Dear Joe Anything and everything .83 Seattle

[caustic meatloaf]

Good work gumshoes!

[Bo Ttorff]

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[Chip McShoulder]

[karadactyl]

[TorreyK]

Dear Joe,

The movie Hitman with Timothy Olyphant, based on the videogame Hitman utilizes stock footage from the flashback scene in Jessica Alba's Dark Angel series. Is there any legitimate relationship between the story lines, or was this just an excuse to use stock footage of kids with neck tattoos in the making of a made-for-DVD movie?

yours truly,

Also not riding bikes on a Thursday night.

[Chip McShoulder]

Dear Joe,

What is wrong with my stereo? The low end sounds bad and distorted.

The signal runs from the computer to a USB DAC transmitter, through 3 feet of air to the DAC receiver, from there to an amplifier, from there to regular stereo speakers.

For the most part, I keep the volume settings on the computer (both in windows, and the application (chrome/netflix or vlc)) LOW, and turn the amp up (which helps the problem somewhat, but not entirely).

Recently, I took a set of computer speakers (with their own volume setting, ) and plugged them into the headphone jack on the amplifier.

If I keep the amplifier volume high, and computer speaker volume low (so, in the end, volume is about the same level as it was with the stereo speakers), the distortion is still present (basically the same). If I turn down the amplifier, and crank up the speakers, the distortion is mostly gone.

What is broken?

[langston]

[Chip McShoulder]

[caustic meatloaf]

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[Chip McShoulder]

Thanks! I'll try the isolations you suggest, and get back, but here's the relevant info in the meantime:

the DAC is a , the amp is a Luxman A-491, the stereo speakers are Celestions (couldn't find a model number on them).

Currently, everything is still going from the PC through the DAC (no direct line out yet). Yes, the PC speakers are powered, and it makes sense to me that there would be distortion if the signal is too strong as it comes to the speakers (thus why I don't completely trust that the problem isn't the stereo speakers).

Also, I don't think I have a way to do

3)Direct line out from DAC to new speakers

as the DAC RX is coax-out, and the computer speakers are a 3.5mm input jack (I'm using a 3.5 to 1/4" thinger to hook to phone jack on amp).

EDIT: well, I guess I could go buy a thing to do 3), but it's not something I have at home already.

[Chip McShoulder]

[Chip McShoulder]

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[Chip McShoulder]

[ksep]

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[Chip McShoulder]

[MurpleMan]

[Bo Ttorff]

[Chip McShoulder]

[ba3bous]

Dear Joe,
What are combined and separated sewers and is there a difference in the flora and fauna that can live in each?

[caustic meatloaf]

[caustic meatloaf]

[Drain]

[caustic meatloaf]

[J_Dada]

[axel]

[Chip McShoulder]

A Stanford student discussing choice of college says:

"I had to decide between Berkeley, a worse school, and here."

It depends on the convention of omitting the comma when unnecessary (i.e. you need to know that student included the comma for a reason other than separating items on a list), but there's no way to make sense of this if you can't determine whether that last comma is serial or parenthetical.

In any event, the real solution is: if there's comma ambiguity, just rewrite your fucking sentence or use semi-colons.

[ride bikes]

[MurpleMan]

[Chip McShoulder]

[Chip McShoulder]

[Bo Ttorff]

[J_Dada]

[karadactyl]

[fourfingersdown]

[Chip McShoulder]

To be fair, no Hawks/Giants/Raiders fan has ever poisoned a rival fanbase's 85 year old oak trees.











Or this:

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ROLL TIDE!
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[Chip McShoulder]

Also, FSU fans can allegedly be pretty insufferable too