My speakers arrived today. They're glorious. Unfortunately, I can't use them until my receiver arrives. Damn wiener logistics.
38 thoughts on “January 13, 2017: Heavy Speakers”
One of the local news' weather sites is reporting 903 closings here today preemptively for the freezing rain. Runner daughter and her dog are having a weekend sleepover with us in the meantime
We've officially received 4 1/4 inches of rain in the last 72 hours. It looks like, hopefully, what's coming onshore now is keeping south of us. Of course, now that Trey doesn't have a game until Tuesday (and only 1 game scheduled next week), it looks like it is going to stay mostly dry for the next several days.
Get to suspend someone (and eventually fire them) today. For several months she has been falsifying records stating she has tried to meet with clients when in fact she has been staying at home. At first she was successful because she only falsified the records for clients who either have too poor of memory or too much social anxiety or depression to speak up. But three complaints in the last three weeks led to an investigation. She did an amazing job at making sure I know about all the awesome work she actually did do (and she did do awesome work sometimes when she showed up). The lengths people will go to with a lie are fascinating. I also wish I could put her in jail for a couple months.
It's amazing how hard people work at being lazy.
Since I sell the high-dollar stuff in my store, I get to see fraud and attempted theft in action. These guys and girls have gone to great lengths, and have no idea how successful they could be if they put their efforts toward legitimate work. Maybe it's the act of theft that excites them in the first place, I guess.
Everyone's gotta have a hobby.
Yep. She suffers from major depressive disorder and I believe just isn't capable of handling the demands of this work, especially with how much autonomy she has. That's fine. Just don't effing lie and cause suffering to others on top of it.
I hired a manager yesterday. Looking forward to having the help I need at the middle management to shape behavior for my line staff, including one who needs...to move on. Not an egregious case of impropriety like yours, but rather one of incompetence, passive-aggressive defiance, and laziness.
The lengths people will go to not do their jobs is amazing.
Now you're climbin' to the top of the company public ladder
Hope it doesn't take too long
AMR, after having two days of delayed buses due to weather, it seems my bus has been slightly early yesterday and today. I tried to walk very slowly, but that's hard to do in this cold. Better luck next week?
I hope so. My bus on Monday-Wednesday was probably a lot more delayed then yours.
I was personally late yesterday and tried to be early today only to have one bus not show miss me and the follow-up itself 10 minutes late then have to stop and restart a few times because the back door wouldn't shut or stay shut.
(I walked to an intersection, so I know it was the later bus by the direction it came from.)
My office is closed for MLK day, so Tuesday is the next possibility.
My speakers arrived today. They're glorious. Unfortunately, I can't use them until my receiver arrives.
What'd'ya get?
Martin Logan Motion60XT. Going to bi-amp them using a Marantz 6011.
...it's a small space (seven-floor townhome with one small room per floor) so rears would be superfluous, and a sub in that space would be both overpowering and unnecessary, given that I'll be bi-amping. I wouldn't be surprised if I add a center channel (Motion 30, most likely) down the road, but we'll see how my mid-ranges treat me in the meantime.
Nice! I haven't heard those, but I imagine they are quite nice. And I'm jealous of your receiver. I have a Denon AVR-S910W as my home theater receiver. It's nice, but not that Marantz. 🙂
Enjoy it!
Yeah, that's a pretty good receiver, particularly for movies, and still up to date. It's the best receiver the non-Magnolia stores were carrying last year.
Speaking of speakers, I'm looking for some nice, cheap speakers. They need to be the type where the end is RCA, but the type where it's one plug, not a left/right two plug setup.
Any thoughts? (Hope I explained that well)
I think I have some idea of what you have (and need) but it's hard to say without a picture. Let me know what you're trying to do and what you're plugging into. Are these being used for TV, or for a computer?
RCA Stereo Audio is always red and white for left and right. The one-plug typically turns out to be digital coaxial audio, which is a rarity, though it comes up occasionally. It could be (and this is more likely) that you have an output for a single RCA plug and will need an RCA Y-adapter, which is two on one end, and one on the other. The one would go into whatever source you've got, and the two would go into the speakers you're powering.
Perhaps even MORE likely is that you're going to come out of a headphone jack, which is a different thing entirely (but easier than the above solutions). In short (too late), just get me a picture of what you're plugging into.
Also define your own "cheap" for me so I know where to steer you. Instinct is to suggest computer speakers for better sound that's much, much cheaper than the stupid setup I just put together for myself.
