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Really really nice Deepak, congratulations for that set. Listening to Michelangeli playing Bach, Brahms and Mozart. I love this pianist Before that I was listening to Dave Douglas on his 1994 "In our lifetime"

Damn Clearaudio, stay away from them. Congratulations for the purchase, that's a fantastic deck, it's almost an hyperspace and I'm not really sure the ultra-heavy platter is that important to final sound. BTW, get an affordable DL103 if your phono preamp allows it, on that deck will sound very very good for the price. Meanwhile you may save for a badass cart which that deck deserves. I can see in your horizon a ZYX, Dynavector, Shelter...

Just had lunch here, but gonna raise a limoncello for Claire. Best wishes of a complete curation healing. Edit: This damn Latin thing and how saxons learned it

You're doing great Brent, best wishes for day 2

Cool, good luck mate

Sorry, otherwise I would get you any bottle of whatever anís you want. Chinchón ones are good, seco is mildly dry, and dulce is just a bit drier than Marie Brizard. If you want it stronger, you have "seco especial" which is 74%vol (absinthe like), "extra seco" at 50-55% vol. Another good Spanish Anís is Machaquito, which has two types, "seco" at 55%vol and "dulce" 35%vol. I'd say Machaquito seco is one of my favorites, but if you like this kind of strong spirits, you may wish to try some Galician "orujo" or even a well made "pacharán" (or patxarán in the Basque Country) which uses orujo-like liquor flavored with fresh sloes put in for maceration.

Why not? Customs block to foreign spirits?

This could interest you. Amazing deck with upgraded platter and tonearm.

Best wishes mate, I hope you can stand and go through it like a champion

Terrible news It seems a better idea cooking indoors.

Marc, best wishes, hopefully Plavix effect reverts soon and bleed stops. As long as they have some control of intracranial pressure and can manage hematoma evacuation, he'll be fine.

I hate excessive heat too, though I prefer it dry than humid. I can't stand that sticky heat of the tropics. Regarding how this affects people, I can't really say, in Serbia, Russia and other not so hot places there are a lot of violent killing prone people. Human condition I guess.

Maybe the window for reading response is set to follow the stimulus duration. That would explain the short decays. No idea where to set those separately or if they're linked and you indeed need to make the sweep 5-6 ms long.

You're welcome mate, glad to help. It's a pity NA discontinued the Interspace, it was a very good sounding deck even with an affordable Rega 250 arm. I'm jealous the load of fun it must be visiting that Analog Room. We have nothing like that over here. I wish you find something you love

That seems interesting too, IMD values on those phones mainly on the dynamics look pretty high compared to THD. Planars fare rather good.

Those news aren't as good as we were expecting, but I'm sure they will be able to stop the bleeding. Hang in there mate. Best wishes and even better luck

It can handle ALAC and wma too, but you need to install the 1.3 beta, which IMO is preferable. It also has a better, more detailed frequency grid in case you need to carry spectrogram analysis. You can read about it here

We're going to Geneva, my half-brother (we've been friends for over 30 years) lives there and is arranging some excursions and such. Been there before, we love the town and the country. It's a pity it's not the Mountreaux Jazz Festival season now, I've always wanted to make things meet.

Excellent news Marc. I guess the hematoma was a subdural one. How long had it been there? It's great he had proper surgery at a proper hospital, that DPRK thing scares the shit out of me. Best wishes. I'm sure he'll fully recover pretty quickly. Nat, glad to read that flu isn't hitting hard on you. Get well soon. I'm officially on vacations since Thursday. In a few days we'll be leaving for a couple of weeks trip.

I used them with the UE trifi. Comfort good, isolation good too, a bit annoying the insertion procedure, but disliked the sound profile. They made the bass still more prominent.

It depends on location. If caused for a blunt force trauma, it's possible it's from an epidural or subdural hematoma, which are usually very accessible and shouldn't carry much danger. But if it's in a deeper location, or into a vein, things could get more tricky. Best wishes, hopefully it's an accessible one

Were it my dough, I'd stay away from any of those, and would look for a Nottingham Analogue Spacedeck or Ace Spacedeck if you can stretch the budget a bit. If that's too expensive (the deck alone costs $1700-1900, then there's the cart), another really good TT is the Michel Tecnodec with the Tecnoarm or if that's too expensive, then with a Rega RB250. You'll wonder why, but IMO Clearaudio is to turntables what Rudistor is to headphone gear. Maybe a bit better build quality, but that's all. Rega is OK price-quality wise, but you need to like their PRAT uberalles sound. If you've tried one and like it, then get it, otherwise be prepared to preferring anything else. The Marantz is just a join venture of Clearaudio giving brand and know-how to Marantz. No big deal, more or less like spending thousands of dollars on a Musical Fidelity TT NA and Michel are entirely another kind of product. Maybe not the best build quality and finishing in the world, but incredibly good sounding stuff.

Not fan of custom earpieces myself. Were I, the JH-13 would be another option. As usual, I won't do much until the X-10 break, so will need to use the Triple-fi 10 which have been unused for months. This will trigger the decision making circuit, I know

I asked because it's been years since I tried a pair of ER-4S, which I disliked, probably more due to the lack of amplification than for they being intrinsically flawed. I use the iPod while going to work, so I like better not needing an amp. I'm using the X10 now, which sound good, but they're starting to show ageing in the cable, and left channel sometimes does a poor contact at the plug. They'll need a replacement and the ER-4 could be a good one, weren't for the Westone 4 doing like this in front of my eyes

Is this model good for a bare iPod or needs amp? (I'm assuming you got the ER-4PT)