N.E. October Fest - better late than never.

Jim, know where to get the brew, it's the damned nuts I can't find (excepting you fine folks of course).

Spikedart,

They've been tucked away nicely in my office/filthy warren, but since you offer.....
I'll try them in my front room - 12x36'
Room is very directional and the soundstage it presents is VERY focused in the center. No carpets and bass seems to hug the floor like fog. Been meaning to get the Allison 8-B's back here, might be fun to try the Ohms in this space as well. Holidays are coming and I'm in a mood to party for Thanksgiving weekend, lets say we declare a stealth fest at my house?
Living, front room only (and outside), and there may be dirty dishes and socks on the floor.

Takers?

fcc



Spikedart said:
Frank, you are more than welcome to play with the OW2's if you wish. Soundstage presentation is quite opposite from Don's KEF's. Equally good, but different. The Ohms throw the stage behind the speakers, "into the wall", while the KEFs throw it right into your lap! Can't decide what I like more. I would love your feedback if you notice something interesting.
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Keep away from mine!
You've got to keep an eye out for them on CL. Look on CL's in nearby regions (not just local). Sometimes you've got to take a longer drive for your toys.
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Hey Jim,
ill be going on a 2 hundred mile roadtrip in a few hours to pick up a decent looking pair of monitor 10's!!

I am curious to see how they will sound with my new amp.:music:

If they sound half as good as your 7's i think i'll be pleased.
 
The M10's in NJ? Ha, I was just there yesterday for work. When I travel I always check the local CL.
Living, front room only (and outside), and there may be dirty dishes and socks on the floor.
Takers?
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I might take the socks...
 
gigbyt said:
Hey Jim,
ill be going on a 2 hundred mile roadtrip in a few hours to pick up a decent looking pair of monitor 10's!!

I am curious to see how they will sound with my new amp.:music:

If they sound half as good as your 7's i think i'll be pleased.
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Hey, you should drop by the Brooklyn get together if you are down here. :D
 
The M10's in NJ? Ha, I was just there yesterday for work. When I travel I always check the local CL
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No, not jersey.
i found a hundred dollar pair in greenfield mass.
seller said he has had them on there for months starting at 400. with no seriuos bites..
Sorry x25 ,wont be coming by in NY.
Although it would have been great to see and talk to you again, :beerchug:

Part of my adventure today, me and seller agreed to meet at a storage place in greenfield,mass around 10:30 am(he didnt say thats where the speakers were.)

i got there at 10:15 and he said he got there at 9:45.

im waiting out front of the place, which looked closed and he is waiting(unknown to me) around the side of the place by his storage unit.

i wait about an hour and send him several e-mails that im there waiting.

after an hour i figured it was a big scam and idrove the 100 miles one way
for nothing and im pissed off:mad: seller had given me a phone number but when i called it it was disconnected. AAARGH ive been had im thinking.
(I LATER FOUND THAT I WROTE THE NUMBER DOWN WRONG:stupid: :butt2:)

meanwhile hes on the side of the building thinking i blew him off without any notice.

as im driving away i notice a car on the side and for the hell of it i stop and ask the guy if he is the seller and to my relief he says yes and that he also was just leaving, thinking bad thoughts about me! LOL.

The whole time we were only about a hundred feet from each other but on opposite sides of the building, LOL.
To top it off i had talked my wife into going for the long boring ride :twak:

So im really relieved that it all worked out in the end.

Now to go hook these babies up and see if it was worth all the drama,:music:
 
Spikedart said:
Yup. We could discuss the virtues of black ash over curly maple.
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I'll spray some ash on Monday (have a water based cat lacquer I've been meaning to try), unfortunately not veneer but slab lumber. I think there is come curly maple around I can clear coat as well. Any other specie you interested in?, got some nice green marble formica from the 70's......

Brought the Settons home for the front room, see if I like the Infinity monitors any better with some decent power. They gotta go though, too big for the house and too small for the shop. I'll be veneering those when I do yours, then away they go.

Frank
 
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No, these are RSM's and I just discovered the Emit tweeters don't, anymore.
They are broken! Woe am I, and sad.

My Altecs never break, or, depending on your point of view, they were built broken but still function. I'll take the under.

Bright side, the RSM's will make dandy temporary stands for the Allisons, so everything is good.



Frank




gigbyt said:
Hey Frank,

are the infinity's bigger than those little Altec 19's you got at home?:D
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Looked the word up. I didn't realize the word grammarian is fraught with nasty undertones, or that the bar is set so low. Sign of the times, I suppose. Not a reaction to comments.
And it looks like the word does not exist. Anyone care to refudiate this? :)
 
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fcarpcarp said:
Looked the word up. I didn't realize the word grammarian is fraught with nasty undertones, or that the bar is set so low. Sign of the times, I suppose. Not a reaction to comments.
And it looks like the word does not exist. Anyone care to refudiate this? :)
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Depends on who you go with, I guess. No slight intended, I appreciated your use of 'Woe am I' simply because it is grammatically correct.


gram·mar·i·an   
[gruh-mair-ee-uhn] Show IPA
–noun
1.
a specialist or expert in grammar.
2.
a person who claims to establish or is reputed to have established standards of usage in a language.
Search grammarian on the Web
Origin:
1350–1400; ME gramarien < OF gramairien. See grammar, -ian
Dictionary.com Unabridged

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/grammarian



grammarian [grəˈmɛərɪən]
n
1. (Linguistics / Grammar) a person whose occupation is the study of grammar
2. (Linguistics / Grammar) the author of a grammar
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
 
I am all about good grammar, myself.
Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.

I further appreciate the fact that this thread has a life of its own...
 
I only work as a writer . . .but the week we had grammar in second grade I had the measles so I missed it.
 
Bill,

No slight taken, and thank you. I actually had fun, grammarian led me on a pleasant chase.
I could not find a reference in the OED, but found the same references you did in the upstart colonial dictionaries :) My use of refudiate was an intentional reference to this. While I tend to be a conservative I applaud the flexibility of language, even in cases where the originator is a half wit. Word of the year...God help us all.

I envy Peter his facility in German. Need a new word?, just concatenate some old ones. Makes for unwieldy sentences but I'll bet it's handy.

Language is important!


Frank



HepcatWilly said:
Depends on who you go with, I guess. No slight intended, I appreciated your use of 'Woe am I' simply because it is grammatically correct.


gram·mar·i·an   
[gruh-mair-ee-uhn] Show IPA
–noun
1.
a specialist or expert in grammar.
2.
a person who claims to establish or is reputed to have established standards of usage in a language.
Search grammarian on the Web
Origin:
1350–1400; ME gramarien < OF gramairien. See grammar, -ian
Dictionary.com Unabridged

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/grammarian



grammarian [grəˈmɛərɪən]
n
1. (Linguistics / Grammar) a person whose occupation is the study of grammar
2. (Linguistics / Grammar) the author of a grammar
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
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Look at the history our our (NE AK'rs) threads. They tend to run long for a good reason: smart people with much to say, and the ability to articulate those thoughts.
It's why I so enjoy hosting; you people are considerate, interesting, and fun.

Frank



mhardy6647 said:
I am all about good grammar, myself.
Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.

I further appreciate the fact that this thread has a life of its own...
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Slavic languages are great for this too. You can swear terrifically by combining farm animals, body parts and a variety of verbs in a single, descriptive compound word. We can do it to some degree in English, but you need a lot of hyphens.

It must be that they have so many declensions, gender, and verb conjugations. Like Latin.
 
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