Horrible Acoustics to just bad...

[itschris]

Well... I upgraded the room a bit. I bought a new bd player, so I knew the wife would have to get something of her own... we try to be fair... <cough cough>

Anyway... she tells me she wants to move the glass art glass cabinet out of the family room. I nearly started crying with joy since that's been the bane of my existence acoustic-wise since it sat about 4 feet from my speaker.

Foolish the way I am, I never should have thought the space would remain empty. No... "we" decided to get a new wine cabinet... not just a wine rack... nooooooo... a huge monster refridgerated wine cabinet to take it's place. <sigh>

The bad news is, there's still a lot of glass on it and it does get some odd sonic reflections, but the good news is... it's a huge improvement over the other cabinet. I can turn the fan off when we're doing critical movie watching of music listening since it can be distracting, but I still think it's improvement over the other cabinet. We moved everything around and appearance-wise everything looks much better... but the thing holds 500 bottles and I only had about 60... so I fear the next outing will be to get more wine.

At least it's baby steps in the right direction. The saga continues...

Here's some pics of the room and one of the newly moved art glass cabninet which I've been asked to put up better pics of before.

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[Adam]

Chris,

That glass art cabinet looks spectacular in the dark with that lighting. Very, very nice.

As for the wine cabinet...hmmm. While possibly loud with bad reflections, it's a big case of alcohol - I really can't pass judgement on it.

 

[Adam]

Oh, I forgot to mention - as with everything else of yours that I've seen, that wine cabinet is very tasteful. It appears to fit just right and blends in great with the wood floor.

 

[mike c]

acoustic panel on a stand with wheels?

 

[Adam]

acoustic panel on a stand with wheels?

While you're shopping for that, be sure to pick up some fresh ballpoint pens. As I understand it, there's a number of places that you'll need to sign those divorce papers.

 

[mike c]

i thought you wanted him to stab the wife with the pens.

 

[Davemcc]

Only 60 bottles of wine...sheesh. Amateur.


Just kidding. I've got a 6 bottle fridge that I don't even plug in because I've got nothing to put in it.

 

[itschris]

Oh, I forgot to mention - as with everything else of yours that I've seen, that wine cabinet is very tasteful. It appears to fit just right and blends in great with the wood floor.

Thanks a ton Adam. It does look nice there... it fits nice. It's a little more unassuming so it's not as distracting. I was sorda hoping I could have had the built-in built so I could put my equipment on display a bit, but oh well, the cabinet's nice too.

Thanks for the compliment!

 

[itschris]

Only 60 bottles of wine...sheesh. Amateur.


Just kidding. I've got a 6 bottle fridge that I don't even plug in because I've got nothing to put in it.

Well I used to think I had a nice assembly of wine, but it looks like nothing now in that cabinet. It sounds like a lot, but most of those bottles are very inexpensive. In fact one of the wines my Nancy likes best is a $6 chinen blanc and one of my favorites is about $9 so it's not as bad as it seems. We buy it by the case and get an even better deal. I'd say that 40 bottles are all under $10 and maybe the 20 are in the high end catagory but we only crack those for special occasions or when I get to sit by myself for a 2 or 3 hours and listen to music while Nancy and Christina are away.

it is funny though, I've noticed that the more you have on hand, the more you do drink it.

 

[itschris]

Only 60 bottles of wine...sheesh. Amateur.


Just kidding. I've got a 6 bottle fridge that I don't even plug in because I've got nothing to put in it.

You know, the best advice I ever heard on wine came from a guy who had a 4,000 bottle wine room in his home. He said There's $100 bottles of wine that should sell for $10 and there's $100 bottles that should in fact sell for $100. The one's you want are the $10 bottles that should sell for $100.

One winery you can't go wrong with is Hess. Overall, they just keep putting out really good wine for very fair prices. I met one of the guys from the winery and he was explaining that they have a very strict philosphy on pricing.. that it should be priced as the greatest value on any shelf it sits on. I think they do good by that.

 

[Adam]

Hess. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks, Chris!

The wines that I like are pretty cheap. I bought one of those fancy corkscrews, but as it turns out, the wines that I like have twist off caps. Yeah, I am one sophisticated dude. I do know what I like, though.

A holiday favorite? Manischewitz Concord Grape. Mmmm, tasty.

 

[Davemcc]

One thing I like about wine is that it's inexpensive. I just don't drink much at all anymore. The wine cooler really does make an impressive addition to the room.

 

[itschris]

I go through phases. I'll decide to go cold turkey sometimes for a month, 2, even 6. It's not enough to know that I do need a drink... I need to make sure I'm not aggrivated by not having one as well.

