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You can do it, Michael, just take it slow and ease into the idea of better sound and greater comfort. The Etys will understand, eventually. Cheerio!

Happy Birthday Chris! Hope you enjoy your first as a homeowner in style, like fixing plumbing or something. Have a great one whatever you do. Cheers!

Are you taking red wine orally to ease your Wii injury?

What. The. Fuck. ?

I intended to go to the office today but I woke up at 5 coughing and couldn't sleep for awhile. Apparently, I turned off the alarm and slept to 10:30. Slept even more after that and haven't really gotten out of bed all day. I have been fighting a cold and now have lost. My daughter brought me some fresh baguette that she baked, and my son just brought me his Macbook with Bridge on the River Kwai cued up for me to watch. Nice kids.

Happy birthday Steve! Hope you're having fun! Cheers!

Oh well, they can't all be great. The Cracker set started out better and I had higher hopes, but it got boring and rote-feeling like the Camper set. We ended up leaving early because we too are old and it wasn't compelling enough. Favorite moment of the night was toward the end of the Camper song Club Med Sucks when David Lowery is punking it up singing "Club Med sucks, Authority sucks, I hate golf!" and then before the song even ends he leans down, puts on his reading glasses and checks the next song from his set list on the MacBook he has on a music stand next to him. With apologies to Pete Townshend, I thought to myself "The Punk Meets The Grandfather." My my my my my mmmm my my my. GGGGG-g-g-g-g generation. . . Sadly, he's only two years older than me and I use reading glass over my contacts, but at least I'm not supposed to be a rock star.

Not sure if he has those now, but his last listing of equipment I found (which is consistent with what he said at CanJam '09) is as follows: Headphone systems WooAudio 6 Single-Ended Class-A tube headphone amplifier Channel Islands Audio VHP-1 Mark II Solid State headphone amplifier Sennheiser HD-600 headphones with Stefan Audio Arts Equinox cable upgrade AKG K-701 headphones with Ken Ball ALO Audio upgrade Oritek Audio X interconnects

Currently at the Cracker van Beethoven show and we are in between Camper and Cracker. There is a a sitar player with his son on tablas playing something from his Sitar Power II record called Sitar Trek. Quite funky, as he said, with a disco funk music track playing. Wacky. Hoping Cracker is a little better than the Campers. Showing their age and seemingly not exactly "feeling it." Fun nonetheless.

Come up for the Feb 27 meet and you can cheer in person and even partake!

Picked up the bottle of 2009 Thomas Handy Sazerac Rye I bought a couple weeks ago, then went to another shop that was supposed to have the 2008. Turned out their website wasn't updated and it was also the 2009. While there, however, I discovered a hell of a whisk(e)y collection so I bought a bottle of Van Winkle Lot "B" and a Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye. They had the 10 - 20 - 23 Pappy Van Winkle collection as well, and I was damn tempted. When checking out, the owner said it will be gone fast so I will probably break down and go get them. Lots of other good stuff as well... :palm:

Cracker -- Garage D'Or Psyching up for the Cracker/Camper van Beethoven concert tonight! Playing at the Independent, which is damn small. This is going to feel like such a throw-back to the 90's. My wife can't wait because she was going to UC Santa Cruz while David Lowery was going there and formed Camper. She saw them lots back then and still has a couple playlists she snagged off stages.

Brian Eno -- Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy

That's what I'm talking about! Been waiting for you to post and was close to PM'ing you. Pliny the Younger, baby!

That's why Amarra shit the bed when I was playing it the other day. I deleted the files and re-loaded from the Box and they played fine. I might just change the song titles to something of my own to avoid that however.

HD800 > HE90 > HD650 > HD600 > HE60 Same as my boy toy, Gene, except he puts the softer more euphonious presentation of the HE90 over the more neutral HD800. On a great amp, the HD800 sounds as full of life and musicality as the recording it is presenting. Plenty of bass, plenty of presence, huge soundstage, etc. I still love the HD650 balanced, and always prefer them over the HD600 even though I think that is a fine can as well. I hate the HE60 and love the way the Stax mafia likes the HE60 but shits on the HE90. No accounting for taste.

That's a good record, but you're not going to be able to go see them live in 2010 unless they end their hiatus.

Brew Dog Tactical Nuclear Penguin and Tokyo. Two board sets for DIYT2.

Sweet. Is Nate making a Suckitalo Balanced JH13 cable to go with it?

I have consistently noticed better and moar bass and usually better upper extension as well. Nice, Stretch. I like those guys a lot as well. Jeff, does the firewire interface idea make sense? I'm curious if that would work.

What is?

What a martyr! I could bring the Shunyata and we could put lots of stuff coming out of those 8 outlets, and others probably have similar power conditioners/strips. As long as food ordered and consumed outside the room counts for the room cost, I cannot imagine that we won't eat and drink that much. Plus, a hotel room will cost more and we just have to get donations for that purpose. This way, we get a room plus food and drinks!

Well, the PS-1s are on now and they are my preference, but both are so damn good. Slip in some HP-2s because JH13s are way more noticeable even though smaller.

Yes, but it is difficult because he gets so depressed when he has to go home to his HF-2s.