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The Siamese cobras have been separated at last! This is a medical miracle.

Love . . . [Moderator Edit: Removed political comments]

Got bored and had an idea Had a yellow shirt which is the right color for the background of the 1775 Gadsen flag so I made one for me... Front and back, different angle/lighting so it looks like a different a different color/shirt but it's not.

Took this in Macau... three tiny islands and 8 churches.

This was a great television show that went off the air years ago. They made this new skit though. we're all Monk now.

Excellent set set of three speakers—a pair of three-way 362s and a single 215 (dual 15”). I purchased these used at the 2018 Pilgrimage to benefit the Museum and have really enjoyed them. Please PM me with comments or questions. Local pickup Dallas TX or coordination with UShip only please. Specs online and pictures linked below. Pictures Link

Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland Up to 600 feet to the ocean below...

awful loud ... did he have a mic in his back pocket?

china in China... Nanchang to be exact.

That could be a photo from the Aral sea disaster

Same question.

PCB, circa 1967

Got some sediment on the bottom of the cleaning tank tonight. Played a little BB King, Papa John Creach, Lennon some Derringer I've never heard too. Got better studio Eagles now plus several I never had. Got the raspy Rod cleaned up and three Doors lps from `67. Haven't been able to get near the PC at all today!

well at least we know that you won't be sending drunk selfies or drunk texts.

I agree , the most important to be at home with the kids

what I meant was, I don't think is a ship sitting on dry land. I think someone put a picture of ship into a desert landscape.

I hope I didn’t post this one before. Church inside a hospital at the Mayo Clinic. St Mary’s to be exact.

St Louis Cathedral in N.O.

Love that pic! I wish I would have had some filters when I took this from the Peak. Plus, it was a small pocket camera.

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I suspect (based on my experience) that the RP8000 will sound bigger - as in "fuller", more robust. But I wouldn't necessarily call it a bigger sound stage. Another story: When I built my dedicated listening room some 35 years ago, I was using Klipschorns with a Belle Klipsch (similar to LaScala) center speaker. The speakers were on the short wall (<20'). Late one night on a whim, I decided to move one of the Khorns to the opposite corner of the room - on the long wall. The Khorns were then >28' apart. WHOA. I was amazed at the sound stage. Everything "opened up". Even though I felt the room wasn't really deep enough (not enough space behind me) it was amazing how large and expanded the sound stage became. It was more like "I was IN the place/space where the music was made". BTW, just for the record, I bought the (unfinished) Khorns as a college graduation present for myself. And they were initially in the apartment bedroom (12'x14') before moving back to Chicago. It never did them any justice. Yes, they sounded better than anything Bose (IMO). But never anything like when I used them in a minimally appropriate sized room with reasonably good proportions for good acoustics, especially farther apart.

Maybe he doesn't want to deal with the crazy folks here... Hope he is just taking a break.

You were the worst

"I’m considering getting the 8000 and selling the 160s now. Let me know if you have any thoughts on that kind of setup (towers + 12 inch sealed sub)." That should be fine. "The whole point is to have a more immersive experience. At the moment, the sound stage sounds small, despite my room not being so big." Bigger speakers are probably not going to make for a much bigger sound stage - in the same small room. Here's a little story. Many, many moons ago (my early 20's) I went to see/hear the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. I had never heard a full symphony orchestra & chorus at that point. I didn't have any "classical" records at that point either. I was totally blown away at the shear scale, and volume of the music. I had no idea it could be so loud. And I was used to playing in some good rock bands for years. I went out and bought Gustav Holst's The Planets, Zubin Mehta/Los Angeles Philharmonic (London). I had a pretty good stereo - in my bedroom - about the same size as yours. JBL L-100, Thorens TD160, B&O phono pickup, Crown IC150 preamp/Crown D60 power amp. When I put that recording on I was so disappointed. I turned it up. I moved the speakers as far apart as I could. Nothing. Absolutely NOTHING like the real experience. I figured I needed a bigger sound stage. To my mother's dismay I moved everything out to the living room, probably something like 16'x20'. Wow, did I run out of gas fast!!!!! That 42 watt/ch Crown didn't cut it. The JBL studio monitors didn't cut it. And there still wasn't a big enough sound stage. The point is, you're not going to achieve that in a small room regardless of what you do. Maybe some kind of surround sound may make it more immersive for you. You are on a journey. And you have entered the Twilight Zone. Have FUN.

