Dusty Chalk

No, I don't. Or maybe it's so that it resembles the classic woman's figure/coke bottle shape.

You need to discover U.N. Owen Was Her?.

Not yet. (makes a note of it) Thanks for the rec.

Hey, wow, now you're completely gone. That's some pretty fancy camerawork.

(wiggles eyebrows, smirks appreciatively)

Almost verbatim. Maybe it's something about the physics of the baffle.

No, but what's it driving, air? I mean, c'mon, air?

from TAS Editor Robert Harley on "The Best Stereo System I've Ever Heard"

My favorite example of extreme subwoofer-ism is the Krell Master Reference, with two 15" drivers with a 3 inch excursion. That fucker weighs 400 pounds. Text used to read thusly.

Response #1 -- I think you'd do well with either one, but you'd have to like cats in Hirsch's case (and before you even ask, yes, cats like elephants). Response #2 -- we live in an international market these days, so we're all virtual neighbors!

Hot. No, literally, I mean hot.

Easily my favorite of his operas. That spaceship section at the end is epic.

Yeah, it appears to be completely gone in the new pic.

Actually, it's Maconimics, because MacBooks work the same way.

I accidentally drove one of my old True Sub Jr.'s at extremely high volumes, and saw the driver excurse, so I can tell you it actually is.

There's lettering?

wallmart? I think your 'w' is upside-down.

The Sunfire is a long-throw, so it still has displacement. Displacement is volume, not area. I would definitely do a Sunfire again (I used to have a True Sub Jr.). I also prefer the continuous phase, rather than a 0/180 switch. I don't know if the SVS that I am lusting after has a long throw driver -- that might throw me back into the Sunfire camp.

You ever go by the meat market in Laurel on Main St.? I haven't been by there recently, so can't say if they are still so, but they used to be really good. (makes a mental note to swing by there next time)

WIll finish the Beethoven later, just not in the mood, I guess. Skipping to: Haitink, Ravel, SACD

Sweet. Thanks for the info, I'm-a gonna have to do the same thing with my Manley Stingray, looks like.

What's the sound quality?

Haitink's Beethoven symphony cycle via SACD -- sounds exactly "skew" to what the covers would suggest: