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  1. Mine sorry for the bad photo
    5 points
  2. Does anyone remember when double albums were pressed so that Side A was backed with Side D, and Side B was backed with Side C? This was so that when you put them on a record changer, the B side could drop down and play right after the A side. Then you could flip them over, and Side C would be followed by Side D. Later, after record changers became less popular, double albums were pressed so that A was backed with B, and C was backed with D. Some old double albums eventually came in both versions. I was long used to the original (changer) version of Electric Ladyland, so when I was at a party and saw the new version, I was pretty amazed to see Side A on the back of Side B, since this was never announced anywhere that I read, it was just something that I noticed one day. I recall that I could hardly believe what I was looking at, but I was in a party state of mind at the time, so...
    5 points
  3. You would think so, but nearly all LPs are shaped so that they're thicker at the edge and under the label, in order to prevent damage to the musical part of the record when another one is dropped onto it. Unless there's a fairly large lump stuck to one of the discs, the grooves should not be harmed by changers. That said, I haven't bought a changer since 1977. It would be nice to have auto-lift at the end of the side, so I may look for one of those little gadgets for my Technics deck at some point, but no more dropping records onto each other for me.
    4 points
  4. I have the QOTSA Villains album with 3 sides. Be careful there are drawings on the D side, so above all, do not put a high-end, fragile cartridge on this kind of engraving, you risk breaking the point. And in addition there are several versions.
    4 points
  5. You know what they could have done with the blank side? Left it actually blank, without a groove, so that at least you could use it to check and set your anti-skating correctly.
    4 points
  6. Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil - YouTube
    4 points
  7. Cantaloupe Island featuring Herbie Hancock / Blue Note Concert Live - HD - YouTube
    4 points
  8. THE WHO Eminence Front (Toronto 17th dec 1982) - YouTube David Bowie - This Is Not America - YouTube
    4 points
  9. Firesign Theater is genius stuff. And still relevant today.
    4 points
  10. How about some Queen
    4 points
  11. Well true to form, Texarkana Funeral Home screwed the audio pooch on Dave's funeral stream. Obviously, Dave was confused by the universe's largest mixer finally as his disposal and must have gotten the mute button and live to earth buttons crossed. Anyway, the service was typical Presby Mass with hardly a mention of our fair hero, so no great loss. What follows is his brother's heartfelt eulogy at the graveside services. Onward thru the Phogg my friends! Eulogy for David June 17, 2021 My brother, David, loved life fiercely. Life did not always return the favor, but he would bounce back with amazing resiliency from setbacks that would have crippled a lesser man. Perhaps the greatest love in David’s life was for his children, Jennings Elizabeth and Thomas McRae. His love of his first-born, Jennings, was boundless. All children are precious, but Jennings, she was a perfect angel. Her loss at age 13 was a crushing blow to David, and he lived the rest of his life with the confidence of seeing Jennings again on the other side. David was equally overjoyed with the birth of his son Thomas. Thomas was named after his great-grandfather who sired 10 children, including 7 boys. Out of that large family, our Thomas is one of the only two surviving great-grandsons with the Mallette surname. David was a proud U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War and was even prouder to learn recently that Thomas has followed his example of national service by enlisting in the U.S. Navy. Second only to his children was David’s love for music, especially organ music and the great pipe organs themselves. He collected over 1500 recordings of classical music and had a special listening room at home where he loved to sit for hours immersed in the music. David also loved, in no particular order, the Cossatot River, steamboats, steam locomotives, and UFO theories. He loved Roman history, Byzantine history, Civil War history, and Church history. He loved theology, genealogy, meteorology and cosmology. He loved player pianos, photography, and videography. He loved Bach, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff, Scott Joplin and Conlan Nancarrow, Star Trek, Dr. Who, and The Three Stooges, and he loved his old dog, Shadow. In addition to being the lover of many diverse interests, David was a great dreamer. He would often just sit, staring into the distance, lost in his own thoughts and oblivious to his surroundings. In elementary school, one of his teachers called our Mom in for a conference. “The problem is,” declared the teacher, “David is a dreamer!” Some problem!! Don’t you wonder, like me, if this old world might be a better place with a few more dreamers? Some of David’s dreams were, let’s just say, better than others. One of his best ideas was the local Regional Musical Heritage Center, which combined his love of music and of Texarkana. In the last few years of his life, he poured much of his remaining time and treasure into the RMHC. It was a noble effort and I hope it can find a way to carry his dream into the future. I know that David, like all of us, was far from perfect. But maybe we who are left behind can learn a few things from his example: to love our family and friends without reservation, to take time to enjoy the finer things in life, such as food, wine, art, and music; and finally, to be unafraid to dream big dreams. To paraphrase that little green poet, Kermit the Frog: “I hope we all find it, That Rainbow Connection, The lovers, the dreamers, and my little brother, David.”
