Originally Posted by T13 (Post 17640142)

4 days seems like a long time for food poisoning, unless you keep eating the same "bad food"....

Originally Posted by T13 (Post 17643005)

a lot of american owned companies are greedy and southeast asian labor is cheap

Originally Posted by T13 (Post 17643005)

Just curious, what kind of jeans were these?

Originally Posted by Mumonkan (Post 17643389)

it took me 3 months to justify my purchase of raw denim, and those were only $50 (employee discount), i could never see myself spending the full $100+ on a pair of jeans, and certainly not 60 times.
i own like 5 pairs of jeans and a few pairs of khakis, i dont even know if i have 60 articles of clothing

then again ive spend thousands on bicycle **** and furniture, different strokes



ftfy

Originally Posted by T13 (Post 17643005)

$6,0000 worth of jeans??? Are you ****ing kidding me??? No wonder yer not married anymore(sorry, bad joke?).. Just curious, what kind of jeans were these? It seems to me that most denim, regardless of the brand, or price is Chinese sweatshop made, so I can't even fathom dropping that much $ on anything like that. I WILL buy a pair of good, broken in, USA made Levi's if I find them in a thrift store. It's hard for me to justify buying something, based on the brand, if the brand is just another brand made in a low wage paying country.

Ray-Bans are being made in China now too. WTF. The whole world is going to ****.

Originally Posted by TenSpeedV2 (Post 17643573)

I will just say this. She had twice as many as I did. And no, that is not the reason we are not married any more. At the time, it is what we wanted to do, and we could afford it, so we did. It isn't something that I am proud of, rather embarrassed but it is what it is, and the whole thing is done.

Originally Posted by Mumonkan (Post 17643763)

dem TOOBZ

i changed your sentence to sortof answer your own statement about everything being made in china
most american companies are more concerned with profit margins instead of quality products

and dont worry, it censored my ****, not your **** ;)

Originally Posted by T13 (Post 17643589)

Aww man, I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to speculate about yer marriage, or embarrass ya about yer jeans buying addiction....****, i just dropped a bunch of $ on one of these:

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=439958

Originally Posted by johnnytheboy (Post 17643912)

my rayban wayfarers were made in Italy. bought them 6mos ago.

Originally Posted by johnnytheboy (Post 17639736)

yeah they're a tad narrow for me, I think.
I plan on giving velocity another chance....I've built about 30 pairs of archetypes in the past year....I wanna give someone else a shot!

Originally Posted by ThermionicScott (Post 17643936)

Oooooh! It's interesting how EL84/6BQ5's have made their way into hi-fi over the last few years. :thumb:

One of my back-burner projects (since bikes consume all of my hobby time now) has been to build a Dynaco ST-70 (EL34's) clone. It was such a popular amp back in the day, that there is a healthy community of hobbyists to discuss parts substitutions, and several clone kits are produced now.

Originally Posted by Leukybear (Post 17644324)

I can also vouch the hifi community is more tight knit than the cycling community. :innocent:

Originally Posted by T13 (Post 17644376)

"Tight knit" via the internet? haha

I don't know, there's a good amount of cork sniffing, elbow patch wearing, pretention in that crowd, just like any.
The Luxman I just picked up is very similar to some Marantz/Mcintosh stuff...

Originally Posted by Leukybear (Post 17644412)

It's ok.
I tend to hang more around the technical parts of it anyhow. Little did I know there were so many fellow passionate hifi people around SD.
I would ring up one of them about an obscure part that I can't find anywhere and they would be like "Oh I have that part" come and get it for well below market price from me.

Originally Posted by Leukybear (Post 17644324)

I fix/ refurbish receivers and tube gear for funsies; occationally re-coning the JBL or advent speaker. It's a good way to flex my soldering skills.
I'm a ***** for marantz & mcintosh. You guys won't believe how many units I've picked up on the cheap that needed "work" but only needed deoxit on the pots and faders.
Also, ghettoblasters. :D

I can also vouch the hifi community is more tight knit than the cycling community. :innocent:

Originally Posted by Unkle Rico (Post 17644422)

TOOOOBZ!!

Spent many years poking around in guitar tube amps.. One of these days i'll get into the HIFI stuff when i can afford it..

Originally Posted by T13 (Post 17643949)

Did you buy them in person, or online? Be careful buying them online. You will almost always get Chinese made ones. They are not "bootleg" either. They are "real" Raybans, but made in China. And still cost the same.


Scott: Yeah man, they sound great, and I have a tone of EL34's and 12AX7s lying around from my guitar /bass amps.....Pretty handy.

Originally Posted by Sherblock (Post 17644837)

It doesn't matter where they're made. They're plastic. Italy has slave like conditions too, you know. The words "Made in Italy" mean practically nothing.

Anyways. Anyone listen to the new Death grips album yet?

Originally Posted by johnnytheboy (Post 17644900)