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Humphreys posted:I don't have PMs. Wait what's going on? Your dog died and your wife left you? At least you still got your pickup truck and this here ol guitar, right?
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And Mama got run over by a damned old train. Sorry Humphreys, hope something pops up to turn it around for you a bit.
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Feb 10, 2019 17:16
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Raluek posted:Hey GC4U, I think I remember you being into Vandersteens. I'm building a home theater setup, and I have my eye on a pair of 2C's on Craigslist. Talk me into/out of them? What are they like? I'm mostly after mid/high clarity and flat frequency response at both low and high volumes, but I don't know much about Vandersteens. If I'm honest, they caught my eye because they're high end, affordable, and I like the way they look sorry I'm late. Funny you should bring up Vandersteens. I went down a rabbit hole last night looking into ICEpower modules and miniDSP. I'm trying to figure out if I can turn my 2Ci's into powered speakers. That involves building an active 4 way crossover with the miniDSP and powering all 4 drivers in each speaker separately. Whoo that got expensive fast. Anywho I really like my Vandy's. 2C's are pretty good. 2Ci's are even better, and my 2CE signature II are absolutely fantastic. They're power hungry though. I'm driving them with a 100wpc amp and I have to crank that sucker way up for just watching TV normally. In order to get the most out of them though you really need to have a dedicated listening position. They're time aligned so your position relative to each speaker is really important. If you're just going to toss them in a big open main level room with no treatments and listen to them from 20' away in the kitchen then really you can get away with any crappy speaker and it won't make a huge difference. For the money, Vandersteens are absolutely an excellent value. You'll be hard pressed to find something better for the money, but the application matters. Anywho, how much are you looking at for a pair? I think $400~450 is a decent price for a pair of 2ci (that's what I paid). Some people want more than that for their 2C but that's not worth it imo. Good deal: https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/ele/d/glen-echo-audiophile-vintage/6814247257.html A touch too much: https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/ele/d/alexandria-audiophile-quality/6809357580.html This guy is on crack: https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/ele/d/woodbridge-custom-vandersteen-2c/6815189649.html Where would you be putting these speakers to use? Got a pic of the room?
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Feb 10, 2019 17:55
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Humphreys posted:I don't have PMs. Oh gently caress... Humphreys posted:I have a few friends to chat to, none within 50km midnight on a sunday. Well, PM's or not we're always here if you need to talk. Even if you don't want to talk and just need to vent, this is always a good place 
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Feb 10, 2019 22:23
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Humphreys posted:I don't have PMs. I’m really sorry Humphreys. That is so much for one person to deal with. I don’t have any clever words for you, just keep hanging in there. Vent if you want to, there’s good advice in here.
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Feb 10, 2019 23:17
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Humphreys, sorry to hear man. I hope things get better for you quickly.rdb posted:FWIW I have a farm and deducted mileage using HRBlock online. My return was accepted by the IRS almost instantly. Never done an F, but I had 6 1099s this go, plus a schedule C. And thanks to Quickbooks Self Employed deciding that some rules must be a percentage instead of absolute amounts (such as my phone bill... 1 line dedicated to work, 1 is personal, and it's not split properly if you do it by percentage), deciding some types of income were automatically business income, forgetting some rules about business income and swapping them to personal....  I'm still trying to make all the numbers right. The only thing 100% correct in it right now is my mileage. The rest is a shitload closer, but still a few hundred bucks off on income.FWIW, all of these people who got rejected are filing as "driver/courier".
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Feb 11, 2019 06:38
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:sorry I'm late. The ones I saw were $350 for 2C. Little over an hour away, though, which is why I haven't gone to get them yet, haha. I don't have a photo of the space, but I'll snap something tomorrow evening. They'd be either side of a 65" TV, about 6-8 feet from the seating. The space isn't set up yet, so this is all negotiable. I recently moved and I haven't had room for this kind of setup before, so it's all new. My main concern is that there's a wall to the right but it's semi-open to the left, so the reflections might be uneven. I have a decent sub (Monoprice Monolith 10). My budget is "under $500" but it's more a matter of "bang for buck" value. I have a Sansui 9090DB to drive them, and it's rated for 125W/ch so that should be fine.
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fridge corn posted:Wait what's going on? Your dog died and your wife left you? At least you still got your pickup truck and this here ol guitar, right? Pretty much. No pickup but a Wagon that yesterday afternoon went into limp mode at the lights of a very busy intersection. Anyway have some russian restoration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUYzRKKMIgE It's kind of a proclick if I do say so myself. Great camerawork and a cool soundtrack. Humphreys fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Feb 11, 2019 |
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Feb 11, 2019 11:35
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Uh, I just saw 18 Kia Niros in 5 minutes driving about. There must be some event thing going on because I saw 3 come out of a car park and then the other 15 in small groups on my way back from the supermarket. loving WEIRD seeing that many of the same car in such a short space of time.
