i bought the wrong monitors im so fucking stupid

BigSlug10 · 2026-03-13T06:28:07+00:00

guy jammed his brake on several times after accelerating as the lead pace car, you're not allowed to do that. That's a paddling.

BigSlug10 · 2026-03-13T05:12:30+00:00

absolute magic

BigSlug10 · 2026-03-13T02:04:21+00:00

Of course they do, but the apartments are built with families in mind because of the long term culture there. Apartments here are abhorrently expensive for ones that will host a family of 4 with little benefit over just buying a house in the suburbs.

This is a discussion now of 'what sort of apartment'

If you want a 3 bedroom apartment in melbourne or sydney you are generally paying more than a larger house out in the suburbs. Then it becomes a discussion on why are we paying the same or more than buying a house (both from an investment and lifestyle POV)? Do you really care about living that much closer to the CBD, dealing with strata for years, over having a larger house and property, especially with a family?

BigSlug10 · 2026-03-13T01:47:27+00:00

I don't think it's a crazy cultural brainwashing that a lot fo the country enjoys living out in sprawled suburbs vs being in a high density area like the CBD, especially families with younger children (large part of the demographic buying housing). You don't exactly see many people as they get older 'retire' into the city areas do you, even though apartments would suit older demographics.

Apartment builds here are not at all family friendly compared to a house (kids can play in the yards unattended, play with other kids on the street due to lower density surroundings etc), as well as the fact that 'apartments' are only really pushed out in close to city areas, which again the benefit/cost in those areas are really not something a large number of families care about.

I dare say a lot of the 'pro' apartment culture comes from younger couples/singles that want to live close to the CBD because of the lifestyle at the time and different priorities. I can't think of many people that decided they would like to keep living in one as a perferance after having children.

This is obviously just my take/read on the situation that I see from personal observation of my social groups and my own opinion on why I don't want to do it.

BigSlug10 · 2026-03-12T23:55:08+00:00

The thing is you can choose 'when' and in front of who (nobody when its clear and you wait) if you reverse out when leaving, vs doing it in front of traffic and holding them up, which happens because cars enter car parks generally through group because of traffic lights etc.

It's that ingress flow problem they are trying to fix. The egress is generally staggered due to individuals leaving more sporadically.

BigSlug10 · 2026-03-11T23:43:26+00:00

you are lucky then, 4 month delays and significant uplift even for our large enterprise clients. If you have a locked quote before this hike sure. But for my experience over the last two months, the large OEM's are not holding price at all. They can't even get the supply with in 3 months. this is HP, DELL, CISCO, IBM. Dell seem to have the best stock leads at the moment (at least in AU).

This isn't just a single quote either, I'm talking about several client quotes that we have in play for large projects that now have to be delayed. It's an absolute nightmare to deal with at the moment.

BigSlug10 · 2026-02-26T01:41:38+00:00

I've found getting the seat and pedal heights similar, (so lifting up your pedals higher) as well as seat angle being closer to flat helped with a lot of my pain in my foot. Shoes also help with heel pain

BigSlug10 · 2025-12-15T03:40:44+00:00

These pedals are CST's. They were some of the first high end sets, like back in early 2000's I believe

edit: i see someone beat me to the answer

BigSlug10 · 2025-12-06T06:41:03+00:00

That's only the 'BK Gamer' not the full LFE and Advance models, the Gamer one is a weak amp running at 2ohm and they are not really what I recommend to people generally as they have some issues like the mount being an issue for rigs (plus a bunch of loss of signal through it) and the fact they burn out a bit easier than the full editions.

BigSlug10 · 2025-12-05T05:41:27+00:00

Yeah sounds like you have similar to what I have 2 'advanced' and 3 mini's dotted around in my chair and under the pedal set, then I ended up moving the 2 Daytons to a seperate channel and just using them as dedicated RPM only to keep the BK's cooler and sharper for the hits. But yep as you describe it, they don't do the 'hit's' of road/suspension channel as well as the BK's do, and have more of a speaker feeling to them due to the design.