    4 points
  12. This is so true. My wife is a retired special ed teacher who worked in one of the lowest paying districts in the county. She was stuck as a move to a higher paying district would have resulted in a pay cut. The district prefers to hire a new, inexperienced, person to paying a seasoned professional what they are worth. Maynard
    3 points
  13. Caught some quail fillin' their gullets with pebbles yesterday(sorry for the quality,shooting through window screen)
    3 points
  14. birds made a nest on the patio this spring. All the youngin's and parents have gone. Time to clean up the mess
    3 points
  15. - Or two guys like myself and Carl - 😉
    3 points
  16. I have a classical collection from Time/Life that is like that. But with 8 sides to choose from.
    3 points
  17. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    3 points
  18. I do remember and probably have some in the collection Read somewhere ( probably on this fine thread ) that it’s for automatic record changers
    3 points
  19. I remember this, 😆 Even then I did not think it was a good idea to drop one album on top of another one.
    3 points
  20. 3 points
  21. Just adding some injector cleaner to the fuel sure beats having to disassemble and cleaned gummed-up carbs! Why gummy? Because the more volatile parts of the fuel evaporate first, leaving behind a goopy or even hard-as-varnish residue. Sometimes a bike would have sat so long that the carburetor jets could only be discarded, because no solvent would remove the hardened gum, and using a drill to clear the precisely-sized holes would have ruined them. Less time and money to just pop in some new jets. And that’s how it was when I was young!
    3 points
  22. ... a buddy of mine listened to Firesign Theater. I've been in the mood for loud music... I've played out my collection of vinyl... Not quite all. Most that has survived the test of time. Have to be content with low-fi streaming.
    3 points
  23. Topical: Happy solstice everyone.
    3 points
  24. I hear it happens in the adult film industry too. Experience counts for nothing these days.
    2 points
  25. Butchart Gardens here in Victoria... an old quarry turned into a National Historic site and gardens that are amazing ... if you are ever in Victoria it is a must see place, if you like gardens. A nice walk, lots of shade and sitting areas, a cafe and a gift shop. The restaurant will likely reopen soon. If you are a fan of Roses it has the best rose garden I have seen.
    2 points
  26. We would also use the white gas in coleman lights and stoves, it was cheaper than the coleman fuel in the can and worked just as well, plus the car loved it.
    2 points
  27. Unfortunately, this cannot be further from the truth. Educators are discriminated against for having education and experience. Most districts now will only offer you up to 5 years of experience. So, if you want to change districts, and have more than 5 years experience, you will take a pay cut, and potentially a huge one. It's very bad for people who want to move out of a state or have to move due to their significant other's job relocation. For example, If I have 20 years and a masters + I will earn around $75,000 in my district. Now, if I wanted to move to another district, even though it's a higher paying district, I will start at year 5.... which translated anywhere from a $10,000 to $17,000 pay cut.( this is just looking at the surrounding districts..... if I moved further away from the city or to another state, the differences could be even more dramatic.) It's not like my friends in the corporate world, where one transitioned from an engineer at Mobil to BP and actually enjoyed a pay raise as well as moving expense, etc. I'm not trying to cry poor me, as this is the profession for which I chose to remain employed. However, I hope I can educate some people as to what teachers experience throughout their employment in the wonderful world of education!
