Is High End Audio catchin' up with you all?

@asvjerry , you must have had a mess in there for them to use a metal valve. Most now use a flexible ring that folds up and we deploy them by catheter, no cracked chest.. Has your defibrillator gone off yet? Lots of fun. People do not realize what that is like when it fires. It can be entertaining until the docs get the sensitivity adjustment right. I really wanted a either a Volvo 1800 or 911 when I was a kid. Had to settle for the 911.

@tomic601 , you better watch out! I'm one of those short people. My favorite Randy Newman line is, " God can make you tumble. God can make you turn. God can make you overflow. But, God can't make you burn." He was referencing the Cuyahoga river fire. My favorite RN song is, You Can Take Your Hat Off. 

@barbaramoriggan , Yes, absolutely. Your back is under very little stress on a bike because your arms are supporting it. The Neo 2 is a real hoot.

@jerryg123 , The air cooled motors have a raspiness  missing in the watercooled units. You can still get one in the Scrambler models, 1100 cc! The Italians have a passion for motors everyone else can't seem to match. Somehow they always manage to make them sound right. Listen to a Fiat 500 Abarth. Little sucker sounds like it would tear your throat out. Just listen to a Duc at idle. Only the Italians can concoct a symphony like that. (desmodromic valve train)

Okay, just one more off topic/on topic comment for audiophile/old car guys:

(goes back to the early 90's) The Sunbeam Alpine has solid lifters that sound like a broken Singer sewing machine at cruising speeds.  Then, I remembered I had a can of Acoustical Magic material that I used to dampen the vibrations of turntable platters on hand.  So, I cleaned up the inside of the aluminum valve cover, coated it with this stuff and cured it in the oven for a couple of hours.  

After reinstalling the valve cover and going for a test ride, the exhaust note(s) were louder than the sound of the lifters.  A much improved driving experience.  

And, yes, audiophile/car guys CAN successfully mention audio tweaks AND car tweaks in the same sentence.

@nonoise Must have been somenoise emitted from the exhaust of your project car?  fyi- I used a Webber downdraft for the blow through turbo set up on my Alpine.  Removing the choke, substituting plastic floats for the brass ones (they collapsed under pressure), rejetting, and filling in a few gapping holes did the trick.

@mijostyn all in good fun. Tall sizes hard to come by, we are even. I am from N. Ohio, watched the river burn……twice… And to this day, there are idiots who think we don’t need the EPA…

Jim

@mijostyn , the actual valve is designed like a stent, collapsed until in location.  Then it's 'deployed', expanding and pushing the aortic valves' 'petals' open and taking over the process.  The most annoying part of the whole surgery/recovery was waking with the breathing appliance still in my mouth & throat.

Which was dry, so the damn thing was 'stuck' to the walls of its' location....
Although 'still in the dark' of anesthesia, I was able to point at the device and register my annoyance...

"Oh, he's back with us....we'll have that out in a moment, 'K?"

I think my response got 'interpreted' properly...."Now would be great..."

I think they kept me for an extra day or 2 because I was a 'refreshing change' in the cancer ward they had room for me in.  Most left it covered up entirely...

...and I'm the noise at the end of the hall with a laptop playing Spotify and teasing the aides, RNs', and the parade of specialists and MDs'.
Since I was considered 'young' to receive TAVR (new at the time), I was 'interesting' and considered 'novel'....

...must have been my 'choice of music'...;)

Follow-up surgery for the pacer/defib entailed a nice young lady asking if I'd like to be a part of a study of the Boston Scientific unit, limited to 500 people in the U.S.

100 cardiologists nationwide with 5 patients each, to study the effectiveness of their new device.  The pacer makes 'tiny adjustments' if it registers inconsistencies....the defib likewise will make a more subtle approach to 'kick-start', as opposed to the 'donkey-kick' to the chest....
I like the concept of subtle.... *G*

I live with a bedside device that looks like an early network box.  It has a cell dongle that's in com 24/7/52 with BS, and go in for a 15 min. IRL system check 2x/yr.

They don't advise as to how I'm doing, other than I've not had to be defib'ed up to now...

So I'm partially Borg with onboard Bluetooth.  It is a bit weird to see ones' readouts on a laptop 10' away without the usual wiring and sensors applied.

...I did have a concern over how 'robust' the implant is....

"There's a record on one stopping a .38 bullet at close range.  Does that help? *S*
Oh, and it still worked after impact...."

Small target....2" dia,  Lucky shot...at least for the bearer....