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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited March 2009
    mantis wrote: »
    ....a bunch of **** bitchin.

    and a partridge in a pear tree.
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited March 2009
    Damn. I never thought this thread would last. Is there a prize for the longest and most stupid thread??
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,980
    edited March 2009
    My guess is PIE or MUFFIN's
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited March 2009
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    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,980
    edited March 2009
    Face wrote: »
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    I love it!!!! LOL,
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited March 2009
    xcapri79 wrote: »
    Well said.
    Emo still sucks though. :D
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited March 2009
    Ricardo wrote:
    Damn. I never thought this thread would last. Is there a prize for the longest and most stupid thread??

    This one is your baby. You should be SO PROUD! :D
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,396
    edited March 2009
    xcapri79 wrote: »
    Now why would you say that after all of this?

    Because it's true. Well, sucks is a strong term........I wouldn't say they suck.....but they fall pretty short, IMO.

    But then as you've pointed out xcapri your opinion is the only valid one, as if we don't agree we're just contrarians.

    H9
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Puritan Audio PSM136 Pwr Condtioner & Classic PC's | Legend L600 | Roon Nucleus 1 w/LPS - Tubes add soul!
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited March 2009
    xcapri79 wrote: »
    Just as Polk has applied the proven technology of others to produce and improve their speakers, so Emotiva has to produce and improve their amplifiers. I own and enjoy both.

    Yes...I see your point, but I'm still not really seeing what you're trying to make of it.

    As far as the Passive Radiators go, Polk took a pre-existing idea and applied it to their products. They used it to much greater success than many other companies ever have though. This really has nothing to do with the Emotiva argument, but rather the "SDA's have nothing to do with Polk in modern day" sentiment.

    As I said already, they used the PR's with great success. Had they not been so successful with them in the past, they likely would not have been implemented into any of their newer products. So, the technology that Polk became familiar with during the SDA time period, is still being applied today. Not necessarily in the same form...but the ideas and theories are still alive.

    I'm not sure what it is exactly that you're trying to argue about here, but good luck.;)
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited March 2009
    Chapter 1 was over a long time ago my friend. We're probably onto chapter 12 or so now.

    Sometime I need to go back through and reread this whole thread...the topic of discussion has changed quite a few times...lol
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,396
    edited March 2009
    comfortablycurt wrote: »
    Chapter 1 was over a long time ago my friend. We're probably onto chapter 12 or so now.

    Sometime I need to go back through and reread this whole thread...the topic of discussion has changed quite a few times...lol

    Hence my comment about some getting it and some not......he/she doesn't get it yet :rolleyes:
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Puritan Audio PSM136 Pwr Condtioner & Classic PC's | Legend L600 | Roon Nucleus 1 w/LPS - Tubes add soul!
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  • daboyz
    daboyz Posts: 5,207
    edited March 2009
    Someday we'll all look back and laugh about this.....................
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,396
    edited March 2009
    daboyz wrote: »
    Someday we'll all look back and laugh about this.....................

    Actually I've been laughing quite a bit already for quite sometime......each new player that posts in this thread is waaaayyyy too serious. Pushing buttons is soooooooo easy! I worry about people sometimes who take themselves so seriously. Times are tough.....have some fun

    H9
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Puritan Audio PSM136 Pwr Condtioner & Classic PC's | Legend L600 | Roon Nucleus 1 w/LPS - Tubes add soul!
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited March 2009
    daboyz wrote: »
    Someday we'll all look back and laugh about this.....................
    heiney9 wrote: »
    Actually I've been laughing quite a bit already for quite sometime......each new player that posts in this thread is waaaayyyy too serious. Pushing buttons is soooooooo easy! I worry about people sometimes who take themselves so seriously. Times are tough.....have some fun

    H9

    x2

    For some reason people keep thinking that this is a thread about Emotiva.:confused:

    It's actually about PIE and it's many uses. I think Club Polk needs a section dedicated to discussion about Pie.
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited March 2009
    mmadden28 wrote: »
    Non Audio deal of the day!!!!
    Fake **** 97% off at Amazon.
    mmadden28 wrote: »
    Or even more appropriate for this thread....Liquid A$$ (rated 5 stars :cool: )

    Still on sale-don't miss it....:rolleyes:
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited March 2009
    I thought we had digressed to muffins :confused:

    I know what I'm having for breakfast in the morning!
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited March 2009
    shack wrote: »
    I thought we had digressed to muffins :confused:

    I know what I'm having for breakfast in the morning!


    mm...Muffins...

