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two knoxville tickets, phish summer 09. not sure if i'll go, I just put in for them on a lark. probably sell them to a friend of mine unless I decide to do the bonnaroo run.

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Found out that Widespread Panic isn't having much of a spring tour, but they are having another THREE NIGHT RUN AT THE WHARF IN ORANGE BEACH, AL! yeah motherfucker! can't wait to rock my face off.

Wait a minute, I see where this is going. A foreigner trying to get a large sum of money out of one country and into the US... Next your going to be asking for our account numbers and routing numbers via PM!! Well I've got news for you mister:

to sum up: don't buy from SP. grats on your new amplification!

good catch, but note thats the less powerful 99 power, not the 909 power. still makes for a good deal on the pre if the dealer would split it up. alas i'm out of the amp market for the time being.

actually my ps3 broke, and I bought a wii this week.

LOLOLOLOLOLOL personally I think the HD800 is just another crazy senn rumor. the HD650 will remain the flagship for many years to come.

Luckily the 840A has two sets of speaker outs. Some posts from Hirsch back in 2006 said he really enjoyed the K1000 out of the Wheatfield, and luckily enough I own one. If I can find a 1/4in K1000 adapter on the cheap I'll give it a shot.

My K1000 arrived today! Serial #10611. Bought from the original owner, who claims less then 100 hours use, a nice Canadian chap named Francois. Currently being powered by the Cambridge Audio 840A, sounds great. Very nice bass, though it is a little on the bright side. Midrange is wonderful of course. Not the most comfortable phone in the world for me and my big head, but its not that bad. I've only listened to a couple tracks, looking forward to running these through their paces tonight.

Yup.

one time I ate pork rinds and found them nasty, so I don't eat them anymore.

mainly because I worry that if my iPhone died, I lose my calendar, but I just learned that iTunes actually backs that up for you anyway, so I'll probably drop MobileMe altogether: al, I just wanted my iPhone to push my calendar over the air to the me.com web calendar.

Is it possible to use Mobile Me to sync my calendar if I don't own a Mac, or Microsoft Outlook? I was kind of hoping I could just have everything I key into my iPhone calendar go to the magical me.com cloud in the sky, but it looks like if I try to sync my iPhone without first having synced with Outlook or iCal, it will just zap everything on my iPhone Calendar. Is this the case?

he quit drinking a few years ago, and his shows have been pretty solid since then. he allows tapers to patch through the soundboard, so tons of high quality lossless live shows are available free at the Ryan Adams Archive. check 'em out.

right on, looks like you know your way around the world of mastering. have you ever heard an HD650?

Not sure exactly what metal you are listening to, but if its modern metal, I'd say the problem is probably more in the mastering then an issue with your system. Having said that, the DT990 do tend towards the bright. A change of cans would bring about a positive change much more then a change of amplification. But I am strongly feeling the problem is with your source material. Could you name a few specific albums which are bright to you?

