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2010 Honda Civic LX. I was about to buy a Corolla but the dealer failed to mention I didn't qualify for the $1000 rebate just as I was putting the pen to the paper

I will have to double check I think they are EARS drives.

One of my favorites from the BN 1500 series.

Read the welcome PM please

That's odd both of my WD Green drives work with the BlacX (USB2).

Yup modded Garrard 301 was all kinds of win.

Porcupine Tree - We Lost the Skyline (vinyl)

Yes - Fragile (AP vinyl)

The selection is fairly limited though. And the jazz selection is sort of bland/popular music. There's only so many times one can hear Waltz For Debby. And Monk has recorded far more adventurous music than Brilliant Corners. The Coltrane/Burrell and Clifford Brown is good stuff.

I'm pleased to say I can run the .37 mv (what my particular DL-103 measured at according to the spec sheet) DL-103 with the Pearl without a SUT. For the quietest records I'm at 3 o'clock on the Blue Hawaii's steppers and for the loudest records at 12 o'clock (6 o'clock is mute). Everything is dead silent. I did some brief listening tests with crude volume matching with and without SUT and I prefer the transparency without the Cinemag SUT. Though I will have to put it back in when I integrate the vinyl setup with the speakers, which uses a passive transformer preamp.

I haven't done any measurements yet, but plan to get more serious about it when I get some better speakers. luvdunhill recommended me a great book for this stuff, but it's fairly deep with regard to the math (Testing Loudspeakers)

You have Pittsburgh beating your team in post 72, I don't think you need any more luck

I see Detroit beating SJ in another game 7.

Perhaps this discussion will warrant a new thread and I certainly need to experiment more. But so far I've achieved the best imaging using the Cardas setup guide. I'm sitting 8' away from the speakers (with a setup in a semi equilateral shape) and this is near field by their definition. Moving about a foot back I lose a lot of the precision but the soundstage does get bigger. Looking at a lot of "reviewer" rooms which may not mean a whole lot most of them sit closer to the speakers. Before doing a bit of research on this subject I was sitting closer to the back of the room (14' from speakers) and the imaging was really non-existant.

By the Cardas/Barry Diament definition of near field room treatments will definitely help.

I mean Coltrane is buried in the Analogue Productions vinyl. He is right in the mix in the original 1962 Impulse! vinyl from what I have read. No one from Analogue Productions has spoke up on the issue. I don't know if they had master tapes for a lot of these AP Impulse reissues and that remains some what of an ambiguous area.

Dan's Pass Labs Pearl which sounds great. I really need a rack for the headphone setup \

The mingus mingus mingus mingus mingus is supposed to be killer on 45 rpm vinyl I imagine the SACD is the same. I'd be interested to hear if John Coltrane is buried in the mix in "Coltrane" like the 45 rpm vinyl. Supposedly sounds nothing like the original Impulse vinyl.

Coltrane/Dameron - Mating Call (ojc vinyl) on Pass Labs Pearl phono

Happy birthday!

In renaming the thread I hope I haven't doomed the Wings tomorrow

I enjoyed Mastodon for a short bit, but they couldn't hold my interest long term. The music was catchy I'll give them that.

I have two 1.5 TB green drives (WD15EARS) and they work fine and operate quietly. Though the computer they are in isn't turned on all the time, after 10 hours or so of heavy use they are still cooler than my Seagates. Both have a very low flow (inaudible from a few feet) 120 mm fan blowing over them. Yup too true. The strictest trackers I'm on limit clients to utorrent, rtorrent and whatever the most popular Mac client is.

Happy birthday Kevin

Great listen for jazz fans. The .ram file is converted to an MP3 in the SendSpace link. Roughly an hour. BBC - Radio 3 - Discovering Music - Miles Davis Celebration - Kind of Blue Download The Secret Kind of Blue 20090818 BBC R2.mp3 from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way