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OW
Didn't the police say he was going 110 or something and the car can't go over 100?
Rocky
The slowest thing I ever drove was 96 Camry. :P
But, I never did very well in school, anyway..
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Correct...never driven a V or a C6. Other than those 2, same result.
You'd think that the Home Boys and Girls would have been able to at least come close by now with their entry level fare.
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OW
I hate to drag this from the depths, but this sparked a bit of nostalgia. Does anybody remember the very brief fad of cassette tapes made of actual metal? I think it was aluminum. Ahh, memories...
It's tracks and mountain passes that really take handling and cornering to the limits of some (not most) ELLPS.
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I agree about the track. Unfortunately, going through 1k in tires over a weekend just isn't my cup of tea on a regular basis.
The normal bias tapes were made of ferric oxide and the high bias tapes were made of chromium dioxide and later, metal (Type IV) was introduced.
The first cassettes that were considered hi-fi were the CRO2 tapes when used with Dolby B noise reduction.
I bought my first hi-fi cassette deck in the mid-80's. It was a Denon DRM-44HX. I used "metal" tapes and Dolby C with "headroom extension (HX). The deck had an internal computer to custom tune the bias to the particular tape by recording and analyzing test tones on the tape (this was more accurate than pushing a button to select "normal" or "high" bias.
This is pretty much as far as the compact cassette format evolved. At the time, CD's I recorded onto metal cassette using all the bells and whistles were indistinguishable from the original CD source. That's how I remember it anyways.
Thanks for the memory tayl0rd. I was quite the hi-fi buff back in the day, and I still have that cassette deck and those "old" recordings - they're collecting dust under the guest bed in the spare bedroom.
Do you mean CDs which you recorded or LPs which you recorded to tape...?
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My friend had the higher-end Harmon Kardon model of the same deck and other than the slight background hiss(unless you were listening to incredibly soft music at a horrendously loud volume it was inaudible), it was indistinguishable from CD. Most CDs are compressed to about half their actual dynamic range in the studio so as to not damage your headphones or speakers. So, with almost all of them metal tape was/is good enough to capture everything. Of crouse, finding good metal tapes these days is hard - the best ones weighed about 3-4 ounces each and had ceramic or metal cases and parts. They jsut don't make them like that anymore.
I'd say it was comparable to 1/4 inch tape running at 3 1/2 inches a second.(reel-to-reel deck).
Of course, MP3s are taking over now, but audio was almost as good 20 years ago - if you had the money, that is.
http://buttonwillowraceway.com/race_01.htm
That's the layout we used running west from the start.
Of course you all remember magnetic recorders that used actual iron wire on spools instead of plastic tape.
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Rocky
Tragedy!
Tayl0rd - I remember those "metal" tapes too. They had a see-through case, with a metal frame and screws. IIRC, they were made by Sony - $10 each back in 1986, and very rugged.
Joe131 - Just ignore that posts that don't interest you.
They still make them. $15 each, but worth the money. This has a ceramic/metal composite frame and weigh a TON. Essentially, it's DAT grade tape in a studio quality case.
http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?s=31fc239b9f0c1671256bbb0cce63e488&showtopi- c=17988&hl=
This is why it's so expensive - they stopped making them three months ago. Normally they were about $7 a tape.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:TDK_MA-R_C90_cassette.jpg
Personally, I find the anti-resonance design of these tapes to be very effective at mitigating wow and flutter when playing recorded music in my ELLPS. It has also proven to be a boon to longevity when faced with the intense heat/sunlight that can penetrate the interior of my ELLPS.
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If this is not offered, does this eliminate the 3 Series from the ELLPS forum??
I am sure the CTS must have this technology!
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My new Supersprint exhaust...
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What is the vibrational differnece on the road? These are pretty loud!
BTW, is this the same car you posted the road coarse video last summer?
Regards,
OW
I think I linked the lap where I paced an instructor (also driving an M3) around the track.
Here's another lap around Spokane without any traffic:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1225387497
You can definitely hear the difference between the old exhaust and the new one. The power change with the new setup is dramatic - I can't wait to get the M back on the track in a few weeks.
Just to get a perspective, what speeds did you attain in this vid?
The engine sounds real fine at the high end of the revs through the gears. What a difference from when you just reved it in park from the back of the car.
Regard,
OW
130 on the front straight, 120 on the back straight.
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OW