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Many many thanks for setting this up for us lads, Al.
Looking forward to seeing and hearing from you tomorrow neet, fellas,

 

I should be there unless I feel much worse, beware, I'll have a bog roll with me Our only worry is that Cindy's mum continues to feel very ill and refuses to see a doctor or go to hospital as she's worried about being kept in to die there. We are monitoring the situation daily and so far she's troubled but ok. We were hoping that her daughter Fiona would stay with her to help, as she had promised. But instead of that she arrived, moaned that the place was a bit dirty, stuffed her face with chocolate, refused to see her mum because she was "too ill to be around" and talked again about her ex then left...Utter dirt bag...

Anyway, should be ok and looking forward to a chin-wag about silly stuff

 

And as I look out, the clothes are still there despite her and her husband being in the property. Just makes the place look like tramps live here.

 

Lol, she must have heard me calling her the block tramp, and she has taken the clothes in, picked up one of the items off the floor but left the other one on the grass. She's also added more clothes to the line...Who knows when those will go upstairs again.

 

I read ages ago about some bloke in the states who mounted huge speakers facing / mounted directly up to his ceiling. Apparently the neighbour above were very loud abusive large stamper types. He also got a high quality mic and strapped that to the ceiling. So any time they stamped it was returned 10 fold. They called the cops who went in to the guys apartment and burst out laughing at his creativity. I seem to remember that soon after the family of stampers moved out, ironic as it was their own noise they hated

Sadly, I can't emulate his excellent feat But the Die Hard intro will be plenty

And for backup, there's the scene in Close Encounters where the UFO comes behind Neary's pickup and then lifts up and start zapping everything. Heard it at mate's house with his subwoofer on and it had everything shaking, you could feel it in the ground outside. My mate Tony in Walthamstow has a set off Wharfdale E90 speakers that are floor mounted, his house sounds like a night club, the bass just shakes your organs and you can stand across the road and feel the ground ponding when he plays them...Way too much for me to stand..

 

Epic quality, fella.

I lurve the story about the noisy bastard neighbours being defeated by their own (amplified) noise - that's poetic justice and some.

Hey, just back from a Thai meal and my guts are (so far) behaving.

Even managed a lager and a vodka and coke and (so far) nothing repeating, gurgling or bloating down below...


So far.

Have a top weekend ahead, guys.

Sunderland vs Brummies tomorrow - they'll mek some noise.

Let's have another date soon for another videolink and really get into our retro rhythms and maybe recommend some groovy sounds - as well as games - to the group.

Hoping to get my moving head lights ordered shortly and then link em up through that DMX interface lead from the laptop AND have something like virtual DJ spinning those virtual MP3 disks and then give that some hammer out of my wee Logitech woofer system...

 

I can recommend some good sea shanties courtesy of the Fishermans Friend, along with a feast of country music artists.

Hey, when did everyone else leave the party?

 

Sea shanties...Careful of the Kraken.....It's out there, just waiting for a land lubber to come..

 

If I had noisy neighbors upstairs I can unequivocally blow out their ears doing the same thing to them as that story lads! My sound system is too loud for me if I turn the volume up to 25% since I added in the equalizer that pre-amps and equalizes. It even has switches to adjust pre-amperage between -10db and +10db.

With the pre-amp I have for my turntable too, by the time it leaves the final amp, I can't get the volume for LP's up more than about 15% before it is too loud for me.

I'll be testing the max of my amps and speakers out on our Independence day celebration with friends and family, as I'll be facing my loudspeakers out my bedroom windows toward the yard...then we'll see if my neighbors a half mile away call the police for noise disturbances!

 

Ha ha Matt, me and you, extreme

I've yet to introduce my neighbours to the surround, as real life has habit of making things hard. Point in case, today, brown envelope turns up, here in the UK a brown envelope is classed as almost certain bad news ie a bill, a threat etc etc.

Opened said letter and it's a demand for 78.19 in overpaid benefits based on my private pension. Only thing is, I'm already paying back the overpayment and when I got a demand a few weeks back the Department for Work and pensions (the social security office) acknowledged it was a miscalculation and it was their fault and I had nothing to repay, just a slightly reduced biweekly payment (I lost just short of 2 quid per 2 weeks). Explains this after 1.5hrs waiting for an answer, and gets told it's been over ruled and I had to pay it. I explain that I'm already repaying my overpayment so any recalculations are void because I've already been billed the amount. Guy says he thinks he understands and will get a higher up to call me back. I said to the guy that the DWP should partner up with Dignitas, as after 1.5hrs to be told I'm a liar and you want to screw me makes me want to commit suicide (it was a joke but putting a valid point across).