Anyone else underwhelmed/disappointed by the Nintendo Switch event last night? The format (dubbed English over the Japanese speakers) didn't do it any favors, but I thought the price was too high (especially accessories, holy sh..), the launch lineup was very underwhelming, and there are still an awful lot of questions to be answered. The headline Nintendo titles (Zelda, Mario, Splatoon) look great at least.
I snagged a preorder last night, almost out of habit. Figure I have a little while to decide whether to keep it or not.
Anyone looking to get rid of their Wii U, send it on over here.
Real question: when was the last time Nintendo didn't disappoint you?
When playing their few games.
I understand the approach to some extent. It's just like Apple: "Don't do much, but do all of it really well."
A gaming console has to do more at this point, though. I would love to still love Nintendo.
I guess if the price is right, I don't think it does have to do more. I'm a casual gamer, don't have the time or resources for more, and I'm intrigued by the Switch for precisely the Nintendo content. I probably won't get one because of other factors, but I fit their target audience. Maybe that's the downfall - their target audience has other things going on in their lives.
My Friday the 13th started out fittingly with a visit to the emergency room. The wife woke me up around 11:30 pm complaining about shortness of breath, tightness in her chest and upper back, numbness and tingling in her arms. Those are scary symptoms for anyone who's had a heart attack, so I didn't mess around and took her right to the ER. They initially treated it like a heart attack with aspirin and nitro, but the EKG was clear and her labs didn't show any elevation of the enzyme that signals an MI. Since she has the knee injury and recently got a cortisone shot they were also concerned about a possible pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis (blood clot moving from leg to lung), but the labs for that also came back negative. Eventually they settled on dehydration and gave her a liter of IV fluid, but the chest x-ray shows a small nodule on one of her lungs that we have to get checked out next week. We got home around 4:30 am and went to bed around 5:00 am. Younger Daughter woke me up at 7:30 am with a dead battery in her car needing a jump start, the same car that a customer rear-ended as she was leaving work yesterday (bumper shattered, license plate light hanging out, and right rear quarter panel pushed out of place). Oh, and I left the dog unattended for ten minutes while she played with the automatic laser pointer toy we got her for Christmas. Apparently the motor or mirror got stuck and the laser pointer stopped moving around, at which point the dog chewed a hole in the carpet where the laser dot came to rest. That's life.
so, a good day overall?
You know me, I can't complain.
pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis (blood clot moving from leg to lung),
I've had that! (in both lungs!) it really sucks, so glad to hear it isn't that.
LaVine's hurt and the Wolves hold the Thunder to a season low in points to win their third straight. Somehow, I don't think that's coincidental. Surprised to see Rush play 40 mins. He played 36 mins the previous game, the first that LaVine missed. His +/- was positive in both victories. I'm wondering if he'll see more consistent playing time off the bench when LaVine returns. If his defense is that much better than LaVine's, maybe he should start until LaVine starts figuring out the importance of the defensive side of the ball.
From my eye, the difference between Rush and Lavine on the offensive end is that Rush will sit down on the corner 3 area and Rubio finds him. The game against Houston Rush had 3 or 4 corner threes.
Rubio has been playing excellent basketball of late.
I think Rubio unleashed has more to do with this thing they're on. What do you call it, a strip? No, that's not right. A streek? 46 assists in three games is pretty impressive and gives numbers to the eye-testy observation that the man is a god damn maestro in leading an offense.
Wasn't the defense improving before Zach went down, at least somewhat? Like, I think they're finally letting Thibs's teaching in. His Drtg is only marginally better than Rush's (both of which are very bad).
Also, don't look now, but Ricky's ws/48 is almost the same as last year.
Why do the Wolves' coaches take a half season to figure out that Ricky is a point guard. Lavine last year and Wiggins as the point forward this year.
It's definitely weird. Maybe it's ego, or something. Like, thinking they've got an offensive system they've designed and, dammit, it's a good one so they're gonna use it instead of running easy and obvious pick and rolls.
Yeah, 4th Quarter Point Wiggins was not good. I think it was meant to boost scoring and trying to create mismatches, but having Rubio on the floor sitting in the corner while Wiggins plays the point means you are playing 4-on-5 basketball. I mean, mind as well have Zach run the point. At least he has a little creativity.
Its something that should have been experimented in blowout games.
