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New member Username: Stmarie151Post Number: 6 Registered: Nov-07 | what would be the best gauge of wire for the cerwin vega cls dual 15" |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 1549 Registered: Oct-04 | Depends on the length of the run. |
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Gold Member Username: Frank_abelaBerkshire UK Post Number: 2558 Registered: Sep-04 | ...and the quality of the copper... |
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Gold Member Username: Stu_pittIrvington, New York USA Post Number: 2309 Registered: May-05 | ...and the configuration of the wire... |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 9312 Registered: Dec-04 | ...and the amount of power running through the circuit... |
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Gold Member Username: Stu_pittIrvington, New York USA Post Number: 2311 Registered: May-05 | ...and the type of connectors on the speakers and amp... |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 1550 Registered: Oct-04 | ...and let's not forget, the length of the run. Oh, I already said that? |
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Gold Member Username: Stu_pittIrvington, New York USA Post Number: 2313 Registered: May-05 | ...you forgot the "..." in the begining and end of your sentence to keep the chain going... |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 1551 Registered: Oct-04 | ... |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 9317 Registered: Dec-04 | ...and the direction of the arrows on the wire insulation... |
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Gold Member Username: Frank_abelaBerkshire UK Post Number: 2564 Registered: Sep-04 | ...or the direction of the wording... |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 9324 Registered: Dec-04 | ...tahw gninaem... |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 1565 Registered: Oct-04 | ...and the quality of the velvet-lined wood-box they come in... |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 9330 Registered: Dec-04 | ...and the velvet lined box that is your head... |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 1567 Registered: Oct-04 | ...and your interpretation of Nuck's last post, whaaaaa?... |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 9332 Registered: Dec-04 | ...the velvet inside your head is where the music lives. It could be Elvis on velvet, crying clowns on velvet, or dogs playing poker on velvet. Each one drives a rememberence of music inside your head... |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 9333 Registered: Dec-04 | ...the doctor will see you now... |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 1569 Registered: Oct-04 | ...this just in, don't eat the brown acid... |
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New member Username: Stmarie151Post Number: 7 Registered: Nov-07 | simple questioni asked... just a guideline woulda been nice nerds. f*ck you americans really have no lives. |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 1588 Registered: Oct-04 | Yeah, but we know what gauge wire to use and we ain't telling. Be smart & never come back to this board. |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 1750 Registered: Nov-05 | simple questioni asked... just a guideline woulda been nice nerds. f*ck you americans really have no lives. That's why someone invented hifi. 16 awg or better will suffice. The type will depend on your wallet and ears. But go get a sense of humour first. |
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Platinum Member Username: WingmanaliveA pic is worth 1000 posts!! Post Number: 11362 Registered: Jun-06 | "simple questioni asked... just a guideline woulda been nice nerds. f*ck you americans really have no lives."  That made my day.  |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 9361 Registered: Dec-04 | Nice, Evrybody needs a little humor in their lives. I raise a toast to the people with a little sense of humour. |
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Silver Member Username: StryvnPost Number: 574 Registered: Dec-06 | I've refrained from adding my $0.02 here, Don. You need help. |
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Silver Member Username: Mike3Wylie, Tx USA Post Number: 904 Registered: May-06 | Come on, give Don a break, having to live with a girls name and all... |
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New member Username: Stmarie151Post Number: 8 Registered: Nov-07 | shouldn't u be bangin ur sister right now texas |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 9365 Registered: Dec-04 | Don may actually be Buffy St Marie. Trivia time. |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 1754 Registered: Nov-05 | Hey Donnie & Marie, we said get sense of humour - what is it you got - Attention deficit Syndrome? |
