sandt38

I had a Blackberry Tour and switched to a Droid Incredible in the summer. I thought it'd be hard to switch too. In fact, Android actually pushed me away from BB. I don't miss the lag or loading sign in the middle of the screen hahah. I don't miss the "dial-up" internet either My 1Ghz Snapdragon processor and 528(?) MB of RAM are really convenient. I didnt use BBM though, so it'll obviously be a little different for you. Glad to hear. I vacillated between a BB, another WinMo device and an HTC Inspire. I went with the Inspire and am pleased thus far.

WHen in Rome, do like the romans. How was (or is) the trip ? It was awesome. I wish we had allotted more time. 8 days was not enough.

Tanner Chase joined MN Awesome on May 6,2011 at 6:11pm. 7lb 12oz, 22" and healthy. Mom's doing well also. Awesometown again! Congrats dude.

Awesometown.

Indeed, my good man. I guess if he had told everyone his idea of change was to nearly triple the unemployment rate, cause the first drop in GDP in over 50 years, have a ballooning foreclosure rate, a massive decline in housing prices, etc. etc. etc, that the outcome of the '08 election might have been a little different. Of course, now we can HOPE for a CHANGE in 2012

Winrar.

We used to fish at palmer's pond. I am sure if you know the area you know that. Their property was on the North Road, up in Almond. North Road started where they kept the large graters and plows right at the W Almond exit. It has been 20+ years since I was there last but i assume the storage building is still there.

Fuckin A right. Let's go Sabres! Thanks guys.............I'm Rooting as hard as I can from here till I get home.................REALLY hoping for a Coyotes Sabres Stanley Cup Series. J Been a Sabres and Bills fan all my life. Can't help it, I was raised in Buffaol. Last time the Sabres made the Stanley Cup we lost due to a rule change, done during the playoffs the public didn't hear about until after 'No Goal'. J Crease violation and actually it was changed the following year. Brett Hull, playing for the Stars scored the goal in triple overtime. I still have nightmares about it. He was clearly in the crease before the shot, but IMO the officials were so frikken tired they just gave the game away. I'm from the southern Tier (Olean) and grew up a fan of the Sabres, Bills, and Yanks. No other way in my family. J No shit? I went to SUNY Alfred. My grandparents had a chunk of property in Philips Creek, just off the West Almond exit on 17, not terribly far from olean.

Fuckin A right. Let's go Sabres! Thanks guys.............I'm Rooting as hard as I can from here till I get home.................REALLY hoping for a Coyotes Sabres Stanley Cup Series. J Been a Sabres and Bills fan all my life. Can't help it, I was raised in Buffaol. Last time the Sabres made the Stanley Cup we lost due to a rule change, done during the playoffs the public didn't hear about until after 'No Goal'. J Crease violation and actually it was changed the following year. Brett Hull, playing for the Stars scored the goal in triple overtime. I still have nightmares about it. He was clearly in the crease before the shot, but IMO the officials were so frikken tired they just gave the game away.

Fuckin A right.

Your lucky bastard. I have a couple interviews in the hopper here. Desperately wanting to move up and up. Looking into some schooling. I may have a lead on an IS/Biz Management blended course. That would be bi-winning if it's got the highest level of accredidation(sp). You're trip will be awesome. I'm on ful Jelly status. As for me, bronameth, I've been sick as all hell, basement flodded 5-6 times due to some bad land scaping, the brother in laws place is costing more than it's making right now even after rasing the "rent". I'm getting in the gym more and getting more active so maybe and no insanely bad pain, so maybe I'm better. 2011 looks to be a lot better than the last 3-4 years though. Work was getting slow, and as a straight commission guy that isn't good. Fortunately for me, I am well known in my field here and can get a job pretty much any time. But this is a good shop, I am making 2-3X what i had been making for a while, and it is in a good location. Admittedly i do miss the scenery from the old shop (right at the main gate of UNC), but this will do. Sorry to hear about the bad shit, but life has a funny way of working out for the better most of the time. I trust you will be doing better soon. Yeah, congrats dude. I missed the initial post so I am late to the party, but my congrats are sincere.

