There.
I've been in almost constant contact with Amie (and more recently, Brent) at Axiom since November 2004. They are nothing but wonderful, helpful people.
I read every review of loudspeaker systems in the 2-3k range I could find. I dragged my wife to more audio equipment stores than I've been to scrapbooking stores (well, ok...that might be a stretch. But that was my argument, and she went with it).
I've exchanged emails with Clint from Audioholics, and I've auditioned Paradigms and Infinity Betas and some other speakers that I'm less likely to admit to having heard.
When I finished the basement, I placed 12 AWG speaker wires in the wall, made sure that the wires didn't run within 6" of any power lines, and terminated them with nifty little binding posts that are keystoned right into what looks like an outlet (looks sharp, if I do say so myself).
I like to believe I've done my homework.
After completing my tax return (yay, I don't owe), I placed the order for the M60ti pair, QS8 pair, VP150 center, EP175 sub. In black/black (wife's rule, all electronic equipment is black, even if the speakers are the same size as a bookshelf).
I just wanted to share my joy with people who would understand.
Let me be the first to say "Welcome"!
Love the idea of terminating the wires at the wall with binding posts! Brilliant.
Get ready to start doing the Happy Dance on Wed!
;-)
you must be doing something wrong... i got out of going to scrapbook stores about 2 years ago.
sounds like a great system you are building there. what kind of receiver are you going to push it with? those 60's can take plenty of wattage and keep asking for more.
congrats on your order, and hope the system is everything you hope it will be. i have confidence it will. BTW- just for $hits and giggles, make sure and have your wife scrapbook a page for "THE DAY MY AXIOMS ARRIVED". at least she will feel more involved that way!!
bigjohn
Congrulations. I hope you get out as much as you put in (I think you will, but am an axiom owner and very biased!).
Impressions/pics to follow?
jr
I was just informed that my speakers should arrive Thursday. My wife is going out of town for the weekend (scrapbooking retreat).
I think the boy and I are going to be watching "Monsters, Inc" and "Finding Nemo" in surround sound! (and probably Dora and some Thomas the Tank Engine, too)
Oh, for a receiver, I bought a Denon 3805 from Ultimate Electronics during their Presidents' Day sale.
Hey, a scrapbook page...that's a great idea for involving the spousal unit. I'll have to make sure we get a lot of pictures. Like I said, she'll be out of town, so...I'll have to get some of my 'scrapbook widower' friends over for a setup party. After I get some pics, I'll see if I can't find a place to post them.
the 3805 is a great unit.. it will power that system with no problems what-so-ever.
'monsters inc' and 'finding nemo' are great movies on a good HT system. in fact, most of those animated features have great sound effects in them. plus, the darla scene in nemo will give you a great idea of the performance of your sub. when she is tapping on the fish tank, it will feel like god is tapping you on the brain. get ready for the rumble.
and in monsters inc when they are riding the doors on the conveyor belt, the surrounds will really be working.
i see you are a scrappers husband also. ? my wife wont start doing retreats til the summer, but she will definitely go. but, i think its agreat hobby, and she is doing a great job of preserving our families history. i say, more power to her!!
EDIT- you can use
photobucket.com to host your pics. just upload them from your computer, then you can use
these instructions to help you get them on the site.. good luck!!
bigjohn
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I dragged my wife to more audio equipment stores than I've been to scrapbooking stores
Now either this is just "blue car syndrome" (where until you buy a blue car you never notice every second car on the road is blue)... but this scrapbooking thing, I knew there were a few people doing this... but since we've been innundated by women running scrapbooking layout businesses about our free fonts, it seems I see it everywhere I look.
At least all these scrapbooking women have been very polite and educated, don't mind so much getting emails from them.
Bren R.
"scrapbooking"
Is this just what it sounds like? Or am I missing something?
There is a sub-culture of people out there who just make scrapbooks? Don't they run out of stuff to put in them after a while?
Welcome LonKelley, It’s good to have fellow coders around... I’m now mainly working with .NET C# ; yes the enemy
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Don't they run out of stuff to put in them after a while?
