Hopstretch

And the crimping looks worse, if anything, because the sleeves are fatter.

Also allows you to divine whether you'll like the next song before actually hearing it.

Can now return some short-term loan items which have rather become medium-term loan items.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience -- Electric Ladyland Prime HF-2 material. "Voodoo Chile" is quite a trip at slightly elevated volume.

Mine are out for delivery right now. C'mon, c'mon, c'mon!

Lots of Led Zeppelin and a little squashing down of bowls have pretty much reconciled me with my HF-2s. Still can't deal with them with flats. Bass lines just seem to flop about all over the place.

Come on. Are you a member of Team Arcy-Sparky or a mouse?

Welcome Santa! Dunno how you deal with all those bloody nippers, mate. Guess the bit right at the end helps to make up for it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEe55NxFSSU

Went for a run. Trying to get back into a healthier mode after CanJam, but it felt like I was still dragging around about 12lbs of Carl's Junior and I ended up drinking most of an excellent bottle of pinot sourced from Ken last night so ... yeah. No records were set.

Nate's touchiness is undiminished. I did get a little time with the Ref 1 in jp's rig and I thought it sounded good. Sure we'll get a much more comprehensive report-back from him.

Epic Airbag Nutshot

One hand on the tin flute, one hand on the skin flute?

He ain't your dude, buddy. Mojave 3 -- Excuses For Travellers I had almost forgotten what a great album this is.

Good luck. Holding thumbs!

Guster -- Ganging Up On The Sun

I saw someone break an HD800 in the HeadRoom room. He tangled his feet in the cable and yanked it from the table, popping off one of the ear cups. Interestingly, it was one of the pre-production models and Tyll said the retaining pin that had failed was the main component that was redesigned for the current batch. I offered to stomp on one of his new ones to see how well they did, but he wasn't up for it.

Just be very polite at the Genius Bar. It's not like this is an unknown issue and there's probably a pretty decent chance they'll take care of you out of warranty.

It's actually pretty impressive that he manages to be as big a cunt in corporeal person as in corporate person.

Old favorite. Wang Chung soundtrack and all.

OK, we've come full circle, but Vizio also made a very decent plasma up until recently, when they started getting out of that (sadly) shrinking segment. I've seen the last of the VP505XVTs going new from ebay sellers for less than $1,000 -- which is pretty sweet for a 50-inch set. At list price, though, I'd definitely buy the Panny above.

Maybe he was thinking of getting some Darth Beyers?

PS: Do not Google "Give him the clamps" with SS turned off.

^^^ They just don't do album covers like that any more, sadly. Or like this, happily. Queen -- Sheer Heart Attack

Audio-Tekne SP-9301S. Price "TBD" but the Ale midranges alone cost $65,000 as parts. From Jonathan Valin's blog about Japanese audio, which I've found pretty interesting.