Small Cannons

[Tomorrow]

.....sounds mighty good, SheepStar....everything starts with a plan.....

Perhaps you explained this before I came on board, Mulie. But inquiring minds want to know.....what happened to the first 6 Mulesters?

 

[mulester7]

Perhaps you explained this before I came on board, Mulie. But inquiring minds want to know.....what happened to the first 6 Mulesters?

.....I've been mulester7@hotmail since I started pecking on keyboards in the middle of 2000, RJBudz....seven is a cool number to me, and signifies completion in The Bible....then there was that movie, The Magnificent Seven, there's seven days in a week, seven active brain cells in my head, so on and so forth, you know, RJ.....

 

[mulester7]

.....Guys, easily acquired damping for my theater was gained this day, let us rejoice....I was driving down the road in the Pinto minding my own, when a picture of Elvis was getting bigger and bigger as I approached an intersection....a guy was selling Elvis rectangular rugs for 40 bucks that measure 5' 4" by 7' 8", across the intersection on the parking lot of a drug store, and his van pulled a trailer that had framework to fully hang about 10 of the almost 8 foor long rugs, you know, you've seen 'em....I turned in and got out....the print of the picture on the rugs looked real good up close, and magnificent from about 6-8 feet away....I bought 4 of them with a sucessful low-ball pitch, haha, and the hatchback of the Pinto rode unhitched on the ride home blocked by a paint can to not mash the Elvis rugs sticking out....esteemed colleagues, just picture my theater with HUGE pictures of Elvis Presley on the walls with that head laid back singin'....I dare ya'....now you'll all be jealous, I can see it now.....

 

[surveyor]

.....Guys, easily acquired damping for my theater was gained this day, let us rejoice....I was driving down the road in the Pinto minding my own, when a picture of Elvis was getting bigger and bigger as I approached an intersection....a guy was selling Elvis rectangular rugs for 40 bucks that measure 5' 4" by 7' 8", across the intersection on the parking lot of a drug store, and his van pulled a trailer that had framework to fully hang about 10 of the almost 8 foor long rugs, you know, you've seen 'em....I turned in and got out....the print of the picture on the rugs looked real good up close, and magnificent from about 6-8 feet away....I bought 4 of them with a sucessful low-ball pitch, haha, and the hatchback of the Pinto rode unhitched on the ride home blocked by a paint can to not mash the Elvis rugs sticking out....esteemed colleagues, just picture my theater with HUGE pictures of Elvis Presley on the walls with that head laid back singin'....I dare ya'....now you'll all be jealous, I can see it now.....

Please post pictures?
We wan't to see your new amp. also?
We need pictures to verify from fact or fiction!

 

[Sheep]

I agree.

You need to get this digital camera thing down and start using it!

Mule, check out my up and coming "small canon"

And this is the Amp that is uses.

http://www.partexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Partnumber=300-804

The only difference in the amp is mine has an Audio Video switch. The video setting boosts the 30Hz signal by 6dB. It also has an attached power cord. Other then that, they are the exact same.

This is the subwoofer before the driver blew.

http://www.pro-linear.com/basscube.htm

The box is an 11 3/4 inch Cube, and its sealed.

SheepStar

 

[mulester7]

Mule, check out my up and coming "small canon"

And this is the Amp that is uses.

SheepStar

.....Sheep, which speaker element is going back in the box?....that amp section looks very good, and it looks like you and me both are going to be up to our butts in small cannons.....

 

[Sheep]

.....Sheep, which speaker element is going back in the box?....that amp section looks very good, and it looks like you and me both are going to be up to our butts in small cannons.....

Don't know about driver yet. I have been talking with WaMx and he gave me tips on choosing a driver for such a small enclosure (.5 cubic feet internal volume)

SheepStar

 

[mulester7]

We need pictures to verify from fact or fiction!

......well, Surveyor, I guess you done caught me....I really got two boomboxes like Mtry, and a turbo clock-radio with 4000 watt mono amp....just kidding, I will get some pictures asap, but don't know how high up the ladder I want to go with a digital camera.....not sure what they will do yet....am going to make some calls today.....Earthquake 5 channel amp could show today......

 

[mulester7]

Don't know about driver yet. I have been talking with WaMx and he gave me tips on choosing a driver for such a small enclosure (.5 cubic feet internal volume)

SheepStar

.....Sheep, if WmAx doesn't know his stuff, he's sure got me fooled....mighty good man.......

