YSaC, Vol. 1105: We all live on a yellow submarfine.
2011 October 21
Dell Subwolfer and speakers – $20
Great sounding speakers and subwolfer for sale. Upgraded and need to sell these. More than happy to hook up to phone to let you hear sound quality. $20 firm.
Here’s a neat science fact for you: Telephones operate at a sample rate of about 8 kHz. That means that in terms of audio fidelity, they rank only slightly above a tin can tied to a string. In fact, with a bandwidth of about 3.6 kHz, they can’t even accurately reproduce the fundamental pitch of the highest notes on a piano, let alone any of the higher harmonics that actually define the sound of an instrument and make music interesting to listen to.
Here’s another neat fact – there’s no such thing as a “subwolfer,” Sparky.
Thanks for the post, Mandy!
* WOLF WOLF *
“Uh, Sparky, is there something wrong with your dog?”
Beware of false speakers, which come to you in tweeters’ clothing, but inwardly they are ravening subwolfers.
The subwolfer is a Dell
The subwolfer is a Dell
Hi-Fi, The stereo
The subwolfer is a Dell
There was a farmer had an amp and wolfer was his name-o
W-O-L-F-shit, it’s too long.
If “sub” means “under” and “wolfer” could mean “dog” …
Holy crap, Sparky is selling Underdog!
He should try eBay. I think the fanboy contingent might bid him up past $20.
The Subwolfer is the stand in they call when the Wolfer goes on maternity leave.
Subwolfer = Less than wolf.
Coyote = Sub Wolf
“Dude, you’re getting a proto-dog that carries disease and eats roadkill!”
Alternatively:
“Dude, you’re getting a Super Genius!”
Proto-Dog is IF’s Steppenwolf folkie tribute band.
I think they call themselves Steppenwolfer now.
WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!! WOLFER!!!
Firm oboe ore best offher.
*stares suspiciously at the newly installed sound system in the Snark Lounge*
I wondered why the guy said I had to take the subwolfer out for walkies!
Glad it’s only a 2-channel. I hate cleaning up #3.
Sparky’s not concerned about harmonics. He could never play one of those things anyway. He’s stickin’ to air geetar.
The suggestion about listening to his speakers over the phone reminds me of ads on TV for TVs.
The ad: “Look at the great picture our TV delivers!”
Me: “Wow I wish my TV could produce a picture like that! I gotta buy that!”
I heard you like sound systems, so I’m playing a recording of a different soundsystem on my soundsystem so that you can listen to a sound system while listening to a sound system.
Today in the box we have the Fragile Flowers of Femininity. Which is IF’s Bangles cover band. Have fun, ladies, and pay no attention to CJ pressing her nose against the window, trying to get back in. Tsk, tsk.
Ummm…that’s not my nose….
Lady, Please!
THE TEST!
Put your books away, get out a number two pencil, yes I wrote pencil, and answer the following questions. You have three seconds.
What are the loving names bestowed upon drmk and dan?
Bob and Franfurt the WonderBee.
Or Llamanun and Ostrimu.
It’s one of those, I think.
Mom and Dad?
Aaaggghh, why couldn’t you have started with an easier question?
Sonny and Cher? Captain and Tenille?
Stiller and Meara?
Rita and Runt?
Pinky, Pinky and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain.
I suppose I’m exempt from the test Mama Windy?
Yes, but you have to help me grade the papers. 8)
Squee!!! Ima teacher’s pet!
Not to get all Corey on your butt, but Sparky is probably talking about a smartphone which is essentially a computer that occasionally doubles as a phone and has the ability to faithfully reproduce CD quality (or higher) audio at bitrates above 44.1 KHz. Some even include minty shells. Of course, Sparky didn’t actually say that.
*looks around*
Anybody got a towel? There’s all this corey on my butt …
I’m way off. After a little more research, I’ve learned that most Android phones and Iphones have the ability to reproduce HD audio up to (and in some cases above) 192 KHz. (It’s not that I’m overly anal about this stuff, it’s just that telecommunications, radio communications, radars, computer automation systems, etc., are what I do for a living so I like to keep up to speed.)
Needed: [corey] [/corey]
The [corey] was implied.
But my brain didn’t like it.
Implied Corey is the name of my Corey Hart cover band.
[vader]All too easy.[/vader]
[ewok] Ayun puno daw ito! Maganda! [/ewok]
[greedo]Oota boota, Wolfer.[/greedo]
Hush, Greedo, or Han will shoot.
Except that cell phone signals tend to be highly compressed to save transmission bandwidth, so you STILL aren’t getting CD quality audio. VoIP, while typically better than standard 8kHz telephony usually uses 16kHz, which ain’t great.
Narrow bandwidth Hertz doesn’t it?
Who says he’s talking about streaming audio and not an .ogg that’s saved to his phone? An audio file residing on the phone is limited only by the processing power of the smart phone.
And only has to be plugged in to the sound system via a mini phone plug into the headphone jack.
In the end, the sound is being produced by your speakers/headphones. I doesn’t matter how good sparky’s speaker system sounds, it is your speakers/headphones that you are listening to. So, what have you accomplished by listening to sparky’s speakers through your speakers/headphones?
Did I need corey tags? How about curmudgeon tags? I feel curmudgeonly today……..
:hands Coffy a cane:
The rocking chairs are on the porch, some kids should be by later for you to yell at.
