{"id":210,"date":"2008-01-06T16:07:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T22:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2008-01-06T16:07:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T22:07:39","slug":"one-good-ear-five-speakers-and-a-subwoofer-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"One Good Ear, Five Speakers and A Subwoofer Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>39\u00a0 78%\u00a0 29%\u00a0 0mph WSW\u00a0 bar 29.60 steep rise\u00a0 windchill39\u00a0 Epiphany<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0New Moon<\/p>\n<p>Worked some more this morning on Faeries on the Gunflint Trail.\u00a0 This story has legs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the morning writing session, I set out on a quest to finish the installation of the 50&#8243; Panasonic which now sits astride our Stickley coffee table turned TV stand like a colossus.\u00a0 Speaker stands.\u00a0 As I passed the $400 mark in post-purchase expenditures (a few really expensive cables, some new DVD&#8217;s and these damned speaker stands), I realized I hadn&#8217;t thought through this purchase quite as well as I thought as I had.<\/p>\n<p>Best Buy (near by) have speaker stands?\u00a0 Oh, yes.\u00a0 Stands that fit my speakers?\u00a0 Oh, no.\u00a0 So, instead of working on my Taste of Asia tour for next Friday, the little red car headed across country to the Maple Grove temple to I just gotta have it now and turned in at the now familiar Ultimate Electronics store.\u00a0 Clutching my tiny satellite speaker I walked in and a few minutes later walked back out with the four omni-post speaker stands.<\/p>\n<p>Back home.\u00a0 All\u00a0the while listening to the adventures of poor Charlotte Simmons as she matriculates to Dupont University.\u00a0 She&#8217;s sure out of her element in the co-ed dorm.<\/p>\n<p>Up from my nap I have renewed determination to wire up everything and those speakers pounding so I can hear the rain drops in the opening scene of the Bourne Identity which the installer yesterday assured me I could hear once I had the speakers set up.\u00a0 I&#8217;m no audiophile, hell, I&#8217;m barely able to hear with one good ear and the high sounds going in that one, but those rain drops.\u00a0 Soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>39\u00a0 78%\u00a0 29%\u00a0 0mph WSW\u00a0 bar 29.60 steep rise\u00a0 windchill39\u00a0 Epiphany \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0New Moon Worked some more this morning on Faeries on the Gunflint Trail.\u00a0 This story has legs.\u00a0 After the morning writing session, I set out on a quest to finish the installation of the 50&#8243; Panasonic which now sits astride our Stickley coffee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Good Ear, Five Speakers and A Subwoofer Later<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[73,236],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekworld","tag-technology","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}