Search results

  1. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    It Finally Happened: Not One, but TWO Heart Attacks

    Frankly, at age 79, I felt that I was past that 40-60 window where most heart attacks happen. Just because one takes 10,000 IU of vitamin E every day along with 25 other vitamins, does not garantee health. I'd always had historically excellent health. Last year, my wife said she thought I'd live...
  2. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    It Finally Happened: Not One, but TWO Heart Attacks

    A month before my heart attacks, someone on X social media jokingly accused me of 'bench pressing tractors". A neighbor who is a construction / heavy equipment operator called me a monster when I described how I replaced a 900lb track on my excavator by myself 3 years ago. In my later years, I'd...
  3. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    It Finally Happened: Not One, but TWO Heart Attacks

    One of the stranger questions I asked my cardiologist was whether extreme mechanical shock to my chest would endanger the stent. He said no. I was basically cleared to listen to loud music. What a relief. Had he said I could no longer bass pig, I would have asked for the euthanasia department! LOL
  4. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    It Finally Happened: Not One, but TWO Heart Attacks

    It's been a stressful year. My wife told me it was the Year of the Dragon. Lord have mercy! The Dragon's calling card came early on Dec 31, with a generator building fire. Being it was raining for 3 weeks straight, our solar panels weren't bringing in much power and I was running the generator...
  5. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    AI Voice Modeling (Deep Fakes)

    Thank you. Shortly after that video, I was in Costco and had a particular experience which led my mind to write a joke. The night before, a customer, having seen my demo, said I should clone Orson Welles' voice, so I did. The next day I would use it to deliver this joke. Audio sounds added in...
  6. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    New Year's Eve Generator Fire

    I didn't mention that there are two fans--an input and an exhaust-- 1000CFM that kept this generator cool in 95F August heat during a dry spell. This concrete structure was built in 1986. The only thing I could not make fire resistant was the door. I did not have the tools or materials to make a...
  7. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    New Year's Eve Generator Fire

    This was a totally unexpected incident, as I had run this generator on 95°F days and no fires resulted. It's been raining all week and everything is wet and 35°F and the fire happened. Ran the generator for an hour (as usual) to bring the battery banks up (been raining for weeks on end here)...
  8. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    Greetings from Basspig (Mark Weiss) from Connecticut

    I stumbled across this thread after 13 years and realized I had not responded to your question! It is 154" and 2.4 aspect ratio. Material is CenterStage made by Seymour AV. In 2018, I upgraded the projector (I think I mentioned that in another thread here).
  9. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    It Took Me 5-1/2 Years, But I Finally Got Live Streaming to Work on my Web Server

    I wanted to have my own live stream, where I didn't have to worry about being banned for 183 days just because some copyrighted material appeared on a TV in the background. So I researched it and found Doug Johnson's video on how to set up your own RTMP streaming server with nginx. My setup was...
  10. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    Dishonesty in the Roof Coatings Industry

    Thank you for your concern. I got this much out of Henry Co. They sent me two pails of 887 white roof coating and two 0.9 gallon cans of the leak stopper. So I can't cover the whole roof, but will have to deal with the worst parts in spring. Can't do now because of leaves falling on the roof.
  11. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    AI Voice Modeling (Deep Fakes)

    Lately, I've been exploring AI for both image creation, and more recently, voice cloning. My early work last summer was in replicating the early 1950s style of electronics documentaries. I trained a voice model based on an old GE announcer and made a new video shop tour with that voice and a...
  12. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    Solar Cell electricity effect on Audio???

    Of course 'EMP-hardened' can be claimed, but in the event of nuclear war, all warrantees will not be honored.
  13. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    Solar Cell electricity effect on Audio???

    The best solar power system is completely off-grid. Many poor homeowners don't realize that most of these systems being pushed by three big solar installers are grid-tied and shut down when the grid goes down. I myself am interested in EMP-hardening, as we are not only due for the solar flare...
  14. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    Dishonesty in the Roof Coatings Industry

    In 2017, I finished a 14 year renovation of my roof (new joists included). I was looking into putting down a final top cover of EPDM rubber. Had one place lined up and a friend to help, but what killed the project is the roofing supplier said his boom truck operator was sick. After months of...
  15. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    The cars you have loved, or are in love with. Tell us your car history and what each one taught you

    My 1961 Lincoln Continental. Favorite car I've owned. Paid $800 for it in 1968. Owned until 1980, when I had to let it go. No garage to keep it.
  16. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    Solar Cell electricity effect on Audio???

    Here's the current status of my solar off grid system. I'm adding another 7200W of new solar panels bought last Dec in about a month. The upper left SC48120 charge controller is allocated for that. The big blue unit at lower right is 195lbs of transformer and contains the sinewave inverter. In...
  17. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    Eek! Has this happened to you?

