Hello from the Midwest

[Bob in St. Louis]

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]

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]

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]

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/album/549522535hKJQbw

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Hey Sonnie!

[Sonnie]

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