Travis In Austin
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A couple of us on the forum got some 2 track tapes decks to play around with. I will posts some photos later on, I am actually waiting to testify before the Texas legislature, but they have not even recessed from the general session yet. I got mine so that I could do some more playing around with 2 track high speed and be able to do comparisons. I already own a 2 track deck, an Ampex MR-70, the finest tape recorder ever made, and certainly the best tube machine Ampex ever produced. A "loan" from my father, but I don't really have the space for it at home, and it is just way over kill so I got something more practical for home use.
However, for those of you who wish to own the finest R2R ever made here is your chance, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=005&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=150116254911&rd=1&rd=1
Travis
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I'm no doctor Travis but from what I'm told, Chantix releases the pleasure endorphins(sp?) (or whatever) from the brain and replaces the need for the nicotine. You still need to figure out what to do with your hands I suppose. The first week you take a small dose in the morning and keep smoking. You quit on day 8 and increase the dosage and continue for 82 more days. If you need more after that, your doctor can give you a refill. I suppose it's up to the individual how long you tke the stuff.
As far as cost, I have no idea. We use Caremark mail order for our prescriptions and haven't got our bill yet. I'm not sure how much, if any, is covered by insurance. I'll let you know when I find out.
Edit: Just got a call from my Doc. He says Chantix blocks the nicotine receptors in your brain. He asked if I was really sure I wanted to do it and it's no magic cure. You still have to want it.
Well if you look at the stats on the Pifzer site it looks like it is well worth it, assuming they are only half way accurate. Compared to Zyban (Welbutron) and placebo people were much more sucsessful in staying quit after 6 months with the Chantix. The study group was, on average, a 43 year old who had smoked more then 10 cigs a day for 22 years. Not light weight smokers by any means. Which means, on average, they started smoking when they were 23. They better fire Joe Camel's *** cause he isn't working on the high school kids.
I am going to get some and start one week before my quit date which is the Friday of Memorial day.
Thanks for that Gary, I can use every little bit of help.
Travis
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My wife and I are going to try Chantix as soon as my prescription arrives. She already has hers but will wait for me. With us it's all or nothing. If one of us cracks, it's all over. We have neighbors who have been smoking 2-3 packs/day for 40 years and are on week 7 of Chantix. It's working great for them.
My problem, other than enjoying the hell out of smoking, is having the Dr. ask if I was a runner the last time I had a stress test/chest xray. Not what you should tell a smoker. Also, my grandfather smoked a pipe (inhaling) for over 60 years and lived to 95 with no related health problems. Both great excuses to keep smoking.
I did one of those tests recently also, in December, and tested in the 90th percentile in all catagories. It even went beyone a typical stress test, on bicycle, with breathing tubes so it tests effeciency of the lungs relative to the heart. But I sure don't feel like I am in 90th percentile anymore. I hate to think how I would feel it I hadn't of been a swimmer. What is the story on this Chantix? What does it cost?
Travis
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Way to go Sunburn!
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Well day 1 down. It sucked, but honestly not as bad as I thought it would. I just tried to stay busy all day at work, then when I came home, did a bunch of stuff around the house. Hopefully today will be a little easier!
I'm right behind you Tommy Boy. Go Boy go, Keep it up.
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Well I tried twice to upload a .pdf copy of the user manual for the 200X but was unsuccessful. Email me directly and I will send it to you.
Firstly, the unit should have four "U" type pins to jumper across the Noise Reduction circuit. If they are not in place none of the tape loops (1-3) will output signal. If you don't have the "U" jumpers or a Noise Reduction unit in that spot you will need to use two RCA jacks to jump across the noise reduction loop.
In addition, the 200X does not have the full dubbing capability the the 400, 400X, or 400XG have it is limited. The user manual will explain, you can use a Program Route Selector for just about anything. They are great because they use a single tape loop and provide provisions for 3 processors, a noise reduction unit, and three sources of your choosing or you can daisy chain them to run six sources.
Hope this helps.
Charles,
Did you get my email?
