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Don't be hasty now. Those little clay testicles that Patrick 182 sold through his Coconut Audio, that hung on your cables were supposed to immediately, vastly improve any system for mere hundreds of dollars. Obviously he wants to here a little "stuck in the middle with you" by Stealers Wheel, while he slices and dices.

I used to own that exact Legacy Classic speaker model (same finish too). Miss them....when I got engaged, my wife got a nice ring and I got these! I love my wife! 😊 We eventually redesigned our family room, though, and couldn't keep these.... Still love my wife 😃

Legacy Audio Classics.

The Wilson Watt Puppies usually went for around $10-11K so that was a pretty good deal for a $500 pair of speakers.

My two new toys.... And comparison my new roller vs old 🙂

The Ars Technica review of the 2020 27" iMac is up – mostly positive: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/2020-27-inch-imac-review-a-classic-mac-for-the-end-of-an-era/ Macworld: https://www.macworld.com/article/3570439/27-inch-imac-2020-review-the-latest-intel-imac-leaves-a-lasting-impression.html

So funny thing. I'm not trying to turn this mostly dead thread into Knuckles' Tales of Slow Death By Indigestion, buuut.... After my bad experience with the "biohazard" powder, I bought 3 new varieties. Two organic ones (expensive, from Walmart of all places) and one reasonably priced kind (Aldi's in-house "Millville" brand, marketed toward weight lifting meatheads): To say this stuff didn't agree with me would be an understatement on par with "Donald Trump is not up to the job." I consumed a decent amount last Thursday. I was still feeling ill on Monday. The nausea, fatigue and headaches I was experiencing kept returning every day. I should interject at this point that there's something wrong with me not related to a food allergy ("we've know this for years, Knucks.") Yesterday, due to the heat, I almost lost consciousness while standing in my upstairs bathroom. I then had to take a non-optional nap in the middle of the day where I had a hellacious fever dream where an infamous YouTuber named Keemstar (someone I never voluntarily watch) was doing a very loud dance that was making me sick. I was begging him to stop and a guy I haven't seen since high school nearly 30 years ago was insisting to me that "it wasn't that bad." I eventually forced myself awake from this nightmare. I felt kind of weird the rest of the day. I haven't exactly felt okay today, but I've been comparatively much better. So... smoothies. I have, uh, 15 lbs of ice cubes that I bought because of that 28 hour power outage I had recently.. I'm determined to use as much of it as possible for smoothies. I also have (as previously mentioned) a shit-ton of bananas, that don't keep for shit in this weather. Two bananas, a bit of milk, a bunch of ice and some "Earthly Choice Great Day Goji Cacao Superfood Blend" powder. I didn't pick the name. Full of nut and twigs (or so it tasted). Actually quite good. y. As above, but with "Better Body Foods Organic Cacao Powder." Also very good. Chocolatey and rich. A little bit of this powder goes a long way. As a bonus, neither of the above put me on a 5 day bender of nausea or prompted me to nearly lose consciousness. So I've got that going for me.

I always wondered what you looked like in your prime youth.

I love Fang. Did I ever tell you guys about the time he rear-ended me in Tianjin and then had his wife's dad fix my car while I took painting lessons at his expense?

Finally got my Keylab 61 Mk2 today! So far I've only done some exercises (scales) and so far so good. The keybed is quiet and very well made (my main concern). The action is synthy and the keys don't go as deeply as on a real piano and the black keys are a tiny bit narrower than on my old Novation Impulse. I'm sure it won't take very long before I don't notice the difference at all. I don't think you could ask for better build quality and it has a nice modern look to the printing and finish. I'm still downloading the software but I don't expect to be using it except to demo a few instruments (like the cs 80!!) for the future. I'm pretty happy with the instruments I have right now and I'm trying to concentrate on making music with what I have. Feel free to ask any questions.

"If you think Superstar Ice works wonders on your Hi-Fi, just try rubbing it on your pee pee. Best tweak in all the worlds. Stay hard for hours! " If Superstar Ice causes your erection to last 4 hours or more, please focus on the included supplied remedy for 10 minutes.

Wow, Patrick is still out there! Now also using "Audiophile Rocks" name.....he has good taste in aquariums..... [EDIT: he's just as fun as always! Not even all the way thru and I'm smiling and remembering]

In that case, I'd budget for curtains.

