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Well I stubled onto this site and holy!!! I don't know what some of these innovators were taking for breakfast. Oh by the way Sushi the wooden speaker thing actually has been used for a while in a matter of wooden horn tweets in Zingali speakers.
Enjoy boys;
http://www.exoticaudio.org/PAGE26.html
Goto the home page after.

that is a frickin' hilarious page! Ah, it calms the speaker lust...

Wow - so wierd. Very nice and funny find.

I would really like to check out that Horn arrangement in France. That wasa crazy setup. He must be a Czar or some French mafia or something.

http://www.exoticaudio.org/PAGE24.html

On that page, the Maestro speaker is what my local hifi shop uses in their reference system. The upper driver is driven by a huge McIntosh amp...and the lower by HUGE Krell monoblocks. It sounds great...but it is a down payment on a house here in CA.

A price that could BUY you a house other places in the US. Damn I hate the real estate prices out here. My wife keeps saying that people get paid less in other states, but I don't think they get paid THAT much less...

Face it. The cost of living in CA sucks. Even though our wages were statistically higher than workers in other states doing similar jobs -- I say were because I'm not so sure they are higher anymore -- it's not enough to offset the costs.

From page 15, this is one of the best looking tube amps I've seen:

*sigh*...living in LA and wanting to own a home is a bad combo.

Roger and I are both getting sick of renting. Especially with all my new gear! I want to crank it up and not bother my neighbors!

We looked at a SMALL 2 bedroom house down the street from us. A "fixer-upper"...$525,000. JESUS!

That's worse than what the small 2 bedroom non-fixer-upper that sold a few houses down on my street for $430k.

Yikes! I think I'll take up ferret farming and move to Oregon.

My god Craig, that's horrible. Not to brag but you could buy a large 2 bedroom house in my area for $125,000. And that's Canadian, so $95,000. Better go buy a warm jacket!

So you're telling me that if I moved to Canada, I'd be able to buy a home, I'd have more disposable income, I'd have real seasons, and I wouldn't have to deal with either Schwarzenegger or Bush?! Why the hell aren't my bags packed yet?

oh, but don't forget, our dictator takes about 30% off our pay cheque. That's a little more than our southerly neighbours.

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Oh by the way Sushi the wooden speaker thing actually has been used for a while in a matter of wooden horn tweets in Zingali speakers.

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Well, that doesn't really qualify, does it? -- unless they use wood in the horn driver diaphragm, which I don't think they do. Horns themselves don't make sound (ideally they should not vibrate at all).

After State and Federal taxes, Medicare and Social Security 34.5% of my paycheck is gone.

How much of a market is there in Canada for a digital film recorder?

Here in WI a 30-40 yr old starter home runs about $80-120K. A new, 1800-2000sf 3br 2 bath home with a 2 car garage on a 90X120' lot will run $140-175k. I bought my old 1700sf farmhouse on 1.5 acres (200' X 360') lot IN TOWN with a 32'X96' shed, a 2 car garage, and a seperate 18'X18' greenhouse for $46,000. I spent about $40,000 so far, and am building an addition right now (for the new HT!). I live in one of the best places in the country! And better yet...my car insurance for 2 late model cars, a pickup truck, and a boat, motor, and trailer are a combined total of about $1,100/year! My homeowners insurance runs about $350/yr and we can go to a great restaurant (MUCH better food and bigger portions than what you find in other parts of the country) for under $30 for my wife and me! Traffic is light and people are friendly. Yet, for some reason, most of the people I went to school with had to move to NY or CA or FL to get away from icy hickville. Amazing how many have come back after 10 years or so away.

OK, done bragging now...

By the way, I am a bricklayer, not a doctor or an executive, and my wife is a 2 day a week secretary just to get out of the house, we are not rich. I can't understand how my brother, sister, and friends can live in those expensive areas.

The trick is finding one of these areas where it is less expensive to live where they have jobs available for a lab tech and a computer consultant. Sigh...

I don't know...I live about 20 minutes north of the Fox cities, and about 40 minutes west of Green Bay. Within a 1 hr drive There are 2 cancer centers, at least a dozen major hospitals, a mayo clinic, and countless walk-in care centers. There are many huge corporations (mainly paper mills) such as Fort Howard, Proctor and Gamble, Kimberly Clark, and lesser mills, along with (in my home town) Hillshire Farm (meat products), large manufacturers, etc. We are not an overly populated area, but there are many jobs, and a great need for service and technical sector jobs. The paper industry is laying off workers (sadly), but the economy here is still much stronger than in other parts of the country, and my electric bill runs about $50/month, not a few hundred.

Not ranting or bragging, but I have strong feelings when I see friends and relatives move to metro areas in "better" parts of the country, then watch them struggle. I am willing to bet that although there are wealthier people in other areas, the average person in the upper midwest lives better than the average person in other parts of the country. People making $100,000+ in CA probably live much poorer than we do making $40k, and you can trust most strangers around here.

Sounds good to me. Now to talk Jen (my wife) into it...

I'll never get Roger out of SoCal. I'd be willing to move, but I don't think he'll ever leave.

just kick him.

Hey, I like Arnold and Bush! Not as much as McClintock and Reagan, but certainly better than the rest of the morons/whores we've had in gov't recently.

I know there is alot of anti-IE bias in the LA area, but you can get a 3,000 to 4,000 sf house in Corona for about $400K. Your commute would suck hard unless you took the metrolink, though. Long live the valley of the dirt people!

Sorry for dipping into the politics trough. It's just that I just finished reading "Dude, Where's My Country?"

I know a man who works in San Diego and lives in Joshua Tree. That's almost a 3-hour commute -- each way! But boy was his house cheap!

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morons/whores we've had in gov't recently

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This applies to both sides of the aisle, eh?