He didn't think it was funny, I said that I agreed, but you are putting undue pressure on people with enough worries, and in many cases for utterly wrong reasons, hence the joke is actually a dig.

 

I assume you are referring to the last two Rush videos I posted? As the videos I posted of Rush months ago weren't Heavy Metal, just good old Rock n Roll. However, the second video I posted recently, 'Far Cry,' yes, that is one of their heavier tracks. But the first one, Farewell to Kings, again, I just consider good old rock.

If you consider any other songs I posted besides Far Cry to be heavy metal, then you have no idea what true heavy metal is...even Far Cry a true heavy metal fan would laugh and say that's just hard rock; here is heavy metal and then proceed to blast your ears off with some Iron Maiden. Rush has always been considered Progressive Rock, some can get a bit heavy, but if you try and include Rush in any true heavy metal list you will be scolded and scoffed at by metal heads telling you the same thing as I just did.

But if Rush is too much for you, I understand, they do have some intense rockers in their discography, but they also have many great songs that are a FAR CRY from heavy metal too. have a listen to these, I promise they will be quite easy on your ears...





Two of my all-time favorites.

 

I once had the poor luck to see / hear a band who wore horror type masks and the lead singer literally growled all the lyrics while guitars just were so loud it made me turn the TV down. The name Slipknot comes to mind for some reason..

It just does not sound like music to me, same as some ultra weird jazz just sounds like there's 4 people all playing a different tune and not in tune..

I guess it's just me not liking and really loud music no matter the genre of it. My mate Tony plays reggae and it just makes my organs shake, I like reggae, just not THAT loud. The only plus is that when he plays it, there's no distortion in the sound, ie it's not just loud, it's clear and you hear all the instruments as they were designed to be heard....All just too much noise for my liking..

 

That sounds like my system. I've worked hard over the last year+, upgrading mid range and tweeters in my loud speakers (he 16 inch woofers were still good enough). I purchased two quality bookshelf size rear surround loud speakers, I did DIY upgrade to my center channel speaker, adding two tweeters to the one midrange, turning it into an integrated center speaker. It is mounted to the top of and my own custom DIY amplified subwoofer; which I am very proud of as it sounds incredible with the new Pyle dual-voice coil bass speaker I got for $30 after poor results attempting to use some old car rear speakers. But in the end, after deciding to get a true woofer speaker, some testing to find the right size inductor and resister between the amp and speaker. And then using a proper sized enclosure for the speaker size, and proper sized bass air tubes and insulated interior to silence all enclosure vibration...

I out did myself on this project and have a power subwoofer, the specs as good as amplified subwoofers selling on Amazon in the $250-500 range, and I like to think the quality of mine is equal to subwoofers closer to the $500 mark. All for $50; $20 kit amp board and $30 for the Pyle dual voice coil 8 inch woofer. The rest came from on-hand salvage.




A couple of great JVC and Pyle main amps, Pyle pre-amp and JVC Equalizer with pre-amp, and matching up properly all speaker wattage, amps and ohms properly for the amps and pre-amps. So even though I turn up the volume to 15% and it is nearly too loud for me in my room, I have turned it up to over 50% and everything remains crystal clear but way too loud to be inside the house. Sounds good outside though! Of course at that point I do get some bass distortion caused by my two front left & right loudspeaker subwoofers and my amplified mono subwoofer actually vibrating the entire house. If not for the house, they would remain undistorted.

Now, when I'm talking about a percentage of volume, it's just based on minimum to full volume turning the dial, I have no idea how many decibels we're talking about, a lot though. But at 15% it's booming, yet clear as I sit in my recliner in the center of the sound staged speakers, and it can still be heard clearly at the opposite end of my 75 foot long home, like a proper volume for background music, but still able to hold a conversation. But my total system, powering 5 integrated loud speakers and a subwoofer, is pumping out 450 Watts altogether. My JVC amp puts out 100watts x 4 speakers, currently only left and right front attached, so 200 watts there.

My Pyle amp using only the surround speakers, since front L/R are handled by JVC amp. So I get full watts spread to each speaker for another 200 watts, and the self-amplified subwoofer is 50 watts. If I hooked up the another two 100 watt loud speakers to the JVC amp, then the total would be 650 amps (I use them as L/R side speakers, instead of rear, and have 7.1 surround instead of 4.0 with just the JVC or 5.1 with just the Pyle.