^Outstanding player, recording, and music! Me: Revisiting Full Circle, by Hælos.

Because I plan to spend a lot of time there?

Why go to the trouble to put such a nice system in your kill room?

I miss Gene.

My primary these days are the 3M Peltor Optime 105's.

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Apparently the new neighbor owns revision brewery. If I wasn't on call all the time this would be dangerous. The weekly free delivery.

Made it out to a private track rental last night at Houston Raceway Park. The outfit always does a nice job. Only thing I missed was the catering...no no given the current situation. My son shot a vid of my first pass. I'm in the Jeep Trackhawk running against a Redeye. It was hot and humid...density altitude started at north of 2900ft, but I had a blast all the same. HS

That container has a bigass biohazard symbol on it, they was warning you this would happen.

I don't think that smoothie looks innocent at all - it looks like it came straight from a nuclear clean up operation. I tried to find a suitable emoji and failed. Oh wait a minute Seriously Knucks - I'm really sorry you had such a bad a bad and scary day. It really must have come very close to food poisoning - or maybe it was just that.

Well, I think things are a bit more complicated than that. For speaker amps, you generally need a lot of power unless you have very efficient speakers, e.g. horns, which is another topic altogether. We're talking about 50-100 watts per channel or more. So the amp needs to produce 40 volts peak for a 100 watt amp, and on the order of 10 amps if we have a 4 ohm speaker. Now, a class A push-pull amp has a maximum theoretical efficiency of 50% (single ended class A has a max efficiency of 25%), so that means it runs at 100-200 watts/channel all the time. This means lots of tubes (old days) or lots of heatsink for solid state. All this means lots of heat and lots of money (and that doesn't even include the cost of running the damn things). So basically, until Mark Levinson and Krell came along, pretty much all amplifiers were class AB because nobody thought that there was a big enough market to support a class A commercial amp. Class AB was considered the best compromise between cost, efficiency and sound quality. It was never considered the best, just that Class A was considered too expensive. The first Mark Levinson Class A amp was rated at 25 watts (but was reportedly class A down to 2 ohms, at which point it was a 100 watt amp), was mono, and was big, heavy and cost a few thousand dollars - I think you could have bought over 100 NAD3020 integrated amps for the same money, and the 3020 was stereo, had roughly the same power rating, and included a phono section. But, it turned out that there was a market for it, and Krell came out with stereo class A amps that had more power and generated more heat. And it's gone on from there. The limiting factors for speaker amps is basically how much power do you need and how much money (and size, and heat) do you want to spend getting it. For non-electrostatic headphone amps it is significantly different. Here, you only need a few watts at most, into higher impedances than speakers have. So low to moderate voltages (say 15 volts at most)and relatively low currents (an amp or so at most). Based on specs, the least efficient non-electrostatic headphone is the HFM Susvara, and 5 watts into that should produce 120 dB, which is enough to give you hearing damage in minutes if sustained. So in theory, a class A headphone rated at 5 watts into the Susvara's impedance should do the trick. Which means that an amp that draws 25-30 watts from the wall should be able get you close to the threshold of pain In that case, there isn't a lot to be gained by dropping back to class AB. That said, some cheap headphone amps ARE run in class AB because the manufacturer doesn't want to lay out money for heatsinks. Every penny counts. For electrostatic headphones, it is different again, stat headphones have very high impedances, so you need very high voltages but relatively minuscule currents - a few mA. because you need to have high voltage - the Stax amps generally have +/-350V supplies, the KG amps generally run +/-350V to +/-450 volts, the Stax and DIY T2 run +/-500V supplies. Now the Stax amps run around 5-7 mA/output device, the KG amps up to 20 mA/output device, and there are 2 output devices per channel. So given that, the Stax amps draw about 40-55 watts from the wall, the KG amps run about 140 watts to more than 200 watts (the latter from a DIY T2, which also has 8 tube heaters using energy).

Matt Herron, Civil Rights Photographer, Dies at 89 https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/matt-herron-documentary-photographer-and-adventurer-dies-while-hang-gliding From earlier in the year...

Unfortunately my package has not arrived yet although I am used to long waits.

Trini Lopez, singer, guitar designer, and star of The Dirty Dozen, dies from Coronavirus https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/12/trini-lopez-covid-19-frank-sinatra-dirty-dozen?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other