Travis
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Thank you so much, I am sure that the jumpers is the problem. I am sending you my email so that you can get me that manual.
Travis
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Maybe he has a secret night time job so he can afford to keep his day gig?[
] Maybe he is one of those guys who trouble shoots computer problems over the phone, but the twist is he does it for people in India who bought a Dell, and they can't understand him.Travis
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Do you have any pond water pumps on the same outlet ! [:$] Sorry wrong thread ! [*-)]
Dtel
I am shocked. I would not expect something like that from you. You know better then that, it is obviously being caused by having a 20 amp screw in fuse where a 15 amp should be.[:$]
Travis
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The serial #'s are 35Y589 & 35Y590. On the tag it say's C-BR whatever that means. I assumed it meant Cornwall brown. Shows how much I know about Klipsch. I eventually will get some pic's posted. D.
DC,
What the Zen Master, Michael Colter, has told you is of course correct, BR means raw birch. The Herritage line was marketed with a raw birch option so that buyers could stain them themselves as either an economic benefit or to get an exact match. So unless you know a lot about furniture finishes, it will be impossible to tell what was originally put on them. The good news is that you will get a lot of great help on here as to how to prep and refinish them to look perfect for you.
Travis
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Lisa you need to do two things, and two things only. Well three things. First, you need to call your power company, and ask them if they provide home surveys regarding safety issues. The next time you get your power bill go through all of the stuff they enclose that you normally throw out, or the back of the bill, and they will usually tell you what types of service they provide. This is usually free, and from what your description of things, you need someone out there right away, and it aint the guy you out there before who didn't say anything about the box.
Next, go to the local "high end" audio dealer there that you do business with, or call them, ask them if they have an electrician they reccomend that knows what he/she is doing when it comes to correcting electrical issues that apply to audio. There are a couple of guys here that are know by all the audiophile folks as really knowing what they are doing when it comes to reducing noise on lines.
Third, look at your TV, if you stare at one spot do you see a horizontal line all the way across the picture that moves down vertically and then starts back up at the top? If so you have improper grounding issues that only an electrician can take care of.
Travis
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I am having trouble getting tape output through by DBX 200 route selector and was wondering if anyone else owned one out there that I could pick their brain. I have no trouble playing the source with the line/tape button set to line, but cannot get any of the tape decks to output through monitor.
Thanks in advance,
Travis
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This was kind of all hashed out about 3 months ago. That Amazon seller is Vanns out of the Northwest. They are an authorized Klipsch dealer, and they sell them in single units. They have great deals on shipping.
Travis
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There is a Central Texas Klipsch gathering in June? I heard something about that and they asked if they could do it at my house but I have not heard anything since. You guys know something I don't?
Travis
Travis,
Here's what Luther posted about it on AK.
LOL, wow. Well I guess IT IS at my house again this year. Peter, you tell me a Sat in June when you can make it and we will have it then.
Travis
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They are sold singly nowdays for ease of use in HT. Many people need three Heresies, or a single LS for between Khorns.
Me, I just bought a pair of CWIII's in black. [
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You just bout CWIII's in Black? Are you kidding me? Where are you going to put them? Do you just sign your check and hand it back to Klipsch at the end of the month?[
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Gary:
I certainly agree with your comments in general...there is gold and garbage in LP's just like everything audio...but I see little correlation between age and quality.
Perhaps you know something about the specific releases of the BG albums? If not, no assumptions are possible as age has nothing to do with recording quality. I have some BG and other 10" LP's from the early '50's that sound awesome. My favorite BG is a 12" 78 of "Oh, Baby" recorded direct to disc in the 40's. Excellent sound, low noise, very high "presence."
My 1956 stereo disc recorded at St. Marks of the Gabrieli festival that year is one of the finest recordings I've ever heard, period.
Heck, I've a Kid Ory "Muskrat Ramble" over 80 years old that makes me pee my pants. I've had folks simply refuse to believe the sound coming off that record even standing watching it spin on the Empire!
