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1: Inmate Central, RE: Austin TX or Nashville TN for businesses & work-life balance ? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-24, 12:47:00 (174.131.166.128)
Never been to Austin, out in the country near Nashville would be very nice. .......
2: General Asylum, RE: Not saying that at all (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-24, 07:43:37 (174.131.166.128)
Your assumption is that extremes are always opposite but equal in magnitude. Often one side is a little closer to realty than the other and the side seeking change for changes sake, is often the one t .......
3: General Asylum, RE: What is it??? It's Robert Fripp, it's the 21st Century and it's a "man" ... but it's not Schizoid Man. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-24, 07:18:51 (174.131.166.128)
blinded by the headlights .......
4: Inmate Central, RE: Still in denial ? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-23, 17:15:10 (174.131.166.128)
like advertising, lobbies and bribes, if the payments for these things didn't work, they wouldn't do it .......
5: Inmate Central, RE: The state is serious about going green. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-23, 13:50:19 (174.131.166.128)
It's like election interference, only some things matter some of the time, depends on who's in charge and what they want it to be. Methane being a more powerful GW gas than CO2 I suppose underscores .......
6: Inmate Central, RE: Time waster. Don't know why I bother. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-23, 13:28:57 (174.131.166.128)
Hey like the old motto "be prepared" and hey it's good exercise for you and the tools. .......
7: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, yes but (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-22, 12:28:28 (174.131.166.128)
There has been a change in the way amp's work or rather how they behave. In the old days (before class D evolved from servomotors in robotics to audio) an amplifier rated at say 400Watts into 4 Ohms c .......
8: Inmate Central, RE: green racing (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-22, 11:49:11 (174.131.166.128)
Going in a straight line pedal down for 10 seconds or so is plenty of excitement! Sounds like having fun .......
9: Inmate Central, RE: $10B going to Hamas (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-22, 11:45:12 (174.131.166.128)
We must be even more inclusive you know. When you already had a system set up for distribution to the grateful, you get things like tax payer money for tobacco industries subsidies AND money for anti .......
10: Inmate Central, RE: 85.6mph (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-22, 11:29:27 (174.131.166.128)
That "Guy" has silicon carbide gonads, he has raced the Isle of Mann an absolutely terrifying and horribly dangerous road coarse. Instead of hay bales or safety walls it's stone walls and real streets .......
11: Inmate Central, green racing (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-21, 14:34:45 (174.131.166.128)
Well this looks like a fun afternoon. How fast could one go ? .......
12: Inmate Central, consider (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-20, 11:31:40 (174.131.166.128)
There are many ways and data pick which to show but these graphs in a general way show why many folks feel like they are treading water or have pliers on the family jewels so to speak https://www.flic .......
13: Inmate Central, RE: the way it works is... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-19, 16:54:21 (174.131.166.128)
A line from a funny movie fits perfectly "It's good to be the King" .......
14: Inmate Central, RE: IAnyone hear think Crypto is NOT a license to steal? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-19, 16:52:26 (174.131.166.128)
I don't know but i always assumed that when you see a big array of processors set up to do "bit coin mining", that they weren't looking for "naturally occurring bit coins" like in real mining. Instead .......
15: Inmate Central, his thing (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-19, 12:52:27 (174.131.166.128)
his thing here .......
16: Inmate Central, RE: Did y'all pay your fair share of taxes this year? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-19, 12:47:44 (174.131.166.128)
I sure do, but i am not a cooperation and my working income is what is taxed. It is silly to criticize those who use every way their hired guns can find to minimize the tax burdens. Very few pay more .......
17: Inmate Central, RE: The nut case that burned himself alive (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-19, 12:28:07 (174.131.166.128)
I hope he is wrong for generations at least. I don't see that the current Tanya Harding political legal war strategy in the presidential Olympics as a sign of anything more than having a weak skating .......
18: Speaker Asylum, RE: I wrote below... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-18, 11:25:44 (174.131.166.128)
A rebuilt driver "shouldn't rub" out of the box but if it does a test will reveal if that's a voice coil rub issue. Play a low tone (find a tone generator on line) like say 40Hz at a low level. The ru .......
19: Speaker Asylum, RE: A couple of suggestions (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-17, 14:57:12 (174.131.166.128)
Good suggestions! A last resort would also be work backwards from the stated sensitivity, box vol and -3dB LF (or port dimensions) .......
20: General Asylum, RE: But it's not only the iPhone - it's YouTube audio quality itself (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-17, 14:54:09 (174.131.166.128)
" the sound changes as the guy is walking around" Yes it does and that is because each of those frequency ranges comes from a source that has it's own radiation pattern of a type that is narrow up h .......
21: Inmate Central, RE: Maybe was a better plan to avoid barbershops in the 70's... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-17, 14:36:34 (174.131.166.128)
It could be haha I worked at a TV store part time in high school, my Boss didn't like my hair so he gave me some money and told me to go to the barber shop on the adjacent street. It was an Italian ba .......
22: Inmate Central, none of those (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-17, 12:59:21 (174.131.166.128)
Not many pictures from back then. In 1973 i was wavering back and forth with a beard and then never shaved it off. This was me in 73 with headphones on, mixing a band at an "un smokers" concert. An .......
23: Inmate Central, RE: Dave Pogue has left the Asylum...RIP Dave (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-17, 11:44:09 (174.131.166.128)
Sad, I remember him posting .......
24: Inmate Central, RE: "Mark Cuban shares his 9-figure tax bill on IRS due day" (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-17, 08:39:18 (174.131.166.128)
It is great but as opposed to the popular view, it also takes hard work, persistence during failure and luck, none of which are that common or obvious. .......
25: Inmate Central, RE: But... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-16, 13:07:41 (174.131.166.128)
sniff sniff musth obey bug girl .......
26: General Asylum, RE: I cannot believe (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-16, 11:15:38 (174.131.166.128)
Well it has the advantage of a multitude of patterns in which one can hear each separate frequency range more clearly. Certainly an impressive looking display of audio buying power and maroon lacquer .......
27: Inmate Central, RE: right position, wrong process... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-16, 09:28:02 (174.131.166.128)
It can be hard to impossible to sift out the difference between the assigned narrative and more complete information. During the cold war, news / information only lacked key details and pretty much pr .......
28: General Asylum, RE: Tekton vs the world (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-16, 06:38:06 (174.131.166.128)
This is kind of funny, but also sad for Erin that it's so stressful but is shining a spot light on the company.. I have met Erin, he is keen on measurements and has a Klipple nfs a top industry standa .......
29: Inmate Central, RE: Lara Logan? Excellent example of a crackpot conspiracy-theory journalist. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-16, 06:16:11 (174.131.166.128)
Yes there is, the reason is too often the other formerly trusted information channels are telling a narrative not news. For example when we had 50 odd gov officials saying a story was Russian disinfor .......
30: Inmate Central, RE: Geoengineering Test Quietly Launches Salt Crystals into Atmosphere (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-16, 06:02:20 (174.131.166.128)
James Burke, a Science historian (connections. connections 2, the day the universe changed) said (best as i can recall) "most of mans problems with technology come from the application of it without c .......
31: Inmate Central, Thanks (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-14, 15:12:31 (174.131.166.128)
Boy and complicated "lotsa partz" The have made industrial engines that start under full load, i wonder if instead of all the moving mass and complication, i wonder if simply making pairs of 90 degree .......
32: Inmate Central, RE: Baby Backs (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-14, 15:07:13 (174.131.166.128)
Trager? Looks good .......
33: Inmate Central, Re: The China virus? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-14, 07:19:44 (174.131.166.128)
"It's still a thing, although the government and "news" media don't talk about it these days" Part of "marketing" is not to promote or acknowledge any down sides, omitting key details is not legally t .......
34: General Asylum, RE: An Amazing location-live "A Whiter Shade of Pale" in a London Department Store (1973) (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-13, 10:02:19 (174.131.166.128)
I saw them at Ravinia park in the early 70's, good band, good times. That brought back memories thanks! Tom .......
35: General Asylum, RE: Hammond Organ (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-13, 09:57:43 (174.131.166.128)
I had a chance to get one once that was out of most of it's wood cabinet for Road use. I didn't know how to play but the price was right and John Lord's sounded so good. I went with two friends and my .......
36: Inmate Central, RE: connecting too many dots? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-13, 07:41:32 (174.131.166.128)
Could have? Accidents have a cause, but engineering failures can have unseen dimensions. .......
37: Inmate Central, RE: But do ya think the Higgs boson interacts with dark matter? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-12, 12:03:13 (174.131.166.128)
I have to admit, dark matter seems like has to be one of if not the biggest puzzles of all (possibly even encompassing the G word). The thing that boggles me is how much there apparently is compared t .......
38: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Late 90's did the small driver large baffle, RadioShack FE102 ? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-12, 05:39:54 (174.131.166.128)
No need to wait, a lens is easy to explain if one thinks in terms of time. Imagine a convex lens (thick at the center, thin at the edges), the velocity of light in the glass is slightly less than in .......
39: Inmate Central, RE: Other good story about Higgs in the Telegraph obituary. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-11, 06:52:34 (174.131.166.128)
As with perhaps the majority that were way ahead of their times, colleagues were skeptical but eventually he was recognized for being right. Reminds me of the tin foil hat guy who insisted the aurora .......
40: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Are there horn profiles or geometries that work better than others? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-10, 15:12:21 (174.131.166.128)
Hi There are (at least) two things going on, if you want / need constant directivity (where the highs extend to the edges of the lower frequency pattern), then you need to use a horn who's walls are m .......
41: Inmate Central, RE: I had the total eclipse experience yesterday (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-10, 10:19:15 (174.131.166.128)
Nice shots, a prepared man! .......
42: Inmate Central, RE: Welding fails (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-10, 08:09:18 (174.131.166.128)
Some of those are truly glorious and amazing they continued on undeterred. Not to mention welding upside down is much harder, on top of apparently mostly being unable to maintain an arc. Now in 1970 i .......
43: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: tomservo - question on your small studio monitor (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-10, 05:48:52 (174.131.166.128)
Hi Well you have the way back machine on haha The patents covers this concept; An exponential horn has a fixed expansion rate and that governs where the "high pass" for the acoustic impedance transfor .......
44: Inmate Central, RE: If what I've been reading on "Jalopnik," and "The Truth About Cars" is accurate... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-08, 13:41:32 (174.131.166.128)
In areas where they have already taken over (like loudspeaker drivers, neo magnets, low cost metal working) the routine has been the government covers losses for say 10 years (in the case of neo magne .......
45: Inmate Central, Acid Reflux? or that three leaf plant is NOT good for toilet paper (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-08, 13:35:39 (174.131.166.128)
nt .......
46: Inmate Central, RE: It's an EV problem..... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-07, 08:43:49 (174.131.166.128)
Yeah but writing about that side of things doesn't make Musk look bad or mention the "key hate buttons", the point of that kind of writing. .......
47: General Asylum, There's saw dust and pizza yoda (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-06, 12:56:02 (174.131.166.128)
Epic lyrics in this oldie. This is one of those songs that if your not alone, is better to put head phones on and sing along loudly with the lyrics (provided) .......
48: Inmate Central, RE: "23% are government jobs" !!!!!*****#####!!!!!! WOW nt (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-06, 09:29:33 (174.131.166.128)
How many "regular jobs" are needed to pay for each one of those (that don't contribute positively to the gnp)? .......
49: Speaker Asylum, RE: Horns (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-06, 06:30:11 (174.131.166.128)
I have not heard the 50's but we have a pair of the 40's at work in the demo room. Be aware that the 40's have a significant mid range dip that makes the HF stand out somewhat giving them a "sound". S .......
50: Speaker Asylum, RE: Dynamics (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-05, 06:52:57 (174.131.166.128)
It would seem that dynamics and what does reproducing the whole signal mean is confusing . For Example, people tend to look at the SPL they measure or an RMS drive voltage as an indicator of what's go .......
51: Inmate Central, RE: FREE THE NIPPLE nt (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-05, 05:28:55 (174.131.166.128)
Don't get me wrong, my comment is on the general trend to "anything goes" not an objection to seeing that body part. .......
52: Inmate Central, RE: FREE THE NIPPLE nt (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-03, 17:09:04 (174.131.166.128)
I know, like those stupid societal rules about where and when one can urinate or take a dump, take what's yours, have a fit or sleep although in some of our cities, they are "getting modern" and relax .......
53: Speaker Asylum, RE: Horns (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-03, 16:59:25 (174.131.166.128)
Horns have a number of complicating issues but it is possible to work around them and by arranging them into something new. For instance, the 3 way studio monitors used to make the album they talk abo .......
54: Speaker Asylum, RE: Horns (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-03, 14:55:44 (174.131.166.128)
Horns have the plus of directivity which combined with efficiency gives a higher on axis SPL per Watt and less room involvement or they move the listener closer to the loudspeaker / make the near fiel .......
55: Speaker Asylum, RE: Dynamics (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-02, 07:36:13 (174.131.166.128)
Excellent point, an oscilloscope view of the amplifier output will show anything in the chain instantaneously limiting / clipping. What one reads with a sound level meter flat or C weighted, is a shor .......
56: General Asylum, RE: Record producers (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-01, 16:32:05 (174.131.166.128)
The musicians know how to play but it takes a producer co-ordinate everything. This is not a simple process at all, at work we make some speakers used in recording studio's and video production. This .......
57: Inmate Central, RE: I've never completely trusted my microwave oven... Gotta be careful with them things! (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-01, 12:11:28 (174.131.166.128)
I bet that is it. time for a tinfoil (or better copper) hat haha .......
58: Inmate Central, RE: Breaking story on Havana Syndrome, the mystery disease affecting US diplomats. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-04-01, 11:04:04 (174.131.166.128)
I wouldn't think it's acoustic but like they speculated microwaves. Airborn sound is absorbed VERY rapidly in the ultrasound range and attenuated by cloth, solids etc. .......
59: General Asylum, RE: Cool (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-29, 11:01:16 (174.131.166.128)
Wow!! (in full crocodile Dundee voice) now that's what i call an electrostatic speaker!! Where was that do you know? .......
60: General Asylum, RE: Ok (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-28, 16:02:04 (174.131.166.128)
Sure, Imax, i don't know, those are made under license, but the sports venues and EDM events we are more involved with often use the 10K and 20K amplifiers (10Kw and 20Kw) in a rack with a controller. .......
61: General Asylum, RE: Not sure how that relates to (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-28, 15:41:08 (174.131.166.128)
I can relate to electrostatics, in the 80's i made probably a dozen pairs of large panels and built a direct drive tube amplifier for some of them.. It was "fixing" my Boss's ESL-63's in the 90's, tha .......
62: General Asylum, RE: Ok (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-28, 12:13:18 (174.131.166.128)
In commercial sound, one is often replacing a sound system the person responsible for, isn't happy with (or they wouldn't be considering a change) and it's usually concert style speakers that were .......
63: Inmate Central, RE: Fast food workers are in an industry where people change jobs as often as underwear (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-28, 08:22:02 (174.131.166.128)
Fast food like bussing tables at a restaurant etc used to be a "starter jobs" at the service level, there wasn't an expectation that counter help would be your forever job or was a living wage. Back .......
64: General Asylum, RE: Why do you suppose (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-28, 05:24:07 (174.131.166.128)
It is much less expensive to use loudspeakers that have high directivity than treat the room effectively and the larger the room (like stadiums etc) the larger the difference in cost is. For example t .......
65: Inmate Central, RE: The self-entitled drivers probably deserved to end up at the bottom of the river. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-27, 15:47:39 (174.131.166.128)
Can you imagine the panic in the ship's wheel house, wow. They speculated that like the Titanic, if they had not gone into reverse and coasted instead, the rudder would have still been useful. ::: TOP .......