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Silver Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 119 Registered: Jul-07 | Lighten up Don. Going from asking a question to FU seems a tad drastic don't you think ? Try again, and if all else fails check out the Accessories section, or scroll down in the Speakers threads for lots of interesting historical discussions on that topic. Just get a bag of popcorn and settle in.....but no butter on that popcorn....your blood pressure seems a bit high. |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 1590 Registered: Oct-04 | Now Don, I remember warmly welcoming you to the board & asking you for your impressions of those CLS-215, and this is what I get? Now I'm mad, so tell me from which soon-to-be-burqa-wearing country you hale from so that I can come there and piss on your flag & shove my foot up your @ss, but I suspect you & your countrymen are already into that kind of stuff. P.S. You are not allowed to ever listen to, watch, eat, drink, or compute on anything American or you are the mother f'ing hypocrite. Merry Christmas Troll! |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 9367 Registered: Dec-04 | I only hope he ain't Canadian. |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 9370 Registered: Dec-04 | Oh and way to go on pissingoff the friendliest and most helpful bunch of people on the web. |
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Silver Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 120 Registered: Jul-07 | I only hope he ain't Canadian. I dunno Nuck, he could be from Sault Ste. Marie. CM, now don't be goin' all postal on us. Don's probably not a bad sort. He just took the responses the wrong way and got his feathers all in a bunch. Short fuse you know. |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 1593 Registered: Oct-04 | Actually I think he is a very "bad sort"; he's a bomb-thrower, a troll, the sort that feels brave through the anonymity of the net, but I guaran-f'ing-tee has never and would never say the things uttered to an actual American, let alone a Texan. |
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Silver Member Username: Mike3Wylie, Tx USA Post Number: 909 Registered: May-06 | Maybe she like her friends in sub-woofers better, where her post went ignored... |
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New member Username: Stmarie151Post Number: 9 Registered: Nov-07 | haha u americans are the biggest pus*ies bad beer bad parties only fights with guns. i can pull the trigger to eh boys.haha have to put the canadian patch on ur bookbags when u visit other countries so u don;t get killed. yeah baseball thats a tough sport. worried about everyone elese getting nucs when ur the only country to ever use a nuc to kill someone. hey why don;t u guys get ur heads outta ur as*es. i really enjoyed the president on that previous post wuts he got an IQ of about 50?? hey come up here and we'll show u boys how to really party. on behalf of everyone in the world except 300 million......fu*k you |
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Silver Member Username: WattsssupBarrie, ON Canada Post Number: 144 Registered: Aug-06 | Damn it....he's Canadian, or maybe Greenlander? |
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Silver Member Username: StryvnPost Number: 578 Registered: Dec-06 | coward |
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Gold Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 5703 Registered: Feb-05 | Anyone know what language he's speaking. Make for a great anthropological study I suppose. |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 1595 Registered: Oct-04 | I think it's Esperanto-Ebonics. The big puss is very brave, isn't he? |
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Platinum Member Username: WingmanaliveA pic is worth 1000 posts!! Post Number: 11411 Registered: Jun-06 | Again. From the dumb for the dumb..........  Does it need an explanation? |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 1596 Registered: Oct-04 | Hey Sissy, You forget the other moveon.org/internationalist workers party talking points. Japs sink our ships, we roast 2-Jap cities & lay waste to the two-largest armies in world at the same time; that's how we roll (did I just say roll???). I suspect your ancestors were goosestepping their way cushy positions in the Vichy government on or about the same time comrade. Now I can't expect a foreign simpleton like yourself you appreciate a great game like baseball, but how dare you insult American beer! Tell me where you live, so I can drag you & your whore of a mother to my great country to clean my toilet you sorry f uck. |
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Silver Member Username: DavidpaPortland, Oregon US Post Number: 507 Registered: Nov-05 | I think velvet might be a bit too classy for this one. Lets just use brick. |
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Silver Member Username: DavidpaPortland, Oregon US Post Number: 508 Registered: Nov-05 | Nuck, I think he might be though. There are a few left I fear! Yeah, Yeah, f u Yankee! Been there, heard it. |
