This group has gone from great to ridiculous

In the last few times I have read this news group I have noticed a lot of off topic junk when I was hoping to find something informative and usefull.

This is pretty tame compared to a lot of other usenet groups. As for your search for something informative and useful, what exactly are you looking for? Post a rocketry question and you'll get plenty of informative and useful answers here.

People should also remember, that rocketeers are no different for other model builders. When we get together...be it at a monthly club meeting, a contest, or here in cyber-space...that we talk about a *lot* of off-topic things. Modelers, in general, are of above-average intelligence; and are also well-informed in current events, politics, history, etc. We talk about such things with each other, because we *can*. Compare that with our typical day at work; where one's coworkers are not capable of engaging in such types of conversations.

We also are very talented at sharing humor of the most ribald and politically incorrect nature (the best kind of humor, by far...)!

You are also correct in suggesting that one needs to *ask* for information; as opposed to just waiting for it to fall into their laps. Modelers are very willing to "share the knowledge"; but we do *not* usually support the "hobby welfare state"...catering to people just waiting for a handout.

Cripes,

One just needs to look at the subject line and see if one is interested. If not, then go on to something else. I found the subject line of the book ripoff tedious and I just went on to something else. Kurt Savegnago

Couldn't you just use rocketryonline.com if your looking for something specific. This group is way tame comapared to the rest out there.

I found the tone and tenor of your message generally unhelpful.

Get a Bose then...

Great tone and tenor!

Bass and treble too!

tah

BOSE IS CRAP! Buy Genelecs and never look back. I got a set of 1031's a few years back and they eclipse my Seventh Veil's that I paid over $12,000 for.

Uh.. okey dokey!

I use a 1971 Sansui. Excellent frequency response. Power transistors get pretty hot though, so a soon as I "smell amp" the big cooling blower gets fired up...

Fried two sets of speakers, and thus far the only ones holding steady are a pair of CV V253 MKII's...

Got the pair for $100 bucks at a garage sale...

Tod "Likes his music LOUD!" Hilty

Indeed.

I use a Technics integrated amp, speakers I constructed myself utilizing ADS tweets, JBL mids and Nakamichi midwoofs and back them up with a big, boomy Cerwin Vega 15" sub. I AM the king of flap, baby.

I enjoy strapping so called "audiophiles" into a chair in my living room and torturing them for hours on end. BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM. I got your flat response right here.

I spent almost a decade working in the audio industry, and if I learned one thing it was the concept of "good enough"....well, and that any cable that cost more than 5 bucks is a waste of money. So two things.

Tod's been listening to Paul Laaar-vae again.

; )

Randy

Absolutely!

And *now* you know....

tah

I spent almost a decade working in the audio industry, and if I learned

one thing it was the concept of "good enough"....well, and that any cable that cost more than 5 bucks is a waste of money. So two things.

You sure did learn wrong. I guess that's why you don't work in the industry any longer.

LOL!

Yep. Somebody *gave* me the Sansui. Had it in their garage or something. Best damn amplifier I've ever owned (toasted our Yamaha years ago)...

Speakers (well, the bass side at least) came from a garage sale where the jilted woman of an ex-DJ was unloading his stuff just to try and forget him, I guess... I don't think you can find those drivers for less than $500 now...

Turn on the blower, wind up the volume, unlatch the 20db filter, start Dark Side of the Moon, and watch the plaster dust fall from the ceiling fixtures, and the pictures on the wall start moving around by themselves...

tah

That's it?

This group really has gone downhill.

Nahhh. Smoke On the Water.

Randy

Couldn't have said it better myself! Excellent!

Nothing like a blast from the past, eh? ;-)

Yeah really!

'Member the days when comments like that would quickly degenerate into a full blown usenet thermonuclear detonation?

Oh, wait...

That's currently going on down in "FAA Waiver Question"...

tah