TLl;DR: I’m gonna show you have $8 bucks worth of 2-By’s will change your life. Then we plan for the Post Christmas Speaker Scrounge – which leads to phased speakers. (And maybe permanent hearing…what????)
Get 2-by-4s for Christmas
Um, after you buy all my books, and buy a Peoplenomics subscription for everyone in your state…ahem…
Step out to the shop. Look at the bench. Carefully edited out,. See the two 2-by-4s that overlap and are virtually free storage over the bench?
Maybe not a perfect picture, then. At either end, there is an 8-inch round heavily-creosoted pole. For my shop is a pole building. Between said poles hangs two overlapping 2-by-4s. The middle has about ten 2 3/4″ wood screws and on either end four or five 3 1/2 inches into the poles.
A quick peek at the handy Glover Ref Guide led me to undestand this week why it looked like it was beginning to sag in the middle. And that’s when I remembered: cheap lumber teaches expensive lessons. Even if I pretend the span is only 15-feet…
- Bending limit (No.2 SPF ballpark): <8 lb/ft of uniform load before the fibers are overstressed — that’s only ~120 lb total across the whole span.
- Deflection limit (L/360, typical comfort/sag criterion): < 2.8 lb/ft — only ~42 lb total before it sags too much.
If you try this in your shop use a 2-by-6 or better. Mine hasn’t broken, yet. But I have a “disaster placeholder” on the project list.
Here’s the Lesson on “Free Storage”
“Project creep” bites your ass every time it can. See, this was going to be a simple 2-by-4 span. I just wanted to put a screwdriver rack up where it could be grabbed on the fly.
- Then a week later, I got to thinking “A power outlet would be nice…” So I ran wire.
- The next week saw a properly wired grounded outlet.
- “Well, as long as I have this, how about a 2 foot fluorescent?” And it was so.
- A week or two later, I though “You know, I could hang a cordless drill up there.”
- A week later and I was putting the impact driver up, too.
- And the week after, an 8 tool rack for the zip saw, grinder and….
- After that I was done. Well, until the next year.
- That’s when the strip tube went out. “Hell, I will mount a big-ass flood LED!”
- But it was a pitch to turn on and off, so a voice-control outlet was installed.
- I rested about a month. “Yeah, it would be be nice to be able to turn on the central vacuum with a voice command…” So, that happened with an Amazon Dot living on top of what used to be a light glare box.
- Then G2 was here for a while – he liked the fire and dispatch radio receiver in the shop so not to miss a call, so up that went, too.
- He took off to build server farms (six-figure jobs are a rarity in the woods, but time off and moonshine are not). So with no helper, I got one of those fancy DeWalt gyro screwdrivers. Which came with a charger…and so up it went, as well.
The back side didn’t stay bare for long either:
OMG…more screwdrivers, star and Torx live there, punches, markers, squares, half a dozen hammers and more…
Our first tale is nearly done now…get more coffee. I’ll shut up and we’ll move along.
After Christmas Garage Sales
I have had “build the best-ever Garage Sound:” system – ever – anywhere. On my list for 10-years+. Sources are not as particular as speakers…and now we’re sneaking up on something. I’m old, but not that old that I don’t “crank it” now and then.
Old Speakers: The Best Hundred Bucks You’ll Ever Hear
I can’t think of a more overpriced and underappreciated chunk of electronica than speakers. They’re the orphans of the audio world—big, heavy, not shiny, and too honest about physics to fit modern marketing. Yet, when people upgrade their home theaters or spring for Bluetooth doodads at Christmas, the old speakers—the real ones—get tossed aside like last week’s wrapping paper.
Which is fine by me. It’s something to shop on Craigslist and OfferUp and eBay and…..
Come January or February, if you’ve got a hundred bucks burning a hole in your pocket (or five twenties that don’t), go treasure hunting. Estate sales, pawn shops, thrift stores, Craigslist, even the curb on trash day—there’s gold out there wearing walnut veneer and a layer of dust. I’ve rescued more than a few. Look at the Free! listings every day. Even if you don’t find speakers, you can find furniture, sometimes fencing – all kinds of valuable stuff.
Speaker Checking 101
There’s an art here. A dime store (inflated to Dollar stores now, huh? Economic miracles, anyone?) Cheapest little multi-meter you can find. You want to find out if the speaker your considering has “continuity”. If it does, go to the physical inspection part.
