Recent content by puroagave

This is a CCP soft power channel created to shape public opinion with half truths and misinformation. Its 100% AI generated and the comments section smells like Wumao botts, they're 100% China good, USA bad. click on any of the profiles of the commenters, they're all blank. Have you ever heard...

For dance music, I would consider a separate speaker with a lot of headroom like the JBL K2, 4367s or s4700s. The old saw about any speaker should play ALL genres of music is BS. I have 5 different pairs I rotate in and out for various reasons and they all have different strengths. My dealer on...

I'm trying to stay nonpartisan in this tread. I was a bleeding-heart lib through my 20s, sometime in my 30s when i quit pot and blaming others for my failures I finally made traction in my career. I discovered the libertarian party and haven't looked back. That said, you can polish any turd into...

Put another way, it would be like you paying an additional 7-10 euro each time you fill your tank when every other province in your country doesn't...with the promise of better roads which never happens. Isn't the Netherlands a HUGE natural gas producer with a petroleum refining industry thats...

Or the $0.60/gal gas tax that makes the State $8 billion/yr. It's supposed to go toward fixing our roads. they've never been worse! The roads resemble a 3rd world country in many parts of Cali. Since Sacramento started pushing EVs they're not collecting enough 'gas tax' so now they're pushing to...

Have you heard the latest? California bill SB 560 is being heard in the senate next week to decriminalize welfare fraud of $25,000 or less...I'm a native California and this is the type of insanity that exist here.

The WP8 is going on 20-yrs and hardly represents Wilson's best work altho it was the brainchild of Dave himself. I think the current models are designed by people in the background with stronger engineering chops. If you speak with early WP owners they were revered for other things like...

By national standards, Altadena is affluent. A 1,200 SF, 50-yr old starter home is $1 mil. Many are 2+ mil. La Canada next door and Pasadena to the So. have many homes valued in the mult of millions. Its another reason insurance co. started to pull out of CA, the inflated home values didn't...

There's too much finger pointing at the moment when people need to focus on saving life and limb. The winds are still blowing and supossed to pick up again this weekend, coupled with the very low humidity its like a tinderbox. Hindsight is always 20/20; Shoulda, coulda, woulda is all you hear in...

As a native Angelino, this is the worst local disaster I've witnessed since the '94 Northridge quake. It's a nightmare no one could have readily predicted. The Santa Ana's we saw earlier this week were the strongest I can remember, with gusts up to 80 mph on the coast and 100+ inland. When the...

impressive sound room and system. thanks for sharing.

I knew Robert Zeff and the Pladsen bros well. I vistied their factory in Modesto in their heyday. They operated out of a barn that faced the road where American Graffiti was filmed. Robert was way ahead of his time, he would hardwire pre-outs out the back of a tapedeck into the first...

Soundstream were good, built poorly on the inside couldnt really play loads under 2 ohms before shutting down. I toured the factory, they were close to me. By contrast, the Fosgate and Orion amps could play 1 ohm all day long. Linear Power was also a player, not at Zapco or Audiomobile's level, imo.

Like others, my early foray into audio was building a system for the car. They were pretty sophisticated for the early '80s with Zapco modular amps, bi-amped with an elec xover, 2-way satellites/sub was the way to go. Designed my own passive crossovers w/ high-order Butterworth filters. Then a...

the retail is now 22.5k, four years ago it was 17k for the identical unit. I would say its still good value at the new price but if you're buying a used one dont pay the premium unless you know its no more than a 1 yr old.