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Speakers

Buying locally used is a great option. Just make sure to be safe (duh) and individually demo the speakers before you buy. Buying affordable speakers used online is tough due to shipping costs; they can easily run $50-$100 or higher which kind of kills the value.

Our own sidebar guides are a great resource for bookshelf speakers/ and tower speakers.

This roundup of bookshelf speakers at TheWirecutter is a good place to get started. There are some notable omissions, but it's fairly comprehensive and (most importantly) it offers some background about what to look for.

Speakers (Compact)

Team Name: the breakers the code breakers splice and slice devisive Iron Maidener DRAGONFORCE II

	What Went Well This Week?
	=========================

	- Lots of points!
	- Why?
	- Star performance from Garett
	- Had some carryover stories that finally shipped
	- Many stories were in areas where the team was already comfortable & confident
	- Groomed stories frequently
	- Benefitted greatly from Tim's guidance with regards to uTu + project flow

	What Went Well
	==============

	- Productive week (matched existing velocity of 32) almost entirely thanks to G and D, despite being at 90% power
	- Good uTu week; finished all estimated stories for the sprint
	- uTu is nice (easy to troubleshoot with, a good partner)
	- Got helpful PR comments from outside team (Terry)

	What Didn't Go Well
	===================


	What Went Well This Week
	========================

	- Healthy point total despite missing 1 people-day, plus have stories ready to ship on Monday
	- Local deploys should be faster - always nice to help the whole team be more productive
	- Owe a shout-out to Diego for Nitro Search sortable scopes; made the Project Score story much easier
	- Going story-by-story in retro avoided "overlooked story syndrome"
	- John appreciated detailed TB stories
	- TB stories shipped in reasonable time; hasn't always been the case

	03:32 bundler:install
	01 bundle install --path /data/apps/ror/pws/shared/bundle --without development test --deployment --quiet --retry 5
	✔ 01 [email protected] 18.507s
	✔ 01 [email protected] 19.048s
	✔ 01 [email protected] 19.593s
	03:52 react_on_rails:compile_environment
	01 cd /data/apps/ror/pws/releases/20171026120927; ./components/do.sh 'test ! -f package.json \|\| yarn check --integrity 2> /dev/null \|\| yarn install'
	01 ===> apple_gsx_client
	01 ===> aurora_client
	01 ===> call_queues

	What Went Well?
	===============
	- uTu pace picking up, lots of stories (a more responsive Marcus)
	- Plenty of stories; no story starvation (mostly... Garett was looking for stuff a bit on Thursday)
	- John had a review
	- Nice to do some "pseudo-greenfield" work in "our" component; decided on own style/convention
	- Cross-team collabs w/ Broundon, Terry
	- Paired on some stories w/ each other (internally to JARVIS)
	- David's Capistrano PR was merged to Capistrano master 🎉

	What Went Well?
	===============

	- Defined enough stories, did not suffer from story starvation
	- Mix of uTu stories and uTu tasks
	- uTu meetings have pleasingly moved to concrete tasks, rather than broad understanding
	- Productive technical discussions w.r.t. implementation choices
	- Guidance from outside team (Terry)
	- More than average pairing
	- Pairing sessions were short+productive

	Team Name:
	the breakers
	the code breakers
	splice and slice
	devisive
	Iron Maidener
	DRAGONFORCE II