66: Inmate Central, RE: Another fine example of our "never give up, never think things through" culture. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-27, 10:45:20 (174.131.166.128)
The ship called a mayday before hand so they were able to close the bridge shortly before it fell. The peeps that died seemed to be the guys working filling pot holes that couldn't get off in time an .......
67: Inmate Central, RE: Even the grass 'sucks' on the other side (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-27, 10:35:34 (174.131.166.128)
If i recall, there was something, a thistle maybe that had similarly bad effects on horses, maybe the active ingredient is similar. .......
68: Speaker Asylum, RE: Better drivers and no cabinet. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-26, 10:45:45 (174.131.166.128)
If the target is to enjoy the sound, that is entirely subjective and not strongly dependent on the accuracy of the reproduction but more so on circumstances. Boom Boxes were popular for that reason ju .......
69: Inmate Central, RE: That person is you. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-26, 08:29:51 (174.131.166.128)
Should the amount one is taxed be a percentage based on what you "gain" or your income or should it be a percentage of what you already have, taken each year ? Can you think of anything that would be .......
70: Inmate Central, Better it is.. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-25, 11:15:31 (174.131.166.128)
Better it is to avoid Elephant pissing (off or on) altogether .......
71: General Asylum, RE: " sound in an anechoic chamber will be BAD "... have you ever been in one? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-25, 10:01:44 (174.131.166.128)
That's very close, outdoors one is left with the loudspeaker alone and is the best place to hear what they do...plus a floor or ground bounce. Out doors, you don't have the progressive containment tha .......
72: Inmate Central, RE: Jared Kushner eyes waterfront property in Gaza. Gonna be a real-estate bonanza! (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-24, 09:47:14 (174.131.166.128)
A problem is that area being "open" is a magnet for a number of countries to send their extremists. Sadly, being anti Israel is a significant fund raising cause which itself can give negative things a .......
73: Inmate Central, RE: Your premise may be wrong (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-24, 09:03:35 (174.131.166.128)
In modern times, it is more often the developer with his eyes on "underutilized" property vs the current owner responsible for a questionable commercial fires on sought after property, when the two ar .......
74: Speaker Asylum, RE: I Screwed Up (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-23, 17:42:58 (174.131.166.128)
Those 63's have spark gaps for protection as part of the delay lines that make it work to be a point source, if you hear a snap, that was them protecting you. The high dc polarizing voltage is a condu .......
75: Inmate Central, RE: Your other hobbies? I'm working on mine... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-23, 11:12:53 (174.131.166.128)
Very nice your there. Different things matter to different people, sad about his kids. .......
76: Inmate Central, RE: Your other hobbies? I'm working on mine... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-21, 18:06:56 (174.131.166.128)
Well, never got Morse code down enough to get a license back then, but do have a few "boat anchors" and working on a 70 foot tall, tree suspended caged, folded mono-pole antenna for receiving. I like .......
77: Speaker Asylum, RE: Newer bookshelf speakers better than Merlins? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-21, 17:39:41 (174.131.166.128)
The approach to fix this would be to first measure magnitude and acoustic phase for each range. The bump and dip could very easily be a crossover issue. Until fairly recently, crossovers were all "for .......
78: Inmate Central, RE: For my 67th birthday... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-21, 14:15:43 (174.131.166.128)
Nice work ! .......
79: Inmate Central, RE: Nope! There is proof that Asians drive more safely, and women are safer drivers than men! (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-21, 14:15:07 (174.131.166.128)
Ok i can see the fatality part, folks in the south do tend to like, work on and drive fast cars and there are a lot of fun roads. There are many accidents when outsiders discover the neat roads usuall .......
80: Inmate Central, RE: Three minutes, 45 seconds... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-21, 09:21:37 (174.131.166.128)
Ok in snow / black ice makes sense but also dry? I wonder if there is something funny about that turn, like it's parabolic (a tighter radius at the apex) .......
81: Inmate Central, RE: Well technically she was on her property and... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-21, 09:02:30 (174.131.166.128)
Ok, that makes a difference, this is just plain sad. You are 100% free to drive your car intoxicated on your own property, as long as you can get in and make it go. Examples i have seen were only fu .......
82: Inmate Central, RE: Well...turns out Angela Chao was drunk when she backed her car into a pond. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-21, 08:04:11 (174.131.166.128)
Wow, i wonder where she was going to go, like that? Someone should have tried to stop her if they didn't. .......
83: Inmate Central, RE: How many here are or were Lawyers? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-21, 08:01:31 (174.131.166.128)
Not a Lawyer but have known a couple. That seems consistent with reducing the number of and importance of standardized testing in schools. Reducing the importance of learning and ability makes more s .......
84: Inmate Central, RE: good luck to you, and hope you keep on looking - you may find the Truth yet (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-21, 06:57:46 (174.131.166.128)
Same, good luck, we usually all find out the winners version of truth, i find how things work to be more interesting. .......
85: Inmate Central, RE: " when we have allowed " ...oh really, WE? Who do you suppose did that? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-21, 06:30:38 (174.131.166.128)
I have seen different numbers and different explanations ranging from "nothing to see here" to "it's an invasion". Reality is usually somewhere between the two extremes and when something doesn't make .......
86: Inmate Central, RE: when they said "Melting Pot" they meant the good old USA melts as much as possible into what has now become a (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-21, 05:49:38 (174.131.166.128)
The big difference between now and the past is the people that would risk coming here and starting over, were the most ambitious and people wanting an opportunity to succeed and not a support network. .......
87: Inmate Central, RE: Is that the bug that only appears every 7 years? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-20, 14:15:00 (174.131.166.128)
There are others but in northern Illinois the big wave was every 17 years. Actually very cool bugs .......
88: Inmate Central, RE: Negotiations ain't working for anybody on mother earth any more. /nt (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-20, 12:37:09 (174.131.166.128)
No, No money in that mine but but we have plenty of feel good gestures that ease peoples minds, when present. How many hashtag campaigns have there been that did nothing for the cause but made pe .......
89: Inmate Central, RE: When the shareholder is the only customer that counts... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-20, 09:34:26 (174.131.166.128)
And so this is nearly always in the largest, most bureaucratically budgeted companies who's CEO's are legally bound to maximize the shareholders returns. Only in the largest companies is there enough .......
90: Inmate Central, RE: Latest engineering news from Ga Tech (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-20, 09:17:09 (174.131.166.128)
I never saw them whizz but growing up and when my kids were growing up it was cool when the 17 year swarm came out. Hopefully this study was not a large grant .......
91: Speaker Asylum, RE: Can someone point me to or share a Field Coil Power Supply schematic? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-19, 13:29:10 (174.131.166.128)
In the olden days (as mentioned below like an old radio etc) the constant current was supplied by virtue of the DC resistance in the field coil. Also, the field coil was also often it was used as a se .......
92: Speaker Asylum, RE: Hoffman's father was the famous Polish-American concert pianist (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-19, 13:14:51 (174.131.166.128)
Hey thanks for the history, a connection i didn't know. He must have been a very sharp guy to make that association that early, although I am always up against that darn "law" with things at work. Tom .......
93: Inmate Central, RE: In my opinion, nothing that came out of the space program (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-19, 09:31:03 (174.131.166.128)
Well, you probably can reach out and touch your computer, smart phone and anything solid state electronic and argue they don't improve life. And yet the transition from the transistor being a fragile .......
94: Inmate Central, RE: The original intent was to cut costs. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-19, 06:38:16 (174.131.166.128)
The shuttle development came very close to not happening and what did get built was considerably less capable than the original idea. For example the ceramic tiles were needed because they decided the .......
95: Inmate Central, RE: But at the same time, it had to be an enormous thrill. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-19, 06:00:01 (174.131.166.128)
Interesting, i remember something about a Chinese curse involving that haha. Well, i can't complain now, but my path is not one i recommend to anyone to follow, if there was a harder way, i missed it. .......
96: Inmate Central, RE: Ever read "The Right Stuff?" (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-18, 17:50:56 (174.131.166.128)
I never read the book but did see the movie. I did get the feeling it took a special person to do that stuff or be a good fighter plane pilot. Not only were you flying like crazy but they were shootin .......
97: Speaker Asylum, RE: Too nearfield for my tastes ;) -nt (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-18, 17:32:13 (174.131.166.128)
Hey I like that! Would have been a bad day to have been sitting there .......
98: Inmate Central, RE: For the most part, law has been reduced to whim du jpur . . . (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-18, 17:26:24 (174.131.166.128)
Especially in light of just how far the sentiment has changed in some areas, here is an example of how far, the question might be why https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4351026/user-clip-clinton-1995-immi .......
99: Speaker Asylum, RE: I wonder what the shipping cost of 2387 pounds would be ? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-18, 12:34:28 (174.131.166.128)
And some speakers are too heavy to be moved easily even on a slab floor. This one apparently delivered by air just a tad too close to the chair, second speaker arriving from the quarry in 22 second .......
100: Inmate Central, RE: But at the same time, it had to be an enormous thrill. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-18, 12:26:46 (174.131.166.128)
A thrill for sure and something that i would bet felt wonderful on landing / regaining control. At the same time the job of "test pilot" required someone who knew that this was a very dangerous job on .......
101: Speaker Asylum, RE: Hmmm... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-18, 09:41:15 (174.131.166.128)
That's just "Styling" but John was right about cubic volume, there is a 9dB/oct slope that ties the low corner Frequency, maximum possible sensitivity and box volume AKA "Hoffman's Iron law" ::: TOPIC .......
102: Inmate Central, RE: The X-15 (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-18, 09:37:18 (174.131.166.128)
I remember watching a re-run of a a movie about that in the old days. That was quite a feat and took a lot of nerve to go on those rides .......
103: Inmate Central, RE: What's wrong with our understanding of the universe... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-17, 07:54:30 (174.131.166.128)
Yes, especially more generally in that the frontier of any area has always been changing as better explanations replace old ones. Might take a generation for some things to become widely accepted but .......
104: Inmate Central, RE: Just got done mowing the lawn. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-17, 07:48:55 (174.131.166.128)
Me too, it's not all awake yet but some of the grass was getting tall. There is something peaceful sort of meditative about cutting the grass. Although while faster, the zero turn mower doesn't allow .......
105: Critic's Corner, That is an issue (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-17, 06:39:58 (174.131.166.128)
The cost to buy exotic vs the cost of the parts in them is one of the stronger motivations to DIY. Unfortunately to varying degrees people associate high price with high performance as the price infe .......
106: Inmate Central, RE: "James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe" (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-16, 14:32:43 (174.131.166.128)
The funny part, the best part is that is has always been that way at the frontier, that is what discovery looks like. .......
107: General Asylum, one of them has to have the secret message (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-16, 12:27:28 (174.131.166.128)
one of them has to have the secret backwards message or a wasted a pile of money. And here is our QC department where we listen to several seconds of every recording .......
108: Inmate Central, RE: Wendy O. Williams of the Plasmatics is, sadly, long gone. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-15, 13:47:19 (174.131.166.128)
Oh sad. Man she had her own thing going on. Had a friend who was a rabid fan, he joined me up in the fan club he was in and i went to a show with him back in the day. .......
109: Inmate Central, Yeah yeah, it's all fun and games (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-15, 13:28:00 (174.131.166.128)
Yeah yeah, it's all fun and games...until she sticks you with one of those sharp things and wants your wallet. .......
110: Inmate Central, RE: Beautiful Woman of the Day, or all Eternity. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-15, 11:06:28 (174.131.166.128)
in the 80's, she was a punk star named Wendy O Williams, famous for only wearing small strips of black tape. Probably even more appealing now in the same costume....well no .......
111: General Asylum, RE: Caption this (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-14, 07:42:05 (174.131.166.128)
You audio guys are soooo, well something.. Do you really have to take speaker measurements in the bedroom???? .......
112: General Asylum, RE: Why do so many audiophiles reject science? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-14, 07:39:17 (174.131.166.128)
Science is tied to the physics of how things work, Hearing is what we have learned to interpret over a life time of hearing events around us. So powerful is that hearing process that we can take two i .......
113: Inmate Central, RE: Creative uses of spray foam. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-13, 13:17:33 (174.131.166.128)
Wow, not just a few . .......
114: Inmate Central, RE: Puppies. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-12, 07:54:33 (174.131.166.128)
Well you kind of have to assume there will be a year or two before they really get the hang of living with people (assuming they are around people to learn how). We got a tiny pup some years ago, a t .......
115: General Asylum, RE: You clearly stated facts, but thats not how you sell magazines (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-11, 16:07:30 (174.131.166.128)
Well i suppose that's true, we don't really advertise and the only home stuff we make is being used in small recording studio's anyway. I can supply two examples of video's made while the recording on .......
116: General Asylum, RE: Accuracy or performance? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-10, 06:56:09 (174.131.166.128)
Well that is one way to put it. Since most recordings have a "stereo image" that was created in the studio and not captured live, the highest level does involve creating an image that even with your .......
117: Inmate Central, Watch out for the bent hooks! (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-09, 09:45:25 (174.131.166.128)
Watch out for the bent hooks! If your curious about invention, technology and the odd path history takes, you might have seen a show called Connections (1, 2) and "the day the universe changed", you s .......
118: Inmate Central, RE: Here's the only solid evidence you might believe (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-08, 15:38:10 (174.131.166.128)
You need a power supply for that, this compact Marx generator will do the job and you'll glow like a light bulb or maybe more like a flash bulb or EBW. .......
119: Inmate Central, RE: But... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-08, 15:05:28 (174.131.166.128)
absolutely and people seem to forget what "UN-identified" actually means at it's root. I see moving stuff all the time with the telescope and getting rid of the artifacts from satellite trails is part .......
120: Inmate Central, stay at the Papa Doc luxury hotel. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-08, 14:39:52 (174.131.166.128)
Probably a good idea, things have been going down hill since "sweet papa Doc" and his happy voodoo party lost control. Hard to beat a sadistic brutal dictator like that for control through fear of dea .......
121: Inmate Central, RE: Belief vs. evidence. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-08, 13:22:24 (174.131.166.128)
As they say, incredible claims require incredible evidence. The thing is, travel like we know it imparts stored energy in the thing that's moving. Hitting anything at great speed, even a grain of dust .......
122: Inmate Central, RE: Sorry to disappoint some of y'all... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-08, 11:16:41 (174.131.166.128)
and in part it said " the office found no evidence that any government investigation, academic research or official review panel has confirmed that any UAP sighting "represented extraterrestrial techn .......
123: Inmate Central, RE: The United Nations shares a message from the future (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-08, 07:11:30 (174.131.166.128)
"I didn't make this up." But what about the author? If he "received" that message (given what 125GHz implies) did he also transmit it? .......
124: Inmate Central, RE: like some after a bite of pizza..totally worth it (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-07, 08:22:21 (174.131.166.128)
totally worth it .......
125: Inmate Central, RE: Then who are Lovey and Thurston? NT (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-07, 07:30:44 (174.131.166.128)
The Howell's, elite guests of the skipper and little buddy :-) A modern ending; All eventually succumbing to the komodo dragons that lived on the tropical island and the group of hostile Japaneses so .......
126: Inmate Central, RE: F-104 afterburner howl (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-07, 06:30:36 (174.131.166.128)
There is an unintentional funny movie centered on that airplane with some decent footsge. It's old but if your not familiar with MST3K, it's usually a hit or dud depending on your sense of humor. Anyw .......
127: Inmate Central, RE: Reagan Airport in DC got 7,000 noise complaints in one year... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-07, 06:23:50 (174.131.166.128)
According to my Dad (used to be involved with flat track auto racing), many of the local race tracks were closed by the same process. A track would be established out in the country where land was c .......