Towns also playing the 5 almost exclusively helps with the rim protection. His D has been noticeably better since he's been planted in the paint.
One of the local news' weather sites is reporting 903 closings here today preemptively for the freezing rain. Runner daughter and her dog are having a weekend sleepover with us in the meantime
We've officially received 4 1/4 inches of rain in the last 72 hours. It looks like, hopefully, what's coming onshore now is keeping south of us. Of course, now that Trey doesn't have a game until Tuesday (and only 1 game scheduled next week), it looks like it is going to stay mostly dry for the next several days.
Get to suspend someone (and eventually fire them) today. For several months she has been falsifying records stating she has tried to meet with clients when in fact she has been staying at home. At first she was successful because she only falsified the records for clients who either have too poor of memory or too much social anxiety or depression to speak up. But three complaints in the last three weeks led to an investigation. She did an amazing job at making sure I know about all the awesome work she actually did do (and she did do awesome work sometimes when she showed up). The lengths people will go to with a lie are fascinating. I also wish I could put her in jail for a couple months.
It's amazing how hard people work at being lazy.
Since I sell the high-dollar stuff in my store, I get to see fraud and attempted theft in action. These guys and girls have gone to great lengths, and have no idea how successful they could be if they put their efforts toward legitimate work. Maybe it's the act of theft that excites them in the first place, I guess.
Everyone's gotta have a hobby.
Yep. She suffers from major depressive disorder and I believe just isn't capable of handling the demands of this work, especially with how much autonomy she has. That's fine. Just don't effing lie and cause suffering to others on top of it.
I hired a manager yesterday. Looking forward to having the help I need at the middle management to shape behavior for my line staff, including one who needs...to move on. Not an egregious case of impropriety like yours, but rather one of incompetence, passive-aggressive defiance, and laziness.
The lengths people will go to not do their jobs is amazing.
Now you're climbin' to the top of the
companypublic ladderHope it doesn't take too long
AMR, after having two days of delayed buses due to weather, it seems my bus has been slightly early yesterday and today. I tried to walk very slowly, but that's hard to do in this cold. Better luck next week?
I hope so. My bus on Monday-Wednesday was probably a lot more delayed then yours.
I was personally late yesterday and tried to be early today only to have one bus not show miss me and the follow-up itself 10 minutes late then have to stop and restart a few times because the back door wouldn't shut or stay shut.
(I walked to an intersection, so I know it was the later bus by the direction it came from.)
My office is closed for MLK day, so Tuesday is the next possibility.
In which a fake library account is created for Chuck Finley in order to save books.
I bet none of those books are about Tawny Kitaen.
It's probably this Chuck Finley:
What'd'ya get?
Martin Logan Motion60XT. Going to bi-amp them using a Marantz 6011.
...it's a small space (seven-floor townhome with one small room per floor) so rears would be superfluous, and a sub in that space would be both overpowering and unnecessary, given that I'll be bi-amping. I wouldn't be surprised if I add a center channel (Motion 30, most likely) down the road, but we'll see how my mid-ranges treat me in the meantime.
Nice! I haven't heard those, but I imagine they are quite nice. And I'm jealous of your receiver. I have a Denon AVR-S910W as my home theater receiver. It's nice, but not that Marantz. 🙂
Enjoy it!
Yeah, that's a pretty good receiver, particularly for movies, and still up to date. It's the best receiver the non-Magnolia stores were carrying last year.
Speaking of speakers, I'm looking for some nice, cheap speakers. They need to be the type where the end is RCA, but the type where it's one plug, not a left/right two plug setup.
Any thoughts? (Hope I explained that well)
I think I have some idea of what you have (and need) but it's hard to say without a picture. Let me know what you're trying to do and what you're plugging into. Are these being used for TV, or for a computer?
RCA Stereo Audio is always red and white for left and right. The one-plug typically turns out to be digital coaxial audio, which is a rarity, though it comes up occasionally. It could be (and this is more likely) that you have an output for a single RCA plug and will need an RCA Y-adapter, which is two on one end, and one on the other. The one would go into whatever source you've got, and the two would go into the speakers you're powering.
Perhaps even MORE likely is that you're going to come out of a headphone jack, which is a different thing entirely (but easier than the above solutions). In short (too late), just get me a picture of what you're plugging into.
Also define your own "cheap" for me so I know where to steer you. Instinct is to suggest computer speakers for better sound that's much, much cheaper than the stupid setup I just put together for myself.
