Really Boring Stuff Only III: Resurrection

[Adam]

Crap, my LG plasma in the living room just died. For what I can find on the net two boards just fried. Ugh.

Man, that SUCKS!

 

[monkish54]

Sorry to hear that, man.

Perhaps this will cheer you up:

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[Adam]

I installed an SSD in my Mac Mini this afternoon. Turns out, the disappointing level of noise from the hard drive and fan was, it now appears, to have been just the hard drive. I had the original drive plugged in externally, and holy ish that thing is loud. I don't recall having a hard drive make a fan noise before.

It's only been on for a few minutes now (doing an internet recovery of OS X), but so far - silence. Ahhhhh. Now, THAT is what I paid for.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

Crap, my LG plasma in the living room just died. For what I can find on the net two boards just fried. Ugh.

The LG we bought for my In-Laws died a few months ago. I replaced it with and inexpensive Visio. They are happy.

 

[adk highlander]

Thanks guys. For now I am going to take the LCD out of the theater and just use the projector down there. Not in the position now to buy another TV.

 

[Alex2507]

Crap, my LG plasma in the living room just died. For what I can find on the net two boards just fried. Ugh.

You want me to see if I can fix it?

 

[Alex2507]

... noise from the hard drive ...

Noise !!!

What Noise ?!?

 

[Adam]

I just played SCII with my brother, and after we finished a game, I can barely hear the Mini. I can hear the fan if I get close enough, but it's nothing like it was before. Soooo much nicer. I must have gotten a bad hard drive, but no biggie because it's been replaced.

 

[Davemcc]

I finally took the new Pioneer Elite receiver out of the living room system and put the Integra back in it's place. I think it's an improvement in both audio and video quality. It only took me a year to get around to doing it...but I did it.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

. Not in the position now to buy another TV.

Once you get off the couch, you will be in the position to buy another TV....It's not really that difficult and they don't care if stand, sit or are rolled in.

 

[Alex2507]

I finally took the new Pioneer Elite receiver out of the living room system and put the Integra back in it's place. I think it's an improvement in both audio and video quality. It only took me a year to get around to doing it...but I did it.

I think it's weird that while I'm really an objectivist, I think I can hear a difference in my last two H/T rec'rs and my last two sub amps. The main thing is that I'm moving in the right direction ... even if it is only in my head.

I can't wait to hear the imagined sonic improvement a B&K amp will make on my SongTowers.

Let the AudioFoolery rage on.

 

[Bryceo]

I've been working on my car all week fixing the rear lights still can't get my blinkers or reveres lights to work

 

[Adam]

I snagged this Windows background image for my Mini. I know, I know...

I'm posting it because I think the high res version is spectacular.

 

[avnetguy]

I snagged this Windows background image for my Mini. I know, I know...

I'm shocked ... I thought Niki in the Arizona snow would have been on there for sure!

Steve

 

[Adam]

I'm shocked ... I thought Niki in the Arizona snow would have been on there for sure!

Steve

My photography skills look better when shown on a phone's screen or when scaled down to about 25% of their original size. High resolution isn't my friend.

That said, you now have me inspired to load the original images from my phone to here.

 

[hizzaah]

And I dig myself deeper.. I forgot the cable and hulu bills auto drafted last night. Combined with the bank fee (which I should be able to have reversed) my account is overdrawn by about $60**that's like half of my groceries for the next month... *sigh*....

 

[Adam]

And I dig myself deeper.. I forgot the cable and hulu bills auto drafted last night. Combined with the bank fee (which I should be able to have reversed) my account is overdrawn by about $60**that's like half of my groceries for the next month... *sigh*....

Good luck with the fee, man. That's probably about half of that, right?

 

[hizzaah]

Good luck with the fee, man. That's probably about half of that, right?

Yeah, it's $34 of the $63. Since I have a college account they allow me to drop one insufficient funds fee a year. Think it has been about 2 since the last time I did it.

I usually have a good hold on my finances, it just got away from me this past week I guess.

 

[Davemcc]

I think it's weird that while I'm really an objectivist, I think I can hear a difference in my last two H/T rec'rs and my last two sub amps. The main thing is that I'm moving in the right direction ... even if it is only in my head.

I can't wait to hear the imagined sonic improvement a B&K amp will make on my SongTowers.

Let the AudioFoolery rage on.

I think in this case it's a subjective difference. I don't think the Class D amps play nice with low impedance, low sensitivity speakers like my Dynaudio. The Rotel seems to deliver the kind of power the speakers want.

 

[Alex2507]

I think in this case it's a subjective difference. I don't think the Class D amps play nice with low impedance, low sensitivity speakers like my Dynaudio. The Rotel seems to deliver the kind of power the speakers want.

Wouldn't that be an objective difference? ... as in a real difference?

I'm taking the Yamaha RX-V2600 out of the ManTown 2.2 system to put it into the living room 7.2 H/T. I'm wondering whether or not to hook up an Aragon 2007 to the Salk front stage or if I should just leave well enough alone with just the Yamaha.