128: Inmate Central, RE: One of Rutan's planes... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-06, 13:22:55 (174.131.166.128)
That makes a lot of sense, torque reaction. It would have to be the same torque on the crankshaft that would be trying to rotate the plane the opposite direction too and then there is the mass reactio .......
129: Inmate Central, RE: The Tyranny of America's Supreme Court (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-06, 13:08:17 (174.131.166.128)
"Then on Monday it ruled that Trump's alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election should not prevent him from being on the ballot. " That's the problem it's alleged, not something he was charged or .......
130: Inmate Central, RE: that's a "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" truism - does anybody remember those? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-06, 09:14:23 (174.131.166.128)
"Lighten up Francis" said sgt Hulka when some humor was needed .......
131: Inmate Central, RE: Back in the day when air travel was truly special. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-05, 11:17:29 (174.131.166.128)
My first exposure to commercial flying was in the late 80's and early 90's when I / we had to fly to Huntsville from Chicago every other month and sometimes every week for a bit. This was (I think) S .......
132: Inmate Central, RE: That nasty red stuff (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-05, 09:03:08 (174.131.166.128)
YES!!! that's it! Wow that was nasty stuff, dreaded it when mom got that out. .......
133: Inmate Central, RE: Multiflora rose is one of them for sure... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-05, 06:07:47 (174.131.166.128)
I remember my Mom saying the ad said "horse high and hog tight" speaking of it's virtues as a hedge that was planted across the front border. I discovered that if you go over a ramp full speed on your .......
134: Inmate Central, RE: One of Rutan's planes... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-05, 05:57:52 (174.131.166.128)
Wow excellent footage!! That may well have been the airplane too! Thanks for the footage and commentary. This would have been 1975 and 1976 when i was there. I remember being highly puzzled about how .......
135: Inmate Central, RE: Least favorite invasive plants? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-04, 15:50:58 (174.131.166.128)
In northern Illinois there is BuckThorn an incredibly fast growing invasive bush that kills the "good trees" it like to grow next to. In North Georgia, there are a number of fast growing junk trees wh .......
136: Inmate Central, RE: One of Rutan's planes... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-04, 15:43:45 (174.131.166.128)
In the mid 70's I had a girlfriend who's family flew a plane called a Ryan ST and pitts to Oshkosh while she and i drove from Northern Illinois. I saw a demonstration of wing tip vortices, a source of .......
137: Inmate Central, RE: One of Rutan's planes... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-04, 11:00:35 (174.131.166.128)
Now that is different! I remember when the varivigen came out, had a friend that considered making one. The logic behind the boomerang made sense. .......
138: Inmate Central, RE: The issue is far more fundamental (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-04, 09:30:13 (174.131.166.128)
I agree and was not very surprised it was 9 - 0, there was nothing about this attack that was consistent with the claim baring him was to "preserve democracy" which is where the ironic humor in the ov .......
139: Inmate Central, RE: Let the wailing and gnashing of teeth begin... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-04, 09:12:02 (174.131.166.128)
9 to 0, i can see why some would be unhappy, that should provide some entertainment. The meaning is pretty clear, you can't just dump the #1 choice of the opposition in the name of preserving democr .......
140: Inmate Central, RE: Some of don't give two shits about who competes in who's sports. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-02, 15:07:05 (174.131.166.128)
The fact that legally this was a unique application of a law where there are no similar examples, where no one defaulted on a loan, everyone was paid back in full and the lenders did their own evaluat .......
141: Inmate Central, RE: the ONE FACT sabotaging Social Security Reform (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-02, 13:23:09 (174.131.166.128)
- a stampede of elderly and somewhat infirm people of all stripes in Washington. Yes, they were told it was an investment in their future a self supporting operation (it once was) and paid into to it .......
142: Inmate Central, RE: Some of don't give two shits about who competes in who's sports. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-02, 09:59:14 (174.131.166.128)
Hey, it's Animal house double secret probation haha as applied to election interference. Since they have crossed the normal legal threshold where the fine is now unrelated to damages or complaints and .......
143: Inmate Central, RE: There were several models (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-03-01, 12:54:41 (174.131.166.128)
Cool! My Younger brother had a Rapido, it was quick and with a short wheelbase, it did wheelies easily .......
144: General Asylum, RE: The transducer paradox (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-29, 09:14:05 (174.131.166.128)
Your right this is where it gets more complicated and especially so when considering how we hear a live 3d image based on two ears worth of input and then, how best to capture that image. Reality is .......
145: Inmate Central, RE: Demagogues have always pandered to the resentment and bigotry of the ignorant (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-28, 11:54:28 (174.131.166.128)
Yes and some times he was right as was the suggestion that the opposition let things get out of hand on purpose, mayor Bowser and then the fed blocking the request for more national guard https://amer .......
146: Inmate Central, RE: This secret, when revealed, will change things overnight. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-28, 10:39:44 (174.131.166.128)
Aliens ?? .......
147: General Asylum, I think it means reproduction of the input signal (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-28, 10:37:11 (174.131.166.128)
and nothing else. This doesn't depend on what you like just; This would mean a copy of the signal is indistinguishable from the original. A more extreme case would be the third generation reproductio .......
148: General Asylum, Done (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-28, 09:54:22 (174.131.166.128)
Tiger mix I would bet like image processing, there is a limit to what one can extract before the software is guessing what the data might be. .......
149: Inmate Central, RE: Demagogues have always pandered to the resentment and bigotry of the ignorant (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-28, 09:50:21 (174.131.166.128)
1. Nancy Pelosi (or was it Nikki Haley?) caused it. Neither but both Pelosi and Mayor Bowser declined the security the orange devil had asked for. I don't think taking advantage of the situation (sayi .......
150: Inmate Central, RE: Demagogues have always pandered to the resentment and bigotry of the ignorant (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-28, 08:50:03 (174.131.166.128)
For the title pitch to work and it does, it has to be simple enough that one doesn't question it or the right and wrong of it or insulting so many. Easy when your steered to imagine them as sub-specie .......
151: Inmate Central, RE: Totally ruled by the cunning ... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-28, 06:08:18 (174.131.166.128)
Your right, that was one of his election promises. As he found after impulsively showing Jackie Gleason (a friend) something he shouldn't have, he found out just how much he was not actually in charg .......
152: Inmate Central, RE: Survey (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-26, 15:16:18 (174.131.166.128)
Thanks! .......
153: Speaker Asylum, RE: AR1W+JansZen ad (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-26, 15:15:27 (174.131.166.128)
In the day, one could buy the white panels used in those and the identical blue ones used in RTR speakers for about 5 bucks each. I bought a small pile once and made a number speakers with them, the b .......
154: Inmate Central, RE: Survey (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-26, 12:11:04 (174.131.166.128)
Just asking, is the connection to having had covid, having had the vaccine or having had both?? .......
155: Inmate Central, Who can say for sure but.... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-25, 12:28:27 (174.131.166.128)
All it takes is one event to convince you that there is more to things than are obvious. There can be / are many different views of the elephant but when it touches you... That thing happened to me w .......
156: Inmate Central, RE: the neural net/brain interface is well on the way... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-25, 11:20:56 (174.131.166.128)
If you haven't seen it, check out the movie "upgrade", it's pretty good with sort of a "the usual suspects" ending .......
157: Inmate Central, RE: "the unhappy victim spat at the executioner while he was holding the severed the head" (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-25, 08:19:01 (174.131.166.128)
The tradition apparently was to pick the head up by the hair and show it to the audience showing "he was dead". And yes, even to blink requires some motor control to be intact. OTH, if it wasn't disco .......
158: Inmate Central, RE: Even been under total anesthesia? Your experience? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-25, 07:26:03 (174.131.166.128)
Anesthesia is a chemical reaction designed to disconnect you during things that would "hurt" excessively or be distressing. Unless your knocked out, often people are conscious or semi-conscious when .......
159: General Asylum, RE: trying to steer things (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-23, 11:45:21 (174.131.166.128)
Clearly we have had different life experiences but your statement " The super capitalists stole the economy of this country over the last 40 years and now they eat your lunch, whenever and however the .......
160: Inmate Central, RE: we carry on in some way after we die (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-23, 11:24:37 (174.131.166.128)
Quantum entanglement might be one avenue for this, black matter/ energy might be where it's at for those who believed they would have moved on. The whole Quantum field is still evolving and mind numbi .......
161: General Asylum, RE: are you kidding? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-23, 08:14:25 (174.131.166.128)
Sure there are some examples of government trying to steer things (and when anyone making the decisions has no skin in the game, the outcome is usually not as good) but you mis my point about the scal .......
162: General Asylum, RE: Most probably a nice vacation with a legit tax write-off...- (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-23, 07:51:02 (174.131.166.128)
Haha, not so much fun when you have to work a trade show, typically it's a long day on your feet talking and then an evening with customers talking. Part B is they are VERY expensive when you have to .......
163: General Asylum, RE: are you kidding? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-22, 14:35:43 (174.131.166.128)
Sure, speaking of a sandy view, consider what i have described as a long term government investment strategy to take over an industry sector (neo magnets, now vital to electric cars, wind energy etc), .......
164: General Asylum, RE: the last remaining China audio hurdle (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-22, 14:06:20 (174.131.166.128)
You will be, you don't understand how they work and why things are like they are. Here is one past example that pretty much is how things work and why it is bewildering to the west. Here it is investo .......
165: Inmate Central, RE: Especially true with motorcycle tires. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-22, 13:39:41 (174.131.166.128)
And air pressure too, the Monster i had was very sensitive to front tire pressure when cornering. With slightly low pressure it felt like it was diving into a corner. .......
166: General Asylum, RE: Music bars in the US (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-20, 09:48:08 (174.131.166.128)
Hi Those look like soffit mounted special order sh-50's. Some of the installers who do those jobs order bare wood or "stain ready" cabinets and then do a fancy finish. Tom .......
167: Inmate Central, Re: Sex in Sports (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-19, 14:48:33 (174.131.166.128)
Yes, in fact it seems sort of generally feelings about somethings are now are more important than acknowledging what actually is (and working with it as best you can). Where does this come counter pr .......
168: Inmate Central, RE: Might it EVER occur to you that it's more a matter of... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-19, 10:19:27 (174.131.166.128)
What he (I think) is talking about is chemicals in food that act as "mimics" that cause genetic changes that wouldn't have taken place otherwise. One of which that you speak of as progress is the fact .......
169: Inmate Central, I do (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-18, 08:56:56 (174.131.166.128)
I was of the age to be in the high school draft "lotto" for Vietnam and having grown up taking things apart, i had a mostly working short wave radio, outside antenna and headphones next to my bed (bes .......
170: Inmate Central, RE: Barry Weiss from "Storage Wars...." (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-18, 08:00:04 (174.131.166.128)
Wow, That car is wild!! Makes one wonder about cost for a full resto mod. I think you may have illuminated a minor mystery from my childhood. When i was 12, my Dad taught me ho to weld using a home ma .......
171: Inmate Central, RE: What arguments for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-15, 10:31:14 (174.131.166.128)
Not sure about the energy density difference between them so far as storage systems but in the case of failure like a leak or rupture, Hydrogen goes up and away very quickly. The low cost way to get H .......
172: Inmate Central, RE: I'M dumbfounded as to why ... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-14, 13:39:04 (174.131.166.128)
Usually, when a situation doesn't make sense, it's because you can't see or value the details others see or value and not because the others are low IQ (and there for your one of the elite).. Modern p .......
173: Inmate Central, in Grade School when you were .................... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-14, 06:27:54 (174.131.166.128)
This has been a curiosity of mine, how did that happen? I think the only answer would be incrementally, one small step at a time. What has to be appreciated is Germany was the most scientifically adva .......
174: Speaker Asylum, nope (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-11, 06:25:45 (174.131.166.128)
Like others have said, those don't look like any JBL's i have seen and would be highly skeptical about the sound with that driver configuration .......
175: Inmate Central, RE: Blazing saddles was released 50 years ago today (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-07, 15:43:20 (66.115.181.77)
And one that couldn't be made today, it took Mel Brooks in several ways haha .......
176: Inmate Central, RE: Still wondering.... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-07, 07:35:00 (66.115.181.77)
If left alone to consumer choice, power would be supplied by the winner of several contests, cost being the number one. Theoretically, atomic power has the potential to be the cheapest, most dense sou .......
177: Inmate Central, RE: Bengal tiger (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-06, 11:16:38 (154.47.28.94)
Some are very smart and have a good ear :-). Hopefully your friends is still very young, no fast movements. .......
178: Inmate Central, RE: Maybe Gaza deserves to die. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-06, 11:11:37 (154.47.28.67)
They (Israel) have found over time that with a number of outside countries being willing to send their young militant enthusiasts, weapons and money there "to kill the Jews and the west" does not make .......
179: Inmate Central, RE: Cherrypicked exceptions to a rule, as you ignore serious problems, e.g., border, crime, war theaters NT (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-04, 16:02:17 (66.115.181.202)
There is a "coaxial" border problem, at least according to the guest here who describes both parts of it after visiting. If true / to the degree it's true, this can't be good. Check out at least the f .......
180: Inmate Central, RE: Just wondering.....why? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-04, 10:56:50 (66.115.181.202)
I am reminded of how far we have come since i was in High school where people deliberately exposed themselves to opposing opinions as if it was important to do that. Now days few sample the other side .......
181: Inmate Central, RE: Network news might be even worse. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-02, 07:29:49 (174.131.166.128)
It is deeper than that according to several friends who were /are in media. For example, have you ever wondered why there are so many commercials for medicine on TV, in media? You can't prescribe them .......
182: Inmate Central, RE: You need to define "TV" (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-02, 07:16:24 (174.131.166.128)
ok then yes, all of the oscilloscopes have CRT's. .......
183: Inmate Central, RE: But they're mostly only interested in weather and sports. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-02, 07:14:46 (174.131.166.128)
agreed, but for some reason, i still want a 6000sux :-) .......
184: Inmate Central, RE: then there are the aplogists for the deplorables... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-01, 17:09:17 (174.131.166.128)
No, you can't do that, my point was usually the only people able to hate and try to offend strangers like that, are bitter or are the ones who only take in one side and succumbed to the con, "drank al .......
185: Inmate Central, RE: then there are the aplogists for the deplorables... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-01, 11:45:06 (174.131.166.128)
And this makes you feel superior somehow? How weird and yet the effect i described that offends you .......
186: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: yo Tomservo - a 9 sided MEH build (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-02-01, 08:50:47 (174.131.166.128)
Hi FreddyI Well if they follow the rules, they can make a Synergy horn that radiates as if it had one full range driver on a large horn. Not sure they did though / rather it would depend on the raw re .......
187: Inmate Central, RE: You forget to add (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-31, 15:38:11 (174.131.166.128)
This isn't about slavery, it's about politics and the power in it. We are divided and it's only possible by having enough loyal people that only take in one side of the "news" and so, as seen here, en .......
188: Inmate Central, Now for Something completely different (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-30, 06:03:24 (174.131.166.128)
Now for Something completely different and it really is and weird too .......
189: General Asylum, RE: Perhaps this is a Cold-War Era "Audio Urban Legend." (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-27, 08:26:42 (174.131.166.128)
That sounds plausible, at least i can imagine that scenario :-) . You could add a semi-plausible sounding explanation about why blue is cold and red is the hot as well. (highly questionable explanatio .......
190: Inmate Central, RE: I own 21 guns and you never point a gun at something you don't want to destroy... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-24, 12:38:44 (174.131.166.128)
And if you had to as in a movie set, all the more reason to personally look and see what's in it. .......
191: Critic's Corner, RE: Belt and suspenders... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-24, 08:42:50 (174.131.166.128)
What your hearing at the low end is perhaps the only free lunch in audio, the room gain slope. A vented box rolls off at 24dB/oct at the corner. It CAN produce a greater sensitivity and output per .......
