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naamanf- What a cool idea. I look forward to hearing the He 1.2B again if it is tyrion's hands for the Tampa meet. Cheers and be safe!

x2 on this. Appreciate the reporting, and it is good to hear that you were able to play your own music in many/most rooms. The Stereophile show I went to in NYC was too big and crowded for that. Enjoy.

I heard one a number of times at sleestack's place although he doesn't have it any more. I think it is a very good unit and it is better technically than the 2900 which I have heard even more often.

Office funny. Don't you think this forum is Business-Romantic?

I haven't heard one of those but it looks decent. It reminds me of the Consonance gear. Speaking of which, you can definitely do pretty well with one of the Consonance 10 integrateds if you have/get sensitive speakers (94+dB) and still have your headamp. They are warm sounding amps from my experience but still nice. I have heard them and I am not a fan. I would also look used but I am not sure if you have speakers already or not. JP#s is touting the CAT SL-1 to me, but there are different models and makes that I have not yet figured out. VTL vintage gear would be great if you can find it. The Jolida 300B is intriguing but you need some damn efficient speakers. This KORA Mercury would be very cool but it is on an auction for 8 more days and might go too high also. There is also the Reks Approved Audio Aero hybrid being sold by a good Agoner in Singapore for more than you want but maybe subject to negotiation.

It'll take $200 for me to make a recommendation for you. Sorry.

Everyday: Knob Creek Bourbon Occasional: Booker's Bourbon Special Occasion: Black Maple Hill Rye 23 yr That said, I guess I should admit that I have a bottle of Woodford Reserve in my office, and with that I will have a small tot.

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I hear they pumped 16 ounces of penguin semen out of Rod's stomach after his visit to the zoo.

Do you think it went or think it went well? Good luck Ken, and don't forget to tell them how much Manny sucks and how you hate the Dodgers.

Especially because the kid looks like a miniature Dan, leer and everything.

Hope it was a good one elnero! Cheers

Holy fuckamole Steve, that is a massive table! Beautiful veneer. Looking forward to seeing the walnut (my favorite, btw) along with that burled maple. Not sure about the plywood plates but I also don't have a great solution for you. Do you really need the extra weight of the shot? How about waiting on that until you hear the table in action without it? Good luck, regardless. Fun project.

Another fine weekend for music in SF: Friday: *Robert Plant and Alison Krauss with T Bone Burnett at the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival at GG Park 3 blocks from my house. Good stuff from Raising Sand, a slow, swampy version of Black Dog, and Plant's solo hit In the Mood. Good sound and pleasantly free. *Sigur Ros at the Greek Theater in Berkeley. The rain held off until their encore, which saved it from being a washout. They were excellent and sounded so close to their recordings at times -- without being sterile or canned -- that I was amazed. Four guys can make a lot of sound. Interesting shots from mini-cameras were on mic stands, under and on keyboards, and under drums made for very cool projections behind the band. Lots of bowing on the Gibson Les Paul and gobbledigook singing, and I loved every minute. Confetti cannons and lots of fog rounded out the image. Opening band Parachutes, also from Iceland, were pretty good themselves, and came out for extra drumming duty on Gobbledigook, which was the last song before the encore. Nice. Sunday: Back to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival for a nice variety *Bonnie Prince Billy *Elvis Costello and a bunch of people: guitarist Bill Kirchen, fiddler Fats Kaplin, keyboardist Audie de Lone, and singer/guitarist Jim Lauderdale. They did lots of Elvis hits and when Lauderdale came out they played the Dead's Fire on the Mountain. *Iron & Wine, Sam Beam solo Some people stayed and watched Greg Brown, my wife went and say Earl Scruggs instead of Elvis, and she also stayed to watch Peg Young and hoped for Neil to show up but he did not (at least until she bailed). Oh, and she and my niece went to see the opening act on Friday morning, which was MC Hammer with 30 dancers. They loved it, as did the hundreds of school kids who were the primary audience. Good stuff as always. Financier Warren Hellman pays for this event out of his own very fat wallet, and he has allegedly worked out an endowment to keep the festival going for at least 15 years after his death. Should be going for a good long while.

That thing is John McCain?

Thanks Nate and Grahame. I am not likely to keep the covers on at all, but switching them did widen the soundstage dramatically! Thanks for the tip, Grahame! Billable work is only enhanced by music, so the only thing keeping me from working is setting it up, taking pics, and posting here.

I think the TTVJ amp sounds warm and clear and wonderful all at the same time, and it is the tubes that are used that create these wonders.

I will post some more pics in show us your gears thread, here is the HeadRoom Audiophile Desktop in most of its glory. Still need some bi-amp speaker cables and an IC from VVA, but it is in place with temporary cables and making me happy as I type.

Tyll talks about the power needs either in his first post or in the link. Please don't use that freakish Yoda thing as your avatar. Please.

That's one of the stupidest things I have heard today, and you are in heavy competition because I have been watching Sarah Palin try to "debate" Joe Biden.

Back at MOA, a few of us put together a little package for the father-to-be. Nate just sent me the most awesome pic of Lily in the most appropriate onesy that ever was. She is gorgeous and very fortunate to have you, geek daddy.

While I would never call you a saint, Mike, I agree with Nate that two new amps makes more sense, and I thought you have been having trouble with them throughout. Didn't know it was a one-man company, which does excuse things a little in my book. Good luck in any case.

What the fuck, Mike. Did you buy those things new? Sorry for the hassle but it is big of you to stick with them.

Good luck Ken! Correct answer is obviously Zamfir, King of the Pan Flute.

That would take longer than setting them up, which I may well do tonight if I stick around here long enough...