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DizRotus

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  1. Go Wings!

    EDIT

    The over-achieving Wings are done. Hawks 3-2 OT

    Might be just as well. It would've grown tiresome listening to Chcago fans complain (justifiably) about the waived- off goal.

    The better team survived a scare from a bunch of youngsters. As Cubs fans' tattoos say, "Wait 'til next year."

  2. $3,900 winning bid.

    That's more than I would have bid, but less than I expected it to reach. As intriguing as it was, I couldn't afford to buy the truck, spend at least an additional $3,000 for batteries that might work well enough to confirm that it needs a new flux capacitor.

    For QH's sake, I was expecting (hoping) it would go for at least $5,000. Unfortunately, there was no last minute surge of sniped bids.

    It amazes me that intelligent people still bid on eBay any way other than sniped last second bids. Early bids only drive up the price and help the seller.

    In this case, a last second flurry of sniped bids would have helped QH. I hope our forum brother is pleased with the result. I know he's reluctantly passing the project to another custodian.

  3. I'm also surprised Picky hasn't posted about the overachieving Red Wings.

    I love cheering for the Wings and I enjoy college and Olympic hockey, but NHL will remain a 2nd class major league sport as long as it encourages fighting. The "fights" cheapen it nearly to the level of WWE. Throw a single punch in a real major league sport and fines and suspensions follow.

  4. So how did you acquire it from Disney? I had heard of people modifying trucks to be electric, but never from the factory. Very cool.

    Mike,

    At first I thought you were referring to me. Then I recalled there's also a Disney place.[;)]

    I had a lengthy and pleasant discussion with QH, and seriously considered bidding on the interesting truck. Something about from Disney to Disney that seemed like good Karma.

    But after being talked off the ledge by my brother, I'll defer to someone who has the time, technical expertise and discretionary financial resources to breathe new life into this piece of history. I can't do it justice.

    Best wishes to QH on the sale.

    Neil Disney

  5. Don't wrap the horn, it's a silly "tweak". Once mounted to the motor board it's fine. Now, if the thing was sitting on top of the speaker unsupported, that would be different.

    +1 [y]

    No harm, but unnecessary. I've wasted time and money on damping horns that don't need to be damped, so go ahead and try it. It's a hobby, not a religion.

  6. bracurrie and Quiet Hollow said,

    "See also this enlightening, yet entertaining video: http://xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml Music

    If you thought the first one was entertaining try the second. http://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml"

    Yikes!

    That "Monty" Montgomery guy is very scary, what with all that math, science, engineering background, test equipment and data. Next he'll be trying to debunk my strongly held beliefs that Earth is flat and the center of the Uiniverse. It's just too frightening.

  7. Posted this separately, this link is to a sponsor's site with blog of Mark's current tour in Europe.

    http://rangerover.markknopfler.com/



    Click on the "Guy Fletcher's Road Reports" button.

    It's interesting that Range Rover is a tour sponsor and Mark's vehicle of choice during the tour. In the John Illsley video about Mark Knopfler, the only "vehicles of choice" discernible in the video are Mercedes.

  8. Art's room is amazing. The space is too often igored or underated in the quest for excellent reproduced sound.

    Admittedly far from ideal, but ,in the 70s, I used four 8 ohm Speakerlab SKhorns (factory built, plywood, aluminum 350 & T35), with enclosed backs, wired in parallel for 4 ohm load on a Dynaco ST400, thus 300 watts/channel, in a DJ biz. In large spaces I'd have the channels diagonally, therefore going clockwise from corner to corner, left, right, left & right. You could walk around in the center and get an interesting experience.

    Repeatedly people would say it was the best sound system they'd ever heard. As my late father used to say, that's damning with faint praise.

    As you can imagine, the acoustics were usually dreadful, from the high ceilings of a gym to the low ceilings of a cafeteria. But fill the space with people and 600 watts of horn loaded sound, and a good time was had by all.

    The T35 tweeters and my hearing took a beating. A call to EV would quickly produce replacement diaphragms, EV wasn't able to help with my high frequency hearing loss.

  9. I would think there's more of the LS's for sale simply because there's more of them out there. I don't know how many II's have been built but I'm sure they've been outproduced by a SUBSTANTIAL number. More speakers built = more sold used.

    I agree with the numbers issue. Also many LS were used in bars, by bands, etc. and are less expensive than used LS2s, due to age and condition. By contrast, most LS2s are sold for residential use.

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