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Interesting to see someone who listens to Schoenberg... I could never get into it, but more power to ya.

I never hear anyone talk about them, even on HF, so I assumed I was a minority... Speaking of now here is nowhere, what is your impression of the recording quality? I think it is very good, devoid of much of the compression plaguing most modern recordings, yet i do detect a bit of clipping.

The Dandy Warhols Curve Secret Machines The Sensational Alex Harvey Band and even A Flock of Seagulls (love the guitarist)

Close to the Edge was my fav as well. And in terms of musical integrity, it is a mistake to put a second rate band such as Rush in the same sentence, even with Neil Peart (who I still think is overrated). Not sure I'd put Zappa in the progressive category His music pretty much defies categorization. Seeing Zappa and the Mothers in the '70s with a relatively unknown opening band at the time called Steely Dan was a trip... them being booed offstage cuz of the headliner. Good show.

I'm also looking for some coupling caps for my Counterpoint pre. They need to be at least 1uf and ideally would be less than 20mm diameter. Mundorfs, Vcap, etc. would get crazy expensive and large at this size. The ClarityCap SA has been recommended, both by a guy on AA that does alot of mods, as well as http://www.humblehomemadehifi.com/Cap.html. What do you guys think of the recommendations on the humble site? I realize he is testing these in a speaker crossover, but I would think impressions there should translate. DIYcable is carrying another brand which I had never heard of, Erse PulseX. They look interesting. Of course, I could just default to the Dynamicaps that Mikey Elliot at altavistaaudio uses in his CP rebuilds, but beyond him I haven't seen glowing reviews of these. Which Vishay MKPs were you referring to spritzer? I have also read that a Rifa Evox PHE430 or 830 or something like that was well liked (IIRC, Bruno Putseys recommended these, of course, also discontinued ).

I grew up on Hendrix, Cream, the Who etc. Never really cared for the Stones past about '68 or so (sloppy playing), didn't like the Dead (though I never did go see them). Prog rock I loved at the time (ELP, Yes, etc.), most of which hasn't aged very well. ELP was amazing to see live though. Was never into Pink Floyd for some reason. I haven't heard Opeth or Dream Theatre. Flaming Lips I don't quite get, though I do have Yoshimi. I do like Radiohead, although they sometimes get out there a bit. Bjork I actually do like at times. Phish I never got into (sounded like a modern Dead somewhat to me). Mahler: listen to the 2nd. If you can't get into that, you'll be headed to the place aerius' YMCA picture in the slow forum thread portends

There's a rather interesting thread going on over on diyaudio regarding the Blowtorch (and reverse engineering it). John Curl is even participating in it. Alot of background info on why things were done in a certain way, etc. Rather long at 101 pages: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=71189

You can check out PinkFloyd's site for X mods http://rockgrotto.proboards39.com/index.cgi Depends on how much you want to spend, and how much work you want to put into it. I would consider stuff such as: replace electrolytics with Panasonic FMs, as long as they aren't on the outputs of voltage regulators, which might need more ESR to be happy get rid of any tantalum caps as these tend to fail as a dead short... replace with Wimas suchg as MKS-2s replace PSU diodes with Shottkys, such as 11DQ10/31DQ10 make sure opamps are bypassed well... 100uf Pana FMs right on the V+ and V- pins to ground, possibly something like 3.3nf MKP between V+ and V-, you could also try Carlos FMs snubbers (0.1ohm SMT resistor and 3.3nf ceramic COG or NPO SMT in series, between the pins of the FMs). Leads on radial caps as short as possible. replace coupling caps with film or BlackGate NX or K series, Cerafines/Silmics, Nichicon Muse, whatever floats your boat

Wanna bet? No pics forthcoming...

http://headwize.com/projects/showfile.php?file=gilmore4_prj.htm

I'd keep checking with them... I emailed Linear Systems regarding purchasing small quantities of CRDs. Never heard back from them... then one day a package arrived... samples

I'd agree. I mainly hung out in the DIY section of head-fi, and not much of that lately. I'd just notice that someone would get banned and WTF ? No idea why... interesting to read the banned thread here...

Google: head-fi down a few days ago...

You could try these guys http://www.capacitorsplus.com/index.html Seem to be more of the corporate supplier, you know, with the $500 minimums... their quote request form does have sample as one choice on it though.