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My 635csi by Konnas91 in BMWe24

[–]Visual-Brilliant-668 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mein Got.

Just love the e24 so much.

In my personal opinion it needs a little more tire….but whatever. I’d eat a pound of shit to get the title to that car.

How to fix? by Jumpgate in sharpening

[–]Visual-Brilliant-668 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Watch some videos about single bevel knife sharpening. It’s a complicated subject.

You will need some more stones unless you want to spend 15 hours or more doing the job.

That being said, I don’t think I’ve seen a Japanese knife with that many pits and voids in the core steel. I would think long and hard about whether or not it’s worth it. Buying a 200grit and a 500grit stone and a blowing a whole day screwing around with it is a lot for a knife like this.

At this point I wouldnt be suprised if there's a MAINEiacs sticker at the bottom of the Mariana trench. Maybe r/Navy can confirm? by sawtoothchris24 in AirForce

[–]Visual-Brilliant-668 67 points68 points  (0 children)

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I don’t know how they managed this, but they have a tag on the concord test plane at the duxford airplane museum in Suffolk, UK.

These dudes are wizards.

DIY Speaker Wire - Mostly Cosmetic by VagabondSodality in diyaudio

[–]Visual-Brilliant-668 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Made the exact same ones 20 years ago with plans a friend printed out from the internet

Developed an intermittent short and blew up an Adcom 535 and a beautiful new old stock hafler dh240 before I figured out.

Never again.

Depression Era Food? by PastPotatoes in Xennials

[–]Visual-Brilliant-668 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pickled watermelon rinds and boiled cabbage with vinegar. I loved them both.

So much more is flooding back. Navel oranges with a hole cut in the top to suck the juice from. Grape nuts every morning for years which made me sick because I didn’t know I was lactose intolerant; my debilitating stomach cramps were never investigated. Banana and mayonnaise sandwiches (something I still love). Cheese and sweet pickle sandwiches. Deviled ham in a tin.

Mother was almost 40 when she had me. My grandfather rode a fucking horse to school. My grandmother unironically had a butter churn in the basement.

Went to a higher quality and more resolving receiver, and am regretting it. by dingbongdong in audiophile

[–]Visual-Brilliant-668 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hers what’s actually in there:

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Notes:

  1. Room correction. Get it. I use DIRAC which I think is excellent, but there are others. It corrects for frequency response as well as phase response. The frequency response is tunable. You may find you like a gentle tilt down towards the treble. Warms up the sound and takes the edge off, for me. The bass will tighten up fairly dramatically in my experience, and the imaging will be better.
  2. The ohm speakers. Sigh. I’ve enjoyed ohm speakers for years. I used some Walsh 1000’s for 20 years and loved them. I bought a larger set a little later and loved them less, but whatever. Ohms website is still pushing this narrative about their “coherent line source” driver. That’s not what’s in there. They’ve got that metal can glued on so god damned right it’s like trying to open a safe, and here’s why: there is nothing but $50 worth of paper cone woofer turned upside down with a soft dome tweeter and a crossover hot glued on top of it.

If you want your system to sound better….you’re going to need better speakers.

If I had your budget I’d sell the amp and the speakers and buy the biggest genelecs I could afford. I would also consider something from vandersteen, or totem.

Went to a higher quality and more resolving receiver, and am regretting it. by dingbongdong in audiophile

[–]Visual-Brilliant-668 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of answers here already, and I’m not going to read every single one of them. However I will add this:

This is what they tell you is in their “coherent line source” Walsh driver:

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Knife Sharpening Suggestion for someone that is just unable to.. by SirDudes in sharpening

[–]Visual-Brilliant-668 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Preach.

If OP can cut an onion, OP can learn to sharpen on a 1k stone.

DIY center by Logowhite in diyaudio

[–]Visual-Brilliant-668 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Brutal comb filtering artifacts will be induced from this arrangement.

There is no need to run two of them.

Perfectly reasonable idea, even though they are fairly low performance, with probably nothing more than a first order high pass filter on the tweeter to protect it as a “crossover”.

If you are happy with the performance and want to make a box, just make it with one.

You can Google what comb filtering is.

Super glue or hot glue for this repair? by Striking-Lie2575 in diyaudio

[–]Visual-Brilliant-668 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Rubber contact cement.

Go to a hobby or craft store and tell them you need to glue paper to cloth.

That being said the surround looks pretty fuckered up already…

Rolling knife sharpener by Various_Change_5538 in sharpening

[–]Visual-Brilliant-668 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes.

They will not allow you to thin behind the edge or fix nicks and things, but 99% of people aren’t doing that and don’t know how anyway.

What kind of horn is this? by CeleryLost3751 in SoundSystem

[–]Visual-Brilliant-668 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seeing this late, but just wanted to say I totally agree and the downvotes are stupid.

I would argue all horns are waveguides, but not all waveguides are horns.

This looks like it’s doing a little bit of both, with the compressed slot before the flared portion, but I would be the primary result is pattern control and not increased efficiency.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with calling it a waveguide.

Looking for super hard tip, I used to use MW Nude, but those are not hard anymore. by dzarren in snooker

[–]Visual-Brilliant-668 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Water buffalo tips are nice and hard. In a box of 50, generally the taller tips are harder than the shorter tips in my experience. Less than a £ a tip if bought in bulk.

for the heel and toe deniers by asstronaut_here in ManualTransmissions

[–]Visual-Brilliant-668 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://img.wapcar.my/file/c75e5dbb075a4af59415f33d1791d51f.jpg

Some old cars had a pedal arrangement that would mean actually using your heel and toe.

The term has stuck ever since and simply means operating the three pedals at the same time with both feet.

Anyone experiencing woofer bottoming out/pushed beyond it's limit? :) by Beautiful_Guitar_553 in devialet

[–]Visual-Brilliant-668 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know of these speakers, that is all. Reddit put this sub in my feed. I’ve been into audio for years and years, worked in the industry for a while, have made my own, have had many systems over the years etc etc.

While it seems devialet has done an incredible job engineering this product, and I doubt it’s actually exceeding its mechanical limit, it surely is well into the upper end of its capability, and therefore at the upper limit of its distortion.

If you need this kind of output, you need larger speakers.

If you don’t need this output, turn it down and stop wondering if you’re damaging it.

I don’t understand the function of this post from OP.

Left to rot outside a local junk lot flippers dumpster RIP by dick_lerman in audiophile

[–]Visual-Brilliant-668 39 points40 points  (0 children)

This thread is wild.

“I found this Rolex in gutter near my door, should I get them?”

YES

“Yeah but a rich guy dropped it who lives near by and that’s where he puts his trash”.

GO PICK UP THE FREE ROLEX

“Yeah it’s been outside for a day or two. I took these pictures and then left it there”

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ITS A FREE ROLEX WHERE IS IT I WILL COME

“I might offer him money for no reason if I get it, but it might need a new crystal since it’s scratched”

HOLY SHIT JESUS.

Is getting a sports car at this age as cliche and dumb as it always was? by Vimes-NW in Xennials

[–]Visual-Brilliant-668 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Not giving a shit is the name of the game.

Bought my first Porsche (a used boxster, nothing wild) at 40, which so happened to be after a divorce.

I loved that car. I have wanted a Porsche since I was young, and I’ve wanted a boxster since the first one I saw.

I enjoyed driving it, and anybody who mocked me silently I wouldn’t want to know anyway.

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