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I know we have a lot of fishermen here. What kind of reels do you own? Here are some of my favorites.

These are the first bikes we have owned since we got our licenses. I haven't owned one in 23 years and she hasn't in 15 years. I remember how when I got my first car, I felt like I had this overwhelming sense of freedom. We now feel that way having bikes. Amazing how your perspective changes...

Howdy everybody, still in the audio game but it has been more sporadic than anything the last few years. After getting married and rediscovering my love of fishing, audio has sort of taken a back seat. My Abu Garcia addiction sort of snuck up on me. 20 years ago, my uncle got me an Abu...

Howdy everybody, both old and new alike. I've been away for a bit, just sort of fell out of love with the hobby a few years, took on a few other hobbies, and just the other day, fell back in love with hifi all over again. You see, a friend of mine asked if my Electro Voice 12TRXBs were for...

I've been messing around with them for a couple of years now and having a lot of fun. A friend of mine gave me a Motovox that he bought new for his daughter. She was scared of it, so I traded him some unused stereo gear and got to swapping the anemic 79cc 2.5HP engine for a Predator 212 Hemi...

I've been running bookshelf speakers on the desktop for quite some time. Over that time, I've tried various desktop stands in order to stop the bass from getting to the desk and vibrating any time the speakers hit. None of them worked to my expectations, and either ended up being given away or...

I was waiting on the G8 ST, then GM axed the Pontiac brand 6 months before it was to be released. The guys at the Tech Center already had a built a few to American standards, and I drooled over it every time I saw it drive by. Hopefully, it will be incarnated as the Chevy SS/ST, which is a...

Anybody else watch? It's by far my favorite YouTube series. It's a show by David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan from Hot Rod Magazine doing the things I always wanted to do to cars as a kid. Wrench on them and beat on them :D. Very very very entertaining show...

I have the hankerin' to sling some solder, and have been interested in solid state monoblocks. I've searched high and low, but can't seem to find any kits that come complete. Every one I've seen, I've had to source my own chassis and heatsinks. I don't have the tools to punch my own chassis...

Did everybody stop using it all of a sudden? It seemed to be relatively active before the server upgrade, but has been all but forgotten since.

This is a big hit among my friends and family. I'm requested to make these every month during "smoking season". A little time consuming, but easy, and very well worth it. Ingredients: Whole chicken, ~5lb. Vadalia onion, diced Roma tomatoes, diced Fresh jalapenos, thinly sliced. You...

First, a brief background. While in my laundry room last night, I heard that familiar clickity-clack of a failing hard drive coming from my server. Made a dash for the workstation, SSHed in, ran smartctl on my drives, and found a pair of my 500GB WD Blacks will soon be giving up the ghost...

Very good read. :yes: http://benchmarkmedia.com/blogs/news/14949345-high-resolution-audio-bit-depth?utm_source=Application+Notes&utm_campaign=d1c309a913-AppNotes_15aug-+Audio+Myth+%28LINK%29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e28f43b8aa-d1c309a913-125355977&mc_cid=d1c309a913&mc_eid=1588d1b496

I've been entertaining the idea of buying my first slot car set in 25 years. I have no clue who the big dogs are these days. When I was a kid, AFX made good cars and tracks, but I've been out of the loop for so long I have no idea now. Which retailers are the best to buy from? Any particular...

I'll be grabbing a few of these guys. Quad-core ARMv7, 1GB of RAM, and priced at $35. They will make fantastic MythTV front ends or boxes for XBMC/Kodi :yes: http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/

I recently got my first one, an Asus Zenwatch. So far so good! It's nice not having to fish for my phone when I get a text or email. I have it set so my phone doesn't ring when the watch is connected, the watch just vibrates when I a call is coming through. Smartwatches are still in their...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk Very interesting video. Have we really been doing it all wrong all this time?

By chaotic, I mean stuff that sounds totally out of control, like it can fall apart at any moment. These types of songs generally exhibit a great deal of dissonance, but the artist is able to conjure up something rather harmonious out of the dissonant sounds. When you sit back and listen with...

Have a good one buddy! :beerchug:

My new system boys and girls. Raspberry Pi with the Wolfson Audio card running Squeezeplug, feeding a Parasound Zdac via digital coax, Music Hall a15.3 integrated, and Wharfedale Denton 80th Anniversary speakers. This is one very forgiving system, able to play my whole music collection without...

I've been eyeballing this one the past couple of weeks, The SMSL M8 DSD DAC. It looks like a nice product for $250, and supports 32/384 audio as well as DSD64 and DSD128. Certainly is easy on the eyes as well :yes: This thing gives me a very itchy trigger finger :D...

As an ode to the $1000 system thread, let us see what we can do at the $500 and below price point. No used gear, this is for all new gear. DIY is allowed, but there is a catch, it must be in a retail kit form and contain all parts necessary to build a finished ready-to-use component. There is...

Well, sort of anyway. I won't be starting on this room until after my mother moves into her new house. She recently took up residence with me when her home sold, so that gives me a months worth of planning and preparation. Due to the poor acoustics of my basement, I have decided to relocate...

A fellow in my car club works for a performance shop here in the area, Livernois Motorsports. Here's a vid of the new 2.3L Ecoboost Mustang, both tuned and stock. As of right now, his best ET was an 11.81 @ 114 with a tune, slicks, skinnies, and the passenger seat removed. The engine is bone...

Last week at this time, while researching possible components for a new system, I stumbled across the Wharfedale Denton 80th Anniversary speakers at Music Direct. The mahogany finish looked great in the pictures, and the frequency response of 44Hz to 24KHz +/-3dB sounded like something I could...