    Anyone ever had the Otis Spunkmyer muffins? Those are the best...

    I've gotta run to the gas station in a little bit, and I just might have to pick one of those up.:)
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited March 2009
    Toast anyone?

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  • vmaxer
    vmaxer Posts: 5,120
    edited March 2009
    :D:Da hot blueberry muffin with butter melted on it.................:D:D
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  • Disc Jockey
    Disc Jockey Posts: 1,013
    edited March 2009
    It was the best darn Boston Cream Pie I've ever had. Bar none.
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited March 2009
    Ha, no this is all the reading material that can be handled at Club Polk. :p
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  • bartimus
    bartimus Posts: 65
    edited March 2009
    mmadden28 wrote: »
    Toast anyone?

    toaster.jpg


    Now that right there is funny I dont care who you are!!!!!!:eek::eek::eek:
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,878
    edited March 2009
    Disc Jockey wrote: »
    It was the best darn Boston Cream Pie I've ever had. Bar none.

    I googled "Boston cream pie" once, and I ...... saw things ...... I'm never going to Boston !!

    xcapri79 wrote: »
    The books I read generally have more than two or three pages per chapter. Twenty-nine pages make for a nice chapter in a nice novel. I thought we were a little more upscale here on Club Polk. Get it?

    Dam .... I wish I had known we had a founding member of Mensa here ! I'm going to have to call "BS", though, on that 29 pages per chapter in a nice novel thing. No way ! That's almost a whole ensyklopeedia !!!
    mmadden28 wrote: »
    Ha, no this is all the reading material that can be handled at Club Polk. :p
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  • moe
    moe Posts: 48
    edited March 2009
    ben62670 wrote: »
    Well my buddy Jerry has an EMO 5 channel amp. He is using 2 channels to drive a pair of tweeters only. The tweeters are 4ohms with an RE of 2.9 The EMO goes into protection driving them to high volumes. My Adcom's never skipped a beat. I can't recommend Emo's 5 channel amps for 4ohm speakers if they can't handle driving a pair of tweeters properly:( LSI owners should consider used Adcom or Parasound for amps.

    I had an ADCOM 5500,it clipped often,I sold it,my xpa2 never clips,don't know about the xpa5.
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  • Dawgfish
    Dawgfish Posts: 2,554
    edited March 2009
    I think what a person likes best is an "eye of the beholder, YMMV" thing. I own other amps from Marsh, several Adcoms, Emotiva, and a Carver as a recent pickup. I actually have listened to other amps and I have a basis of comparison. I like the sound of my XPA-3's as good or better than any of the other amps. I have tried several amps with my front towers, but I keep coming back to the XPA-3 as the best sounding running my mids and tweets on my RTi12s (I am bi-amping the 12s now, I have an Adcom GFA-555 powereing the subs). I get a bigger and sweeter soundstage with the XPA than any of my other amps. Seriously I do. There are plenty of good amps out there. I try to keep an open mind though and see if something actually does sound better or not. Listen and buy what you like best. I happen to like my Emotiva, others do not I'm not offended by that. I know what sounds best to me with my system, and I'll stick with it until I find something that sounds better to me. Others will continue to run what sounds good to them. It's really as simple as that.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited March 2009
    The muffin I had for breakfast was EXCELLENT! It was the lemon poppy seed muffin I had been craving. Thanks to whomever mentioned muffins.

    Ricardo...this is still all your fault.
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  • Lowell_M
    Lowell_M Posts: 1,660
    edited March 2009
    Dawgfish wrote: »
    I happen to like my Emotiva, others do not I'm not offended by that.

    Well... Get offended, damn it.... otherwise this thread might end.

    You should see the Muffins here in Taiwan...

    edit... I'm in Taiwan for work and have a rockin Sony HTIB in my hotel room
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited March 2009
    shack wrote: »
    Ricardo...this is still all your fault.

    So sorry. To show how much I regret this, I will punish myself. I will not eat pie or muffins for one whole day.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,065
    edited March 2009
    If there was ever an example of warrented death,this thread is it.

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  • Lowell_M
    Lowell_M Posts: 1,660
    edited March 2009
    Ricardo wrote: »
    So sorry. To show how much I regret this, I will punish myself. I will not eat pie or muffins for one whole day.

    Wait a minute. That doesn't sound like much punishment. I thought you didn't eat pie and muffins anyway? You like cake.
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