B&O Beolab 20 Speaker Review

[Sal1950]

Being there in 2004, it felt like 30 degree Celsius at day time and I slept naked in the tent at night (not inside the sleeping bag, just lying on it).

Now there's a visual I could have done without.

 

[dr0ss]

On average too cold.

Meh. Even for someone who lives in Hawaii, and even in January and February, I found their winter mild. (But I've lived in Wisconsin and Northern Minnesota. That can permanently change your standards of comparison.)

 

[EJ3]

I've done a couple of extended (>6 month) stretches in Oslo. A great array of hifi showrooms (though my last time there was during Covid lockdown and they were harder to visit). Rest of the country is pretty nice too, if you prefer nature to cities.

I almost always prefer nature to cities. Home (red truck is mine):

Both red trucks are mine but last year, when there was bad flooding in North Carolina, I gave the smaller one to a family whose car had been washed away in the floods.

Sometimes you get to see this:

Or this (which the South Carolina Department of Resources says doesn't exist in South Carolina, as there have supposedly only been 14 sightings of it since 1900):

When you are mowing the lawn:

Time to get off the mower and go inside:

 

[dr0ss]

Lots of spectacular nature in Norway outside of the cities. Fjords even (though no Bjuicks). No gators or wildcats, but there's elk and reindeer. Unfortunately, the government is trying to wipe out the tiny wolf population, no doubt a reaction to their 2022 Eurovision entry.

 

[EJ3]

Lots of spectacular nature in Norway outside of the cities. Fjords even (though no Bjuicks). No gators or wildcats, but there's elk and reindeer. Unfortunately, the government is trying to wipe out the tiny wolf population, no doubt a reaction to their 2022 Eurovision entry.

Here we are trying to get more, if the population of wolves get out of hand, they will tell us hunters to hunt a few (there will, of course be a limit as too how many, handled by a lottery to get a ticket to hunt one. so that there won't be too many.
NPR | By Emily Olson
Published August 10, 2023 at 1:20 PM EDT

Gerry Broome
AP
A female red wolf is shown in its habitat at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, N.C.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to continue releasing red wolves into the wild in order to settle a lawsuit brought by conservation groups.

According to court filings, the USFWS committed on Wednesday to an eight-year plan to boost populations with captive-born animals in eastern North Carolina, the species' only remaining range. Just over 30 of the animals are estimated to be left in the wild, which is only a fraction of what the population was a decade ago.

The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Red Wolf Coalition, Defenders of Wildlife and the Animal Welfare Institute. The groups claimed that USFWS had violated the Endangered Species Act, putting red wolves at risk of extinction to appease politicians and ranchers.

Ramona McGee, a senior attorney and leader of the SELC's wildlife program, celebrated the settlement as a "path to restoring the red wolf to its rightful place as a celebrated success story."

"We hope to see America's wild red wolves rebound again, with generations born free and wild, as a result of this agreement," McGee said in a statement Wednesday.

A spokesperson for USFWS responded to NPR's request for comment by saying the agency had already been working to recover the red wolf population for decades.

"We are committed to increasing transparency and communication for red wolf releases and adaptive management actions," USFWS said. "The success of the Eastern North Carolina Red Wolf Population sets the stage for the Service's ability to fulfill our responsibility to recover the species — which we cannot do without the local community and our conservation partners."

Red wolves once inhabited much of the Eastern U.S. but were driven to near-extinction by hunting, habitat loss and the growth of local coyote species, which competed for resources and space.

Today, red wolves occupy only five counties in North Carolina. Just over 30 are left in the wild, according to a June 2023 count.

A USFWS program to recover the species to the wild was launched in 1987 and successfully boosted the population to around 100. That population remained stable through 2012.

But in 2015, the agency suspended its practice of breeding and releasing captive red wolves, saying it had planned to update its recovery program with more input from scientists and resume in 2020.

The Associated Press reported that the timing of the pause coincided with "pressure from conservative politicians and landowners who deemed wolves a nuisance."

Another round of litigation in 2018 blocked the USFWS from a plan to shrink the 1.7 million-acre territory set aside for red wolf conservation.

The SELC filed its lawsuit in 2020, amid a three-year span in which no red wolf pups had been seen in the wild — "an indication of the dire state of the red wolf population at that time."

As few as seven red wolves remained in the wild at the time, according to court filings. Another 250 were estimated to be living in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries as part of the captive-breeding program.

