///M5

yikes

I was singing a song...

*puts down the bass

Too many puppies. Puppies, puppies,puppies,puppies,puppies

Working with Bettis? Huntingon Ingalls IIRC. Newport News Shipbuilding

.05 ohm will never work... Not audible in the differences, tenths perhaps.

WAY too small for the SLS. WAY. I guarantee you do not have room to seal your mid.

If you don't have depth to use the anarchy i seriously doubt you have enough volume for a sealed enclosure.

What sort of snack did you have hiding in the truck? A sub?

Not sure what you mean by seal. If it is to separate the front wave and the back wave then ok. Probably rather expensive for that goal. Sealing is one thing, next step is mass. The more mass it has the more effective of a blocker it will be. As for your tweeter question, I'd personally go and listen to a bunch of things. At least to help narrow down the material choice. After that, if you are going to mount them in your doors you need to look for one with a good looking frequency response for the off axis angle they will be playing at. Normally off axis response is better in smaller diaphragm tweeters, but then you lose the capability to play low. You get to balance that compromise. Of course, mounting location is what is the way that swings the compromise into more clarity.

Running a 2 way with a full ranger (ie, no tweet) REQUIRES that the full ranger is ON AXIS. I screamed on purpose. No way, no how will it work in your door. Conveniently a large format tweeter will fit in your door where your mid was. Considering you are limited to a 7" driver and do not have great installation locations for a 3 way I would definitely just do a 2 way and use a large format tweet. Way simpler and pretty much guarantee it'll sound better as well. The exception will be if you decide you can modify things and fit a larger midbass and move the mids to a different location.

The job I am applied for is just "Mechanical Engineer" and the first round of interview didn't seem to lean me one way or another. I told them I am interested in product development, particularly working with engines. Engines aren't developed in Moline. Need to go to Waterloo for that.

Which group?

There is one other side of it. If they don't hide the growth we have by making us not succeed then theirs is in the forefront. They can still show overall growth and not highlihgt where they suck if we take a big number and can't meet it.

Tonight maybe I'll put the bar riser on my snowmobile to make myself feel better!

I just spent the last 30 minutes pulling the boat out of the water :( :( :( :(

It isn't actually me other than by association but my boss. He used to run Germany and didn't promote who is now in charge. We know the issue. At the same time the CEO is confused since he just built a new building (more than doubling our size) and the rest of the world is shitting and we aren't and he needs the building paid for. Even told us that. See's us as an opportunity. They don't negotiate well though so they will lose. As long as we perform there is nothing they can do to hurt us. They know it's suicide to get rid of either of us.

*shameless* I'm a good helper at technical sales?

They want me to hire someone for two specific product lines. One they think we suck at, which is funny since we sold 70% of the units they sold worldwide this year. (EOY prediction, ours are already in so right now it's worse). And the other, where we have 2 US competitors that are better specification wise AND nearly half the price. Obviously with the first the problem is not in the US and the 2nd the problem is not in the US either. Seriously fuck you.

Oh, I have 3 less people than the year before I took over too. I don't doubt more bodies would help, but that is not at all the "problem".

To put things in perspective. Since I took over 4 years ago we have doubled our sales. In 2012, I set a goal of 25% growth and we are going to do 30%. Next year I am setting a goal of 10% beyond that. Their response is that we should hire people and raise it further. At the same time, globally the company has seen NO GROWTH since 2005. WTF? They are lowering goals elsewhere and want more out of us? Never once have I been thanked and the instant we have a month that isn't on target they claim we aren't doing well. We are about to deliver more than all of fucking Europe, all of fucking Asia, and we suck. FUCK YOU KRAUTS./

I hate the attitude of German engineers. If you work on their cars they force you through "guided fault finding". Basically they tell you to go to a certain "measuring block" or location on the scan tool. It is numbered, not labeled, so you have no idea what you are looking at, and they never give any indication to what you are reading. You may see, "go to cell 1, block 8/3. The reading should be between 75 and 100. If not replace item 1UA4". Why can't they tell me to look at the coolant temp sensor and determine if it is running at normal operating temp (from 75 to 100 Celsius)? Then let me decide if I should replace the coolant temp sensor, thermostat, or whatever other part of the cooling system that may set this code rather than throwing a coolant temp sender at it? Not every tech is a total fucking moron. Some of us can actually look at, understand, and interpret data... and surprisingly some of us can actually fix cars if the information is provided to us. Assholes. Stringent rules and no imagination does not make for a good sales lead. Our engineering team I respect, our management that is responsible for sales and such not so much.

Engineering isn't the problem.

That or quit, jesus they are stupid bastards.

I need to fly to Germany and kick some Kraut ass.