Just wanted to give you a overdue thank you. Ecoustics.com was the first Home theater site I came to back in 2004 when I first started getting into Home Theater and you were the first poster that I read. Because of you, I got rid of a cheaper HTIB and got a Denon receiver with Infinity speakers with a full Home Theater system to go with that. I wanted you to know that because of you that I got into Home Theater and started making wise decisions. Again, Thanks. I could never repay the knowledge you shared with me.
Ha, no. The 2200's are really good for HT. I know some other guys here (Art?) have said they're not horribly musical, which I tend to agree, the 200 watts of power and clarity were pretty impressive. Also, they're super expensive to import into Canada. I think when I bought mine, they were listed on the Outlaw site for 299. After shipping, import duties and exchange, here in Canada they were over 500 bucks.
The guys in the US are lucky! It's cheap to order stuff online there. In Canada it looks cheap, but once you take everything into account it ain't cheap.
Aus is a lot like Canada in a lot of ways, besides just the Commonwealth. HUGE place, largely useless, not enough people there. Screwed over on shipping and stuff, pricing, taxes etc.
But they have kangaroos to shoot at instead of deer and bears.
We have "Yankie" do gooders here from time to time telling us how barbaric we are for shooting kangaroos. I don't believe in shooting any animal - except where they take the livelihood away from hard working people. I don't believe in all out gun ownership (shoot me :-) ) and with our recently revised gun laws, while they don't prevent all armed crime, we haven't had a mass shooting since Port Arthur. Back to animals (four legged ones) - Roos need to be culled in certain circumstances I agree, otherwise let them be, AFAIC.
Kick and arm boxing is something they do naturally - sometimes just balancing on their tails - in fact a little girl was badly kicked by a wallaby just last week.
We tried roo meat for a while - it is heart healthy meat - but in the end, it was too rich for us and it has a strong taste. Some like it.
Gamey - that would be the word for it. Definately a strong tasting meat.
When I was young, before I was married, a group of us decided to go shooting roos one weekend. We spent the first day shooting trees, rocks anything as there were no roos around. The second day, after returning to camp from buying more ammo, we saw a roo on a hill, stopped the car, piled out and we started balsting the poor thing. One of us hit it and we heard this God awful scream just before it bounded off. We gave chase and found it dead about a kilometer away. We were very quite for the rest of the day before heading home. I never knew they could scream.
I understand that M.R. I used to hunt too, then one day I sorta had a epiphany that perhaps there was not much sport afterall to killing an defenceless animal from 300 yards away via a high-powered rifle with a scope that made it as large of a target as a barn. If someone is hunting for sustenance, as many people in Northern Canada still do, I think this is fine. But for sport, I don't get it.
Now, if someone really wanted to make a sport of it, drop the rifle, run the animal down on foot and take it on, fist to hoof. To me, that's a sport ;-)