Audio Review Moderators.....

[jneutron]

I avoid the segregated Audio Lab at AR like the plague--and apparently, so does practically everyone else.

Yup..who'd want to go there? Heck, even this place with that mechanical engineer guy near the top is better..

Cheers, John

 

[philh]

Yup..who'd want to go there? Heck, even this place with that mechanical engineer guy near the top is better..

Cheers, John

Hey, at least mechanical numbers don't deal with imaginary number

 

[FLZapped]

...so much for the "steel cage" bravado...I seem to have made TtT disenchanted with AR...at least in dealing with me...

I simply said a few words in support of mtrycrafts and AH in general(as did PatD) in light of some of the rhetoric spewed forth over there...spew is a good word...

jimHJJ(...much like some of the advice given, terrible, simply terrible...)

P.S. OH WOW!!! 200 posts...do I get a cookie?...

For what it's worth, I reported two of his posts. It got Eric's attention, but he is the one who came up with that stupid Steel Cage thing, which violates AR forum rules. Says you and I were the only one's complaining about TTT.....well, why should anyone have a complaint about a moderator and his behavior towards any member in the first place?

Ah ain't gonna hold mah breath on this one.....

-Bruce

 

[Mudcat]

Heck, even this place with that mechanical engineer guy near the top is better..

Cheers, John

Meeeeeee, I'm not at the top of anything, cept maybe the Drapers (I wish).

 

[Resident Loser]

Hi guys...

...pardon my mass response...PatD, JN, FLZ...

In no particular order, TtT seems to think he's BMOC. Everything is cool so long as no one dares dispute him...

He's made some big errors with some of his post's and tossed around jargon like it's supposed to impress everyone, like he can do no wrong...unfortunately there's me...Being an iconoclast at heart, I took issue with one such bit of supposed "info", even providing background info (easily corroborated) re: digital recording history...he ignored it, no actually worse than that, he claimed it was a typo(however I pre-empted that contingency in my presentation). Without going into all the boring details, I've brought it up on three separate, yet somewhat related, occasions. I've even offered to apologize if I somehow misrepresented the facts...all I've gotten has been insults re: my age and/ or abilities...he don't like to be wrong.

Then there was, as one of the AR members put it "The battle of New Orleans" and we went toe-to-toe on that for any number of posts...then the mtry, AH flap, which has developed into a whole 'nother thing...most recently, TtT gave what I considered really poor info to some newb re: false walls and loudspeakers...so I was a bad boy and pretty much said it might not be a good idea for any number of what I see as valid reasons. Well, TtT don't like it when someone questions his omniscience and we're off to the races again...

This character has the world convinced of his infallibility...well, 'ceptin' me of course...again, I'm just presenting info as a counter to his "I am the mighty THX-empowered master of all things HT" act. IMHO he's really full of it, and no one has the moxie to call him on any of it...and his position of "im"moderator(he didn't like that) only reinforces that persona...

I haven't complained to ericl for a long while re: TtTs behavior...in fact the only time I did(some while ago) I seemed to get a tacit acknowledgement of there actually being a problem with his performance as mod...in fact he was conspicuous by his absence for a month or so...I like to think ericl gave him a distinct time-out, but that's probably not it, just a coincidence.

So as it happens, we have what started out as a look back on ARs past which has morphed into "whatever" in the "steel cage" because twinkletoes fails at reading comprehension and abstract thought. But say that, and all the threats start...

We'll see...

jimHJJ(...je suis que je suis et ne plus pas rien...or sumphin like that...)

 

[jneutron]

Meeeeeee, I'm not at the top of anything, cept maybe the Drapers (I wish).

Drapers??

Isn't Gene's brother a mech eng? Or was it Gene??

I dunno...I won't quibble...I'll just look down my nose at both of em... (equal opportunity snobbery)

Cheers, John

 

[jneutron]

Hey there Jim..

Discontinue all attempts at evaluating him based on intellect or logic..you will fail.

You represent a threat. period. And you are dealt with as such.

Taint logic driving the responses..tis emotion. My guess is insecurity.

Lots of that goin around on the web. Just look at AA.

jimHJJ(...je suis que je suis et ne plus pas rien...or sumphin like that...)

Oh yah??? well, same to you..buddy..

Cheers, John

PS...didn't that "discontinue all...." sentence sound intellectual-like?? Oh man, I'm cool.. frosty, even...

 

[Mudcat]

Drapers??

Yeah,the Charles Stark Draper Prize, that annual $0.5 mil award given to engineers by the National Academy of Engineering because the Swedish academy of sciences (Nobel Prize) dissed engineers.


I was floated around as a nomime back in the 80's for some magneto-hydrodynamic work but the Navy wouldn't let any details so it didn't go far. But there were also other drawbacks

1)it took over 7000 kW to make a 140 foot yacht go 7 knots
2)every compass around Tokyo bay pointed to the boat
3)we had to dump several pound of radioactive cesium into the water to make it work
4)we gave up when a JAL 747 tried to land on the boat (see #2)

Isn't Gene's brother a mech eng? Or was it Gene??

Steve

 

[jneutron]

Yeah,the Charles Stark Draper Prize, that annual $0.5 mil award given to engineers by the National Academy of Engineering because the Swedish academy of sciences (Nobel Prize) dissed engineers.