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Feb 11, 2019 14:25
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Raluek posted:The ones I saw were $350 for 2C. Little over an hour away, though, which is why I haven't gone to get them yet, haha. I don't have a photo of the space, but I'll snap something tomorrow evening. They'd be either side of a 65" TV, about 6-8 feet from the seating. The space isn't set up yet, so this is all negotiable. I recently moved and I haven't had room for this kind of setup before, so it's all new. My main concern is that there's a wall to the right but it's semi-open to the left, so the reflections might be uneven. I have a decent sub (Monoprice Monolith 10). My budget is "under $500" but it's more a matter of "bang for buck" value. I have a Sansui 9090DB to drive them, and it's rated for 125W/ch so that should be fine. If they come with stands I say definitely go for it. They're very good speakers. The 2C is older though so you might want to check the woofer and make sure the foam surrounds are intact. Bring a flashlight to shine through the speaker cloth. If you can't see it from the front then try shining it through from the side.
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Feb 11, 2019 16:33
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I mentioned a few days ago about skateboarding at a local skatepark, it's a new park that recently opened in the city that has been a very long time coming, because the city was granted 2 million to build one but for years could not agree with park organizers where to put it. After tons of proposals the city refused to give up any "prime" real estate and the organizers were forced to accept a location in a bad part of the city with crime and violence problems, with the city refusing to acknowledge there might be any problems with the location. Well the other night a 15 year old kid trying to skate got beat within an inch of his life, was curb stomped and all of his teeth knocked out by some local (adult) thugs. And people going to the park have been having their cars stolen, and anything left unattended is stolen. I have been going to the park for awhile now and have witnessed fights, groups of roaming kids stealing poo poo and then holding it for ransom, and then the kids going to get their thug adult relatives if they have any problems. The police presence is a joke, apparently while the kid was being curb stomped, there was a cop in the parking lot that did nothing. Now people are up in arms on facebook and the city isn't saying a word, great waste of millions of dollars to build a long awaited skate park, and just leave it for the thugs to take over. So may people (including myself) were looking forward to this park and now it's just a place for criminals to hang out and stake their claim. So pissed right now, the people that run this city are greedy incompetent idiots. Applebees Appetizer fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Feb 11, 2019 |
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Feb 11, 2019 16:48
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That's hosed up and infuriating. Curb stomping is something that should exist only in jokes, irl it's ridiculously damaging and brutal and not commensurate for any offense.
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Feb 11, 2019 16:51
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meatpimp posted:That's hosed up and infuriating. Curb stomping is something that should exist only in jokes, irl it's ridiculously damaging and brutal and not commensurate for any offense. Applebees Appetizer posted:So pissed right now, the people that run this city are greedy incompetent idiots.
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Feb 11, 2019 16:53
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Apparently the kid that got beat up had nothing to do with the situation to begin with. These kids (teenagers) roam around and harass and steal poo poo from people in the park, and if anyone stands up to them they go and get their "brothers". I've personally heard them threaten people with it, and apparently some adult stood up to them and left when he realized what was happening, so when the "brothers" got their they just decided to beat up some random kid instead. How hosed up as a human being do you have to be to do that kind of poo poo I just don't get it.ilkhan posted:Chicago? St.Petersburg, Florida. Tampa Bay area.
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Feb 11, 2019 17:00
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ilkhan posted:Yup Lol Tampa. Both he and I would die in the POLAR VORTEX
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Guys... I have a long list of "wants," but this just rocketed to the top of my list: https://www.mechatronik.de/en/engineering/the-m-coupe-m-cabrio/
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Feb 11, 2019 19:40
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Holy gently caress that's nice.
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Feb 11, 2019 19:51
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Mechatronik sounds like a rejected Transformer that couldn't really find his niche in being either a lovely vehicle and/or a lovely accessory.
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Feb 11, 2019 19:52
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IOwnCalculus posted:Holy gently caress that's nice. For 400 thousand pounds I'd loving hope it's nice It's like those Eagle E-Types.
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Feb 11, 2019 20:28
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MA-Horus posted:For 400 thousand pounds I'd loving hope it's nice Something that heavy shouldn't even be allowed on the street  I enjoy reading DuPont Registry and there are now like 50 different companies that make "high end" new or restomod first gen broncos. This is just one of them https://www.gatewaybronco.com/vehicles 
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Feb 11, 2019 20:40
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And every single one has THOSE. loving. WHEELS. except for Boston, but really... Is there really that much of a difference between the 110k one and the close to 200k one? By those numbers, this one should be at least 80k: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/cto/d/san-francisco-1970-ford-bronco/6811400162.html
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Feb 11, 2019 22:11
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Apparently the kid that got beat up had nothing to do with the situation to begin with. These kids (teenagers) roam around and harass and steal poo poo from people in the park, and if anyone stands up to them they go and get their "brothers". I've personally heard them threaten people with it, and apparently some adult stood up to them and left when he realized what was happening, so when the "brothers" got their they just decided to beat up some random kid instead. How hosed up as a human being do you have to be to do that kind of poo poo I just don't get it. God drat dude. Even spring hill/brooksville manages to have a skatepark without these issues. Granted it took a kid who was trying to get one opened getting run over and killed by a car to get the county to actually sit up and take notice.