Pull the grille, check the cones, very gently pushing while listening to the surrounds. That;’s the foam (or other material) ring. Half the time, all they need is new foam or a solder joint touched up. For the price of lunch, you can have a pair of vintage boxes that’ll rattle your rib cage and make your neighbors nostalgic for Led Zeppelin.
Youtube and lots of DIY sites can walk you through “cone rebuilding” and I won’t kid you, for an electronics geek in high school, this can be a very nice side business. I had my old University Presidios rebuilt in about 1972 and it cost a fortune. But your grand kids speaker cone kits. Re-coning speakers (por moi) is a lot like fly-tying. You need to do it once in life (and catch a fish on it). Re-coning speakers is like that for me,.
The funny thing? People think they need 500 watts per channel to sound “good.” What they really need is efficiency. Most of those ‘70s and ‘80s speakers—Advent, KLH, Pioneer, Sansui, Cerwin-Vega, AR, Polk—were designed for real-world amps. A clean 20 watts per channel from a decent receiver will make them sing. Even cranked, average listening only uses a couple of watts most of the time.
The rest of that “100-watt RMS” bragging power is just headroom for peaks—like a safety margin for drum hits and thunderclaps. In a real sound room, it’s nice to have a measured +110 db but that’s maybe for a 6 AM shot of Stones. Sure, if you’re doing Wall of Sound for the Dead heads…then whatever.
I’ve run tests in the shop with a wattmeter on the amp. With the volume at “comfortably loud,” the meter hovers between 1 and 5 watts. Crank it until the windows threaten divorce? Maybe 20. That’s it. So when someone tells you they need a thousand-watt amp for “punchy bass,” smile politely and remember: decibels are logarithmic, not linear. Double the power gets you just three more decibels—barely noticeable. If you really want louder, add another pair of speakers. Or better yet, get them in phase and positioned right.
Phasing of Speakers – the Short Course
“In phase” and “out of phase” describe how the two stereo speakers move relative to each other when driven by the same signal. It’s all about timing and polarity of the sound waves.
In Phase
Definition: Both speaker cones move forward and backward together when a positive voltage hits the terminals.
Result: The pressure waves from each speaker’s field reinforce each other.
- Sound:
- Centered vocals (voices seem to come from the middle).
- Full, rich bass.
- Normal stereo imaging and depth.
Polarity check: Red to red, black to black (positive to positive, negative to negative) from amp to speakers.
Out of Phase
Definition: One speaker’s polarity is reversed — when one cone moves forward, the other moves backward.
Result: The pressure waves cancel each other, especially at low frequencies.
Sound:
- Bass drops dramatically or disappears.
- Vocals sound diffuse or hollow, as if “outside” the stereo field.
- The stereo image loses focus and seems to come from everywhere or nowhere.
Polarity check: One speaker wired backward (red to black, black to red).
Simple Listening Test
- Play a mono recording (or switch your receiver to mono).
- Sit centered between speakers.
- If the sound feels centered and solid, speakers are in phase.
- If it sounds hollow or spatially vague, they’re out of phase.
There’s something satisfying about bringing those old boxes back to life. You can feel the air move, the music breathe. No DSP algorithms pretending to know better than your ears. Just electrons, magnets, and a good cone doing what it was born to do.
So next time you see a sad pair of speakers sitting by the road, don’t think “junk.” Think “potential.” They may be old, they may be heavy, but they’re probably waiting for someone who still remembers what real sound feels like.
And if you ever wonder how much power it takes to shake the rafters—remember: not much. Just enough to move a little air and a lot of soul. 85 db for a long term listening max. But a cheap meter on Amazon. Stuff that in your stocking.
Assaulting Battery
A simple D cell. Two clip leads. Two speakers where you can see the cones. E.G. grills off.
Black lead to bottom of D cell (that’s the ( – ) side. Goes the ground or ( – ) speaker terminal,.
Now as the battery is attached, the speaker will make a “click” and the cone will move *(usually out). The behavior of the “matching” speaker should be the same. If not, remember that when wiring. Make sure your speakers are in phase.
There – ready to help around the house? We have turkey thawing and after scallops last night, maybe on to teriyaki chicken tonight.
