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They haven't been filing their annual income reports on time or at all for the last 3 years which puts them in non-compliance with the rules of incorporation in the State. They're utterly fucked. If I saw a publicly traded company with a report like this I'd short its shares to zero. I wouldn't be surprised if they're in shit with the IRS as well.

The soundstage issue with Senns was pointed out to me by Biggie quite a few years back and since then it's always bugged me, except with vinyl, for some reason the big black discs can almost make that problem go away. Bass will also be a big issue for me, I like bass and want the bass to be big & clean, with the ideal being a Grado PS-1 Pro. I don't want the mini-monitor speaker sound, I want the sound of big speakers with dual 15" woofers. If the HD800 can give me that I'm all over it.

The Singlepower situation just keeps getting more surreal with each passing week...

I'm keeping my ToS account open for now, but if it starts going downhill everything's getting transfered to my Interactive Brokers and Schwab accounts. According to the ToS owners, everything will run as usual after the sale is closed but who knows? I'm really hoping Ameriturd runs ToS as a separate division and doesn't dick with it, ToS has the best trading platform I've ever used, their fee structure is very reasonable and most importantly their backend is dead stable and always fast, even on massive volume days such as OPEX or FOMC days. Ameriturd always slows to a crawl and goes to shit on heavy volume days. Options trading is going to be a pain in the ass if I have to leave ToS.

Got really pissed and went into a 5 minute swearing fit when I found out my favourite discount brokerage had been bought out by TD-Ameritrade. Goddamn Ameriturd, I got a Think or Swim account so I could get the hell away from Ameriturd and its shitty lagging bug-filled platform, and now the bastards bought out ToS. Other than that, uneventful day.

Speaking of Unicorns...

It's not my room, that's the local audio dealer's shop. I wish it was my room though. On the bright side I now own the EAR Acute CD player (below the left turntable in the first picture). The black Reference 3A is the MM de Capo i and the small red ones on the inside of the Wilson Benesch Discovery is the Dulcet. There's also a pair of Lowthers behind the de Capos.

Does it crap out Skittles? Cause if it does I'm all over it.

I beg to differ. How many rigs can you see in this single room?

I use a damp microfiber cloth, it seems to work well enough for most of my records. For the truly dirty records which I get from garage sales & so forth, I wash them off in the sink as if I'm doing dishes, then wipe them dry with a microfiber cloth. It seems to work well enough, I don't have enough records yet to justify a proper record cleaning machine.

They ain't bad, but they're not that special either. My Dual 721 does a good job but I'd by lying if I said it came anywhere close to the Garrard 401 I heard at the shop. Nice score! We should do a vinyl meet soon, I'll bring over a stack of records.

Pizza is a very balanced diet, it has components of all 4 food groups in one handy package. Just add alcohol and you're done!

You don't get it do you? It's done to isolate the effects so that they can be seen. It's the same reason a simple 1kHz sine wave is used for distortion spectrum measurements instead of playing music through the amp. It's basic science, you have a new parameter which needs to be investigated. It has to be isolated in such a way that it can be reliably measured and controlled, and once we know how to control it we go back to the real world and see if we can find correlations in listening tests with actual music. In other words, once we can measure and adjust the amount of "memory distortion" in an amp, we then build a series of amps with differing amounts of MD ranging from zero to lots and see if we can hear a difference and where the threshold is. They don't need to change the volume or shape of the air behind the driver to make a difference. It's called resonance. Build a speaker out of MDF. Then build an identical one out of Baltic birch ply. They ain't gonna sound the same, and the same is true of headphone cups. Materials matter, and it can be measured.

Well there's the shoo-ins like SRV, Jimi Hendrix, Albert King and the other Blues greats. Take them out of the picture and it gets more interesting. Michael Timmins from the first Cowboy Junkies album, when they were still a garage band. A quick sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttYSs27FlGU Blue Rodeo also scored a nice one on 5 days in July

Since the room's going to be a fair size smaller than the garage, you can frame it with non-parallel walls on the sides to reduce echo bounce. You might even be able to go all the way and use a sloped ceiling so your room is basically a mini concert hall.

I use the Vacuum State Guru system. It's free and it works.

You bastard! You killed SpongeBob SquarePants!

Nice work! Since this project looks to be done for now, how does a Red Light District sound for your next project?

Scrapped the first draft of my EAR Acute CDP review. Wrote about half a page on the 2nd draft and scrapped it as well. The 3rd draft made it to the 3rd paragraph, but I think it's a deadend too. This is proving to be the most frustrating review I've ever written.

Of course they are. However, going from "this is holy shit awesome" to "this is fucking terrible" in the span of less than 3 months raises some questions. Like, was the person abducted by aliens and replaced with a clone?

You know, if it weren't christmas eve I'd be asking some serious questions about the following. From the first thread: 2nd thread: Unless of course by "flooring" you actually mean "what the fuck is this godawful shit?!"

No, since at the time we only had one copy of the CD. For a DBT we'd need 2 copies, and make sure they're both properly magnetized or whatever to screw up the sound, and DBT them to make sure the sound is equally screwed on both CDs, then demag one and DBT the damn things again. No fucking way I'm going to do all that unless I get paid for it.

I got a demonstration of the CD demagnetizer at my local audio dealer, much to my surprise it worked. It shouldn't work, but on that particular CD of mine it did. It didn't work on CDRs though, so I guess a solution would be to copy all your CDs to CDRs, and for the cost of the demagnetizer you could buy a hell of a lot of CDR blanks.

I bought a dozen ABBA LP's at a garage sale.

It's all fun & games until you have to shovel it. That's why I live in an apartment.