Negative cashflow day today rambling (hug needed)...

[MikeFlynn74]

You have to buy them all yourself and put them in. It comes under "customizing"...

Or one more way to tax

 

[superfluent]

Mike: In Europe they buy their apartments. You can find places to rent, but they're usually harder to find.

Yes. In Sweden there are quite a lot of rental apartments. However, the "official" system for obtaining an rental apartment in Sweden is just insane. I honnestly think they turned Starlin for advice on this one.

As with any regulated markets there are huge problems with "money under the table" and insane queue times (everything is pretty much regulated) -I would have needed to wait about 15-20 YEARS in order to be "offered" a crappy rental apartment near where I live now...

H

 

[bad coffee]

You're bitching that you're buying TOYS? A new Nikon, some serious speakers, and you're whining?

Give up your man card now. When you're done acting like a little girl we'll let you have it back.

(more specs on the speakers, please...)

B

 

[BigKahuna]

Can I borrow some money?

Not any more.


***This always happens to me this time of year when Canon introduces the new cameras. Last year...it was especially bad...XTI, a 40D AND a G9. Fortunately this year I'm only interested in the XSi I got a few weeks ago.

Anyway...all of this to say...Relax....Brew a few batches and get ready to work like a dog with no food for a few weeks to catch back up@ HA!

Funny how your troubles seem to dissipate with the heat when you're running wort through a Counter Flow Chiller!

 

[Arneba28]

Henrik, YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE, so you better enjoy this one!

 

[superfluent]

Give up your man card now. When you're done acting like a little girl we'll let you have it back.

(more specs on the speakers, please...)

You shouldn't have asked -I can go on for days about this!

The speakers are designed by a Swedish former psychoacoustic researcher and originally developed as a "ultra reference" studio monitor. It's a split system design so the front speakers only cover frequencies down to 80Hz and must be used with a set of his bass modules and his active filter module to provide the oompf below 80Hz.

This is the side system:

I think they look pretty ugly but every angle and every dimension on these speakers are done purely for acoustical reasons. They sport two extremely capable 8" drivers and a 1" dome tweeter -all custom designed for this particular speaker making it capable of sound preassures reaching and exceeding 125dB in a normal listening environment before any human detectable distortion kicks in...

The bass modules I got are his "medium sized" ones capable of matching sound preassures down to below 15Hz:rockin: (it's the one in the corner with dual bass ports. it's a 12" driver to give some clue about the size):

Now, the purpose with the extreme sound pressures this system is capable of is not to play loud but to create headroom enough to be able to reproduce sound at realistic levels totally effortless and without any trace of distortion.

To complement the front system I'll have 3x3 of his cluster surrond speakers. They are tiny speakers designed to work in group (just like the surround in a movie theatre).

I have to assemble all the speakers myself (except for the cabinets) and he'll come by and measure them all up and tune them to my room.

Ingvar, the designer will release a couple of his "underground designs" in the US under the brand "Guru Pro Audio". The "entry level" Guru QM 10 is reviewed in this article (second half):

http://www.jazztimes.com/reviews/audio_video_files/reviewDetail.cfm


Can I get my man license back now?

H

 

[bad coffee]

Nice! I have only one question, do you get any combing from the two mids pointed up at each other? Is there a delay on one or the other so the waves line up? It seems to me they're only going to line up at one particular point. Which I guess is okay if you're the only one listening.

I guess you can have your man card back.

B

 

[BlindLemonLars]

I feel for you brother! I remember writing a check for $75,000 as a down payment on my house...that's the largest check I ever wrote...damned near took half my savings...

Man, I remember that day...mine was a wire transfer, for over $100K. I'm standing in line at the bank looking over the paperwork, and noticed that I'm wiring most of my life savings to an address in the Bahamas!! Not a comforting feeling...

It all worked out though...either that, or I've been squatting here for the past decade.

 

[VatorMan]

...all out...leather, vehicle stability, sunroof, been to 143 mph already...wait??? It was over 30K, did I over pay at $27,4?? (DO NOT ANSWER...there's ALWAYS the coulda-woulda-shoulda factor...

