Our website would like to use cookies to store information on your computer. You may delete and block all cookies from this site, but parts of the site will not work as a result. Find out more about how we use cookies.

Login or Register

Powered by
Powered by Novacaster
 
Ah, the joy of eBay's email notifications
by Bruce Ure at 10:35 10/08/04 (Blogs::Bruce)
I seem to have bought myself a fourth pair of Mission 780 Argonauts at the knock-down price of 100 quid.
Well I say fourth, actually I only have three now, as I gave one to Gareth as a birthday present a few years back.

One pair is on long term loan to Dave the Tree, and another has both bass units dead in one speaker thanks to a lightning strike last summer causing my power amp to throw DC at it. So I will have one and a half working pairs at my disposal as soon as the new ones are delivered on Saturday.

Yum.

I plan to either get two new drivers (95 quid + VAT each) to fix the half-pair, or cut the boxes down to a more appropriate size for a single driver. Or maybe they want to be fitted in the car somewhere. Hmmmm.

<< Ice machine Just keep thinking about the m... >>
View Comments (Threaded Mode) Printer Version
Ah, the joy of eBay's email notifications Bruce Ure - 10:35 10/08/04
Re: Ah, the joy of eBay's email notifications David Crowson - 14:36 10/08/04
You could make a wikkid ipod earphone set with those , then you wouldn't need EuPodVolumeBoost :)

--
bombholio

Re: Ah, the joy of eBay's email notifications Paul Wakeford - 23:44 19/12/04
Are these the ones that went in the mobile brick? Still there?

--
pw1

Re: Ah, the joy of eBay's email notifications Bruce Ure - 16:17 21/12/04
Actually yes, well actually no, they were there until a couple of weeks ago when I had to remove them because I wanted to carry something in the back of the brick. So instead at present there is a full-height filing cabinet and a pair of Yamaha NX1s in the back of the brick. And it's really not loud enough.

I thought I'd show the filing cabinet the sights for a while and then take it up to my office. Then the Argonauts go back in. And I have a plan to put my Paradigm sub-bass in there as well, once I get it back from the fixers. It's a domestic (not car) unit. The fixers can't fix it, at least they could but it would need a new amp module, which would cost more than a complete new unit. So I figure rip the knackered amp module out and drive the cone direct from one of the car amps, low-passed and bridged. So we're then talking (clickety-click) 120W (rms) to the sub-bass and (clickety-click) 160W (rms) to the Argonauts.

And then I shall be one of the twats I look down my nose at as they drive past, incapable of hearing that they should have changed up a gear 100 yards ago and their pistons are about to burst through their bonnet.

"So that's what an arsehole looks like" I chuckle to myself. Well, now I can BE that arsehole.

:bu:

- 'As interesting as THAT' (tm)