Posts Made By: James Brown

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

Didn't you start calling him a baker or a plumber or something like that?

I'd prefer "cabinet maker."  This is my second most recent project, a stereo stand of my own design featuring a big live edge cherry slab.  The two power amp chassis are built from scratch too, cherry and some sort of burl, elm I think.  I built the amps a long time ago.  Jim

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

"A judge on Friday dismissed former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against his 2016 presidential opponent Hillary Clinton, calling it a “political manifesto.”
“Plaintiff is not attempting to seek redress for any legal harm,” 
“Instead, he is seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him, and this Court is not the appropriate forum.”
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3636101-judge-tosses-trump-lawsuit-against-hillary-clinton-dismisses-it-as-manifesto/

Funny - and here I thought Trump's case against HRC etc. was iron clad....  

Incidentally, I laughed out loud at this passage, does it remind you of anyone's style from these parts?

“What [Trump’s lawsuit] lacks in substance and legal support it seeks to substitute with length, hyperbole, and the settling of scores and grievances,” he continued.

Jim

Originally Posted by Brian McFarland

Tubes, huh? Do you prefer the sound? One amp per speaker?

Yep, one single channel amp per speaker.  I like the sound a lot, especially on jazz, folk, and other acoustic music.  The speakers I have now are paired very well with tube amps, they are an extremely efficient  full-range design with no crossovers.  These are in our mountain place.  Back in Denver, I went to the other extreme; all solid state with a digital crossover and one solid state amp for each of the tweeter, mid bass and bass channels.  (six amp channels total, fed by a digital crossover).  I built the Denver speakers/system from plans by Stewart Linkwitz, who was a legendary audio engineer.  He passed a few years ago.  https://www.linkwitzlab.com/LXmini/Introduction.htm

I like both systems a lot.  The Linkwitz system is extremely clear and pristine.  The tubes have a ton of soul.  Jim

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

Lots of passive aggressive coming thru in your post Jim LOL

Fairly certain we agree on what trolling is though....

To answer your questions.....

1. Yes I agree with more in that article than I disagree with and before you ask I am not interested in analyzing it point by point as I was more interested in #2

2. Yes I primarily posted it because I knew the Trump haters and leftists would have an entertaining feeding frenzy over it.....I wasnt disappointed LOL

Thanks for the reply. 

For the purposes of this side conversation, I am glad you agreed with most of the article before you posted it.  I personally don't think that posting this article is "trolling" since you agreed with a lot of it, but I am OK with your less negative definition of trolling.   I personally would call your post "starting a contentious conversation" rather than trolling. 

I was not trying to be passive aggressive.  I was trying to let anyone who cared know that if you had posted something you personally did not agree with, just to tweak other forum members, that it would reflect poorly on you.  I'd call my position on trolls (as I see them) "active aggressive!"  Either way, you did not troll in the way I define the word, so I am glad about that.   Jim

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Well normally audiophiles don't talk about Per "speaker" numbskull.  I thought you were an engineer??

You sure don't talk like one.  

Here's a clue for you, his system can drive more than 1 speaker.  LOL.  

The only thing I can tell from his system is that he's got dual mono amps and he has some Omega XRS speakers the towers

Good catch on the Omegas, you are spot on.  I would say that the amps are single channel.  In this case the speakers are too, although the amps have in the past driven speakers with crossovers.  One amp per speaker would be how I personally would refer to it, even if I were driving amps with separate woofer, tweeter, and midrange channels.   Or maybe on amp for the left channel and one amp for the right channel?  Nothing like semantics.  The photo might be confusing because the stand also holds an entirely separate home theater amp that drives the wall speakers and sub in normal home theater fashion.  Nothing home made there.

I am only a 1/2 audiophile.  I love good speakers, good amps, and my turntable.  But I use pedestrian interconnects, speaker wire, and power cords.  Personally, I think the folks who spend zillions on fancy interconnects etc. have more money than brains.  Others would disagree vehemently.  https://www.thecableco.com/cables/speaker-cables/emperor-double-crown-speaker-cable-pair.html

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

My God, does everything have to be an "argument" with you?

Really?  

An "argument" with me?  

Maybe you should look in the mirror for a moment.  

Or I suppose that I could bring up the liberal line "self-aware" and maybe reference the 900 or so  argument-ative responses from you leftists here, that came right after Greg put up his 1st posting in this thread.  

I think you might need a refresher course on the terminology "self aware".  

And BTW, I was giving the fool a hard time.  

Brian's no fool.  He seems to me to be a great guy with a ton of knowledge.  It is a mystery why you go out of your way to be vile to those who might otherwise be your friend.   

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

I'm sure he is.  The fact is that if he had ever once offered me an ounce of respect, rather than his continuous attacks, I might have a different opinion of him. LOL!  

