It's a little late to find generators, and they really tick off the neighbors. I may have to cancel out on the Audio Fest if PEPCO doesn't get me back on line until this weekend. I have to ship speakers, and there just won't be time to get two pairs of show speakers ready. Bummer.Time to invest in a nice generator. Where's FEMA when we need them, national emergency if the Phils are delayed
What I thought too. If anything, it's for the worse. No way. Ain't doing it. Forget about it.
If I were a millionaire, I would retire and take care of my kids full-time. Love it too.Hanging with the kids solo is always a lot of fun for me, so I don't mind. Go figure it's the weekend of CAF, though.
Stay cool Dennis and here's to hoping life gets back to normal soon. Cheers!
Thanks for trying it! You hear what you hear. I won't disagree with what you hear.
You have entered into.................do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do........the Twilight Zone.
Never too late for generators, be prepared.
They don't drink. Or at least not nearly as much as I am. Still no power. Tick tock.Never too late for generators, be prepared.
The neighbors won't mind the noise at all when you hand them an ice-cold beer
There is a picture of the crossover on the philharmonic website, you should be able to discern a few parts from that and I believe some of the parts are quoted in the descriptions of the websites. And yes the parts are upgradable to whatever you want for additional cost, but as the website says it isn't recommended.
All of the philharmonics use the same brand and grade of components. All of the capacitors are polypropylene, including the big hog woofer cap, which costs me over 30 bucks a pop. The woofer and midrange caps are Solens. The tweeter caps are the more expensive Clarity Cap PX series. I'm not sure they sound any better, but they're blue, and that's kind of cool. The series inductors in the midrange are 16 ga air cores, and very low dcr steel laminates in the woofer circuit. The low insertion loss is critical to the transmission line tuning. All resistors are Mundorf non-inductive. As I say on the website, I'll spend any amount of money you want on more expensive components, but I would prefer that you give it to the poor or make a contribution to the Philharmonic Audio emergency backup generator fund. BTW, the good folk at PEPCO now inform me that I shouldn't expect power until Sunday. I'm at the very bottom of the priority list because I have a downed wire feeding only one house.
That's some of the best reasoning I've heard for choosing brands of caps for audio circuits.
While PEPCO's reasoning makes perfect sense, and I'd want them to have that strategy if I lived in your area, my deepest sympathy for what must be a hugely inconvenient, uncomfortable, and frustrating situation.
so sorry to hear that Dennis, if you need a place to stay cool I'm an hour from you with a down stairs in-law suite ready to go....
We're all probably to blame for the current disaster--the only solution is to bury cables underground, and there would ge howls of protest if we were asked to pay for it. I suspect that PEPCO is doing the best they can, and I feel fortunate that I can almost afford to stay at the local Marriott. OK--i can't afford it. Send money.
I'm actually more critical of the utility industry. While your particular situation might be not be cost-effective to solve with buried cable, I suspect some strategic line burying would have dramatically reduced the coverage area of the outages. Unfortunately, my experience with the power industry is that they learn very little from the past, and invest only when required by statute. Regulated monopolies always get dumb.
the real limiting factor is that the cost of ditching and burying lines which can be really expensive as compared to overhead cables and usually equate to about $10 a foot to bury.
I'm aware of the issues. My spouse works in the power industry, so I'm hearing about utility problems every day. My original comments stand. Strategic line burying carried out over decades would be a trivial factor in their operational budgets. Storms are nothing new anywhere in the US. But when you are a regulated monopoly innovative thinking and acting in the interest of the public good aren't required. It's only about doing the minimum.
Well, I used to teach the economics of regulation, and there's no substitute for competition. So I'm sure PEPCO could have done far better over the years. I'm just trying to stay objective about my personal situation. But if they don't show up tomorrow, shove this objectivity stuff.