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Silver Member Username: EramseySouth carolina United States Post Number: 571 Registered: Feb-05 | WOW!!!!! AT EASE GENTLEMEN!!!!!!! Any way FWIW and to get this ugly thread back on track. I recently purchased an HDTV so I of course had to break my stand down and dust everything off including speaker wire and interconnects. I went from the thick 10AWG rope back up to 12AWG Monster Navajo white. Perhaps I'll use the 10 gauge when I get that 150lb. Aragon amp someday so that a current on the scale of the Mississippi river can be sent to the speakers.In this neck of the woods I know some loathe Monster but strangely it does sound better. Must be the construction. So there you have your answer. 12AWG should be heavy enough for any domestic application. Hmmmmm. Didn't Ian McMasters say the same thing once in his famous questions and answers column? A word of warning. NEVER piss off a New Yorker. NEVER,NEVER piss off a Southerner and NEVER,NEVER,NEVER piss off a Texan. ER |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 1757 Registered: Nov-05 | It's disappointing to see some here stooping to the same lows that this troll has been. |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 1597 Registered: Oct-04 | Sorry to disappoint MR (I asssume you are talking to me), but you can't expect me to sit still while this pr!ck insults our beer. |
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Gold Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 5706 Registered: Feb-05 | Unfortunately I have to agree that this one has reached all time lows for the Home Audio area. I expect this over at Car Audio. |
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Platinum Member Username: WingmanaliveA pic is worth 1000 posts!! Post Number: 11425 Registered: Jun-06 | At least not as bad as the sat section. |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 9395 Registered: Dec-04 | How about just let it die and stop the hate and pain? |
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New member Username: Stmarie151Post Number: 10 Registered: Nov-07 | haha well wut did u expect ur beer is horrible. oh and for that guy who wants to know where i live...its in in saskatchewan i seriously would love to see you come up here and survive a couple parties and no im not a dam farmer haha by the way ive been to a couple new york higschool parties when i just graduated in 2005.some weak as* parties and some weak as* drinkers i seen guys puking after a 6 pack....never see that up here boys. and yeah they sunk your ships but they were soilders not citizens like what you guys did to hiroshima and nagasaki. but hey in all honesty i am judging a whole country which is not fair but hey anyone up for the challenge come up and party with the sask boys and we will see how you do.....im not going to be coward and just type over the internet like some nerd so please give me a call at 1 306 898-2039 and we'll discuss a few things. this is really not a joke |
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Silver Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 438 Registered: Feb-07 | Your posts would be more effective if you used punctuation and grammar. |
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Bronze Member Username: Stmarie151Post Number: 11 Registered: Nov-07 | haha you sound like a guy who likes di*ks in his as* |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 1610 Registered: Oct-04 |  |
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Silver Member Username: Mike3Wylie, Tx USA Post Number: 918 Registered: May-06 | Damn CM, are you sure you have that dialed in? I thought sure there would be rows of double wides. |
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Silver Member Username: Nickelbut10Post Number: 838 Registered: Jun-07 | lol good ol Saskatchewan...land of the....well....flat land...and...boring? I was there twice for Canadians. Not much to do there. Nice fields though. |
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Silver Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 439 Registered: Feb-07 | Shame he's Canadian. Makes the rest of us look bad. I assure you we're not all illiterate, hostile miscreants. |
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Gold Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 5718 Registered: Feb-05 | Just as I would hope all Americans wouldn't be judged by the deeds of one person I would not judge Canadians or anyone else based on one persons poor behavior. I'm quite sure Saskatchewan is a fine place and is the breadbasket of Canada. And BTW there ain't nothin' wrong with livin' in a double wide if that's what you can afford. |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyPost Number: 1611 Registered: Oct-04 | I never met a Canadian I didn't like till now. |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 9400 Registered: Dec-04 | Doh! |
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Silver Member Username: Mike3Wylie, Tx USA Post Number: 919 Registered: May-06 | Art, please get off of your soap box already. It's like you take every opportunity to poke back at what someone says. Folks that act the fool like we have here in my experience act like trailer trash. My referencing that is consistent with how our young friend is behaving. You do not need to identify with or police every comment made on this forum. This has nothing to do with what someone can afford and you know it. Low lifes are low lifes no matter where they live. It is in the rearing not the address. Life is too short for me to wrap myself up in political correctness 7 X 24. If someone doesn't care for who I am they have the right to move on and they also have the right of letting me know. It is a free country, USA that is. So yes Art you have the right to your comments. It just gets old after a while. Ok, I'm done. Thank you. |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 1761 Registered: Nov-05 | "All you need is a tent if you've got love" Okay - little competition: who said that and where? No prizes, just an attaboy/girl from me |
