General Chit-Chat thread

[WrigleyField 22]

I've been incredibly stressed the last few weeks prepping for and worrying about a professional certification exam I had scheduled for today. Well, 200 questions and 3 hours later, I walked out with a piece of paper that said I passed and now I'm getting drunk!

[Sammy Sofa]

[Ding Dong Johnson]

[Bertz]

https://twitter.com/DevaughnWraith/status/1599803115540475904

Them labeling ~25% of these correctly was just an incredible comedic touch.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Bouts (Merchant of Death) lawyers name is fantastic, loved Life Aquatic

[Elon Musk]

new katie pizza just dropped

[Sammy Sofa]

[minnesotacubsfan]

something tells me David knew all about this and withheld the info from me

https://soprema.us/soprema-scholarship-program/


(jk, cool to see a product vendor providing this)

[BigbadB]

Looking for some assistance from audio techies. I have this fairly cheap bluetooth tuner that sounded clean on my system in the basement, but when I replaced it there and moved this one up to the living room, I now have static noise in the speakers. I bought some nice Klipsch speakers to pair with this thing and I bought some speaker wire that had a 5 star rating on Amazon. I'm seeing now that this speaker wire has some aluminum in it. I've read that straight copper wire is better, but I'm not sure that's the actual problem. I have checked the connections several times. I have moved the entire set up into a bedroom that has little other electronic interference and the static noise is still there. The static noise is there even when nothing is playing. I bought a grounding plug and that did nothing. Just wondering if anyone has experience with copper clad aluminum speaker wire? I bought 14 AWG wire, which meets the Klipsch quality requirements.

So either I have too much electronic noise in the house wiring, the speaker wire isn't quality enough, or the tuner is faulty. It's not a huge problem, but it is noticeable enough to be frustrating. I'm not finding much help online.

[jersey cubs fan]

Pretty sure this is a better call Saul prequel pilot

[minnesotacubsfan]

Looking for some assistance from audio techies. I have this fairly cheap bluetooth tuner that sounded clean on my system in the basement, but when I replaced it there and moved this one up to the living room, I now have static noise in the speakers. I bought some nice Klipsch speakers to pair with this thing and I bought some speaker wire that had a 5 star rating on Amazon. I'm seeing now that this speaker wire has some aluminum in it. I've read that straight copper wire is better, but I'm not sure that's the actual problem. I have checked the connections several times. I have moved the entire set up into a bedroom that has little other electronic interference and the static noise is still there. The static noise is there even when nothing is playing. I bought a grounding plug and that did nothing. Just wondering if anyone has experience with copper clad aluminum speaker wire? I bought 14 AWG wire, which meets the Klipsch quality requirements.

So either I have too much electronic noise in the house wiring, the speaker wire isn't quality enough, or the tuner is faulty. It's not a huge problem, but it is noticeable enough to be frustrating. I'm not finding much help online.

You want oxygen free copper speaker wire. Avoid Amazon they have all kinds of "highly rated" horsefeathers. Yes, the copper covered aluminum is junk. Also 14 ga is usually a minimum, 12 ga should work too (wire sizing is opposite, ie the smaller the GA the thicker the wire).

Try this instead:

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=9343


ETA: Monoprice should also have spools of 14 ga if you want to stick to manu' specs

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

Looking for some assistance from audio techies. I have this fairly cheap bluetooth tuner that sounded clean on my system in the basement, but when I replaced it there and moved this one up to the living room, I now have static noise in the speakers. I bought some nice Klipsch speakers to pair with this thing and I bought some speaker wire that had a 5 star rating on Amazon. I'm seeing now that this speaker wire has some aluminum in it. I've read that straight copper wire is better, but I'm not sure that's the actual problem. I have checked the connections several times. I have moved the entire set up into a bedroom that has little other electronic interference and the static noise is still there. The static noise is there even when nothing is playing. I bought a grounding plug and that did nothing. Just wondering if anyone has experience with copper clad aluminum speaker wire? I bought 14 AWG wire, which meets the Klipsch quality requirements.

So either I have too much electronic noise in the house wiring, the speaker wire isn't quality enough, or the tuner is faulty. It's not a huge problem, but it is noticeable enough to be frustrating. I'm not finding much help online.

I don't really know much about speaker wire quality spec stuff, but I'd think the problem is more likely to be the bluetooth tuner/signal. If your tuner allows you to change/assign the channel it operates on, you might want to get one of those aps on your phone that measures how much use and noise there is on all of the available channels for that location in your home, and then just switch the tuner to a quiet channel. If you live in a dense neighborhood, there is likely to be a LOT of interference that gets stronger the higher in elevation you go in your home. And I would guess that the tuner is picking up more of that noise than the wires, but I could be wrong.

[Sammy Sofa]

The 2022 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog

[TomtheBombadil]

https://www.vulture.com/article/what-is ... -baby.htMl

The internet in 2022 finally caught onto something I’ve been talking about my entire adult life! My guess we’ll address this problem by funneling more work and money to these entities but in that who us(??!) way we like to pretend

[Sammy Sofa]

It was stupid then and it's stupid now; yeah, no horsefeathers tons of entertainers come from entertainment families. That's been a thing forever.

horsefeathers' John Wilkes Booth killed a horsefeathers' president and he was part of a dynasty of theater actors, and this weirdo is acting like it's a problem some Marvel actor has an agent for a dad or some horsefeathers.

[Derwood]

People will bitch about anything.

Of COURSE actors/athletes/whatever with famous parents have a leg up. Who cares?

[Derwood]

Everything at my parents’ house is incredibly loud and chaotic and I’m losing my mind.

[UK]

Everything at my parents’ house is incredibly loud and chaotic and I’m losing my mind.

Develop some stomach pains from the least edible dish. Kill two birds with one stone.

[Derwood]

Everything at my parents’ house is incredibly loud and chaotic and I’m losing my mind.

Develop some stomach pains from the least edible dish. Kill two birds with one stone.

My dad can’t hear (even with hearing aids), my mom is 3/4 drunk, the TV is way too loud, and everyone is talking over everyone.

[Elon Musk]

https://www.vulture.com/article/what-is-a-nepotism-baby.htMl

The internet in 2022 finally caught onto something I’ve been talking about my entire adult life! My guess we’ll address this problem by funneling more work and money to these entities but in that who us(??!) way we like to pretend

i gotta know how you horsefeathers that link up like that

[TomtheBombadil]

Probably something to do with phone posting:

https://www.vulture.com/article/what-is ... -baby.html

[WrigleyField 22]

Follow me on Post

@zach_rk

[Derwood]

My Sporcle quizzes passed 2 million plays today. Pretty sweet.

[Tim]

My Sporcle quizzes passed 2 million plays today. Pretty sweet.

Coulda been Jawdle...

[Derwood]

My Sporcle quizzes passed 2 million plays today. Pretty sweet.

Coulda been Jawdle...

Oof