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Gosh.... Only had mine for ten months... Hope I don't get the upgrade fever... 😷

Here's a shot of the Khorns and LaScala:

Kinda just hanging while listening and not posting too much. Cranked out some Queen the other day, which worked to sooth the beast. Then last night my buddy decided to stop so had to step my game up just a bit. Love sitting back and watching his nonchalant reactions. First the foot starts tappin then his head and neck start to twitch, finally it's the death quiver! THEN he pops the question! Who was that? hahahahaha Hit him HARD w/the first lp. hahaha Lil John Mayall and his "No Turning Back" is just like most. First side slow and easy and side 2 reels 'em in. Kinda like fishin. They ALWAYS or most times swallow the hook. From 69 after the break up of the Bluesbreakers in 68. Do some research and see if ya know anyone other than EC who was in the Bluesbreakers. Talk about a line-up? This is from Bill Graham's Fillmore East and Mayall decided to drop the heavy guitar AND drums. Funny he was gettin his jam on midway thru side 2 before he realized there were no drums in the LP. hahahaha GOTCHA! Fantastic lp if you can find it. Next up a lil EC just for giggles and to let him listen and slow his heart rate down while he caught his breath! lolol Then right back up there while I kinda smirked inside! Finished him off with this one! He had to ask who it was Ahhhhhgain! lol He's a great guy and a good friend. He does a nice job on his guitar w/the guys on jam night. I just love workin on him though. Loves to play his head bangin rock loud n proud ALL the time. A real Jeff Healey kinda guy. On the stage lookin at the crowd thru a chicken wire screen while he plays.

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It appears to me that the forums no longer tolerate discourse. They allow select articles on select subjects..... but do not discuss them. Taboo content exists in just about every current news topic so very few qualify around here. For example posters can no longer discuss or post articles about The World Health Organization.... it has been deemed too controversial. Really. If you wanna stay abreast of covid19 just read the news and try to discern the real from the fake news. Posting here is sorta like doing a lighthearted polka in a mine field in a snowstorm. Behaving yourself has evolved to mean reading other posts and waiting to see if they survive.

Opened a few earlier. They sound ok.

Yep 90% of what we worry about never happens. Thank God.

yeah Buddy.....I have a short cane type, but, it doesn't work to help me straighten up from sitting...

Your 'magic stick'?

Got about 6" of snow here yesterday, buddy back-dragged the drive w/his plow sometime so I went out, fired up the big blower and cleaned it up last evening. Looks like a couple more last night so gonna go for another frigid walk up and down the drive soonish. Can I borrow that stick @grasshopper?

Why is it the younger generation raised on internet and computers thinks the older generation raised on privacy and not trusting big brother are crazy when they find some intrusive program being slid in under the radar. These programs always to try and tell you they are helping you, making life easier. If the current state of affairs in this country and around the world are what constitutes making life better and easier. I personally would like an opt out button

...if you count days 6wks puts us at the beginning of Spring [vernal equinox] anyway. And how many days [of "bad" weather] if he sees his shadow... 42 ? having a stellar day....not back is sore as...grouchy on top of it. Good day to stay away from people. Smack 'em with my stick.

Source: https://www.stereophile.com/content/analog-corner-289-ortofon-anna-diamond-mc-phono-cartridge An amazing picture from a Michael Fremer, of a high end Ortofon mc needle. It is disheartening to see how dust is sticking to the stylus. This surely must affect the sound, unless they calculate it into it. This is a picture from the Ortofon website, showing the same needle, dust free https://www.ortofon.com/mc-anna-diamond-p-898

x1600??? These things are amazing. I have seen ads on FB about them. Please post pictures here once you have some of them.

I looked at it and it is a very interesting product. I live in Europe, Belgium. When I click on 'buy international' I immediately am diverted to the PayPal site. There is no information on postage and taxes/import duties. I contacted them for information about that. I don't want any unpleasant surprises afterwards.

Even when we cook... I typically cut the sugar in recipes in half... I make apple pie NSA [No Sugar Added]

Klipsch minds if it's more than a name or an acceptable quote. I'm just a volunteer moderator. Go read the terms of service and tell me which term you are violating when you copy and paste an entire article. Like I said, it's not a big deal, we all need a reminder on it, DO NOT, please, copy and paste an entire article, including the copyright notice (which is like waiving a red flag in front of a bull). Attribution isn't the issue, I don't care if they are attributed. You are fine on fair use with a paragraph about a key point, or the intro paragraph with the link should always be a safe harbor. Then they do get the traffic, if the person is interested they will click and everyone is happy. Selling something isn't the standard for infringement, making a copy, whether you charge for it or not, is all it takes for infringement on a patent. With copyright it is technically copying and pasting any portion of a work. However fair use says that in a non-commercial context, like education, public discussion, etc. is "fair" and they don't have the right to complain. Thanks

No wonder then the Hedges are running for cover, and being covered. They hate having the shite beat out of them by 10 year old bullies -

You have always been good with lighting, too. I see uplights and a spot---very nice.

