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bigcountry1315 said:
Dan you need a good space heater until you can get the shop done!Nothing worse than being froze to the bone!
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Yep, I need some heat! It is just an open air shack with a tin roof so I don't think a heater is going to do much... still trying to figure out what to do.
 
I have one of those Mr heaters for my ground blind in late season when it is 5 degrees out.If you in close it with some heavy plastic you will be surprised how much those thing warm things up. Once mine is going I take off my jacket and only where my sweat shirt.
 
Hey Daniel, what eMail addy are you using these days for knife orders? I got some ideas I want to bounce off of ya for a knife.


-Xander
 
+1 on the Big Buddy heater!

And he's right....heavy plastic...cheap tarps...old stage curtains....block the wind,and you'll be amazed what a small heater will do.....

And to answer the Man Cave question: just doing improvements,before cold weather hits here.
Face & arms feel like they've been sand-blasted.....itchulation is a sumbitch.

And the 'rack system' is just for some leftover equipment I collected when I was stagerigging...has been stored away.And I'll be quick to add: the setup for my Handloading Emporium is not as elaborate as our outdoor system....

As a f'r instance: our deck has more square footage than our house....7 or 8 months outta the year,we spend most of our free-time,outdoors.

I had enough leftover equipment to set up 2 separate 6-channel soundstages,one at either end of the wrap-mostly-around-the- house deck.

10 of the surround speakers are the largest outdoor Yamaha version.Correction: two are Infinity's.

Each 12" Peavey sub is housed in a 64# industrial flue liner,made of fire clay.
Since they're down-firing, it produces a bass you can feel as much as hear,and never muddy sound.

All runs thru an old 16-band Kenwood EQ,modified by David :cool: Page (was Waylon's guitar tech).

A 6 disc Yamaha Studio CD deck....bone stock.Isolated from vibration from the subs by a 16" bicycle inner tube,under a 18" square of ceramic tile.

The head units are Sony,hopped up with mostly Crown guts.

Won't bore you with more details,except it produces 125 RMS watts/channel X 12 channels total. Basically: at an idle.

Each level of the rack has a 4" muffin fan for cooling,and is lit with those little under-cabinet mothers that are a PAIN to install; the bottom rack holds a mini electric heater for winter.

Glad all my neighbors,including the Judge,likes my music.And they're quite some distance away....


All of this wild assortment is housed in a homemade rack,built inside one of those ?Suncast? outdoor storage cabinets....centrally located,and on the portion of the deck that's roofed.

If I pigtail into the computer,it can conceivably play just over 984 hours,without a repeat.

Since she still watches television,I added a 20" AKAI in the top rack.And a Sony DVD player.

Ya wanta hear some Floyd?
 
So that's your sound system I hear early Saturday mornings! Nice setup you got there! I'm all analog myself, vinyl or radio only. No DAC in my house yet!

I wish I could dedicate more space for handloading, but my project car takes up 63% of my garage. Nevermind the multiple bikes.

Daniel, if SWMBO let's me get on the computer later I'll shoot you an email, otherwise it might be tomorrow.


-Xander
 
fast14riot said:
Thanx bro! Don't worry, I am just looking for some input right now. Since you are a (ex)sailor and all!


-Xander
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No worries, sounds cool!

Gnarly said:
+1 on the Big Buddy heater!

And he's right....heavy plastic...cheap tarps...old stage curtains....block the wind,and you'll be amazed what a small heater will do.....

And to answer the Man Cave question: just doing improvements,before cold weather hits here.
Face & arms feel like they've been sand-blasted.....itchulation is a sumbitch.

And the 'rack system' is just for some leftover equipment I collected when I was stagerigging...has been stored away.And I'll be quick to add: the setup for my Handloading Emporium is not as elaborate as our outdoor system....

As a f'r instance: our deck has more square footage than our house....7 or 8 months outta the year,we spend most of our free-time,outdoors.

I had enough leftover equipment to set up 2 separate 6-channel soundstages,one at either end of the wrap-mostly-around-the- house deck.

10 of the surround speakers are the largest outdoor Yamaha version.Correction: two are Infinity's.

Each 12" Peavey sub is housed in a 64# industrial flue liner,made of fire clay.
Since they're down-firing, it produces a bass you can feel as much as hear,and never muddy sound.

All runs thru an old 16-band Kenwood EQ,modified by David :cool: Page (was Waylon's guitar tech).

A 6 disc Yamaha Studio CD deck....bone stock.Isolated from vibration from the subs by a 16" bicycle inner tube,under a 18" square of ceramic tile.

The head units are Sony,hopped up with mostly Crown guts.

Won't bore you with more details,except it produces 125 RMS watts/channel X 12 channels total. Basically: at an idle.

Each level of the rack has a 4" muffin fan for cooling,and is lit with those little under-cabinet mothers that are a PAIN to install; the bottom rack holds a mini electric heater for winter.