 

[mulester7]

.....about the rugs for the walls.....let me say first I'm confused....the ones I bought are 53 inches wide, like it says in the link site, and will catch 16 inch centers on wall studs to break perfect on 16 inch center studs behind your sheetrock or paneling....well not perfect, 54 would be perfect, but you can still catch the stud on the inside part both left and right, know what I mean?.....here's the confusing part....all four of mine are a full 88 5/8 long, and the site gives the same model numbers, but says 77 inches long....I think there's a mistake in that 77....mine are almost 89....I'm going to call them tomorrow, and ask for sure....anyhow, here are the four I got, and I got two of the tiger....I'm going to get another Egyptian also, and the two egyptians will be the back wall of my home theater...the elephant one, will be hung as high as possible behind my seven foot fish tank, and should look great....the rugs, in person, viewed from the same scale distance as these pictures, looks mighty close....I love them, they have set my theater free for GREAT damping sections and neat walls....sure, you wouldn't want to do this in your formal dining room, or living room, but you sure could in a dedicated theater in a spare bedroom....these look great, did I already say that?....here's links to the three different types I got, and then the site home page, which gives options to different styles of image....be careful, some have different sizes....keep in mind....my four rugs are 7 feet, 4 and 5/8 inches, by 5 feet, 3 inches.....I believe the site is wrong at 77 tall when the given width is 53....anyhow, mine are "over" 7 FEET, by "over" 5 FEET....picture that on a theater wall....

http://www.dormrugs.com/asccustompages/products.asp?LargePic=ALL&productID=360

.....this second one I got is 88 5/8 "wide" and 63 "tall"....

http://www.dormrugs.com/asccustompages/products.asp?LargePic=ALL&productID=261

.....this third one is back tall again....over seven feet....

http://www.dormrugs.com/asccustompages/products.asp?LargePic=ALL&productID=139

.....and the site....

http://www.dormrugs.com/asccustompages/categories.asp

.....guys, these rugs are from the Rama Collection by Merinero's located in Turkey, woven on mechanized looms actually in Turkey, think rugs, using cheap labor, sure, but they are quality, with a staunchly woven bordering....one last time, I honestly love them.....

 

[mulester7]

.....revisement.....the rugs "are", 63 inches by 89 inches....didn't have my reading glasses on, but that little foot sign was easy to miss at the site on the 7' 7", and, the 5' 3", but I reported what I measured with the Stanley tape....one last time....my four are 63 inches, by 89 inches, the same that's reported at the site, and I already said last time, but I really love them for what's coming up in my dungeon.....

 

[mulester7]

.....and, I'm still confused, because 7'7" is 91 inches, but my four rugs lying flat on the floor measure 89....I guess they stretch a little down....that would sure fill it up from ceiling molding to baseboard with 8 foot ceilings, wouldn't it?....these have quality....on the back you see the 63 inch tiny strips of what appears to be wood the thick thread of the rug is woven around....that gives a strong skeletal framework you can see from the back....the edge all around is strikingly stitched with a border-roll WELL secured....I am most pleased and I suspect I will start soon in the dungeon with the walls....waiting on the amp....thinking about early pop on a camera....no need to build boxes for the small cannons until further along....gone for the day....a friend told me I needed to get a job, haha....told him I had one, a goooood one......

 

[majorloser]

Mule, I also used a rug on the back wall between the in-walls. Worked out good. Hanging was the only PITA. Used a 2x2 with finishing nails through the rug into the 2x2.

 

[surveyor]

......well, Surveyor, I guess you done caught me....I really got two boomboxes like Mtry, and a turbo clock-radio with 4000 watt mono amp....just kidding, I will get some pictures asap, but don't know how high up the ladder I want to go with a digital camera.....not sure what they will do yet....am going to make some calls today.....Earthquake 5 channel amp could show today......

Congradulations on the amp Mule, I'm jealous!
My wife is a big elvis fan, so she'll enjoy seing those rugs.
Don't spend on a camera on my acount though!!

 

[mulester7]

Mule, I also used a rug on the back wall between the in-walls. Worked out good. Hanging was the only PITA. Used a 2x2 with finishing nails through the rug into the 2x2.

