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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/22 13:54:05
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However, you have to put them on hollow stands made of balsa wood.
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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/22 14:08:55
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it helps... or so I've heard read
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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/22 14:13:59
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They look like tombstones.
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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/22 14:18:54
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They have a really clear bass response 20khz and above, even I can hear the difference.
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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/22 14:38:09
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I'm holding out for the depleted uranium cabinets.
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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/22 17:36:55
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I bet The Stones sound good on those
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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/22 18:05:05
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I bet The Stones sound good on those ... you must be talking about the Flintstones
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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/23 10:09:15
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These are igneous enclosures right?
So any thoughts on how they compare to their sedimentary and metamorphic counterparts?
(Mind you, for counter parts I'd go igneous every time.)
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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/23 10:24:38
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Technically granite is metamorphic... it hasn't turned into basalt yet. Yes, I took geology as a freshman at university... but they wouldn't let me take the final exam... I was so naive at the time I didn't realize I was in class with varsity football team. True Story!
edit to add: OK, I went off for a refresher read and just learned that Granite is considered igneous... I guess I was lucky not having to take that final exam.
I sure remember being taught that it was metamorphic... go figure.
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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/23 10:27:52
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Technically granite is metamorphic.. Shows how much I know. Exposed as the true blagger that I am..., agin. 
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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/23 10:31:14
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Hey I was wrong... but it seems there is a legacy of confusion: from wiki: Granitization An old, and largely discounted theory, granitization states that granite is formed in place by extreme metasomatism by fluids bringing in elements e.g. potassium and removing others e.g. calcium to transform the metamorphic rock into a granite. This was supposed to occur across a migrating front. The production of granite by metamorphic heat is difficult, but is observed to occur in certain amphibolite and granulite terrains. In-situ granitisation or melting by metamorphism is difficult to recognise except where leucosome and melanosome textures are present in gneisses. Once a metamorphic rock is melted it is no longer a metamorphic rock and is a magma, so these rocks are seen as a transitional between the two, but are not technically granite as they do not actually intrude into other rocks. In all cases, melting of solid rock requires high temperature, and also water or other volatiles which act as a catalyst by lowering the solidus temperature of the rock. you should probably never believe a word I say. :-)
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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/23 12:47:11
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I'm sticking with the local sandstone, I know where I am with that.
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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/23 13:37:36
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Can you send over some hexagonal basalt columns or do I have to drive up to Jersey?
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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/28 04:31:06
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Jonbouy
They have a really clear bass response 20khz and above, even I can hear the difference.
Interesting, a bass response above 20 KiloHertz. And that you can hear so high too! You don't, by any chance, have relations related to vampires do you, with the ability to metamorphose into bats? Just wonderin'. ;-) SXJ.
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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/28 04:43:40
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Interesting, a bass response above 20 KiloHertz. And that you can hear so high too! I'll confess to having written that for comic effect, I'll not venture into the arena though as to whether it was or not in fact funny...  I'll add that my parents were clearly 'bats' but most certainly not belonging to the same genus as vampires.
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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/28 08:36:18
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I thought it was funny....and I was CERTAIN you knew you were being funny.
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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/28 08:39:04
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I thought the hexagonal basalt column joke was a but funnier.
I caught that Jon... but figured you'd said all there was to be said. ;-)
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Re:Granite speakers make rock music sound heavier... fact.
2010/12/28 09:34:18
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Jonbouy
I'll confess to having written that for comic effect, I'll not venture into the arena though as to whether it was or not in fact funny...
I'll add that my parents were clearly 'bats' but most certainly not belonging to the same genus as vampires.
Aha, comic effect was it? I've heard of that. Haven't seen much of it though. Isn't humour (BE) only permitted in the Coffee House? You should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself allowing such trivia to invade what was, after all, a perfectly sensible thread. Regarding 'bats', I assume you are talking of the willow variety, clearly being of English origin and no doubt being captivated by the prospect of retaining 'the burnt bail(s)'?
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