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---------------- On 3/11/2004 6:40:24 PM BackBurner wrote: That folks is the game of hockey !! There has been " way " worse hits and blood battles over the years this was nothing to write about. Hell i've done " way " worse than todds getting blamed for . ---------------- Oh, man. I generally enjoy your posts, but this is is just wrong on so many levels. - Just because the guys were wearing skates when the mugging occurred doesn't mean it wasn't a mugging. Hitting a puck into a net with a stick is hockey. Punching a guy and riding him to the ground is assault. - By your reasoning re: worse things happening in the past, it was okay for Saddam to gas the Kurds, since Hitler's genocide was so much worse. - You've done worse than sucker punch a guy and break his neck? And you're here to post? Give me your lawyer's number -- I want him on my side if I ever land in deep doo.

---------------- On 3/11/2004 12:40:10 AM ccsakura wrote: Just do the machine code copy(10010100001 and so on). Many programs support that. This way it'll be a little slower than the normal way of burning, but it is absolutely identical ---------------- CloneCD is quite good for that. It makes a bit-for-bit copy from one disk to the other. You can make an image, or copy on the fly. Your CloneCD disks will have the index number for CDDB, CD text, and everything.

My $0.02 -- US or Canadian, take your pick -- the fine was appropriate, but the suspension was not. If I had my druthers, Bertuzzi can return to the ice when Moore can return to the ice. I think it ought to be that if you take a cheap shot that ends another guy's career, you just ended yours as well.

Yep, you're headed for the tall cotton.

---------------- Ed, you have a typo in your post that is ripping on Keith for having a typo in his post. "bit the good news"? ---------------- Every spelling flame contains a spelling error. It's one of the unwritten laws of the universe. Ah shoot, I just wrote it down.

Nevermind, if I'd read more carefully I wouldn't post stupid things first then catch them later.

---------------- On 3/10/2004 10:27:59 PM Rdmarsiii wrote: I was wondering if there was a way to convert mp3 or wma files to a file that all cd players can read. ---------------- CD's read a PCM bitstream. A WAV file is also a PCM bitstream. The CD encoding format is different, though. If you take a bunch of WAV files and copy them to a CDR, you've still got a bunch of WAV files on an ISO9660 disk. Your PC will happily read them back, but your CD player won't have a clue what to do with them. CD players want Redbook CD encoding. Ever notice that when you put a music CD in your PC and look at it in Explorer, you see a bunch of CDA files? That's how Windows interprets the header of the PCM bitstream. CDA just means CD Audio. Lots of programs can take your MP3's and make WAVs of them. WinAMP will do it -- just set your output plugin to "diskwriter" and specify the directory. Any CD recording program will make music CD's too -- CDCreator, Nero, etc. When you start a project, you tell the burning program what kind of disk you're making -- data (ISO9660) or music (Redbook). Drag in your WAV files, and CDCreator/Nero will happily record the disk in the format you've chosen. Some programs will decode your MP3's on the fly, saving you the trouble. It's been a while since I've used Windows to do these kinds of things, so I'm sorry I can't be more specific about which ones might be helpful to you.

Yeah, I gotta agree with Todd. I'm not so sure "Whatever, get what you want" is the same as "Get whatever you want." If it does mean the same, then Fini is definitely on the right track. With a name like Fini, though, he has to biased toward the French maid. Maybe you'd prefer a Geisha instead.

Congratulations, David. Good job on setting a goal, ignoring the naysayers, and seeing it through. I hope you enjoy your Heresies.

ROTFL. You know the answer to that, don'tcha? Two more pairs for a perfect 6.1.

that bar on the corner where I met that

---------------- On 3/8/2004 5:37:38 PM jerohm wrote: so what exactly did they do to the cabinets that would stop you from repairing the originals and re-veneering them. Believe me, getting the motorboard out intact is NO EASY TASK - lots of glue and staples in a routed out channel. ---------------- Thanks for the insight on that. Not having done it, naturally I ASSume it will be easier than it may well be. Your suggestion to refinish has merit for one of the cabinets. It could probably be filled and reveneered. The other was dropped hard enough that the cabinet is split along one of the top edges. With the passive pulled out and a flashlight on inside the box, you can see through the gap. I think that goose is cooked. What I'm on the fence over is that I might be able to sell off without spending all the time, and come out basically even. Thoughts on that idea?