No, they just drop the minimum requirement for how cool something needs to be to be scrapbooked I think...
Baby's First Steps - I can see being a good page...
John Gets A Coil Pack From The Auto Salvage - not so much...
Course this means we'll have a whole generation of babies growing up with their pictures mutilated into flower and heart shapes.
Bad enough I grew up in the 126 cartridge era... all my young days are captured in square prints, usually taken at a 45 degree cant. Those a few years younger in the 110/disc era have prints that are barely recognizable at any size larger than 3.5x5, then guys like Jack and Ray - they have to up and fly to the cave where their youth pictures were painted on walls using berry mush and animal blood with a chewed stick and bone marrow.
Bren R.
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then guys like Jack and Ray - they have to up and fly to the cave where their youth pictures were painted on walls using berry mush and animal blood with a chewed stick and bone marrow.
Oh yeah? Take this!
Welcome to the 20th century. I hear you can even get colour TVs these days.
Cute Jack!!
You're definately from the British Isles somewhere.
Bren R.
LOL! John! John! I know this will come as a surprise to you, but we're in the 21st century.
That photo was taken in the 20th century. And, that may be the WORST spray job I've ever seen.
You got it right, Bren. Scotch Irish all the way. Interestingly, both my mother and father had dark hair. I was a result of either a recessive gene, or mom's fooling around with the milkman. The latter, by the way, was what my father taught me to say, as a toddler, whenever the subject of my coloring came up. I shocked many an upstanding citizen with that one.
animal blood and bone marrow....
cute pic there jack.. are you positive that could actually be you. sure were a cute looking kid.... what happened??
seabear- bren is about right.. scrapbooking is a really cool and creative way for my wife to document the events and occasions of our life. she is a complete shutter-bug, so we NEVER run out of photos. but, she can run out of ideas, which leads to the eventual, "Husband goes to mailbox" page. hey, not everything has to be serious!!
bigjohn
Wow! I never knew! But I'll bet there are about 10,000 other hobbies out there that I would not have thought of either.
And, as to;
hey, not everything has to be serious!!
That I CERTAINLY knew!
Very little in my life IS!
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cute pic there jack.. are you positive that could actually be you. sure were a cute looking kid.... what happened??
Oh it's me alright. I'd know those ears anywhere. In a stiff breeze I used to do my imitation of the flying nun.
I think, in 30 or 40 years, your kids will be REALLY happy that scrapbooking was your wife's hobby. They aren't gonna care for a long time, but the time will come in their lives when all that documentation will mean the world to them.
Lon - welcome and enjoy the equipment! I would have chimed in sooner, but I had a tough time finding the original cave and the limestone has eroded so badly over the eons that not one single picture of my youth remains!!
A well, I did find the wheel dad invented.
Ray
>>John! John! I know this will come as a surprise to you, but we're in the 21st century
When did this happen ?
Seriously, I started typing 21st century but I just couldn't post that bad a colorization job, call it 21st century, and live with myself.
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You got it right, Bren. Scotch Irish all the way. Interestingly, both my mother and father had dark hair. I was a result of either a recessive gene, or mom's fooling around with the milkman.
Yeah, you look like every baby picture down mom's side of the family for the past 4 generations.
And as for looking like family members... bro and I split the family... I ended up looking like mom's (Irish) side, bro looks like dad's (German) side. It's odd when no one sees a resemblance between my dad and I, yet when my mom's brother (maternal uncle) still had auburn/brown hair, in dim light you couldn't tell him and I apart, which led mom to yell at him at the front door one day for knocking when he "has a g** d*** key anyway!"... well, *I* had a key, he didn't.
Bren R.
Cool, another one. I thought I was the only Irish / German in the pack...
And we all end up here...
Seriously, 45+ years and I've never met a single person of German / Irish descent in my life. Until today, I guess...