I’m still debating if we will have a column Thursday. The guilt-ridden protestant in me says “Hell yeah!:” The reductionist in me says “If you have to get up, thanksgiving seems like false advertising, don’t it?
Can’t please everyone, guess.
Write when you’re ready to gobble. I will restrain my ADHD pun driver which is screaming for a ref to George Gobel? Shh. We don’t want to trigger the Huna Pun Police – his brother deserves a day of rest.
And so we march, 2-by-4, into the unwritten future just past the past ure…
Write when the voices pass,
George@Ure.net
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Yo Mr Warm glow of a Tube man,
You will never guess who ‘s grandfather-in-law is in whos who in Science for perfecting the Cone Speaker, he also discovered and designated his own Wavelet used by old school OG Oil Drillers/Petroleum engineers. He taught Physics at Rice, and was member of the Mine Council during the War. Pilot in first War.
I still rock a pair of Altec Lansing 201’s -https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.ruwxtgWKZVJi7sM6fXdYxQHaGG%3Fpid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=e3aaf80d9ea47d1c70e03cf16c39acb300440638c1387eb8240f6cea99eb058f&ipo=images Because they are in walnut cabinets, they still look great.
You can feel Mavericks’ F-14 takeoff from carrier in Topgun playing these badboys. Paired with Bang& Olufsen beogramRX2 turntable – I get some really rich and toothy sounding recordings coming off those speakers – Digital cant touch the richness of it, not even a sniff.
For those who don’t know (and I would have written this into the column this morning, ut my broadcast production room builder genetics would out me – the 201s are slightly towned down from the VOTT series A profile enclosures and mid horns that were used…well, see if you can guess what Voice of the Theater means? Let’s go deep becuase the Diego frog does have taste (at times, others, um…)
The Altec-Lansing 201s sit in the long acoustic shadow cast by the “Voice of the Theater” lineage, a family of speakers that rewrote the rules for cinema sound beginning in the late 1940s. While the big A-series VOTT cabinets—A4s, A5s, A7s—were the monsters that filled actual theaters, the 201 series distilled some of that horn-forward DNA into a more domestically manageable box. You didn’t get the barn-door folded bass horn of an A7 or the iconic 511B metal sectoral horn, but you did get the Altec voicing: that crisp, effortless sensitivity, the ability to make a modest amp sound oversized, and the unmistakable projection that horn-loaded systems do better than anything else. IUf you remember a 1950s/60’s theater sound as TFA (totally f’ing amazing) it was likely the A series rigs.
In the broader legend, Voice of the Theater wasn’t just a product line—it was the sound of mid-century America. It powered newsreels, drive-in theaters, school auditoriums, civic halls, and later the early years of rock. The efficiency was absurd by today’s standards; 10 to 15 watts of tube power into a VOTT would peel paint in a gym. That same sensibility carried into the 201s, which became a kind of “civilian” gateway into the Altec sound: bright, fast, dynamic, and punchy enough to hint at the theater heritage without requiring a forklift. The diamond shaped RCA BX44 ribbon mics and later the 77’s made these systems end-to-end audio gold.
The BX-44s were warm, velvety, and impossibly smooth, capturing voices and orchestras with a gentleness no condenser of the day could match. When those ribbon-rich tracks were played back through Altec horn systems, something extraordinary happened: the acoustic signatures aligned. The ribbon’s naturally rolled-off top end, its soft transient handling, and its gentle proximity warmth were a perfect complement to the speed and efficiency of the Altec compression drivers. The result was a full analog loop — ribbon mic to tube preamps to optical film tracks to horn-loaded playback — that gave mid-century cinema and broadcast audio its unmistakable presence. By the time the later RCA 77-D and 77-DX arrived, engineers had a more directional tool with the same ribbon smoothness, and paired with Voice of the Theater cabinets, the sound chain was as close to audio alchemy as the era ever reached. That’s why even at age 21, I had that rock n roll newsman “voice of God” doing the news becvause we ALL worshipped the 44’s and 77’s – it would fix low T even for Tiny Tim.
Collectors still speak of VOTT systems (and RCA ribbon mics) with a kind of reverence because they weren’t merely loud—they were alive. Voices had body, brass had bite, and percussion had that effortless startle factor only a properly tuned horn system delivers. The 201s aren’t the top of that mountain, but they belong to the lineage. They gave ordinary listeners a taste of Altec’s golden-era engineering, and that alone is why they remain part of the lore.
