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She must be really tall and a good multitasker.

Yes things went well thanks. Didn't come home and crash as is my usual following that procedure. One polyp found and removed....no more test for 5 years. Very smooth other than the prep. Was tempted to have LF draw a smiley face on one cheek prior to procedure. Learned from the doctor that has been done before. A beautiful day in store...70 and sunny. LF and I will be heading to the nearly deserted beach for a few hours. LF got a new to her golf cart from her sister to ride around the hood. Has a tail gate on it! Got to clean it up this weekend. Nothing else so...... Cheers Ladies and Gents

Afternoon Gang Up from Nap, yep 80s, still warm. A Belguim Waffle or two and time for a siesta. Ice block on the back works well for me, few more hours of that and i'll be a new man.

54 F. this morning, 93 Now; may set a record high. Gave me an excuse to look at Alex Wilson, who said something about ears perking up about environmentalist whacko climate warming... She caused something to perk up, all right...

Good Chilly Thursday Morning, Boys up and ready to roll , Lucky Joey gets to participate in the crap benchmark tests here in NC Im off to make the coffee

Hey guys, so I pulled the trigger and bought a set of MCM 1900s from Miner Mark. Had a great time visiting Mark's man cave and seeing the progress on the restorationof of his MCM1900 stacks. Mark couldn't have been more helpful. After the tour, Mark and my Son in law helped me load both stacks in the Uhaul for the trip back to Susanville. I spent the next day vacuuming and cleaning the surface dust, dirt, cobwebs and general grime. Once done, in order to satisfy my generally impatient manner, I hooked em all up hoping all the drivers work. Bingo, no problems, all the divers are firing. My neighbors might be a little concerned. Anyway, so far I'm having loads of fun. Next step is to tear everything down, patch, fill and refinish.

Anyone that knows how to rotate and lighten the pics please do.

Yes…..nice beach photos!

A beautiful day at the beach. Clear water, a light breeze, and scenery....... That's me taking in the sites

I'm with Coleman. Over the past several years, I've owned several amps (200+ watts/ch). A quality receiver will power the RF-7ii / RC-64ii / RS-62 just fine. When I added a pair of RB-35 to make it a 7.1 system, the receiver quickly ran out of gas. For your setup, a quality receiver will sound great, especially since it's only having to drive 3 speakers. However, in my limited experience, adding a quality dedicated amp provided better bottom end, more headroom and better separation of sound. When I added my first power amp, a Parasound HCA2205 (220 x 5 amp) to my previous RF-83 system, I did hear a difference...but it wasn't night and day. I wrote my thoughts about it in the First impressions of the Parasound HCA2205a Amp thread.

Good deal Tarheel, I always eat like a horse after a starvation procedure. 50 degrees here this AM...yes Plumber back this Friday for a minor tweak...now she can flush her toilet and use her sink...Yay

That would be great year round!

Calling for temps down in the 30's here for the weekend, Low to mid breezy 70's today (eat your heart out Mark ) Chuck I called about the party you recommended me for, They said they wanted that Fit older gentleman that walks around without his shirt , Apparently I look to much like all the others in the crowd / video and you stand out

Morning Gang 89 projected today, humid, weather changing like they said, just two days late. May take the day off, my back hurts, im a farm wimp. Tarheel that is good news. Coffee time.

Well my weekend trip got canceled, but all is not lost. I will make the trip in the coming year. Now just work at work and work at home. I don't think it will be as much fun.

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hmmm, post seemed to disappear … this must be the Klipsch Triangle. Anyway, just saying that it was good to see Tarheel back to posting so quickly. Trusting that everything came out okay (literally).

Wow, don't watch much baseball, but usually watch all of the playoffs....have never seen anything like that 7th inning....one thing after another! Certainly more exciting than any of the recent debates!

Test... Shows right on my pc but inverts when I post.........

When I click on them, on my New Tablet, they show correctly.