192: Inmate Central, RE: miracle plane (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-23, 16:53:22 (174.131.166.128)
9 out of 10 are fakers umm. Back home, it was the wealthy that had the handicap parking placards and like the airplane folks, when leaving their cars usually had no visible problems outside of ethical .......
193: Inmate Central, RE: But... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-21, 11:05:33 (174.131.166.128)
Good point! It took Lucy, someone "who could decide" to go against the grain, not someone who used conventional / best wisdom of the day as they saw it. .......
194: Inmate Central, RE: Captain Kirk - still going strong! (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-21, 10:23:46 (174.131.166.128)
At age 92, one can clearly see that his time traveling above light speed has reduced the rate he aged ! Uh yeah .......
195: Inmate Central, RE: Doubt it. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-21, 08:50:53 (174.131.166.128)
Based on how important it seems to be to promote and maintain that division, the reason also has to include not wanting too many of the total % people to be asking what are they doing and to focus on .......
196: Speaker Asylum, RE: 21" woofers not sounding good (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-20, 12:09:12 (174.131.166.128)
Don't need luck, you can use science and modeling and choose drivers based on what you need to do and what they can do and shouldn't do. Tom .......
197: Inmate Central, Torque illustrated and not the guy from the Monkeys (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-20, 08:46:27 (174.131.166.128)
Torque is the force that can do this; That force times how fast it's turning is power .......
198: Speaker Asylum, RE: CONTEXT... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-19, 16:04:07 (174.131.166.128)
A couple thoughts, the subwoofer is only supposed to produce the signal coming from the low pass crossover. It is a common mistake to judge a subwoofer using broader band signals like a kick drum etc .......
199: Inmate Central, RE: How much torque does a 2 horsepower engine generate? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-19, 15:40:40 (174.131.166.128)
Power = torque times Rpm A draft horse has torque haha .......
200: Inmate Central, RE: TARP socialized 700 banks during the last financial crisis (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-19, 13:16:11 (174.131.166.128)
Sure except substitute special interests for market forces .......
201: Speaker Asylum, RE: 21" woofers not sounding good (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-19, 07:20:21 (174.131.166.128)
Hopefully your testing them in an enclosure suited to each. Sitting on the floor, you can tell they "make sound" but that's close to it. Don't forget the woofer size is not what governs how low it can .......
202: Inmate Central, RE: The 1940 Willys... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-17, 09:56:40 (174.131.166.128)
That's funny, i saw the picture and thought I never saw a stock one before, they were all drag cars...then i saw your post. .......
203: Inmate Central, Russian humor (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-17, 08:10:24 (174.131.166.128)
Well i don't understand Russian, but i am not sure that is a negative so far as this video. Take a break and try this Gem, sort like Koyaniskatsi (SP), doesn't need words .......
204: Inmate Central, RE: Is your crawlspace accessible ? ... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-15, 14:46:37 (174.131.166.128)
There is usually an access trap door or other way to get in there if an emergency. If you know where that is, stick a fan on an extension cord down there for a while. Just circulating the air from you .......
205: Inmate Central, RE: My pipes are frozen again - Fck ! (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-15, 11:24:51 (174.131.166.128)
When you expect cold weather like that, let the most distant faucets (from where your water enters the house) drip drip drip. That flow is enough to keep the pipes from freezing .......
206: Inmate Central, RE: Zombie apocalypse (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-15, 10:51:44 (174.131.166.128)
Keep in mind, the auto industry was complacent when the Japanese using our best experts to re-industrialize after the war, were able to make cars that were actually better than ours. Hard to fight wh .......
207: Inmate Central, RE: More cold on the way... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-15, 06:28:04 (174.131.166.128)
Climate Change!! every year it does, but commercial time is more valuable the more exciting the show (including weather) is before hand .......
208: Inmate Central, Pooty and Poland (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-15, 05:38:49 (174.131.166.128)
Is Poland next for annexation after Ukraine? Pootie pants supporters thinks so. .......
209: Inmate Central, RE: My cousin from Poland and his sweetheart visited Chicago (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-11, 14:18:13 (174.131.166.128)
Hopefully they knew someone who could show them around and didn't just go there. Chicago is cool if you have someone who knows there way around, you could have a good time for days and not eat anythin .......
210: Inmate Central, RE: How's your weather now?... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-11, 13:56:26 (174.131.166.128)
It is, clear blue sky, just below freezing tonight, NO moon, perfect telescope weather! .......
211: Inmate Central, RE: The underlying concept of using interchangeable parts (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-11, 13:10:11 (174.131.166.128)
Yes THAT was a real turning point in industrial progress and history! Not just firearms but mass production of nearly everything that is assembled. A wise person, perhaps the late Don Davis from Synau .......
212: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Hornresp 1st pass - comments/critiques welcome. 40hz "L" horn (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-11, 09:44:27 (174.131.166.128)
Hi Yes i did, it was the 511. I did change a couple things other than to the 4550 and 2226 drivers. There was a spot on the back side of the vertical flare in front of the flat flange that had "sen .......
213: Inmate Central, RE: Fords were usually behind the rest of the industry. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-11, 08:53:15 (174.131.166.128)
Ford was smart, he hired people that knew more about those parts than him. The production line he is credited for was devised by his head engineer while touring a meat packing production line and used .......
214: Inmate Central, RE: do you or anybody know the experiment results in zero gavity? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-10, 10:46:08 (174.131.166.128)
I know the results of a couple of them. The company i worked for flew 2 experiments on the shuttle after the zeroG airplane and a sounding rocket. The aim was to manufacture new very high temperat .......
215: Speaker Asylum, RE: Room treatments? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-10, 06:45:09 (174.131.166.128)
Hi If you set your speakers up outdoors over grass away from buildings and sit and listen (in fact have a bbq and listen), you hear the most powerful stereo image your speakers can produce and there a .......
216: Inmate Central, RE: I think "balance of probabilities" is good enough ... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-09, 06:19:50 (174.131.166.128)
It's a little bit chilling to know there are people who genuinely believe there image of how things are is so much better than others, that your willing to remove their ability to choose for themselve .......
217: Inmate Central, RE: " We have a hell of a lot of illegal voters right now, think about that one" --- No we Don't !! .....nt (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-08, 10:45:54 (174.131.166.128)
We do have what 8 million new illegals in the last few years but at least for now, they can't vote legally. .......
218: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Hornresp 1st pass - comments/critiques welcome. 40hz "L" horn (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-07, 12:25:16 (174.131.166.128)
2226 vs stock raw response .......
219: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Hornresp 1st pass - comments/critiques welcome. 40hz "L" horn (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-07, 12:24:14 (174.131.166.128)
hf raw response bms 4550 vs stock .......
220: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Hornresp 1st pass - comments/critiques welcome. 40hz "L" horn (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-07, 12:22:12 (174.131.166.128)
Your right about length, that defines the lowest F it can have any gain over a direct radiator. You posted a drawing of an old friend, the A-7. I wasn't sure i had the measurements but i found them .......
221: Inmate Central, RE: climate change?? from what I remember it happens everyday throughout the day (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-07, 08:12:03 (174.131.166.128)
Consider that once the poles were warm and most of the usa was covered with ice, some places a mile deep. Change was possible to me when in 3rd grade i went fossil hunting in a deep strip coal mine in .......
222: Inmate Central, RE: This Headline Just In From CNN: (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-07, 07:54:40 (174.131.166.128)
The greater she state of emotion in the viewers, the more effective and valuable each 30 seconds of advertising time is. That's why nearly everything is a "big deal". .......
223: Inmate Central, RE: And why do batteries die exactly after the warranty ends? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-07, 05:28:26 (174.131.166.128)
Do you know about the first case? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel .......
224: Inmate Central, RE: Are the "victims" destroying the world or being destroyed? You guys can't get your story straight (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-05, 07:37:41 (174.131.166.128)
"Ultimate victims or ultimate victimizers?" Hard to tell i guess, what i described was the mechanism that supports this "You guys sure whine like victims." I am singular and not a victim, just describ .......
225: Inmate Central, RE: VofD (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-05, 07:31:04 (174.131.166.128)
In the old days, the story was if you see a racoon (nocturnal normally) out and about in the day time, it may well have Rabies and when near death with it they look drunk or impaired. .......
226: Inmate Central, RE: get help...-.please...--nt (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-05, 06:53:10 (174.131.166.128)
Too late, i spent my life observing how things work and making that my career. I can't "un-see" the patterns I see. .......
227: Inmate Central, RE: Germany thought it needed Hitler in '33 (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-05, 06:49:35 (174.131.166.128)
So in Germany, would it have been appropriate to remove the choice the people had to elect him and what progressive would one have make that decision about who gets to run? Should the government even .......
228: Inmate Central, RE: wow, programming does work! (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-05, 04:51:38 (174.131.166.128)
We wouldn't have a huge media industry if they weren't able to shape our buying habits, desires and opinions. So yeah, obviously it works, for both sides. .......
229: Inmate Central, RE: He didn't refer to that election... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-04, 17:29:03 (174.131.166.128)
""therefore Joe supposedly won by the largest margin in a long time, bigger than Obama " To be clear, it was the media that claimed that marvelous margin of victory, repeating a claim isn't like sayin .......
230: Inmate Central, RE: Hmm. . . a bunch of gun nuts who forgot to bring their guns? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-04, 16:45:38 (174.131.166.128)
Remember back when records could skip and play the same bit over and over and over and over? Well at least it's not Russia collusion this time, the needle wore clear through the record on that one. : .......
231: Inmate Central, RE: Not charged with "insurrection", just seditious conspiracy... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-04, 16:27:32 (174.131.166.128)
"Any part of that dumbass, motley crew seem organized enough to make a "true attempt"?" Good point and if one looks at other actual examples of insurrection, one finds those are very different and did .......
232: Inmate Central, RE: Mostly, it was about money.... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-03, 16:48:09 (174.131.166.128)
Well there does seem to be some casual correlation between the desire for great wealth and power and the need to frequently find temporary housing for their penis ((s) if they had special surgery beca .......
233: Inmate Central, RE: Does "engaging" in insurrection require a conviction ? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-03, 16:37:10 (174.131.166.128)
"Yep, sure looks like voter fraud to me!" Well some think some of the details suggested that however the real concern now is what they might resort to in order to stop him from running this time. They .......
234: Inmate Central, RE: Whew! (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-03, 14:53:19 (174.131.166.128)
I heard they might release it. That's good, he was not a good guy and his personality isn't why most people visited his places, or why they had to be secluded / inescapable places . .......
235: Inmate Central, RE: Attention AA snowflakes! Get to a safe room! ~:) (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-03, 14:50:04 (174.131.166.128)
I think that is exactly why he is such a threat, ok threat to what, not the public they did very well and proved a loud rich but politically unconnected guy can make good business like decisions in go .......
236: Inmate Central, RE: Does "engaging" in insurrection require a conviction ? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-03, 14:40:15 (174.131.166.128)
"Are you speaking of the many baseless charges of MASSIVE election fraud which haven't panned our legally?" No, i was getting at the stuff like the Shiff show Russia Russia etc etc etc a fierce non-st .......
237: Inmate Central, RE: Alls I know is Orange Man bad. Do I get my honorary Ivy League diploma now? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-03, 14:27:02 (174.131.166.128)
Ok well those boxes are checked on your application. But so far as the outstanding merit section, we need to describe what hardships you have experienced that made you more sensitive to the inherent .......
238: Inmate Central, RE: Does "engaging" in insurrection require a conviction ? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-03, 14:03:28 (174.131.166.128)
The media trial and opinion steering doesn't require proof to accuse and pronounce guilt but a legal one does. Should accusations alone be enough to remove someone? At what point do never ending accu .......
239: Inmate Central, RE: There is no platform for discussion with forever victims of Holocaust (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-03, 06:54:22 (174.131.166.128)
I think you touched on something real but the reason behind it can be explained differently, perhaps something like a mental Virus. Imagine an organization who's goal is to grow and enrich the hierarc .......
240: Inmate Central, RE: What Tom, you and I all know... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-02, 12:04:48 (174.131.166.128)
Perhaps higher education is different than the real world but in the jobs i have had, people trying to take credit for other peoples work was and is still frowned on even if you don't get caught. Eve .......
241: Inmate Central, RE: Hamas can't be eliminated militarily... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-02, 10:24:33 (174.131.166.128)
Yes, but what kind of response to the attack, wouldn't have done that? .......
242: Inmate Central, RE: 29 Harvard presidents going back to 1640... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-02, 09:57:14 (174.131.166.128)
"All over the presidency of a university that NO ONE posting here could likely get into in a million freaking years." True enough but many are bummed to find out they would overlook all the cases of " .......
243: Speaker Asylum, RE: OK, I looked up US-8320604-B1 Composite loudspeaker cone Vandersteen; Richard et al. 2012-11-27 (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-01, 14:27:39 (174.131.166.128)
A quick scan looks like they are patenting how they make their cones, not patenting using carbon fiber to make cones. .......
244: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Puzzled by your two examples vs desired output range (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2024-01-01, 07:54:24 (174.131.166.128)
Hi Bill I am in a similar boat, i started with the old Akabak when PSpice was the only way to model crossovers and never got around to trying Hornresp. Akabak can be as detailed as you care to make th .......
245: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Puzzled by your two examples vs desired output range (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-31, 07:07:39 (174.131.166.128)
Hi There are several considerations one can follow if one seeks the greatest acoustic power vs power input and lowest distortion. These are not always important unless those things are important. A "p .......
246: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Is there anything in production similar to a JBL 2220 for horn loading? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-29, 06:24:14 (174.131.166.128)
A cool thing about horns is you can put any driver on any horn and it will make sound. The flip side is there is one combination of horn parameters that gives the highest efficiency / output for a .......
247: Speaker Asylum, RE: Best capacitor for 12 ohm horn tweeter (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-28, 07:34:36 (174.131.166.128)
More important than what type of cap is used is the issue of having the optimum value of capacitance for the speaker. Horns rarely have flat response by themselves and that is what one hears most of .......
248: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Here's and interesting subwoofer, anyone know the woofers? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-27, 12:25:08 (174.131.166.128)
Who currently makes 16 inch drivers? None of the folks i can think of as likely suspects in pro-sound (B&C Faital, Beyma, Ciare, Celestion, Eminence etc) Based on the edge suspension, they are probabl .......
249: Inmate Central, RE: Thing is, human beings aren't perfect. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-26, 09:42:12 (174.131.166.128)
Not only that but like politics, there tends of be a strong attraction for those that want to do the right thing AND those who are attracted to self enrichment, power, including the power of a uniform .......
250: Critic's Corner, RE: Rocking Munich (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-25, 05:34:05 (174.131.166.128)
He may have set this up by listening to the stereo image not appearance. As this was a demo event, certainly it was done for the sound. Speakers like that (smallish) project some sound to the sides an .......
251: Speaker Asylum, RE: That is a very menacing object in that photo (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-23, 17:24:09 (174.131.166.128)
I know what you mean AND the motor assembly was so impressive that although it was cheap, i passed on it. It was VERY heavy for it's size and it was big, that's also on a reinforced pallet. It has .......
252: Speaker Asylum, RE: That is a very menacing object in that photo (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-23, 17:22:12 (174.131.166.128)
I know what you mean AND the motor assembly was so impressive that although it was cheap, i passed on it. It was VERY heavy for it's size and it was big, that's also on a reinforced pallet. It has .......
253: Inmate Central, RE: It is a complicated ball of wax (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-23, 07:30:27 (174.131.166.128)
A curious feature of a Peltier solid state thermometric pile is that as a source of heat, it can be more than 100% efficient. How is within the range of temp difference that can be produced, the hot .......
