Re: The agony of waiting for speakers
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The wait is a killer, but the permagrin after installation makes it more than worth the wait.
You could always keep yourself busy by cleaning the nose prints off the front window.
Fred
------- Blujays1: Spending Fred's money one bottle at a time, no two... Oh crap!
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Re: The agony of waiting for speakers
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I had a 3 1/2 week wait. When the DAY arrived, my wife called me at work and said "Theey're Heeere". I got sick at work and rushed home to recuperate. I opened the garage door and there they were.....I counted and said "waaaiit - is this all?" One QS8 box was missing. I called Axiom immediately and they said it was not unusual for the shipment to get separated across a couple of days. Not to be deterred, I set it up using one of my old Polk M3 surrounds in place of the QS8 - which showed up the next day......but I am sure you have nothing to worry about.....
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Re: The agony of waiting for speakers
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My wife keeps laughing at me. "Your like a little kid" she says. There is a few things that I need to do before the speakers get here. 1. Mount the TV on the wall. DONE 2. Organize and make new speaker cables. Not sure what I will do yet as there are a lot of different kinds of DIY cable that could be made. I like the cables that are covered with the techflex sleaving, but still there is CAT5 cables, Primary wire cables, so on and so on. 3. Possible run some wires inside the walls. This depends what I choose for type of cables that I will use. 4. Thinking of taking my 20 year old Energy speakers (still sound good) and build new smaller speaker cabinets for them and use them for rear L/R in 5.1 setup.
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Even my kids laugh at me when I have any new gears arrived :p She told her mama :"Dad's like a little kid and always playing with those stupid boxes." :p
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Re: The agony of waiting for speakers
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I just received notice that the speakers have shipped today. Hopefully they arrive before the weekend.
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If they don't it's gonna be a looong weekend!
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Mine are supposed to be here Thursday, but snow all last weekend and snow predicted for next weekend. I have to re-route some speaker cables and fish walls, back and forth underneath the house for the fronts. I dunno, maybe a few wires hanging across the walls for a week or two? With splices in the temporary wires! All my gear is in a rack, 40 ft as the crow, 75' runs, so nuttin is easy.
Yeah thats it!
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Fronts/Wides:M22s in/on Center:VP150/VP100 in/on Hghts,SS,SR:QS8s Sub:EP500 AVR:Onkyo 3008
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Well my stuff made it thru customs and is in NY, thursday is probably true! I always worry about customs, have to deal with that at work.
Fronts/Wides:M22s in/on Center:VP150/VP100 in/on Hghts,SS,SR:QS8s Sub:EP500 AVR:Onkyo 3008
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Looks like they might come in today. Tracking details say, "ShipmentIn Transit" Depot "Port Kells". I think I'm feeling sick, can't go to work. hehehe
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The magics word will soon say "ON VEHICULE FOR DELIVERY"... Unless it is UPS and then it will say "OUT FOR DELIVERY" which I find less poetic.
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