A nice little Samsung Series 3 notebook. Core i3, 4G, 320G HDD, 11.6" screen.....nice, lightweight, and decent speed. With a coupon, cost $350. This'll be a nice thing to carry around, and use as a music source.....
My Silverline Preludes go to mid-to-low 30's with 2 x 3.5" drivers. Not hair-blowing air movement, but they are tuneful and deep enough to not scream for subwoofer usage. I would think, if not a single 3" dricver, than maybe a small array of 3" drivers, would be kind of cool.... I think Audio Pro used to have a couple subs in years pasdt with several smaller drivers (6" I'm thinking) to get depth and speed.....
We went pretty overboard for our son's first, I think it's kind of natural if it is the first child too.....it WAS worth it, though, to see his face when we fed him cake for the every first time. We have a couple shots somewhere, he has this wide-eyed look like "...what is this that you've been holding out on me....??!!!"
We learned pretty quickly in subsequent years to tone down the major portions of parties, and just let the kids enjoy.....
Good stuff! I always liked the bang for the buck of their early Link DAC....briefly heard a Platinum DAC at a dealer's, it was a consignment sale beyond my price even used. But it sounded REALLY nice, even in an unfamiliar system.....
Now I just to figure out a good pun about resisting the resistors....
Good stuff, Tom, congrats! We refinanced, went from a 30-year to 15 and still saved > $300/mo in payments. We've timed it just so we'll be paid off before our son goes to college....just in time for more possible debt!
We used a portable Delonghi in our half finished basement for several years, pretty much continuously during the summers. A nice workhorse.
But if you don't want to be emptying the water container every other day, it's best to find a way to pipe it outside or at least to some kind of drainage.
We ended up spending the $ and putting a permanent unit in the unfinished portion of the basement, with A/C style piping to the finished side. The good news is that's it's quieter when you're in the room, the bad news is that the dry air being pumped in is warm, which makes it warmer in the summer.....
One country-oriented female vocalist I've always recommended, and about whom received generally good feedback, is Tift Merritt. There's one song I love by her that takes country and dabbles it in classic 60's soul.....Good Hearted Man
She also has some nice versions of another song I like, Stray Paper, on youtube.
I just recently picked up the Alison Brown CD "Stolen Moments." Similar at times to Alison Kraus, but also delves into some jazzier sounds, and is a great listen.
Wow, I had heard sleep apnea can cause other issues, didn't realize it could be to that degree.....
Took my son to his soccer game today, they won 7-1 and he got a decent goal. Then off to my mother's for a visit, as she was in the next town over fromt eh soccer game. Nice time all around.