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Silver Member Username: StryvnPost Number: 580 Registered: Dec-06 | Lol.....nice work, Molloy. |
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Silver Member Username: Nickelbut10Post Number: 841 Registered: Jun-07 | Amazing, how we argue over beer and the president.lol. Don st Marie- If all Americans are considered "dumb rednecks" because of one moron in the White House, then I guess all of us Canadians are money laundering, tax raping, thieve, deal making whores. I mean...if all of us represent how our government is. Beer is beer, besides us audiophiles are scotch drinkers anyway.  |
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Bronze Member Username: Scorpio1Post Number: 24 Registered: Nov-07 | I must say I prefer Vodka.... |
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Bronze Member Username: Scorpio1Post Number: 25 Registered: Nov-07 | Sorry, I can't claim to be an audiophile, but I still like Vodka. |
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Silver Member Username: Nickelbut10Post Number: 842 Registered: Jun-07 | lol ah yes, another good choice Ed. |
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Bronze Member Username: Scorpio1Post Number: 26 Registered: Nov-07 | This thread made my night. Might as well have a shot before I turn in. |
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Gold Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 5719 Registered: Feb-05 | Mike you have a right to your comments as well and I have a right to not care what you think. I will continue to call it as I see it. If you don't like it I recommend you find another home. I have remained respectful to you Mike and it doesn't matter if you reciprocate. My Mother and I lived in a trailer for several years after my parents divorce...I recommend you quit your stereotyping BS and grow up. What is it they say about folks in Texas Mike....I don't believe everything I read or hear do you. Thanks for taking it to another level and attacking one of us Mike...hope you're proud. |
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Gold Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 5720 Registered: Feb-05 | Alright, sorry for retaliatory rant Mike. Look, it's like this I hate PC more than anyone you will ever know. However I do have a deep commitment to diversity that isn't just skin deep and I don't believe that it ends at the door when I leave work. It has to be part of everything I am or it means nothing. That's why I will contnue to say it how I see it and I will just have to recognize that some of you won't like it...just the way it is I guess. Still friends I hope. |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 1762 Registered: Nov-05 | I must agree that this world of PC leaves me cold - they're even sacking Santas here for saying "HO! HO! HO!" Can you believe such nonsense? Yet, there is token censorship on tv and video rentals. It's all double standards and so hypocritical. Now, can anyone answer my question? |
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Bronze Member Username: Scorpio1Post Number: 27 Registered: Nov-07 | What was your question ??? |
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Silver Member Username: KevincorrFairbanks, Alaska Usa Post Number: 345 Registered: Jul-07 | Who did Santa call a HO? |
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Gold Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 5722 Registered: Feb-05 | Folks who are involved in Diversity work have come to understand that the single most destructive element of the work is the political correctness movement initiated in the early 90's. I expressed to Nuck on the phone at least once how much I disdain PC. He knows because he has heard how I speak (not just typed words on a screen) that I'm about as un PC as you get. Keep in mind however that there is a huge difference between asking questions relative the meaning of someone's comments and/or stating how you feel about language that may be offenive and emptily running about calling folks on every negative catch phrase and word just for the sake of it. I believe that the antithesis of political correctness is feeling free to ask questions and making clarifying comments that would have otherwise been considered taboo. No one is ever going to be comfortable answering questions about the language thay use, that's a given. However, if they come know it comes from a genuine place it seems to ameliorate the impact. That is one of the pitfalls of communicating online, we are not able to draw the full meaning of folks words from the screen because it comes sans all of that other important commuication that is non verbal but expresses as much if not more than the words we speak. Nuff said on that subject....I hope! |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 1765 Registered: Nov-05 | What was your question ??? The line I typed in my previous post with a question mark on the end. |