Dear, sweet, clearly-young, Ghostie,
Eventually, as your years advance, you’ll realize that the presence of children is not necessary, and is oft an impediment to a good Shouting at same.
Corey tags appeal to my need for a sense of order. However, for your sake, I’ll just pretend that they’re there and go sit quietly in the rec room.
If you’re using his speakers, why are you using your speakers? Maybe either I or everyone else is reading too much into this. I believe he’s saying that if you come over he’ll hook up his phone to the speakers so you can hear how awesome they are. If you think he’s saying that he’ll play the speakers into his phone so you can hear them from your phone, well that’s just craziness. Maybe that is what he’s saying and he’s a nutjob, but I’m inclined to think that I’m right and the rest of the world is wrong. As usual.
I also think you are right, but it was easy to assume that sparky wanted to “play” his speakers for you over the phone so you would not have to drive all the way over there to listen to them in person. No sparky could be that nuts – right?
Now you damn kids get the hell off my yard!
Semper wolfie sub wolfie.
Always Mozart under Mozart?
Kinky
Well… who else is gonna tune his fiddle?
His sister? *bump* Unfair! I don’t deserve this corner! I was talking about his instrument. OH, never mind. Any butterscotch coffee slices left?
We all live in a yellow submarfine!
Yellow sublardine!
Yellow saltmachine!
We all live in a yellow wolverine!
Yellow inbetween!
Yellow charliesheen!
We all live….
In a yellow butterbean!
A yellow Brylocreem!
A yellow garbadine!
We all live in a yellow Halloween!
A yellow peachy-keen!
A yellow Valvoline!
We all live in a yellow Limozeen!
A yellow Ben Vereen!
A yellow color green!
As we live a life of ease,
Every one of us has all we need.
Sky of blue and sea of green,
And a Swedish —
It’s a beautiful day here in the corner.
Just keep that yellow wolverine away from my campus. We don’t take kindly to them here.
Yellow wolverines go home!
***
*A yellow wolverine is standing in the rain*
“COWARDS!”
Wolverine goes where he wants to go!
Unless there is a strong magnetic field present.
Meh, Wolverine is only situationally magnetic.
I thought adamantine was non-ferrous, but Cameron was Beullering the lines
It’s situationally ferrous. Sometimes Magneto can manipulate adamantium, and other times he can’t. It seems to change based on who’s writing the comic and how dramatic the magnetism is.
[comic corey] According to Marvel canon, adamantium is “partially” magnetic – it’s supposedly an alloy of several metals so there’s probably steel or iron in there somewhere.[/comic corey]
Indeed, the word they use in canon is “partially.”
In actual practice, however, “partially” tends to mean “occasionally.”
That said, there are other non-iron materials that will hold magnetic charge and be attracted to such. It’s not unthinkable that one of these worked its way into adamantium given the “oops, how did we make this?!” origin of the metal.
That further leads to the question:
If Magneto unleashes enough magnetic force on Wolverine, does he become magnetic? Suddenly I’m picturing Wolverine wandering around Xavier’s school covered in silverware, scissors… and a toaster.
:snerk:
I’m sure there’s fanfic for that, but I’m not looking for it.
¿Wolverine with a non-skinjob Cylon magnetically adhered?
Flees potential fanfic singularity . . .
I should know better than to do searches for these things.
But I don’t.
http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&global=1&q=wolverine+vs+toaster#/d46ua0w
Presumably if Magneto magnetises Wolverine, every time he tries to float on his back in the swimming pool his head points north.
I’ve hooked my AM radio to my phone. It appeals to my minimalist philosophy.
Pfft. I turned on my AM radio and put a megaphone on one of the speakers.
Okay RudyValleeMagic. Can I download songs from iMegaphone?
I don’t know… do you have a smooth Edison Cylinder?
Well, my reputation should have proceeded me. It’s what I’ve heard through the grapevine. *wink wink*
I think you just got us both sent to the corner.
As if you’re a stranger to being there.
😀
As ifYou’re muchastranger due to being there so often.There, fixed it.
Oh much better!
Hammy has infected you. I think it was the time you guys shared that long expired Slim Jim during that month you were in quarantine there together.
That didn’t come out quite right.
Allow me to edit: long-expired.
Your reputation always proceeds you, it’s when it precedes you that you’re in trouble…
I dunno about downloading, but you can downplay it…
Holy hasenpfeffer!!! I bet there’s an app for that somewhere as well.
I enjoy listening to music through my subwolfers while I am sending messages through my Tweeter account.
Subwolfers only work when the moon is half-full.
in Soviet Russia,
Subwolfer upgrade you.
Rubbing the puppy’s tummy is one thing, rubbing the subwolfer’s is a whole different matter.
I think it results in a blown power supply.
You do have to be cautious of unwanted discharges in certain situations.
:zap!:
Ahh! The corner shocked me!
Wait,
What if that should read:
“Deli Sub Wolfer and singers”?
J. Wellington Wimpy and a Greek chorus, for only $20 an appearance?
Does the twenty include a foot-long; and can I pay you on Tuesday?
The world wonders (or the catulator has a hairball)
My computer subwolfer sounds like dogshit, the tweeters chirp, and the mudrange is muffled. I tried adding squawkers, but they only respond to the MSNBC peacock. Sparky’s subwolfer over the phone is probably an improvement. That’s just my computer system — my audio system is much better. I get the bass directly from the washtub, although I have to stock them regularly.
Lola and Manda! Punchity Punch Punch!
G’night, Clément Ader !