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Out of context, this is mildly disturbing.

Getting new dates lined up. Friday afternoon I'm driving to Little River, SC (Redneck Rivera) to meet a retired flight attendant at a little place on the water. A one hour drive but I want to explore a little anyway. She drives a Volvo like mine and she mentioned the seats roll back! Friday morning coffee at Wrightsville Beach (3 miles away) with a very persistent lady. I have already mentioned I don't think we are a match and she wants to change my mind. She is 5'2" and you guys know I like tall and slender. Next Tuesday lunch with a free spirited 52 year old. We will be okay as long as she doesn't do the math. Lunch today with three male school chums and dinner tonight with seven old guys. Cheers Gents

Morning The wife's friday and im sure she is looking forward to her outing. On the second cup w/Duggans. Ebay has been some interesting news as of late, it seems if your a seller, people now have 6Mo, to either like and keep your product, or one morning you could wake up to a whole bunch of return demands, six month return policy? who the Fk does that ? So after today, no more selling on the Bay for this boy, their Fee's are BS anyway. UPS and the Fedex have doubled their rates in the last two years, so if Ebay does not rip you off enough, the shipping will. Greed is scre-w-ing the american way of life.

I add a horseradish flavored pickle as a top of glass garnish myself.

On with the day

Sounds good to me, I haven't had one in a good while. I can't help but like them I love tomato juice or V8 and spicy things.

OK.... That's it.... BLOODY MARY's this weekend..... with plenty of spice...

while not a bloody mary, i put a considerable amount of tabasco with a splash of lemon in my V8 juice--it’s just a wonderful combination of flavors.

When an infection does occur in humans, the virus can be spread in several ways to others. Ebola is spread through direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with blood or body fluids (including but not limited to urine, saliva, feces, vomit, and semen) of a person who is sick with Ebola objects (like needles and syringes) that have been contaminated with the virus infected animals Ebola is not spread through the air or by water, or in general, food. However, in Africa, Ebola may be spread as a result of handling bushmeat (wild animals hunted for food) and contact with infected bats. http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/

I'll give it a shot.....

Going to go out and just say it, what a clown......... All of that and not even room for another person to sit, not one friend of partner who may want to share ? Wires lifted by wooden blocks, your own wires are no good touching the carpet George ? A turntable that looks like something broken off the mars shuttle and a Lp that's warped and moving up and down. And be sure to hold the dog for the video and close your eyes and think how impressed you are. SORRY I feel better now, this is what I get for reading those stupid websites with reviewers pushing BS "improvements" like $40 receptacles and special cover plates, oil rubbed rosewood wire lifters, if your setup is to the point that this is your last improvement, congratulations, but I need to stay away from this level of silliness. Anyway he obviously needs more lifters there sagging to much in between, it will create lulls in the signal, only makes sense really, you would think George would know that ? Edit............thought someone would have shot me in the back side for this by now........

how about saying "In a land where a cold BM is just as good as a burning hot one." Where would that be ... Cleveland?

My wife hates when I get ideas about different things to eat or drink if it requires a special trip to the store. She says I never stop thinking about food, among other things, she's right. I alternate most of my daily ideas with taking a nap. It does slow you down, but you feel rested most of the day.

I like hot, but not the crazy hot some peppers have where you break out in a sweat and think your going to die. Gas welding, Ok, when I think torch I think back to my shipfitter days of cutting torch, back then mig and tig welding was all new and just getting started and torches were used for brazing or preheating. Florida, ok I didn't know that. Your doing better than me, it takes me two hands to have all the typos.

Were leaving to go on a cruise soon, we are thinking about getting what they call the Cheers program. What it consist of is one set price per person for 7 days and it allows up to 15 drinks per day, any drink under the price of $10 is included, which is way more than 90% of the drinks they sell. The main reason for this is they have a large menu and it would be a great way to try many different things without paying 6-8$ per drink they normally charge. It also includes all Tequila and rum shots which would be really good to try different brands without buying bottle of the stuff just to try each of the better brands. It also includes unlimited non alcoholic frozen or regular drinks. It's sounding pretty good as a way to find some new drinks, and save considering the break even point for cost is 5-6 drinks a day, the plan also includes the tips and taxes.