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Silver Member Username: Mike3Wylie, Tx USA Post Number: 921 Registered: May-06 | Of course still friends Art. It was not my attention to attack you but to let you know what I thought about what I felt were snipings. I was probably more thinking about a seperate thread where another member felt the need to apologize for something you called him on. When you expressed yourself on my comment I suppose I was reacting to the other post in that I did not see where the person meant to slur a class of people. As you know I have stood on the same side of the line as you when I sensed that someone stating "I find that personally offensive" has been ignored. Enough said, conciliatory is my intention with this post. Time to move on. |
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Silver Member Username: Mike3Wylie, Tx USA Post Number: 922 Registered: May-06 | M.R. Besides you, I have not a clue who said that. |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyPost Number: 1612 Registered: Oct-04 | "Beer is beer" I'm sorry, but you couldn't be more wrong. American beer should not be synomonous with Budweiser & variants thereof; today American brewing is perhaps THE most diverse brewing industry in the whole world. Besides the oft belittled, but very difficult style to brew, American (Budweiser-style) lager, there are Ales, Porters, Stouts, Weisse, and every other style of beer imaginable brewed here today, most of extraordinary quality. All one need do is to sample some of the arsenal of beers brewed by the likes of The Boston Beer Co. or Sierra Nevada to appreciate what it is I'm saying. |
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Gold Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 5724 Registered: Feb-05 | Thanks for the clarification Mike. Now onto beer...... |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyPost Number: 1613 Registered: Oct-04 | OK Art, what's your favorite beer? Currently, my favorite beer is Bengali Tiger IPA from Six Point Craft Ales http://www.sixpointcraftales.com/ , from right in my own back yard. It's SUPER-HOPPED and utterly delicious. http://www.beerbasics.com/Brewpubs%20Plus/Six%20Points%20Craft%20Ales.htm |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 1766 Registered: Nov-05 | M.R. Besides you, I have not a clue who said that. Looks like a music trivia quiz thread is in order. |
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Silver Member Username: StryvnPost Number: 583 Registered: Dec-06 | Set it up, MR |
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Gold Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 5726 Registered: Feb-05 | Oh lord Christopher...I like so many that I can't even narrow it down. Right now I'm enjoying a seasonal ale from New Belgium called 2 Below...I love their Fat Tire ale as well. I like Fire Station, Deschutes, Rogue (most varieties from each of those brewers). Good stuff...! |
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Silver Member Username: Nickelbut10Post Number: 845 Registered: Jun-07 | "Beer is beer" I'm sorry, but you couldn't be more wrong. Oh really?lol. I know Chris, it was a joke. Last time I was in Green Bay for the NAFA World Jr's in fastball for a week. I was surprised to see that the beer at the beer store was mainly in skinny cans. Very cold, tasted good, slightly watered down, and only about 3.5 to 4.5 percent alcohol. Now, this could have been just shitty beer our team was getting. I have heard of Tiger IPA but not Fat Tire or New Belgium. What are the percentage on them? And do they come in a bottle? |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 9403 Registered: Dec-04 | remember that US alcohol content is measured by mass, Others by volume. Alcohol is lighter than the rest of the beer, thus same alcohol content. And for THIS I went to college?!? Won't my Mom be proud? |
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Gold Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 5727 Registered: Feb-05 | Nick....please man....who drinks beer from a can! Percentage alcohol...hmm hadn't even thought of it, let's see....just sec....damn it sucks being blind...here let me turn the light on...6.6% on the 2 Below. Portland is the microbrew capitol of the world and all of Oregon takes pride in having a wide variety of local and regional offerings. New Belgium is a actually not a local or regional but a Fort Collins, Colorado brewer. That's about as far away from Oregon a brew as I will drink. Deschutes and Rogue make some of my favorites... http://www.deschutesbrewery.com/default.aspx http://www.rogue.com/ Then there is the local guys, here's one... http://www.calapooiabrewing.com/blog/ and ofcourse Portland.... http://www.oregonbeer.org/mapport.html Geez bringing up that list remided me of another of my favorites, Full Sail. |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyPost Number: 1614 Registered: Oct-04 | I've been enjoying these all afternoon http://www.bluepointbrewing.com/images/winterale.jpg |
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Gold Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 5728 Registered: Feb-05 | Around here there ain't nuthin' like the good seasonal varietals....mmmmmm! |