.....Major, I dread the task....these rugs are fairly heavy, and will probably require hitting the wall studs with finishing nails....then again, with paneling, you don't want to NOT hit the stud, know what I mean?....I will check if colors are offered on the inch long finishing nails....I can't wait to get these four rugs up on the walls....I already have dark-brown-stained four-foot 2x2's four feet high from the baseboards on every stud of the paneling around the horseshoe of the TV end and short-sides of my room, for the mini-barns to be solid and not buzz the paneling....all I have to do now is run an unstained 2x2 top nailer around the top of the horseshoe end of the room, pushed up against the small crown molding up high, then take unstained 2x2 nailer pieces from the top of the ones I already got on up to the top plate I've just nailed around the horseshoe end up high....I will cover between the upright rugs with short black carpet a solid 8 feet tall, using those same nailer pieces sometimes bridging over one or two, with the end of the black carpet hanging loose a couple inches past the upright nailer where carpet and rug meet....the rug will come to the nailer you just overlapped short with the black carpet, see that in your head?....in short, I'm going to let the black carpet fill in between the upright rugs, and the rug hung flush on the nailers they reach, with the black carpet filler overlapping the nailer the rug will reach, and the overlap of the back carpet is hidden, whew.......it's all 16 inch centers, guys, 24 will work ok, but you're more prone to have to have a nailer not secured to a wall-stud, but secured to the wall material........now picture mule hanging a 2x2 between studs on sheetrock with a big hammer........I say again, you guys pushing room conditions were right all along, Nick....amazing effect on imaging across the front soundstage....that slave amp come in yet, Nick, haha.......

 

[mulester7]

Congradulations on the amp Mule, I'm jealous!
My wife is a big elvis fan, so she'll enjoy seing those rugs.
Don't spend on a camera on my acount though!!

.....Surveyor, I been wanting a new camera anyway, as my Canon EOS film-system is 20 years old....it still works like a champ, but I wanted a new camera whether it was film or digital for new technology, and I really wanted a digital so I could post pictures like you guys do....soooo, "TODAY", I, "ORDERED", a digital camera body, aaaand, one, autofocus fixed-focal-length lens, not a zoom, no zooms this time, or teleconverters, "YAY"!!....correct, """PLASTIC""", haha....I'm excited....for the lens, I will buy a 52 mm skylight protective filter, 52 mm circular polarizer, and 52 mm lens-hood from a local guy who helped me decide to go ahead and get the camera body and lens I was already considering, even though I have all of those 52 mm sized accessories in a camera case that holds my first real camera with meter....and, those accessories are about 25 years old, I want new stuff, and filters and rubber hoods are cheap....guys, listen, a rubber hood on your SLR lens looks magnificent and costs about four bucks....tell the guy at the shop what your lens is though, as most require various degreed rubber hoods....rubber pop-out hoods cover side lights that could impair your exposure and picture, but what they mainly do is look cool........anyhow, I ordered online for the body and lens, but I will get those accessories from the local guy, even though I could have gotten the accessories with the online package cheaper....I appreciate the local guy, and will visit him some in his shop....he was amazing to talk to....he had done some film exposures at night off a tripod in the past, and stepped right into doing the same with digital some....just the person I needed to talk to....the digital body I've ordered I was probably going to order anyway from reading, an S model, but he gave endorsement and approval to the camera body for my applications desired.....the S model, has special filtering against digital noise coming with long exposures in low light, (that's huge for night tripod shooting), and the S model meters a full 30 seconds at one end of manual or automatic for overkill deep in image quality, also huge for night tripod shooting....I'm tickled and there ain't a feather in sight, boys....don't figure I'll see it until after the 25th....I may be slingin' pictures at this here site right and left, who knows?....I'll try to shoot the capital building here in Little Rock before they turn off the Christmas lights Jan 1....will check tomorrow for local grocery store deals on generic crackers.....

 

[surveyor]