Large diaphrgm condenser mics are fine (if you have -48 phantom power) and the old Bose lites in the studio here at el rancho will damage hearing fine…but the sound of being in Ure 20s and 30s? A BX-44, VOTT rig and any old chrome plated chassis tube type amp with a push-pull parallel quad of 6l6’s…yeah…God miss it all so much that silence of aging allows deep mental replays. Got a $200 eliptical diamond ultra-light Empire cartridge to drive the vinyl from?
Was he referring to the latter day Bose 201’s which we have a opair of (used as mids) in our tri-amped stacks in the home studio? Marketing confusion looms large on this planet
The problem is that both companies were giants in their respective eras, so the duplicated model number leads to constant confusion. Vintage audio forums, auction listings, estate sales — you’ll see “Model 201” and have to stop and wonder:
Is this the Altec descendant of the theater line, or is this the Bose bookshelf that lived next to a dorm-room Pioneer receiver?
It’s the same headache as the multiple manufacturers who used “Model 75,” “Model 500,” and even “A7” for unrelated gear. The overlap isn’t just annoying — it muddies the historical lines between consumer hi-fi, professional cinema gear, and mass-market speakers.
If it helps your sanity: in audio culture, saying “the 201s” without context means Altec to the pros and Bose to the big-box crowd. The tribe you’re talking to determines the meaning.
Perhaps a good ENT could sort out the Diego frog/squid’s hearing?
Oh and on the RCA BX-44’s scroll to 51: at https://www.qzvx.com/2025/07/06/aircheck-don-clark-kol-1970/comment-page-1/ and hear me at age 21 I didn’t sound a little order than 21… Oh, and the SF phone in from the SF was my mentor the late but great BR Bradbury using his ex KOL air name Bill Munson…
Those were the days, everything changed around that time.
G : re Bose, good bud was a hardware Engineer who ran through the bigs, Thomson Electronics (then danced at Asian affiliates, based in Singapore). Built the first home sat. box for DirecTV, etc, etc. Had a stint at Bose, so Boston based. Left to to Infotainment display tech for Panasonic. Now? RI sailor. Shoulda bought some Bose but … love the KEF Towers. Do we even *hear* a trifle? My hearing seems quite good but ~ E ~
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GU : “… I have had “build the best-ever Garage Sound:” system – ever – anywhere. On my list for 10-years+. …”
Too funny. Great Minds and all speaking (typing?). You are a slacker George. I have _only_ had this on my list since moving North. Though all of our in-house audio runs on a Samsung sound bar (Alexa friend) or the kitchen Dot, my in house rock set is saved, stored, covered in loose fitting plastic, hoisted on a showpiece loft (*) in the barn.
Someday (maybe this winter, more likely next spring, I am going to relaunch my late ’80s system. I had an exotic receiver / amp set, but desired matching components? Duh. Audio-file Friends still have Big McIntosh rigs, but I am not that guy.
https://skybygramophone.com/products/mcintosh-mc303-3-channel-solid-state-amplifier?variant=44295119503577&source=pepperjam&publisherId=180904&clickId=5275030910
I do have all the toys (though think I gave away a Sony cassette player). I have a turntable (and, select saved vinyl), new stylus, Sony DVD player, Large Sony (80w?) amp-receiver and (6) KEF studio speakers. And a 70×50 barn? Marriage made in heaven. Mrs. E came home the other day, during Indian Summer, and shook her head (E rocking some Allman Bros.). It could have been ZZ Top (me, admiring their beards) -or- Jimi.
Less fashion more Amps. Coming to a pole barn near you (if you live in SW Lower MI). Be aware. Consider going ears on if entering. There is no remote so it may take a while to stop splitting ears with rock.
(*) get vertical. Dad struggled with how many things he wanted to save. Me too. Solution? Don’t waste footprint, get vertical. I have the “roof” of a 20’x15′-ish workshop. It’s insulated and I ran 80′-ish large supply cable to feed lights and a 240v wall furnace. And a 20’x15′ loft. And the designer rig, built to my spec (hands on, me and the Padawan built it). I saved 6-7 low wall tubs from our wound down mfg. bus. and they store treasures, boosted by Cat forklift.