In regards to people who think that you 'run out of ideas'...well...she just thinks of new places to go. Children's Museum gets a new exhibit about every other month...the Science Museum is about the same...In the summer there are parks, fall there are orchards and pumpkin patches, for winter there's snow and Christmas and about 3/4 of my extended family birthdays...
As for pictures...we just got our second digital camera at Christmastime...we had used the other one for some 4000+ pictures in the 3 years we owned it.
Now, a slight disclaimer to that, when you have a digital camera, you're a little less critical of how many pictures you take...There are many pictures that were taken that were never reproduced on paper (but are of course archived and saved digitally..."Just in case").
So, since Christmas, I think we're up to 500 images on the new camera...and the boy's birthday (3rd) isn't even until the end of the month...
Scrapbooking, as my wife describes it, is like making a photo album, but you don't have to sit next to someone and explain each picture while they read it. You write little boxes and put everything in context. If someone has to ask you a question, then you didn't do the page well enough.
(and she would NEVER cut a picture in any shape except square, oval, or circle...her rule is, "Thou shalt not detract from the subject of the photo by mangling the shape of the photo."...or something along those lines)
Wow. Add me to the pack of Irish/German. Family names are McCoy (yes those McCoys) and Tucker (as in
Tucher Brewery). Tucher got switched to Tucher when the g-great grandfather came to the US. My grand father is a spitting image of the founder (big mural of him on the wall in the brewery in Germany. Beer is not bad either (Suppenkueche in SF serves it).
LonKelley, Welcome to the group congrats on your purchase. Check your PM.
Speaking of not looking like siblings.
How many could pick my brother out of this lineup:
Of course, I'm the one kneeling in the front in the olive drab BDUs - the rest of the guys there are either of German/Bavarian descent or British Isles descent (and two Ukrainians). I'll give you a hint - it's not the guy doing the internship that's in from Japan.
Bren R.
i will say the bald guy, 4th from the left of the people standing.?
its like an internet game of 'pin the head of the canadian'.
bigjohn
I certainly hope the person standing second to the left isn't.
lol. Hey bren, how did Mr. Lofft(standing fourth from the right)get in there?
In all seriousness, your brother appears to be standing far left. The hairline looks familiar.
How about the guy with the blue stripe across his shirt.
On second thought 1st guy on the left top row.
First guy on the left, top row...
No, no, no. The guy on the far left is
obviously one of the Ukranians.
I'd say bro is 3rd from left.
I'd agree - 3rd guy from the left on the top row.
Bro is on the far left - the big guy with his hand on his hip.
One person (BigJohn) thought I was related to Jay (4th from left) - one of the engineers and sometimes fill-in DJ from Winnipeg's Best Rock, Power 97FM.
Bray originally thought I was related to Doug (3rd from right), the replay guy, which I thought would be a real spoiler, we're both Irish, both cheer for the same soccer team and drink the same beer. Then changed his answer and got it right.
Richeydog mistook audio engineer Patrick for Alan Lofft.
And two people thought I was related to Lee - the only sports music guy in Western Canada that under the direction "fire it up" plays a song with an accordion in it.
Bren R.
Bren is clearly the one in the suit and his brother is that guy wayyy in the back in the stands who is obviously talking on a cell phone and drinking a beer.
No no waitaminute, i think i posted my response too late.
Dammit.
Judging by their silly grins, either the two cameramen recently downed three espressos or they're just cold and can't wait to get off the ice.
FAQ for the cameraman to the left of me (my right):
- No, he's not 12, he was 20 there, I picked him up as a "makeweight" when he was 18... kind of a "yeah, kid, I'll let you shoot when the janitor won't return my calls"... he's got some kind of neural implant and his Matrix is being able to shoot. The kind of guy you fire so he doesn't take over your job.
- No he's not gay (yes, the VTR Op sent this pic to someone and her gay friend asked if he was gay and single)
- No, ladies, he does not want to date you, he's really shy and likes good wholesome teen girls.
Bren R.
OH CRAP!!! do I ever want to take that last comment somewhere.
but
nevermind.