Jbl in a box

Very Pleased

A few months ago, I felt something was wrong with my car audio. Something was different. I thought my right speaker was wonky, and that the sound was softer on the right side. I remember my sister and feli was in the car, and I kept asking them if it sounded off balanced. I thought maybe I had hearing loss in one ear or something. I tried to compensate with the rather limited EQ on the stock head unit of the Lancer EX.

I thought maybe I needa crank up the woofer a bit, so I decided to yank off my passenger seat and adjust the amplifier for the woofer. That took a while because I procrastinated for weeks, and couldn't find the right spanner. Yesterday I finally bothered to go to the hard ware shop to buy the correct sized spanner to yank off my passenger seat to tune the amplifier below the seat.

I played around with the amp, only to realize it was my speaker that was spoilt, not anything to do with the amp. I double checked by hooking up my yamaha stagepas 300 speaker to my car amp, which worked beautifully. I tried the reverse, hooking up the powered mixer to the car speaker. The speaker produced no sound, unless I applied pressure on the 4 o'clock position, and still only fuzzy crackly sound was produced. Dad said the speaker coil was stuck. He advised me to go sungai road to find someone who could repair it.

My uncle and cousin came to visit today, and to pick up a pair of shoes which my cousin will pass to my sis in aus. He said no one really repairs speaker coils nowadays, so I decided to buy a new one.

Searched around, autobacs, chuan sing, and this nam huat audio, managed to find a 2nd hand jbl sub woofer for $80, which included helping me mount it in my old speaker box. I'm quite pleased with the price, and the sound quality. I just hope it doesn't spoil like the boston accoustic one I had for just over a year.

I felt happy driving home. The sound is so much fuller now.

I brought the old subwoofer home. I'll try to repair it some day... right...

Basment SketchUp

I was fussing over the mess in my basement when I was looking for a spanner to remove my front passenger seat of the car to adjust my sub woofer amplifier volume. My basement is just too messy because theres hardly any furniture, so our junk is just piled all over the floor in boxes. Our TV sits on an shoe chest turned on its side, theres a couch, a piano, an ironing rack, and some metal shelves in the side store room area.

So I was imagining (again) how I would do up the basement, and tried to youtube for some CADing software, then I found this FREE Google SketchUp, which was pretty simple to use. Initial learning was quite challanging, but it wasn't rocket science. The help tips were actually helpful (unlike most microsoft help tips) and unobtrusive.

I sorta sketched my basement. Took me a while because I had to go dig up my floor plans from the last renovation, clean it up, print it out, measure the room, then measure the scale. For all the time I took, I don't think my 3d model is very much to scale. All the rounding off here and there would probably add up. But I'm really glad I could use the software and print out a vague representation of what was in my head, because the last 3 or 4 times I tried to explain my concept to my parents and my maid... nothing much got through.

Whats not in the plan are the 2 ceiling fans, the aircon unit above the piano, the intended projector, and the intended projector screen which will be on the short wall perpedicular to the cabinet and opposite the sofas.

Vase or electric bulb?

"the rectal contents are supported by the levator ani muscles, possibly assisted by the transverse rectal mucosal folds. For these reasons, the removal of a large foreign body, such as a vase or electric light bulb, from the rectum may be a formidable problem" - snell

A vase or light bulb. Wow. Formidable problem indeed.