Glad all my neighbors,including the Judge,likes my music.And they're quite some distance away....


All of this wild assortment is housed in a homemade rack,built inside one of those ?Suncast? outdoor storage cabinets....centrally located,and on the portion of the deck that's roofed.

If I pigtail into the computer,it can conceivably play just over 984 hours,without a repeat.

Since she still watches television,I added a 20" AKAI in the top rack.And a Sony DVD player.

Ya wanta hear some Floyd?
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Wow that sounds awesome... turn it up I bet I can here it here in CO! I have an old Pioneer system with Yamaha NS-10's, sounds pretty good but nothing like that!

Now if I were to get all of my old tube amps going at once, that would be pretty loud! I was hoping to eventually put together a whole tube system, I have a 200 watt power amp from the 40's or 50's to start it with.
 
Daniel Fairly Knives said:
I love tube amps, I used to collect them. I have a cool collection of old inexpensive small amps, I like those old guitar amps.
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Hmm, maybe you can school me on what I would need for a powered center channel. I have always wanted to add tubes to my set-up, just don't know much about them. Right now I'm running a '67 Pioneer SX-1500TD all in one tuner with Dual 525 two-ways on homemade cables.


-Xander
 
You want a sansui tube amp? Mine just sits around in the garage while an old JVC amp powers the garage.. my home is meager too, yamaha 100watt per channel, 2 polk audio rti7s, and an Infinity 10inch 300watt powered sub. Outdoor speaks disconnected as I am barely using anything these days.. Ears are f'd due to car stereo for past 20yrs.. Over 700 watts 2ohm mono load to a pair of 12s in a huge custom box, and 6 pair of mixed speaks with over 600watts stereo 8ohm load real watts, no pos amps... It moved my windshield... My right ear is not what it used to be O_O

Thing with the damn sansui, weight on that son bitch is like 30lbs.. shipping would be more than it's worth O_O I love music though.. My meager collection of mp3s is only 32gigs.. about 300 cds, and maybe 200 lps, used to have twice as many cds but many have been stolen.. I hate thieves.. bitches >:/

gnarly, your house sounds like you throw band parties? or do you just dj???
 
fast14riot said:
Hmm, maybe you can school me on what I would need for a powered center channel. I have always wanted to add tubes to my set-up, just don't know much about them. Right now I'm running a '67 Pioneer SX-1500TD all in one tuner with Dual 525 two-ways on homemade cables.


-Xander
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I only know mono, lol! I do have a 3 speaker tube system at my parents house, man it would be cool to add an ipod input to it.

sloth357 said:
You want a sansui tube amp? Mine just sits around in the garage while an old JVC amp powers the garage.. my home is meager too, yamaha 100watt per channel, 2 polk audio rti7s, and an Infinity 10inch 300watt powered sub. Outdoor speaks disconnected as I am barely using anything these days.. Ears are f'd due to car stereo for past 20yrs.. Over 700 watts 2ohm mono load to a pair of 12s in a huge custom box, and 6 pair of mixed speaks with over 600watts stereo 8ohm load real watts, no pos amps... It moved my windshield... My right ear is not what it used to be O_O

Thing with the damn sansui, weight on that son bitch is like 30lbs.. shipping would be more than it's worth O_O I love music though.. My meager collection of mp3s is only 32gigs.. about 300 cds, and maybe 200 lps, used to have twice as many cds but many have been stolen.. I hate thieves.. bitches >:/

gnarly, your house sounds like you throw band parties? or do you just dj???
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Cool, that's a good system! I have a huge music collection... still need to get my original music up on the net. I need to get my turntables going too, I have a bunch of classic rock and classical I like.
 
sloth357 said:
You want a sansui tube amp? Mine just sits around in the garage while an old JVC amp powers the garage.. my home is meager too, yamaha 100watt per channel, 2 polk audio rti7s, and an Infinity 10inch 300watt powered sub. Outdoor speaks disconnected as I am barely using anything these days.. Ears are f'd due to car stereo for past 20yrs.. Over 700 watts 2ohm mono load to a pair of 12s in a huge custom box, and 6 pair of mixed speaks with over 600watts stereo 8ohm load real watts, no pos amps... It moved my windshield... My right ear is not what it used to be O_O

Thing with the damn sansui, weight on that son bitch is like 30lbs.. shipping would be more than it's worth O_O I love music though.. My meager collection of mp3s is only 32gigs.. about 300 cds, and maybe 200 lps, used to have twice as many cds but many have been stolen.. I hate thieves.. bitches >:/

gnarly, your house sounds like you throw band parties? or do you just dj???
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Yeah I'm into car audio as well. I'm running 800Watts with a digitally controlled 1f power cap to smooth things out (and not dim the lights when it hits), fosgate Punch P3 15" down firing in a sealed custom box, 2 6x9's and 2 1" tweets in the rear ceiling, 2 5.5" in the rear doors, 2 5.5" in the front doors, 2 1" tweets in the front doors as well. 11 speakers in my Tahoe, and it doesn't even rattle, it will make you want to run for cover though!