254: General Asylum, Nice (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-23, 07:21:25 (174.131.166.128)
Nice! Had a friend who was a Zappa fan, that brought back memories. I am glad they touched on 200 motels, i saw that in Chicago at a 3 penny theater in old town when it came out, coinciding with one .......
255: Speaker Asylum, RE: Speakers specs question (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-23, 05:48:03 (174.131.166.128)
There are several answers. The spec + - 3dB means that the acoustic power varies by a factor of 2 greater (+3dB) and lesser by a factor of 2 (-3dB) so within that frequency band (38Hz to 30KHz) the ou .......
256: Inmate Central, RE: As 40% of New Mexico's gross revenue comes from taxing oil/gas extraction.... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-22, 12:47:03 (174.131.166.128)
Well that's a similar situation. The cost of energy has a direct and powerful effect on the economy and manufacturing and cost of everything made so why do anything (like significant taxes) if that ec .......
257: Inmate Central, RE: Pretty much all of the costs of most all businesses are passed on to the consumer... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-22, 09:35:00 (174.131.166.128)
That's the funny part, that a politician would posture that he is "punishing the greedy" while in reality enriching their coffers and being the reason prices are so much higher than elsewhere. It's ha .......
258: Speaker Asylum, RE: plenty of three and four inch VCs in "ancient" designs, too! (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-22, 08:41:55 (174.131.166.128)
And some old Trusonic's , looked a lot like JBL's Fwiw, loudspeaker engineer folk lore in the 80's was that the 4 inch coil size came about because of a winding form originally made from a coffee c .......
259: Inmate Central, RE: Gasoline Taxes in California (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-22, 08:38:17 (174.131.166.128)
I like that, they are punishing the oil companies for windfall profits with taxes which are seamlessly passed on the the end user, so who is punished by high costs and who gets windfall profit (money .......
260: Inmate Central, RE: We have two Samsungs... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-21, 08:49:08 (174.131.166.128)
Samsung is a key player in the move to digital screens in movie theaters too. While you can blast sound through a perf screen, the digital screen panel segment i measured had an average loss of -17dB .......
261: Inmate Central, RE: As somebody once said... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-19, 13:03:53 (174.131.166.128)
Ever work at a food kitchen or collect food for hungry families or work on a house for habitat for humanity? Maybe you have never been on that side of religious people that for example DO lift a finge .......
262: Inmate Central, You can only get (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-18, 10:03:47 (174.131.166.128)
the election proof machine they boasted of having for decades by controlling enough things, like union and City and patronage jobs and city services like garbage and having enough people depend on you .......
263: Inmate Central, Walls wrok fine (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-16, 10:12:46 (174.131.166.128)
nt .......
264: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Radian 745NeoBe: Harsh/Hard or Smooth/Easy? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-15, 10:03:37 (174.131.166.128)
Hi This will sound hard to believe perhaps but by far the most obvious thing one hears is frequency response of a speaker. Part of what makes making horns "more fun" than picking parts out of a catalo .......
265: Inmate Central, RE: The solution (which is pure fantasy) (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-15, 09:22:41 (174.131.166.128)
Your right about spending being a big deal. A largely UN-mentioned and a basic driving force in all large bureaucracies is the way personal view of success is tied to the budget process. If your a man .......
266: Inmate Central, RE: "Asteroid 4 Vesta moving close to the emission nebula NGC 2174/5 in Orion" (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-14, 18:13:55 (174.131.166.128)
The Planetarium program i have been using has a bunch of asteroids in it too so i might tray to catch a few more on purpose this time. This program is free, called stellarium and is excellent and can .......
267: Inmate Central, RE: So you still believe the old Vietnam era slogan (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-14, 14:05:01 (174.131.166.128)
You have an ability to read what you want into unrelated words perhaps to avoid any discussion. .......
268: Inmate Central, RE: "Asteroid 4 Vesta moving close to the emission nebula NGC 2174/5 in Orion" (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-14, 12:49:57 (174.131.166.128)
Wow good sleuthing! How cool is that Thanks for the ID my first known asteroid hit!! It puts the image into scale too, around 300 miles in diameter it's moving at 19km/sec and is between 322 and 388 m .......
269: Inmate Central, RE: How to differentiate a ... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-14, 12:39:26 (174.131.166.128)
While you can't tell much with certainty, what one can do is take what Hamas and the other Iranian proxies say often as possibly true. That is often that they will continue to attack Israel .......
270: Inmate Central, RE: How to differentiate a ... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-14, 08:30:28 (174.131.166.128)
I agree and at the same time, what Hamas did was not justified by anything and was intended to cause great harm to the UN-involved innocents there as well as those they attacked directly. Willing to s .......
271: Inmate Central, RE: How to differentiate a ... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-14, 06:08:14 (174.131.166.128)
Yes, that has often been the strategy in the past and from that view, giving the peeps a warning to leave contradicts that carpet bombing mass casualty tradition of wars past. Imagine if Hamas had war .......
272: Inmate Central, RE: SL-16 RB NORAD 20625? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-14, 05:19:18 (174.131.166.128)
Ok Here is some additional info. Frame 0 started at 2:26AM 12-12-2023 Frame 19 started at 3:23 AM 12-12 2023 The center of the image was on NGC 2174. It is an H II emission nebula located in the cons .......
273: Inmate Central, RE: How to differentiate a ... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-14, 05:12:56 (174.131.166.128)
Using a layer of kids and non-combatants does provide some protection mainly when it's difficult to differentiate the willing from those forced to be shields and your personal beliefs are less barbari .......
274: Inmate Central, RE: there must be a reason we have the fourth largest population of Jews... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-13, 15:12:12 (174.131.166.128)
Am i to understand that the liberal party there is the one more sportive of the Jewish folks? It was that way here but it has become more polarized and sort of inverted. Now many conservative religio .......
275: Inmate Central, RE: SL-16 RB NORAD 20625? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-13, 14:10:27 (174.131.166.128)
Hi Excellent!! This was from Dahlonega Georgia late Sunday night. Each frame has time and date but they are big files, i will compress frame 1 and frame 20 down to a similar size to what i posted and .......
276: Inmate Central, RE: It looks like a florescent light bulb (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-13, 12:49:18 (174.131.166.128)
It would be tough to throw one that high but yeah that's what it looks like. It's point of light as small as a star in this perspective that moved that far as to make the line, over the course of 20x .......
277: Inmate Central, RE: Whaddaya think it was? Human-made space debris? Asteroid? Distant planet? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-13, 11:58:49 (174.131.166.128)
Well i am not sure, it's not something i have seen before...well i have seen all of stars that are streaks or oblong, but that's the telescope not tracking. Satellites and space junk (stuff in orbit) .......
278: Inmate Central, RE: O'devil.....Hehehe (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-13, 08:33:47 (174.131.166.128)
History predicted you would be, our personal expectation biases revealed to the reader. .......
279: Inmate Central, RE: PWotD (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-13, 08:30:38 (174.131.166.128)
Oh man my Dad a suburban in the 70's and that what we did. Take the work stuff out and pile in on the weekend. .......
280: Inmate Central, slow moving object in space (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-13, 08:10:17 (174.131.166.128)
My telescope took a picture of the "Monkey Head Nebula" Sunday night (I was asleep it's automated) and when i processed it yesterday i saw something i have not seen before. I have seem satellites a .......
281: Inmate Central, Massive Gold factory discovered (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-13, 07:24:31 (174.131.166.128)
Well in a sense anyway, fission in space, what a pretty blue color .......
282: Inmate Central, RE: O'devil.....Hehehe (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-13, 07:00:08 (174.131.166.128)
"Or am I taking it all out of context due to reading your previous political rants and misconstrued assertions?" Well if history predicts the future in any way, then probably yes. To insure it's not h .......
283: Inmate Central, RE: Time to get rid of that boil (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-13, 05:54:20 (174.131.166.128)
I have heard about that tone before, but from Pol's about Russians. Like how the Russians call the bird on the Polish symbol a Chicken or how they murdered the polish officers in the war and later s .......
284: Inmate Central, RE: "blame it ALL on the last guy because he's responsible" (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-13, 05:40:00 (174.131.166.128)
That's right, if it hadn't been for the orange devil making the border security and illegals and big deal issue, Biden would not have had to do the opposite and do exactly what the O'devil predicted J .......
285: Speaker Asylum, RE: Better drivers and crossovers (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-12, 13:28:59 (174.131.166.128)
If you dealing with a loudspeaker that has a crossover, then the best choice of crossover points given the raw responses and having the right shaped slopes for that, given that the actual crossover lo .......
286: Inmate Central, RE: If EVs weren't a real threat... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-12, 12:27:26 (174.131.166.128)
For the same reason any company or organization that makes more money when successful, usually pulls out all the stops marketing and even buying a lobbyist to get legals things done for their benefit .......
287: Inmate Central, More like (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-12, 11:22:48 (174.131.166.128)
The advantages and costs are not appealing to enough people to allow them to replace IC engine driven cars and trucks by choice. Others may point to inadequacy charging AND even generating capacity t .......
288: General Asylum, RE: Some of the best things truly are free! (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-11, 13:51:37 (174.131.166.128)
Well when the orchestra members pick the speakers because they can't tell they were hearing speakers it's getting closer. I was at part of the set up here and that was the gist of what they were sayin .......
289: Inmate Central, RE: No, we were show partners (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-10, 17:43:11 (174.131.166.128)
Yeah those drivers could work well if made properly but they still had the properties of a finite line source. But worse there was something weird about the company involving the consultant that spun .......
290: General Asylum, RE: What is New Old Stock? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-10, 15:15:35 (174.131.166.128)
It originally meant parts that were brand new in the box but had been sitting for a long time. .......
291: Inmate Central, RE: We shared a room at a show with the company making them (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-10, 14:20:03 (174.131.166.128)
Yep your memory is fine. Those were called focused field speakers and made by a company named Sound Physics labs i worked at after the shuttle disaster ended Intersonics. We did make a round cylinde .......
292: Inmate Central, RE: Impressive resume! (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-10, 10:07:19 (174.131.166.128)
Hi Thanks. If they were called Servodrive then yes. Those were larger speakers, mostly live sound, Def Leopard, MJ, Garth brooks etc used them on tours for bass. Also used for special effects like at .......
293: Inmate Central, RE: Tougher & tougher guns laws in Canada have done little (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-10, 07:48:56 (174.131.166.128)
Yeah that's a problem with (political solutions that sound good but don't actually work as intended) laws that are ignored by those who choose to break them while the law abiding are the ones it effec .......
294: Inmate Central, often enough (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-10, 06:41:12 (174.131.166.128)
Yes i would say so or at least i have had the nugget of a good number of patents and technical solutions that were in my head in the morning. That would often be after going to sleep thinking about t .......
295: Inmate Central, RE: High precision shooting, you say? How about... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-06, 14:39:24 (174.131.166.128)
wow, what a cartridge too, makes the 50 look tiny and even if it had slowed to half the speed of sound, would take many inches of material to stop. .......
296: Inmate Central, A Dead head (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-03, 11:28:10 (174.131.166.128)
A Minnesota style dead head, it's job well done! now retired and dry .......
297: Inmate Central, RE: CFB Chaos! (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-03, 08:06:34 (174.131.166.128)
I had a chance to go to the Georgia game but didn't. This is a hard time of year, who to root for?? I was on both sides for that game as both stadiums have our loudspeakers at work, a couple of the n .......
298: Inmate Central, RE: Well....I speed. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-03, 07:58:39 (174.131.166.128)
Here (north of Atlanta) what seems to be the rule is you have perhaps 5 or more MPH above posted limit before seeing blue lights. Some of the highways have a posted limit of 70 so 70-75 is plenty fast .......
299: Inmate Central, Is that for cooling he asks (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-01, 14:21:29 (174.131.166.128)
There have been some funny car repair videos here, now, if you can go on face book, imagine being a computer repair person making this house call. .......
300: Inmate Central, RE: The main objective was to help ruSSia (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-01, 13:52:33 (174.131.166.128)
That makes sense and it takes the focus away from Ukraine. I knew a TV news camera man in the 90's, he used to say something like "when something is all absorbing in the news, ask what aren't the cove .......
301: Inmate Central, RE: "What is the response that ends that closed loop?" That's easy (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-01, 12:00:18 (174.131.166.128)
I think part of the reason for the attack (aside from history) is that Israel was developing better relations with a number of other Arab countries and perhaps the initial attack was to provoke a .......
302: Inmate Central, RE: One question: do you thing Israeli actions will ... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-12-01, 07:38:14 (174.131.166.128)
I am not sure this situation lends itself to a logical conclusion, as you hint at. The issue is two groups of people both having an ancient historical claim to the land and worse yet, not just two gr .......
303: Inmate Central, RE: Déjà vu: the disproportionate Israeli response. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-30, 10:36:28 (174.131.166.128)
The attack they responded to was outrageous and barbaric, to the degree an intense angry reaction was 100% guarantied. So why would they do that if it wasn't to insure more future hate and violence? W .......
304: Speaker Asylum, RE: B&C DE10/ME10 In A 2-Way (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-29, 17:49:58 (174.131.166.128)
The DE10 has a nice response but it is a tweeter / while your 12 might go up high enough on axis, it's radiation pattern will not be ideal. The do have a couple other drivers that would let you go an .......
305: Inmate Central, This might be a $17 reason for some (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-29, 16:49:08 (174.131.166.128)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/fueling-electric-vehicles-costs-roughly-17-per-gallon-study/ar-AA1jNybH .......
306: Inmate Central, RE: When you look at all the crap being done to the internal combustion engine... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-29, 16:47:07 (174.131.166.128)
That is clever .......
307: Inmate Central, Truck Balls, here is grampa's truck (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-27, 11:20:47 (174.131.166.128)
It's got big metal balls sure, but how many other things do you identify on this truck? .......
308: Inmate Central, RE: How do you think this will progress? Place your bets. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-26, 11:43:35 (174.131.166.128)
"Featuring David", not sure how to interpret that BUT the full spittoon by the sign is special. .......
309: Speaker Asylum, RE: Crunchy Magnets (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-24, 07:25:30 (174.131.166.128)
Hi I don't know this to be true but i would bet it is true that the shorted turns would reduce that effect because it would be a "high frequency effect" compared to the signal. The stationary shorted .......
310: Inmate Central, RE: Gigacasting. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-23, 09:53:52 (174.131.166.128)
It wasn't that long ago that composites were going to allow low cost large scale parts to be made. They can be large but not cheap. The giant scale casting Tesla is using would not have been considere .......
311: Inmate Central, RE: You old guys...where were you when you heard about JFK? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-22, 11:56:56 (174.131.166.128)
Essentially the same here, got sent home, clearly something serious had happened. .......
312: General Asylum, RE: Thanks all, but so far (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-22, 11:33:24 (174.131.166.128)
Don Keele wrote about this a while ago (1986) Check AES paper 18 here; http://www.xlrtechs.com/dbkeele.com/papers.htm It was also in one of the magazines in the day .......
313: Inmate Central, RE: Too bad no one taugt Harry to shoot (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-22, 06:38:14 (174.131.166.128)
Our entertainment has played a more powerful role in shaping the public's view of violence than most realize (or more would speak against it). For example how guns are used and the trivial value of l .......
314: Speaker Asylum, RE: Crunchy Magnets (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-21, 10:15:03 (174.131.166.128)
The crunchy argument was made because the BH curve for ferrite appears to have small steps in the curve. This matters because the magnetic field the VC produces is pushing against the magnet and moves .......
315: Propeller Head Plaza, RE: Ultrasonic content in music (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-21, 06:15:58 (174.131.166.128)
Hi You would need to look at lab measurement gear to go much above 24KHz, especially if your using a microphone to measure anything. There are VERY FEW loudspeaker drivers that go an octave above 20K, .......