Good responses. I should have mentioned that I have an Academy to mate up with the Choruses. I also have a set of 80-ish Heresies that I've had for a little better than a decade. It's the Academy situation that makes this such a twister. I could sell the Academy and just almost get two more sets of Heresies or a set of Cornwalls. Then I'm still left with these Chorus parts. There might be enough in them for a set of Heresies. I can build cabinets myself, and that's been my plan for the last few weeks. The motorboards and backboards are fine, as are the grills, so I figure in a rebuild I'll cut those out and mount them into MDF boxes. Veneer 'em up real perdy, and there I've got a nice set of Chorus II's and an Academy. Then I still need a set of Quartets or Forte II's to round out the back . . . So I wonder if a set of Chorus II's in cabinets built by me is worth appreicably more than the electronics, know what I mean? So that's why my head is spinning. Basically in hindsight it's clear that I screwed up by gunning for this Chorus/Academy set, and would have been better served by building on my Heresies in the first place. I'm pretty much at the point of "What's my best exit strategy" where the Choruses are concerned. Thanks again.

Folks, I've got a set of Chorus II's that UPS beat to death, and 'm on the horns of a dilemma with what to do with them. If you have advice or an opinion, please offer it. Would you rebuild the cabinets and sell them as a unit, or part them out? Getting center channels for this series of speakers is on ongoing and well known problem, so I see an opportunity to get some parts on the market for the creative types that might want to build one. It also allows me to close this mess up and be done with it. I'd have for sale two tweeters and horns, one squawker with horn and one without, two woofers, two passives, one fine crossover, and one crossover needing some repair. Any thoughts on what the parts might bring?

Or a La Scala, or a Belle, or a Heresy with some boost, or a pair of Heresies with a little less boost . . . And I'm sure it keeps going on!

Congrats on the horns! I hope you enjoy them greatly. I hope someday to get some of my own, too. :-) Oh, and I'm glad GFH asked for your RF-7's. This way I'm not the first to say "Hey, let me know if you want to sell some of your stuff!" If you decide those Cornies have got to go, please do give me a holler.

---------------- On 3/5/2004 11:19:52 PM Griffinator wrote: As a thirty year old GenX'er, I must correct you. I was on the early end of GenX - most of the GenX'ers are in their mid-to-late twenties right now, and thinking about careerbuilding and kids. I, however, am much more concerned with backaches than upward mobility ---------------- I'll see your correction, and raise you a correction with references! Generation X takes its name from a book of that title, authored by Douglas Coupland in 1992. In 1992, he defined Generation X as being aged about 20 to 33 -- in 1992. That puts GenX at about 32 to 45 years of age, today. http://membres.lycos.fr/coupland/genx9.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X Not that it matters much, really. I think it's great that people think Heritage speakers are ugly. It's also great that some people don't like lasagna. More for me.

---------------- On 3/5/2004 11:10:07 AM dkp wrote: Translation: 007, Young man, the K-horn speakers are a wonderful sounding speaker that will thrill you to no end. They may not look like much (then again, neither do you Gen Xers) but they produce a beautiful sound. These corner-placed speakers will really enthrall you with the rich and smooth tones they produce. The next time you fall off your skateboard and bump your head, forcing you to stay still for a moment (yeah right), take a listen to the Klipschorns. You won't be dissappointed! David ---------------- Ya know, this is the second time I've seen this kind of thing this week. I hate to be the one to break it to you, but GenX is in it's mid-30s now. Xers are more concerned with 401k's and backaches than skateboards. So dude, keep up! You're dead-on about the heritage speakers, though.

