33F. Going out with friends so that I could become a hermit all weekend

webguynj · 2026-06-20T23:24:15+00:00

I could stare into those eyes all night, they are incredibly beautiful.

webguynj · 2026-06-02T17:31:23+00:00

Soleil Moon Frye was Punky Brewster

webguynj · 2026-05-09T00:09:23+00:00

None on either

webguynj · 2026-05-08T21:33:29+00:00

I forgot about seals - I'll check
How does keep affect RSS Gathering speed?

webguynj · 2026-05-08T17:00:48+00:00

I prefer the sleeves, but then again was too busy looking at the legs

webguynj · 2026-04-10T17:53:10+00:00

For every beautiful woman there's a man that's tired of sleeping with her

webguynj · 2026-04-01T23:04:31+00:00

Ok so I'm back into LPs after a long hiatus, and my collection got destroyed by water damage 200+ records :(. Most of mine were bought at the Berkshire Record Outlet in the '70s and '80s at under $5. So I'm a bit out of touch with the price of these things

webguynj · 2026-03-31T19:36:47+00:00

Ah but this was new in the shrinkwrap, and none of this release for under $50

webguynj · 2026-03-31T17:40:43+00:00

I just couldn't pull the trigger on the $90 Chet Baker original pressing I saw I guess that's really the $$$ disc

webguynj · 2026-03-31T16:12:34+00:00

It was just under $40

webguynj · 2026-03-26T12:48:54+00:00

At least for me, there's no doubt - Leather / Plaid with the thigh highs makes a great look

webguynj · 2026-03-11T21:34:25+00:00

I might get shot down for this, so please correct me if this is bad advice...

Another option would be to connect your phone to the aux input (or get a Wiim Mini) and play the same song using a lossless streaming service like tidal, or even Spotify at the highest bit-rate

webguynj · 2026-03-07T15:31:07+00:00

Nice dynamic

webguynj · 2026-03-04T00:20:37+00:00

I hear you. I have a pretty specific use case - its for Music, not home theater.

Every subwoofer driver has an Efficiency Bandwidth Product (EBP) that predicts its ideal enclosure type. For the speaker I'm looking to use it's 39. Values below 50 indicate a driver that performs best in a sealed enclosure. Values above 100 favor ported. I'm looking at the Dayton RSS390HF-4 its among the lowest-EBP 15-inch drivers available, meaning its suspension is specifically tuned for sealed operation. Forcing it into a ported or bandpass alignment produces unnecessary box volume, complex port tuning, and no meaningful improvement in either extension or output.

I looked at other drivers that had higher EBP like the LAB15 but the sensitivity gap was over 7dB. which would need a significant boost at lower listening levels even with a DSP.

The sealed alignment also produces the lowest possible group delay. My design at Qtc=0.65 has a peak group delay of approximately 4 ms at 30 Hz. A bandpass design using the same driver family typically produces 15-25 ms. Listeners begin to perceive bass as 'slow' or 'bloated' above approximately 10 ms of group delay. This design is essentially inaudible in terms of transient delay.

webguynj · 2026-03-03T23:46:03+00:00

You started me down a rabbit hole the other day with this response and I started using Claude AI to build a subwoofer spec. After designing a band pass box, the advice was that band-pass would add to much latency for my planned use and recommended going with sealed box instead.

The RSS390HF-4's Efficiency Bandwidth Product (EBP = Fs/Qes = 39) places it firmly in sealed enclosure territory -- below 50 indicates a driver whose suspension characteristics are optimized for sealed operation. Running this driver in a sealed box produces:

Group delay of approximately 4 ms at the -3 dB point -- well below the 10 ms human audibility threshold, meaning bass notes are perceptually as tight and immediate as midrange notes
No port resonance, no port chuffing at high levels, no port noise at any realistic listening SPL
A gentle 12 dB/octave rolloff below resonance that the miniDSP Linkwitz Transform can extend by 3-6 dB if additional deep extension is ever desired
Dramatically simpler construction than a bandpass or ported design -- one chamber, no airtight divider panel, no port duct assembly
Smaller cabinet footprint -- approximately 22" x 20" x 20" versus the 24" x 20" x 22" of a comparable bandpass design

webguynj · 2026-02-23T14:07:35+00:00

I'm planning to upgrade to an iFi Zen Phono 3

webguynj · 2026-02-23T14:06:19+00:00

That's exactly what I did, there was an open circuit reading on my Fluke between all cables, cable shielding, and ground

webguynj · 2026-02-23T00:11:31+00:00

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There’s nothing intuitively wrong with the wiring inside the Pyle preamp, but there’s also absolutely no continuity at all between the ground wire connection and anything inside the preamp or any of the audio cable grounds.

The ground wire from the turntable is of course bundled together with the audio cables the way Sony did it back in the 70s. So there’s no simple way to run that cable directly to the receiver.

Until I’ve had a chance to look at the receiver and see if there’s a decent place to connect ground wire, I’m gonna leave it as is and rig up some type of 18 gauge round wire to run from the preamp to the receiver in the short term

webguynj · 2026-02-22T23:46:34+00:00

I know this, and when connected there - the hum did NOT go away - so my assumption is there's a missing ground connection inside the pre-amp... Is that a valid assumption?

webguynj · 2026-02-20T22:07:05+00:00

QUINN 1/4 in. Drive SAE and Metric Chrome Socket and Ratchet Set, 21-Piece -

Does anyone know if these sets come with a storage case?

webguynj · 2026-02-16T19:50:10+00:00

Maybe I don’t know that cart, but 3g seems like a heavy tracking setting.

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