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Copland Conducts Copland - Expanded Edition (Fanfare for the Common Man, Appalachian Spring, Old American Songs (Complete), Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes) by Aaron Copland (1988) https://open.qobuz.com/album/0884977763522 (just qobuz) Example: I was thinking the other day, that I have not been listening to enough Copland (no not Cop Land). I have always liked his work and have many recordings, but I don't have my system setup right now. So I loaded up my queue and started listening.

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Blueberry Scone, Nice Cup Of Tea With a heaping side of View At the MWPCA Sunday Cafe https://mounttam.org/events

Last step in fondant potatoes is to put them in the oven, so currently baking these.

Day two: Copland: Appalachian Spring, Lincoln Portrait & Billy the Kid Suite by Henry Fonda, London Symphony Orchestra, Aaron Copland (1988) https://album.link/5msv0g08sjqc2 Example: A recording that I know very well. Bought it during the Columbia House days, and played it a lot. But has been many a year. A touch ironic that these recordings were all with the LSO. What's wrong with the 'merikan bands Aaron? I don't blame him, the LSO sounds wonderful on these recordings. These pressings were good not great in the 80s, but it is good to hear that the recordings are great.

Yeah HS, it's BBQ oysters at the Marshall Store on Tomales Bay. The HC crew has gorged there together on occasion.

OK, my transformer is toast. But i don't understand exactly what happened. Again, this was purchased as-is untested from someone who didn't know anything about it. I'm only getting 3.4vac on the heater winding and about 135v on the b+ winding. Investigating the primary side, only one of the unused lugs has a connection, and it seems to be about 8 ohms (dc) past the end of how it is currently wired. So my surmise is that it is configured for 100v and it is possible to move a wire to the other lug and power it from 117v. The heater winding has a center tap that is connected to 0vdc, which seems totally reasonable to me. The wire to ground from that center tap was pretty gnarly with some of the insulation at the end melted through and some loose filaments, as though someone who doesn't believe in flux was monkeying with it. The weird part is an additional black wire going from the heater CT to a lug next to the b+ wires. Hard to see in my crappy photos, but that lug did have a connection to something in the windings. If i disconnect it from the CT, it is an open circuit to all other lugs as well as the core and shield. And there are some black marks on the paper label underneath it that may be burn marks? So my guess is that perhaps the b+ winding on this unit had a center tap as well, and someone was trying to convert it from 100vac to 117vac operation and mistakenly tied half of the b+ winding to 0vdc, causing it to burn out. Though that doesn't explain the low heater voltage. I've ordered that aliexpress r-core because i refuse to recognize the sunk costs fallacy. I'll also order some 10mm or 12mm diameter b+ caps that can be laid against the power board to make room for the r-core.

Simple Sunday bake. Not as much oven spring as I would have wished for but it should eat.

Several years back, I met a Head-Fi member from San Antonio, known as plaid platypus. I visited his home and was very impressed with his Genelec system. Today Genelec's pinnacle loud speaker is the 8381A. It's a 5 way adaptive point source monitor. At $32,000 per speaker, it's not cheap. But as a fan of the Genelec sound, I'd love to hear these speakers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Cristo_sandwich ?

now lunch.

Cleaning out the HDD a bit....

In Petaluma for the Salute to American Graffiti.