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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2226 on: May 28, 2020, 11:57:25 PM »
Watching this OSU Miami game for lots of memories. I was at this game with my brother and dad.
I was there too best game I ever saw.  
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2227 on: May 29, 2020, 07:30:47 AM »
Btw the amount of bonkers shit that happened to players in this game.

Kellen Winslow - in prison for rape
Wow - even in Cleveland he came off as entitled but didn't see that coming,sheesh
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2228 on: May 29, 2020, 07:33:03 AM »
I saw a water spout off Kona in Hawaii near the airport once. 
By any chance you weren't enjoying any Kona bud were you?
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2229 on: May 29, 2020, 07:41:22 AM »
By any chance you weren't enjoying any Kona bud were you?
Not at that moment, but we always go to their restaurant when we're there.  They have surprisingly good food at reasonable (for Hawaii) prices.

And beer, they have beer, but only one brand.

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2230 on: May 29, 2020, 12:01:47 PM »
I was there too best game I ever saw. 
Managed to get 2 tickets to that game. Ended up giving them to my parents as a Christmas gift. Would love to have been there, but the excitement of my father being a life long Ohio state fan was worth giving them to him. He use to sell newspapers out in front of the stadium as a kid. He has been dead for a number of years now, but his Ohio State room with all his mementos is still there.   On my dad's 70th birthday, His church made a video of birthday wishes for him (he had retired to Phoenix and his church was in Columbus). Well one of the member ran into Archie and asked Archie if he would say something. Archie did more than just say hi, it was great. Greater still was my dad's face lighting up when he saw it. Dad was really sick at the time and didn't live much longer, it really is amazing how much sports can bring such joy in people's like.  One of the reason we need to get back to it. 

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2231 on: May 29, 2020, 05:33:19 PM »
Just ordered the amp and a new sub for the Jeep, along with all the attendant stuff to install. 

Current:

  • Aftermarket HU, driving the stock amp via speaker-out instead of line out. So I'm driving an amplifier with an amplified signal, which sucks. 
  • Stock amp is 8 channels, 45W each, driving 2 ohm. 
  • Those channels are fronts (2), sound bar (2), in-dash tweeters (2), and sub (2 channels bridged).
  • I've already upgraded the stock front and sound bar speakers with Kicker 2-way coaxials (screwed up buying 4 ohm speakers now being driven by 2 ohm amp), and modified the stock tweeters to change the crossover frequency which Jeep sets WAY too high.


New:

  • Same HU, same front and sound bar speakers.
  • Alpine PDX-V9, 4x100 at 4 ohm, 1x500 at 1 ohm for the sub. Amp will be driven by the HU line-out outputs instead of speaker-out outputs for cleaner signal. 
  • Front and front tweeters will be driven in parallel by two channels of the amp, through passive crossovers. 
  • Sound bar speakers driven by another 2 channels of the amp.
  • New Alpine S-W8D2 sub, capable of handling 300W RMS, driven by the sub output. It has dual 2 ohm voice coils so I'll wire them in parallel to present 1 ohm load to the amp.

This is the first time I'll have a legit stereo system in a car since college. 


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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2232 on: May 29, 2020, 05:36:54 PM »
I personally don't quite understand having an expensive sound system in a car, even a Mercedes or whatever.  Well, it's not for me is a better way to put it.

I have a decent system in the living room here, nothing hyper like my friend in Cincy put together.  He spent more on his cables than I spent on the whole system.

And the wife won't let me turn it up for long either.  She thinks it bothers the neighbor, who says he can't hear anything.

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2233 on: May 29, 2020, 05:44:00 PM »
I personally don't quite understand having an expensive sound system in a car, even a Mercedes or whatever.  Well, it's not for me is a better way to put it.

I have a decent system in the living room here, nothing hyper like my friend in Cincy put together.  He spent more on his cables than I spent on the whole system.

And the wife won't let me turn it up for long either.  She thinks it bothers the neighbor, who says he can't hear anything.
For some reason, I am thinking of the commercial (for what product or service I can't recall) and the young couple is looking at their new apartment, admiring the hardwood floors, etc., and the husband says, "We have a clog problem," and the family of 20 upstairs is all clogging in unison as they go about their activities.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2234 on: May 29, 2020, 05:53:20 PM »
I personally don't quite understand having an expensive sound system in a car, even a Mercedes or whatever.  Well, it's not for me is a better way to put it.
Honestly I don't go overboard much any more, not how I would have done in HS or college. 

The main issue in the Jeep is that I drive around with the top down 100% of the time. The stock system is just NOT capable of overcoming wind noise at 80 mph, and to turn it up high enough you can hear it is at the very top end of its capabilities so you're in the distortion zone.

In this case, the deeper I got into it (after the main speakers and HU) the more I realized that the stock system is horribly designed and just had to do it right because I'm a damn perfectionist ;-) 

In my other vehicles, I don't ever crank the music up high enough to have to worry about distortion. 

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2235 on: May 29, 2020, 05:54:57 PM »
I do have a subwoofer.  It is turned down to the minimum setting, but it gets pretty boomy in movies.  We usually listen to classical music and some of that can crescendo.

Our Tech physics professor is coming for dinner, he likes movies after dinner, he hasn't seen a lot of great movies.  He prefers comedies.  He thought Groundhog's Day was an epiphany.

Something about quantum uncertainty and time loops.

He doesn't "act" smart, whatever that means, but he has a PhD from Harvard in physics, so I'm pretty sure he is.  He also did enough to get a tenured job at a major U, he never taught anywhere else, he said he really never wanted to move.


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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2236 on: May 29, 2020, 05:56:25 PM »
I can see that a Jeep at extra legal speeds would need some oomph, and I HATE distortion of the sort so common on riced up Civics.

Why anyone would rice a Civic I'll never know.  I see some with extra wide tires .... on the back.

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2237 on: May 29, 2020, 06:20:54 PM »
Honestly I don't go overboard much any more, not how I would have done in HS or college.

The main issue in the Jeep is that I drive around with the top down 100% of the time. The stock system is just NOT capable of overcoming wind noise at 80 mph, and to turn it up high enough you can hear it is at the very top end of its capabilities so you're in the distortion zone.

In this case, the deeper I got into it (after the main speakers and HU) the more I realized that the stock system is horribly designed and just had to do it right because I'm a damn perfectionist ;-)

In my other vehicles, I don't ever crank the music up high enough to have to worry about distortion.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2238 on: May 29, 2020, 06:28:50 PM »
The local news is showing some protests, really more gatherings, downtown, rather breathlessly.  I don't see much of anything happening though.  The police here are probably 70% black and maybe that helps some.  A lot of white folks are int he "protests".  


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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2239 on: May 29, 2020, 06:29:45 PM »
I thought the fart cannons on those Civics had gone out of style, then I saw a few more last weekend.  I was misinformed.

 

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