Out of context, this is mildly disturbing. Ha I had to read it twice, I must have thought the same thing. Billybob your right they don't have to be as hot as a welding torch to be good, but just a touch of Tabasco is probably not enough for me. I don't want blisters but a nice burning feeling is good. Not crazy about tabasco anyway, I like other brands more. Anyway I don't know what a welding torch is, must be something new ? Billy if you get a chance (and don't mind) put your state up by your avatar, or if you don't want people to know, just say north east or wherever you are, It's up to you it's not required just helpful sometimes, just ignore if your in the witness relocation program

I go with the classic style when making bloody Mary's, I go with either Sacramento or Campbell's tomato juice. In a pint glass squeeze a lemon wedge, drop in. a fistful of ice cubes A healthy dose of Worchestershire, Lea & Perrins is best Tabasco to taste fresh cracked pepper and salt, don't be shy a healthy spoonful of horseradish free pour your vodka of choice. (personally I use Luksusowa Polish vodka, using high end vodka in a drink with tabasco is a waste) Top off with Tomato juice. I pour my Bloody's back & forth 3 times between my glass and a larger vessel. Works for me. Celery stalk is optional.

THE PEER PRESSURE!!! Be sure you put a dash of Worchestershire sauce in it also. I like to use celery salt instead of regular salt too.

If it had been available at reasonable production cost, we would have been digital kids. In 1980, I designed a main board for a revolutionary 10 Megabyte 5 1/4" hard drive with built-in digital tape backup (Irwin), which was 4 times the capacity of a "state of the art" 2.5 Megabyte Seagate at the time. It's OEM cost was $2,500 to be sold to Olivetti in Europe for word processing (text only, no graphics). By 1986, the cost of RAM had dropped to $1,000/Megabyte after being almost that for 256 kilobytes for years. Now it's about $10/Gigabyte, which is 1,000 Megabytes. So the price of storage has come down 100,000 times cheaper in about 30 years, which is 1 cent per Megabyte and about 1/3 of a penny on a 3 Terabye Hard drive. A writeable CD is now 25 cents, vs. $20 when it first became available. We just keep chewing it up with more and more data, as represented by 4K HDTV video, which is an amazing 9 megapixels at 30 X per second, and a 50 Gigabyte Blue Ray Disc is too small for storing it. So it's the cost of storage and computing horsepower on silicon that has made all things digital possible. You can copy forward all digital data to a different storage device without any losses. Try that with our analog stuff and build up some more noise why don't we.

You bought a Classic ?

I guess Ebola is climbing the charts as a threat to us today. Neither but can't tell you.

There is interest... but not at fifty two hundred.

I guess Ebola is climbing the charts as a threat to us today.

Yep, that's why you need to keep some generic vodka around. Save the good stuff for the martinis

Yup, that is it ……………… and you need big speakers - especially woofers- to play the main theme (overly large orchestra).

A nice nap after lunch is hard to beat.

Lol, it is all hot to me. Reflux disease will not allow but a little warm. Tried welding one day with electric...not very good results. Used to pay pretty good, especially union and if good at it like brother in law. Thought everyone knew, talked like Floridian native. Am in protection program, but always use Florida, as they would think am lying. They know I do not like it hot.

I thought we all knew billybob was in witness protection! So sorry dtel that I didn't mention that. His phone number is 408 972-3569 but just share it with forum members please.....cause it's all hush hush you know. I didn't know, I won't give out the phone number. I was just thinking about you Tarheal, when I went back to read something and noticed you were the one who started this thread 166 pages ago.

