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Happy Bday

So sorry. I had read about her being quite sick a few weeks ago. RIP

Thanks Jeff. I only have personal experience with one Nikon lens and I felt a bit deceived with its mechanical performance too, compared to equivalent Pentax. 0 experience with Canon DSLR glass. It's good to know that tweaking Nikon settings and without going into laborious edition one can get the same warm and vivid look of the Canon pics.

How do you like them, Jeff? I'm on a different computer than my usual one. I find them a bit obscure and lacking color liveliness compared to other of your pics, which I find wonderful most of the times

I can agree with Birgir when he said a few posts ago that the 009 sounds as though it had a cutoff. To me it lacks the body and soul the 007 bass has, or the LCD-2's for that matter. OTOH the 009 is even faster, more resolving, airier and three dimensional than the 007. I love both, I don't regret having purchased the 009, nor will ever get rid of the 007. But to each one his own, I can understand why some people would think the 007 can be held as more "complete", and others would think of the 009 as "superior". If I were pressed to own just one, I haven't made my mind up yet. If I could keep the LCD-2, then I'd keep the 009, if not, it's very likely I'd end up with just the 007, but not completely sure yet. Fortunately I don't have to make such decisions

I think this has been asked before, however, S95 or S100? I can have the S100 for 435 euros which is a better price than the best I've been able to find online. I like this camera for having the batteries compatible with other Ixus models. I have 3 or 4 batteries which I could use. It has a bit more resolution and higher lens zooming range than the S95. I don't care (as for now) about the HD video. The S95 is again available at discount prices, like 230GBP (278 euros). Great savings for a very good camera. Any of them would be to "upgrade" our current P&S, so in a small form factor we can have shoots on raw format, better quality, and manual operation, all things pretty desirable.

Very nice Nate, I'm sure she'll love it more as she grows older

Happy Birthday!!!!

It's not really a video, but an interesting comparison of 8 different sopranos singing the "tough part" of the Queen of the Night aria

That office looks cozy yet functional, I like it. Glad to see you more relaxed, Vicki. I wish tough times are a thing of the past

Happy Birthday good sir

It's sick so many of them are wearing (and listening I fear) those damn Beats

plus three

You're very welcome. I've listened to each of the ones you've sent twice, and are still in the heavy rotation pile

Happy Birthday Luis!!!!

Hehehe, I had missed this comment Sorry for those unacceptable ebony knobs, you may send them to me if you wish. I'd pay the shipping

Thanks for sharing. Interesting. An acquaintance who lives about 350 miles away has recently purchased a VPI Classic. I can't recall what cart he's going to use. I might have a chance to listen to that one, but I don't know when, probably not soon.

How would you define the VPI house sound? Never read/heard about it from a reliable source

Hehehe, I haven't every used a VPI, just saw an old HW-19 Jr, but didn't get to listen to it, so I don't know how VPI compares to NA. I have the Hyperspace, but have listened to the Spacedeck and also the Interspace. I can't dare to judge the sound of a deck in a system which is not my own rig, but in all cases I've liked the results.

Deepak, looks like your settings are quite OK. What I like most of my NA is the timbre accuracy. On well recorded voices the thing is just astonishing. I hope you enjoy it a lot I don't have any complains about its tracking, but my current cart is a Shelter and I don't listen to many 45rpm discs. If I do they're mostly old fashioned singles. Maybe trying a bit of mass load (perhaps just 3-5 grams), then correcting VTF you get better tracking. BTW, how do you set up anti-skate? Did your deck come with the NA groove-less disc? Regarding the leaving the motor plugged, they say you can do it, but I don't. I just unplug it every time I stop using the deck.

You have the allen screws which hold the arm axis, which loosened let you move it up and down to adjust VTA. The long one in the pic, is just a reference you may use for either temporarily leave the others loose and fine tune VTA using only that (IMHO that doesn't work well for the arm axis becomes unstable and it reflects on sound), or using it as a reference for different carts adjustment or how much you're changing the VTA. Have you got it sounding already?

Yep, the antiskating works very well, as a matter of fact it allows more fine tuning than other systems I've had. Can't offer any advice about the Bloom, but based on my experience with either low compliance carts like the DL103 and high compliance ones like the Van den Hul Frog, I'd say it will work well without any extra mass.

You not only look great, but it's obvious you've been improving. I'm very glad for you

Thanks for the reply, I thought so. Something in the way they stop a bullet when it breaks through a glass, but probably way easier to implement. In any case I don't think this photo had been any better (probably not this good) getting the wings stopped.

My sympathies Knuckles, I've been sick too and that being on a few vacation days, sucks big time. Get well soon