Tom Adams Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 I guess when you're running twin big blocks with open exhausts, it's important to be able to hear your Diana Krall over the bark of those motors at full song. To wit: Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m00n Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 Is that thing for real or is that a photoshop manipulated photo? If real... My gawd! Hear that across lake michigan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 pull it into your garage, open the door and you have home audio system! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capo72 Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 That has to be a series/parallel wiring nightmare. I used to be into car audio when I was younger. It was fun to try and wire 10 or 12 drivers together and come up with a 4 ohm load. Unless of course you have 5 or 6 amps Jeremy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael hurd Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 God, whoever dreamed that up, must work for a company that has sells swivelling cubes. Can you say comb filtering and distortion? Not to mention the uber waste of time and money? Not to mention the wiring headaches, etc. Better to have a pair of high efficeincy horns, mated to a big vented cabinet for the low frequencies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m00n Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 ---------------- On 5/27/2005 2:53:24 PM michael hurd wrote: Can you say comb filtering? ---------------- I somehow doubt that the person with that is going to be worried aobut comb filtering affects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st. patrick Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 . . . so, do you think they listen to classical or strictly acoustical??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyKlipschFan Posted May 27, 2005 Share Posted May 27, 2005 What do you all bet the speaker company sponsors the boat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Adams Posted May 31, 2005 Author Share Posted May 31, 2005 Yes - it's a for real boat. If you look in the picture's background you'll see a custom Skater tunnel hull with the name Popeye's on it. I'm just speculating, but I think this multi-speaker boat is part of Al Copeland's stable. Al is from Nawlin's and is the founder of Popeye's Famous Fried Chicken and the Copeland's chain of restaurants. Al is a performance boating junkie and that Skater is his run-a-round boat. If you can call a 130mph boat a run-a-round. As for the multi-speaker boat....if your curious, just go here: http://www.offshoreonly.com/esvon/page-5551.html Oh - and I think Al likes Jazz, Zydeco, and rock. Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 Geeze, too bad he didn't have good corners... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted June 1, 2005 Moderators Share Posted June 1, 2005 Tom, We have seen his boats race at the Lakefront in New Orleans several time. It is unbelievable to witness the power of these boats on the open water, all going full throttle. You are correct. Al Copeland is a performance boat junkie. He did have a huge showroom in Metairie, just outside of New Orleans, with many of his "toys" on display. At one time he was trying to build a house in the Mandeville, LA area, which was more appropriately called a "compound". As far as we know it did not got approved by the local zoning board. He also is a huge Christmas junkie. He was actually sued by several of his neighbors in Kenner, LA over his enormous Christmas display. Can you believe the neighbors called the display a nuisance and excessive light polution. It is the largest of any display that we have ever seen. If you all have never eaten Popeye's Fried Chicken you must try it, spicy is the best. The Copeland's restuarants serve excellent food also. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodger Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 Now we know what happened to the chicken that TRIED to cross the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Adams Posted June 1, 2005 Author Share Posted June 1, 2005 ---------------- On 6/1/2005 1:57:29 PM dtel wrote: Tom, We have seen his boats race at the Lakefront in New Orleans several time. It is unbelievable to witness the power of these boats on the open water, all going full throttle. You are correct. Al Copeland is a performance boat junkie. He did have a huge showroom in Metairie, just outside of New Orleans, with many of his "toys" on display. At one time he was trying to build a house in the Mandeville, LA area, which was more appropriately called a "compound". As far as we know it did not got approved by the local zoning board. He also is a huge Christmas junkie. He was actually sued by several of his neighbors in Kenner, LA over his enormous Christmas display. Can you believe the neighbors called the display a nuisance and excessive light polution. It is the largest of any display that we have ever seen. If you all have never eaten Popeye's Fried Chicken you must try it, spicy is the best. The Copeland's restuarants serve excellent food also. ---------------- dtel - I grew up on the Miss. Gulf Coast, worked in New Orleans East (Michoud), and lived in Slidell for a few years. Yep - know all about Al's Christmas display. Yeah....it put a burden on the neighborhood, but it made a helluva lot of kids happy. Those folks that sued him will get theirs in the end. BTW, I work with a guy that's a Chalmacian (from Chalmette) and Benny worked for Al when Al ran a donut shop. One day Al tells Benny that he's gonna open a fried chicken place using his grandmother's spicy chicken recipe. Benny told him he'd never compete with the big boys (Church's and KFC). Benny has some good stories of Al in the early years. LOL.... Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skonopa Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 ---------------- On 6/1/2005 1:57:29 PM dtel wrote: If you all have never eaten Popeye's Fried Chicken you must try it, spicy is the best. ---------------- Yup, we got one here in Fredericksburg, VA. It is pretty good. Wish I had that kind of money to throw around, though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ygmn Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 Al has a boat with twin jet turbines for motors.... think makes a hella of a lot of noise...but is very cool... He had to give up boat racing when he sold Popeyes to church's as part of the sell agreement.... Al bought Mariners village in mandeville at base of causway.... he wanted to kick everyone out of condos...and bulldoeze it all and use the marina for all his boat toys and build mansion overlooking.... His light show at xmas was awesome... And yeah his showroom at I-10 and causeway blvd is very cool...and filled with toys... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted June 1, 2005 Moderators Share Posted June 1, 2005 dtel's wife here. dtel is from Chalmette (Chalmatian)??, moved there when he was five years old from the Ninth Ward, lived there until he was 35. Could be worse, he could be from Violet, then he would be a Violation. I am from Slidell,(Slidellian) lived there most of my life. Know several people employed by Michoud. When we first married we lived about two blocks from the original donut shop in Arabi. Finally convinced dtel to move out of St. Bernard to Slidell, then moved to Mississippi. Oh, yeh...some of the women here are frightful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Adams Posted June 2, 2005 Author Share Posted June 2, 2005 ---------------- On 6/1/2005 11:24:42 PM dtel wrote: dtel's wife here. dtel is from Chalmette (Chalmatian)??, moved there when he was five years old from the Ninth Ward, lived there until he was 35. Could be worse, he could be from Violet, then he would be a Violation. I am from Slidell,(Slidellian) lived there most of my life. Know several people employed by Michoud. When we first married we lived about two blocks from the original donut shop in Arabi. Finally convinced dtel to move out of St. Bernard to Slidell, then moved to Mississippi. Oh, yeh...some of the women here are frightful. ---------------- Well then.....I guess my reply to you guys should be Where yat dare chat? How's everyting down in da parrish? And where da hell is Slidell?? LOL..... Yeah, Mr. Al sold to Church's cause he was going bankrupt. Oh....and about that Outback Blooming Onion. Reliable sources tell me Mr. Al invented the cutter for an onion so it would open up like that. In his Copeland's restaurant, they're called onion mums and he was doing them long before there were Outback Steakhouses. Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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