Calvin Coolidge said "the world is full of educated derelicts"

coffee cup on the formica was the word from that side of the truth Glad mine sound tight!

Couldn't handle that, I like plants to much but do not like cactus. They are ? Couldn't live there either, if you have to have a "boat season" it's to cold, the opposite of Grasshoppers temperatures. Put me in the sissy category, I don't want to go to either True but that changed when someone figured out after years there was money to be made on the other side of the spectrum, global warming, now there is a place to throw money. Heck even the guy who invented the internet figured it out and is cashing in to the point that teen girls are screaming it to get in on some of it.

y'all can't tell me you don't watch Mythbusters just to see them blow something up the supersonic ping pong ball was pretty cool for no explosions. Mornin' all Got a few cups of coffee down... I can be civil now. Going for an out of house experience today. Wife has an appt with the eye Dr. I get to drive. We might swing by the WhiteElephant after. Wonder if those tribal coats are still there... if the place is open... Our temps are trending downward ... toward normal. We might see a few days under 90`.... before 90 is average. The weather person was kinda funny. They were talking about the possibility of more rain, after we got wet last week.... They all but said, "Good luck with that before July". They did say they didn't see any thru the end of the month. ... and June is drier than May.

I don't come around much anymore, but thought I would share my new preamp. Just arrived Saturday.

Regarding @Shiva‘s speaker destroyer video post. Are those Canadian volts about 2/3 of our real volts, eh?

Hahaha! You're gonna be a changed man John! lol Enjoy 'em when ya can!

It's that damn white dress with the gold stripes thingy again. I love sarcasm!

Yes It gets "humid" July - Sept. It will get a stifling 30% and rain a little. They used to call the beginning of "monsoon" when the dew point was 54` or higher for 3 days in a row. There is never an excess of rain. We will get 20in [all year] in a good year. Don't want you to think we get it all in monsoon... Half of that during the monsoon. Then we have another "wet" season in the winter. It usually gets nice right after the rodeo, golf tourney, gem show... Murphy sez. Neither of these rainy periods are terribly productive or reliable. One year, I think it went 10 months between significant rain. so, yeah... it is pretty dry all year.

How can we get the speaker destroyer to DC?

nope -- had friends that went to Antartica (and a million stops enroute there), the Middle East, and Europe; but I was married with children and chose my units carefully (and Thank God, I always got what I asked for, except once and that turned out to be my favorite). If I was single, I would have went on a polar-roller -- one of the ice breakers that went to the South Pole. Leave in November and come home in April; but you stop in some nice ports along the way. But, that ain't the life for a married man, in my opinion. Although I'm divorced now, at least I was home until all the children grew uo.

I don't have a cell phone. I don't even know how to "text" ... and this is as social as I get on media.

Sticking with the same idea. St Paul's church in Key West.

This boat is floating on real water... just wish I had taken the pic.

Yes tell Mrs Hopper happy Birthday from all of us, and we voted and she deserves whatever she wants, considering everything.

For those who missed the recent Arnold Strongman Classic, I recorded some of it yesterday on the telly. Here is a little deadlift action, impressive.

an Ohio st. u. forfeit.

"On The Road To Freedom" Great album! Always loved Alvin Lee.

One after the other makes me suspicious...

JJ, your 301 boxes remind me of mine when I first got em. Duratex works great! Hogfan

Atlanta, one chilly winter night in 2007

Yep, a Steve Martin and a lp with weed all over it and a couple more spoken word records. The Hendrix looks like the score to me! An Alvin Lee with someone else lots of Fogelberg, Guthrie and Nitty Gritty and the Greenbaum record, Focus, Mtn. Got to get back to work with the Turgikleen soon! * Listened to a few of the lps on youtube through the tv rig. Recognized more Dave Mason than I realized, Fogelburg/Weisburg good but too mellow and there are about ten of them. Just now got a chance to sit on my butt for ten... I'll grab a bite and get back to it here before I make more coffee and stay up late cleaning records. These might get into the ultrasound tonight.

Leo Fender created the "PRECISON" bass, named that because of the frets, so there could, indeed be an in pitch bass.