Weather Change

chilipeppermaniac said:
What I say to that, " FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF THAT!!!"
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LOL it's 25 F here and thats plenty cold :celebrate:. That being said when its 25 here it just feels bitter cold. We were at Grand Canyon village (south rim ) 2 weeks age and it was 22 F in the morning and it was just fine to wear a sweatshirt and no biggie. Here, hell no better bundle up.
 
C-Grin said:
I miss having a wood stove, best heat ever. :celebrate:
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That and hot water baseboard.

C Grin, a really resourceful and powerfully creative friend I know has one of those outdoor wood burning furnace units. Huge.
He has it plumbed into his garage where the hot water circulates through a truck radiator. Behind the rad, he has a super small motor driven fan, which either runs off Solar or battery of some sort. This heats his whole garage nicely and then his main water for the house gets piping from this Outdoor wood burner and circulates through the baseboards and yields an economical heat source that is way cheaper than Oil or Gas. I was duly impressed.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
That and hot water baseboard.

C Grin, a really resourceful and powerfully creative friend I know has one of those outdoor wood burning furnace units. Huge.
He has it plumbed into his garage where the hot water circulates through a truck radiator. Behind the rad, he has a super small motor driven fan, which either runs off Solar or battery of some sort. This heats his whole garage nicely and then his main water for the house gets piping from this Outdoor wood burner and circulates through the baseboards and yields an economical heat source that is way cheaper than Oil or Gas. I was duly impressed.
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Genius, the biggest problem here is they really are discouraging folks here about wood burning for the pollution. Even shutting down wood burning when it’s the coldest. So I just tore mine out to gain the room it was taking up. Oddly enough our furnace just went to hell and we are installing a new heat pump, just tore the furnace out yesterday, it’s sitting in the backyard. Been using space heaters.
 
Yep. The eco friendlies resist forest cleanups or tree removal until mass events end up poisoning the Earth's entire atmosphere for decades, killing millions of animals, destroying habitat, displacing thousands of humans and raising insurance and debt costs for the entire Western World for gosh knows how long.

I'm going through mostly deadfall and waste wood. Plus about a cord of elm, poplar and maple that needed to be taken out around my home this summer. It didn't get properly seasoned, not quite dry, but I bucked and split it as fast as I could and piled it so it got a lot of air through. I'm mixing it with dry pine and keeping it stoked so it's not burning too dirty. At some point whats going to happen is insurance companies are going to be forced by legislation to not insure homes with wood stoves installed, because certain entities can't have a part of the population with the ability to survive outside of their full control. At least that's what my crazy neighbor (who also burns) keeps telling me.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
That is about when I was first learning of Polk Audio.

If I remember right, Polk was started near me. Just googled and I was right.

Polk Audio was founded by Matthew Polk, George Klopfer and Sandy Gross in 1972. The three first met one another while attending classes at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. After graduating in 1971, the team collaborated on producing a sound system for a local bluegrass music convention. Polk designed the speaker system, and Klopfer built the cabinets. After it was discovered the producers of the convention could not afford the system, Klopfer designed a logo for Polk Audio and attached it to the speakers. Gross organized the marketing of Polk Audio and helped build Polk's worldwide dealer network.

After spending a short period of time dabbling in professional audio, Polk Audio turned its attention to affordable high-performance home audio. With the release of the first successful model in 1974, the Monitor 7, Polk Audio was gaining recognition in audiophile circles. Polk Audio used a two-way configuration on almost all its speakers, such as the popular Monitor 10 and Monitor 12, typically with 6.5-inch mid/bass drivers with rubber surrounds and passive radiators. The Monitor 12 was quite capable for its day, having bass response to 18 Hz, a free-air mounted tweeter, and 500-watt RMS power handling. Later Polk speaker models used arrays of drivers—Stereo Dimensional Array (SDA)—to cancel the crosstalk from the left speaker to the right ear and from the right speaker to the left ear, so as to expand the stereo image beyond the space between two stereo speakers. The SDA effect is used in some current Polk speakers. The company also makes automobile speakers.[4]

In early 2015, most or all of Polk's non-technical jobs were moved from the Baltimore office to the headquarters of the parent company, Sound United, in Carlsbad, California. At that time, Polk's engineers joined with those of Definitive Technology, and the Audio and Acoustics Research and Development [ARAD] center was established in Owings Mills. ARAD remains the center for most loudspeaker development by Sound United, which also owns the brands Bowers & Wilkins, Classé, Definitive Technology, Denon, and Marantz.


Products​

  • Passive Component Speakers for Home Theater and Hi-Fi Listening
  • Powered Subwoofers
  • Soundbar Systems with Wireless Subwoofers and Surround Speakers
  • Outdoor, All-Weather Speakers
  • Car and Boat Audio
  • In-wall and In-Ceiling Architectural Speakers

See also​


References​

  1. Polk, Matthew, Soundstage! Interview with Matthew Polk, retrieved 2008-01-12

External links​

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When I finished the basement a few years ago, I used inwall Polk Audio speakers. 2 in front, 2 on the side and 2 rear in the ceiling for a 7.1 system.

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