SCENERY

Dang Tarheel, didn't know you were a photographer, alright!

She must be really tall and a good multitasker. Going to have to think abit on it Carl but, yes I wish she was taller. And multitasking is the problem now, as doing woman's work ATM.That plumber came back and finished pumping up the pressure on her and finished the job a day early. Nice guy and mighty reasonable. Same age as me but was wirier and, BTW, this dude plumber makes my 1-2 cups of java per day seem mighty small. You were busy doing your excellent work on your BR, or would have called you.

Stephen, certainly not "dissing" your post, but don't you find it interesting that "showboating" in baseball is a seemingly very sensitive thing with the players, while in just about every other sport it's no big deal? Personally, I think Bautista reacted perfectly, considering the emotions of the moment, the crowd frenzy, and what he had just accomplished. That's just me....The entire sequence was pretty amazing.

I's been upper 50's in the AM and upper 80's in the afternoon. I can live with that.

I woke up with frost on my truck windows

Mets/Dodgers should be pretty good tonight too!! Go Mets!

Welcome Sprinter. Enjoy those book shelf speakers. Just curious.....did Mark try to charge you for all that dust? Gotta watch that guy

You are playing with the right toys. Congrats.

AND ANOTHER THING... (about those self-powered Emo monitors) I wish you would quit being so helpful about things I don't need and can't afford. Every time you make a suggestion even to someone else, I think I want one. (I'm currently unhappy with my Mancave TV nearfield speakers, some Bose 301's with a 15 watt mini-amp. Man those Emo monitors look nice) One of my students offered me a pair of Blows 501s for free today. I said thank you very much but the garbageman comes on Friday Mark

If stored properly you can delay any significant magnetic remanence decay well beyond 50 years. They don't yet know the upper limit. The Academy of Recording Sciences (the Grammy People) has set standards for backups after mastering and require the master be backed up in two formats. One is on a hard drive of a particular brand and format. The 2nd one is on anologue tape. The hard drives were failing, or format was obsolete and couldn't be replayed too often that they require an anologue tape backup. The problem was the defective polyester binder material that was used for a period of time towards the end of the technology. This results in sticky shed syndrome. The brands and types of tapes that have this problem are well documented. The other problem is tapes in the mid-50s were acetate. Acetate leaches acidic acid, and can eat through a metal can. When I went to Hope in 2011 to make safety back ups of some of Paul's original recordings, from the 50's, they all sounded great. Some were on acetate and I started making backups of those first. I used a Tascam for playback as it is known for having one of the gentlest transports ever made, The only "breaks" I encountered were where track splices were made and the splicing tape had just run of any holding power. This is very common in 50 year old tapes. I just re-spliced and moved on. He recorded most everything on 1/4" 2 track, and I want to say at 7.5 ips, but some of it could have been at 15. There was no 30 ips. I had no reference to compare it to, but this stuff sounded incredible. He had a deal with Shamrock so a lot of it was on Shamrock, which later was bought by Ampex. There was a Gathering going through so I dubbed a few different tracks onto a playback track and played some church organ music, a jazz quartet, and a train going through Hope (that Paul had originally recorded) for a few groups of people going through. One person said "there's no hiss, how did you do that?" He recorded on very good equipment, so there was that, but I used zero noise reduction of any kind. With plus 9 tape whatever little hiss was there was I can bury below the noise floor. Generation to generation does impart more noise with tape, But if it is recorded properly, you can't hear it in the typical recording process. Everything was on tape from the 50s to the late 70s before it reached vinyl. Early Beatles was on a 2 track, than a 4 track. There might be 10 overdubs as they bounced 2 tracks to one, and so on. There is no hiss in there, EMI was know for being able to overdub multiple times with minimal noise. It is one of those things you have to hear for yourself. But I don't know of many people who have heard a Tape Project tape that didn't think it was the best version they ever heard. I brought a still sealed reel of Kind of Blue to a little Klipsch gathering at LarryC's in Maryland which he played on his Revox, several people said it was the best version they had ever heard. There wasn't any hiss. But there is a lot of junk out there, like Columbia House 3.75 ips.

