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Post by kc on Dec 28, 2022 23:30:52 GMT
Monday: Not much, mostly just vegged out. Paid a ton of bills that had piled up over the last two months since I was spending all my time working and not much else.
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Post by kc on Dec 28, 2022 23:31:50 GMT
Tuesday: Had planned to send some resumes. Ended up looking at random voyeurism on youtube for 4 hours instead.
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Post by kc on Dec 28, 2022 23:35:01 GMT
Today: Had sex with wife. Then screwed around with changing some wiring on my house stereo, and then spent a few hours listening to random music videos. Then started to get a resume together for a linux admin at the federal court office because I'm tired of working a real job and heard you don't have to do much at a gubberment job. Using chatGPT to reword parts of my resume.
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Post by infowar on Dec 29, 2022 3:29:05 GMT
Please tell me about the speakers.
Im using a $4 kinter chinkbox with two DCM timeframe speakers.
Since amp can handle 4ohm I kinda want to wire another pair in paralell.
I also have a Harmon 7.1 amp that I've never plugged in because worried about idle power draw.
I have a huge collection of high end speakers and would like to use as many as I can.
I also really like the sound of the DCM timeframes, happy with the size and look of them and the simplicity of the system. It is already beyond my needs and I still marvel at how it sounds at times after years.
This is for watching newscasts, horror movies and king of the hill.
Any suggestions?
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Post by infowar on Dec 29, 2022 22:11:35 GMT
Also GeForce RTX 4090
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Post by kc on Dec 30, 2022 22:33:30 GMT
Yesterday: Screwed around with adding some random russian music streams into my emby media server so I can easily play through stereo now. Screwed around on youtube. Thought about rewriting my resume a bunch (does that count as work?). Ended up reading a bunch of random subwoofer build stuff on avsforum.com.
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Post by kc on Dec 30, 2022 22:36:58 GMT
Today: Looked at a few software dev job postings that I probably qualify for but I told myself I'd never apply to again. Then dug around on 4chan trying to figure out the really beef why Andrew Tate was arrested. Going to watch some youtube vids on "making the perfect resume". Then back to rewriting resume and feeding my broken redneck english into chatGPT and hoping it makes me look professional. Was going to go buy fireworks for the kids, but kind of out of time now (sorry kids, your dad is a looser!)
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Post by kc on Dec 30, 2022 23:02:48 GMT
Please tell me about the speakers. Im using a $4 kinter chinkbox with two DCM timeframe speakers. Since amp can handle 4ohm I kinda want to wire another pair in paralell. I also have a Harmon 7.1 amp that I've never plugged in because worried about idle power draw. I have a huge collection of high end speakers and would like to use as many as I can. I also really like the sound of the DCM timeframes, happy with the size and look of them and the simplicity of the system. It is already beyond my needs and I still marvel at how it sounds at times after years. This is for watching newscasts, horror movies and king of the hill. Any suggestions?
Ugh spent like 30 minutes responding to this only to accidentally hit the back button on my mouse (as I was trying to hit the submit button) and then going back forward lead to a blank reply. Yet another reason I want out of the software dev workforce. Everyone pushes hard for fancy web UIs that do nothing but break the most basic parts of web browsers. F this.
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Post by infowar on Dec 31, 2022 0:39:14 GMT
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Post by infowar on Dec 31, 2022 18:28:38 GMT
Pioneer Elite VSX-60 was introduced in 2012. It is equipped with 7 channel amplifier and is capable of 7.1 maximum channel processing.
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Post by infowar on Dec 31, 2022 18:29:34 GMT
Should i use or trash the pioneer vsx60
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stang
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Post by stang on Jan 2, 2023 21:01:54 GMT
nah
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Post by infowar on Jan 4, 2023 3:42:51 GMT
Sounds good.
Im using built in 15wx4 amp in my car, onboard graphics on my pc.
Huge 7.1 amp would mess all of that up.
Somebody says dcm timeframe sing with a bunch of watts, but id probably blow them.
