Stereo systems are like Harleys


You'll never see two exactly alike. They are an expression of the owners ideas on design and performance, usually within the construct of a budget. Often put together over time with new and used parts.

I love that about this hobby. How boring would it be if we all had the same ideas of how a system should sound or look?

When you go to any kind of a rally, be it a poker run, charity ride or whatever.... it's customary to just walk around, checking out other peoples rides and chatting it up. It's a great way to meet people and have fun. Oddly, those bikers who's stigma is to be rowdy and obnoxious, are the nicest people I've met. Never once have I ever heard comments like DUH you should done this or that with your bike. Everything and everybody is accepted as is.

Perhaps some folks around here could learn a thing or two from the bikers. 


treynolds155
Stereo systems like Harley's???
Sure hope not. Don't want to work on my Stereo all week just so I can use it on the weekends! lol
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@treynolds155, Same thing for Porsche clubs, and Corvette clubs and any Cars and Coffee meetings I've every been to. But think about the people you meet at a HiFi show. They are nice also.
The problem with chat rooms is that you can't see or hear the other person's expression and you don't have to worry about his fist jumping out of the monitor and punching you in the nose. You think we are bad?
You should see some of the female chat rooms. Talking about volatile.
As someone well versed in them once said to me, Harley measures tolerances with a yardstick.  Maybe similar to some hi-end audio manufacturers.
Dgarretson--  Ha!!!  Exactly!  The tolerances were such that anyone--even me!--could work on them (these are 60s bikes here).  I believe I put one of the pistons in backwards, and after a few miles, recalled precisely my hand movements putting in the wrist pin, and OH CRAP, I ...   Rode home, took about a half hour to strip it down and put it in correctly (and I am NO mechanic!)--heads roughly where they should be--hell, good enough!  It ran fine.  There was no way that was going to work on a Japanese machine.  Riding one of those was like listening to really really good 78s played with a wooden needle.