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jrpa
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 25, 2015 at 05:45 PM UTC #
jaded wrote:
But that costs you $600.  For 2 speakers. 
I also don't really need 2 speakers for most rooms. From what I see online, most people aren't putting multiple Play3s in anything but their main home theater room. I'm don't exactly need surround-sound to play classical music in the parlor when we're having martinis. So you're talking more $600 ($500 if I buy thru any of the multiple Buy-It now eBay auctions) for 2 rooms.

3 Play3s at like $750 and I have my dining room/kitchen, master bedroom, and parlor done. (And effectively my entire system unless I stumble upon a cheap used Play1 and decide my guest room or bathroom needs audio for some reason or I suffer a brain injury and start liking hiphop and need a subwoofer.)
grateful
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 25, 2015 at 07:07 PM UTC #
I guess my thought is that speakers only have one job - reproducing sound.  My BS radar goes off when other features interfere with accurate sound reproduction.

I have not ever heard any Sonos product.  Considering that it uses wi-fi and not bluetooth, there is some preservation of sound quality.  If you're listening to MP3s over wireless speakers, you've already lost the quality fight. 

If you're satisfied with listening to Space Oddity in mono, I've got nothing for you.
chaz
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 25, 2015 at 07:18 PM UTC #
jaded wrote:
But that costs you $600.  For 2 speakers.  You can buy <a href="http://www.axiomaudio.com/stereospeakers">phenomenal bookshelf speakers</a> for that.

I used to have a pair of surrounds from this company.  Prices sure have gone up.  They were nice speakers though.
vansmack
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 25, 2015 at 11:02 PM UTC #
jaded wrote:
I have not ever heard any Sonos product.


Awesome.
kmdobrz
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 25, 2015 at 11:37 PM UTC #
I got a pair of Play:1's a while back on a Kinja deal.  I think they were $250.  Paired up, they sound great.  I've also used them individually, though the sound suffers.  Don't use them for TV sound, but that's an option down the road with the added soundbar.

Just checked - I paid $350 for the pair.
Sidehatch
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 26, 2015 at 06:18 PM UTC #
vansmack wrote:
Sidehatch wrote:
I new living in this small town in NM was a good move
only 3 zip codes in all of us didn't have an Ash Mad account


Posted via passenger pigeon….

also if you don't live in those zip codes and worried some one falsely used your email to create an account
and apparently you can check if your email is on the dump too
you know because someone might have mistyped your email in when they were signing up

Sidehatch
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 26, 2015 at 06:23 PM UTC #
related to the ashmad breach
this site can tell you if you've been pwned

found out my data was breached in the Adobe hack a few years back
vansmack
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 26, 2015 at 06:29 PM UTC #
I was informed by my fiancee that my email address was not in the Ashley Madison database leak, to which I replied:

"I didn't even bother checking because I knew my email address wouldn't be in the database."

But the best reply would have been "I wasn't planning on signing up until Oct 4th."
jrpa
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 26, 2015 at 06:30 PM UTC #
Did you check to see if your ex-wife's email was in the database?
vansmack
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 26, 2015 at 06:37 PM UTC #
Julian, wrote:
Did you check to see if your ex-wife's email was in the database?


That was pretty good….
jrpa
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 26, 2015 at 06:47 PM UTC #
vansmack wrote:
Julian, wrote:
Did you check to see if your ex-wife's email was in the database?


That was pretty good….
Well, thanks, but that doesn't really answer the question. . .
vansmack
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 26, 2015 at 08:20 PM UTC #
Julian, wrote:
Well, thanks, but that doesn't really answer the question. . .


Ha, no.  My first marriage was more of Grey's Anatomy scenario where I was the only one not at the hospital all the time, so I pretty much didn't stand a chance.

Her next husband was also a doctor so I doubt Ashley Madison played a role in that…it's kind of it's own self-perpetuating market.
grateful
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 26, 2015 at 08:23 PM UTC #
jrpa
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 26, 2015 at 08:27 PM UTC #
Can we spin this conversation off into one where we all decide what our Grey's Anatomy nicknames would be? I want to be McFancy.
grateful
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 26, 2015 at 08:32 PM UTC #
I wanna be McFan…oh damn!
jrpa
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 26, 2015 at 08:43 PM UTC #
jaded wrote:
I wanna be McFan…oh damn!

vansmack
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 26, 2015 at 08:46 PM UTC #
I don't watch the show.
jrpa
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Re: Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know... August 26, 2015 at 08:50 PM UTC #
The female doctors had nicknames for the male doctors like McDreamy and McSteamy. So you pick your Mc____y name. You can be McLawyery if you want.
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