Quite a few people here own a pair of these and I'm one of them that can say, you would be hard pressed to find anything close to the performance for the $$. The DH1A's aren't quite the size of a frisbee, but pretty close. Wish you were close, I have people that heard mine and are hunting for them. I'm building a new home for a friend along with a band room/studio, and he keeps trying to buy mine and a devastator for his house system. Somebody snag these, you will not be disappointed. GLWTS

Turntables are and remain very popular. More and more turntables are being sold and the production numbers of records are increasing year by year. With this information I would like to give the newbies who are new to turntables and cartridges a basis to understand the technical differences between MM / MC / MI ( MP ) cartridges. MM = Moving Magnet Nowadays the probably most common pick-up technology and especially in the entry level area dominating. At the upper end of the nail carrier there is a magent, which moves excited by the movement of the needle in the groove between two coils. Physically, the MM pickup is an electromagnetic transducer: The change in flux in the magnetic circuit is coupled to the inhomogeneity of the magnetic field - the greater this is, the greater the signal. The MM-principle delivers comparatively high signal voltages, so that after the usual equalizer preamplifier a quite simple preamplification with 47kOhm input resistance is sufficient. Until the end of the 1990s, and again occasionally today, many HiFi full amplifiers were equipped with a phono input suitable for MM systems. MC = Moving Coil Mechanically, the MC design is similar to an MM system, except that here a coil is located at the end of the needle carrier and the magnet(s) are fixed. Moving Coil is therefore an electrodynamic transducer that delivers relatively low signal voltages and therefore requires a very high-quality and low-noise additional pre-amplification. Phono preamps suitable for MC have - usually adjustable - input impedances between 20 and 1000 ohms. Many common phono preamps can be switched between MC and MM operation.The advantages of the MC principle are - generally speaking - the potentially lower weight of the coil attached to the needle carrier. Since there is no need to move a heavy magnet back and forth, more detailed scanning is possible. MC pickups are usually more expensive than MM systems and also place higher demands on the rest of the reproduction chain. In terms of sound quality they are usually (not always) superior to a moving magnet system. MI = Moving Iron / MP = Moving Permalloy The third magnetic scanning principle is - wrongly - often overlooked. In the high-end segment e.g. Soundsmith from the USA or Goldring from England are well-known advocates of the MI principle; the Japanese traditional manufacturer Nagaoka places its MP pickups in the lower and middle price segment as a sonic superior alternative to MM systems. As with the MM principle, here the coils are permanently mounted. At the end of the nail carrier, however, there is no heavy magnet but only a tiny piece of a magnetic metal (either "iron" or so-called mu-metal, "permalloy"). Depending on the pick-up, this piece of metal is even lighter than the coil of an MC pick-up, which can result in an even better scanning of the record groove. MI- and MP-pickups are also electromagnetic transducers, therefore they deliver high signal voltages and can be operated at the MM-input of the (pre-)amplifier.

Captain Tom, 100-Year-Old Who Inspired Millions, Is Hospitalized With COVID-19 Capt. Tom Moore, the 100-year-old World War II veteran who has raised millions of dollars to support health workers in the fight against COVID-19, now has the coronavirus and is in the hospital, according to his daughter. Moore was awarded a knighthood last year, after he inspired people in the U.K. and around the world. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/02/01/962887703/captain-tom-100-year-old-who-inspired-millions-is-hospitalized-with-covid-19

Not really, the is not the news or part of it. And if it were to be allowed, someone will positively turn it political, it does even if is just little comments, then others reply if offended or not until it's political even when disguised.

Nice job! I've been toying with the idea of building a Heresy slant monitor as a center channel in a HT setup. Not sure my woodworking is up to it, though!

