Shane_B.

I mainly watch YouTube on my TV through a Firestick. The live chat window stays on once I check the box. Even when I close the livestream and go to a different one. I subscribe to YouTube Premium and maybe thats why? It's the only service I subscribe to. I like the way they handle the music side of the service. I download everything in HQ and it sounds really good to my ears. I have terrible cell service so I download everything and it let's me listen offline. As for the volume leveling, I swear when I turn it on, the louder I turn my TV the more it kicks in and the lower the overall volume gets. So I just leave it off. I have all of that stuff turned off for the TV, Firestick, and YouTube app. They'll fight each other if I have them all turned on and the sound starts to distort. I also noticed when watching movies, you can select surround or stereo sometimes, not always. If watching on a 2 speaker TV I always turn the surround off.

That did not come out at all like I intended. And I was not making any references to myself, although reading it now I can totally see how it would come across that way. Lol Hey, I'm still recovering from 2 weeks of the c-virus. Cut me a smidge of slack. Sheesh. 😁 Isn't that an old Rodney Dangerfeild joke? His Mrs. asked for something hurtful so he abliged twice and slapped. Or something like that. 😁

You could have a 14" ... , millions in the bank, and be the best looking most well built, kindest man in the world and not a single one of them will stay happy. It's not possible, so take my very hard earned advice, stop trying.

I've never had a large enough room to move them around. I would love to try that. They are great sounding monitors. Professionally recorded/mastered music sounds incredible. Completely transparent as if the music isn't coming from the speakers. I can only imagine how these would sound in a properly treated room and spaced correctly. I tried to tinker with a sub one time but I didn't know enough about setting them up and had zero success. I have a much better understanding of all of this now, I just don't have the time or space. I have a pair of those, or something very similar. IIRC there's a few models that look like that. They are so old the foam pads have deteriorated. I also have to be very careful using them. They really flare up my tinnitus a lot faster than listening to monitors. I had an ear infection one time and had a hard time hearing. I raised them to a comfortable level not realizing it was way too loud. I lost all hearing below 90Hz. I don't know if it was from the loudness or the infection or a combination of both. After many failed mixing attempts with them I ended up only using them when I was tracking. That's a limitation of the operator, not the equipment though. I do have to say, the #1 thing that has vastly improved my mixing and mastering attempts is Ozone 9 Advanced. Their visual approach to mixing that's different than just looking at a frequency display significantly helped me to the point where I once I had a visual that I could understand on what I was doing wrong, dialing everything in got a lot easier. I don't know what version OA is up to now, but I'm very happy with 9.

I have Yamaha HS-80's. I've never been able to hear bass on them. Even when listening to pro mixes. I attribute that to the room and their placement, and maybe my hearing a little. I recently bought a pair of small Bose Bluetooth speakers and paired them in stereo mode. I was floored by how good they sound and the bass. Far better than my "pro" HS-80's. That said, moving the Bose speakers a 6 to 12 inches one way or the other dramatically changed the bass. I've never been able to place the HS-80's where they should be because of size limitations of the rooms I've had them in. It says in the manual for best response place them "5 feet from walls".

This caught my eye because of my odd situation. My mother had me very late in life. Two of my uncles were in WW2 and it seems so odd to say that. My grandfather was born in 1888. My mother and all of her brothers and sisters are gone now. One of the bad downsides of being born when I was is your the last man standing. Anyway, I guess this time of year causes us all to reflect on the past. Thanks for making me think of it.

I would rather drive from the southeast tip of Florida to the north west corner of Alaska to pick up a package rather than have it shipped by FedEx. I hate Fedex. Always screwed me waiting for overnight stuff for work and made me watch my brand new guitar leave my driveway in the back of their truck 3 times because they were too lazy to wait for me to ride up to them on my mower. I hate fedex. Have I mentioned I ha... oh yeah, I did twice.

I don't know, but a friend of mine said he saw a Chibson logo on one of them. Maybe they are drop shipping by drone now and that's how they are getting around the ports.

Apparently they are sending drones for them. Did you read about that? I counted 26 just tonight. Edit: Forgot to say this is a major thing here in NJ right now. Every night there's more and more drones in the sky and nobody (cough cough) knows where they are coming from.

I owned a USA Gibson Custom Black Beauty (I think their called?) and an Epi Sheraton II Made In Korea. I could never get the Custom to sound right and I eventually sold it. To someone on the old forum through a music stores online listing. The SII needed a setup so I went on their website and did the factory recommended setup to the T. It plays like a dream. My favorite acoustic in an inexpensive Fender cutaway I've had for over 30 years. I have no idea where it was made, but definitely not US. Paid $249 for it. Plays better than my Martin. Doesn't sound the same, but I don't expect it to. I also have a MIJ Tele and Strat. They were dirt cheap back in the 80's when I got them. I still have them and they still better than any US Tele or Strat I've ever tried. For me it's the feel of a guitar and how well it will set up. I really don't care what the name is or where it was made.

I love the AI videos where they do well known movies and TV shows set in the 1950's. None are the full length shows, just a few minute preview of the cast. I was reading that they had a hard time generating fingers and hands so some of the older ones look off, but in the newer ones you can't see any artifacts.

Also areas of high humidity making it difficult to breathe at times.

The people making them are not selling them as Gibson's. All of the ones I've seen pictures of have tape over the name and nowhere do they say Gibson in any of the advertisements. It's the people buying them to resell them as Gibsons that are creating a bigger problem. I'm not condoning the people making the guitars ripping off the Gibson name by any means. But in a lot of ways I think the people reselling them as real ones are worse. I really think they should just label them Chibson. I mean no disrespect by that at all. The truth is most of them are great guitars and are actually worth more than what they are asking most of the time.

The people making them aren't selling them as real Gibson's. Just lookalike's. You know that going in. Not saying it's ok, but at least they aren't trying to say they are real and asking $5,000 I guess is the point I failed to make. Lol.

They are probably made at the Epiphone factory there in Chi-nah. I don't know what to think about it. I can understand why Gibson doesn't want their name on unapproved products. And I get why it's being done. It's a lot easier to sell if it says Gibson. It's a given with them that the electronics suck and the finish isn't perfect, but that's what you expect from a $300 guitar. Only a dirtbag would try to resell it as a real Gibson. And there is the other problem. They should at least stamp them or mark them somehow so there's no doubt they are copies. That would probably take the heat off them a little.