I really want to hear the TSM-MM some day, sounds like a pretty magical speaker. So I've tried the Diament 1/3rd method before, but not in this room and not with any type of room treatment, so I decided to give it a shot. The method is outlined on this page, but basically the idea for the speaker setup is: 1) Distance between the speakers, measured from the inside edges, is 1/3rd the length of the wall behind them, which in my case is the short wall. 2) Distance between the speakers and the wall behind them, measured from the front edge to the wall, is 1/3rd the length of the side walls, which in my case is the long walls. 3) Distance between the speakers and listening position is just beyond the width between speakers found on step 1. My room is 14' by 17', so this puts my speakers at 4.66' apart from each other, 5.66' from the back wall, and myself at maybe about 7' from the speakers. Per Barry's suggestions, I used significantly more toe-in then I'm used to, trying to aim the speakers towards the center of the wall behind my listening chair. In the past I have dreaded to use too much toe-in, because less toe-in means less brightness, at least it does with the Quads. I think part of the problem of my previous toe-in philosophy is that I would use toe-in to try to compensate for brightness caused by the room, so I'd end up sacrificing midrange purity and imaging for less brightness. So imagine my surprise when I cranked up the speakers and experienced much less brightness then I thought I would! And a very pleasant bass response as well, which I really wasn't expecting, since the speakers were pulled much further off the wall then they were before, about double the length they were previously. I listened like this throughout the weekend, but eventually I got to missing the mirror on the left wall (Jacob's advice about the speakers living in the space and the music serving me up in my head), so my always kick ass girlfriend helped me hoist it back up there. For Sunday night's listening session, I draped a heavy blanket over the mirror, and it has achieved the desired effect. Excited by this, I draped another heavy blanket over the TV, and of course I closed the drapes on all the windows. The cumulative result I can only describe as a much more HD650 like sound, which to me is a good thing since I love the HD650. There still some treble excitement going on in the room, but much less. However, it was the final tweak this evening that really wow'ed me the most. I pulled back on the toe-in just a tad, I mean really just a little bit, and when I sat back down and started listening, something pretty amazing happened: the speakers actually kind've disappeared. I've read of the 22Ls that they aren't the kind of speaker that disappears in a room, so I never really expected to be able to pull this off, but it happened. It wasn't a perfect disappearance, but I've always been able to say "yup, thats coming from the right speaker", and this time I couldn't. The soundstage was actually consistent all across the front of me, and projected behind the speakers and above them as well. Let me tell you, it was really, really neat. Lot of Diament going on here, but the album I first played after I noticed my rig's new imaging capability's was Yes "Close to the Edge". It sounded marvelous, huge, and epic, just like it should. I tested a few different albums, but it was really a rip of the Derek Trucks Band "Songlines Live" DVD that convinced me of what I was hearing: drums were big and had impact, same with the bass, but most of all it was Derek's guitar, which sounded exactly like it was coming screaming out of a huge Marshall amp cranked up to 11 and into a mid-size venue. Loud, raw, intense, but not bright or fatiguing, just true. I could really crank up the volume and not at any point wince from the treble. So this is all really good stuff! I know this is like the 100th revelation I've had with my speaker setup, but I have a lot of fun playing around with them, and I do appreciate all the feedback and encouragement I get from the community. I will be purchasing some sort of treatments in the coming year. The ASC stuff seems more versatile, but pricey compared to the Echo Busters products.

a pair of tickets for both night of Phish at Alpine Valley this summer. I actually won the ticket lottery!

ah, you have merlins? what model?

sounds like a pretty big room. the trouble for me comes in that my den is the largest room in my house, but since it is a living space I'm can't just throw out the couch, TV stand, etc to make more room to space my speakers out more. i mean its in the realm of possibility for me to do so but I'm not going to. I just experimented some and managed to get a couple more feet between the speakers, but it feels funny because then the left speaker is just about parallel with the end of the couch. i can't help but think this is a bad thing. the sound did exactly what I thought it would, which is expand the soundstage horizontally, which is nice, but it didn't really effect the tonal balance like the good el doctor de espanol was speaking of. I think I just have too many things in the room exciting the sound, so when I crank up the volume to really feel that bass pedal in "Can Utility and the Coastliners", the treble just gets to harsh.

So pull the speakers forward a bit and separate them by a couple of feet? I will try this next time I listen and report back here.

When I was doing my lil' MS Paint drawing up above, I specifically wondered which HC smartass would point out the speaker size issue first.

My speakers are 5 ft apart, tweeter to tweeter, and I currently sit 12 ft away. When I move the chair closer, bass response isn't as exciting, i.e. I don't get that rolling across the room bass "feel", and midrange isn't quite as smooth and inviting, particularly in the male vocals area. When I took down the large mirror on the left wall, not only did the highs smooth considerably, but the soundstage jumped WAY out into the left, it was very surprising. For the first time it appeared that certain instruments and vocals weren't coming just out of the left speaker, but out of the area to the left of and the front left of the speaker. There is still a slight pull to the right when it comes to the bass and the lower midrange, which I think is due to the large opening in the right wall. Its possible that after some treatments, or other furniture/decoration rearrangements, I might be able to move the chair back into the room some more.

sweet. when i read on the web site they cancel the "megaphone effect" i knew immediately what they were talking about. seems like a no brainer purchase, just need to save the dough.