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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,901
    Beware around wet cement Tony...

    lol....and you around wood chippers, ala Fargo. :)
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 24,420
    tonyb wrote: »
    Beware around wet cement Tony...

    lol....and you around wood chippers, ala Fargo. :)

    That's going to leave a mark :D
  • codycatalist
    codycatalist Posts: 2,662
    "tonyb wrote: »
    When you move a piece of furniture and scratch it, then think....Better call Jesse

    Funny, I cracked the side post of my bed frame, first words to my wife. Let’s support it up with a car jack and I’ll PM Jesse.
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,007
    F1nut wrote: »
    mantis wrote: »
    VR3 wrote: »
    My favorite club polk past time was the BDT, RUSS, MANTIS, LIV4FAM flame threads. Epicness
    Those where the days LOL

    Days you'd rather forget me thinks.
    It was all in good fun.

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  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,328
    zingo wrote: »
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    Scary bunch of dudes like this

    Is that Dangerboy (Al) in that top photo?
    Carl

  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,328
    F1nut wrote: »
    I'll bet not many here remember Nascarmann, RIP. Super guy with great sense of humor. I believe he was the first to respond to my first post.

    I remember Nascarmann, very good guy. I believe that it was YOU (Jesse) who responded to my first post. You were the first to respond to many newcomers. Thank you!
    Carl

  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,328
    msg wrote: »
    Who was Darla?

    "As the Wingnut turns." Was a drama that we followed intensely for a month or so. Very nice woman, I hope that all is well. It's tough to be a cop.

    Carl

  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 24,420
    Hey Carl sup man?
  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 49,666
    schwarcw wrote: »
    zingo wrote: »
    46890.jpg

    46909.jpg

    Scary bunch of dudes like this

    Is that Dangerboy (Al) in that top photo?

    It is.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 18,188
    You've been on Club Polk too long if...you remember meeting Miller Lite Scott at Polk HQ and we were somewhat the "newbies" at the time.

    We actually got to meet the Polk reps, designers and sound engineers.

    I remember they had this one system that never hit the market....it was some sort of wired, yet wireless system. One plug for both speakers and a wireless plugged in surround.

    At that point in time, they actually listened to feedback.

    Tom
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  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,328
    treitz3 wrote: »
    You've been on Club Polk too long if...you remember meeting Miller Lite Scott at Polk HQ and we were somewhat the "newbies" at the time.

    We actually got to meet the Polk reps, designers and sound engineers.

    I remember they had this one system that never hit the market....it was some sort of wired, yet wireless system. One plug for both speakers and a wireless plugged in surround.

    At that point in time, they actually listened to feedback.

    Tom

    Hey Tom, do you remember seeing this Polk turntable at Polk HQ?

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    Carl

  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 18,188
    Vaguely, Carl?

    That's the best I can offer bro'.

    That obviously was not in the hallway of "history". Stu's office, perhaps?

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 18,188
    Hang on a minute...that was in the second studio room where they had everything draped off with black curtains and the 5 or 7.1 system that sounded pretty damned good?

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 18,188
    F1nut wrote: »
    I'll bet not many here remember Nascarmann, RIP. Super guy with great sense of humor. I believe he was the first to respond to my first post.

    Jesse, I believe you were the first to respond to my first post BITD.

    I'd rather say something while you are alive, then when you are gone. Thanks man.

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,342
    schwarcw wrote: »

    Hey Tom, do you remember seeing this Polk turntable at Polk HQ?

    I recall being there with you and Ed the SRT king looking at it, and someone was thinking of a way to smuggle it out.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 49,666
    edited March 2019
    schwarcw wrote: »
    treitz3 wrote: »
    You've been on Club Polk too long if...you remember meeting Miller Lite Scott at Polk HQ and we were somewhat the "newbies" at the time.

    We actually got to meet the Polk reps, designers and sound engineers.

    I remember they had this one system that never hit the market....it was some sort of wired, yet wireless system. One plug for both speakers and a wireless plugged in surround.

    At that point in time, they actually listened to feedback.

    Tom

    Hey Tom, do you remember seeing this Polk turntable at Polk HQ?

    askbxr2ad2hm.jpg
    dp1malqq8b6b.jpg

    That was in the hallway of the offices in the back. There was also a mini SRT system model back there.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."


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  • When you bought your first set of speaker Monitor 70 from circuit city.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 24,420
    When you bought your first set of speaker Monitor 70 from circuit city.

    Yeah that's funny when I went in to Circuit City and bought my 27 inch TV I was looking at a Hitachi TV that had a thousand lines of resolution. The salesman told me it'd be a waste of money to buy it since nobody was ever going to use a thousand lines of resolution on a TV. Now look what we have for TVs his foresight was pretty dead.
  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 7,937
    When you bought your first set of speaker Monitor 70 from circuit city.

    I didn’t buy there, but when I made my first major audio purchase I compared the rm6750 to the monitor 30s at circuit city. I bought the monitor setup online. On the one hand I admit that o am part of the problem of b&m stores going away. On the other hand, adapt or die...
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,408
    Circuit City hadn't even been invented yet when I bought my first Polk's
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  • audioluvr wrote: »
    Circuit City hadn't even been invented yet when I bought my first Polk's

    And this is why this forum is what it is. A wealth of knowledge dating back to pre circuit city day.
    Epson 3020 projector. Da Lite screen. Oppo 103. Yamaha CXA5000. B&K 7250ii. HSU VTF2. Def Tech Supercube 4000. Polk Rtia9 CsiA6 FxiA6. Monster hts 2600. Home theater.

    Bedroom consist of NHT model 2 powered by Parasound hca1200ii coming from my computer.

    Stuff laying around. Too much to list but don't want to sell either.
  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 24,981
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    When you bought your first set of speaker Monitor 70 from circuit city.

    Yeah that's funny when I went in to Circuit City and bought my 27 inch TV I was looking at a Hitachi TV that had a thousand lines of resolution. The salesman told me it'd be a waste of money to buy it since nobody was ever going to use a thousand lines of resolution on a TV. Now look what we have for TVs his foresight was pretty dead.

    And now Circuit City is dead... good thing he wasn’t a psychic.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 24,981
    audioluvr wrote: »
    Circuit City hadn't even been invented yet when I bought my first Polk's


    Circuit City had been around since 1949, though the concept of big-box didn’t happen until the 1970’s
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 4,598
    Been here too long when you think soundbars are the epitome of audio.
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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,080
    zingo wrote: »
    46890.jpgScary bunch of dudes like this

    Forensic sketch artists have hypothesized with that guy in the middle with crossed arms, sans bushy beard, is the one and only … I’ll assume that’s Russ??

    Could those in-the-know, tell us who the rest of the Motley Crue is?
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