Hello from the Midwest

**Bob in St. Louis** · **10-24-06, 11:20 PM**

Hi folks, just wanted to drop a note to introduce myself.
I built a house just over four years ago, almost immediately I started on my cave in the basement.
Never had a clue as to what I was doing.
The room still isn't finished, but it'll give you a good idea of my final intensions.
It has gone through a few incarnations,
#1 was originally a 100% home theater room. Oh yea, 7.1 the "whole 9 yards", or so I thought.
#2 started about one year ago in my search for a DIY sub project, I ran across a forum full of a bunch of guys that still play with tubes, and high eff. drivers. Well, they started me down the path of "audiophile". I hadn't heard that term until then. Soooo, they've 'sucked me in'. ..That's when I learned exactly what that 88db meant on my drivers. Now my drivers are 96db. Told me a bunch of things I was doing wrong, bla bla bla. I changed my system to 5.1, then 3.1.....
This leads me to where I'm at now. The next incarnation of my system.
#3 High db drivers on Open Baffle. Absolutely the best my system has ever sounded.

Hopefully I can get a little HT discussion going here and there, maybe jump in occasionally, if you Shacksters don't mind. If all goes well, we can all learn from each other. Might even meet a few framiliar faces too.

You folks have the coolest smilies too! I love this one....

Thanks for reading
Bob

p.s. Somewhere in here, profile, avatar, signature..... I've got a link to some pictures,... But I seem to have misplaced the little clicky button.

**Sonnie** · **10-25-06, 01:02 AM**

Hello Bob and welcome to the Shack!

Glad we finally got you all fixed up... AOL is giving us headaches. You still may not get email notices on replies.

Now it sounds like you mighta been hangin' around some Hawthorne guy. You'll have to show us some pics of your room and system.

We have the

area you can host your pics for free. Then as you want to use them in the threads you have a link below the image to use with the image

tag inserts.

**JCD** · **10-25-06, 12:30 PM**

Just another Welcome to the Shack!

Glad to see you here. I can't wait to see pictures of your systems, especially you open baffle speakers.

I've seen them before (Orion's and the ones from Jamo), but haven't actually heard them. I hope to hear your impressions and benefits/shortcomings of the design.

JCD

**Bob in St. Louis** · **10-25-06, 02:06 PM**

Yea Sonnie, I didn't get email notification about those two posts. However, I haven't played with my profile/preferences yet either. I may not have it turned on yet?

Until I get my profile all 'purdy' lookin, here's a link to my photos.
Yes, Hawthorne and Deckert have, "shown me the way".
I think "that Hawthorne fellows" products are on page two of my pics.
Thanks for the reply and interest guys!

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...49522535hKJQbw

Bob
p.s. By the way, that Hawthorne fellow has provided me with a level of customer service I've NEVER seen before. Did I mention his driver RULES!

**Bob in St. Louis** · **10-25-06, 05:49 PM**

Hey guys, I have a question.
Since I can't/don't get email notification, is there a place in the forum I can check for threads I've posted in? I'd hate to chat with someone, then "lose" them.

Bob

**JCD** · **10-25-06, 05:53 PM**

What you can do is click on your username in a post. One of the options is to "Find more post by <username>".

Imperfect, but it should work until the notification thing gets figured out.

JCD

**Sonnie** · **10-25-06, 06:47 PM**

We were denied being added to the AOL whitelist because they couldn't prove ownership of our IP address...

AOL is a thorn in our side. It is aggravating to say the least.

**Bob in St. Louis** · **10-25-06, 09:08 PM**

JCD, a decent idea for the time being. Thank you.

Sonnie, for $25 or so a month, AOL should be kissing my... (well, I'm new here, I won't say it), NOT being a thorn in my, your, or anyone's side.

Bob

EDIT: I have had the same problems with AOL on "AudioCircle".com too.

**Bob in St. Louis** · **01-17-07, 05:20 PM**

Hey Sonnie!

**Sonnie** · **01-18-07, 01:00 AM**

Hey Bob... let's see if you get notification this time around.

**Eddie Horton** · **01-18-07, 12:44 PM**

Welcome, Bob. Stay safe in all that bad weather going around.

**Bob in St. Louis** · **01-19-07, 01:58 PM**

Sonnie, sorry...no notification.

Eddie, thanks but my area was (barely) missed by the bad stuff. In some sick way I was ALMOST looking foreward to firing up the new generator I bought due to the past TWO power outages.

Bob

**Bob in St. Louis** · **01-20-07, 03:42 PM**

Sonnie - Now I think it's working. I just got my first notification. Thanks!!!

Bob

**Prof.** · **01-20-07, 06:05 PM**

Hi Bob and welcome..
I'm also very interested to hear more about your open baffle system...and some pics would be nice..
When I first started in Hi-Fi about 35 years ago, open baffle designs were the ultimate system then !!

**mikeb** · **01-20-07, 06:33 PM**

Hi Bob and welcome. How is your weather looking this evening? I am two hours due east of you on Rt. 50 so it is headed our way

Mike

**Bob in St. Louis** · **01-20-07, 11:27 PM**

prof, Hello and thank you for the welcome. I'm currently working on getting individual pictures to display here. I've had a hard time with my web/pic hosting site on some forums (this apparently is one). The "[img][/img]" thing doesn't work with webshots.com.
All my pics (for now at least) are in my signature. Sorry for sending you away to see them, I'd love to bring them here. I love my OB rig. Absolutely wonderful. Do you have any questions in particular? Normally I'd ramble on about them but it's getting just late enough here that my eyelids are getting in the way of the screen. LOL
EDIT: Here's the "behind the scenes" of OB. Which has already changed slightly from the picture;
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...85868784KHLiPm

Mike, it's coming....About an inch so far.
They're calling for 4" - 5" total. (not enough for me!)

Night guys. See you in the morning.

Bob

**Sonnie** · **01-21-07, 02:00 AM**

Hey Bob... you can upload those images to our Home Theater Photos area. Once you get them uploaded you can go to the image and there will be a link there you can copy and paste using the

button.

You might start a new thread in DIY showing us all your open baffle stuff. Since I first met Darrel I've been intrigued by the OB design and I've been tempted to give it a try one day.

**Bob in St. Louis** · **01-21-07, 06:48 AM**

Good idea Sonnie, I've had a few folks ask in a couple different threads about the OB's.
I think I'll put some pics in the gallery and maybe a little story.

Mike, we only ended up with about an inch of snow.

Bob

**Prof.** · **01-21-07, 06:12 PM**

Bob,

That baffle board looks incredibly small for that size speaker...
I remember that one of the reasons they never were popular was because of the size that the baffle board needed to be to cancel the front wave...

I would like to hear your take on this, but we should probably continue this discussion in the DIY section..

**Bob in St. Louis** · **01-22-07, 06:54 AM**

Hi prof.
I get very good bass with that sized baffle actually, I'm very happy with it.
I'm in the middle of writing a little story on the past and present regarding the OB in my room. If all goes well today at work, I'll have enough time to finish it and post in the DIY Speaker forum. I thought I had it finished but then proofread it. But it wasn't what I was looking for, so I'm 're-doing it' a little.

Thanks
Bob

**Bob in St. Louis** · **01-22-07, 02:35 PM**

Ok, how about this:
http://www.hometheatershack.com/foru...html#post22477

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