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*chuckle* I am not particularly OCD about burn-in/break/what-have-you, but it is true that an out-of-phase speaker seems to produce a hell of a lot less bass than an in-phase one. It seems at least vaguely probable than the bass drivers of a speaker connected out of phase might not move nearly as much as an in-phase one. Maybe I'll switch the phases on the speakers halfway through this process. If I remember. Now, let me tell you about how much my K701s have changed after a couple hundred (thousand) hours of break-in.

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Sauce: HiFiTubes.org: Wood glue deep cleaning vinyl records

I just finished wrestling the Unisounds out of their boxes and upstairs to my housemate's old room. They now have white noise from an untuned FM receiver blaring through them. I did a trick I read about in an audio magazine 20 or so years ago where I wired one of the speakers out of phase and pointed them at each other to cut down on the noise. This technique gets rid of the bass part of the white noise, but that just makes the upper scope seem louder. I shut the door and it's not too bad. It's a good thing I live alone now. Has anyone ever done the out-of-phase trick before? Does it somehow impact the burn-in process?

Seource: Chris Supranowitz's OPT 307 Final Project

Until you mentioned them, I never heard of these of these. I am in the process of securing a copies of both as I type this. There really is no one exactly like BoC, but another shining light of IDM is Ulrich Schnauss. I'm not as big on his recent material, but the first first two albums under his own name are absolute classics. Ulrich was a drum n bass producer in the late 90s, and not one particular note. In 2001 he released Far Away Trains Passing By which caught the attention ...nearly everyone who was listening to electronic music at the time. Seriously, check out the Discogs reviews. My personal favorite track on the album is "Blumenweise Neben Autobahn" but the "big hit" from the album is "Between Us and Them": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZoIAEh8ruU He's done better stuff that this, but it serves as an excellent introductory track for his sound. I'll probably post more later.

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The message you have entered is too short. Wish I had a recording of what this thing sounds like..

The message you have entered is too short. Now that is pretty cool.

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A thread for discussing the "Unisound Golden Series Home Theater AU265-R Speakers." A number of head-casers got these on sale @ ThingFling, and a number more were frustrated when they tried to order them from the same and got an error. I finally got mine today, after FedEx utterly fucked things up failed at delivering them three times in a row. It was a bleeding odyssey for me to get them. The FedEx ground location is on the airport industrial park off Westover AFB in Chicopee, MA (an armpit if there ever was one). The drive ended up taking three times as long as it should have as I tooled around looking for an unmarked street. I haven't so much as taken the speakers out of their boxes yet. When I finally do, I'm going to send white noise through them using one of my spare receivers. It's going to be quite a while before I've got them burned in and positioned, nevermind modded in any fashion. I'm sure there's a few head-casers out there who got in on this deal who will have them up and running (and modded) well before I do.

The message you have entered is too short. Man these ALO designs keep getting weirder and weirder.

/me removes the above from his "to post" folder. The message you have entered is too cold. Where do you think you are, Norway?

A while back, some head-caser (I forget who) made some disparaging remarks about ambient, IDM, and drum n bass. While it is far beyond my abilities to defend Monotonous Snare Music, I do have a keen interest into the other genres. "IDM" (Intelligent Dance Music) is kind of a misnomer at this point, as virtually none of it is remotely danceable. The truth is "IDM" meant something quite different in the first half of the 90s, when it served to differentiate from dance music that was more than insipid house music or moronic raver noise like (shudder) happy hardcore. I used to read the IDM mailing list on hyperreal.org. They had a keen "IDM" logo in the style of IBM. Sadly, I don't have a copy, and couldn't find one on hyperreal. These days, I don't listen to much IDM. There's to many micro-genres made by hipsters with laptops, and I can't stand most of it. That said, the poster children for IDM are among my favorite electronic acts. I am of course referring to Boards of Canada. This is not their best song, but definitely a doozy. The video is pretty keen, too. As a whole, head-case seems to prefer music made with acoustic instruments vs synthesizers. That said, I've seen BoC and the like appear more than a few times in the What Are You Listening To, Two thread. What are some of your favorite ambient and IDM tracks, H-C?

This is Frank's post, you're only reading it.

A wise thing to ponder. This could go in the H-C new user FAQ.

Photos come from the Flickr page of this joker who contributes to the same gearhead group I do.

The message you have entered is too short. These don't have much to do in common, other than that they amuse me.

Today was just gold-plated awesome. My now week-old the stove is far from fixed. The repair man did not come by today. I did receive two phone calls from him. He was a knowledgeable guy and ascertained quickly that I knew what I was talking about. He said it needed a new [circuit[ board, and it'd would be 3-5 business days until it arrives. That's well into next week. Additionally, something I ate last night made me *very* sick, so I got nothing else done today other than evacuating from one end or the other, or wishing I was. I'm still feeling quite ill now, but I am now up, which is an improvement.

The world's shortest man has died in Italy, where he was to take part in a TV show, the program's production company said Tuesday. He Pingping, of China, who was 2 feet, 5.37 inches (74.6 centimeters) tall, had become a recognized figure across the world, often taking part in shows, photo shoots and other events, Guinness World Records said. Don't you even THINK about making a "The message you have entered is too short" joke.

The message you have entered is too short. I'm trying to cut back. I'm down to one pack at a time.

FWIW, I had lyme disease twice in 2006 and 2007. The first time, I was diagnosed within two weeks of being bitten. The second time was several months later. The doctor told me that the symptoms are worse the longer it is between contracting the disease and when diagnosis and treatment begins. True to his word, I suffered significantly worse symptoms the second time. That said, once I got on antibiotics, I was more-or-less back to normal within 10 days. Best of luck with it.

There is a lot of awesome in that room. Shots taken from this auction posted by Tom.

The message you have entered is too short. That reminds me, I need a shave.