Center stage I have twin skids with twin 18 hp old school Evinrude outboard motors. I also assembled some water skis (we sold Cypress Gardens back when a thing) and … the original American Flag from my HS (and E2’s HS) pool. The last thing I upgraded at the Adams (South Bend, IN) pool was a new large fresh US flag. Swim Team Mom sewed a flap on top, slid in a tube of PVC and, bud Janitor brought a scissor lift onto the deck with me gesticulating madly. Check.
Off to help Padwan do mast tip repair (epoxy) at the barn.
Ride tractor to much a bit? Maybe.
Stereo planning. Yep
BR, E
Dude Egor – dam man you took me back with Cyprus Gardens water skis.
At summer camp(early 70’s) they had extra week at end of season for lower, upper campers and senior campers. Extra week was specialization week – Water Skiing all week with Instructors!!! Cost extra too, but kept me outta parents hair for another week = worth it to my parental units.
Thats right, old school chops on the cyprus gardens, though will have a hard time getting skier up with 18hp evinrude. How about redneck waterskiing ? Ya know pick em up truck towing along shoreline…yeehaw! We tow a “funboard” behind behind the Guat. skiff down Placencia, BZ, looks we get are priceless.
My father told me about he and his buddies surfboarding at Daytona Beach being pulled by a very long rope behind an A Model in the 20’s.
I still have the home made wooden surfboard.
Oh my G… you know after I received the COVID vaccine.. ive had issues with my sinuses..particularly one nostril.. ive tried everything .. doctors have given different medications.. each with no results..I tried ancient Chinese herbal medicine teas with some favorable results s ad line rises etc.lay down for a few minutes then plugged..horrible.. at work there were some references to some upcoming research on red light therapy at specific frequencies and light therapy the concepts of precious stones and crystals and my theory on frequencies and thought could it.. so I hit the libraries got copies of the research and thought..why not.. so I tried everything else I’ll give it a try.. I bought a couple different red light therapy devices..one that I could adjust the frequency which is interesting. last night I did one ten minute session..1… slept all night.. even slept in this morning..this isn’t any proof of positive results yet but definitely a positive first result..
Composite beams are a good way to handle long spans. This is a high probability solution, not low bid. I used a composite beam over my garage door opening. The beam supports the tail end of the roof truss, and is a full load bearing structural beam. It extends well beyond the garage door opening on both sides, and has performed admirably for 25 or so years.
I am starting to finish up the build-out on the electric bicycle, while waiting on clearance from a Witch Doctor to start riding again. Upgrades include seat, grips, reflectors, trailer coupling; suspension stem and post. I also picked up a spare charger. I need to store the charger in a shielded environment.
I have sworn off fiddling with the stereo equipment for the time being. For more than the past decade I have spend more time listening to $ 125 Klipsch computer speakers than anything. Higher fidelity is mostly lost on my ears anyway:
https://www.amazon.com/Klipsch-ProMedia-Certified-Computer-Speaker/dp/B000062VUO?th=1
I am on my second set. At $125, it is cheaper to buy a new set if it breaks, and park some of the old parts and pieces in the garage as spares. Take that tiny minimalists.
You can’t beat the home PC for source material.
I would probably brake for a set of high end Klipsh speakers for the price of shipping. Same for a working Mac receiver. Sigh. `
Over a decade ago I realized my high frequency hearing was shot and was fitted for hearing aids which, at that point, were way less than hi fi. I still loved symphonic music so I started looking for a system that would duplicate the presence of a concert hall as much as possible. Initially it was a pair of low-end Magneplanars with a pair of old Cambridge Soundworks for the rear speakers. My son later donated a Boston Acoustics high-end subwoofer as he upgraded his own rig; that resulted in a tremendous improvement although I did have to refoam the sub. Finally, he came through with an excellent center channel, BA if I recall, and I’ve had the current configuration for at least five years with no urge to upgrade. I drive the Maggies with an Emotiva XPR-200 amp but at reasonable listening levels a healthy AV receiver should be enough.
The last ingredient to audio to my audio nirvana is a streaming subscription to the digitalconcerthall.com of the Berliner Philharmonic. I have no idea of the technical specifications of my mishmash, but I sometimes see an attractive program of a visiting orchestras but decide that I’d probably enjoy the music more streamed from Berlin and seeing the orchestra up close on the TV.