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Silver Member Username: KevincorrFairbanks, Alaska Usa Post Number: 348 Registered: Jul-07 | On an international travel forum I visit, you often read ignorant comments from Brits, Europeans and Aussies who think they know American beer. Hah! If they went online and looked at the world beer tasting competitions they would know better. You would expect a North American to know. I went to a huge beer tasking event in Portland, OR. You might call it an endurance contest! It is amazing how many craft beers there are in the Pacific NW. Last time I was in California and Oregon, I visited the Sierra Nevada Brewery, then a favorite, Rogue in Newport, OR, and the Pelican Brew from Pacific City, OR, which has won too many awards to name: http://www.pelicanbrewery.com/pages/awards.html The Deschutes Brewing, near Bend, OR, another favorite. Don't forget Full Sail, from Hood River, OR, Ten Gold Medals for its trademark Amber Ale at the World Beer Championships and a Bronze Medal for its newly released lager. One great sweet one, only on tap, is Mac and Jack- Redmond (Seattle), WA Surprisingly, up with the best anywhere is our little local brewery in Fox, Alaska. (population 300!) Silver Gulch Brewery: http://www.ptialaska.net/~gbrady/pages/main.html |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyPost Number: 1615 Registered: Oct-04 | Anyone ever try Old Fezziwig Ale http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/35/1881/? It has some very odd Christmasy spices, it is my favorite beer by a long shot, but I look forward to it this time of year, the bad thing is thing is it's only available as part of a seasonal variety pack. Another goodie this time of year is Brooklyn Monster Ale http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/45/2231/ , and at almost 12% alcohol, it will knock you on your behind in no time flat. |
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Silver Member Username: KevincorrFairbanks, Alaska Usa Post Number: 349 Registered: Jul-07 | If only we could describe sound as mellifluously as those guys do with beer at the Beer Advocate, eh? Describing a Deschutes beer, "....an aroma that you definitely don't get with dried hops. Glowing tawny hue with a mild chill haze that disappears after the brew warms up a little. Good frothing rocky head with a very sticky lace. Very aromatic with citric juicy overtones; Clementines and mandarin oranges come to mind with a hint of rind as well. Moderate body with a semi-smooth mouth feel. Oily fresh hop character with mild citric, faint pine and a wild floral tone in the back. Hop bitterness is not sharp at all but pleasant with a balancing character. Pale malt flavor has biscuity and bready flavors throughout. Hint of fruitiness with a drying woody character from the hops in the middle. Fresh herbs and edible flowers in the semi-dry hop saturated finish..." |
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Gold Member Username: Stu_pittIrvington, New York USA Post Number: 2338 Registered: May-05 | I'm not a big Old Fezziwig fan, sorry. The Northeast has some great breweries too, Art. Cooperstown, Red Hook, Harpoon, Otter Creek, Brooklyn, McSorley's... I could go on and on. If you're ever in Cooperstown, NY visiting the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Cooperstown Brewing Company is a must stop. It's not a pub, just an old school Mom and Pop brewery. Every beer is superb - Strikeout Stout, Benchwarmer Porter (my favorite), Old Slugger Pale Ale (my other favorite and most popular), Nine Man Ale, and a few more that escape my memory. http://www.cooperstownbrewing.com/beer.htm The West has some very good ones too. I used to like Rogue, but my tastes have changed somewhat over the years. A little too hoppy for my tastes. The second most difficult beer (in a good way) I've tried to drink was Rogue's Russian Imperial Stout. That was a meal and a half. The most difficult? Sam Adams Triple Bock. I'm a huge fan of the Anchor Brewery and Sierra Nevada. Can't go wrong with anything from their lines. Never cared much for the Belgian Ales. My favorites are usually the Irish stouts. While Guinness is very good, it seems to me like the Budweiser of Irish stout. Beamish and Murphy's wipe the floor with it IMO. |
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Silver Member Username: Mike3Wylie, Tx USA Post Number: 925 Registered: May-06 | I tend to like unfiltered wheat beers. Coors makes Blue Moon and another one just out called Full Moon. Recently had another Colorado beer I enjoyed by Avery called White Rascal. Rogue Dead Man's Ale is one of my favorites as well. However, in respect to the waistline, these beers are "treats". I generally drink Miller Lite, Scotch or Tequila, both up or on the rocks. My latest is the Macallan 15 Year Old Fine Oak Cask or Don Julio 1942. Both are excellent for sipping. I get the 1942 about once a year, holiday treat! |
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Gold Member Username: My_rantzAustralia Post Number: 1767 Registered: Nov-05 | Okay Kevin, I'm an ignorant Aussie when it comes to US beer, but it still can't hold a 'handle' to ours LOL! It just can't. I mean, take away our beer making prowess and what else do we have? As Croc Dundee (as silly as he is) would say: "You call that a beer?" |
