Dreadhead

A good chip amp with lots of voltage swing: SPL Auditor and SPL Phonitor. They are very good and you can actually believe their specs. Discolsure: SPL provided me a phonitor for review which I did and then returned though I was sorely tempted to buy it.

Done

verrry nice!

Thanks for the advice. The market on used isn't looking great to me right now. I can buy a 3 year old boat for $2k/$3k (15-20%) less than new at best which isn't a great savings in my book. The question we're asking is: Settle for what we can find used or buy what we want and then if we decide we don't like it sell it in a few years and lose $5k if that. I think we've pretty much settled on new. We've looked at older used ones and they are just beat up and newer used ones are expensive in my opinion. I'll clean the hull myself. I grew up diving and scrubbing my parent's boats and when racing we would scrub the bottoms on the sailboats monthly. That said I'm thinking that we'll probably end up getting a trailer sometime in the summer. If and only if the current Subaru station wagon can pull it (tounge weight limit is 300lbs). The other issue is storing it because Meaghan doesn't want it sitting in the yard.

Great stuff kevin!

Nope. Lots of people in the area just leave their pontoon boats in all year. Going to look at a totally redone from the deck up older (1984) boat tomorrow that has a trailer. An hour+ away in the wrong direction which is a PITA but it's a lot cheaper.

Delivered to the lake and staying in year round. We can always buy said trailer later.

Got new deadbolts and locks installed at the lake house and then looked at pontoon boats.... reaonably priced used ones and reasonably priced but much more expensive new ones. Probably going to get one of the new ones that's like this but red and no trailer (and 2 ft longer).

X2

I have it on my bucket list to do the Mt. Evan's hill climb bicycle race..... 14miles of climbing or some such.

x3 Nate: Good luck with the travels.

Sticky Back Smith..... sounds like a gay porn star

Further proof that Steve and small knobs have nothing to do with each other

Thanks for the recommendation Steve. I think I am going to have a word with my wife about this in a month or two. We're probably buying a used pontoon boat this weekend so can't pile too many costs together.

Listened to my Paradigm Reference Studio 20s with room equalization and DAC duties being done by my Behringer DEQ 2496 (room EQ done with calibrated mic). I had forgotten how truly awesome this sounds to me. I want a subwoofer to fix the fact that I have no energy below about 50Hz...

Awesome!

Happy belated birthday. Riding and racing what? Bicycles?

I have always lusted after the Nikon 200-400 but I've lusted after boats and cars more

I feel your pain. My little guys just returned to school after a week of RSV virus chest cold.... that suuuuuuuucked

Glad I read this thread again. Probably not in with all the travelling I'm doing this year but maybe....

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday!

Those B&B busts freak me out..... Also note the ass is carrying two vinyl decks

I'm happy we're having a mild winter because with my son here we now have to keep the house a lot warmer than we used to and the gas/electric bills are already up a ton. I also like being able to ride all the time (not that I have been because of a RSV virus infection)

Vintage King has the same pricing. Looks awesome. I don't think I'll be getting one anytime (windows drivers in a few months) soon but I'm looking forward to the reviews. On a separate note: The ULN-8 is the most accurate converter on the market that I've seen according to the loopback tests on GearSlutz. It's cool that it's also so popular here. That said it's a no go for me because it's Mac. I'm thinking hard about the Mytek 8x192 or maybe this though which did second best on the tests (by like 1dB).