Bottleneck DIY speaker wire comparison (MD/VA/DC/DE/PA)

[Jim R.]

Hey Ray, Steve, David and all you other east coasters, give us a shout when you can and let us know if you're all ok.  Heard that Sandy took half the Ocean City boardwalk out to sea -- which is huge.

John, not sure how things are your way -- we have friends in phillythat have power back and mostly damage to trees, and others up near Newtown that are still in the dark and trapped on their property by large numbers of huge, old trees down.

We also have a beach cottage on the barrier beach in Southampton, N.Y. and one of our neighbors confirmed that he could still see our houses standing, but there was a pretty serious breech of the barrier beach about a mile east of us -- stilll unknown whether it is temporary or permanent.  Then another mile east by the Shinnecock inlet, there was very serious erosion to the dunes on both sides of the inlet apparently, but it appears that the commercial fishing fleet came through ok.

By all reports this was one huge storm!  I did ride out the 62 storm on that beach, plus several others, but word through the grapevine is that this was something else altogether.

Hope all you guys, your families and friends are all ok.

-- Jim

[RayP]

We are ok though a tree fell and demolished our back deck. We are fine otherwise, but power is still out. Hopefully that will be restored later today.

Come to think of it, I built a few monstrous looking speakers on that deck. I will miss it until the replacement is built.

ray

[2wo]

I am OK, power is back on. I lost a lot branches but no trees...John

[dbishopbliss]

My family is fine except for sleeping in the basement during the storm - the air mattress had a leak so I ended up on the floor.

[Jim R.]

Glad to hear that you folks are all ok and with minimal damage.

-- Jim

[castlesteve]

  We did fine this time. Just a couple of branches down and the power stayed on! Glad to hear all are ok. The deck saved the house i guess Ray. Same thing as wee had last year.

[RayP]

In case you did not see Steve's announcement on the other thread (Any Bottleheads in the Washington DC metro area?), we will try to do the meet on February 24.

I have to admit that my steel speaker wires have sat unused since the hurricane.

By the way, the roof is now repaired and the new back deck will be installed in the new year. My stack of cut up wood is now four foot high and over 50 feet long.

ray

[dbishopbliss]

I will put the 24th on my calendar.

[RayP]

Just a reminder that the meet will be on in two weeks time.

Weather permitting of course. Fortunately, we only got a bit of freezing rain and no snow. I pity those who had to go out with the shovel to tackle a couple of feet of the stuff.

ray

[Mike L.]

Has a location for the 2/24 meet been determined?  I am very excited to meet you all.

I am even more excited to receive my Stereomour kit, which is scheduled to arrive.....TODAY!

Hopefully I'll have it up and running in time, though it'll be bone-stock so probably not very exciting for y'all.

Cheers,
Mike

[dbishopbliss]

I'm not sure how much wire I will be bringing.  I never got around to terminating my cables.  However, I hope to be bringing some fun stuff.  I am taking a recording class.  I will bring some samples of stuff we have done.  I think it will be interesting to hear dry recordings without any effects whatsoever, then the same recordings with some reverb, eq, compression, etc.  I also have a pair of powered monitors that I use when mixing.  They give a really good image but I haven't really used them for listening to already mixed music yet. 

[RayP]

For any of the northern gang, if you want a ride down to Sterling, VA, let me know and we can meet at North East and I will drive you down there.

Steve, what time do you want to start?

ray

[castlesteve]

Ray,
    My family and I are all down with the.flu and won't be recovered in time for.the meet this weekend. Let's put it off a couple of weeks and.try again. Sorry guys but can't help getting sick. Let me know what dates will work for you.
               Steve.

[RayP]

Steve,

I hope you all recover quickly. The flu is no fun at all.

I have Philly Orchestra concerts on March 10 and May 5 but other Sundays are fine for me until May 15 when I head off to England to do Wainwright's Coast to Coast walk.

http://www.coast2coast.co.uk/

So pick a date that suits you.

ray

[dbishopbliss]

Sorry to hear about your family having the flu, but it gets me out of the dog house.  I forgot to mention that I was going to an audio meet on Sunday which happens to be the same day my wife wanted me to help her.  Now I can help without feeling bad about missing the meet.  I may also have some time to work on some cables.