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Post by kc on Jan 6, 2023 0:51:00 GMT
Slowly working on resume. Been reading a bootlegged copy of "The Artist's Way" on my kindle. Trying to get back to creative roots. Part of the book is to start a morning routine of "Morning Pages" where you basically write three pages of rambling text of whatever is on your mind. It HAS to be three pages and without much thought put into it. The point being, you can only write three pages of the same stuff for so long before you finally end up fixing the issues to getting around to your todo list. Seems to be working. Trying to buy a new keyboard for my laptop since there are several OEM manufactures of that model's keyboard with the one made by LiteOn being the best. The current keyboard is crap.
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Post by kc on Jan 6, 2023 1:26:00 GMT
Please tell me about the speakers. Im using a $4 kinter chinkbox with two DCM timeframe speakers. Since amp can handle 4ohm I kinda want to wire another pair in paralell. I also have a Harmon 7.1 amp that I've never plugged in because worried about idle power draw. I have a huge collection of high end speakers and would like to use as many as I can. I also really like the sound of the DCM timeframes, happy with the size and look of them and the simplicity of the system. It is already beyond my needs and I still marvel at how it sounds at times after years. This is for watching newscasts, horror movies and king of the hill. Any suggestions?
More or less a long story. The stereo and speakers were stuck in the corner of our new house that we moved into like 4 years ago. Had plans to set up everything but wasn't sure how to arrange the living room (and I still ain't sure). But the kids were wanting to watch "The Lion King" for the first time since they found a $1 scratched up DVD at GoodWill. They gave me the DVD since I said that I "might be able to fix it" but instead I just bootlegged the blueray version off of torrent and threw it onto my Emby media PC. Figured the movie was good enough to warrant good sound so I got the stereo out and hooked up the speakers. Speakers are Polk Monitor 7B from the early 80's (bought from ebay in 2005 for like $250 shipped) but I have replaced the woofer with new ones from polk. Just left the stereo on the floor under the TV, will have to figure out what to hang it eventually, but at least we got decent sound now. Hooking everything up went mostly ok, a fuse on the back of the speaker was blown, not sure how, but it only protects the tweeter. Had a spare. Cleaned some terminals and stuff, sprayed some electronic cleaner on some switches on the stereo as I remember them being noisy the last time I had the stereo hooked up. The volume buttons on the remote didn't work. Took that apart. Apparently the carbon pad things were wore out. They had high resistance with an ohm meter while other working pads had a much lower 30 ohms or so. So rubbed some pencil lead on it which got the conductivity up enough to start working. Still working so far. I was changing the speaker wire because I had used what I first found which was some super thin like 24 gauge stuff. Found a length of some 20 gauge stuff about 20 feet long so I cut it in half and ran each 10 feet section to a speaker. Was playing around to see if it helped the bass response any (I typically like using 10 or 12 gauge wire). It kind of did. I used to be really careful with these speakers since they are "vintage" but I noticed in an old owner's manual that they were supposedly good for 130+ watts. Stereo manual says 120 watts per channel with 300 watts peak. Was curious if I could run a 60 hertz sine wave and then use normal multimeters to measure volts and amps going into the speaker wire and then get a real number. With the volume at 1/4, I was getting like 2 volts and 0.1 amps. Which seemed like way to low. Turned the volume up to 1/2 (which is way past way too loud normally) and managed get the amps to 1 and the volts at 25 at the stereo terminals and 22 at the speaker terminal (so there is a restrictive voltage drop across the wire). But that would only be like 25 watts a channel which still seemed too low and the 60 hz hum was loud enough to be rattling lots of stuff throughout the house. So got out the kill-a-watt meter and plugged the stereo into that. Measured 45 watts at idle and like 50 at 1/4 volume. At 1/2 volume was measuring 125 watts. So minus the base draw of 45 from 125 and you get 80 watts. Factor in a typical AB style amplifier efficiency of only 70% or so, and yea I guess I was getting 25 watts to each channel. Hmm.
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