Well lunch is over. Gotta get back to work. I'll see you guys later.

WHOA! Where you been? How's the health and such? I hope your trip is a real good one. X2 Seth Hey man, how you been? Glad to hear you are doing good! I think we all were wondering. Goood! Listening to the digms alot, hooked on jazz now. Good deal. Jazz kicks ass through some nice Digms. Tons of detail for the instrumentation. Yeah man, thanks. I'll be sure to share some pics when I get back.

WHOA! Where you been? How's the health and such? I hope your trip is a real good one. X2 Seth Hey man, how you been?

WHOA! Where you been? How's the health and such? I hope your trip is a real good one. Hey broseph. Just been real busy. I got a new job and I am constantly hammered, so when I get home i am just too tired to get online much. Plus I wind up going to school a lot after work. Health is good, no complaints. I am sure it will be. We were going to go the year I got sick but had to cancel for obvious reasons. So we are pretty excited about it. How've you been, man?

Hola. Heading to Rome next week. I can't wait for this next few days to end.

It has been debated rather hotly for years, and now it has become pretty much accepted that MP3 and sound quality do not mix. But why is it? Why do some people hear so much loss in their systems and others don’t? Are my old ears really better then someone 30 years my junior? Someone who still has a large amount of their hearing range left, while mine has deteriorated over the years should be able to hear these losses better then I! I started with home tower speakers in the back seat of my old Delta88 back in the days when we had no real systems, and we still had post mounted tape decks and 8-tracks. Then times changed, and we started putting in tape decks with trunk mounted CD cartridge changers with $60 coaxials and $50 amplifiers and maybe a bazooka tube subwoofer for those of us with “discriminating” tastes. Eventually I wanted to just go boom and spent money on several thousand watts and some monster excursion subs. Then we learned about XBL2 and how these high output subwoofers could be very accurate. Finally I finished my journey with $1200 component speakers and $1000 amplifiers, all filled in at the bottom with very capable sound quality based subs dialed way back. My journey started out as just wanting to get some sounds, to wanting to get loud, to wanting to sound good. Now that I have found a really nice sound quality install, my music seemed to really lack. I have been using MP3 for years, but eventually I started looking for higher bit-rate MP3s, and now I am at a level where only .flac or .wav or other lossless files suit my tastes. I have listened very critically to how the advancement of definition brought about by higher quality speakers and amplification, and source caused my MP3 listening experience, no matter the bit-rate to become bland, and I really felt more of the emotion brought out in music by using lossless formats in my car. But then I asked myself, “Why does my lossless not only sound better, but seem to bring about a more emotional experience?” So I started to learn about how lossy formats work, and how they can stick so much information in such a small space. Let’s discuss music reproduction first, so we can get an understanding of what we are listening to. All we are listening to is really a reproduction of an instrument or a voice, and to simplify this writing I will include the vocals as the instrument as well. Musical reproduction is usually characterized as fundamentals, harmonics (and as I will discuss below, low fundamentals can be included in this grouping), and finally overblow, breath, or air. The very heart of these sounds are called fundamentals. The fundamentals, are what I call meat and potatoes or music, are the essentials of the reproduction. They are what the instrument actually delivers, directly. But then we have carry over, which are termed harmonics. These are not as much a base of the delivery of the instrument, as they are an extension of it. You might also see the lower frequency carry overs dubbed as a “low fundamental”, as they are more apparent in low frequencies, where they tend to be less noticed in higher pitches. I like to call this the emotion of the music. Finally you have overblow, which is usually only noticed in wind instruments and vocals. I personally like to classify this as emotion as well, and therefore will include them as a group when I say emotion or harmonics. While it takes a trained ear to listen for image and stage presentation, younger people with a naturally better range can hear losses in the “emotional” frequencies or the harmonics of the sound easier than us old fogies. So why is it that those of us who are older tend to hear these losses better then the young folks? I would dare to venture that it is simply because we tend to have more money invested in our component systems (and when I say system, I mean everything from source material, source equipment, sound processing, amplifiers, speakers, and installation