This project was completed in mid 2022 but seemed relevant to this thread... After adding Atmos overhead channels to our dual duty stereo & multi-channel big rig 2 years ago, I eventually decided to address the primary ceiling reflections of both the bed surrounds and the new rear Atmos...
Yup that first month post-op really sucks! The doc explained it as you having functionally had an amputation insofar as the bones and the trauma to the surrounding tissue goes.
By the 6th month the day-to-day discomfort is gone. The absence of the gnawing arthritis pain and limp associated...
At 44 years old I had a total knee replacement of my left knee. At the time both the ortho and the in-theater consultant from Stryker (manufacturer of the replacement knee) described my grotesquely arthritic knee as among the very worst they'd seen. The knee replacement was the seventh surgery...
At 58 and still with a penchant for very technical trail riding, falling down holds decidedly less appeal these days. I equip myself with the best tools for the job these days in order to minimize the risk and likelihood of falls, while still doing the same sort of MTB riding I was doing 25...
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A good bicycle snow tire has tall sharply defined tread blocks, a self cleaning tread pattern, and the largest casing your frame will allow to ensure a healthy footprint. If the paths you intend to ride are icy, a carbide studded version of the same is ideal. And you definitely want these...
Along the right hand side wall on a long, low custom rack about 8" off the wall. The turntable is on a "fancy-pants" wall mount shelf attached to a weight-bearing wall just above the one end of the gear rack adjacent the seating. The loaded rack weighs in the vicinity of 700 lbs but I used...
If you've read Mark Greaney's excellent Gray Man series of books, you are apt to find this movie disappointing. The movie seemed only vestigially related to the books and misses out on most everything that makes the novels so compelling. Here is hoping the TV series adaptation that is reportedly...
Updated my Oracle Delphi V/VI Reference recently. The frustratingly unreliable (and fiddly to rebuild) cuing mechanism on my SME V failed for the 3rd time in a decade. So before shipping the SME V out for yet another cuing rebuild, I bought a mint 2nd hand example of the Graham Phantom Supreme...
The Abyss
Arrival
Band of Brothers (HBO mini-series on Blu-Ray)
Black Swan
Blade Runner
Contact
The Dark Knight
Fargo
Goodfellas
Heat
Interstellar
Layer Cake
Miami Vice (movie)
Midsommar
No Country For Old Men
The Right Stuff
Sicario
Stranger Than Fiction
Train to Busan
Unforgiven
Up In The Air...
Awesome shots Dave. I LOVE riding steep stuff too. Not much geography like those big granite rock faces here in Southern Ontario but I've rode lots of "walls" on the west coast and interior of BC over the years. Some truly death defying rock scrapes on an old-school trail in Pemberton BC named...
As @Brad Lunde has previously noted in another ATC thread you contributed to, your 2+ decade old experience with the sound quality of a pair of 50's that would be several generations out of date now isn't terribly relevant to the SCM50ASL sold today. The in-house tweeter found in the current...
If he is planning on SCM50ASLs or SCM100ASLs they would have to be the same room for both. These things are WAY too heavy to be moved from room-to-room on a regular basis. Even my little SCM20ASL Pros come in at 60lbs ea and then another 40-50lbs for the mass loaded 4 post Skylan stands. Once...
My bicycle shop has been serious about great fit since I opened it in 1992 (30 years ago). Back then cleats centered beneath the ball of your foot was the standard. In the past two decades the understanding of cycling bio-mechanics has evolved considerably with sophisticated motion capture...
I have a dual-duty 2.1 stereo & 5.1.4 music & cinema set up comprised of 5x stand mounted ATC SCM20ASL Pro Mk2, 4x ceiling mounted ATC SCM12i Pro, and 4x Seaton Submersive HP subwoofers set up in a distributed bass array. My dedicated room is similar in size at 20.5'x14'x11'. Even when I'm...
I am a a Precision Fit certified bicycle fitter and the owner of an enthusiast bike shop that employs a fully equipped PrecisionFit bike fitting studio. Provided that you are wearing suitably stiff clipless compatible shoes, for the past decade best practice cleat placement has been with the...
Belt drive bicycle drivetrains and the Gates belt drives specifically appear to be great low-maintenance set-ups in theory. In practice they haven't really lived up to their low cost, low maintenance claims. In my Southern Ontario bike shop where we have sold both Gates equipped and later...
I've heard and read that same observation about "over treated rooms" repeated by audio enthusiasts countless times. After decades of keen interest and research into the subject of small room acoustics and the acoustic treatment thereof, I attribute these sort of statements to one of two things...
Room acoustic treatments have essentially nothing to do with a room's ambient noise floor. Sound proofing along with mechanical and electrical noise reduction is an entirely separate/independent effort from dialing in room acoustics. @Mike Lavigne's post above neatly details the factors which...
A pic of me riding a little up-and-over through the crotch of a gnarly maple tree on last night's Freewheel social ride. A maze of tight, twisty, rolling & flowy singletrack at the Puslinch Conservation Area in Southern Ontario.
Well I'm willing to provide some guidance but I'm in Canada and so am inconveniently located. I think you are wise to be skeptical about Artnovian. The performance claims they are making for a number of their products do indeed defy physics.
Honestly though, I think the best advice I could...
While I didn't ultimately use Nyal Mellor of Acoustic Frontiers services, I was most impressed with his friendly professionalism on the several times I spoke with him over the phone and via email. Had Nyal been located in my area or visa-versa, he would have been my first choice.
About a decade...