316: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Not really 'messing' with them.... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-18, 09:28:54 (174.131.166.128)
Horn wrestling is a young man's sport. You can do it! .......
317: Inmate Central, RE: New York lawsuit blames PepsiCo for plastic litter - not people (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-17, 10:48:10 (174.131.166.128)
Sure, same way forks are responsible for obesity, guns cause gun crimes and many other social issues are explained this way as to not offend any voters I can see it now, you put your dollar in the mac .......
318: Inmate Central, RE: Question: How many civilians are you allow to kill to get one Hama? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-17, 09:18:04 (174.131.166.128)
Not sure, what was the ratio of Babies, children and elderly tortured and killed for each Israeli soldier the attackers killed. That might be a way to act more "in kind" if you could get the Israeli s .......
319: Inmate Central, RE: Military Logistics short cut (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-17, 07:38:45 (174.131.166.128)
There was an old joke about an Indian moving because his teepee was full. A more peaceful solution would be to "smoke them out" by marking and monitoring every tunnel entrance they find and routing th .......
320: Critic's Corner, RE: Does anyone remember "Hoffman's Iron Law"? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-15, 14:31:42 (174.131.166.128)
Hi Yes that wasn't clear. So imagine you could make any driver parameters that are possible, what you find is if you plot sensitivity on the vertical scale of a graph and frequency on the horizontal, .......
321: Inmate Central, RE: Another 'shortage' that may slow down 'growth'... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-15, 13:54:06 (174.131.166.128)
220 VAC at 50 amps for an hour to charge the car is 11 KW/Hr or 14.7 Horsepower for an hour. .......
322: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: If the Radian web site is to be beleived... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-14, 13:19:19 (174.131.166.128)
Sounds good, i used the 475 a bunch of years ago and it was very clear sounding. Radian made their name with replacement diaphragms and some were supposed to be better than the originals and that was .......
323: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Yep, one at a time... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-14, 11:47:03 (174.131.166.128)
Titanium is stronger for a given weight but it's a harder material to make and form and is still sensitive to metal fatigue. I have seen Ti diaphragms for a 1.4 inch exit driver that literally shatter .......
324: Critic's Corner, RE: Does anyone remember "Hoffman's Iron Law"? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-14, 11:24:11 (174.131.166.128)
Terrible words, up against the Wall of Science. .......
325: Inmate Central, RE: 400 Cows (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-14, 09:57:29 (174.131.166.128)
The primitives who did that attack most likely had the same Glee they exhibited in the videos they made of butchering babies and children etc. The say "you can't fix stupid" and probably the same for .......
326: Inmate Central, RE: deaths in the Palestinian territories always outnumber those in Israel by a large margin (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-13, 10:33:41 (174.131.166.128)
And yet, the young men brought up to hate and want to kill the enemy, keep coming, many from outside with the same beliefs. What would have happened in Ireland or Scotland if "hate of the enemy" was d .......
327: Inmate Central, RE: And why were they kicked out? You forgot to explain. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-13, 10:26:45 (174.131.166.128)
Nice explanation .......
328: Inmate Central, RE: human cost of Israeli-Palestinian (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-13, 09:26:41 (174.131.166.128)
And they used it in response to a Hamas barbaric attack on civilians even children. Being proud of what they were doing to the Jews didn't help folks feel restraint in the response and who would? What .......
329: Inmate Central, RE: What expert bought those wheels? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-10, 11:57:27 (174.131.166.128)
What he needs are some DIY rims like these for that car, he could make a statement. Make some big rims maybe 24's, a little rubbing is ok as long as you can still turn at least half way both right .......
330: Inmate Central, RE: Yep, everyone is behaiving just as the Iranians knew they would... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-09, 14:04:19 (174.131.166.128)
It really does seem like there has to be more to the attack for exactly the reason you mention. Unless this was some kind of mass "suicide by cop" thing, it doesn't make sense because they deliberatel .......
331: Inmate Central, RE: You started well... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-09, 09:51:58 (174.131.166.128)
If the past in Ireland and Scotland tell anything, it is that it take a while for the occupied to get used to it enough for widespread peace. And that is with folks who don't have "killing the othe .......
332: Inmate Central, RE: White Hydrogen?!? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-05, 11:33:58 (174.131.166.128)
Speaking of why is it there, One of the problems with Hydrogen is that it is such a small thing, at high pressure leaks are a big problem. To test leakage safely they use Helium instead. Colors are .......
333: Inmate Central, RE: The County Fair at Night (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-01, 12:16:28 (174.131.166.128)
Oh man i felt like that once, better get off and find a trash can fast. .......
334: Inmate Central, RE: 3d printing (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-11-01, 12:15:32 (174.131.166.128)
Do you want parts that are solid inside, you might want a liquid resin printer. They have higher resolution but a smaller maximum print volume. An extrusion printer is a good way to start, my Daughter .......
335: Inmate Central, RE: I think they truly don't give a shit (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-31, 14:29:14 (174.131.166.128)
That's the thing, they had to know they were sinking their foot into a big Baldface hornet nest and it would cost many who weren't involved their lives. That doesn't make sense to a normal perspective .......
336: Inmate Central, RE: WSJ has good coverage of the refugee camp bombing. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-31, 12:00:01 (174.131.166.128)
Those are some big holes where the buildings were. Every building you see is toast. Who knows how many blocks you have to go before all the windows aren't broken, this was VERY loud and looks maybe li .......
337: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Super Tweeter Suggestions (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-30, 11:05:59 (174.131.166.128)
Hi There are a number that hit 20K, a few go past. In this regard, BMS has most of the options. I use the first one in a number of products at work, a ferrite driver that fit's the bill. https://www.b .......
338: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Super Tweeter Suggestions (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-29, 11:00:24 (174.131.166.128)
far below was this; So you have a mid only version of this coax driver. https://images.static-thomann.de/pics/atg/atgdata/document/specs/bms_4592nd_t.data.pdf In that case, you might want to try the .......
339: Inmate Central, RE: REO Speedwagon was a regional favorite here early in their career (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-29, 10:47:16 (174.131.166.128)
Those guys toured up in northern Illinois where i saw them several times. I remember the singers brother was a radio DJ too but i don't remember why we talked. Cool connection to the album ! My Dad th .......
340: Inmate Central, RE: Bright Yellow Blast from the Past Car of the Day. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-29, 10:40:57 (174.131.166.128)
Boy that style was still present in the J-20 pickup i had in the 80's. I miss that truck except for the ride. We did some ultrasonic testing on some sample concrete blocks at work and when it was don .......
341: Inmate Central, RE: EVs are inherently cheaper to make excepting for the batteries(?) (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-29, 08:48:35 (174.131.166.128)
Not sure that's true depending how you parse the various stages of production. IF they were significantly cheaper to make, they would sell for less and still make money, not more and loose money. For .......
342: Inmate Central, RE: Consumer credit is the modern debt slavery (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-28, 06:28:26 (174.131.166.128)
It sucks that the industry plays on people weaknesses but no one is forced to go into debt unless it's for paying taxes. Like the lottery that was described as "a tax people pay willingly", no one is .......
343: Speaker Asylum, RE: My idea for a TOTALLY renovated KLH 20 loudspeaker (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-28, 06:19:44 (174.131.166.128)
Hi Your talk sounds perilously close to building your own speakers. As National Lampoon skit once put it "Go for it Ron". But seriously too bad about loosing the workshop, building loudspeakers is a .......
344: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Super Tweeter Suggestions (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-27, 14:05:09 (174.131.166.128)
hI So you have a mid only version of this coax driver I was referring to https://images.static-thomann.de/pics/atg/atgdata/document/specs/bms_4592nd_t.data.pdf In that case, you might want to try the .......
345: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Super Tweeter Suggestions (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-27, 09:57:37 (174.131.166.128)
Hi The 4592 is the coax driver i think, if it is, you have a super tweeter, a REAL one that does go past 20KHz. What i recall is the mf/hf crossover isn't as good as it could be. We use the B&C coax i .......
346: Inmate Central, RE: This will get your tank moving (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-27, 08:52:26 (174.131.166.128)
Nice engine! Chrysler made a goofy engine for tanks too; https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/weird-warrior-chryslers-a57-30-cylinder-tank-engine/ We are all pretty used to engines that are all pre .......
347: Inmate Central, RE: Statistically, she said... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-27, 07:30:57 (174.131.166.128)
I don't think that people have to worry about the government trying to seize all of them. I think the concern is more that there is a select group of peeps that see's the 16 million as the threat ins .......
348: Speaker Asylum, RE: Just to clarify, most of the cone motion... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-27, 05:56:20 (174.131.166.128)
That is correct, port resonance causes an excursion minimum but it is still moving a little bit. Visually, i might look like no motion. .......
349: Speaker Asylum, RE: Driver not moving but port is at maximum output (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-25, 14:47:57 (174.131.166.128)
The port is a mass, the air is a spring. imagine you have a spring with a weight hanging on it, if you move your hand up and down, you will find the resonant frequency. At this point you may notice y .......
350: Inmate Central, RE: That source is a treasure trove! Of sensational tabloid headlines. There be aliens on Earth too! (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-25, 12:26:17 (174.131.166.128)
A lot of those folks that should stay away from windows but perhaps pootie hisself will slip in a banana peal while showering and die on the sidewalk below .......
351: Inmate Central, RE: Talk about road rage... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-24, 10:15:58 (174.131.166.128)
A question for the judge to ask after the court views the video. Please tell us where in this video you were innocent and without using the word innocent, please explain what you think that means. ::: .......
352: Inmate Central, RE: Well, they got a washing machine (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-21, 12:17:29 (174.131.166.128)
That's because the cook staff says they have to go.. but sneak out for a smoke in the out house. No more says the commandant and if your good, you get to use the toilet paper, a 1972 Sears Christmas c .......
353: General Asylum, RE: Just gotta make sure (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-18, 13:53:32 (174.131.166.128)
No, this was only speaker level switching, done by an amplifier company called QSC in the late 80's maybe early 90's. After listening to a number of tracks, there were a couple parts where there were .......
354: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Super Tweeter Suggestions (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-18, 09:56:50 (174.131.166.128)
There are a few compression drivers that reach 20k+ You should also examine B&C and BMS. Both also make top notch drivers. Tom What kind of horn does this go on? .......
355: Inmate Central, RE: Welding (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-17, 09:22:42 (174.131.166.128)
Yes although not as much as i used to. My Dad had a home made welder powered by a flat head ford engine and streetcar motor turned generator. That how i learned as a kid, standing next to a v8 wide op .......
356: General Asylum, RE: Blind test and quantum physics (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-16, 09:47:04 (174.131.166.128)
The ABX test was interesting and i can see where it would be useful. In the test i was involved in with amplifiers, the abx was good when one person insisted there was a big difference between a and b .......
357: Inmate Central, nice! (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-16, 09:34:33 (174.131.166.128)
My Dad took me to a movie theater in the 60's to see an Indy 500 race (one that had a giant long crash delay right near the beginning) and from then on i have had a strong leaning to open wheel cars. .......
358: General Asylum, RE: Quantum mechanics, Newtonian dynamics and human psychology (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-14, 10:55:20 (174.131.166.128)
"Nothing to celebrate if you can't see the fancy cable connected up. The carrier charge of the cable takes on quantum observation rules, when it is seen, it sees you, it bonds, becomes empowering on t .......
359: General Asylum, RE: Blind test and quantum physics (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-12, 09:10:51 (174.131.166.128)
That could be but some other birds etc that detect the earths field for migration have a small chain of magnetite molecules somewhere like the inner ear or brain etc. Blind testing in audio simply boi .......
360: Inmate Central, Not One Student Was Proficient In Math In 23 Schools: (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-10, 11:54:38 (174.131.166.128)
And there is a tinge of politics as one side is more likely to be critical of and less involved directly with the new educational agenda. All that is besides the point; Not One Student Was Proficient .......
361: Inmate Central, RE: "Imagine if they told Mozart that he had to wait for his musical education." (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-10, 10:36:35 (174.131.166.128)
It changed you none the less, look where you are now.. I bet you even have some kind of stereo :-) .......
362: General Asylum, RE: Binaural beats - Schumann frequency (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-09, 12:56:03 (174.131.166.128)
Yeah but my question was about the Schumann resonance (that a radio / emf thing) and audio. I have not heard of anything specific about 7.8Hz or other specific frequencies in the Alpha range. Somewher .......
363: General Asylum, RE: Binaural beats - Schumann frequency (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-09, 08:17:59 (174.131.166.128)
Do you have a reference to this having anything to do with audio as at least in the link, they explain it in detail but no mention of audio or acoustics. If you put that through your speakers you migh .......
364: Inmate Central, RE: For Tomservo re: Starlink Swarm (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-07, 10:30:30 (174.131.166.128)
Great news...for some haha. Between increasing light pollution and more and more visible stuff in space, it's getting harder for the amateur to take pictures (and increasing the likelihood of a cascad .......
365: Inmate Central, RE: The sound at Las Vegas Cirque de Soleil shows? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-04, 10:27:56 (154.47.28.108)
Yeah sometimes folks go over the top, no control over that. It was a fun show though. iF I recall, they put our DTS-20's in there (up in the ceiling) for the subwoofers, Imax has Synergy Horns and Tap .......
366: Inmate Central, RE: More detail about the Sphere's audio technology (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-04, 06:11:50 (154.47.28.108)
Hi Thanks for the link. I have not heard the sphere but i have heard the speaker system in a smaller scale demo and it can do what they say (the issue is the degree and limitations) and the larger / m .......
367: Inmate Central, RE: How would these speaker systems work? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-03, 09:26:14 (154.47.28.101)
Hi I can't tell from here what brand they are but generically those are "line arrays" and the second row of speakers also line arrays are called delay's or a delay ring. Yes it is necessary to delay t .......
368: Inmate Central, RE: Was checking out your posts earlier today... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-03, 08:06:30 (154.47.28.101)
The larger the room or space, the more difficult it is to have excellent sound, add a crowd that can reach 110dB and that makes it even harder and no matter what the solution, it has to be loud. A bi .......
369: Inmate Central, RE: What? Massive arrays of speakers playing loud in a stadium setting ain't better? n/t (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-02, 14:56:13 (66.115.181.93)
It can be better about half of the 100K+ stadiums don't have that concert sound.. Comb filtering is what happens when you have two or more arrivals of the same signal but separated in time. In a typi .......
370: Inmate Central, RE: Lost a friend of 50 yrs a few weeks ago..... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-02, 10:00:12 (66.115.181.135)
A heartfelt and sincere post. I also have a friend who had big dreams and died before reaching them and i felt some of the things you wrote about. Anyway, your not alone in this. .......
371: Inmate Central, RE: Looks like someone was trying to kill the tree. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-01, 17:24:22 (154.47.28.64)
It might be something like marking territory, like male cats peeing on something or tagging a wall with a spray can or human feces (the urban art form of Grafeces) . Big enough to harm but not kill th .......
372: Inmate Central, RE: Old car of the day (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-01, 17:12:01 (154.47.28.64)
Have you seen this guy?? Very creative automotive torture like here in this one.. Will steel or brass pistons work? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xzy0m9om4U&t=5s .......
373: Inmate Central, RE: Uncle Mike needs not to respond (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-10-01, 10:59:52 (154.47.28.64)
Umm maybe they don't like the trees blocking the sun and want it to be like home with "full sun" everywhere .......
374: Inmate Central, RE: She's got the moves... yes and (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-28, 14:35:29 (154.47.28.69)
Yes and while that was more than enough visually, one could estimate the system "Q" by seeing how long it takes to stop after she does. .......