techniques) with a higher definition then the younger folks who are running a simple inexpensive component system install. This is not to say our systems are better for all purposes, as I will discuss in this writing. In fact, for the vast majority of folks, a lower definition system makes more sense, as many are more concerned with the ease of storage media and they tend to use MP3 or other lossy formats. When we have these high definition systems, many of the weaknesses inherent in lossy encoding really jump out glaringly. So, sandt38, what is it that we really listen to? Well, the human brain perceives and retains everything it sees, hears, thinks, etc. It is actually an amazing organ that captures far more then we are able to drag out of it. We simply do not have all the doorways opened up in the brain, so we forget, or don’t notice many of the things that we actually perceive. The mind actually only directly notices the loudest things we hear. So while there may be several instruments may be reproducing the same frequency at the same time, we only perceive the loudest of this information we actually hear. We ignore the other lower volumes of the same frequencies, but we still hear it. Our mind processes this information but determines that it is not that important so it will file it away in that subconscious part of the brain we do not actually consciously notice. So let’s look at how these MP3 encoders work. In order to save space, an MP3 encoder usually selects certain information to discard, and other information to retain. The most common method of MP3 encoding functions similarly to how we perceive the music. Just like our brain, it ignores the lower volumes of the same frequencies, and all it retains it the higher volume material at that frequency. We fill in the rest subconsciously. Please be aware that many encoders eliminate only certain lower frequencies altogether, but they variably retain the higher volume information up to a certain point. For example, the encoder may retain ½ of the information at a certain frequency. But it will retain the higher volumes at a greater rate. While these are not the only methods of encoding MP3s, they are the most common. So you see, by considering the way the encoder works we can get an idea of what happens to the music we listen to. The fundamentals tend to get retained, while the harmonics tend to be lost. So we lose the emotion, which is why MP3s sound so bland on systems with very high quality components. Now, there are other things to consider when it comes to MP3 compression. Bit-rates, and not only the rate, but variable or constant bit-rates, are the biggest consideration here. Very quickly, the higher the listed bit-rate, the more information that is saved, and therefore the better the quality. But to be frank, these don’t alter what occurs with the music. Yes, these higher bitrates do sound much better, but there is still something that is lost. So what can we gather about speaker selection from our source material? Well, we can help decide whether it is really worth it for us to spend $1000 on components, or if a $200 set will suffice. I am not trying to say that if you spend a grand on a set of components it will automatically be a better set then a $500 set. My mention of pricing basically assumes a basic cost/quality ratio. Clearly a $200 set of Sony Xplod coaxial speakers is nowhere near as good as a $180 Image Dynamics CTX65CS component set. So take these generalizations to assume a similar cost/quality ratio. The high dollar sets that you see out there are far more true to source then the lower priced units. This is a good thing if the source material is pristine. But if your source is not that great, these more accurate speakers will start to sound like crap. It isn’t the speakers that suck, it is the material you are putting through it. But when we get down into the lower dollar sets, these weaknesses are not quite so apparent. I do want to point out this article, no matter how poorly the whole test was conducted the results still prove my point. The guy used some of the most awful source and speaker combinations. Why you would ask people to listen for nuances using a $200 receiver and a $200 subwoofer and satellite set using 5 3.5 inch full range units is beyond me. Sheer idiocy. But the end results are very significant, the differences between MP3s and lossless were detected by all listeners in the test. All this considered, please keep a few other things in mind. I cannot stress the importance the rest of your signal chain has on the final product. The higher end speakers will also show off weaknesses in them as well. Be prepared to make some really high dollar signal chain investments when you decide to buy these high end components. I also think it should be noted that while amplifiers of the same class may sound different while sitting still with little ambient noise, but once we get moving these nuances really disappear. I do feel that differing class amplifiers can have a different overall sound, and can be distinguished while moving.