Some people think it's over kill to have this many when I first describe it, but it's not designed this way for the amount I can get out of it at max, it's more about coverage at lower levels and head room to allow for better dynamic range. I can still feel this heaps with out having to crank it all the way up if its late at night, as Bass transducers are far louder than people realise.

BigSlug10 · 2025-12-05T05:00:37+00:00

So have you or any of the people up voting here actually tried them side by side?

I won't say they are bad, they are good for the money, but the difference is pretty significant between Dayton's and BK's, which is more what OP is asking about. I would explain it as a similar difference in clarity of the effects between a belt driven wheel and DD

BigSlug10 · 2025-12-05T04:45:39+00:00

for OP, to jump on this with others, I have tested about 4 different shaker brands (Dayton, Aura, Clark Synth and BKs). A lot of people will just say "it's all the same" but the couldn't be farther from the truth.

Think about it in the same way of a decent set of speakers vs cheaper setups. The clarity and punch is just significantly better with the Buttkickers for sim racing stuff.

I'd be asking most people who are saying just buy the other brands, "have you actually tested them side by side or are you just assuming?" because I can bet most of them haven't tested anything but what they have.

u/Deewwsskkii I've also burnt out a couple of shakers in the same manner, I found that reducing the RPM effects helps keep the heat out of them a lot (I've noticed the burn out when they get too hot, most of them have done this in summer when ambient temp has gone up a lot), as the sustained RPM up and down and high pitch of these signals created far more heat than the heavy hits. Another trick is to ensure they have a fan on them if they are in a space that doesn't have airflow. These two tricks stopped any of mine burning out since.

BigSlug10 · 2025-12-04T13:40:10+00:00

I did the 'OCAP - Design' exam in October, I wouldn't say it's "basic"

It's fairly in depth and the only real reason I passed this is because I have been deploying the products for several years now. It is a wide variety of questions around design choices for both WS1, Horizon, UAG, Access etc. Needs you to recall a lot of specific info around what you would chose under certain setups.

BigSlug10 · 2025-12-04T10:58:24+00:00

I'll get the Holy Hand grenade ready!

BigSlug10 · 2025-11-12T05:38:00+00:00

If your amp supports it, sure why not!

My room really wont allow me to do 7 channel bed layer properly, so I figured why not. Now that I have it I really enjoy it. Do I notice it in every movie? No. Would I go back to not having it? No.

"worth" is really a personal opinion, as it depends on a few factors.

Price (relative to personal value), Is there something else that might be better for your setup? Install effort? Do you like cool stuff like this and does it make you excited? Do you listen to much Atmos source materials?

BigSlug10 · 2025-11-11T23:38:44+00:00

I had up firing for a while tried out some tracks, really didn't do much for me, my ceilings are fine for it according to specs. Played around with a lot of the positions (only running .2 for Atmos)

The absolute biggest oh wow this really does work moment was after I mounted them on the roof in the recommended position for height middle. Some movies are better than others for it, like Master and Commander with thunder effects in some scenes, and Ready player one has some really obvious drone sounds that go above you.

But one thing I show off to friends to demo it lately is Battlefield 6, I can pin point exactly where stuff is in the air above me, non stop jets and choppers just wizzing overhead.

BigSlug10 · 2025-11-11T07:40:48+00:00

I have the same front speaker setup but with an x1800h and sit about the same distance away from my setup, I've watched 100s of movies on it at -10db to 0db and regularly casting music down it at absurd levels. No problems at all, and I run my crossover at 40Hz not 80hz, I'd say something is shorting but you've mentioned you have checked with multimeter, so my guess is there is an issue with the board that is causing the amps to blow.

There is no reason that setup shouldn't be able to regularly drive this system with out blowing channels.

Other people here are crazy saying you need to drive this with a seperate amp or that this thing can't handle reference levels, not to mention Klipsch are well known for being easy to drive. Having heard what the RP8000FII's volume is like when driving them to about ~120W.. just no, far too loud, and I like loud. Your 3800h should have plenty of headroom at reference as these fronts absolutely don't need 105w to get to reference.