Dave
Mallette,
While there is not a true correlation between the age of a record and how it will sound, there is an indirect one that is significant and I believe what Gary is talking about. You could have a still sealed 78 that is gong to sound fantastic out of the box. The age is obviously not going to effect it. But with 78's in particular, there were a wide number of needles that were used to play them, and depending on the type of needle, steel, saphire, etc. they can look pristine yet play awful. The age is important because that tells you what type of needle was in "vogue" at the time and if those needles were prone to cause damage. I am certainly no expert when it comes to 78's, but they are so varied in terms of what they were coated with, etc. The early 78's were made of a material designed to keep steal needles sharp! They produced a fine dust everytime they were played.
I would say if you happen upon someone selling 78's along with their Rega P78 you are going to find the records in pretty good shape, but if they were played on the Philco "Hi-fi" and it has the original needle, none of those 78's are going to play well.
Travis
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There is a Central Texas Klipsch gathering in June? I heard something about that and they asked if they could do it at my house but I have not heard anything since. You guys know something I don't?
Travis
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I saw Les Paul at the Irdium (who hasn't?), sure wish I had been there ot see Hubbard, and with Joe Chanbers no less.
Travis
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Some info on Columbia matrix numbers. I am even more confused:
Allan,
That was a great find, I was not able to locate that at all when I did my search. After reading everyone's posts on that forum, I kind of gather that some of them know a little bit about what they are talking about, but that no one is really an expert on Columbia. It fits with what my recollecton was, that a "-1_" is a first pressing, and that the letter that follows tells the plant where it came from. However, the A/B, C/D we know does not hold water since mine has an A on one side and a J on the other.
They also were saying that you can't tell on any record when it was pressed, and I disagree with that. I think if I gave you a matrix number and any notations in the dead wax on a Presige or BN you could tell me exactly when it was pressed.
Travis
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All I know about quitting smoking is this: stay out of bars!
I was about 5 months without a cigarette, and one day at a bar, drunk and happy, I asked my buddy for a Camel. Then another. Then another. Then I was at the machine, pumping in quarters. Cigarettes are wonderful when you're drunk, and that drunken reasoning, "Oh, tomorrow I will quit again," did not work for me.
That was about 3 years ago, and I am puffing away ever since.
Good luck to all y'all trying to quit!
--Mike in NE PA
Mike,
A few of us are going quit on Friday, midnight, of Memorial Day Weekend, you should joing us. (Notice I did not say "try" to quit).
Hope you consider it.
Travis
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Nice work Luther......good to hear from you[
]Chuck
Luther,
I knew you would be coming up for air at some point. I cannot believe the kitchen, it is night and day, and the white makes it look twice as big as before. Those cabs look great, your BIL does great work. Sorry I will miss the bottle heads meet, as you know I will be driving back from Ark. You might want to consider coming up on Sun, Timkidd on the forum, who lives in the Netherlands, is coming to Austin for a week with a few of his friends and I have having them over for some real Texas BBQ and to show them what boots look like. You and Rose should come up.
I guess I better start working on some content for my website now that you are done with the kitchen. Now I have to get moving with that again.
The 10.5" tapes are all in Washington, 6 tapes, and he said that he has no time and that he is going to send them all to the next person. I have to keep on him, I sent him an email on Sat. asking him if they have been sent but no response, I am giving him until tomorrow to respond.
Travis
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Most recent "splash" case. I am the tall one on the far right:
Round Rock student not guilty of disrupting class in immigration protest
Round Rock High School student Irvin DeLuna, 15, is congratulated by his attorneys Ernest Saadiq Morris, left and Travis Williamson on Friday in Round Rock Municipal Court after being found not guilty on Class C misdemeanor charges for disruption of classes. DeLuna and other students from Stony Point and Round Rock high schools were issued citations for curfew violations and disruption of classes by Round Rock Police for joining other students protesting federal immigration legislation last March.
Friday, November 03, 2006
By Katie Humphrey
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFFA jury today acquitted the first Round Rock student who went to trial after being cited for disrupting class in March during protests against federal immigration legislation.
The jury of three men and three women found 15-year-old Irvin DeLuna not guilty of the Class C misdemeanor violation after deliberating about an hour and 20 minutes.
