Everything posted by Sherwood
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E500 Cable Cracked
Ah, Ovations are crap. The still have a wood top, though, don't they?
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E500 Cable Cracked
That is the legendary Maccaferri G40, made from Styron. Plastic never sounded better.
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E500 Cable Cracked
Hopefully you got my meaning. I agree that most quality instruments are made of wood. Headphones aren't instruments, though, they're transducers.
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E500 Cable Cracked
Charlie Parker with his famous Grafton Plastic Alto. He only played it in France, as I understand it, because of contract and sponsorship issues. Great horn.
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E500 Cable Cracked
This really chaps me. Wood is used in instruments because it is resonant. Resonance is what you do not want in a speaker cabinet, unless it is specifically intended to augment certain frequencies. I am so sick of the "real instruments are made of wood" argument.
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Post the last thing you bought!
I'm thinking like this, but with wood. I know some trees by your place.
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E500 Cable Cracked
I'm assuming he's using the "cable pants" bullshit Y splitter because it's the first one he found and didn't have to fabricate. I think that thing is ugly as sin.
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Post the last thing you bought!
Steve: expect a call about some mahogany curb feelers.
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Post the last thing you bought!
Smoked taillight covers for my A6. I am ashamed.
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E500 Cable Cracked
Luckily, the cables I build also have quality issues.
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E500 Cable Cracked
The only part of that site I like is the $39 stock D5000 cable. $40 saves me the trouble of building, terminating and jacketing a cable, which is worth it in my eyes. It's nothing special, but neither is his $500 cable, so hey.
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Big Solid State Amps
Which parts of the plastic virgin are teflon and which parts are natural? At least she'll be warm
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Aristaeus came and went on HF.. lasted 20 minutes
"Placement on automotive CPUs has measurably increased engine horsepower." Do you have to affix it with ERS tape?
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Aristaeus came and went on HF.. lasted 20 minutes
Were the wire and the caps on the inside, or is mere proximity enough now?
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PS-1s for sale on the 'Bay
I was thinking more of a "drop-shipped to an Arab Sheik" situation, but the sheik lost all of his play money on a camel race and John got stuck with the bag.
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The Headcase Stax thread
Neither do snowflakes. However, you have to be pretty close to tell the difference.
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The Headcase Stax thread
Yeah they look like every Lambda I've ever seen. Tough to tell which model from the picture, but it doesn't really matter. Mccoy Tyner in Stax is enough for me.
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The Headcase Stax thread
I'll bite, but on HF if that's okay with you. A little "pearls before swine", I know...
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Post the last thing you bought!
I remember smeggy mentioning something about how the best housing for the SFIs was basically a wooden hockey puck... seems like he wasn't too far off.
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The Headcase Stax thread
I am leery about purchasing such a thing from Ho Chi Minh City.
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what to do, what to do?
Depends. If you buy two they deliver the first as described, and the second is simply dropped from altitude and expected to find its own way.
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what to do, what to do?
hawt.
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what to do, what to do?
and/or "spinner" volume knob.
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what to do, what to do?
Nanotube tweeter.
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Post the last thing you bought!
Y'all bitches got me thirsty. Celebrating my first successful case (in front of the board of county commissioners... ) I like it so far. A little easier on the palate than my Laphroaig.