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http://lemmymovie.com/ The last part of the teaser provides a reason for getting mono and other STDs.

It wasn't an earthquake, he just turned up the volume on his new amp to "11".

So far I'm using Composer - Song name - Performer (eg. Liszt - R

So that's who JimP is in real life...

She lives in The Netherlands, so more likely than not, lighting up a smoke would mean she got stoned. Uneventful day today, went to work, did some grocery shopping, made & ate dinner, went biking, and now I'm wasting time on the computer while listening to my vinyl rig.

Went mountain biking with a couple friends and filmed some footage for our movie. Also shot a bunch of pictures with my digital camera while we were at it.

25. Ok, so there isn't a shopping mall or movie theatre anywhere near me, but in terms of the essentials I'm pretty much covered. Food, bars & restaurants, hardware stores, post office, sporting goods, barber shops, parks and a couple libraries, all that's within easy walking range. But it's still nice to have a car since that gives me more time for relaxing and enjoying my hobbies.

Well, yes, but it feels kinda weird that I now own audiophile approvedtm albums which writers in Stereophile, TAS, and all the other mags gush about all the time.

I tried a Dvorak keyboard in university once, it didn't end well. I have several of his symphonies on LP and borrowed a couple of them on CD from the local library. The LP's are really fun to listen to, they got me through income tax season, the CD's, bleh, they just don't sound right.

Well, I didn't exactly buy it, but I was pressured into taking a couple Patricia Barber CDs at an audio meet a few weeks ago. I feel like a dirty audiophile snob now.

Better get your tickets now if you haven't already done so, rising oil prices and the financial sector implosion are going to drive up airline ticket prices quite a bit between now and then. Just give them a few beers and they'll be fine. Observe!

That and "To Live is to Die" and "Dyers Eve" from ...And Justice For All Another Girl's Paradise/Scarlet's Walk/Virginia is probably the combo I've played the most in recent years. Either that or Sweet Sangria/Your Cloud/Pancake/I Can't See New York, also off Scarlet's Walk by Tori Amos.

Capi's. We called it the mafia pizza joint since there were always luxury cars with tinted windows parked outside the place, and most of them were driven by Italian guys. Also, the place was empty most of the time and we couldn't figure out how they were staying in business unless they were a front for money laundering or something like that. Anyways, the place has the best pepperoni pizza around, they load it up with lots of cheese and there will be nice puddles of grease on top of the peppperoni slices. Put the slice in one of their take-out bags and the paper bag will go see-through in a couple minutes. It's unhealthy as fuck and you can almost feel your arteries clogging after a couple slices, but damn is it ever good.

Yup, time to start hitting the garage sales to pickup some bargain vinyl. Of course now that I've said that, there won't be anything for sale other than ABBA and Styx...

A 300V transformer from the local surplus store. Looks to be in the 150-200VA range. Also got some 10V toroids, guessing they're in the 40-50VA range based on size.

What is this "Head-fi" place which you speak of?

If it were a porno, the above would end quite well.

And there was much rejoicing.

Ok, which one of you Floridians screwed the pooch?

The 307A has a metal nub at the top like this thing which serves as an electrical contact. You take one of these doohickies, solder a wire onto it and clip it to the nub thingy on the tube. The wire & clip thingy stay with the amp, you don't change them, only the tube gets changed.

It's all fun & games until you get skullfucked by zombie Hitler...

Did I mention that the Coincident factory & showroom is about half an hour or so from my place? Note to self: I need to make an appointment sometime to check out their new Pure Reference speakers...

Now I can finally fit all my porn on my computer!

Depends on how the Lowther OB is run. If it's a just a lowther with a bass fill driver, then yes, but if it's a de-whizzered Lowther with a bass fill and a tweeter that's crossed over at around 4-5kHz, then no.

The small Coincidents are rather optimistically rated, at best they're around 90dB efficient or so, not the best match for a 5W amp. It'll work but only at low levels, the bass farts out when you try to crank it. Coincident's big speakers work far better with low power amps than their small ones. Personally, I think size does matter in speakers, especially high efficiency ones. For whatever reason, high efficiency drivers seem to need a larger box or the lows & mids don't sound right, at least to my ears. Stick a Fostex in a bookshelf speakers sized box and it sounds rather forced and strained, either that or the bass needs to be rolled off early to keep it in balance. But put it in a nice floorstander sized box and it opens up nicely, the dynamics are better and it sounds less like a box. I think the same is true of all speakers, but more noticeable in high-eff ones since there's not nearly as much room to EQ and fix things with the crossover without dicking up the sound and killing the efficiency. My personal choice would be either the Fab Audio Stonehenge or their flagship Model 1. Both will play real loud on 2-3W, and though they're not as neutral as say, a Quad ESL57 or Living Voice OBX-R which are my benchmarks, I find they have far less colourations than Omegas or anything else using Fostex or Lowther drivers. Better than the Reference 3A DeCapo's as well. But they're big, especially the Model 1.