I would imagine the cinema line is as good or probably even better due to much larger horns and cabinets. With the Palladium you are paying as much for very fine quality furniture as you are the sound. It's a complete package but it has design limitations trying to appeal to high end decor. I can build a 2500 lb rat rod with a 700 HP motor for 20k and smoke any 60-80k car out there. It won't have the fit and finish and comfort but it will be faster. Same goes for speakers.

Always a pleasure to learn some good drink mixing tips on a Wednesday (or Thursday, Friday, etc....)

Horseradish is a great idea ! A little "Kansas City 5" in the background and life is good!

Never tried that. I was thinking the same thing, I will try it since I like horseradish, the recipe looks good. Thanks Stephen Boxx apparently types faster than me It is amazing what I can still do with these old, many times broken, fingers....

No, Worchestshire is important. Not Angusturo bitters. Love the one your with. Too many fish in the sea's to choose from is a real problem, at times. Cull the least, but leave the lid open. My way or e-bay. My way.

Yes indeed it's Haloween month, one of the coolest times of the year, need to start buying and sampling the sweets this month. Annoying little Avater eh ?

Rick, yes the 299 Scott is excellent (love those massive trannies!) Let me know what you think of that piece by Bernard Herrmann if you get it. I'd like to know what you think. If you do like it, I have some more surprises for you.

To go with the soundsmith... https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/laOZVwsxQaaM7kLxkOII+DSC_0588.JPG/convert?w=840&h=630&fit=max

Is that a "hint, hint"......??? Not a problem, it's just a little heavy is all, with that massive iron he put on that thing....We're gonna need a bigger boat!!

I'd love to hear that amp and sound stereo 15 sometime.... I've kept a close eye on what Mr. Weber is up to, great looking stuff with a cool philosophy behind his creations.

Easy, build a man cave around them.

while not a bloody mary, i put a considerable amount of tabasco with a splash of lemon in my V8 juice--it’s just a wonderful combination of flavors. I have done that before and it is good, really I'm in for the flavor more than a "drink", I like a little salt in them also.

When people ask what I think about Bose, I tell them. When they brag about the Bose system they have, I just let them. After all why should I put down what they like. If they are Happy, that's the most important any of us can hope for. That said, My home is a Bose Free Zone.

need to stop all travel in and out of there.

.Back on topic. Vinyls are certainly not dead, far from it. It's everything else that's doomed. Cd's are about dead, cassettes are dead, RTR is on life support, 8 tracts are dead, and several digital formats are dead. Digital? You bet! Remember floppies? Still got all your music on the large ones, or maybe a few cuts on the small ones? Try finding something to play that on. How about ATA hard drives? Most computers these days, you have a choice, either a dvd player or a ATA drive because there are not enough slots for both, because everybody went to SATA. MP3's are a dinosaur. Now that digital space for the purposes of storage is darn well infinite, their day is done. They were designed to shrink space and they did a horrible job of it. DVD-A. SACD. Nonstarters as a mass medium whit little content. HD? For how Long? Remember Dolby? BluRay? For Music? DAC's? What will they be replaced with? How about The Cloud? Which one and for how long. What happens when industry consolidation or a bankruptcy leaves millions and billions and Tera bits of music vanishing into the netherworld, a simple key stroke from a programmer, or hell, some drone functionary, rendering all those tunes gone, gone, gone. Oh yes, the digital realm is such a safe place to put important things. Like a bank vault made of swiss cheese. Whistle while ye may, because after your zeros and ones all disappear, you'll have to entertain yourself by whistling, whilst I spin a platter.

You have to watch that line of thinking, there smarter than they let on to be ! There is a way around that line of thinking, do a terrible job, I did such a bad job of painting I am not allowed to paint or stucco walls anymore, it worked.

Looks like what comes out of my faucet after the city works on the water main nearby.

You have to sell what people are buying if you want to stay in business.

For those from Oklahoma it's the "Okie Pokey."

Unfortunately, isn't that what the typical room of most people here on this forum have? And pretty much everyone else into audio?