Hopstretch

Build quality is very good as far as I can see. Packing was excellent. I thought the price was pretty decent, too, given that the raw parts total is close to 85% of the assembled cost. They make a bunch of them in different configurations that folks might find useful. See here.

If we can ignore the regrettable upholstery, this would probably make an excellent Chalkmobile. Gemballa Mirage GT "Matte Edition".

Thomas Dolby -- The Flat Earth (Collector's Edition) Sounds much, much better than the original CD.

Well, I originally bought the NHT PVC Pro but it didn't work for me as it wouldn't attenuate all the way down in the the right channel. So it went back for a refund and one of these arrived today. It appears to do the job well and gives me the flexibility of a second input for the speakers -- just in case something like, say, an analog source were to show up one of these days.

Re-reading. M. John Harrison -- Viriconium cycle. Michael Swanwick -- The Iron Dragon's Daughter

QFT. Kids take you to a lot of soul-crushing places you really never wanted to see. Wiggles shows, Chuck E. Cheese's, hospital emergency rooms.

The label on the amp says Balanced Dynalo, so I'm going to go with that.

Roger Waters -- The Wall Live In Berlin

Looks like a great time! What are these funky boxes? Battery-driven tube amps?

Smashing Pumpkins -- Adore

It's definitely worth seeing.

Coraline again.

Squidy and T2 4 eva!

Warren Zevon -- The Wind

Wilco -- Wilco

Electrostatic relativism.

Alphaville -- Forever Young

When do they go to Markl for the recable that is required to unlock their true potential?

I was thinking more in terms of borderline illegal levels of enjoyment of life.

Are you smoking while wearing JH13s? Party foul!

The latter, pops.

Better writeup and pictures here. Hey, if you have a 50 foot-wide room, why not?

Doin' OK in the marketplace already.

Talking Heads -- :77