The SWAMP! - Volume One

**drf** · **09-19-07, 06:12 AM**

hello everyone, I didn't want the flip but wanted to say hi anyway.
so heres a pic:
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not very funny but I thought someone might find it ammusing.

**Fincave** · **09-19-07, 07:06 AM**

Hello all.

Glad someone took the flip, did get a chuckle out of the pic! What has everyone been up to? I am into my second day off and am busy cooking my version of goulash, kind of chilly here today and so felt like making stew. Was planning on cooking some oxtail but they only had one very small packet in the shops, it is not popular here, I think that most people buy it for their dogs.

What is everyone's favourite thing to eat or cook? I make a pretty good lasagne which when served with garlic bread and a nice green salad, accompanied by a nice bottle of red is one of my favourites. Simple home cooking is also something I like, meatballs and mashed potato, mushroom soup, simple stews, curry etc.

**Sonnie** · **09-19-07, 09:13 AM**

There was an email that came around once that had a bunch of funny church signs.

I do a good bit of cooking when it turns off cold here... still have a couple of months to go. I have to be free from having to cut grass and do other outside work so that I have time to cook. I do Chili pretty well. I like cookin' up a big pot of spaghetti with a green salad and garlic bread. I also love to make homemade vegetable and beef soup. No special recipes, I don't think I ever make any of it the exact same each time.

**Ayreonaut** · **09-19-07, 09:15 AM**

My wife made a great sausage quiche, and baked apples last night. It was fantastic!

I love warm food outdoors in the cool days of fall. Like eating Brunswick stew at the Graves Mountain Apple Festival!

**Sonnie** · **09-20-07, 12:41 AM**

I love this one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdUdlR7XfAw

**JCD** · **09-20-07, 01:03 PM**

I'll add one to the video's in the same vein..

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ybXrrTX3LuI

Also, I love this Daily Thought

SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE SLINKIES. NOT REALLY GOOD FOR
ANYTHING BUT THEY BRING A SMILE TO YOUR FACE WHEN PUSHED DOWN THE STAIRS

JCD

**Sonnie** · **09-20-07, 01:08 PM**

Some folks are pretty creative!

We've posted a bunch of YouTube videos here.

**Sonnie** · **09-22-07, 03:22 PM**

Wake up... nap time is over.

**drf** · **09-25-07, 04:00 AM**

Sniffle, grunt, moan, scratch. I 'm awake!!

were'd everyone go? I came in here but nobody was arround. I don't smell do I? I did have a shower 2 weeks ago so I am still good for a couple of weeks, surely?

**Fincave** · **09-25-07, 05:53 AM**

Morning all!

DRF: Think you are still good, no smell yet, probably if you do not exert yourself too much you may even be able to squeeze an extra week between showers.

My laptops 'K' key seems to be sticking a bit, probably dirty or something, really need to press it quite firmly, just sent a long email to my aunt and realised that all the K's were missing, oh well, she will just have to read around the errors.

**Sonnie** · **09-25-07, 11:46 AM**

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy (not raelly true), it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

**lcaillo** · **09-25-07, 11:56 AM**

So it really is OK for me to forget to run my spell checker?

**Sonnie** · **09-25-07, 01:43 PM**

Well.... NO! If that study had really been conducted it would be according to research, not according to Shack moderating rules.

**drf** · **09-25-07, 03:46 PM**

why a spell chequer? I did to use one but it never find any spelling wrongs.
Me can't workout why I failed english.

**Sonnie** · **09-25-07, 08:27 PM**

You failed because you didn't have a spell checquer!

**Sonnie** · **09-28-07, 04:04 PM**

What's happening? Hey... it's Friday... all day long! It may even be Saturday in some other place.

**drf** · **09-28-07, 05:35 PM**

its saturday here already.

I'm also in a weeks holiday

I was just reading in the IB forum. I remember a time when we refered to a sealed enclosure as being an Infinate baffle because the baffle is... well... infinite? now it seems to refer to a baffle that is almost, or for all sonic purposes, close to infinite.

I thought I'd ask here becasue it didn't seem appropriate to start a thread for such an insignificant question.

**JCD** · **09-28-07, 06:03 PM**

Ok, for those out there that want something COMPLETELY different...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELyco68w5ks

SGM Video 2

I'm thinking a little Mr Bungle, a little Frank Zappa, a little...

JCD

**Sonnie** · **09-28-07, 11:40 PM**

Those are no doubt COMPLETELY different!

Doc... the "baffle" is infinite. The enclosure is sealed... or partially sealed because it's not always a perfect seal, as in an attic space.

**drf** · **09-29-07, 12:10 AM**

So is there anyone else outhtere that remembers sealed enclosures being refered to as infinite baffles?

It still seems an accurate definition of both types?

**Sonnie** · **09-29-07, 12:19 AM**

Okay... I think I misunderstood what you saying. I think you meant to say "almost sealed" ... not "almost infinite". Or am I just confused?

The baffle is going to be infinite in either case, but the enclosure is not always completely sealed with how we define an IB. Is that right?

Actually I don't ever remember sealed being called IB and at first didn't really understand that an IB is nothing more than a sealed subwoofer... albeit by our definition today it would be an extremely large sealed subwoofer.

**Otto** · **09-29-07, 12:37 AM**

Yeah, I think it can be modeled as an extremely large sealed woofer, but I'm not a pro at that. I didn't model mine before making it.

I don't remember sealed subs ever being called IB.

I do, however, remember subs in cars being called IB if the driver was in the "rear deck" and the back side of it extended into the trunk or the hatch. In that case, there was no traditional box and no port. I'm not even sure a trunk would be considered LLT at this point, and it certainly wasn't IB. But that's what it was called back then. (actually, I would imagine that if the volume of the trunk was measured, it would qualify for LLT.).

**Mike P.** · **09-29-07, 07:25 AM**

""So is there anyone else outhtere that remembers sealed enclosures being refered to as infinite baffles""

I do. I read a book on speaker building that was published in the early 70's. It stated an infinite baffle was anytime the back wave doesn't meet the front wave. It didn't matter whether it's an attic installation or a small sealed box.

**drf** · **09-29-07, 05:20 PM**

Quote:

Mike P. wrote:

""So is there anyone else outhtere that remembers sealed enclosures being refered to as infinite baffles""

I do. I read a book on speaker building that was published in the early 70's. It stated an infinite baffle was anytime the back wave doesn't meet the front wave. It didn't matter whether it's an attic installation or a small sealed box.

Yay, I'm not going insane. I have been going through some of my books, but I can't remember were I read it.

**Chrisbee** · **09-30-07, 07:50 AM**

"Infinite baffle" used to be a common term used for small sealed boxes because it sounded technical enough to satisfy impressionable high fidelity buffs with more money than sense. I remember the first ARs and B&Ws being demonstrated on the floor at a posh local dealers with the potential buyers standing up. It was later that they invented speaker stands and easy chairs for customers to sit in which finally allowed the tweeters to be at ear level.

Google for Briggs and for Colloms.

Briggs was writing about sound reproduction as early as 1948.
Wrote speaker cabinet design books too.
"Cabinet" was the correct term long before "enclosure" became commonly used.

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