So... after spending a couple of months with M2 mains in a 13x23 room which, despite my best efforts, remains my primary music room, I gave in and bought some M3s for the bedroom system.

Why ? 'Cause that frees up the M60s for the basement. Better yet, with the investment of a bit of wire I get to play with 7.1. I just need to get off my butt and download the HK630 upgrade for Dolby PLIIx...

Anyways, I can't imagine how anyone could respond to this other than "my condolences, I know a good de-programmer" but there it is.

Do I smell a cage match III in the making? You gonna try that t-amp that everyone's talking about?

No way. I'm right out of free time. The M3s are a labor-saving device so I don't have to keep running upstairs to listen to the M60s

M3s received and set up. Sitting on top of the M60s for now.

They sound great as expected except one speaker seems to have a buzz in the woofer. This was the speaker in the heavily abused box (the other speaker came in a merely abused box). I have pinged tech support for advice.

Will make sure all the allen bolts are tight around the speaker if I can find the right wrench... any recommendations for tightness ? I was just going to make sure nothing was loose and wait for Axiom advice before going any tighter...

Before anyone asks :

1. Yes I have pics but can't find the card reader for uploading to the PC.

2. No I will not run up and down the stairs again. Well, guess I have to do it twice more to get the M60s downstairs. Bleah.

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1. Yes I have pics but can't find the card reader for uploading to the PC.
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Well then your just a speaker tease aren't you?


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2. No I will not run up and down the stairs again. Well, guess I have to do it twice more to get the M60s downstairs. Bleah.
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You mean you can't bring em' down in one shot?
Sorry to hear of that problem with your m3. Hope you get if fixed quickly.

>>Well then your just a speaker tease aren't you?

OK, so maybe I have a *bit* more sympathy for the girls now...

>>You mean you can't bring em' down in one shot?

True.... down is easier than up, but these are heading for the HT not the dump so I think I'll carry them down instead...

EDIT -- tightening up the woofer bolts didn't help, so I loosened them off again. They take a 4mm allen key for anyone else so inclined.

I'm going to stop poking at them and just listen to 'em for a while.

"No I will not run up and down the stairs again. Well, guess I have to do it twice more to get the M60s downstairs. Bleah. "

Don't you remember anything from your childhood?
Do NOT Run down the stairs while carrying those M60s. You could put an Eye Out!
Find anything out about the Bonked M3?

Good news. The replacement M3 showed up today (Monday was a holiday up here) so problem solved. We tracked the noise down to the woofer but Axiom sent me a new M3 anyways (thanks !!).

I originally set the speakers up about a foot from the back wall but there was too much bass. They are now almost two feet from the wall and sounding great.

Review note -- a pair of M3s sounds much richer than a single M3 -- more so than I expected. The M3s really are nice speakers. Room size is roughly 13x18 and they play as loudly as I would want. The M3s are in a bedroom but the system is basically to provide music for the second floor of the house since the main system is two floors down in the basement.

M60s are downstairs, replacing the M2s in the main system. It's real nice to be able to listen to music without a sub downstairs (the M2s needed a sub). Even with the HK 630 handling crossover duties there seems to be a difference in the imaging when running the M60s in Small. I could run them in Large and slot the sub in where the M60s roll off but for music the M60s have all the bass depth and volume I want without assistance.

... and just for amusement, Noreen called me at lunchtime today. Purolator had just called her to complain that I hadn't picked up my M3s (yes, the same M3s I was listening to this morning).

Good for a laugh...

Werent tribbles those fluffy things from star trek that just kept on fornicating?

i thought 'tribbles' were what you put hot pans on, straight out of the oven...?

bigjohn

>>Werent tribbles those fluffy things from star trek that just kept on fornicating?

Yep. Every time you look there are more of them...

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i thought 'tribbles' were what you put hot pans on, straight out of the oven...?

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nah, those are trivets and it's sad i know that...

ah, TRIVETS... i knew it was something like that.

at least we know who the REAL man here is...? so tell me, whens your next pedicure..? J/K

go watch 'fight club', that will boost the testerone back up!!!

bigjohn

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ah, TRIVETS... i knew it was something like that. at least we know who the REAL man here is...?

