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  1. The Live Music Thread

    in Music

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    JP#s and I saw Archie Shepp tonight at the Herbst Theater as part of the SF Jazz Festival. Really good show by a 79 year old man that can still blow and sings even more clearly than he talks. He played tenor and soprano sax, with piano, bass and drums accompanying. So glad to catch him because he doesn't come here often and he still has it. Political, topical, powerful stuff. See this legend if at all possible.

    One odd bit. The drummer seemed into it all night but was a bit too much at times -- mix should have brought him down and the piano/bass up -- and if anything was too anxious to mix it up when he should have dropped it down on occasion. At the end of the announced last number, he immediately took down his cymbals and broke down his hi-hat and was off the stage. Archie fucking Shepp was left standing at the front of the stage while the pianist and bass player looked bewildered and hung back. Archie needed about a second of prompting and went right into another tune without the drummer. It was one of my favorites of the night and finally let the piano and bass shine through more, while Archie's amazing tone and some breathy soft playing was prominently featured. Lemonade from sour lemons. No idea what the deal was with that cat.

  2. Post the last thing you bought!

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    I have spent a fair bit of time with each, tho not simultaneously. I liked the pico a lot. I didn't like the da10. A lot.

    Is it because I dissed you in DC the other day? Don't hate on the Lavry. :(

    I have them simultaneously right now but have not compared them. Don't really care to.

  4. SoCal @ Hilton LAX 10/18/08

    in Meet Impressions

    Posted

    at least he only takes cash prior to the start of the build

    Huh? Not sure what you mean but he does take one-half as a deposit and he has yet to finish a Balancing Act to my understanding. I am not attacking Craig, as you know, and I am not talking about something similar to the Mikhail/SP issue either. As you and I have discussed many times, I think Craig does himself a disservice for the reasons above. Lots of good ideas but you've gotta decide enough is enough and finalize a design.

    It reminds me of my father in law, a retired engineer. The real joy to him is in the design and problem-solving phase. He plans things, tests them, thinks of a new idea and starts over again. The problem that caused the need in the first place remains unsolved because he doesn't finish anything. When my in-laws retired and moved out of their long-time Maryland home, they spent months finishing house-hold projects that were half-done (or less). They lived without any kitchen cabinet doors for many years because he wanted to build them out of cherry wood from their Michigan home that was milled, planed, shaped and ready for staining. He got pretty far until he was bored and turned to some other over-thought project. The basement floor was jack-hammered up in places for some kind of drainage/moisture control system -- and stayed that way for years. Their house was a pit in many ways until they got it ready to sell, but it was fabulous for the next owners.

  5. SoCal @ Hilton LAX 10/18/08

    in Meet Impressions

    Posted

    Wonder why he's choosing such a pricey tube to base a new amp on

    What I wonder is why Craig doesn't design an amp, put it in production and sell it. Right now, he has Balancing Act pre-orders, the Nautilus prototype floating around, the empty box Aficionado, the Zana Deux T, an electrostatic amp, and who knows what else in development or partial construction. Not only is he leaving money on the table by not releasing products, but by constant tinkering and design-changing be undermines his credibility with customers. I think he has already said that BA pre-orders can shift to one of the more recently developed amps, and to my mind that is cool but it seems to indicate that the BA is not his latest and greatest anymore so why would somebody stick with it? The engineer/inventor mentality of always wanting to make the best possible product is great, but there are costs to it too.

  10. old Silvertone receiver?

    in Speakers

    Posted

    I like the older vintage Heresy models and I have Heresy Is from around 1979. The Forte I was made from 1985-89 and the Forte II was made from 1989-96. I don't know those speakers well, but they have a similar driver complement to the Heresy but in a more upright, shallower box. You can read a lot about them on the Klipsch forum, and elsewhere, I am sure.

  11. old Silvertone receiver?

    in Speakers

    Posted

    I have seen this amp and I think I even heard it with K1000s but in any event it is not a big risk at $175. As a nice tubed FM receiver it is worth that, and you could easily run Klipsch Heresy speakers or other efficient vintage or new speakers off of it.

  12. SoCal @ Hilton LAX 10/18/08

    in Meet Impressions

    Posted

    Craig is talking about a transformer coupled "Zana Deux T" I forget what the T stands for but basically it'll sound much like the Nautilus which is a balanced transformer coupled 6c33 amp. He said he just got word about Electra Print partial silver transformers which he will be using with it. Amp will be 2500 and can theoretically be converted to use any of the tubes that the Balancing Act can use.

    Hmmm, could it be Transformer?!

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  17. So what's this about ALO breaking HP jacks?

    in Headphone Amplification

    Posted

    So in order to use the 5/5.5G iMod, you must purchase an ALO superblingLODsilverwhosit? And this is not a violative tying arrangement how?

    I think it isn't violative because you technically could use an appropriate dock made by someone else. S2 Audio was making them for a while I think.

    I just read the Red Wine Audio website because I was curious about what they are selling these days and I came across this.

    Red Wine Audio iMod

    LOL? *may*... they're pretty tricky. I almost didn't catch that.

    There is no antitrust violation for the reason Nate said -- the fact is that Vinnie couldn't come up with an iMod for the 5th Generation iPod until Ken had the idea to put the caps in a dock and so ALO came out with the first ones. Others have made them and you are not required to buy one when you buy the iPod so there is no tying or other violation, lawyer Monkey.

    The language Nenso quoted doesn't have anything to do with damage to headphone jacks that this thread was about, it has to do with using a regular dock without capacitors in it because doing so can fuck over the speakers or headphones connected to the iMod that way. LOL? :palm:

  22. Power Cables and sh(tuff)

    in Audio Accessories

    Posted

    you seem to speak "stupid," probably in every language you know.

    Come on Deepak, Troy has been an asshat consistently and if you are buddies or have done deals or whatever, that is fine and you may know another side of him. But Pompon -- for whom I have no great affection or concern (no offense) -- only posted a harmless retort after Reks, for little reason, posted the above insult. Not the same.

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