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88h88 wrote: I'm gonna have to call you out on this, admittedly it's better than most of the crap pumped out onto the small screen but it's still aimed at kids, always has been. It's just that some adults seem to have latched onto it. It's cheesy camp fun but it's pretty far from well written. An example for something excellently written and well realised would be the recently finished Breaking Bad, not Who...

It's all a matter of opinion, I suppose. I also should specify that I look at it in comparison to other sci-fi/campy type shows. There are a lot of things very neatly done in DW. Arcs and threads are done way better than in the last few Star Trek iterations, for example. They do a lot of in jokes and pokes that are easy to miss until the second or third time through. They poke fun at world leaders and issues without being blatantly disrespectful (the guy they got to do Nixon was side-hurting funny and the guy they got to do Churchill did really well too). They tie things together and explore lots of ideas. They fully utilize the actors. All of these things to me mean "well written" in a scifi show. What makes a show like this "good" is far different than what makes something like Breaking Bad.

I'll happily admit it's better than recent crap like Lost or Fringe though, I hate when writers leave threads hanging all over the place and just hope people watching will ignore them. That's realllll lazy but a problem when you have so many writers all writing different episodes.

That's one of the benefits of having a strong showrunner like Davies and Moffat have been. They keep tight control over the stories.

Anyway, RIP Timp.

If you read this, and want any more advice, or just to talk about how bad it is outside (I don't mean the weather), email me - it's my user name (all one word) at yahoo dot co dot uk.


Come to think, if anyone wants advice, they're more than welcome to email me.

Charles

What'd I miss? He's officially banned or something?

bassmonster wrote:What'd I miss? He's officially banned or something?

His account was deleted, which is worse than being banned. Everything he ever said has been erased, except for what snippets remain in other threads as quotes.

He re-appeared commenting on one of my youtube vids of a T60.

Tim Lewis

Hi I've thought of the most crazy half baked Tuba 60 mod ever, expensive though. Using 8 Lab 12s in a single (30+ inch) cab (or 4 in a single 12 slim). I've been experimenting in simulations and it seems 2 pairs of isobaric (face to face with reverse polarity) drivers have the same response as one, but with 4 x the power handling. You would likely have to angle the baffle up and in to make room for the backs of the drivers. The rear chamber would need to be the SAME size as it was before. This means the reducer panel would need shunting back. Result is you've just upped the power handling of the cab by 4 times. Of course, building more cabs is more efficient but at the cost of space.

So 2x the driver cost as well as basically redesigning the interior... I don't think I'll bother.

a better mod would be to stuff a BC 18sw115 in it. can handle the compression ratio, just wont quite fit in the chamber. 5 db output advantage, similar response.

88h88 wrote:He re-appeared commenting on one of my youtube vids of a T60.

Tim Lewis
I've been experimenting in simulations and it seems 2 pairs of isobaric (face to face with reverse polarity) drivers have the same response as one, but with 4 x the power handling...Result is you've just upped the power handling of the cab by 4 times.

So 2x the driver cost as well as basically redesigning the interior... I don't think I'll bother.

This is an example of why he is no longer here. Isobaric does double the power handling, but the output of the two drivers is the same as that of one. So you double the driver cost and weight, but you don't get even 1dB more SPL.
His actual knowledge base is practically none, yet he fancies himself a preeminent expert in the field, and wastes everyone's time with an over abundance of nonsensical posts like the one above. There are plenty of other forums where that style of juvenile silliness can be tolerated, even embraced, but not here.

a better mod would be to stuff a BC 18sw115 in it. can handle the compression ratio, just wont quite fit in the chamber. 5 db output advantage, similar response

It will have no more output than a LAB 15, as it has no more xmax.

it has 15 mm of xmax, 50 percent more SD, and a stiffer suspension (I was referencing stuffing the 18 into the design, not the 15sw115). I understand this mod will never happen. just in the spirit of old timpbizkits half baked ideas.

sine143 wrote:it has 15 mm of xmax, 50 percent more SD, and a stiffer suspension (I was referencing stuffing the 18 into the design, not the 15sw115). I understand this mod will never happen. just in the spirit of old timpbizkits half baked ideas.

OK, I was looking at the 15, which will actually fit into the cabinet. 18s are for tapped horns, which need the extra xmax, Sd and Pe.

I know (I realize it will never happen). Just a bit of pining for a danley DBH 218 LC (60x45x30) FLH that uses 2x said driver without the price tag.

sine143 wrote: Just a bit of pining...

And you know what pining gets you? Tarred....

From time to time there seems to be usually young personalities that show up with a modicum of intelligence that try to come across as having far more experience and knowledge than what they actually possess.

Maybe from their perspective they are just having fun playing in the sandbox with the big boys, but the danger is they can lead many people that don't know any better astray with misinformation and bad advice. This counters the intended purpose of this forum. My advice to these kind of personalities is to humble yourself, read lots, ask intelligent question and gain some real world experience before professing to be any sort of expert. There's no shame in trying to educate oneself.

byacey wrote: My advice to these kind of personalities is to humble yourself, read lots, ask intelligent question and gain some real world experience before professing to be any sort of expert. There's no shame in trying to educate oneself.

It's like having a teenager who just graduated high school. It's bad enough living with them throughout their teens, when they're absolute in their confidence that they know everything, but they're totally insufferable once they have a diploma that proves it.

I agree 100%

I've always regarded a high school diploma of being not very important. I got mine without much effort. Generally, a high school diploma is something anyone with average intelligence can obtain; If this wasn't so, the majority of the population couldn't obtain one. All it proves is that the recipient was able to memorize enough of the curriculum to provide the right answers when tested. This doesn't mean they know how to apply their accumulated knowledge in a useful way.

Unfortunately many people make the mistake of equating education with intelligence. I've seen some school and post secondary educators that were dumber than a sack of hammers that would be hopeless if called upon to function in the real world.

Edit: I should add, I'm not against education. When I was in high school they offered an electronics course that ran for 1 year, full day classes. It added an extra year on my high school stint, but it gave me the knowledge to write off two years of post secondary training. I was fortunate to have good instructors that were also accredited technicians that served in WWII, and kept up to date with technology as it developed, right up into the 1980s. A good instructor can make a huge impact on the students education.

byacey wrote:Unfortunately many people make the mistake of equating education with intelligence. I've seen some school and post secondary educators that were dumber than a sack of hammers that would be hopeless if called upon to function in the real world.

I work at a 'world class' university and the vast majority of these kids are thick as fuck. It genuinely worries me how oblivious some of them are...