Beautiful! Any big change in the sound from the III's? https://d2um2qdswy1tb0.cloudfront.net/product-specsheets/Forte-IV-Spec-Sheet-v01-1.pdf?mtime=20210201092223&focal=none

Thanks Randy. I certainly meant no harm. I’ll see myself out now... 😆

I just purchased a USB microscope x 1600 magnification Also purchased a lightning to USB connector so I can run it off my iPad / iPhone 📲 I want to see what the condition of the stylus in my many cartridges Lets hope it works as I have planned on the iPad If not I can connect it direct to the computer

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Agree, why not push the sofa to the rear wall ? I ran 2 channel for years and loved it, LaScalas Adding surround was something I did as project one winter out of boredom

Hey hey hey!!! You have insulted the resonance of my center channel and I now demand satisfaction! 🤜🤓🤛 LOL obviously, I wouldn't take offense. It's a good question/comment. You can't tell from the picture but the 8" bed risers were a short term solution to getting my TV up over top the RC-64 III. Underneath the 64 III is a 3/4" thick closed cell soft rubber mat that covers the entire width and length of the speaker. You can see it a little better from this angle of my previous RC-64 Mk1. I put everything on rubber pads. 👍 😎

Bankers vs. debtors.

I have a pair of Alk Universals that I used for a couple of years, and just pulled them a few months ago. Nothing fancy; nice air-core transformers, Dayton caps, and the 3654 autoformer. You can select -3, -6, -9, or -12 dB attenuation for the midrange. Built by myself; good solder work and layout. Shoot me a PM if interested.

Steely Dan, Gaucho. On our simple, cheap Sony PS-T22, Audio Technica 3600 cart —-> Luxman R-117 —-> Cambridge Audio Aero 2 bookshelf speakers, dual Velodyne DD10. Nice sound, thank you Steely Dan.

Here it is. I replaced the tubes with KT90EH’s, the main power filter caps and re-biased the unit. It sounds pretty darn amazing.

Let me ask you some questions. Do you think that Mr K had nothing to do with tractrix? With steep slope networks? With wide dispersion phase plugs? With the horn loaded vented system?

rather than build a LaScala why not consider building a slightly larger Peavey FH1 which is more like a Belle but better than both Belle or LaScala? The FH1 is longer has no dead spots like LaScala has larger mouth has no cabinet resonance issues and has wider bandwidth uses the same drivers as either LaScala or Bella. fh1_002.pdf

Next time keep it to rubber penis pictures and you'll be fine.

Either one would be a good choice but for an entirely different sound SE. The thing is one would have to spend much more for a SS amplifier to get the quality of sound in a tube amplifier. This is from someone who has 30 or more amplifiers at the present time both tube and SS. Most of my SS ones are First Watt clones which retail in the thousands. This one is highly reviewed. https://www.amazon.com/BOYUU-Hi-Fi-Stereo-Amplifier-Single-end/dp/B07L4GL63N/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=21ZGDGM8E1AZJ&dchild=1&keywords=tube+amplifier+stereo&qid=1611866460&sprefix=tube+amp%2Caps%2C227&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUFLRUFDVzM1REVTTEgmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTAxNDQ2MTgyWlpTNjY1VzkzWUU3JmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA5MzU4MThNVFFTWEdONzVGMU0md2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl And for push pull consider this one. https://www.amazon.com/BOYUU-MT-34-Intergrated-Amplifier-Push-pull/dp/B07L3HQ425/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=21ZGDGM8E1AZJ&dchild=1&keywords=tube+amplifier+stereo&qid=1611866523&sprefix=tube+amp%2Caps%2C227&sr=8-2-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExUVpCUE9WSzEzVTNHJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNzI5ODIzRkw3TkVCOTU3QkoyJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA5MzQ0MDIxUzVZNjlBSFNXOTM5JndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

PS LaScalas are forever Instead of buying a car cash, I purchased LaScalas in 1980 5 cars, 3 houses, bunch of girlfriends, and one wife........ all gone The LaScalas are still with me.......

that did not take too long , only but a few days --WOW

I live in Tarrant county. In general, I don't like mandates, but I have no issue with this one. I don't go out often, but I always wear a mask when out. Mandates like this I suppose are necessary because a lot of people are at best inconsiderate in public. Yesterday, I had to run to Lowes to get necessities (muriatic acid, fire ant poison) and while checking out, the guy behind me with no mask moved forward to the register while I was still waiting for my receipt (from his clearly marked wait position in the line). I turned and he was within two feet of me. I said, "let me get my stuff and get out of your way". He said "no problem". I turned and said, "yes there is a problem, you are right on my butt" (I may have used the a-word). End of vent, back to regular SWAG programming.