Hey guys
Now that Jaswant Singh has upped the baggage allowance limits from 12k to 25k, in his interim budget announced in Parliament today it's well worth asking someone coming from abroad to bring your choice of drivers across..The rate of duty if you cross the limit has also been dropped from 50% to 40%.
George
Binil:
I have a Jamshedpur connection too-I was at XL from 73-75, and made a trip there this October, met Ashok, played at Beldih and Golmuri with my sons, and can attest to what Angshu said in one of his emails-it's still a great place, though a bit off the regular route.
Now that Jaswant Singh has upped the baggage allowance limits from 12k to 25k, in his interim budget announced in Parliament today it's well worth asking someone coming from abroad to bring your choice of drivers across..The rate of duty if you cross the limit has also been dropped from 50% to 40%.
George
Binil:
I have a Jamshedpur connection too-I was at XL from 73-75, and made a trip there this October, met Ashok, played at Beldih and Golmuri with my sons, and can attest to what Angshu said in one of his emails-it's still a great place, though a bit off the regular route.
gjo said:
You guys got co-operative relatives and friends. I would feel too obliged to do that given i travel often enough.
....besides i save my allowance for things like car seats, stroller, and toys/books/clothes for my son, good marmalade/boysenberry/blackberry preserves, coffee (Kona from pete's in SF or Hula pie from Bad *** in Hawaii), harabnero and basil cheese, goose liver pate, short bread cookies, biscotti, chanterlelle/porcini/shitake/matsutake and various other food stuff, kitchen wares and house wares.
BTW we are noew entitled to 2 bottles of booze per person. too bad my son is not eligable for this luxury.
given the recent changes i feel india is getting more friendly to stay in than most other countries. now if they could oonly do something about the damn traffic.
I would say try listening to it before measuring it.🙂
As far as the measurement goes, a condensor mic capsule should be more than sufficient, provided u have a decent one.
these types generally have flat responses. but it would be a nice idea to check, if it really can record those low frequencies. As far as playing back a sine, recording and analysing the FFT goes, if u plan to run spot frequecies it will be a tedious task and u might miss out as the resonances are very sharp. best method would be to get Speaker workshop or something similar and use the burst/MLS in it to measure the response. Further the peaks and dips u may see can also be the result of some cancellations additions from nearby wall floor etc..I'vent really tried out this. So will better leave that to the experts to comment on, how to differentiate cone breakup resonances from the interference.
Those BPL's, if they are genuine, should be real good. I think i need to visit globe. 😀
Sure... 😎 😀 🙂
Why bolton..any reasons, why cant we try this new ones.
BTW, i'm getting a copy of Dickasons "Loud speaker design cookbook". Is on its way.. Is taking a looooong path to reach me..US-> UK-> switzerland-> blr. 😛 Expected sometime first week of march. So If not me we'll get some help from dickason..keep me posted about ur plans. And where are u put up in blr.
Also...For TL modelling try doing some expts with MJK's mathcad sheets...should be nice to start with...!
ajju
I didnt read the fine print will see it tomorrow, but todays Economic Times hinted that children would be entitled to some allowances-maybe not 2 X 1 litre though! That's a bit too much to expect friom the topiwallahs. Still 25k is a decent amount I think.
Hi Ajju
Dont know dates as yet, hope before March 31st to the US, though there could be a Sri Lanka trip this month-unfortunately I dont think SL is a great place for buying drivers! I have a 12 inch driver from Lambda waiting for the last 12 months at Nashville, couldnt bring it with me last time. It's too heavy (23 lbs) to ship to India, freight will be a deal killer.
I have some really nice music that I got recently, you may want to come by any day after the Bryan Adam's show and listen to it. One especially is very good, it's a South African group called Ladysmith, they have sung with Paul Simon if any of you guys have heard them on the"Negotiations and Love Songs" album.
For you out of towners, Bryan Adams is expected to pull upwards of 30,000 for his show. I just picked up 6 tickets for a bunch of my son's classmates who are coming down from Madras this weekend.
George
Its me again
Hi ajju,
I already have two IMW series 8" poly woofers and donot want to buy new ones untilI put these to good use. TL is one alignment I want to try. If the specs are not good for a TL system I would like some electronic correction/equalisation. I do not know whether this is possible in the first place. If I do get compelling reasons to go aheadthen it will be fairly easy to mould the TL cabinet from concrete.
Is it possible for you to lend the Dickason book so that I could get a photostat of the same.
Hi Vivek and ajju,
By being in the same city it is feasable (logistically) to come together and do some experiments. We can get the cost of experimenting down and can help find other's mistakes. Do let me know whether it is possible to come together and carry on with our experiments.