In 2021, a judge granted SELC a preliminary injunction requiring the USFWS to resume releasing some of those captive red wolves, including by placing captive-born pups into wild litters.

Of the three wolves released to the wild in 2021, one was found dead within months, falling victim to a vehicle strike, according to SELC. But the surviving wolves may have played a role in the current population upswing: Wild red wolf pups were seen in the wild again in 2022.

Under the latest settlement, the USFWS will work with scientists and experts to set metrics to measure performance on all red wolf recovery plans.

In addition to releasing captive wolves, the agency will continue its adaptive management strategies, aiming to decrease human-caused mortality, as well as sterilizing some local coyote populations.

Copyright 2023 NPR

Then there are animals with no limits, such as coyotes or wild boar.
Only limits on wear you can be to take one.

 

[EJ3]

Meh. Even for someone who lives in Hawaii, and even in January and February, I found their winter mild. (But I've lived in Wisconsin and Northern Minnesota. That can permanently change your standards of comparison.)

-6 and 27" o snow in MD. was my limit.
Snow skiing in Innsbruck (near my born place of Salzburg, Austria), in Banner Elk, NC are fine. But that time in MD did it for me.
Fortunately I did not live there for long.
Guam, Hawaii, Saipan and the Truk Islands, I find suit me very well.

 

[Sal1950]

Unfortunately, the government is trying to wipe out the tiny wolf population, no doubt a reaction to their 2022 Eurovision entry.

Here we are trying to get more, if the population of wolves get out of hand, they will tell us hunters to hunt a few (there will, of course be a limit as too how many, handled by a lottery to get a ticket to hunt one. so that there won't be too many.

Very sad they would want to push the Wolf population to extinction levels.
What beautiful animals, WTF's wrong with those people?
Right on @EJ3
If they become problematic open a short hunting season to get them at manageable numbers.

-6 and 27" o snow in MD. was my limit.

I got way too much of the same up in Chicago for 60 years.
NEVER AGAIN
Now there's a situation that should be pushed to extinction.
Come On Global Warming.

 

[EJ3]

Very sad they would want to push the Wolf population to extinction levels.
What beautiful animals, WTF's wrong with those people?
Right on @EJ3
If they become problematic open a short hunting season to get them at manageable numbers.


I got way too much of the same up in Chicago for 60 years.
NEVER AGAIN
Now there's a situation that should be pushed to extinction.
Come On Global Warming.

3 or 4 years ago Manatee's were freezing to death in the water's down your way (in Florida).
Since the Manatees live there (Florida) because of the warm waters, Ya'll must still be in that global cooling period New Ice Age that they were talking about,
in the early 1970's (when we were just getting into High School).

 

[Sal1950]

Ya'll must still be in that global cooling period New Ice Age that they were talking about,

Could be ? I had a $200 electric bill this Jan.
"More recently, on February 1, 2026, Orlando hit 24F, which was a record low for that date."
Global warming my assss.

 

[Mr. Widget]

Global warming my assss.

You are joking, I hope... it is Global warming, not Local warming.

While the actual warming is minimal, the effects are not subtle. Look at the snow pack in the Rockies or the wildfires in places like Georgia and Canada.
The climate is changing and the understanding of the why and how is not really up for debate.

This may be OT, but it is about basic scientific understanding.

 

[Axo1989]

3 or 4 years ago Manatee's were freezing to death in the water's down your way (in Florida).
Since the Manatees live there (Florida) because of the warm waters, Ya'll must still be in that global cooling period New Ice Age that they were talking about,
in the early 1970's (when we were just getting into High School).

Yeah, nah (as we say hereabouts).

Trapping more energy in the planetary climate system (which is what greenhouse gases do) doesn’t just raise temperatures on average, it also makes the system more dynamic. So we get more frequent extreme weather events and wider fluctuations (cold/hot, flood/drought, and so on). Also basic science.

 

[dr0ss]

I got way too much of the same up in Chicago for 60 years.

I grew up in Chicago and used to think it was cold. Then I went to grad school in Wisconsin and realized that I'd been mistaken, Wisconsin was really cold. Then when I moved to Duluth, MN I realized I'd just been a wuss my whole life. Those isotherms on the weather maps aren't just there for decoration! (Meanwhile, here in Hawaii some newspapers don't even bother with a weather section.)

 

[RickS]

Thread was reported for some off topic banter. While looks fairly tame so far, let’s get back to discussing speakers.

Thanks!