Personally, I prefer steel I-beam or even welded double purlin for seriously loaded spans. They’re versatile and can be reinforced via plating as needed. Such a beam can be increased in length almost as easily as it can be shortened, unlike glulam and the like. Many structural beams can be found and bought in scrapyards, auctions or Craigslist, etc. Used is as good as new if straight. Laminated beams can be used as an architectural feature, so they’re better used when in plain sight.
You take me back to my college days today.
I was not only scrum captain and loose head prop forward on Alabama’s Rugby Team but the DJ for the after match party.
( Have you ever been to a Rugby Party? Have you ever heard of “Rugby Songs”).
I didn’t have Altec or Klipsch to work with but my system usually got a out 3 pairs, wired to equal 8 ohms to crank pretty loud.
After I was married a few years I w as s at a yard sale with little Anna and spotted a nice box with ElectroVoice EV 25 on it.
Playing dumb I asked the lady what it was. She said it’s a CB radio that doesn’t work. She wanted $5. I had three in my pocket so she got that.
it had a blown fuse and a resistor on one channel that when replaced gave an excellent sounding 25 watt amp that I used as my headphone amp.
Years later little big Al is in high school and thinks people boxes powered by their phone are hifi
I got out the EV25 and s pair of old Radio Shack aluminum shelf boxes and a turntable and put on some LedZep.
Quite an education.
There were a parade of friends over after that to hear what stories sounded like in the “old days.”
Hi, George,
Big speakers, as I recall, allow great sound and are often housed in fine quality wood. I do not presume to know much about electronics, like NM Mike and you do, but a friend, now deceased, demonstrated his home made plasma speakers to me some years ago. The sound was awesome, truly amazing.
For a Welding show attraction, I used a recording of The Star-Spangled Banner to modulate the weld current servo of an automatic tube welding system. The sound coming out of the enclosed GTAW tube welding head while making a fusion weld of a one-inch stainless tube wasn’t hi-fi, but the song was recognizable.
We had an antenna base tuner failure at a Honolulu AM station once that caused about a three-foot long RF arc modulated by a 10kW transmitter. I can only describe it as the voice of God coming from the burning bush! A 10kW plasma speaker.
re: 2 × 4 = 5
feat: a mag-a-nolia plant story
Freelance photographer Andrew Leyden scaled a reopened Washington Monument 9 days ago. He posted images to “X” of a former White House East Wing now laid-to-waste. “Elle Decor” and “ABC News” amongst others picked up the story delivering word that a century old historic magnolia tree dedicated to President Harding had been destroyed during the carnage.
A Library of Congress image shows First Lady Harding wielding a shovel on March 29, 1922 while planting a Southern Magnolia. White House history alleges the tree was “replanted” in 1942 as a new Southern Magnolia took its place dedicated to FDR upon the opening of the East Wing in November, 1942.
The National Park Service website offers a page detailing “The White House and President’s Park”. Indeed the FDR Magnolia image reflects a 1942 planting date. However the President Harding Magnolia reads as planted in1947, 5 years later. One might begin to wonder what really happened to the Magnolia that Mrs. Harding planted 103 years ago. Here is a link to the National Park Service webpage:
https://www.nps.gov/whho/learn/historyculture/commemorative-tree-plantings-1830-1978.htm
re: “Saturday’s Child”, C. Cullen, 1925
feat: “Phased Speakers” un-Hinged
One can perhaps more easily forget about uprooted magnolias in East Wing surrounds as Haight-Ashbury vibes radiated from the Oval Office. President Trump posted images to Truth Social after meeting the New York mayor-elect. George Washington’s portrait now stands guard over the fireplace having evicted that of FDR to a lesser shaded alcove. There #32 gazed over shoulder of a beaming #47 who appeared to be enjoying his photo op with a Socialist Democrat. As chance might have it, did Zohran (‘Light’) Kwame (‘Born on Saturday’ [former Gold Coast]) Mamdani (‘Mohammadan’)’s hand positioning mimic a freemason signal?
It seems Mr. and Mrs. Mamdani, newly wedded in this past summer of love, first met over the “Hinge” app originally called “Secret Agent Cupid”. The app is a subsidiary of Dallas-headquartered Match Group whose board of directors boasts a Chinese ex-wife of multi-billionaire Australian Mr. Rupert Murdoch.