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Feb 11, 2019 22:24
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Powershift posted:Something that heavy shouldn't even be allowed on the street Every cut fender is a sin
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Feb 11, 2019 22:26
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KakerMix posted:Every cut fender is a sin I doubt any of those have any factory sheet metal beyond the vin plate.  it's just funny that all these different companies came up with the same business model of "$150k broncos" Kinda like when the HMWVVs first started hitting the auction, a whole bunc of people all had the bright idea of pimping them out and flipping them for $100k. Except that even when "pimped out" they suck.
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Powershift posted:I doubt any of those have any factory sheet metal beyond the vin plate. I wouldn't doubt you're that far off, probably buy a replica and an original, remove VIN's and apply to replica and add some fluffy poo poo. *slaps roof* Sell this bad boy for 150k!
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Feb 11, 2019 22:52
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Christ, AA, that skatepark stuff is loving awful.
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Feb 11, 2019 22:56
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Powershift posted:I doubt any of those have any factory sheet metal beyond the vin plate. Oh I know, but I mean stylistically. Every one has the same wheels, the same balloon tires, the same same, it's boring and dumb. Inauthentic.
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KakerMix posted:Oh I know, but I mean stylistically. Every one has the same wheels, the same balloon tires, the same same, it's boring and dumb. Inauthentic. They all do it too. https://www.velocityrestorations.com/restorations/classic-ford-broncos/ https://classicfordbroncos.com/our-builds/ Icon is pretty much the only one who doesn't. This trend has COMPLETELY hosed up first gen bronco prices. Driveable survivors are pretty much all over $25k.
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Elmnt80 posted:God drat dude. Even spring hill/brooksville manages to have a skatepark without these issues. Granted it took a kid who was trying to get one opened getting run over and killed by a car to get the county to actually sit up and take notice. Yeah, all the skateparks I used to travel to (Lakeland, Brandon, Bradenton) never had these problems. Of course St.Pete is the last city in this area to finally build one (the most expensive and biggest in FL) and they build it in the shittiest part of town they can.
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KakerMix posted:Every cut fender is a sin I suppose this is a good time to repost my dad's restored 1967 (iirc): 
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Feb 12, 2019 01:47
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:I suppose this is a good time to repost my dad's restored 1967 (iirc): Daaaaaaayum that is gorgeous!
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:I suppose this is a good time to repost my dad's restored 1967 (iirc):  that’s very handsome. So today was my birthday  can’t complain about much. Wife met me after work and we went to top golf, came home snd had dinner. Then grabbed the kids from the neighbors house that we swap with for free babysitting to eat cinnamon rolls. I know you’re supposed to eat cake for birthdays but it’s like number four on desserts I want to eat  Officially entreating mid-30’s is weird and good. Life is in a good place. Far better than I could have imagined. Me ten or fifteen years ago wouldn’t have believed this is how things would work out. So many good people in my life, including random internet people on a dead comedy sub forum about cars. You’re all good people.
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:I suppose this is a good time to repost my dad's restored 1967 (iirc): Yeah pat your dad on the back for us. Unrelated whiny topic: What do you do with a car that you have $18k in that's worth around $9k if you sold it? I basically got hosed by the PO and I'm frustrated. Do I just drive it and hope nothing else goes wrong or do I cut my losses and pass the future repairs on to someone else?
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LloydDobler posted:Yeah pat your dad on the back for us. Don't throw good money after bad. Depending on how far gone it is, if you can't find utility in it, get rid of it. i dragged that subaru around for a few years with insurance on it and everything thinking i was about to do something with it. Only put more money into it if you can increase it's value by a greater amount than it costs. From the sound of it, the $9k is gone either way. With more specifics i could provide a humorous comedy answer. Somewhat Heroic posted:
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:I suppose this is a good time to repost my dad's restored 1967 (iirc): Yep see, this Bronco will out-cool any of those other ones already posted, so gorgeous. LloydDobler posted:Yeah pat your dad on the back for us. As Powershift said, you're already beyond getting your money back so just cut your losses. In my experience (not just with cars but all sorts of things) just cutting and letting go is immediately better when you're already on the losing end. Just dump it, be amazed at how nice it is not having a money pit car hanging over your head anymore.
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My brakes decided to piss fluid everywhere in the middle of a freezing rainstorm, hooray!KakerMix posted:Yep see, this Bronco will out-cool any of those other ones already posted, so gorgeous. Unless it's a car that will appreciate in value, you have somewhere to store it, and a reliable car to drive while it's collecting dust, you may have to ditch it
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Drink some whole milk. Supposedly it helps. Or at least it does according to a family member who welded for a living.
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LloydDobler posted:Unrelated whiny topic: What do you do with a car that you have $18k in that's worth around $9k if you sold it? I basically got hosed by the PO and I'm frustrated. Do I just drive it and hope nothing else goes wrong or do I cut my losses and pass the future repairs on to someone else? Ignoring the value, do you still like the car? Would you regret getting rid of it a few years down the line? Will it be nigh on impossible to replace later?
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