With the Pyle amp, it's 200 watts no matter what; two front L/R only outputting 100 watt each, or three surround speakers at ~67 watts each, all 5 speakers at 40 watts each. So I have splitters on my audio lines from sources that send the audio to both amps (after pre-amp and equalizer amp) and I just adjust front and rear volumes separately to equal volume levels and of course the amplified subwoofer has it's own volume control too. Front and rear balances are controlled separately too.

It's the best sounding sound system I have ever owned to this point, and as far as I recall, the best sounding system I have ever heard at other's homes or on the stereo dealer's floor. I know there are far better ones that only the ultra rich can afford, but it's the best I've ever heard as far as "upper-middle-class top shelf quality" that may be worth a couple thousand dollars.

 

Quality kit, quality build - you have a hi-fidelity quality appreciation of real music, Matt.
We have no doubt you have a sensational system there.
Would be marvellous if we could maybe "see it" in action some time, you know, a short vid, not that we would be able to get the full acoustic treat through our tinny laptop speakers, but just to see the turntable and needle alight on a Rush LP and then hear that slight crackle as the stylus makes it through the initial pick-up grooves and then... the system speaks in all it's sonic splendour...

 

The best part of all is that the main, high quality old school systems was a gift, that I just refurbished to new quality (with some minor upgrades) and all other system hardware I used for upgrades, including even a new turn-table needle worth much more than I payed, speaker replacements, subwoofer speaker and amp, the new Pyle amp to go with the JVC amp, pre-amp, equalizer, etc. cost me less than $300 total, for a system I could now sell for a couple thousand on ebay.

One man's old trash is another man's treasure to polish. I love having a standard of living and quality of life equal to people who are four times wealthier than me, because I'm a DIYer that repairs and restores rather than being a revolving door consumer replacing something for usually the smallest issues that can be easily fixed and restored with a bit of knowledge. You also gain a sense of pride and value your possessions more from putting all your knowledge, skill, blood, sweat and tears into your possessions that doesn't exist with consumers who constantly throw-away and consume new products, which on top of it all are generally products of lesser quality than what they replaced, and for more money! I pity the fool...

My conscience wouldn't even allow me to brag on my sound system, even brand new and of highest quality, if I merely spent thousands of dollars and had it installed. I get no pride or feeling of accomplishment or endearment toward the possession from merely from spending a lot and pride in it's ownership quickly fades. I only get great sound as a benefit and an empty wallet. And a careless personal character that looks at everything as disposable and wastes money over and over on similar possessions while people are homeless and starving in the world.

Of course all the Rush albums and CD's cost me closer to a $1000, even finding the best prices, as they are all the highest quality LP's that can be made and much improved over the standard album fare that can still be purchased of the same music for $20-30 new in record shops, though I actually got a couple of the audiophile quality LP's at those prices, the original retail price for them was $150 or more. The costliest Rush Album cost me $100, but most I found great deals on for around $50 each.

 

That's the same all over as far as Royalty/Other Elites goes. Proper upstanding people on the surface and in public, but now we get to see the dark side, as you say. And most are also connected to Illuminati or Free Masons or some other occult-like or even satanic secret societies who do not have the best interests for common man and his freedoms and liberties but are actively working to end democratic freedoms, and over time, just under the surface, have been successful in turning us all into banana republics that are bastions of despotism.

Just compare our democratic societies today with this 1946 film that was shown to kids at school to teach them how to spot a despot country and propaganda. To warn against allowing to happen what we have allowed to happen! All the while using the media to tell us they are making everything more fair, democratic and with equal opportunity, including passing laws that seem on the surface to be for this very purpose, while in fact doing the exact opposite in practice. Like the "equal opportunity" job act here in the states where people are hired to fill check marks for race or creed instead of the most qualified candidates, regardless of race or creed. In most cases this leads to under or unqualified people in the positions that can fail upward and eventually are in control and the entire company or organization itself declines into despotism.

 

My cats ripped my records to shreds and I had no clue they were getting in the box, but then again, me and my LP's never had a good times I'm lucky Felix isn't a scratcher as my big speakers have no guards on (when I say big, I mean,compared to shelf speakers)

 

Speakers like those are beyond my budget. I can dream, but really I don't have the space anyway, atm. Once upon a time I had much nicer speakers, with big woofers with semi-transparent plastic cones, and two adjustment dials like those above, but still only 3-way speakers. I was going to add another set of tweeters to them, making them 4-way, but of course one of my puppies managed to get one of them!

