Hairy man, good standup

-in an Italian restaurant in Germany-

Spaghetti Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino (good)
Bitburger (bad)
German pop (ugly)

If it takes a fly a week to walk a fortnight, how long does it take to sandpaper an elephant down to a greyhound?

>Bob
WOOF WOOF

Can confirm: Taron is AWESOME.

Second launch is brutal, then straight up under a waterfall. Loads of jinks, kinks and -ve g, and a really smooth ride too.

Winja’s Fear and Colorado Adventure were also inventive, and Raik was enjoyable, if short.

So ..what came first ..the chicken or the egg?

I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg

Sounds nice, I’d like one from weathering steel.

“Oh deary me….”

IIRC the Freelander was developed in 18 months, so you should cut it some slack.

Does this count?

Each cd needs to be 66mins 6 seconds, obvs.

Right, so who’s doing the cover art, will there be hidden tracks and where can a buy it? Service stations?

*does it properly*

1. Ich Will – Rammstein
2. Black Hole Sun – Soundgarden
3. Doctor Doctor – UFO
4. Nomad – Sepultura
5. Sway – Coal Chamber
6. O Father, O Satan, O Sun – Behemoth
7. Kill The Superheroes – Swervedriver
8. Marigold – Periphery
9. Liktorn – Kvelertak

I have just discovered Kvelertak and they’re the best thing I’ve heard in years. As luck would have it they did a gig here on friday, a couple of weeks after I found them, and I went absolutely insane for it. Godlike.

Also bonus, old Norwegian throat shredding.

Impossible to choose a single song really, but I’m going with

Kvelertak: Liktorn

TURN IT UP

I thought it was great fun, so there :)

Swadding excellent dude.

*Shares with engineering/MTB buds*

@paulx
What bikes are those? Ténéré?

That is basically what I want to do, any feedback on the bikes?

When I went I flew Air New Zealand via LAX (shithole) for 40Kg allowance.

I sure like my RP3

I think the TS figures are not ideal, but the tone and quality of the driver makes it work well enough. I was pretty limited in time and money, so we chose from what we had available at the time.

They had some new ported designs there with a ScanSpeak beryllium tweeter, those sound totally effortless and detailed :D

@CZ/Jamborgie : thanks !

After some more listening, and a little dabbling with this puppy:

miniDSP 2x4HD (comes highly recommended, very useful for hi-fi hacking, these)

I have an awesome set of nearfield monitors!

I’d install MSI Afterburner and use that to find what is the bottleneck.

The boxes are designed to be airtight, rubber lip seal and all. The original drivers were also very nicely sealed in, so I figured I’d just replicate that and see what I got. Also, they’re intended to be the PC speakers, so they’re intended to be used close to a wall.

Turns out with this speaker, it’s not dead sounding, certainly not around voices or guitars. But then this is quite a different combination of parts to your guitar amps: these woofers are glass-fibre cones with rubber surround. The guitar amps I have seen use large boxes with paper drivers and cloth or doped paper surrounds, and whose drivers displace a lot of air. So I imagine the effect is quite substantially different in terms of interaction. Eg, the cones take a couple of seconds to return when depressed several mm, but only bass notes below, say 100hz, get anywhere close to that level of excursion even when playing very loudly, so it’s significantly damping the bass but not the mids, that’s where the enclosure does more I think.

I’ve not even really begun tuning them yet, more wool, different cap for the tweeter and the mini DSP, all or any may yet be employed;)

I’ll let you know how it goes, so far the response is a bit lumpy but the quality of the sound, especially the insight around the mids is stunning… Not sure if my BX2’s have much of future now!

>stw abusive and obnoxious subculture

Reporting. What do you losers want?

@sadexpunk

You’re saying the speakers on both amplifier outputs work when the amp is in mono mode but not in stereo mode?

This would appear to be a fault with the switching, yes. Have you tried googling the numbers printed or stamped anywhere on the input selector switch, on the metal casing or on any of the internal switch units? It may be a very cheap little bit to replace, if you can find the part.

Well, when we went to test them, they were shot… but for 10 Euros, I could have a cast aluminum box, and that? got to be a good start for a project, right?

A unique, super low coloration, ultra-dead, acoustic suspension project ;)

So:

They came home with me.

Let? have a look inside shall we?

Cute…

…but b0rked.

However after consultation with the lovely guys at Speakerland Oss http://www.speakerland.nl I returned with:

and a simple filter [bass:choke/treble:2nd order + series resistor]

Hmmm…

Hmmmmmmm…..no

Yes! But tricky. Need to chop the studs around the tweeter off and mod the bass driver.

So. Onto the build:

First, chop, sand and prep the cast aluminum cabinets:

(oh did I not mention the Hyster Yellow paintjob?)

Next lay your parts out and prep your equipment and tools:

I started by making templates for the 650g of ripple-finish lead for the cabs, including cutouts for the crossover and crossbrace (another mod I added)

Assemble crossovers:

Where? the bicycle angle I hear you ask? An iinnertube+double-sided tape cabinet seal:

Triple-check clearance and get medieval on it? ass:

(note precautions against getting filings in the driver, which has a vents BEHIND the spider, so bits could fall straight into the magnet gap)

Nice.

So, we need a seal here too:

(yes I trimmed the ends)

Yeah! It all fits!

Now, add a little acoustic surface treatment ;)

(slightly tidied after this pic)

Some long-hair wool, about 25g/cab (smells good :) )

(NB terminal block used for XO phase testing, will remove/direct solder later)

Screw together, real tight. Check airtightness: Drivers take seconds to return after being depressed.

Place on the end of 100w and run-in. Note 1.75m TQWP sub for scale (not connected).

Add a little EQ (ball park at this point) as the horns are boosting these freqs.

(nb +12 is neutral for the VLC preamp)

ENJOY THE DIMINUTIVE BEAUTIES!

Listening:

Pros:
*Clarity
*Micro-dynamics
*Width of soundstage
*Power handling/volume output vs size
*Smooth bass rolloff with surprising depth
*Very little vocal coloration including on female voices
*Very tuneful bass

Cons:
*Strong peak around 3kHz
*Efficiency
*Listening position/toe-in very important
*Upper treble somewhat rolled-off

Next Steps:
May address the peak with an improved filter, or, in software.

Overall:
Built, hacked and repaired SB-F2 –> SF2 (my second handmade speaker)
My back hurts but a really fun way to spend 36hours ;)

How not to save money by buying second-hand speakers….

Now most people would buy the Diamonds… but I have a soft spot for 70? Technics Speakers

…more to come ;)

I have always loved this cover:

In some strange sort of ouroboros moment maybe you could consider a Chuwi laptop!??!

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11821/the-chuwi-lapbook-123-review-premium-feel-budget-price

Smaller screen but higher quality by miles than you’ve any right to expect at the price (they also do a 14inch one, but this is nicer I think)

Upgrade to a 29boost Guineapig?

Sorry Niel, I am super busy right now. I’ll try to look into it for you later.

Also:

BuMp

They’re terrible and I totally will be helping you by taking yours off your hands, very cheap.

I can totally believe that it doesn’t work properly on W10, at least without some wrangling.

These tokens, could they be 3D printed?

Are they listed as compatible with your operating system?

Agreed. And if there’s been a few images posted you can be scrolling for weeks just to get to the next post

….by which time you’d be logged out again.

Drivers..?

It’s good fun. Don’t fall off a cliff.

^^^that’s a really good one, kudos

Boost 29” Henry, d’uh