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I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Eat lots, drink lots, love lots! As for myself, I have a whole lot to be thankful for this year. And I'm going to have a wonderful day celebrating and eating with good friends!

Well that is the ottoman... Stuck in holiday Traffic .... but I like it.

While sorting lps...

All this loging makes me think of...

Nice analoging while cataloging, Mikey

Finally got off my ass and started to populate the boards for my Carbon build... I’m on a roll now... I just hope I don’t run out of scotch before the boards are finished... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The advice I heard is a piano student should be able to easily play Bach’s Inventions and Sinfonias collection before studying the organ. Real pipe instruments are obviously huge, rare, expensive, and hard to get practice time on. Digital ones with nice consoles and pedal boards are accessible but still pretty large (not much worse than a grand piano, though less acceptable as living room decor). There is the small matter of adapting to the vastly different tactile feel of an organ keyboard, of course... As far as testing audio equipment goes, Marie-Claire Alain’s recordings are a standby for me (not least because few other instruments actually produce low frequency sounds). And if you like BWV 565, try 582 and 537.

Hmmmm .... Sting in qsound.. While sorting whisky

ABWH prog-giving

I'm thankful for Head Case! Good luck buttoning the pants tomorrow ...

Wow! 200G micro. And it seemed like just yesterday that 16G was 50 bucks. With numbers like that, folks are going to start wondering why a gigantic device like a smart phone doesn't have 200G in the base model?

Thanks! Done! Anxious to see what all the hullabaloo is about.

Looks like a historical photo of me

I was just listening to J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (a delayed reaction to Hallowe'en) when I had a bit of an epiphany... why do people send their kids to take piano lessons when they could be learning the pipe organ (common sense answer: because pipe organs are crazy big and complex and expensive and rare)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor,_BWV_565 The Wikipedia article suggests that Bach may have composed the piece to test pipe organs... do people use pipe organ repertoire to test their music systems? Listening to this piece on my computer speakers, I can understand why pipe organs are used for liturgical purposes because of their power and frequency range, but my interests are purely secular. I blame author Alan Bradley for piquing my interest – his detective/chemist heroine, Flavia de Luce, discovers a dead pipe organist in the church's tomb in the novel Speaking from Among the Bones (also, I strongly recommend the Flavia de Luce mystery series). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_organ Also, I always thought I was too dumb to understand them, since all those keys and pedals are kind of intimidating. A synthesizer would cut down on the size and complexity, obviously, but even electric organs are a bit complicated compared to the piano. Who else is interested in pipe organ music and pipe organs? I always thought pipe organ music was kind of boring as a kid, but I'm pretty sure that is because I only associated it with church music.

mmbta42 and mpsa42 are still available

I'll have to make a point of visiting some cathedrals for their pipe organ music the next time I'm abroad. Also, I'll look into ways of synthesizing organs. There seem to be a lot of options out there (obviously, the most accessible way of doing it is simply playing an electric organ on a MIDI keyboard or in a program like Garageband): https://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/1102873-what-best-pipe-church-organ-keyboard-organ.html http://www.pykett.org.uk/choosing-a-virtual-pipe-organ.htm

HDTracks is having a 15%/20% with codes HD15GIVING/HD20GIVING (20% requires $50 or more). JH Audio is having typical sale with codes -- should I get the 13v2, 16v2, or other? I think I'm finally ready to get a set of custom IEMs.

Wow! Is that the famous Papason chair that Al spent the night in?

Gerry and Ben talkin together nicely... thx omr.

Monk's Misterioso

Linda's Lush Life

All good, received today. Tres snappy. About 30 seconds after getting set up, it was confiscated to make unicorn animojis.

Sneak peek of my custom enclosure to be. I have spent way too much time in the modelling software.

NAD M51 on sale for half off at Audio Advisor ($999). So yes, I did buy another one. http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=NAM51

After many, many years with BAT/Avid/SME YG Acoustics systems this is what my wife and I have spent the last year building for listening to records through. VPI HR-X w/12.7 arm, and VPI ADS power supply. Air Tight PC-1 Supreme cartridge. AudioNet PAM G2 phonostage w/ AudioNet EPS G2 power supply. AudioNet PRE G2 preamp, AudioNet AMP Monoblocks and YG Acoustics Anat III signature speakers with a couple upgrades. Back up cartridge is Benz LPS. Mono is Ortofon Cadenza mono on seperate 12.7 armwand. Digital (Dac, Rdbook, SACD) all done with Marantz SA11s3. Cables are a blend or Kubala-Sosna and Audioquest. Power cords are Signal cable reference and DH Labs Red Wave. Room treatment from GIK. Audio Desk Systeme record cleaner. Adona rack