Did you drive it off a cliff? NFW a camry will go 140+ MPH. I'll come and pace you.

 

[superfluent]

Nice! I have only one question, do you get any combing from the two mids pointed up at each other? Is there a delay on one or the other so the waves line up? It seems to me they're only going to line up at one particular point. Which I guess is okay if you're the only one listening.

I guess you can have your man card back.

B

That's a very relevant questiuon. The impulse response from these spearkers is -at least in my mind- almost defying the laws of nature. As I said, *every* angle and dimention on these speakers (side system/sattelite) is meticilosly thought through and tuned to the drivers he has designed for these particular cabinets.

The angled mids and the ofset tweeter together with the crossover produces a *completely* phase linear wavefront within 180 degrees horisontally over the full audible spectrum (and also produce the psycoacoustially correct dispertion pattern vertically). As far as I know his designs are the only ones capable of this level of accuracy.

All these features built into his speakers are made to produce a fully holographic soundstage (which means that the "sweetspot", or "sweetarea" as Ingvar calls it can extends as much as from speaker to speaker and from sitting down to standing up -the soundstage is rock solid and timbrally accurate as long as you sit somewhere between the speakers).

The mid drivers are a pretty neat design. The usual driver is designed to be stiff and do a "piston move". This is nice for lower frequencies but it creates problems at higher frequencies because of the increased directivity when the wavelength approaches the width of the piston.

Ingvars solution is to design a driver that is purpouslu made weak and has a material in the cone that propagates soundwaves at a particular speed. The end result is that the driver -due to its weak cone material- will change from piston movement to concentric waves (actually "breaking up gracefully") at a particular frequency in a way that produce perfectly concentric waves with perfect dispersion way beond its frequency range.

Just as an example, the impulse response from a good, commercially availabe high end speaker looks like this (I beleve it is the B&W 801):

The impulse response from my "i32s" looks like this:

Now, while the impulse response from these speaker are impressive, Ingvar is very keen to point out that the phase linearity of his designs is just a "neat biproduct" and it's the overall performance that is important -not the impulse response.

Still I beleave it shows how much effort has gone in to this design.

H

 

[superfluent]

Did you drive it off a cliff? NFW a camry will go 140+ MPH. I'll come and pace you.

Bah, I did a shakedown with my Audi at 155 when driving down to my parents in Germany. :cross: toys for boys...

H

 

[eriktlupus]

Bah, I did a shakedown with my Audi at 155 when driving down to my parents in Germany. :cross: toys for boys...

H

yah but ya gotta remember that here in order to do 120kph+ over here you have to use a racetrack or break the law(not that i would ever do that*cough*did 150+mph in my old monte carlo ss*cough*)


i wont even get into the speakers cause ya lost me after awesome setup

 

[Kai]

geez, man. To have an income.

What counted as a luxury purchase for me is a Bodum, and even that I'm paying for with a week of getting all my protein from dhal. Oh, to eat meat again.

(The 100lb of grain doesn't count - that was an investment it would be irresponsible not to make.)

 

[Jekster]

It's just money. You'll make some more.

Wise words. Money isn't worth **** unless it's making you happy.

 

[superfluent]

yah but ya gotta remember that here in order to do 120kph+ over here you have to use a racetrack or break the law(not that i would ever do that*cough*did 150+mph in my old monte carlo ss*cough*)

Yes, I know...I would never dream about going above the speed limit *cough*. That extra power is purely for safety reasons when overtaking.

H

 

[mmb]

It's just money. You'll make some more.

Not since they changed the ink colors on the back of the bills.

That **** is damn hard to match up.

Err.... Wait.


Counter fitting is wrong, Mmm kay.

 

[chefmike]

Not since they changed the ink colors on the back of the bills.

That **** is damn hard to match up.

Err.... Wait.


Counter fitting is wrong, Mmm kay.

LMAO .... and everyone at work is now wondering what is going on in here.... time to hit the line and cook!

 

[superfluent]

LMAO .... and everyone at work is now wondering what is going on in here.... time to hit the line and cook!

Gdang, man, are you allways 6 months behind? (i'm at least 6 hrs ahead of you)...

H