375: Inmate Central, RE: Another reason why I like Elon (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-27, 09:22:18 (66.115.181.80)
Proving that when it costs one nothing, there are aspects of politics that are quite funny and Humor should be shared. Well, it's all about signalling and looking good so fine details can be ah meh. .......
376: General Asylum, RE: "... producing a rich spectrum of both odd and even harmonics. ..." (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-27, 05:42:44 (66.115.181.80)
ONLY when over-driven, below that level can be very clean .......
377: Inmate Central, RE: Billionaires usually stay in the shadows. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-27, 05:27:22 (66.115.181.80)
I am curious and haven't seen much negative about him (many like his cars and space program apparently but many astronomers don't like the star link system ) Can you elaborate on the negatives and ass .......
378: Inmate Central, RE: Now this is shockingly impressive (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-27, 05:11:42 (66.115.181.80)
very interesting, thanks .......
379: Inmate Central, RE: McGoohan in 'The Prisoner" (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-26, 10:59:35 (66.115.181.223)
Oh man i remember that one (i was struggling to remember the name), it was weird and i think over my head. I preferred Cartoons or Fractured flickers which like anything Johnathan Winters, was a whole .......
380: Inmate Central, RE: You forgot.... No 5 minute fill-up to full pretty much anywhere (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-25, 11:28:28 (66.115.181.240)
The situation with long haul trucks is even less practical, 10 min at a gas station filling up with diesel can go cross country. IF we had the power generation capacity to actually replace fossil fuel .......
381: Inmate Central, RE: What kind of seats do you want in your new Mustang?... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-23, 07:53:51 (174.131.166.128)
Haha, that reminds me of Zenith TV's around 1971 (once they were good but they gradually stopped making TV's). They were famous for the ad Quality goes in before the name goes on and being hand wired. .......
382: Inmate Central, RE: It would be a good analogy (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-22, 09:08:53 (174.131.166.128)
The "duck and cover" era i went through as a child was 100% imaginary protection, seeing the movie "Atomic Cafe" was reality. We don't have the Russians to cause that kind of mass obedience now we hav .......
383: Inmate Central, He kicked a bald face hornets nest two weeks ago so..? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-18, 12:14:57 (174.131.166.128)
Tipping the sacred cow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEMrAH68gvI .......
384: Inmate Central, RE: "Who is Russell Brand?" - Here's a sample below (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-17, 15:39:02 (174.131.166.128)
Agreed I would prefer we went back to the old pre-media circus method where there were several important steps between a suspicion and execution . .......
385: Inmate Central, RE: I don't understand why anyone would want a pit bull as a pet. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-16, 10:35:32 (174.131.166.128)
I have a pit bull mix that we got from the shelter down the road. They weren't sure what she was when we got her, she was tiny and she looked like a local breed usually Brindle called a mountain Curr .......
386: Inmate Central, RE: But still, I'd bet that they have killed a lot less people than AR 15s (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-15, 17:05:21 (174.131.166.128)
Unlike the those dogs, guns do not act on their own but directly reflect the owners intentions. Fwiw, 30-50 people each year are killed by dogs, several thousand hospitalized and a majority of deaths .......
387: Inmate Central, RE: Dog Ban XL Bully. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-15, 15:11:26 (174.131.166.128)
That is sadly pretty much the same here, they are a status symbol among the feeble minded who value the violence and aggression they are known for.. By that, they are responsible for 65% of all the fa .......
388: Inmate Central, RE: I've occasionally been required to look at dry sump tractor engines (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-15, 11:41:20 (174.131.166.128)
Yes! The engine i wrote about and it's little brother i posted a picture of below were unusual because they were the 2cycle crank case transfer with reed valves (like a chain saw etc). That engine .......
389: Inmate Central, RE: Wrong fluid, wrong place, wrong engine boom goes the factory. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-15, 11:32:13 (174.131.166.128)
Hi No, no steam engines. When my Dad and I started collecting engines he didn't want steam because there are risk's involved. I have to admit the steam tractors and the biggest engines in the shed and .......
390: Inmate Central, RE: Wrong fluid, wrong place, wrong engine boom goes the factory. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-14, 12:10:39 (174.131.166.128)
Oh man my Dad and i went there before he passed. That's one thing i miss big time. We used to go to Rock River thresheree, Sycamore Illinois growing up and I took my kids there too and some times o .......
391: Inmate Central, Wrong fluid, wrong place, wrong engine boom goes the factory. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-14, 10:28:24 (174.131.166.128)
Wrong fluid, wrong place, wrong engine boom goes the factory. In the old days there were many types of engines they were not more or less the same like now and the people that ran them were engineers. .......
392: Propeller Head Plaza, RE: It's not that complicated (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-13, 13:31:58 (174.131.166.128)
Good thought, so with your CD player, how much can you lift one side without hearing a change. A sheet of paper, a business card, a thin magazine?? Now, have a friend change the spacing while you face .......
393: Inmate Central, RE: Earthquake lights? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-13, 11:57:04 (174.131.166.128)
I am not surprised hence (YMMV) as it seemed unlikely that the random quartz grains in Granite etc could do that, they are not, uniform or interconnected. You brought up something else that might be a .......
394: Inmate Central, RE: Earthquake lights? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-12, 13:47:57 (174.131.166.128)
A theory is that the changing stress in the rocks produces a high voltage via the piezoelectric effect. YMMV .......
395: Inmate Central, RE: Big Brother times three (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-12, 13:45:14 (174.131.166.128)
The matrix is ideally seamless :-) .......
396: Inmate Central, RE: Do your "data" include. . . (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-12, 09:03:37 (174.131.166.128)
One blurring issue is anyone who tested positive when they died (including people who felt fine but died in a car wreck) were listed as a covid death. I have no problem with regular vaccines and by re .......
397: Propeller Head Plaza, RE: Absolute level of CD during play (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-11, 10:05:56 (174.131.166.128)
IF you have ever heard a single recording on CD that was good, that establishes the CD digital medium is capable of it. The question is, how much if what you hear positive and negative is the art of r .......
398: Propeller Head Plaza, RE: Absolute level of CD during play (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-10, 17:45:28 (174.131.166.128)
Again, who said anything about perfect or forever? " I realized something was very wrong with CD technology a long long time ago." Most regular folks aren't able to separate the limits of the medium f .......
399: Propeller Head Plaza, RE: Absolute level of CD during play (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-10, 10:28:35 (174.131.166.128)
Hi Who said anything about "perfect", what i am talking about are the things that allowed a portable CD player to be made and the mechanical basis of CD and DVD players. Besides, what perfect is, is .......
400: Inmate Central, RE: not sure how you do public health without some degree of coercion... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-10, 08:04:34 (174.131.166.128)
Our society has increasingly battled between "what i want to do" and "do what's best for you ( as we see it)" . I was once part of the group that felt that riding a motorcycle without a helmet should .......
401: Propeller Head Plaza, RE: Absolute level of CD during play (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-10, 07:26:26 (174.131.166.128)
Boy, first one would have to have something with the "absolute precision" needed, then exposing the disc while it's in operation and measuring it at a number of points with perhaps a laser interferome .......
402: Inmate Central, RE: What happened to block heaters and fuel injection? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-08, 10:49:30 (174.131.166.128)
Google "starting a diesel with starting fluid" and then click video's .......
403: Inmate Central, RE: But starting fluid. Who uses that these days? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-08, 10:41:17 (174.131.166.128)
People with a diesel that live where it gets cold .......
404: Speaker Asylum, RE: But Mass is not what rolls off a woofer. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-06, 06:39:00 (174.131.166.128)
Bruce was correct assuming he was speaking of horn loaded drivers, those normally do have a mass corner that's lower than the inductive roll off. For a direct radiator, those are acceleration not velo .......
405: General Asylum, RE: "SAM extends the bass of any supported speakers". Clearly hyperbole (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-05, 13:48:40 (174.131.166.128)
You are correct, any system like a Vented alignment or other like a Tapped Horn that "uses" the rear radiation to augment the front, normally system is a "low pass filter" where below the tuning F, th .......
406: Speaker Asylum, But Mass is not what rolls off a woofer. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-05, 10:34:23 (174.131.166.128)
It might roll off at 1500Hz, BUT that isn't related to moving mass. One can remove the dust cap on a woofer and glue a lead ring to the VC former doubling the moving mass and then re-measure the drive .......
407: Inmate Central, RE: which one? haven't there been 3? /nt (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-04, 09:02:48 (174.131.166.128)
Yes but only one that was famous for being the first and in part for being a mud fest .......
408: Inmate Central, Will this be "epic" like Woodstock was? nt (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-04, 07:29:23 (174.131.166.128)
nt .......
409: Inmate Central, RE: star link swarm (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-03, 07:38:18 (174.131.166.128)
SPACE is a busy place! Depending on what direction i look, in any 5 min of exposure, there will be one or more satellite* trails in the image. * meaning things with regular constant motion including .......
410: Inmate Central, star link swarm (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-02, 18:06:37 (174.131.166.128)
I was outside waiting for it to get dark enough to use the telescope just now and i happened to look up to see a long string of what i assume are the star link satellites. There were i would guess 20 .......
411: Inmate Central, RE: Jimmy Buffett has sailed on. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-02, 09:37:20 (174.131.166.128)
Sad. Saw him in the way old days. .......
412: Inmate Central, RE: Hurricane season is ramping up (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-01, 11:01:20 (174.131.166.128)
It is "that season", we had one 15 min band of "red rain" as seen on weather radar on this last one and that was it. You probably had more of it over on the coast. I don't mind hard rain but so many .......
413: Speaker Asylum, RE: Spica TC-50, anybody still use them? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-09-01, 05:17:44 (174.131.166.128)
Yep, i have a pair as the rear surrounds on my video system. I don't know the age but they are old. .......
414: Inmate Central, Very Nice! nt (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-31, 17:15:03 (174.131.166.128)
nt .......
415: Inmate Central, RE: Super blue moon last night (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-31, 08:21:18 (174.131.166.128)
We were in the overcast left over from the storm passing. Maybe tonight .......
416: Inmate Central, RE: Dang... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-30, 13:21:59 (174.131.166.128)
It depends if your perspective, looking at the flat end of a bullet or the ogive end .......
417: Inmate Central, RE: The Ukrainian Anti-Drone Rooftop Party with Machine Guns... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-30, 07:36:56 (174.131.166.128)
A job for avid skeet shooters .......
418: Inmate Central, RE: "Sustained some damages..." (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-30, 07:34:37 (174.131.166.128)
That will take several days and many rolls of duct tape to fix .......
419: Inmate Central, RE: "I can't believe I ate ALL of them." /n (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-29, 15:03:57 (174.131.166.128)
Sure, 4 campers and their provisions was a lot of carbs for one sitting no wonder. For the next week and a half, until the ranger comes, Mr Bear will use the campers car for a toilet. .......
420: Inmate Central, RE: Chicago news team reporting on crime... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-29, 14:54:28 (174.131.166.128)
And it's not the first time either. more Chicago Humor; In an effort to reduce the 100%+ increase in auto theft, the new Mayor's latest plan is to sue Kia and Hyundai because they (are the problem) do .......
421: Inmate Central, RE: Be afraid. Be very afraid. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-28, 11:48:50 (174.131.166.128)
I would be leery of that use for a belt as well. When a belt fails and the cords break it has been over tension-ed OR they have suffered a fatigue failure. When they were switching over motorcycles .......
422: Inmate Central, RE: Be afraid. Be very afraid. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-28, 11:20:09 (174.131.166.128)
Yes the HiVo chain in oil normally / traditionally used is very reliable and to some degree is self adjusting for wear. I am sure it costs more than a tooth belt. .......
423: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: RIP Steve Schell (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-27, 13:04:10 (174.131.166.128)
Sorry to hear that news. A good guy RIP .......
424: Inmate Central, RE: 7-11 near Area 51? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-24, 10:57:46 (174.131.166.128)
In order to make the Alien giants among us less obtrusive, they remove the entire lower leg bone and fuse the foot assembly to the knee with Alien technology and crazy glue. Ordinary shipping staples .......
425: Inmate Central, RE: No, I meant that probably 95% drivers more or less routinely do 35 in 30 zone (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-24, 10:25:53 (174.131.166.128)
Apparently there is a margin one is allowed over the stated mph, in Iowa one police comment was "if your 8 your great but if your 9 your mine" Closer to Chicago, the "safe" number is 5 but in speed tr .......
426: Inmate Central, RE: MPOTD (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-23, 06:41:15 (174.131.166.128)
It was popular, i posted a pic of one i still have i made in the 70's. Back then, Honda was big in GP racing, the 160, 305, 450 were all made so that privateers could bore them and race in the 175, 35 .......
427: Inmate Central, RE: MPOTD (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-23, 04:59:58 (174.131.166.128)
That's a cB450 Honda (road version) taken in England, I have a CL450 (scrammbler version) that i modified in the 70's. Bored to 500cc, half race cam, ported and polished ports. A sharp eye will rec .......
428: General Asylum, RE: "transparent" versus "colored"? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-19, 08:06:43 (174.131.166.128)
Transparent, faithful to the signal. One can make a generation loss recording of a speaker with a measurement mic and one can go several generations before being UN-listenable. Colored sound, alters t .......
429: Speaker Asylum, RE: Is the make and model a secret? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-18, 10:05:46 (174.131.166.128)
I didn't catch if these were used or not but if used, there my be more than a subwoofer issue. IF you have a portable computer, try connecting your headphone connection to the aux or other input on yo .......
430: Inmate Central, RE: I'm doomed ....yes send money now (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-18, 09:13:12 (174.131.166.128)
Better send all your money right now or we will instruct your toilet to back flow for 3 min and if the money isn't sent by then, all the toilets and drains will back flow until the city digs up you .......
431: Inmate Central, RE: Chicago's novel approach to crime, acceptance, do nothing (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-18, 09:03:10 (174.131.166.128)
Not sure where in the state that is but on Atlanta news they often talk about the increasing number of people that do not obey and fight the police. That includes fleeing vs pulling over peacefully an .......
432: Inmate Central, RE: Chicago's novel approach to crime, acceptance, do nothing (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-18, 07:51:06 (174.131.166.128)
There was an old expression, no one can outrun a Motorola. The emphasis used to be on stopping a car by being in front of it and deploying stop mats or worst case taking out the tires with a 12 ga. Wi .......
433: Inmate Central, RE: I have noticed and could be biased (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-17, 12:02:45 (174.131.166.128)
Danger Verboten .......
434: Inmate Central, RE: +1 A system that raised people to be citizens instead of consumers would be best of all. nt (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-17, 12:00:17 (174.131.166.128)
We are in the Matrix, was the idea of the movie and being in a consumer marketing reality was the world they lived in while plugged in. .......
435: Inmate Central, RE: What I don't get is the fixation with Chicago in some quarters. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-17, 09:44:37 (174.131.166.128)
"He no longer lives there, moving to a place he feels more maga and comfortable in" Partly true, i did move but not to feel more comfortable but for work. As it turns out i like it, it is a lot cheape .......
436: Inmate Central, RE: When that's all ya got.... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-17, 06:59:31 (174.131.166.128)
You might be right. The last year i remember the data for, there were 500 something gun homicides in Illinois, 17 were outside of Chicago and most were within 4 of the cities 50 wards. .......
437: Inmate Central, RE: Perception vs. reality as usual. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-17, 06:56:59 (174.131.166.128)
I think New York is like Chicago, tainted by it's past where it really was terrible. .......
438: Inmate Central, RE: What I don't get is the fixation with Chicago in some quarters. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-17, 06:54:14 (174.131.166.128)
Well when the item is "local news" like this, it might not be obvious that what's national news is highly selected / curated where as local news that residents or former residents get (like this) is d .......
