British Humour

**Phil M** · **06-04-06, 11:40 AM**

It's now 11 years since I left the UK, so love every opportunity to use my inherited sense of humour.

Yesterday I was google mapping my friends back home, and discovered that one of our founders, John M, lives in the middle of a roundabout. This must be great for his surround system, lots of 360 degree effects 24 hours a day

. But curious how he can calibrate and set target levels for his REW, it must be a pain having the background noise with the traffic noise going on all day

Even worse, if he factored this in when he designed the software does it mean we all have to add a few db to compensate for this

**Sonnie** · **06-04-06, 03:43 PM**

**JohnM** · **06-05-06, 03:31 PM**

Actually I have transcended REW and now live 1000 feet up in a hot air balloon tethered to the middle of the roundabout, with my system on an open platform suspended 50 feet below the basket for complete freedom from modal resonances

Just have to be careful of the step when I go to the bathroom

and watch out for pedestrians below

If you ever feel like dropping by just head for the roundabout and keep going around until you spot my driveway

**Sonnie** · **06-05-06, 03:35 PM**

This is too funny!

Should be a law against it!

**Phil M** · **06-05-06, 04:05 PM**

Elevating the system must also help with the speaker cables - no need to buy exotic supports, great idea.

NB
I still have the picture of Sonnies Hillbilly auto AC mod - guess both you guys are off the wall

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**russ.will** · **06-06-06, 07:14 AM**

Quote:

JohnM wrote:

Actually I have transcended REW and now live 1000 feet up in a hot air balloon tethered to the middle of the roundabout, with my system on an open platform suspended 50 feet below the basket for complete freedom from modal resonances

Just have to be careful of the step when I go to the bathroom

and watch out for pedestrians below

If you ever feel like dropping by just head for the roundabout and keep going around until you spot my driveway

This seems like a very sensible room upgrade, but I have a couple of questions. I hear suspended floors are a nightmare with subs, what steps have you taken to minimise the floor/sub interaction? Secondly what are you're presumably dipole surrounds suspended from?

I see Sauron had a nice AV room mid conversion during the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Solid floor, four slim turrets of death to allow a modicum of wall mounting - And all he kept up there was another wizard!!!!

Russell

**bobgpsr** · **06-06-06, 08:00 AM**

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russ.will wrote:

This seems like a very sensible room upgrade, but I have a couple of questions. I hear suspended floors are a nightmare with subs, what steps have you taken to minimise the floor/sub interaction? Secondly what are you're presumably dipole surrounds suspended from?

I see Sauron had a nice AV room mid conversion during the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Solid floor, four slim turrets of death to allow a modicum of wall mounting - And all he kept up there was another wizard!!!!

Russell

Wasn't that Sauramon's tower and not Sauron's? Sauron's only had two side sharp pillars -- he probably was a two channel purist and did not go for that fancy Quad sound.

I guess you need to go up really high to avoid city/industry noise.

Bob

**JohnM** · **06-06-06, 08:37 AM**

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russ.will wrote:

This seems like a very sensible room upgrade, but I have a couple of questions. I hear suspended floors are a nightmare with subs, what steps have you taken to minimise the floor/sub interaction? Secondly what are you're presumably dipole surrounds suspended from?

I went with stand mounted direct radiators for the surrounds as dipoles just weren't coping well with the lack of walls. The sub is, of course, an Infinite Baffle design with the entire platform forming the baffle, the drive unit being in the centre of the platform directly beneath my listening chair.

**Phil M** · **06-06-06, 03:02 PM**

I wish I hadn't started this - all because it was raining over the weekend and got bored

**russ.will** · **06-06-06, 03:17 PM**

Quote:

JohnM wrote:

I went with stand mounted direct radiators for the surrounds as dipoles just weren't coping well with the lack of walls. The sub is, of course, an Infinite Baffle design with the entire platform forming the baffle, the drive unit being in the centre of the platform directly beneath my listening chair.

Does the vibration from the sub not cause a tickling of the Chalfonts?

Russell

**russ.will** · **06-06-06, 03:25 PM**

Quote:

bobgpsr wrote:

Wasn't that Sauramon's tower and not Sauron's? Sauron's only had two side sharp pillars -- he probably was a two channel purist and did not go for that fancy Quad sound.

I guess you need to go up really high to avoid city/industry noise.

Bob

Top anorack knowledge! You don't half know your purveyors of doom.

Typical stereo purist though. Always trying to assert his outmoded notions of supremecy on others.

Russell

**bobgpsr** · **06-06-06, 05:08 PM**

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russ.will wrote:

Top anorack knowledge! You don't half know your purveyors of doom.

Cool! Nice to have to learn a British slang term. Like it

I admit to having read LOTR trilogy + Hobbit + Silamarion about three times through (first time in the sixties --- showing my age

). And I have all the extended edition LOTR DVDs with having to re-view each time I do a major sound or video upgrade. Now I'll have to re-purchase all of them again to get the hi def DVD versions, sigh!

Bob

**russ.will** · **06-06-06, 06:20 PM**

Quote:

bobgpsr wrote:

Cool! Nice to have to learn a British slang term. Like it

I admit to having read LOTR trilogy + Hobbit + Silamarion about three times through (first time in the sixties --- showing my age

). And I have all the extended edition LOTR DVDs with having to re-view each time I do a major sound or video upgrade. Now I'll have to re-purchase all of them again to get the hi def DVD versions, sigh!

Bob

It comes from the favoured waterproof apparell of people who stand on the edge of airfields jotting down plane numbers or platforms doing likewise for trains. They broadly resemble the archetypal computer nerd but with a touch more of an outdoor complexion.

As per usual, we're behind in Blighty. I've had HDTV for 4 days and am still recording anything that moves just to sit and watch, slack jawed at the detail. There are plusses and a few small minuses against the upscaled output from my DVD-3910, but what I really want to know is.....How good is HD-DVD?

I'm viewing on a Screenplay 7205 onto a fixed 92" screen and have found HD to be a quantum leap. Most people over here seem to think a 42" plasma or 50"RPTV is big and they seem underwhelmed by the experience. I think the PJ which has four times the viewing area, but is viewed at much the same distance is a little bit more of a magnifying glass as to the differences. I'd be interested to hear yours, or anybody elses, thoughts.

Regards

Russell

**Phil M** · **06-06-06, 07:15 PM**

I've been down to my local Best Buy (equates to a slightly more upmarket Curry's/Dixons) to look at the Toshiba player. Compared with the sat HD image I get it had a slightly better colour reproduction/saturation, not sure about definition though (couldn't compare side by side). Anyway we're going off topic - if we want to get serious we need to move to the 'normal' part of the forum

**Chrisbee** · **06-26-06, 07:38 AM**

I don't usually wear an anorak but I was rivetted to the pavement watching an HDTV show. This was occuring in a TV shop window in a Danish high street. The programme material was about food preperation in a large kitchen.

This reminded me of the early simultaneous broadcast transmissions by the BBC using radio for one channel and the usual 17" dark grey and light grey TV sound for the other. Let's just say that the programme material was similarly "exciting".

Best HDTV so far was a Pioneer 50" plasma at an upmarket AV dealer in the city. They were showing a nice bit of crumpet belly dancing interspersed with other material.
Rather strangely I can now remember nothing whatsoever of the latter.

**dorito_be** · **01-17-07, 07:10 PM**

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