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Silver Member Username: KevincorrFairbanks, Alaska Usa Post Number: 350 Registered: Jul-07 | I did not say there were very many people from these places who are ignorant of US beers. Just that every time there is a 'good beer' thread one or two show up Great wine from Australia for sure. |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyPost Number: 1616 Registered: Oct-04 | Mike, that's funny, I opened a bottle on Thanksgiving of that 15-yr. Macallan "Cask Strength" (are we talking about the same bottle?) after having held on to it for a a year or two, and I must say I was seriously disappointed. It was perhaps the hardest drinking scotch I have ever experienced, with no peat/smoke character, something I savor in a scotch. It just wasn't for me. |
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Silver Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 442 Registered: Feb-07 | Back to beer for a moment, anyone tried this? http://beerblog.genx40.com/archives/2005/march/sgtmajoripa |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyPost Number: 1617 Registered: Oct-04 | Sorry, I meant to type that Old Fezziwig is NOT my favorite beer by a long shot, but I still look forward to it, it's odd, kind of like some weird hoilday fruit cake. Maybe I just like a beer called Fezziwig? |
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Gold Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 5730 Registered: Feb-05 | I love my beer and ale Mike but I drink scotch far more often. In fact I drink wine about as often as beer. The Willamette Valley has some great wineries. Ain't life grand! |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyPost Number: 1618 Registered: Oct-04 | That does look good Dave. |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyPost Number: 1619 Registered: Oct-04 | "The Willamette Valley has some great wineries." ...and some wonderful hop growers too. |
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Bronze Member Username: Scorpio1Philadelphia, PA Post Number: 31 Registered: Nov-07 | I know this is off topic, but I would like to ask anyway. Given my System setup with the Focal 807V's, would you fellas, 1. Add subwoofer for low end, 2. Traade up to 816V floorstander, 3. Place money into Rega CD player. Leaning toward option 3, but wondering what you gents feel would make more music and dollar sense. Thanks. |
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Platinum Member Username: WingmanaliveA pic is worth 1000 posts!! Post Number: 11508 Registered: Jun-06 | Hard to believe this started out as a wire gauge thread.  |
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Gold Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 5731 Registered: Feb-05 | Ed this is a drinking thread, take your audio elsewhere....lol! Source first....get a good cd player. If you think you absolutely can't live with the bass then buy the floorstander. Last place comes the sub...your mileage may vary... Guys did I mention how important good coffee is here in the Northwest...try Allann Bros. And yes Christopher we do have great hop growers. Stu I'd like to try some of those beers but I won't make it to Cooperstown until I like baseball (that's never), I'm a football and basketball guy. Foster's anyone! |
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Bronze Member Username: Scorpio1Philadelphia, PA Post Number: 32 Registered: Nov-07 | Thanks Art, guess I will have to come out to Oregaon and buy you a good ole Corona if that's not beneath you. |
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Gold Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 5732 Registered: Feb-05 | Corona and lime...I can do that. |
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Silver Member Username: Mike3Wylie, Tx USA Post Number: 926 Registered: May-06 | Art, You don't have to go all the way to Cooperstown. Pyramid Brewing Co. has an ale called Curve Ball. I still have a couple bottles in my fridge. |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 9407 Registered: Dec-04 | I am on my way! Don't think I won't, y'all know better! |
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Gold Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 5736 Registered: Feb-05 | We have Pyramid here...I'll have to try it. |
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Silver Member Username: KevincorrFairbanks, Alaska Usa Post Number: 352 Registered: Jul-07 | Red Hook- Seattle Beer. Pyramid also WA state. Good but I think Oregon has the edge. Seattle's Pike Place Brew from the downtown market of that name is good but it is so strange that I always see the not best (IMHO) ones "exported". Maybe they keep the best flavors for local consumption. When I was working in Oregon, I bought 2 cases of Rogue Honey Cream Ale one time! Just for treets, hah. Heck, in Oregon they even sell 'home brew' in the store! Hair of the Dog. Anyone who has had home made beer would recognize it. |
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Gold Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 5737 Registered: Feb-05 | Beer and coffee...it's a northwest thing! |
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