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That is some wicked shit you're playing, gramps.

Yeah, that single Hertzfeldt toon is still so brilliant. I'm always amazed that people I know still haven't seen it. To them I say "Whats so fuck then." BTW: I want a Jesse. What a great dog!

Finally got a chance to hear these at a meet today. Geez. Talk about FOTM. I think there were at leats 10 pairs there. But I pretty much agree with Smeggy on their sound ane really liked them. I think they sounded better with tubes than SS, but that's always difficult to tell what with weird output impedances, etc. Me like-em.

Thank you, kind friends.

Went to a funeral for a close friend. I hate cancer.

Damn, swt beat me to it. I remember companies fiddling with this technology back in the 90s. Apogee may have even been involved. Part of this came along as car audio subs were on the rise and available space wasn't.

"Now we've reached the base of the antenna." WTF? STOP CLIMBING!!!

Congratulations, MonkeyDin. I've always wanted to do a 5K, but just never give myself the time to get in shape. Good job!

Heh. You know, the way my desk is at work these days, most anyone can approach from directly behind me...including my supervisor. I've even tried a monitor mirror, but he just somehow gets the angle right. Therefore, finding the right time to swoop in and post here (and lets face it, not all pages on HC are work friendly...) adds an extra challenge. Al, I promise to get my post count up.

Huh? Colin's probably young enough to be my son. So either that's a compliment to me, or So, geez, I normally just swing through HF to check on meets, etc. There's one in Seattle this week that I may attend. I somehow had typed headfi.org/formu (instead of \forum) or something and ended up on the front hf page, only to see Nate's cool raffle on Friday night. I thought it was a really worthy cause and got involved. I really lucked into it, and after the week I've had it was a nice way to end it. Thanks, Nate. I'm behind you 100%. Sincerely, cejazz

Outstanding. Definitely one of my favorites from them. I have two or three copies of it...one on CD and two on vinyl, including an original Deram pressing. Fun stuff.

Gak. That really sucks. Get on the phone and call the city or the water company. No reason that should be happening. Do you have any insurance? We can vouch for the value of your fine vinyl collection! Good luck.

7 Hours of Sleep is enough. Well, for .01% of the population, anyway. What a crappy study.

Weather Report - 8:30. I never, never tire of this. 30 years+.

Shunyata Hydra-2 from Musicdirect. Shunyata Python Helix Alpha, 1M from Audiogon. I'll be moving my gear from in between my speakers to a side wall. The Hydra ( will move with the gear. The amp wil stay behind, and the power is closer there than trying to find a 12 ft power cable that's decent. Actually, if I do, I can still use this combination for my headphone rig, so no loss.

Focal 1037 Be For Sale | AudiogoN "One pair Focal 1037 Be speakers in beautiful upgraded rosewood finish. Purchased 12/01/08 from authorized dealer brand new. Now for the bad news. The left speaker has scratches that occurred during shipping. Only on the side which faces the wall. So, if your wall doesn't mind you'll get excellent looking and great sounding pair of speakers at less than 1/2 price." Let me get this straight: only on the side that faces the wall. Which wall exactly? Do you have a room without four walls? Oh well, even with the sctrachtes they are apparently excellent looking. Or not.

I've notice this as well, and will adopt it as the sole reason why I will continue not to buy the JH13. (I really can't think of another)

Grab a piece of thread, wrap it around, mark it with a pen. Then measure the marks. After unwrapping, of course.

Panavise 303 standard head. Thought I already had one...

It'll never work.

11, as in "this one goes to". Nobody's heard it?

Or the 13s vs the 11s?

I tried three or four different room setup concepts. They got me to maybe 50% of where I am now. The real problem was they were all different so comparing one against another was mostly impossible. Then I got serious. I bough Jim Smith's book Get Better Sound. His setup beat the others quite handily and I finally got to a point where I could really do some fine tuning. For the cost of the book, this was money very well spent. And never mind that room setup are just a chapter or two in the book. There are a hundred or more others there, too. In the end, I was stil only at 60% of where I am now. I probably could have lived happily with this setup because it worked really well. But I didn't know what was ahead. So I got serious. Again. Something wasn't totally locking in. In my room, vocals could drift, horn sections were congested, bass was...where was the bass, exactly? I called ASC, the Tube Trap people. Michael Smith (no relation) spent oodles of time with me. I sent measurements (height and width, as well as audio measurements at the listening seat), he gave me ideas. I'll add in here that the service from ASC was outstanding. This guy wanted to talk shop and acoustics and rooms and music. It was a blast. I ended up getting a "full workup" as they call it, which included an exact speaker setup plus a plot of where the main Tube Traps would go. My optimal room would need 7 traps and a small assortment of wall difusors. I couldn't get them all at once, so I opted for the "attack wall", the most important traps: the three that sit behind the speakers on the front wall, left, center, right. While waiting for these to arrive, I set up my speakers per the ASC diagram, then spent another evening rotating them and fine tuning the center image. The speakers ended up further out from the front wall and toed in towards my listening set, but not pointing directly at it. Yeah, things were getting pretty good now. Once the trap trio showed up, well, game over. Vocals locked, bass was clean and finally there, and the horn sections (and everything else) was uncongested, relaxed, and finally musical. I can get farther into the music than ever, now. The sound stage width is well outside the speaker panels, and on good recordings, pretty deep as well. Vocals are more immediate without being in my face. Yeah, all the good stuff. You know what I mean. Having the traps evacuate all that extra noise out seems to be the key. I'll post a room photo when I get a chance, and the before/after room measurements I made with Room EQ Wizard, which is a pretty good piece of software for taking measurements...and it's free as well. The ASC Tube Traps were the key. For me, this was the real deal. Speaker setup was a big part of the whole package, but the room response is something you just can't get around without room treatment. It all sounds fanboyish. Until you hear it.

They do. Sortof. They sell a 1 foot USB cable...

I just don't think releasing an IDE is impossible. They sound like they are not in control of their own software! Doesn't matter. Nice to see they are in the dsp biz and not the IDE biz.