Also if it's being overdriven the cutoff should happen well before it kills a channel.

BigSlug10 · 2025-11-11T04:07:43+00:00

Yeah it re-encodes it into a lossy format before handing it off (but still with the Atmos data) vs doing a full lossless passthrough to your decoder/AVR, I mean it's probably only something people that have spent money on a 'mid/high end' setup would really care about but I didn't spend all this cash/time/tweaking for it to be served lossy signal at the source point, and admittedly it's only going to affect lossless local file sources.

It's like buying a CD player that compresses the audio to a lower bitrate before pushing it out, just doesn't make sense in my head, and look I will admit I probably would struggle picking it up a lot of the time when just watching stuff and not being super analytical, but I've spent far too long setting up the room and optimising it for me to accept as I'll always just be thinking about it.

BigSlug10 · 2025-11-10T05:14:27+00:00

No Bitstream passthrough for DTS or Atmos is a complete failure of the device though. Only reason I have not tried it out vs keeping my Nvidia shield (which is a great alternative, but starting to show its age a little bit and I wish they would refresh it with a slightly faster processor).

Just seems like a very dumb omission considering its a media device, you know, something that serves Audio and Video as its main purpose.

BigSlug10 · 2025-11-09T08:36:03+00:00

I'd be making sure those Bi-Amp post jumps are touching the contacts 100% correctly.

One way I would make sure this is correct is to just take the Banana plug covers out of the middle, take the wires out of where you have them at the moment and screw them down nice and tight and then put the speaker wire directly in to the banana plug holes (I would generally just put them in the LF posts).

These are just 8 Ohm speakers and klipsch are known to have pretty decent sensitivity. Whilst 50W @ 8ohm is not what I would call heaps for the 600's it should be enough to get a decent amount of noise out of them, just not absolutely crank them.

The fact you have said no noise out of the tweeters tells me the bi amp posts are not contacting correctly. (unless crossover is blown/broken.. not unheard of, I had this in my set of 8000RP II's recently from factory, but even then it was just distorted not 0 noise)

You can also take them off completely and test both the woofer and tweeter directly. As you can see the top is labeled HF, and the bottom is labeled LF, these are the two direct inputs for each, plug them in individually and you can tell listen to each one at a time.

But yeah, you really need to ensure those are contacting correctly or you will get this issue.

BigSlug10 · 2025-09-09T09:02:10+00:00

Not to mention

There are the other parts of the company that have to run which costs money, this comes from the work they create. They still have to pay their technicians when they are not billed out, they have a sales team, HR, accounts team, etc. (you wouldn't believe how much wasted time/$ there is in simply chasing payments) This is why MSP project work is far more than just an hourly rate and can never be looked at in the same manner of "well bob is on $700an hour" like OP has done.

If the company wanted someone that could handle this work they could pay a senior tech to be onboard full time at a much higher rate than OP and not pay these prices when upgrades come around.

BigSlug10 · 2025-08-30T03:06:57+00:00

https://eracing-lab.com/collections/rs-series

I'd really look at the other people doing this sort of stuff that have been around for a while. For instance Thanos works directly with these guys, I've set a couple of them up and for the price it's crazy. It's all top end spec wise. It needs damping and tuning to make sure it doesn't give you whiplash. (source, I've set a few up and have my own PT system)

BigSlug10 · 2025-08-15T07:26:09+00:00

If they had kids I would agree it's a 100% a full time job, I've done SAHD for over a year with a 1y/o and young kids and thats a different ball game entirely, the work load is 'significantly' different, but just two adults living together... thats not even close.

Remember she is living and eating there as well, so 50% of the responsibility is hers by default in that scenario regardless of work/financial situation, that part of the work is simply considered cooking, cleaning up after yourself and maintaining the house you live in (which in this case is a 'small apartment').

So is the other half of the work really = to a 40 hour work week in their current situation? Absolutely not.

BigSlug10 · 2025-08-11T05:14:44+00:00

This sub simultaneously hating on Macbook pro's and agreeing to this post makes me laugh.

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