Well, sine Tirefryr asked, I guess I would post my toy. It is a 1986 Buick Grand National. It has a 3.8L V6, 30 over and stroked. Forged TRW 8.5:1 pistons and a forged Crower crank. Comp cams custom cut to optimize exhaust gas speed to increase spool up and reduce lag. The heads are cast, ported and polished with stainless valves, Chevy 350 lifters and comp cams 1.6:1 roller rockers. The intake manifold is match ported and polished to the heads, and fed through a Turbo-TA stretched intercooler with a Duttwieler neck conversion. I use a 3 inch cold air pipe and a 9 inch K&N. I use stock style headers (I found they have better bottom end then the high flow headers) a TA51 turbo, 2.5" downpipe, catalytic converter delete and Hooker Cat back system. I use a secondary in-line Bosch fuel pump and 120# injectors for fuel. An Art Carr built transmission with a 3500 stall converter. Suspension is pretty much stock, with poly bushings, boxed rear trailing arms, TRW Variable rate rear springs and new TRW front springs. I think that was all that matters under the hood. I put it on the Mustang and dialed in 495HP and 525Lb Ft of torque on 24#s of boost. My best 1/4 is 11.84@119. My 0-60MPH times are 4.2seconds. I inititally swapped out the 3.42 gears out for 3.73s. I figured when i opened up the exhaust my top end would improve and i could put 3.90s in it. So I put 3.90 gears in it but I found I lost too much top end down the quarter, dropping my quarter times and trap speeds. So I went back to 3.73s to get my 1/4 times and trap speeds back up but my 0-60 times fell a bit. In the trunk is a Ported Adire Brahma (1.9ft tuned to 24Hz), powered by a Cadence Z7000HC (1500X1 class AB). The front stage is a pair of Adire Koda 6.1s powered by a Cadence Q3000. The HU is a Pioneer Premier DEH-P740MP. I have an AC Delco Platinum AGM battery out back and a true isolator out front. Pics? OK

Are you using a Russian/English translator or something? English cannot be your first language, and if it is, slap your English/Language Arts teacher for me when you get back from the Christmas break.

Merry Christmas fuckers!

Hopefully some pussy...

Oh, no. We don't compress the gas like that, our pipeline is all standard Natural Gas in gaseous form. The maximum amount of compression differential these can handle is ~300psi. In other words if you have 600psi of suction pressure, the maximum discharge could only be around 900psi.... any more than that and they'll tell you all about the load they're under and how they can't handle it.... LNG is usually several thousand pounds if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, I thought the pressures were tremendous, but I wasn't sure.

Also, do the compressors actually compress them into a liquid for transport? I assume that is the case as it appears to be a liquid line on the outlet. But then i was thinking, in order to compress NG the pressures may be so high that to return it to a gas might be so cold as to freeze whatever orifice might be used to depressurize it.

Actually we do quite a bit of small routine maintenance, otherwise as long as things are going smooth they don't require a ton of maintenance to keep runnning. Adjustments to the lifters and "balancing" the power cylinders are done on a weekly basis. Otherwise we just keep em cleaned up and running smooth. LOL @ the turbo on the GN!! I said the EXACT same thing about my Jimmy on a blazer forum!!! LOL.... After saying that I looked at the valve train a bit closer. Are those individual oilers on each unit? I was thinking of the fulcrum and contact points needing a lot of lubrication, but then i noticed what looked like oilers on it.

Love the simplicity. The external valve train is interesting. I assume it requires quite a bit of maintainance? Love the turbo. Recon it would fit on my GN?