"I'm just happy," DeLuna said outside the courtroom after hearing the verdict.
He could have faced up to a $500 fine if convicted.
DeLuna was one of more than 100 Round Rock High School students who marched to Stony Point High School and back on March 31 in protest of the proposed immigration legislation. Stony Point High School students had marched to Round Rock High School in protest the day before.
Round Rock police issued 204 citations to students following the second day of student protests. Some students were charged with violating the city's daytime curfew, disrupting class or both.
Since then, 49 cases of curfew violation were dismissed by Round Rock Municipal Court Judge Dan McNery at the prosecutor's request. Other students pleaded guilty in exchange for fines and community service.
Throughout the two-day trial, city prosecutor Susan Camp-Lee had argued that DeLuna, in joining other students in the march, disrupted the regular classroom routines at both Round Rock and Stony Point High schools, which were in "lockdown" during the protests.
"There's a lot of places to go and protest in Round Rock and they chose Stony Point High School," she said in her closing argument. "Of all the places they could go, they went to a school, so I think you can infer what their intent was: to disrupt."
But defense attorney Travis Williamson, who voluntarily represented DeLuna at the request of the Texas Civil Rights Project, told jurors that any lockdowns or classroom disruptions were unintended. The students were exercising their right to peacefully voice their concerns about an issue they were passionate about, he said.
"That's the only way a student can be heard" he said in his closing argument. "It's a protected activity. They can't vote. The only thing they can do is protest."
DeLuna said after the trial that he knew the school might punish the students for missing class, but did not realize he would face criminal charges. In light of what happened, he said he probably wouldn't protest again during the school day.
"I was trying to make it peaceful, but it was too much of a problem," DeLuna said.
Juror Jon Silver, 41, of Round Rock said after the trial that the jury thought prosecutors did not prove that DeLuna intended to disrupt classes. The Texas Education Code says that someone can be charged with disruption of classes for intentionally disturbing classes or other school activities while on school property or public property within 500 feet of a school.
"All the testimony said was that all the kids said they were going to Stony Point," he said. "Nobody said why."
Forty-eight cases are still pending against students who participated in the protests.
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travis,
i would open it and enjoy it because that what is was made for.
when i got back into vinyl last october i opened up 7 boxes of albums that i had not listened to in about 15 years. I kind of forgot what I had.
i had a sealed MFSL Sgt Pepper by the Beatles. It took me about 20 seconds to decide to open it and play it.
i also had 5 springsteen, an import copy of The Wall and about 10 more albums all sealed. The have all been played. I guess I was getting into CD's back then and I would by the CD and the album. I would play the CD and I guess I forgot about the album.
play them, enjoy them and don't look back.
danny
Well DB,
After reading yours and Allen's post, they are now both open and I am playing OP first.
Sounds mighty nice.
Travis
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travis,
i would open it and enjoy it because that what is was made for.
when i got back into vinyl last october i opened up 7 boxes of albums that i had not listened to in about 15 years. I kind of forgot what I had.
i had a sealed MFSL Sgt Pepper by the Beatles. It took me about 20 seconds to decide to open it and play it.
i also had 5 springsteen, an import copy of The Wall and about 10 more albums all sealed. The have all been played. I guess I was getting into CD's back then and I would by the CD and the album. I would play the CD and I guess I forgot about the album.
play them, enjoy them and don't look back.
danny
Well DB,
After reading yours and Allen's post, they are now both open and I am playing OP first.
Sounds mighty nice.
Travis
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Mallette,
Are you sure you are not thinking of the ATR 700? The 700's were the last machines and made in Japan by TEAC/Tascam under license from Ampex and were fraught with problems. The ATR 100's were were the last US made Ampex machines and were widely considered to be some of the best they every made. They came in multiple variations, track widths, etc. They are so well regarded there is a company that does nothing but restore and service these machines including the relapping of heads (ATR Magnetics) for the recording industry to keep them going. By the way that thing from Easter shoud be to your place by Sat. or Monday.
Travis