“Hinge” is said to employ the Gale-Shapley algorithm on its users’ roads to success versus the “stable matching/marriage problem”. The algorithm is supposed to deliver ‘regret-free truth-telling’ operation according to “Wikipedia”.
Does this promise to be a new means of “marriage made in heaven” electoral efficiency for the wider world of politics?
I am remiss to have not mentioned that the Chinese birth name of the former Mrs. Murdoch apparently translates as “Cultural Revolution”.
“We don’t want to trigger the Huna Pun Police – his brother deserves a day of rest.
And so we march, 2-by-4, into the unwritten future just past the past ure…”
Your ‘Wise Cracks’ are showing. That one stinks like fresh cow pie!
Trying to refurbish an old wooden tabletop tube radio, I managed to find an ancient schematic for the thing. The speaker had no permanent magnet. It had an electromagnet winding around the iron bar, separate from the moving cone wires. The electromagnet was cleverly used as the filter inductor in the B+ power supply for the tubes!
You’re just learning this about field coils as filters? OMG – this was why I started on an S-20R – real old school.
Good to know. My old Zenith floorstanding was like that — also had the first speaker I ever rebuilt (I think I was about 12-13 at the time.)
best ever sound gear made by a jewish fella . saul marantz . and i got the gear . he said he would make the best amps and speakers ever . ho won best in world prize in some competition . he was just the best
Marantz…I remember were always on the ‘top shelf’ at the stereo emporium.
time marching on, not much mention in “news” on 22 Nov 1963 yesterday …. look it up for those whom might of forgotten …… then again, I’m waiting on those files to be released ……… would laugh, but so sad as well … be safe all
always brings a speck of dust to my eye , and his sons day . been to arlington the eternal flame , was very reverend
I was there in Dallas working for United Press International Newspictures. By chance I happened to be in the right place at the right time to snap three photos of the motorcade as it passed through the intersection of McKinney and Harwood, about a half mile from my office.
When I got back to the office, my boss had just come in with grip & grin photos from the airport, and I put my film in the developer with his. Before I could finish processing the film, someone in the office shouted, “Shots fired at the motorcade!”. George Holcomb ran back into the darkroom and grabbed me, saying “We’re going to Parkland Hospital!”. I yelled at the boss to take over the film processing for me, and George dragged me out the door.
We jumped into my ’63 Corvair convertible and headed out Harry Hines at 85 mph, with George snipping buttonholes in the seatcover. He told me to drop him at the hospital driveway, then find Frank Cancellaire, the White House photographer, and get his film back to the office ASAP. I didn’t know Frank Cancellaire from Herkimer’s mule, but I drove slowly along in front of the hospital looking. I saw Bob Jackson, a photographer with the Dallas Times Herald, walking with an older white haired man. I rolled down the window and yelled at Bob to see if he knew Frank. The older guy snapped his head around to see who had called his name. I showed him my press card and told him to give me his film to take back to the office. He finally gave in, as he needed to stay at the hospital for any followup photos.
When I got back to the office, my first photo showing JFK in the motorcade was on the drum being transmitted worldwide to run with the story of the assassination.
Hank
Still awaiting your product testing report.
My index finger is getting more and more twitchy every time it passes over the “BUY” button, not sure what the problem is but obviously something is clearly bad … and getting worse.
I fear the Flying Hawaiian, be flying again, as the surf on North Shore is starting to pick up headed into Thanksgiving weekend. Kahuna Time Survivalites, hanging loose is name of the game
Sure he is having a swell time of it at pipe. Some sticky puna budz, Kauai Electric indeed. He might live on the Big Island, but Solar and Electric (Kauai) is how he amps up his Hale. : )
hey advertised a 15-day shipping delay, so your disease will have time to fester even worse! You know the cure. Push that button!
nancy is right about speakers . go big . and the cables from the amp to the speakers the thicker the better . big thick copper cables like licorice . yep she knows
I was going to refer too Big AL and he got there first.
Ask him about wiring speakers Left-to-Right channel and vice versa with hand wound chokes to do 3D sound before they got there with electronics,
It was amazing.
And he’s a CHEMICAL Engineer!
He’s got to get sa ham ticket so we can work on tesla longitudinal wave antennas!
I believe Arthur just accused Al of being a process engineer. Are you going to take that off him, Big Al ?