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True story: I used to work as a shipper/receiver for a wholesaler... housewares, crappy tools, soft goods (blankets, towels, etc)... I got a packing slip on my desk... twenty-four 52-pc socket sets, thirty-six queen size comforters, ninety-six trivets...

Trivets? What the hell is a trivet? Found the other shipper/receiver...
"Kev?"
'Yeah...?'
"What's a trivet?"
'Those things you put hot pots on'
"Like a potholder?"
'No, you hold a hot pot with those, thus the name...'
"Uh, like those ceramic things?"
'No, they're woven... never mind, I'll get them...'

You don't even want to know how completely useless I was when it came to towels... bath towel, bath sheet, hand, face, facecloth, washcloth, dish... made of terry, cotton, jacquard... the mind reels. Towels fall into two catagories for me - house and shop - and two sizes - big enough for me after a shower and not.

Bren R.

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You don't even want to know how completely useless I was when it came to towels

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funny...? we still find you that way about stereo stuff..

ah, come on man... you left the door wide open for that!!!

i crack myself up...

and i agree with you on the towels. we have inside towels and outside towels. and regular size, and john size. i swear, shannon found me a HUGE beach towel that weighs like 8 pounds.. you could almost use it as a comforter for a king size bed.

bigjohn

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funny...? we still find you that way about stereo stuff..

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A hammer and a pair of quiet shoes... that's all I've ever needed...

Bren R.

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Trivets? What the hell is a trivet? Found the other shipper/receiver...
"Kev?"
'Yeah...?'
"What's a trivet?"
'Those things you put hot pots on'
"Like a potholder?"
'No, you hold a hot pot with those, thus the name...'
"Uh, like those ceramic things?"
'No, they're woven... never mind, I'll get them...'

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Damn i've got so much catching up to do on the boards, but I didn't think i could let this one die. It just reminded me of a joke that was played on a very gullible friend of mine. When he was a rookie, the guys on his hockey team told him to go upstairs to the canteen and ask for a "dikfer".

Sure enough he's upstairs in a minute quite confused, asking the lady working the canteen "what's a dikfer"???

That reminds me of a story my co-worker told me. He was on a job installing telephone cabling in a government building and asked a rookie to go out to the truck and get him another box of dialtones.

They guy actually went and then called him a few minutes later saying he couldn't find any.

Same place of business, we had a high school kid in on weekends that would cover for one of us or the other or work with both of us when we needed an extra back.

Had him convinced calling him "feltch" (do NOT Google this!) was just another way of saying manual labourer.

Bren R.

When I was first out of high school, I worked for Sears Portrait Studios for a few years. In that position, you were not only the photographer but the salesperson two weeks later when the prints came back from the lab. There was a special "display" area where you would take the prints out of the bag one by one to let the customer view them... in hopes that someone would be suitably impressed with the larger, "extra" ones and buy more than the promo package.

Once in awhile, when I had a customer that I remembered as being good-natured and not likely to deck me, I would pull out all the photos one by one and place them as I normally would...except upside down. With as much disbelief as I could muster, I would exclaim how sorry I was that the lab accidentally printed the whole order upside down.

It was amazing the number of times people would ask if they could be reprinted or did they need to go through a whole new sitting. ::Evil Laugh::

ewwww.

I guess you can figure that everyone pretty much will Google it once told not to...

A humanitarian I'm not.

Bren R.

Bren please do not tell me NOT to google again. I side with Mark on this one.

The unwritten laws of human nature state then when one's curiosity is peeked and they are told not to follow the instinct to investigate = salmon against the current.

I can only wonder who took Bren's caution and did NOT actually Google that word.
I believe FELCH was the 'proper' spelling.