Maybe ill take an old Peavy 412 my FIL has that was swapped out with old school sony blackwidow speaks and run it as a center channel in my house, that would wake the neighbors up!

On another system I hve at my parents house, I am running dual mono and it sounds pretty darn good! I would love to run 3 channel with this setup to get better sound, my house is all hardwood floors with lathe and plaster walls. It sounds real "tinney" if you know what I mean, much higher than it really is. Kind of a pain to try and duplicate good sounds, but I make due.


-Xander
 
Whoa, didn't know you guys were audiophiles as well. I also dabbled in car audio and competed in IASCA sanctioned events here in the northeast back until the mid 90's. I stopped competing when my components hit the 5K mark and decided that it was getting ridiculous. I believe I was among the first to use large capacitors to stabilize current draw, and had a bank of 10 300millifarad caps wired inline with my second battery. Worked very well, but wasn't as clean as I wanted it. Not bad though, for being almost 25 years ago. I competed in the 51-200W class, using 2 Rockford Fosgate Punch 45's and a Punch 100. 27 Speakers in the car. 146 SPL.

Now I do home theater mostly, emphasizing on discrete installations. I'm in IT by profession, and quite a few of my bigger clients have had me re-do their home theaters and install new ones in their offices as well. Biggest project I had to do was just a few weeks ago, as a matter of fact. One of my clients just had a new house built after her divorce finalized, and part of her settlement was the home theater system that they had in their movie room basement. Mid-80's vintage Mark Levinson amps, Martin Logan ESL speakers and a custom ML subwoofer that weighed almost 400 pounds with an enclosure partly finished in granite. Honestly, it was just about the most perfect sound setup I had ever seen for a home theater, and I was afraid to ask what it all cost. She said the projectors and TVs were upgraded often, but she's had the audio components for almost 25 years. I do know that the 2 monoblock Mark Levinson amps were around $30K for the pair, as those were my grail amps back in the day. My dad still has his Carver Silver 7's, he's had them for over 40 years and those still sound great.
 
bigcountry1315 said:
Morning men.Was a long weekend I am wore out!
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Yes good morning! I'm still drinking coffee here, on my third cup and almost ready to go! I spent all day yesterday grinding, I need plenty of caffeine.

gooeytek said:
Whoa, didn't know you guys were audiophiles as well. I also dabbled in car audio and competed in IASCA sanctioned events here in the northeast back until the mid 90's. I stopped competing when my components hit the 5K mark and decided that it was getting ridiculous. I believe I was among the first to use large capacitors to stabilize current draw, and had a bank of 10 300millifarad caps wired inline with my second battery. Worked very well, but wasn't as clean as I wanted it. Not bad though, for being almost 25 years ago. I competed in the 51-200W class, using 2 Rockford Fosgate Punch 45's and a Punch 100. 27 Speakers in the car. 146 SPL.

Now I do home theater mostly, emphasizing on discrete installations. I'm in IT by profession, and quite a few of my bigger clients have had me re-do their home theaters and install new ones in their offices as well. Biggest project I had to do was just a few weeks ago, as a matter of fact. One of my clients just had a new house built after her divorce finalized, and part of her settlement was the home theater system that they had in their movie room basement. Mid-80's vintage Mark Levinson amps, Martin Logan ESL speakers and a custom ML subwoofer that weighed almost 400 pounds with an enclosure partly finished in granite. Honestly, it was just about the most perfect sound setup I had ever seen for a home theater, and I was afraid to ask what it all cost. She said the projectors and TVs were upgraded often, but she's had the audio components for almost 25 years. I do know that the 2 monoblock Mark Levinson amps were around $30K for the pair, as those were my grail amps back in the day. My dad still has his Carver Silver 7's, he's had them for over 40 years and those still sound great.
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Cool stuff man! I eventually want a good enough stereo to do the NS10's justice.
 
damn gooeytek, that is sweet! I never got that into it, but never had a car without a full custom setup. I always enjoyed rolling up at a stop light and actually hearing another vehicle rattle due to my car's BASS! Had a friend with a VW bug, wall behind front seat, with not sure how many, but at least 40+ 4" speaks all wired as woofers to PPI amps (we lived in Tempe, AZ back then and PPI, Fosgate, and Orion were the top picks for us).. His bug was insanely loud.. Seeing a ton of little speaks push that much air was cool stuff..

Now I've toned down and settle for very clear and full range sound, little heavy on bass but nothing too insane now. Some JL audios in the rear, Fosgate punch supplying bass, and Focal separates in the dash and front doors.. Overall very happy with it. Oh dual amp, alpine and a punch amp running the woofer.

Can't get too loud with a 2yr old riding in the back ya know :D
 
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