The Jays game was one of the best I've seen this year. -A one in a million throw from catcher to pitcher scores a go ahead run -3 sequential errors by the Rangers - Dramatic home run just when the script would call for one -A 20 year old closer to finish it off Great stuff. It will be a legendary game.

Bon Secour River

A unique solution! You're thinking outside the box, Teaman. +++ I kind of figured you would weigh-in on the amp question at some point, but that's not what I thought you would suggest: "You gotta amp problem? I gotta solution; Sherwood SR120!" "SR120 for you, SR120 for me, SR120 for everybody!"

And I still like to play records, now referred to as spinning vinyls by the YS'ers.

A poor point may have gotten messy...............

Congrats on your new speakers.... NICE..... MKP :-)

yeah nice speakers and nice car.

That sounds like a wonderful trip. Mark seems to be quite the character. It's nice to put a face to the screen name. Your speakers look to be in great shape, quite the setup. Congrats on your purchase…..nice car BTW

Back in their day Reel to Reel was the highlight of any audiophiles system..... Generally a centerpiece.... There is no way I would ever not had a RR tape going during a party..... or just having people over..... Sound quality.... Unquestionably for its time (if done right) it was the bomb

Greetings all - still in the vehicle hunt. Love my job, but am actually quite excited for the weekend this week. Stayed up too late watching a locally made cheeseball movie. (Moose-The Movie). Post lunch coffee is on board, second son turned 1 over the weekend, life is good. Enjoy the day!

what i wanted to know was that even with such high end receivers, their amps aren't good enough yet? What I described was my experience with a $2,000 Marantz SR-7009 on these same speakers. Denon is a little more powerful on the amps but you'd still be better off with an external amp. Again, it's really only an issue with high volume, bass heavy stuff, crossed over low or ran full range. Otherwise I'm perfectly fine with my receiver and a 4520 is more powerful.

Yes I did mean that exactly LOL And to this Question If I enter this code into my Z80 will i simulate a new universe? 4e 6f 20 62 75 74 20 69 74 20 69 73 20 66 75 6e 20 74 79 70 69 6e 67 20 69 6e 20 63 6f 64 65 20 69 66 20 49 20 77 61 6e 74 20 49 20 63 61 6e 20 73 61 79 20 74 68 65 20 77 6f 72 64 20 41 53 53 20 61 6e 64 20 69 74 20 77 6f 6e 27 74 20 67 65 74 20 46 6c 61 67 67 65 64 20 4c 4f 4c

Watching paint dry beats recent debates. Maybe we could build a giant Colosseum and bring in some lions and tigers for the next big debate.

Afternoon Gang This Working again is interesting, the hard part of the day is just being on my feet all day. Retirement will soften you up in that area, no biggie, i could lose a little belly anyway. Everyday has been sweat by noon, farmers have it made most of the time but when it comes to tending the crop, you work till it's done. Dam Walnuts anyway, millions of them. ripped around on a Husky 400 dirt bike, have not doen that in 30+ years. Crackin my first New Belguim IPA.

Amen...

I think a lot of the allure is the interacting with the machines and the media. There's something very cool about dropping the needle on an album, probably the same with a RTR.

That is a very nice SUV. Second the thumbs up on the color. We are a somewhat bland family of white cars.

TRVTH Dave

Saw video that shows how to build or rebuild a long term cooler on the cheap if you need long term cooling and durability isn't an issue. The Yeti's seem crazy expensive but saw an Igloo in Sam's built the same way. And much more expensive than normal Igloos. Supposed to be able to be locked up tight enough including with a lock to keep bears out? Anyway. My thoughts are. Yeti's made in China, at least theone's I've seen. Igloo and Coleman made or at least assembled in the US so I'd go with Coleman or Igloo.