If *Bren* says not to Google, I don't Google!!!

when i was in the military, we used to send newbies(FNG'S) down to supply to get a 'box of grid squares'. keep in mind, for those that know maps, 'grid squares' are just the squares that are created on a map where longitude and latitude lines cross. it creates a suqare onm the map, hence, grid square.. anyway, we would send guys to find a 'box of drid squares', and off they go. the supply sargent, who is in on the joke, tells him that he is all out, but go check with the gunnery sargent. and so on, and so forth. it would never fail, several hours later, the poor new guy would return, looking beaten and confused, trying to explain how he went all over batallion, trying to find a 'box of grid squares'. we all hit the floor as laughter insues..

bigjohn

you don't have to Google it when you already know what it is.... ewwwww!

I dont want to know how you already knew.

It would seem the more physical a job, the stronger the hazing. When I worked delivering drywall, we had a forklift operator that would actually try to run us over in the warehouse - though it should be said that he'd spend his day in the forklift seat (his running joke was "good thing I'm driving this thing... I'm too drunk to walk!")...

And the other little presents you'd pass along to the other guys - new guys loading steel studs (they come bundled in nested 10s like so [][][][][], you put your fingers on one hand inside them to carry them). You and your partner have to watch how you put them down, if you drop or throw your end down, the steel shifts like a set of shears and the other guy gets cut, it only happens once, then you learn to put just the tips of your fingers in them so you can let go if need be.

As the front man carrying drywall, nothing shuts up a complaining back man like lifting the bundle up so it hits the header on a door rough opening ("studding" him)... not only is it really hard on his shoulder, but it also forces most of the weight back to him.

And honestly I don't remember the real names of most of the guys I worked with... Doc Boy, Peaches, Cream, Sleazy Rider, Captain Kirk, Sterile Darryl, and my moniker - K-Mart Body Builder (6' 3", 170lbs and arms like Popeye).

Construction is the perfect place for any angry, full of P&V late teenager!

Bren R.

Anyone here care for a tossed salad?

it depends on how you 'mean' that..?

bigjohn

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Werent tribbles those fluffy things from star trek that just kept on fornicating?

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Yep and here is a link where you can watch a little of it......(Yeah ok now you all know, I'm a Trekkie!)

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/episode/68744.html

I thought most preferred "Trekker."

The term Trekkie is sometimes considered derogatory, perhaps because of a perceived parallel to the term groupie. Some Star Trek enthusiasts prefer the term Trekker, while some others hold the latter term to be stupid or pretentious, and, for that reason, self-identify as Trekkies. Some Trekkies even say that a Trekker is a Trekkie who is embarrassed for being Trekkie. On the other hand, Trekker is sometimes used as a term for the kind of Star Trek fan who is obsessed with the fine details.
-Wikipedia

Bren R.

i prefer to use the abbreviated version of both.. NERD!!

jokes people, these are ALL jokes..

bigjohn

I was just waiting on that.

Bren I noticed that your avatar is back to the "don't mess with me I'm a bad a$$ cop" look. What gives?

I like this return to the old avatar as well... Looks pretty bad-arse. While cool, however, it is not as nice as richeydog's avatar... *Drools*

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Bren I noticed that your avatar is back to the "don't mess with me I'm a bad a$$ cop" look. What gives?

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Swapped it back after the Peter's son's face on my head joke.

And I look like a cop in that pic? Hmm... so much for the cool biker look...

Now THIS makes me look like a cop:


Bren R.

p.s. Yes, I realize I'm giving Bray ammunition.

Ammunition. Hell thats like a hand grenade.
Thanks

No, a grenade is the pic of me bent 90s degrees at the waist assembling furniture after moving (and yes, it's been Photoshopped a few times by the guys at work to have me, er, a prison wife to everyone from Shrek to Andrew WK)

Bren R.

I havent seen that pic.
How bout you post it???

You are a very brave man.

Very brave indeed.



Woof.

Geez guys!! you oughta have a disclaimer or something that reads, "Don't attempt to drink beverages while viewing these pictures!" i don't mind showering the monitor at work, but fizzy Coke in the nostrils is not fun!

geez... you guys are brutal. funny though, i am laughing.

*note to self*

NEVER post my pic on here again... EVER!!!

bigjohn

You should see the ones that I thought twice about posting and decided not to.

i have seen what he can do.. bren, you got off light!!

bigjohn