Mine are completely home-made now, the old woofers were the last of the original speakers (I still have one I may add to my sub-woofer...I just finished installing the new speakers in the boxes, and repaired the one speaker cover. I just need to repair the trim and I'll take pictures of my now completely DIY speakers, since I also repaired the boxes themselves last year and repainted them. They still look a bit more plain than those fancy ones you pictured @Paul "Mclaneinc" Irvine .

I also need to finish off the exterior of my subwoofer so it looks professional instead of DIY like it still does atm.

new pictures soon. I've just about finished the restoration of each individual component of my stereo system now too, installing LED back lighting on all components too now, except for the receiver and the second tape deck. So most of it lights up now, but looks a bit odd with two components out of place with no LED lights.

 

Are you referring to a traditional billiards table? We have bar/pub and pool-hall tables that are the most common, but you can go to higher class locals and clubs that have the true billiards tables that are larger than pool tables. If I ever have the space and money, I'd probably get one of the smaller pool-hall tables because they are about half the cost of a true billiards table (which I prefer, but I don't know if I'd want to pay what they cost even if I could afford one).

Do you play a lottery or anything similar Paul? Here is wishing you a winning ticket if you do, enough to get you a single family home.

 

Aw, Al, what a shame - I'd persevere, mate.
I mean you've only just picked it up, fella.
You can't beat putting a vinyl disc on a turntable and listen to that wonderful intro and slight crackle as the stylus starts its way into the groove and then belts out your fave artists and tracks - it beats tapes and CDs hands down for me, buddy.
Am enjoying this thread as I can feel the joy that folks like Matt and Paul and your good self feel when it's just you sat there quietly contemplating, with your music remembering the great times together with others and for me, music lifts us and takes us on journeys like no other media can do... ok, a good book maybe...but you get the gist, guys.
The speakers that Paul flagged up and the gear that Matt puts together is all such a blast - great kit / conversations, fellas.

 

Third Lanark are a lesson in how to drive a club into the ground and their story makes for a very interesting, albeit sad, story Andy.

Weather has been pretty good here today. Met up with my childhood best friend for some banter and a walk round Paisley Abbey which is a magnificent building dating back to the 1200's While my football team (Celtic) were celebrating back to back league titles the two of us took in a Juniors game from the 3rd tier of the Scottish amateur league. It was a great game with some very decent play and cost us less than £10 each including admission, a pie, and a cuppa tea

Tomorrow I'm off to visit the Forth Canal near Falkirk and then a nearby historic castle and the heritage village of Culross. I like to fill my days off work with stuff to save me sitting in the house and then it being too late to go anywhere by the time I decide what to do!

p.s. the record player has gone along with the accompanying vinyl. Meant the amp/cd/dab radio only cost me £15 in the end

 

Fair enough, mate.
Glad you've had a successful sunny day and met up with yer old pal and up on the trading plus back2back titles for Celtic - all in all, you can't grumble!
I will check out Third Lanark, Al, and see what the hell happened there - don't tell me Philip Schofield had anything to do with it ;-)

 

Bang on Andy. They should never have put him in charge of the boys team....

 

You definitely need to make time for dogs, especially if they have no real place like a fenced in yard, to run around and have a bit of freedom and space. Otherwise don't have them. I expect the worst and hope for the best with the puppies. Sometimes they are left alone in the room for hours and are well behaved. But there have been times I came back and found things torn and shredded and scattered about. Stuff I put up out of puppy reach, but forget that was a month ago and they've grown, etc.

But they are very near the end of days in a play pen (about a 3x3 meter affair) during the days and in my room at night and bad weather. I have dog houses and chains for them until I can get a larger fenced in yard done, and they will stay on chains and in the dog houses until that time, though I will take them for morning and evening walks daily, except during bad weather. I will rotate them, allowing one to stay in the room with me at night.

Of course time will also tell if any of them can be trusted to be a free roamer; two of my 3 grown dogs are free roamers that stay on the property and behave and are well behaved indoors too, and can come and go as the please. My brother 2 dogs are indoor and get walks, not trusted to stay on the property. And my hound dog who can't socialize with the other dogs is always on a chain and gets walks, and is my guard dog outside during the day and inside my shop trailer at night. Every dog we own earns freedoms or restrictions based on how well behaved they become, depending on how trainable they were.

 

Hey, Al - boxed as well.... you might make him an offer and try and knock him down a bit, fella:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235034096978?hash=item36b91fb552:g:EjUAAOSwiWNkeOhc