deepak

Nice piece on Japanese avant-garde jazz musician Masabumi Kikuchi

1300 hp gt-r

Somewhere, on some hobbyist forum there might be a thread saying "you have how many high end headphones??" Besides I think V works plenty hard to enjoy her toys

IMO if you hear that after cleaning it's fluid/residue left in the grooves... that is if it wasn't there before. I do use deionized water after the # 15. edit: I have plenty of DiscDoctor Miracle fluid left if anyone wants a good deal on the stuff, send me a message

I've cleaned around 20 LPs with AIVS No 15, that were pretty noisy with my other cleaning regimes. This stuff is really good. Doesn't kill surface noise entirely on dirty/scuffed records, but it cuts it down quite a bit. Even made some newer RTI pressed vinyl play silent. The only annoying thing is you have to apply the fluid and let it sit on the LP for a while. Then come back to it and vacuum.

Good t-day. Followed by a few hours of thursday night drinking and comedy

I think it's really cool how far the hobby has come in only a little over 10 years. DH/4x races attracting 20k+ people, the amount of tech you can get on a < $1000 bike, people building what they want to ride/imagine on the trails and the merging/unifying of all the various off road disciplines. I did most of my early riding around Edmonton, but made the trip to Banff a couple of times. You'd rarely or almost never see any man made stuff on the trails, mostly just what was formed from people riding over and over. I'd love to get out to Whistler to ride some of the more progressive trails out there.

That is a sick looking cycle Chris, glad you are really happy with it. aerius I love the Kona frame. I was heavily into mtb'ing around 97-02, my first good bike was a Rockhopper. I always lusted for Kona back then (along with the long travel Judy fork ), but couldn't afford it as a HS student. I don't think their new line has as much of the character of the old stuff; the thin tubes, blaring loud colors, and the older logo like on your frame is much cooler.

Thanks Mike

Does anyone here get emails from Needle Doctor, if so have they announced any Black Friday sales? For some reason I never received them even though I signed up a few times.

Not related to a remaster, but an annoying thing on a new release none the less. The new Zeppelin concert CDs from London show have an annoying 12.5 KHz and 15 KHz squeeeel throughout most of the songs, really obvious on Stax A concert that had over 4 million people cued to buy tickets to and they let this crap slip through Hopefully it will be less obvious on the home theater with the blu-ray

I don't think his posts were inflammatory. FWIW we are trying to be more tolerant to new people.

Tomorrow is the last day for AcousticSounds + 15% bonus to gift certificates. I spoke to their CS, they don't expire and can be used with other discounts like their 10% sales.

Looks like a great time Nate. I am pissed that this DeQuervan's Tendonitis is still nagging me. Not very painful, but it is so slow to completely go away, that I don't want to risk riding and making it worse.

Either KGSS, KGSSHV or BH will be a big step up from the T1. Personally I do not feel the difference between a regular KGSS and regular BH were that big, but YMMV and all that, my biggest differences come from changing transducers and some sources vs similar amps.

John jpnumbers happy birthday my friend!

But at least with downhill, strength is probably of more importance than shaving that last half kilo. These are heavy bikes with all of the shit on them. And Ti can be made really light. I would be interested to hear if there is a quality Ti builder that will build a trail bike with 130+ rear travel (preferably on 27.5). I wasn't considering carbon either. But there are people that have got their frames repaired several times by reputable third party carbon repair shops.

Good to know... a serious question- why do all the 4x/DH teams race carbon bikes? Easier to repair, still lighter material (or cheaper to make carbon bikes in Taiwan, and they can push trickle down technology as a selling point in their non-WC bikes)? I'm just curious why they chose carbon over Ti when these bikes are built without any budget in mind. It can't be because it's more durable... I hear about people getting their trail or DH carbon bikes repaired by third parties all the time. My steel hardtail is an oldie as well and I've dumped it plenty of times at speed. I've replaced components that were broken, but the frame lives on.

NFL home page- Andrew Luck was in 6th grade when Tom Brady won his first superbowl That puts things in perspective and makes me feel old. Tom Brady

Have the fork steerer diameters changed that much over the years? I know this tapered thingamabob is new, but besides that I thought they were pretty much only a few options edit: ok looked up my ancient Indy, it's 1 1/8" diameter. You can still buy forks from RS and Fox with that steerer diamter. A hardtail mtb frame should be future proof as well; as long as one is happy with the geometry/ride/etc. All just theory, not the route I would go.

You are being too hard on yourself Mike I would go custom with the road and non-custom with the mtb, resale on mtb stuff isn't good, and I am not sure any mtb frame would last forever... maybe one just ridden on packed singletrack or something

Some of those SHM-SACDs are very good, and fortunate for us conservatively mastered. But there are also plenty of them that are junk or mediocre for the cost. The packaging is up to the usual Japanese high standards and is gorgeous. I'll be trying DSD over USB at some point on my DAC.

Curious did Dan D'agastino design this or someone else at Krell?

(sorry, love that scene)