Regards,
Goldy
Hi ajju,
I already have two IMW series 8" poly woofers and donot want to buy new ones untilI put these to good use. TL is one alignment I want to try. If the specs are not good for a TL system I would like some electronic correction/equalisation. I do not know whether this is possible in the first place. If I do get compelling reasons to go aheadthen it will be fairly easy to mould the TL cabinet from concrete.
Is it possible for you to lend the Dickason book so that I could get a photostat of the same.
Hi Vivek and ajju,
By being in the same city it is feasable (logistically) to come together and do some experiments. We can get the cost of experimenting down and can help find other's mistakes. Do let me know whether it is possible to come together and carry on with our experiments.
Regards,
Goldy
BPL info
Hi Vivek,
This shop is right opposite to OM Electronics. You can see the drivers in the showcase outside the shop.
Regards,
Goldy
Hi Vivek,
This shop is right opposite to OM Electronics. You can see the drivers in the showcase outside the shop.
Regards,
Goldy
concrete...
y not we try some horns then..!
Interesting thought. When i last visited George he was also proposing the same. So lets decide on this.
btw u can reach me here...
ajayan_v_nair@yahoo.co.uk
ajju
Of course beta, I will buy you a ticket-show ke baad me kya 12 saal ka maal be hona?
Hi Ashok, good to hear from you! I just got back today from a few days in Kerala, checked out a new resort in the backwaters-lovely place for a few days getaway.
gjo
Binil:
to quote
I have a Jamshedpur connection too-I was at XL from 73-75, and made a trip there this October, met Ashok, played at Beldih and Golmuri with my sons, and can attest to what Angshu said in one of his emails-it's still a great place, though a bit off the regular route.
ok so u are from xl huh .... 73 75 .... my i wasn't even born then . good to know it from u guys that you loved this place .... i am just loving this place ... but becoz it is a bit off route it is difficult to get things a diy might need so any way do get in touch if u come next time.
Binil:
to quote
I have a Jamshedpur connection too-I was at XL from 73-75, and made a trip there this October, met Ashok, played at Beldih and Golmuri with my sons, and can attest to what Angshu said in one of his emails-it's still a great place, though a bit off the regular route.
ok so u are from xl huh .... 73 75 .... my i wasn't even born then . good to know it from u guys that you loved this place .... i am just loving this place ... but becoz it is a bit off route it is difficult to get things a diy might need so any way do get in touch if u come next time.
gjo said:
u get Bryan Adams we get Ian Anderson and Hari Prasad Chaurasia. my wife and i had to give up going as my wife's sister was flying into town the same day and it would have been very diffcult to do both with a 22 months old in tow
gjo said:
still waiting to see if the delhi concert will happen or not...
...btw, I'm new to india and enjoying reading through some of the sugegstions in this thread.
😎
Goldy, there are a couple of shops selling cassettes and CDs. Is the shop somewhere there? And what colour are the cones? Any idea about the price?
Fernmeister:
I was under the impression that he would be performing at both places! Anyway, FYI the tickets here are priced at 400 and 600.
So, which part of the globe are you from?
Navin:
There were some very good shows here recently-Chaurasia performed at the Bangalore Habba festival-I went for it-he was excellent. My wife saw Amjad Ali Khan the previous day, and enjoyed his show as well. L Subramaniam and Zakir Hussain performed at another music fest and this pat weekend was the Vasantahabba at Nrityagram, where some well known musicians should have performed. Thanks to Sunil who is also on this forum, I got to hear some excellent fusion stuff after many many years-Shakti, Jan Garbarek etc..Just loved it!
George
I was under the impression that he would be performing at both places! Anyway, FYI the tickets here are priced at 400 and 600.
So, which part of the globe are you from?
Navin:
There were some very good shows here recently-Chaurasia performed at the Bangalore Habba festival-I went for it-he was excellent. My wife saw Amjad Ali Khan the previous day, and enjoyed his show as well. L Subramaniam and Zakir Hussain performed at another music fest and this pat weekend was the Vasantahabba at Nrityagram, where some well known musicians should have performed. Thanks to Sunil who is also on this forum, I got to hear some excellent fusion stuff after many many years-Shakti, Jan Garbarek etc..Just loved it!
George
Yes boss...show ke baad 12 saal wala maal to ekdum mandatory hai..lekin during the show woh rolled stuff hona mangtagjo said:
hint..hint... 
Did you get to spend time in those river boats. Couple of years ago Yogita and I spent a week in one of them near trivandrum. Mosquitoes were a menace though. Thankfully, we had that locally brewed magic stuff to fend off them pests.
gjo said:
tickets are 500 and 750 here, but there have been problems with the venue. as of monday the concert was about to be called off, then they shifted venue, but today's papers are saying the local authorities have still not given the go ahead. we'll see...
...i was born in latin america to swiss parents, grew up in australia and have spent the last five years in the UK.
BTW, is there anywhere in India that does decent mail order for DIY electronics components? I have found RS have a distributor in India, but are there others?
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