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Carlton Bale .comMy experiences with cars, tech and home automation Shimano Ultegra and Dura-Ace Di2 Electronic Shifting Everything You Need to Know Sticky 2013-08-05 By: Carlton Bale In: Triathlon With: 2,395 Comments I learned quite a bit about Shimano Di2 when I installed one of the first available Time Trial/Triathlon groupsets on my Cervelo P2. I ve subsequently answered a lot of questions on forums and article comments, and elsewhere. In doing so, I realized that people have a lot of questions about Di2 and the answers are difficult to find. This lead me to create this article, to consolidate everything I know and have been asked into one location so people can find answers. If you can t find what you re looking for below, please leave a comment and I ll do my best to help. Index: There s lotsRead More How to Fix Netflix Connection Problems Sticky 2012-08-17 By: Carlton Bale In: Home Theater With: 289 Comments I have 3 Panasonic DMP-BDT 220 Blu-ray players and all of them stopped connecting to Netflix at the same time. Although Panasonic seems to be particularity bad, all set top boxes and TVs seem to have occasionally have Netflix connection issues.  Here s my list of the most common methods of solving those issues. Option 1 Hidden Menu within the Netflix App to Deactivate your Device: this should work for any device as Netflix requires every manufacturer to include it. Please note that this does not deactivate your Netflix account itself, just your device, requiring you to log on again. Open the Netflix app on the device OnceRead More 4K Resolution Does Matter Here s When Sticky 2012-01-10 By: Carlton Bale In: Home Theater With: 194 Comments 4k resolution televisions are now widely available and potential buyers are wondering if the extra resolution is worth it. In some cases it is, but in most, it’s not.  The details below can help you decide. 4K (and 8K) Resolution Defined The older 1080p HDTV standard has a resolution of 1920 1080 (2.1 million) pixels. The UHD resolutions are multiples of this base 1080p resolution. 4k resolution is named for the approximately 4,000 (4k) pixels that make up the horizontal resolution across the image. More specifically, the resolution is 3840 2160, which gives 8.3 million total pixels 4 times that of 1080p. (4k is sometimes calledRead More 2017-05-22 By: Carlton Bale In: Home Theater With: 0 Comments Usually a new firmware being made available a good thing. New features are added and bugs are fixed. But this is not the case when you cannot get the firmware update to apply and this message is continually displayed every time I turned on the TV and came up again every 20 minutes while watching TV. It was extremely annoying to constantly be interrupted by a useless message. Around February 2017, my LG 55LV3700 started displaying this message (and blocking the screen) every 20 minutes: Updated firmware has been released! [Enter button] to update or [return button] to close. The problem is that, when I hit enter,Read More 2016-10-27 By: Carlton Bale In: Reviews With: 0 Comments 66 Audio is a Los Angeles based start-up focused on sports-oriented over-the-ear headphones with great customer support. I m an active runner and audio enthusiast and I ve had poor experiences with other Bluetooth sports headphones. So I was extremely interested when I was contact by 66 Audio and asked if I d like to test their BTS Sport headphones. But to be clear, when my review is complete, I m going to return the sample headphones back to 66 Audio. This isn t a free product bribe review. So with that out of the way, let s get to the review! What I liked: Useful Design and light weight. IRead More 2016-01-11 By: Carlton Bale In: Automotive With: 28 Comments I purchased a 2013 Audi S7 this year. While I absolutely love the car, and I m particularly impressed with the fast and smooth shifting of the S-tronic transmission. I was very surprised and a bit disappointed that the transmission fluid (and spark plugs) have a scheduled maintenance interval of 40,000 miles. This is overly frequent for a modern car; the very similar Porsche PDK transmission has a 120,000 mile service interval. Since I prefer to do to my own vehicle maintenance, I compiled a list of the required parts and a general overview of the transmission fluid change process. Transmission Model: 0B5 7-speed dual clutch,Read More 2016-01-03 By: Carlton Bale In: Home Theater With: 21 Comments In my quest for the ultimate home theater bass, I d always felt that my single Velodyne HGS-15 subwoofer wasn t delivering quite the low frequency experience I was expecting. Visits to local IMAX theater had me jealous. So I set out figure out what was missing. Much of what I learned is included in my other post entitled Ultimate Home Theater Subwoofer Designs, which describes Infinite Baffle and Folded Tapped Horn subwoofers. This post details how I installed an Infinite Baffle subwoofer system in my home theater. I chose an Infinite Baffle subwoofer design because it delivers extremely low frequencies with perfectly flat response. Those low, chair-shaking / chestRead More 2015-12-23 By: Carlton Bale In: Home Theater With: 7 Comments I used to think the only way to get ultimate subwoofer bass was to spend thousands of dollars on a prestigious brand of subwoofer. I thought that people who build their own subwoofers were fringe enthusiasts who cared more about building something than about sound quality. It turns out I was completely wrong. The opposite is true: DIY subwoofers can deliver sonic performance that s impossible for commercial subs to replicate. Here s an overview of the two of the most effective subwoofers you can build yourself. Overcoming the Subwoofer Enclosure Cabinet Size Constraint Most commercial subwoofers are focused on achieving the best possible performance from the smallest cabinet size possible. Small cabinet size isRead More 2014-04-01 By: Carlton Bale In: Home Theater With: 28 Comments The single most important factor of a great sounding home theater is the acoustic properties of the room itself. Not the brand of speakers, not the receiver, not the bit rate of the movie soundtrack. Unfortunately, room acoustics is usually the area where most people give the least amount of attention. And I can t blame them, because it s a lot more fun to shop for electronics than it is to spend hours messing with acoustic room treatments. But if you want the best sound quality possible, room acoustic treatments are an absolute necessity. It s almost impossible to get an absolutely perfect room configuration; you alwaysRead More 2014-03-03 By: Carlton Bale In: Web With: 3 Comments This is an update of my older list of Firefox 2.0 Extensions I m a long-time user of the Mozilla and Firefox browsers. Google Chrome is awesome, but I ve been unable to switch to it as my primary browser because the Add-Ons just don t offer the customizations and features to which I ve grown accustomed. Here s my list of extensions that makes Firefox the ultimate browser. Essential Add-ons that I use every day: Tab Mix Plus: If I had to choose only one extension, this would be it. This extension alone keeps me from switching to Google Chrome. It makes the tabs behave any way you wantRead More 2013-08-01 By: Carlton Bale In: Events Travel, Triathlon With: 3 Comments Challenge Roth is one of the biggest and best Ironman-distance triathlons in the world, and yet it remains virtually unknown outside of Europe. Canada, with 1/10th the population, had more participants than the US. I understand why most triathletes dream of Kona; there s a lot of  history and prestige there.  But Challenge Roth is every bit as desirable and in several ways superior. There are a lot of great races, but if you re looking for the ultimate Ironman-distance race experience, Roth should be at the top of your list. The Good: There s a lot to love about Roth; it s known as The Best Old RaceRead More 2013-03-01 By: Carlton Bale In: Automotive With: 30 Comments On March 1, 2013, I canceled my order for what I thought would be my next car, a Tesla Model S. The reason is because I felt Tesla was being hugely misleading with their marketing promises and warranty practices. I placed a substantial down payment on what I thought would be my next vehicle, only to find out that it didn’t meet all of the expectations that Tesla had created. They lost me as a customer by putting their needs above their customer s. Here are the concerns that led to my order cancellation: Annual fee to maintain warranty: Tesla tries to make it sound likeRead More 1996 - 2021 Carlton BaleSome external links are affiliate links that help fund the site. All opinions are my own.

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