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The only one that looks edible is the blue, the rest are destroyed

And those were ALL done on a shitty stove/grill/whatever. Way too much differential between the crust and the rest of the meat. More time to room temp and a longer rest would probably help as well.

What is the goal of the "drop in test"? You state you are trying to see which has the highest score, but the real question is why and what information do you plan to glean from this?

Exactly. As stated, I could think of absolutely no logical use for it other than to pad Steve's pocket. That I understand completely and even commend him on it as he came up with a perfectly useless product that he can charge a lot for and net $$. I couldn't sleep at night doing that, but the goal and even some of the steps used to get there I can appreciate.

Beats me what the english term is. But in order to finish my studies I have one final project to do. Which is going to be a bearing failure detector. . The sound of a bearing will be captured, FFT will be performed to figure out the frequency response and then that frequency response will be compared to a stored frequency response. Any anomalies will point out that something is wrong. Are you going to add intelligence that determines balance, bearing pass frequency (ie single ball issue), noise floor increase (race) etc? One thing I know I'll do is noise floor elimination. The "tool" will be calibrated to known good condition ignoring the noise floor. I assume single ball issue would mean looking at a larger number of samples, it would depend on my sampling rate vs rotation speed, I think. Once I get over the data acquisition, FFT, transfer to PC and display, I can go all out. Even something very very basic will be over most projects (websites, email programs). Can you please explain what I would look for in balance ? Look up single plane balancing ISO standard and I'll help translate. On a conference call right now and I know I'll forget.

The home improvement stores have wimpy ones, i've bought mine at a concrete industrial supply.

Rubberized asphalt is a joke trade name for asphalt btw, it isn't butyl.

Indeed, you need some MLV. I'd recommend posting this in the general deadening section as no one from SecondSkin has been here in months.

Beats me what the english term is. But in order to finish my studies I have one final project to do. Which is going to be a bearing failure detector. . The sound of a bearing will be captured, FFT will be performed to figure out the frequency response and then that frequency response will be compared to a stored frequency response. Any anomalies will point out that something is wrong. Are you going to add intelligence that determines balance, bearing pass frequency (ie single ball issue), noise floor increase (race) etc?

What do you need it to do?

Holy shit. Ouch. Heal fast!!

Fair enough. I understand it is working great for you, but curious what it is working great as? (ie, what were your goals in installing it that it achieves)

J, some comments on older bikes and understanding fit/what to purchase. MK, you may appreciate it as well. http://www.sheldonbrown.com/upgrade.html

Srsly? Fuck me.

Graduation project?

boobs!

Radicals of any type are always bad.

Assuming your amplifier is not a complete piece of crap, you could then just use a DMM as well. Just set it at 80% of its rated power. Not like you'll hear a difference anyways. If your amp is jack crap and can't do 80% then you shouldn't use it. The last time this came up I tried to think of a time and use for it and couldn't where there wasn't an easier or better way whether for noob or experienced user.

And a much better tool. Generically knowing that you clip at one frequency at one level isn't really very useful. Dubious to push things so far that you are borderline on clipping when even fairly well below will not be an audible difference. In the last thread about this device, they surely didn't like that argument. Those won't work however as the whole reason his clipping tool works is that it forces you to measure at certain pre-programmed frequencies. Having a system to determine the clipped versus non-clipped energy requires rather sophisticated electronics that cannot be packaged cheaply enough to sell to the masses. Surely way more than $200. And that makes it even worse. Of course not only clipped CD's but even different levels of recording make this an exercise in futility. IMO, it is flat out that is a dumb product that no one should buy. If for some reason (and there are definitely valid ones) you feel the need to know what your amplifier is doing the o-scope link is a much better solution always.

Find it funny how many times I've seen Obama and Osama mixed up. Rofl.

Actually, that was not my first comment. The discussion started here: On top of that, no where does that imply that it is the designer/builder I was stating was wrong, but the box itself. This surely could be from the owner misleading/pushing the designer in the wrong direction. The comment was pointed indeed, but being a continuation of a previous discussion it was logical. In particular when in the previous thread he himself even stated that the 4th order BP wasn't going to meet his goals. Obviously this would have stayed more productive had he chosen to continue the conversation there before jumping into a build, but that isn't the way it went. One other clarification. My comment was before anyone posted any graph. The graph was posted to help clarify, not the other way around.

Don't know how much I believe that and it won't change anything anyways. It'll change one major thing. The knee jerk liberals are going to take credit for it even though they were trying to stop it. All sorts of idiot followers are going to get big heads and act like certain FL SPL guys.

You should re-read this. Using it again will just be another waste of money as there are better techniques to yield the results you seek.

Why is everyone thinking i didnt apply it right?? I did, it just doesnt work!! While Don's clarification is obviously spot on, you missed my point. Applied right or wrong it doesn't work. You went through great efforts to apply it right (ie I wasn't implying you did it wrong) and it still fails as a deadener.

Indeed, but that being said it looks great already.