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Ever notice I am not ever home?

Chit I'll trade, I'd love to put some more miles on the sleds.

glad to hear this, im kind of in the same boat as Ryan My boss is tracking visits and I guess the first three months of this year put me in 52 different spots. No wonder I am never home.

anytime. if you want any specifics on any companies doing anything like that feel free to ask. I am in bed and have been for a couple hours. This is cool off time, but sleep perhaps is in order.

Anything with frequency based math/measurements will help. My whole life is spent in Fast Fourier Transform and Frequency analysis land. Cool stuff though.

Conference http://www.sae.org/events/nvc/ Tech Sessions (I lucked out and don't have to give a talk ) http://www.sae.org/servlets/techSession?EV...=SESSION_MATRIX List of exhibitors: http://www.sae.org/servlets/vsearch?Search...3&Company=* Tons of cool stuff, by far the most important event in the NVH world. Only happens every other year.

Engineering with a focus on acoustics or of course acoustics itself works. Either Mech or Civil, but I'd choose Mech anyday. There are a lot of Physicists and Mathematicians as well.

Nicer RCAs aren't going to get rid of whine. Reground the HU and any processors that you have. I have found that nicer rca's have better electrical sheilding and do reduce/prevent noise a lot better than cheap rca's. By found you mean compared two cables in the same install or just general good luck with shielded?

I still break that but my body doesn't recover like it used to.

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close, harshness. Buzz word in the industry, huge bi-yearly conference coming up in Chicago May 15-17th. Pretty much the best in microphones, accelerometers, analyzers, software, modelling, data acquisition, and recording will be there. All for industrial applications though and not home use (ie butt ass expensive and accurate). I will be there working the show. Sort of my adult playground.

Night is still young at 5am in college, perhaps not so in the real world though.

Thanks Sean! Currently there is a shortage of NVH engineers that actually understand frequency analysis. Not a bad route considering your interests.

Not far from the Tustin IHOP. Had dinner at Opah right next door tonight, my colleagues got a laugh out of me calling the IHOP the international house of poo

They were probably searching the web for pancakes. *posts from a hotel in Costa Mesa...

hope you don't need the life insurance

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I have been in hundreds of companies and can tell you that there are types like you having fun in engineering. I surely can't say the same for a lot of desk jobs. Keep your head up and start to look for industries that you have an interest in. Something will fall in your lap.

More of a far off fantasy. Quite franky I don't want to do engineering, but I can't figure out anything else to do. Pretty much all I Really enjoy doing is working in a wood shop, I have no problem working long hours doing tedoius stuff in a wood shop, its one of the few things I actually enjoy. If there was such a thing as a major in woodworking, I'd be working on a fricking PhD You'd be surprised at how much engineering can be similar, albeit probably with a different substance instead of wood. Making something that doesn't exists requires modelling and design of the model which of course is all driven by a conversation between engineering and marketing. One off manufacturing can be a blast. I actually spend a large portion of my time measuring one off pieces to see how they compare with cpu aided models.

I will probably actually build a little TL myself, but only to house a full range mini driver since I was astonished at the price performance of the setup. Might end up as garage speakers or something like that.

Good luck getting a job at bowers, but I like the aspiration.

Not a real big TL fan myself, I will add that perhaps I haven't heard the best ones either.

2k I had the prob with IE not FF.