Anyone else underwhelmed/disappointed by the Nintendo Switch event last night? The format (dubbed English over the Japanese speakers) didn't do it any favors, but I thought the price was too high (especially accessories, holy sh..), the launch lineup was very underwhelming, and there are still an awful lot of questions to be answered. The headline Nintendo titles (Zelda, Mario, Splatoon) look great at least.
I snagged a preorder last night, almost out of habit. Figure I have a little while to decide whether to keep it or not.
Anyone looking to get rid of their Wii U, send it on over here.
Real question: when was the last time Nintendo didn't disappoint you?
When playing their few games.
I understand the approach to some extent. It's just like Apple: "Don't do much, but do all of it really well."
A gaming console has to do more at this point, though. I would love to still love Nintendo.
I guess if the price is right, I don't think it does have to do more. I'm a casual gamer, don't have the time or resources for more, and I'm intrigued by the Switch for precisely the Nintendo content. I probably won't get one because of other factors, but I fit their target audience. Maybe that's the downfall - their target audience has other things going on in their lives.
My Friday the 13th started out fittingly with a visit to the emergency room. The wife woke me up around 11:30 pm complaining about shortness of breath, tightness in her chest and upper back, numbness and tingling in her arms. Those are scary symptoms for anyone who's had a heart attack, so I didn't mess around and took her right to the ER. They initially treated it like a heart attack with aspirin and nitro, but the EKG was clear and her labs didn't show any elevation of the enzyme that signals an MI. Since she has the knee injury and recently got a cortisone shot they were also concerned about a possible pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis (blood clot moving from leg to lung), but the labs for that also came back negative. Eventually they settled on dehydration and gave her a liter of IV fluid, but the chest x-ray shows a small nodule on one of her lungs that we have to get checked out next week. We got home around 4:30 am and went to bed around 5:00 am. Younger Daughter woke me up at 7:30 am with a dead battery in her car needing a jump start, the same car that a customer rear-ended as she was leaving work yesterday (bumper shattered, license plate light hanging out, and right rear quarter panel pushed out of place). Oh, and I left the dog unattended for ten minutes while she played with the automatic laser pointer toy we got her for Christmas. Apparently the motor or mirror got stuck and the laser pointer stopped moving around, at which point the dog chewed a hole in the carpet where the laser dot came to rest. That's life.
so, a good day overall?
You know me, I can't complain.
pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis (blood clot moving from leg to lung),
I've had that! (in both lungs!) it really sucks, so glad to hear it isn't that.
LaVine's hurt and the Wolves hold the Thunder to a season low in points to win their third straight. Somehow, I don't think that's coincidental. Surprised to see Rush play 40 mins. He played 36 mins the previous game, the first that LaVine missed. His +/- was positive in both victories. I'm wondering if he'll see more consistent playing time off the bench when LaVine returns. If his defense is that much better than LaVine's, maybe he should start until LaVine starts figuring out the importance of the defensive side of the ball.
From my eye, the difference between Rush and Lavine on the offensive end is that Rush will sit down on the corner 3 area and Rubio finds him. The game against Houston Rush had 3 or 4 corner threes.
Rubio has been playing excellent basketball of late.
I think Rubio unleashed has more to do with this thing they're on. What do you call it, a strip? No, that's not right. A streek? 46 assists in three games is pretty impressive and gives numbers to the eye-testy observation that the man is a god damn maestro in leading an offense.
Wasn't the defense improving before Zach went down, at least somewhat? Like, I think they're finally letting Thibs's teaching in. His Drtg is only marginally better than Rush's (both of which are very bad).
Also, don't look now, but Ricky's ws/48 is almost the same as last year.
Why do the Wolves' coaches take a half season to figure out that Ricky is a point guard. Lavine last year and Wiggins as the point forward this year.
It's definitely weird. Maybe it's ego, or something. Like, thinking they've got an offensive system they've designed and, dammit, it's a good one so they're gonna use it instead of running easy and obvious pick and rolls.
Yeah, 4th Quarter Point Wiggins was not good. I think it was meant to boost scoring and trying to create mismatches, but having Rubio on the floor sitting in the corner while Wiggins plays the point means you are playing 4-on-5 basketball. I mean, mind as well have Zach run the point. At least he has a little creativity.
Its something that should have been experimented in blowout games.
Towns also playing the 5 almost exclusively helps with the rim protection. His D has been noticeably better since he's been planted in the paint.