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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:40 am
by decklyn
oh man hamwings. I love hamwings.
I know what I'm eating tomorrow night!
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:52 am
by flippo
Egg and bacon
Egg, sausage and bacon
Egg and spam
Egg, bacon and spam
Egg, bacon, sausage and spam
Spam, bacon, sausage and spam
Spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam
Spam, spam, spam, egg, and spam
Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam
Lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce garnished with truffle paté, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:21 am
by casino
Auan wrote:unklefesta wrote:I never heard of a baconsteak, tbh
You haven't lived.
Served with either a fried egg or pineapple ring on top, with chips (big, meaty chips, not fries) or mashed potato, usually with peas as well. Along with Shepherd's pie, a ploughman's, and a beef hotpot, gammon steaks are the kind of food you can expect to be served in
any pub older than 20 years in the whole of Britain.
And this guy just touched one.
is this for breakfast or for dinner? peas and mash potatoes? eggs and bacon? kinda half way inbetween...
looks good though, i'd eat it...somebody fed-ex me a plate...
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:35 am
by auan
Totally for dinner. Too much fat and carbs to be a breakfast anywhere other than North America. They call it gammon 'steak' for a reason.
In my desperate student days I have eaten one between two slices of toast for breakfast, though.
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:55 pm
by dubsteppa
Auan wrote:unklefesta wrote:hamsteak
got it
FFS do you guys think every kind of meat is 'ham'?
Hamburgers. Not ham. Hamsteaks. Not ham. What's next, ham drumsticks? Hamcakes?? HAM FUCKING WINGS???
...and relax.
LMFAO
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:27 pm
by miketm
KRK's Rokit series are pretty much the hotness

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:50 pm
by thinking
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:03 pm
by cryptic
two oh one wrote:CRYPTIC wrote:Its all about the mackies
Erm, it's kind of not...
i dont know much about monitors, it would be useful to hear your verdict on them.
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:59 pm
by John Locke
Dynaudio BM5A's
Got 'em. Like 'em.
But freely admit my ears r a bit fucked...so use your own.
Re: Help choosing monitors
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:00 am
by lkewis
fliPPo wrote:lkewis wrote:I am currently using standard speakers, but have a 15" car sub which is VERY loud and covers the sub low frequencies well, and I need the monitors for clearer sound of the mids and treble.
welcome to the forum mate.
I'm no expert and I certainly don't have good monitors myself, But spending money on high end monitors and then ruining them with a 15" car sub that's just going to make random earthquake noises is not a good idea IMO. Every 15" car sub I've ever heard is clearly designed to make predestrians stop and look around, not acuratly replicate bass. Maybe you've got some crazy high end sub that's worth shitloads and actually is quality though! do you?

Yeah its a JBL W15GTi MKII if you're interested. It has a great frequency response with the sealed enclosure I have, and although it is designed to be used in a car space I angle it into the corner of my room and it throws the bass out heavy! No-one can understand where the sound comes from (mainly because bass is non directional) but there is a sweetspot in my room which is in the floorspace juss behind where my decks are. It helps amplify the sub low frequencies between 20-80 hz which you wont get from speakers except club standards. I would love to have a funktion1 system lol but that would be crazy. My friend Milo who built and owns the R:EVOLVE soundsystem has his 2-3k rig in his "bass"ment and its sounding awesome.
Re: Help choosing monitors
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:18 am
by nuravehitcher
lkewis wrote: My friend Milo who built and owns the R:EVOLVE soundsystem has his 2-3k rig in his "bass"ment and its sounding awesome.
seconded
i'm looking at getting the tapco s8's with the sw10 sub. need them for djing and production, what do people think
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:21 am
by sonictrauma
It completely depends on your budget.
Both of us have Mackie Tapco S8 monitors & for the £250 - £280 they're retailing for, I'd say you'd be hard pushed to get better.
They're obviously not quite up to the Mackie 824's high standards, but they definitely offer sound quality approaching that of the 824s but for a great price.
I sound like I work for them, I know
Matt.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:43 am
by xor
I use the Tapco S8s too - very happy with them. Nice that you can alter the treble and bass level output to work best with the room they're in.
I also have Dynaudio BM5s with a Hafler amp which were twice the price, but I only really use the S8s now.
As Sonic Trauma said, depends on budget though. Mackies if you have the dough, Tapcos if you don't, imo.
Nice one
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:37 am
by lkewis
Cheers for the help guys! Gonna be making a purchase in the New Year methinks.
Ps. I know I should have searched for the existing threads on the subject, but appreciate the help anyway.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:47 pm
by eliah
u can get a pair of makie hr624 wich is similar to hr824 but more compact for arround 500 quid
if you havnt got that much tho alesis do sum well gud monitors:
http://www.alesis.com/product.php?id=110
that you wont pay as much for
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:53 pm
by two oh one
CRYPTIC wrote:two oh one wrote:CRYPTIC wrote:Its all about the mackies
Erm, it's kind of not...
How comes? The experience i have had with them has been tip top.
Please enlighten me

I've never met a pair of Mackies that I've liked.
I nearly bought a pair HR624s until they demoed the BM5As next to them and the difference was simply amazing.
The Mackies sounded like somebody had tried to make a pair of monitor speakers from dirty laundry in comparison. Woolly, fuzzy jumpers.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:01 pm
by tremourz
keep in mind you need to treat your room a bit if you really want to reap the benfits of a good studio monitor
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:51 pm
by __________
two oh one wrote:
The Mackies sounded like somebody had tried to make a pair of monitor speakers from dirty laundry in comparison. Woolly, fuzzy jumpers.
you always use adjectives that lloyd grossman would be proud of.

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:33 am
by fused_forces
Hamsteaks indeed! ha ha!
i use Samson rubicon 5a's.
Won awards two years runnin for best monitor in there range.
They go for about 260 a pair.
If they sound a lil cheap the 6a's pack just as much clarity.
Safe
Fused Forces
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 3:22 pm
by vadarfone
well, to be fair, monitors are not designed to sound pleasing. They are designed to tell the truth (in a perfect world/room)
So... If one sounds better than the other in the shop, it does not really have any bearing at all on how good a monitor they are.