.....Surveyor, I been wanting a new camera anyway, as my Canon EOS film-system is 20 years old....it still works like a champ, but I wanted a new camera whether it was film or digital for new technology, and I really wanted a digital so I could post pictures like you guys do....soooo, I "ORDERED" a digital camera body, aaaand, one autofocus fixed-focal-length lens, not a zoom, no zooms this time, or teleconverters, ""TODAY"", "YAY"!!....correct, """PLASTIC""", haha....I'm excited....for the lens, I will buy a 52 mm skylight protective filter, 52 mm circular polarizer, and 52 mm lens-hood from a local guy who helped me decide to go ahead and get the camera body and lens I was already considering, even though I have all of those 52 mm sized accessories in a camera case that holds my first real camera with meter....and, those accessories are about 25 years old, I want new stuff, and filters and rubber hoods are cheap....guys, listen, a rubber hood on your SLR lens looks magnificent and costs about four bucks....tell the guy at the shop what your lens is though, as most require various degreed rubber hoods....rubber pop-out hoods cover side lights that could impair your exposure and picture, but what they mainly do is look cool........anyhow, I ordered online for the body and lens, but I will get those accessories from the local guy, even though I could have gotten the accessories with the online package cheaper....I appreciate the local guy, and will visit him some in his shop....he was amazing to talk to....he had done some film exposures at night off a tripod in the past, and stepped right into doing the same with digital some....just the person I needed to talk to....the digital body I've ordered I was probably going to order anyway from reading, an S model, but he gave endorsement and approval to the camera body for my applications desired.....the S model, has special filtering against digital noise coming with long exposures in low light, (that's huge for night tripod shooting), and the S model meters a full 30 seconds at one end of manual or automatic for overkill deep in image quality, also huge for night tripod shooting....I'm tickled and there ain't a feather in sight, boys....don't figure I'll see it until after the 25th....I may be slingin' pictures at this here site right and left, who knows?....I'll try to shoot the capital building here in Little Rock before they turn off the Christmas lights Jan 1....will check tomorrow for local grocery store deals on generic crackers.....

.....Earthquake amp could show today....will try to catch the UPS or Fedex guy and have him 2-wheel it around back and in the backdoor....it's downhill, he shouldn't mind, but he better be fairly stout to wheel 141 pounds downhill, haha.....

.....edit....it'll be about a month before the computer station, small cannon cabinets, and Behringer units, to say the least.....then it'll be 5 more speakers, a Circle Surround Decoder, and possibly another Earthquake on the audio side....then I start video, with a 16x9 $2100 Toshiba projector that upconverts 1080 with a Carl Zeiss Specifications Glass Lens, a 16x9 96 inch diagonal screen, and new DVD player....whew, then I'm done......

Phew Mule, you wore me out just reading this!

 

[mulester7]

Phew Mule, you wore me out just reading this!

.....agreed, Surveyor, and thanks, let's break it up.....

.....Earthquake amp could show today....will try to catch the UPS or Fedex guy and have him 2-wheel it around back and in the backdoor....it's downhill, he shouldn't mind, but he better be fairly stout to wheel 141 pounds downhill, haha.....

.....edit....it'll be about a month before the computer station, small cannon cabinets, and Behringer units, to say the least.....then it'll be 5 more speakers, a Circle Surround Decoder, and possibly another Earthquake, on the audio side....then I start video, with a 16x9 $2100 Toshiba projector that upconverts 1080 with a Carl Zeiss Specifications Glass Lens, a 16x9 96 inch diagonal screen, and new DVD player....whew, then I'm done.....well, for a week or two, haha....no, I'll be there with my system and theater.....

.....the camera body of course is brand-new, they sell tons out of New York, think inventory turnover, and is a Nikon D-70S 6.1 Megapixel Interchangeable Lens Digital SLR Body....the lens is of course brand-new also from the same place, and is a Nikon D-Series AutoFocus 50 mm F-1.4 "normal"....the normal lens will have a maximum close-down aperture of F-16....the readout window on the body is a full 2 inches diagonal, I guess it's diagonal, anyhow the window size is rated 2.0, instead of 1.8....I got the card for a gig of memory cheap, and an extra rechargeable battery was 20 bucks down from 49 regular....I turned down the initial pitch for extended warranty and he came back later and dropped it to 60 bucks for 3 "extra" years on top of the one from the factory, four years total, and we're talking a digital camera that's an amazing computer, but it's a computer, and computers break, don't they?....20 bucks a year for three extra weren't bad, and I tooked it....I will be trying to figure out, how the exposure is being directed by the digital meter, without an ASA rating or lumen count rating sent to the camera's brain from film, "read from film", for the digital meter to arrive at an automatic exposure, day or night, because there HAIN'T no film....I suspect it may end up being a matter of pushing the exposure speed in increments, and hooray, it's digital through a small TV screen on the back of the body for instant proofing.....the body also has a pop-up flash that will cover an 18 mm lens....stout, but a rechargeable battery drainer....hey, that's right, I got an extra, haha....shoot, we'll figure this out together, guys......

 

[majorloser]

Phew Mule, you wore me out just reading this!

Is there Cliff Notes or an executive summary available for Mules posts?

 

[mulester7]

Is there Cliff Notes or an executive summary available for Mules posts?

.....Walgreens, $1.95....sorry, Major, I just try to be descriptive, in case someone in radioland wants to try something along with me....