I was floated around as a nomime back in the 80's for some magneto-hydrodynamic work but the Navy wouldn't let any details so it didn't go far. But there were also other drawbacks

1)it took over 7000 kW to make a 140 foot yacht go 7 knots
2)every compass around Tokyo bay pointed to the boat
3)we had to dump several pound of radioactive cesium into the water to make it work
4)we gave up when a JAL 747 tried to land on the boat (see #2)

Steve

Well, congrats on the distinction, even if ya couldn't get the press.. Yah, if someone gets the nobel on something I made, I also will be a very small pimple on the backside...

1. Shoulda had a superconducting magnet..once you cool the persistance switch, it requires zero external power to maintain the field..then, it's all fridge losses and water drop.

2. If the external field of the MHD was that strong, you obviously needed some of the guys I work with. They'da designed the external field to be under half a gauss. It's all in a day's work for them..

3. Guess the cesium was to ionize? Or, did it somehow suppress hydrolysis?.

4. Yah, but at least the nose gear was probably pointing in the right direction..

Some of the stuff we work with is so cool, isn't it?

Cheers, John

 

[Tom Andry]

Well, congrats on the distinction, even if ya couldn't get the press.. Yah, if someone gets the nobel on something I made, I also will be a very small pimple on the backside...

1. Shoulda had a superconducting magnet..once you cool the persistance switch, it requires zero external power to maintain the field..then, it's all fridge losses and water drop.

2. If the external field of the MHD was that strong, you obviously needed some of the guys I work with. They'da designed the external field to be under half a gauss. It's all in a day's work for them..

3. Guess the cesium was to ionize? Or, did it somehow suppress hydrolysis?.

4. Yah, but at least the nose gear was probably pointing in the right direction..

Some of the stuff we work with is so cool, isn't it?

Cheers, John

Damn! That was like four posts in a row where I understood every word (a record) then you drop this on me....now, where is my dictionary again....

 

[jneutron]

Damn! That was like four posts in a row where I understood every word (a record) then you drop this on me....now, where is my dictionary again....

I was kinda hopin you'd provide some more daffynitions..was that you a while back that made those funny ones in the superconducting wire thread??

Persistance switch..if you make a magnet with superconducting wire, and can short the terminals together after the magnet is energized, the current will continue to flow long after the power supply has been disconnected. MRI guys do this, they ramp the current in the magnet, throw the shorting switch, then disconnect the supply..it will stay at the right field for weeks at a time. Sometimes they have a mechanical contact to short the terminals, sometimes they use superconductor shorting piece, but keep the shorting piece warm, like 20 Kelvin, and it is a resistor..when they let it cool down, it becomes the super short.. Since the magnetic field requirement for an mri is roughly 1 part in 10⁹ stability, power supplies cannot regulate to that precision, and the persistant mode of operation is the best.

Water drop is the voltage across the water when they push current through it..if they have 1000 amps of current, and 100 volts of drop, that is 100 kilowatts of heat lost. Tracking a ship or sub would only require following the boiling water..

A gauss is a unit of magnetic field. A Tesla is 10,000 gauss. Superconductor magnets run from 2 to 10 Tesla in industry, earth's magnetic field is about one half gauss. Regular copper wire magnets are very hard to make over 2 Tesla without melting the copper.

Ionize: Water is not very conductive. If you can ionize it, you might be able to increase the conductivity..that reduces the heating of the water..that 1000 amp times 100 volts...lower the resistance, that 100 volts goes down. Some radiation is called ionizing, because it has enough energy to remove an electron from an atom, causing it to be positively charged.

Hydrolysis is using electrical current to convert water to hydrogen and oxygen.

Nose gear: what is found on the cashier in the clothing boutique at the mall.

Cheers, John

 

[Mudcat]

2. If the external field of the MHD was that strong, you obviously needed some of the guys I work with. They'da designed the external field to be under half a gauss. It's all in a day's work for them..

Hey, we were just a bunch of MEs with funding, what did we know about magnets.

3. Guess the cesium was to ionize? Or, did it somehow suppress hydrolysis?.

Purely ionization.

 

[FLZapped]

Hey there Jim..

Discontinue all attempts at evaluating him based on intellect or logic..you will fail.

You represent a threat. period. And you are dealt with as such.

Taint logic driving the responses..tis emotion. My guess is insecurity.

Lots of that goin around on the web. Just look at AA.

I think AA has been better off that AR of late....

-Bruce

 

[markw]

I think AA has been better off that AR of late....

-Bruce

...and, from the number of new posts at AR as of late, I'd say many, many people agree with you.

Them new mods certainly drew in the hits, didn't they?

 

[FLZapped]

...and, from the number of new posts at AR as of late, I'd say many, many people agree with you.

Them new mods certainly drew in the hits, didn't they?

Well, yes, if you're thinking of a baseball bat between the legs.....

 

[markw]

Obviously it's what they want.

They wanted a more "upscale friendly" site that, IMNSHO, was more advertiser friendly. By frowning on any objective views in favor of subjective ones they think they will attain that goal.

And, I remember one of the mods looking down on this site by saying it's only for newbies and HT. And what, might I ask, is AR's main user base interested in?

I'm still waiting for some serious FAQ's and technical articles like this site has.

But hey, they should probably thank this site for the publicity it generates for them. As they say in the biz, bad publicity is better than none at all.