -- if we ever get another pet we'll name it Terylene.

    I dated a girl and her name was Tylene and yes it was because and derived from Tylenol
    2-channel: Modwright KWI-200 Integrated, Dynaudio C1-II Signatures
    Desktop rig: LSi7, Polk 110sub, Dayens Ampino amp, W4S DAC/pre, Sonos, JRiver
    Gear on standby: Melody 101 tube pre, Unison Research Simply Italy Integrated
    Gone to new homes: (Matt Polk's)Threshold Stasis SA12e monoblocks, Pass XA30.5 amp, Usher MD2 speakers, Dynaudio C4 platinum speakers, Modwright LS100 (voltz), Simaudio 780D DAC

    erat interfectorem cesar et **** dictatorem dicere a
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  • Conradicles
    Conradicles Posts: 6,092
    KM
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    If you have another kid name em Monster Thickburger.
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