When I was about 27 or 28, I had had this major opportunity with the firm I was with and took over one of spin offs we did. I ran this company for about 2-3 years. It was great money, but the stress was unbelievable. I was working about 75-80 hourse a week. I've always been a tequila drinker and I when I came home I usually sip a couple of tequila on the rocks. One night when I was working at home on a Sunday preparing for the week, I was drinking tequila. I was pulling an all-nighter and found myself without anymore tequila. I was looking all around and couldn't find any. It was 3am and they stop selling booze at 2pm in Pinellas county. So what did I do? I remembered this drive through liquor store in Tampa. So I hoped in my car and started making he 40 minute trek. I got about half way across the causeway and I just pulled over. This is no joke... I pulled over and said this outloud to myself: It's 3am on Sunday. You'll be driving this same way... again in about 3 hours. You're in your underwear and your driving to Tampa to get tequila.

I sat there a second, got really scared about that, and turned the car around and went home. I didn't drink a drop for over a year so I could prove to myself that I wasn't in the midst of a problem. I guess that always kinda hung with me so I do like to "prove" to myself that alcohol is not important to me.

I do like a glass of wine and a good tequila, but if I was told I could never drink again, I don't think I'd care one way or the other. I'm just as fond of iced tea!

 

[Adam]

Chris, that is a good story. Thanks for sharing it.

Makes me thirsty. J/K. Well, I am going to have a beer now, but I was going to have one anyway. I figure that I don't have a problem because I'm wearing pants.

 

[Davemcc]

On the other hand, driving 40 minutes in your underwear for a shot of tequila shows commitment. Quitting is for quitters.

 

[Adam]

As always, Dave, I enjoy your perspective.

 

[jamie2112]

On the other hand, driving 40 minutes in your underwear for a shot of tequila shows commitment. Quitting is for quitters.

Kind of like "only users lose drugs"......Good story Chris...

 

[ParadigmDawg]

This is the exact reason I hang out with people who make more money than me. When I run out of booze at 3 am, I just call them and say I need to stop by and grab a bottle. They have better stuff than I would have bought for myself.

I This is no joke... I pulled over and said this outloud to myself: It's 3am on Sunday. You'll be driving this same way... again in about 3 hours. You're in your underwear and your driving to Tampa to get tequila.

I sat there a second, got really scared about that, and turned the car around and went home. I didn't drink a drop for over a year so I could prove to myself that I wasn't in the midst of a problem. I guess that always kinda hung with me so I do like to "prove" to myself that alcohol is not important to me.
!

 

[Midcow2]

Well the government is working on helping you abstention

I go through phases. I'll decide to go cold turkey sometimes for a month, 2, even 6. It's not enough to know that I do need a drink... I need to make sure I'm not aggrivated by not having one as well.

When I was about 27 or 28, I had had this major opportunity with the firm I was with and took over one of spin offs we did. I ran this company for about 2-3 years. It was great money, but the stress was unbelievable. I was working about 75-80 hourse a week. I've always been a tequila drinker and I when I came home I usually sip a couple of tequila on the rocks. One night when I was working at home on a Sunday preparing for the week, I was drinking tequila. I was pulling an all-nighter and found myself without anymore tequila. I was looking all around and couldn't find any. It was 3am and they stop selling booze at 2pm in Pinellas county. So what did I do? I remembered this drive through liquor store in Tampa. So I hoped in my car and started making he 40 minute trek. I got about half way across the causeway and I just pulled over. This is no joke... I pulled over and said this outloud to myself: It's 3am on Sunday. You'll be driving this same way... again in about 3 hours. You're in your underwear and your driving to Tampa to get tequila.

I sat there a second, got really scared about that, and turned the car around and went home. I didn't drink a drop for over a year so I could prove to myself that I wasn't in the midst of a problem. I guess that always kinda hung with me so I do like to "prove" to myself that alcohol is not important to me.

I do like a glass of wine and a good tequila, but if I was told I could never drink again, I don't think I'd care one way or the other. I'm just as fond of iced tea!

Hey Chris the government has heard you pleas for abstention of Tequilla. So the introduced this phenomenal idea of Ethanol to help oil reserves. Only they forgot that it required corn, lots and lots of it. so the price of corn for corn fed beef to every thing else that uses corn went up and they found that Agave fields could be plowed under and used to grow corn for more profit. So the remaining agave fields are less and tless and the Agave necter, Tequilla, will begin costing a lot more. So Ethanol has been an economic nightmare the governement dreamed up and will continue to be because it takes fives years of growth before Agave can be harvested to produce Tequilla.

Anyway, getting back to the subject at hand, it is said that a full wine cooler with all 60 slots fulls has significantly better audio absorption /reflection characteristics that one that is only 1/10 full. Just a rumor though


Good Luck,

MidCow2

 

[itschris]

About a year ago I bought two cases of tequila at a tasting and try to save the good stuff for nursing. I actually like to drink it on the rocks. I only do shots now and then and for that I'm usually okay with 1800 or any of the better Suaza's since if I start doing shots, 1 wil usually turn into 10 sometime by the end of the night.

I've been sorda lucky and missed the big price increases siince I have some inventory and haven't been drinking very much at all.

Corn... who would've ever thought it'd be the focal point of so much that is wrong.