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Yet you read it and posted in the topic, so for you it must have been a topical post. TLSguy should have PM'ed CNguyen777 with his pricing argument. I count one PM. The entire point of not price policing ... in many forums it's explicitly against the forum rules (I was surprised that is not...

Price Policing should be done via PM, not as a forum post.

Certainly the case, but one shouldn't interpret "[some weather event] highest / lowest on record" to mean since forever. Most places don't have any weather records dating back more than about 100 years ago, and it will be a long time before records created during the 1930's (severe decade-long...

Happy for your good result. Now, this is the internet. So you won't be hearing about my surgery, but I do understand the need to share among friends and family.

I went a little crazy at the Pawn Shop last night, they had a 30% off "Moonlight Madness" sale (doors open @ 8PM, closes @ Midnight). Sooo ... I bought a ceramic heater, 120V 1500W. For $C 11.00 [$US 8.35] Not very exciting but handy. Slightly more exciting ... an AKG C1000S (latest revision)...

RE: 70% alcohol That's a pretty decent practice, if a bit expensive. Soap and water works just as well, the key with either is a fairly significant amount of bacteria will remain as long as the surface is wet. With alcohol you only kill the majority (99.9% level) once the surface has completely...

Food Poisoning is tricky. It could have been something you ate a week ago. Hopefully your lab results will shed some light on it. I'm not convinced it could not be Staph, everyone has a different tolerance to it so no two people will react the same way with the same dose.

Had a buddy, his line was "I don't eat vegetables, I eat things that eat vegetables" " ... After cooling down a bit, I ate (3) of them. About an hour after doing so I became very nauseous ..." If it were food poisoning from samonella, symptoms would take more than an hour to develop, more like...

I'm not worried about my friends, and I still have former clients call me up for advice, almost 40 years after I left retail Audio. They know better, and they ask if they don't. But casual acquaintances can be a problem since you have to maintain a certain level of decorum so you can't just...

Some foodborne pathogens can be found on food that looks, smells, and tastes fine (Salmonella, Listeria). Turkey, Chicken and Ducks are very susceptible to Salmonella and Listeria. There is an ongoing Salmonella issue with Turkey in the USA right now...

I forget the details (and I don't spend my time digging around BOSE websites) but if I recall correctly he did the transfer even before he died, he had handed it over to different management before his passing. Not that it matters much to me (or you apparently) but I seem to recall reading that...

BOSE is a different company today than when Dr Bose owned and ran it. Their headphone offerings are reasonably good, sometimes excellent. Like a lot of companies who struggle to overcome past poor performance or value ... an automotive corollary is FRAM; very poor quality oil filters in the...

She's famous? Anyway I saw her live twice, both in concert hall venues, once in the late 70's and again around '83. I think she toured Canada and not the US in those days, but I'm not positive. We had good acts in my town even though it's off the regular air and rail routes, and in those days...

Pretty close. Start with good equipment, this would include loudspeakers, that work in the space you want to fill, you are looking for speakers that don't really need EQ if you can get away with it, and follow up with the electronics to drive those speakers properly. Room Treatment next, dealing...

Sorry, I can't ... or at least I won't, for free. There are books on the subject, read some, spend a few years doing live sound or pro installations or studio recording or AV installation and setup. Then you will be qualified to EQ a room. There's a reason why things like Anthem Room Correction...

A perfect example of EQ first / assemble quality equipment / treat the room, etc last. Almost always a fail. Also may be an example of improper use of EQ (for example perhaps boosting valleys; generally valleys should be ignored and only peaks reduced). Adjustments greater than 3dB and that is...

Have been listening to Edvard Grieg (Norwegian Romantic Period Composer) lately ... different albums of his work, not sure which I prefer yet. He worked with Franz List for a time, and wrote Sonatas for Piano, Violin, and Cello.

I don't think that Audiophiles are against EQ per se, but they are inclined to get the best frequency response possible first, and then if necessary after all avenues have been explored, use EQ. The non-Audiophile tends to do it the other way ... EQ first, upgrade source / amplification...

It's been done (many times). BRM ("Meridian")* probably being the best example ... the system they offered in the late 1990's was digital right to the individual loudspeaker driver, and employed proprietary switch mode amplifiers in the speaker enclosure that accepted a digital signal. They've...

Markup and margin are the same thing, expressed two ways. Whomever sets prices is probably working with true cost x markup. Whomever does the taxes and the annual financial statements is probably working with margin. But anyone in retail whose day to day tools doesn't involve a bucket and a mop...