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nice! well if you are the partying type you do need to walk down bourbon at least once. about the most touristy thing you can do but no one can deny how crazy the scene is. there's pride on bourbon anywho. keep walking past the gay bars and you hit Frenchmen street, the more authentic part of the FQ. great bars there like dba and blue nile where you can hear some great nola music. 11/24 anders osborne is playing tips uptown, a classic venue and a great artist. Tips is on the other side of town so you would have to drive. If at all possible, snag breakfast at Mothers (served all day), which is in the CBD right on poydras (close to FQ). They have the greatest ham and raspberry preserves in the world. the biscuit made me cry a little when I first tried it with the butter and raspberry preserves. of course then there is cafe du monde, beignets and cafe au lait. way touristy but i always go. central grocery is right down the road from there, where the muffaleta was invented, and it is the dankness. Anyway just check out tripadvisor for hotel options. Not sure what your price range is but there are tons of options in the FQ and CBD (central business district, right next to FQ). I'm sure the JW Marriott is very nice as well, but I'm betting the regular ass marriott is a better deal. you won't spend a lot of time in your room anyway, so just go for something with a good location where you won't get killed.

new Orleans Marriott (the other one). plenty of great chain hotels in the FQ, which I'm assuming is where you want to stay. parking is pretty much going to be ridiculous. have you been to Nola before? FQ is very touristy but still must be experienced.

when/what are you coming to NOLA for? I stayed at the Marriott on canal this past weekend for voodoofest. still a crazy place. valet parking is $30.90/day. friendly staff, amazing location. I'd stay there again.

ah, good news then! while we are talking about it, it sucks the MSRP has doubled over the past few years. actually makes me consider some of these newer ~$500 belt drive models as possibly a better deal. rega rp-1, project genie, etc. hell the genie comes with a sumiko pearl and is a good looking table, all for $500.

This has been rumored for quite a while. Sad to see the production cease, but DJs have been moving to laptops for a while, and the audiophiles who like DD tables (a tiny niche within a tiny niche) isn't near enough to sustain production. Its such a quality product though I'm sure I'll be rocking mine for years to come. I wonder what the hell KAB is going to do now.

I would love Borg designed headphones!

hey audiosceptic, do you know how close to the speakers the listening chair was when he had them spread far apart? I'd like to try this in my den.

yeah I love baltar. I love squirmy selfish awful characters, so long as they aren't to annoying. and yes I'm not surprised Caprica was cancelled, but I did enjoy it on it's own merits. some good acting, some interesting themes, just a little slow. then again I'm pretty forgiving of any halfway decent sci fi drama.

caprica cancelled. new BSG spinoff set during the first cylon war and starring a young Adama coming in the spring. I enjoyed caprica, but I understand it didn't have enough space lasers for the BSG fanbase. I'm assuming that's what the new show is all about. personally I'd prefer a sequel at this point. cylons decide to frak shit up again. moar baltar please.

909 at $3000? I paid $500 for mine. well $1000 for the 99 pre/909 combo.

I like 5 guys better then in and out, but I've only had in and out once. both are delicious. 5 guys fries are my favorite fries ever. salt em up and dip them in ketchup mixed with malt vinegar. feels like I'm in an awesome mixture of America and Scotland.

pint of fake blood and a can of silly string.

Dr. John - Gumbo (MFSL)

::smears feces and cayenne pepper around door frame::

Dr. John - Gris Gris

Dr. John - The Very Best Of Dr. John

right on. just for fun, can you come up with something nice to say about the RS-1?

I never pegged you for a Grado guy.

oh you absolutely should. I like PSS but consider CoSaM the true penultimate steampunk "city" book. well CoSaM combined with Shriek.

looking forward to your impressions. I prefer "The Scar" and his newer noirish offering "The City and the City"

awesome, I've wanted to try a Peachtree unit for a while. I bet the Nova would do well with the ESL-63s.

happy birthday!

happy birthday!

really? I was thinking more like $2000-2500. O2 replacement type territory. I guess they did just update the 02, I didn't consider that this could be a whole 'nother level. I'll tell you what excites me, is that this one will fit my head, unlike the O2. won't fit my wallet, but maybe my head.

I would hope for something that is not a piece of shit from Jack White, who has had his vinyls mastered by the likes of Hoffman and Kevin Grey. I don't know anything about the master blaster or Nixon.