439: Inmate Central, Chicago's novel approach to crime, acceptance, do nothing (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-17, 05:42:24 (174.131.166.128)
What message does this new even more liberal (compared to Lightfoot) approach send to the "bad guys"? https://cwbchicago.com/2023/08/chicago-cops-watch-armed-robbery-in-progress-but-supervisor-orders- .......
440: General Asylum, RE: Why stop there. There are miles of wire/cables/connectors and transformers to tweak. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-16, 13:06:01 (174.131.166.128)
But when low resistance actually matters, Silver is the choice but it's not as pretty as gold and that is after all like Jewelry, a visual / mental only improvement. .......
441: Speaker Asylum, RE: Some Marks dance with comb filtering more than they need to (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-16, 08:25:18 (174.131.166.128)
When ever you have two or more sources of sound that are equal or greater than 1/3 to 1/2 wl apart, they radiate independently and so, if there is a difference in the path lengths from the drivers to .......
442: Inmate Central, RE: Oregonians Turning against Drug-Decriminalization 'Mistake' amid Record ODs, 'Dystopian Nightmare' (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-15, 07:00:06 (66.115.181.232)
And yet, will it be like Alcohol where the dangers are well known but the Tax revenue is a very strong driver in it's continued legalization. Harder to "turn off" a source of revenue than killing an .......
443: Inmate Central, RE: POTN picture of the night? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-14, 14:24:37 (66.115.181.218)
Sounds like a good night! .......
444: Inmate Central, RE: POTN picture of the night? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-14, 11:18:55 (66.115.181.168)
Hi I have seen gorgeous pictures taken with normal camera's and lens's but for things that are very dark like most Nebula, it takes time to accumulate enough photons to make a .......
445: Inmate Central, POTN picture of the night? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-13, 16:56:31 (154.47.28.96)
This time of year, around 10PM, if you look up and to the south, you are looking towards the center of the Galaxy. At the center is a large black hole called Sagittarius A. IF your fortunate enough .......
446: Speaker Asylum, RE: Moving Mass Vs. Detail Vs. radiation properties (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-13, 08:04:34 (154.47.28.96)
The ESL-63's are excellent, i can say too that hearing Roy's for those few days i was working on them changed my view. Making a point source from concentric rings of radiation delays was made a lig .......
447: Speaker Asylum, RE: What is the minimum room size for those speakers ? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-13, 07:36:48 (154.47.28.96)
Hi Because the drivers combine where the acoustic dimensions are less than 1/4 WL, there is no minimum distance for any of the Synergy horns. They all radiate like and produce the polar pattern of .......
448: Speaker Asylum, RE: Moving Mass Vs. Detail Vs. radiation properties (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-12, 08:34:07 (66.115.181.75)
Hi The quad esl 63's i removed the spark gaps from for my old boss in the late 90's were an inspiration to me and shaped my path at work. I sat on the floor about 4 feet away from them fro several ho .......
449: Inmate Central, RE: Mecurichrome and Iodine (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-11, 09:43:35 (66.115.181.94)
oh man i remember that red stuff, better to stay outside and play than go in for first aid haha .......
450: Inmate Central, Tektronics made a scientific calculator too, a T-31 (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-11, 08:56:00 (66.115.181.94)
I got one in trade about 25 years ago with a plotter and some programs. It used to work but i haven't powered it up in ages but kept it because . .......
451: Inmate Central, RE: Best commercial ever? Banned... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-10, 10:52:47 (66.115.181.144)
excellent .......
452: Inmate Central, RE: No, the ends do not turn (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-10, 06:01:51 (66.115.181.144)
OK good, IF one spring hasn't failed leaving the other to do the job, then it is probably re-adjusting the pre-load tension. This is where the danger is, there is considerable potential energy stored .......
453: Inmate Central, Don't like this trend (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-10, 05:55:09 (66.115.181.144)
They were a great band, got to see Rick Danko play live in the old days, that was excellent. I still enjoy live music occasionally although the recording end is more interesting. Got to hear Carl Verh .......
454: Inmate Central, RE: Roll up with two side springs (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-09, 13:15:46 (66.115.181.165)
That kind of spring has the end that turns with motion and the other that is stationary. The apparent weight of the door when closed is reduced because the springs are already under tension. If this c .......
455: Inmate Central, RE: Figuring the garage door spring strength (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-09, 10:36:40 (66.115.181.165)
Garage door coil springs are dangerous to play with. Conceptually they are pre-loaded to take away some percentage of the door weight. You might look on line for your type and adjusting pre-load on yo .......
456: Inmate Central, RE: Nah... small to mid-size (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-09, 07:44:10 (66.115.181.165)
Yeah the modern stuff is SS, the stuff at Wyle was from the Saturn project, the engines were developed just down the road from there at Red Stone. Do you recall what G level they were testing to? For .......
457: Inmate Central, RE: Economic salvation? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-09, 07:39:45 (66.115.181.165)
cakes and circus's .......
458: Inmate Central, RE: Nah... small to mid-size (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-08, 08:42:02 (66.115.181.102)
In the old days, our equipment had to endure a vibration test at Wyle labs in Huntsville Ala. The shaker table was something like a water cooled giant loudspeaker motor. The was powered by a 200 .......
459: General Asylum, To hear all the highs, you have to sit right there on the X (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-08, 07:25:17 (66.115.181.102)
and everyone else on the couch is out of luck .......
460: Inmate Central, RE: Big valve! (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-08, 05:35:54 (154.47.28.64)
That is an old type called a thyratron, something like a high voltage switch (a modern SCR is similar but solid state) some poop on it http://lampes-et-tubes.info/th/th077.php .......
461: Inmate Central, RE: Funny that UFOs move blisteringly fast but... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-07, 15:19:01 (66.115.181.215)
THAT is another one of those things that is impossible to our way of understanding. So how can one see, film something moving fast and it NOT be moving through our air? As Ricky would say to Lucy, be .......
462: Inmate Central, RE: Where do they come from? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-07, 15:10:38 (66.115.181.215)
Well lets say you could go 1/10 the speed of light, how many atoms floating together in your path does it take to make it a spectacularly bad day in space, ending your trip in a big flash.. Where do t .......
463: Inmate Central, RE: As we all know, the ruSSians invented everything (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-07, 13:35:09 (66.115.181.215)
Since you are fluent, what's your take on this video? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BmrOCShwllw .......
464: Inmate Central, RE: Honeybees (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-07, 13:32:05 (66.115.181.215)
No, i am in the foothills in a more forested area but somewhere south of Atlanta there is what i have heard called the "gnat line" south of which gnats are very common and annoying. The story i have h .......
465: Inmate Central, RE: Honeybees (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-07, 12:04:01 (66.115.181.215)
yeah i never saw anything but honey bees and bumble bees in Illinois but down here, there are all kinds of things that look generically like bees and wasps. Those carpenter bees make holes in unprote .......
466: Inmate Central, RE: Honeybees (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-07, 11:20:53 (66.115.181.215)
Next time your out there, look at the bumble bees carefully. Here we have what looked like a lot of bumble bees but only some of them are. If they have a fuzzy black rear end, they are bumble bees, if .......
467: Inmate Central, RE: Brilliant - thank you Quora! (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-06, 15:09:29 (66.115.181.187)
Being a test pilot back then would be the only preparation for that kind of ride. .......
468: Inmate Central, RE: Action at a distance (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-06, 15:08:06 (66.115.181.187)
So these guys attributed the "spooky action at a distance to the wrong guy". https://www.astronomy.com/science/what-is-quantum-entanglement-a-physicist-explains-einsteins-spooky-action-at-a-distance/ .......
469: Inmate Central, RE: Interesting investment strategy in China, electric cars (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-06, 09:03:37 (66.115.181.187)
The funding they described for the cars and mountains of bicycles is not far from how they dominated the Neo magnet market. What they did there was the government subsidized the magnet makers in china .......
470: Inmate Central, RE: "A monumental UFO scandal is looming" (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-06, 08:52:55 (66.115.181.187)
That is an excellent condensation! The likelihood is very high that life and intelligence exists elsewhere and something like the inverse probability of actual travel. Personally if i had to guess, I .......
471: Inmate Central, RE: maybe he can explain why congress is wasting taxpayer money on this and other things (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-06, 07:15:13 (66.115.181.187)
You stated some of the reasons we have to have other things to distract us, to grab our attention now that COVID is mostly over and interest in the war and global warming hasn't taken hold as strongly .......
472: Inmate Central, Interesting investment strategy in China, electric cars (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-06, 07:08:44 (66.115.181.187)
Interesting, about Electric Cars and shared Bicycles in China. Keep at it boys! Short and to the point. .......
473: Inmate Central, RE: "A monumental UFO scandal is looming" (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-06, 06:53:45 (66.115.181.187)
The idea of monster waves swallowing ships was simply seafaring folk lore for hundreds of years at least and also something the official science Dr Fauchi's of the day said couldn't exist. And then th .......
474: Inmate Central, RE: Shameless Self-Promotion (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-05, 11:33:06 (174.131.166.128)
Perhaps so, we don't don't really advertise and i think we should. In this case, it's the musicians who choose what they use or in the recordings it's the engineer who chooses what they mix on inc .......
475: Inmate Central, RE: I had not heard of that, certainly wouldn't consider it a feature (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-05, 11:17:53 (174.131.166.128)
There are people playing with those on drones as well, cool looking to boot. .......
476: Inmate Central, RE: Harley (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-05, 08:20:11 (174.131.166.128)
The later "rounded tooth" profile belts motorcycles adopted had the other advantage that they don't have as much chordal action as chains making for a smoother ride. .......
477: Inmate Central, RE: Never had to replace a chain on a motorcycle but... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-05, 08:16:27 (174.131.166.128)
Lucky, i had a chain break on my old CL160 Honda while riding and that made the rear wheel lock up until i skidded to a stop. That was more excitement than i needed but didn't dump it. Sometimes this .......
478: Inmate Central, RE: Does any one remember 'The Green Door' (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-05, 07:06:22 (174.131.166.128)
Yes, it's much simpler when what people hear is limited, like the two fully polar opposite sides of the news here on TV Choose A or B but watch both occasionally if your brave. Apparently really impo .......
479: Inmate Central, RE: and a great old hit song, too -- much more family-friendly! (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-05, 06:34:47 (174.131.166.128)
Hey thanks! that didn't ring a bell at all until i played it. Then from the distant past was the feeling hey that's familiar. .......
480: Inmate Central, RE: Does any one remember 'Behind The Green Door' (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-04, 12:22:25 (174.131.166.128)
I remember some kind of movie about what's behind etc. And a place where anonymity brought out the worst in some as well as some good conversation. .......
481: General Asylum, RE: You know you are old when you used to be a 'roady'... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-04, 09:58:41 (174.131.166.128)
Cool history, everyone i knew that was involved with touring had "colorful" stories about road life. What's your best story from the road that you can safely share here? .......
482: Inmate Central, RE: I'm pretty sure that it helps to have parents who value education (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-04, 09:42:56 (174.131.166.128)
My folks encouraged doing well in school but at the same time I didn't do well, especially High school. There was the looming draft lottery and the Nam to look forward to as my grades made college unl .......
483: Inmate Central, RE: ghost of olddude55: Your comment about underachievement... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-04, 05:35:57 (174.131.166.128)
Maybe be it helps to grow up poor, that can inspire someone to go off on their own and educate themselves seek and find success a non-traditional way? A figure that was true and may still be is the f .......
484: Inmate Central, RE: The USA's a long way from the top in terms of social mobility (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-03, 13:30:03 (174.131.166.128)
One view which might be useful here for perspective would be to also know what percentage of the total countries productivity is consumed/spent by the governments in each of those places. Even in Abe .......
485: Inmate Central, RE: Your (our) tax dollars at work (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-03, 11:16:56 (174.131.166.128)
Unless it's a "for profit" business, excess costs every year like you mention, often simply justify a larger budget next year. All the concern for all those things tied to cost effectiveness (that go .......
486: Inmate Central, RE: Move on... nothing's to see here... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-02, 17:11:01 (174.131.166.128)
Real explosions are very loud, most folks have never heard one reasonably close like that. One can become dazzled by the effects of the concussion/very loud sound and the fact that you have no idea wh .......
487: Speaker Asylum, RE: Ohm Acoustics is "For Sale" (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-02, 16:08:10 (174.131.166.128)
Sad to hear that, had a friend that sold those in the way old days. It would be fun to put one on the Klipple at work just to see. .......
488: Inmate Central, RE: That's from original topless dancer Carol Doda, in North Beach, Sf, Ca. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-02, 13:18:07 (174.131.166.128)
Oh man i remember that name / them .......
489: Inmate Central, RE: Moscow Today (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-02, 11:41:21 (174.131.166.128)
I don't get it' is that like we're far enough away from the country our bombs and missiles are landing in that everything it normal here and this is proof? .......
490: Inmate Central, RE: Theft of entire nuclear reactors? The small ones are tranportable by truck. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-02, 11:32:55 (174.131.166.128)
That is a good size one, they can be smaller. Here is a link that talks about the problem. https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/radioactive-waste-and-spent-nuclear-fuel/2005-04-radioisotope-thermo .......
491: Inmate Central, RE: A: 0.00205 light years ... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-02, 10:10:33 (174.131.166.128)
To put that speed / distance in perspective, traveling at the speed of light, you could circle the earth over 7 times in one second. Zooom! .......
492: Inmate Central, RE: Breaking News! The nation watches as... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-02, 08:42:05 (174.131.166.128)
A side note, Russia supplied many of their cold outposts with this kind of power system and since the soviet union broke up, many of those have "gone missing". .......
493: Inmate Central, RE: Breaking News! The nation watches as... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-02, 08:39:16 (174.131.166.128)
If i recall, they (on the ground) accidentally pointed it too far off target to have com's but later this fall there is a reset where it will search and find "home". The deep space stuff has the therm .......
494: Inmate Central, RE: Certainly remember using gasolene to clean parts.... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-02, 06:24:27 (174.131.166.128)
Yep, the old instructions were to wash out your foam air filters with gasoline. it was the best for cleaning out motorcycle chains and other stuff like that where a decent solvent is needed, To be hon .......
495: Inmate Central, As was said of Dolly on Carson once. (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-02, 06:19:12 (174.131.166.128)
And here they are.... .......
496: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: BMS 4592 ND might be good to 300 Hz.... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-01, 16:00:18 (174.131.166.128)
Remember the horn length is a major controller of how low the horn will load the driver. Figure it has to be 1/4 wl minimum and efficient operation begins about 1/2wl. I have use this driver in produc .......
497: Inmate Central, RE: Thomas Midgley, Jr. (a scientist) (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-01, 14:11:16 (174.131.166.128)
I worked on a bunch of weird stuff, levitating glass with RF magnetic fields in a vacuum, levitating objects with sound in a high temp furnace in zero G. My hobby has always been audio however so most .......
498: Inmate Central, RE: Thomas Midgley, Jr. (a scientist) (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-01, 09:39:10 (174.131.166.128)
As an inventor myself, i always thought that special, this guy created his own death. He gave himself lead poisoning "demonstrating it was safe" and drinking it and then when he became incapacitated,, .......
499: Inmate Central, RE: So much for the next dominant superpower? (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-08-01, 09:30:20 (174.131.166.128)
Perhaps not, we apparently needed abortion to reduce about 60 million potential population of native Americans in favor of many from elsewhere who "cut in line" in front of those doing it legally and .......
500: Inmate Central, RE: Pee Wee has gone to the Great Playhouse in the Sky... (0.00)
Posted by tomservo on 2023-07-31, 13:54:39 (174.131.166.128)
Lets not forget his epic performance in the Cheech and Chong movie Nice Dreams, excellent. ummm Squid!. .......
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