BTW, I like the Linkwitz that you built there the Plutos.  It looks like you used the SEAS Woofers, the aluminum Cone ones?  I know the Freq. Response is limited on those, maybe to 2K but the little AURA tweeters you have there have a good range up to 15KHz.  

I'm currently building Reproduction stuff, mostly JBLs as I'm an old school guy. Right now I'm building some Reproduction C42 1957 Bel-Aires if you're familiar with them.  

I thought you did a helluva Job on the Linkwitz design there.  VERY Nice!  

BTW, what species of veneering do those Omega Towers have?  They look like an exotic veneer, or a tight grained rift sawn walnut.  PRETTY!  They aren't inexpensive though but good speakers can be a bit pricey.

One thing I liked about the Omega is that they used Alnico Magnets (old school).  You've got a full range driver up top, with a whizzer cone, which I've always thought was a neat look for the cones.  

My guess is that the Omegas sound infinitely better than the Linkwitz, but the Linkwitz LOOK cool.

I'm also building some of my own design, 3 way towers that will be unique for sure.  

When I get them finished, I will post them in the Audio area of A-Mart. Hopefully soon.  

Still working on the crossover design, but may just purchase a 3 way crossover from PRV Audio or Dayton.  I kind of like the Idea of an external Crossover in a lighted box.  That's kind of the trend these days for higher end systems.  

Anyway, congrats on your nice work there!  

Back to building.  

Thanks for the compliments.  The Omegas are in a Zebrawood veneer.  The photo taken with my phone does not do it justice.  You can't do old school much better than the JBLs.  But maybe you should build something like a heritage Klipsch designs, like these - assuming you don't have neighbors and your house is well reinforced!  https://www.klipsch.com/products/klipschorn-70th-anniversary-edition

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

You? Expecting respect? LOL.

Funny!  I love Rodney.

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

I was able to read the first paragraph or so before I hit the paywall. Figures just when I'm looking forward to to some more frequent observing opportunities this will happen. I assume it'll be in geosynchronous orbit so it'll wreck the night sky for good?? Finally folks will be able to post pics while on their wilderness hikes so their followers can "like" them and they can keep up with their twitter feeds. Buh bye dark skies cause you know the internet is important. The masses will never look up at the night sky to experience for themselves anyways. They can just call up a picture of most any DSO instantly so why does it matter?  

This is going into low earth orbit, like the Starlink satellites.  If it were in geosynchronous orbit (Like HughesNet) , the delay becomes bad for internet communication.

Starlink blackened their very small satellites in response to astronomer and sky-watcher push back.  Since they are low earth orbit, you see them best at dusk and dawn, and they are not illuminated at all in the middle of the night.  

These articles have no paywall and indicate that astronomers around the world are concerned about these big jobs, and will be taking measurements.  Hopefully the communications companies are able to engineer  a solution that is not as bright as Venus...

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/as-bluewalker-satellites-join-a-brightening-sky-heres-how-you-can-help/
https://gizmodo.com/spacex-bluewalker-3-falcon-9-1849519022

Jim

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

Not like the democrats need any more help for the midterms. This'll just motivate them some more.

His GOP colleagues in the Senate are distancing themselves from the proposed legislation. We got bad inflation news yesterday, but everyone is talking about abortion. Or not talking about it as McConnell wants us to do. I've heard many talking about voting this Roe-vember since the Supremes action on Roe v. Wade. 

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/13/grahams-abortion-ban-senate-gop-00056423

Hi all:

I want to play a bit of the contrarian here - although I agree that Graham's proposal is tone deaf.

According to the article, the "ban" would be at 15 weeks.  That is approximately at the end of the first trimester.  Also, according to the article, the "ban," "includes exceptions for rape, incest and pregnancies that threaten maternal health."  So, assuming that is correct, 2nd trimester abortions would be OK in instances of maternal health.   Not just the life of the mother, but maternal health.  So at first glance, this statute is not unlike codifying Roe.

Politico spins this as a ban.  Was Roe a ban?  Would you or other Democrats support the national codification of Roe v. Wade?  I think a lot would, but any discussion is peremptorily snuffed out by casting this as a ban.  You'll recall that Murkowski and Collins tried to introduce legislation codifying Roe some time ago, when Roe was still in effect.  They were shot down by Democrats if I remember correctly.  So, who is driving the wedge here?  (nod to James L.).  I could argue that it is Politico and the Democrats who reflexively shoot down a proposal that might be acceptable to most people, maybe if tweaked a bit.

Frankly, the bluest states want this issue controlled at the state level too, so they can legislate extremely liberal abortion laws that do not have much national support at all. 

Lastly, Roe-vember?  I have not heard that and I still think the economy is the issue.  The day before yesterday's inflation news was really bad for Biden and the country.  Sure, Roe may motivate blue state activists, but I'm not seeing it as a big issue myself.  Just guessing of course, we'll see soon enough.   Jim