I'm here to be helpful by sharing what I know, and to learn about the things I don't know. The latter dwarfs the former, so I try to keep the lurk:post ratio within appropriate bounds. 35/M/married/no kids yet/Visalia, CA. Visalia is what Everett McGill would call a geographical oddity -- it's two hours from everywere.

---------------- On 2/24/2004 5:12:43 PM easylistener wrote: It looks like I am going to be moving. I have a 75 gallon Aquarium full of fish. Does anyone know how to move them with out killing them? My son would hate me if I killed any of them. ---------------- I moved a 125 gallon aquarium about 11 years ago. It was a six and a half hour drive from A to B. I had great success using ice chests to hold the fish. I had about fifteen good sized fish, and I distributed them among about three of the ice chests. Your 20 minute drive is cake. If you really want to minimize stress on the fish, get a couple of 33 gallon plastic trash cans, or a handful of 12 gallon plastic bins, or a bunch of five gallon buckets . . . you get the picture . . . and move as much of your tank water as you reasonably can. pH shock is more important than temperature shock. Oh, and try to leave your gravel bed alone, and keep it wet for the move. My 125 was an acrylic tank, so my cousin and I just muscled it up onto a dolly with an inch of water still over the gravel and rolled that into the trailer. If you have a glass tank you probably want to put your gravel into buckets, and top it over with water. Once your gravel is not submerged you start to lose your bacteria in just a few minutes -- like 30 of them. After your friends are back in their home, you can use a half dose of . . . shoot, what's it called . . . Nox-ich? Rid-Ich? Whatever the brand, it's malachite green, and you'd usually add a drop per gallon for infected fish. A drop per two or three gallons is a good preventive dose. Big fish are tough. You should be fine.

---------------- On 2/23/2004 9:50:04 PM BigBusa wrote: heretic, does this mean you have all junk or are you a sociopath too? ---------------- LOL. I knew someone would take the opportunity to turn what I said into something I didn't say. Maybe I gave the impression that I think there are more bad apples than I really do. And no, I'm not a sociopath, and yes, all of my stuff is decidedly low to mid-range, but I've worked hard to get what I do have, and it's mine, and I never screwed anybody in the least way to get any of it, and I enjoy the heck out of it, and as time goes by and my fortunes change for the better again I'll upgrade.

Audiogon, like eBay, is just a prism. There are a lot of people left in the world who still believe in things like honesty and integrity, and there is a somewhat smaller number that turn that belief into action. Then there's got the "money makes the world go 'round" crowd, and for them inetegrity is either an abstract concept or a word that suckers use to make themselves feel better. Unfortunately money is attracted to people who will do anything for it, so a lot of really nice toys are in the hands of sociopaths. I think you've just had a run of bad luck, and I hope things will turn around for you.

---------------- On 2/23/2004 3:56:01 PM m00n wrote: ---------------- On 2/21/2004 6:29:08 PM heretic wrote: I wouldn't put a PC on someone's desk whose main thing is publishing with InDesign and Illustrator and Photoshop. My US$0.02, FWIW. ---------------- Why not? I use PC and run Photoshop just fine. Never had an issue one with any graphics application running on PC. From MS Paint to 3D Studio Max... Never had an issue one. ---------------- Graphics work is not quite the same as publishing. I work for a publisher, where I support a 50/50 mix of Macs and PCs running a range of desktop publishing apps. In the publishing world, which has long been primarily a Mac domain, the Mac stuff just works better. Font solutions and output device support are especially mature on the Mac platform, not so much yet on the PC. They are getting better year by year, though, and eventually there will be no real difference. For true GRAPHICS, sure, there's no real advantage of one over the other. If you're going to take your work and submit it to a publisher, you're going to give them a PostScript file or a PDF that is platform-agnostic. Here at the publisher, some machines work better than others for getting your digital data onto film or plate and then onto paper. Those machines aren't generally running Windows.

Thors, you keep changing your argument so you can slide just to the left of being dead wrong. Why don't you just admit you don't know as much about this as you'd like to? Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

Well, I think having five identical speakers is ideal. I also think getting five center speakers is about the most expensive way to meet that goal. It's your money, and you can do what you want with it.