    Once you're recovered, I recommend doing what I do for healthy ear canals: when showering, let the water stream into the ear canal then tilt head to drain. Do this several times. I never have any wax buildup since I started doing this 40 years ago.
  18. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    What are you doing about EMI/RFI?

    Faraday shielded the entire house, as we knew there is a 50kW FM tower 1400' in our front yard. As a broadcast engineer, I have had to deal with resident complaints in apartment buildings of RFI from one of our transmitters on the roof in Yonkers. Solutions ranged from aluminum foil, to looping...
  19. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    Stromtank Battery Supply / Sine Wave Converter

    One of the challenges of 3-state PWM inverters is RFI (this is mostly 1MHz and above--well outside audio range), so what I so is add these mix 31 ferrite chokes to wiring both inside and outside the inverter. Also all wiring going to PV panels if you're on solar like I am.
  20. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    Solar Cell electricity effect on Audio???

    I run my whole house on solar power and use a big Sungold Power 18,000W inverter with a 54kW surge capacity running off 42kWh of LifePo4 batteries and I'm pleased to report no issues. I was concerned there would be issues with the high peak currents when I'm playing at very loud levels, but...
  21. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    Gradually Going Off-Grid (Battery Backup and Solar)

    All excellent questions! We're all oil heat with hydronic heating. Water heater is new. The old one finally ruptured after 17 years. Burner on that thing was over 28 years old. I found out it was using more power than both our A/C units combined. The ignitor was running full time and pulling...
  22. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    Gradually Going Off-Grid (Battery Backup and Solar)

    Counting every nut, bolt, copper wire and a third solar panel array installed in late June, we are at $22K now. Most of it financed with Paypal credit. Here's the current state of it:
  23. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    What SONG are you listening to right now?

    The original soundtrack from Fumetsu no Anata e by Ryu Kawasaki.
  24. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    Gradually Going Off-Grid (Battery Backup and Solar)

    No, these are fixed arrays. I've built the frames with lumber and they rest on blocks. This system is off-grid. I shut off the main breaker and then run off the inverter. The inverter is backed up by a generator. Our electric bill started to top $700 monthly two years ago. Eversource is getting...
  25. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    Gradually Going Off-Grid (Battery Backup and Solar)

    Update in May: Solar array #1 has been running for 3 weeks. We've been able to transfer to the inverter from about 11am to 8pm most days. With less use of electric stove, some days I get to midnight and still have 30% battery left. This week, I ordered 28kWh more LifePo4 batteries and a metal...
  26. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    Gradually Going Off-Grid (Battery Backup and Solar)

    With electric bills approaching $800 monthly, and with the frequent long duration outages after a storm, I decided to supplement my generator with LifePo4 battery backup (starting out with 14kWh, 16 280 Ah cells) and a 6kW/18kW inverter so that we can keep the electricity on overnight when the...
  27. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    Fumetsu no Anata e (To Your Eternity) Original Soundtracks 1 & 2

    December saw the release of the final disc in this set of three blu-ray + CD collection. The first two packages contain one BD and one CD, the third completed this 20 episode series with two BDs. There is an irony to this story... the first time I watched this series, I did not really notice...
  28. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    What SONG are you listening to right now?

    I recently purchased the blu-ray discs so I could have the soundtrack CDs (they are a package deal) for Fumetsu no Anata e (To Your Eternity) after hearing the isolated soundtrack, after watching the anime of the same title. I've been playing this sountrack in my shop and I've had multiple...
  29. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    My God, What Did They Do to this Beautiful Music?

    Wow! I really didn't expect anyone here actually HEARD of this series, much less has my tastes in anime! This thing totally rocked my world when I saw it in August. The first episode broke my heart. But the ending had a kind of karmic payback. I've been reading the manga up to chapter 151...
  30. Mark (Basspig) Weiss

    My God, What Did They Do to this Beautiful Music?

    Recently, I discovered some amazing music. It was part of a TV series soundtrack. I first heard the isolated soundtrack on Youtube and came to really appreciate the music. However, the audio sounded "grungy" and I figured that whomever uploaded it dirtied it up to try to fool the copyright...

About us

  • What’s Best Forum is THE forum for high end audio, product reviews, advice and sharing experiences on the best of everything else. This is THE place where audiophiles and audio companies discuss vintage, contemporary and new audio products, music servers, music streamers, computer audio, digital-to-analog converters, turntables, phono stages, cartridges, reel-to-reel tape machines, speakers, headphones and tube and solid-state amplification. Founded in 2010 What’s Best Forum invites intelligent and courteous people of all interests and backgrounds to describe and discuss the best of everything. From beginners to life-long hobbyists to industry professionals, we enjoy learning about new things and meeting new people, and participating in spirited debates.

Quick Navigation

User Menu

Steve Williams
Site Founder | Site Owner | Administrator
Ron Resnick
Site Co-Owner | Administrator
Julian (The Fixer)
Website Build | Marketing Managersing