    2 points
  28. Klipsch woofers are not the usual home stereo type, with foam or rubber surrounds. Instead, they're musical instrument woofers, with doped-paper surrounds. This "dope" is the same kind of stuff that was used on early airplanes to make their fabric skins windproof. This resulted in much less loss of lift from the wings, which was a Good Thing. In speaker cone applications, the effect of that shiny/sticky black stuff is to keep the paper ridges at the edge of the cone from ever drying out or becoming brittle, which could cause tears over a long time. As a consequence, Klipsch woofers last indefinitely. As far as I know, there is no estimated service life for them. There's never a need to redo the surrounds, because they never dry out or crack, and besides, they're an integral part of the cone, with no separating line. Of course nothing actually lasts forever, and woofers do occasionally fail, because of voice coil issues, perhaps. That said, if your woofers are working fine, don't worry. They are fine. Other than a failed woofer, people only replace their woofers because they think that more expensive woofers should sound better. With Klipsch Heritage speakers, that's very rarely the case. Paul chose woofers and other drivers that were good-performing, consistent, and likely to be available for a long time. Price was also a consideration, because these speakers were expensive enough already. Once he had a model of woofer that he was happy with, he would design his speakers around them and their values, so that they sounded the way he wanted, which was as good as he could make them, which was (and is) very good. Problems sometimes arise when someone puts a more expensive woofer in their speaker, but it makes it sound worse. This usually surprises the owner, but not most members of the Forum, because it's not the first time they've heard of it. The horn and the driver form an integral whole, so any new woofer has to exactly match the parameters of the standard driver, or it won't sound as good. A few people, like Crites and Son (not their official company name), have years or even decades of experience with Heritage Series speakers, so they can safely recommend and supply compatible woofers and tweeters. Their woofers, in particular, were carefully sourced to be a good match with the original parts, so no worries there. I've got a 47-year-old pair of La Scalas and a 14-year-old pair of La Scala IIs. I've never looked at their woofers. Years ago, when I first got the La Scalas and was integrating them into my system, I ran some tests from 200 Hz on down, so I could tune the sub to work seamlessly with them, and was impressed at how smooth the Scalas bass output was, with a few mild peaks and dips. Once that setup was done, that was about it, except for that JubScala conversion thing. Now they're back to stock, with just Crites CT125 tweeters (that was a useful upgrade, because the K-77 tweeters definitely don't last forever, and the Crites tweeters do sound a bit different, but in a good way.) and Sonicaps replacing the old tin-can capacitors (they also don't last forever). Now the JubScala gear is on the La Scala IIs (it's a simple switchover), and they're sounding just fine. I don't think I'll be flipping those 175-pound speakers upside-down anytime soon to access the woofers, so as long as they're working fine, I'm leaving them alone.
    2 points
  29. Yes, I believe that was it! Thanks. I left that trade in 1977, so my memories of less important things from long ago are becoming a bit vague.
    2 points
  30. At the bike shop, we had one of those sinks-on-a-drum with running solvent, called Kleen-Flo, or something like that. It should have been better than gas, white or regular, because it was designed to be a solvent, and it was much safer, with no explosion or fire hazard. Maybe if a rider had the patience to keep those jets soaking for days, they could have cleaned up, but the jets cost under $5 each, if memory serves, so to the scrap bin they went!
    2 points
  31. I don't like using Wiki but it's easy to find. According to that it could have been a regional thing as well.
    2 points
  32. Oh, geez, that's dangerously volatile and flammable. I've had success with acetone (nail polish remover).
    2 points
  33. never tried this... but, I have heard that white gas cuts that lacquer.
    2 points
  34. I've kept these for a while, but don't have a need for them anymore. I built some insulated crates for some Forte 2s for my last move, and I still have the original shipping box for my Heresy 2. I'm offering them for free (Houston area), or shipping at your cost if interested. Can provide pictures if needed, but they look like shipping crates insulated with 1/2 inch polystyrene. Sent from my SM-G970U using Tapatalk
    2 points
  35. Hello all. Got some time with my Cf4 now. And I am in love. Been comparing them to rf7 mk2/3. What i feel is that klipsch is trying to make speakers that are as great as these cf4s again, but they just ain't. Ok the rf7 mk3 is a tad bit more refined in the highs. Mk2 i feel can't compete. The more power i feed them the better they sound! Went from hypex nc502mp to pascal xpro1 and then over to hypex nc2k then down to icepower 1200as2. If any one think that Class D is not the future they need to listen to pascal, nc2k and 1200as2. Anyway, 350w they where awsome and pure bliss, then I gave them 1550w, holyshit. The sound of the pascal i so nice, i see why many of the pro studio monitors use these, and a good deal of roland amps. All of you owners of these know the umpf of the bass is just breathtaking 👌 now with so much power it make my concrete outside wall vibrate. Then i changed to hypex nc2k with sparkos 3602 opamp. 1600w. Very detailed and clean bit bright but clear, these speakers astound me. Bass and all is still just as awsome as with pascal. Icepower 1200as2 620w. Crystal clear, no noise, no hiss no nothing. Still awsome bass and sounds like bliss. Got thinking I'm just biased, I want them to be awsome so they are. Tok my amps, went out and testet the klipsch horn, cornwall, forte, sounsfaber sonetto viii and monitor audio gold 200. I still think they are the shit, of course some of these had somthing better but the complete package. Its like the cf4 is the hybrid child of corn/forte and rf7 if u get my drift And they are stock. At this point. Wondering if i should use time bracing them, they are sturdy as F, butyl on the horn. And going over the crossover. One thing thats going to happen now that i know they are this good is new veneer and tlc. If the rev 1 and 2 are better than rev 3, then i gotta get me one of those rev 1 one's 🤣 So not much of a clinical test and review but just my opinion.
    2 points
  36. Knew that was coming. I'll put it on my list of things to do. 😂 Thing is I"ll prolly get it since you're not sending me one. Sure I'll even take the only copy you have. Nah, I couldn't do that.
    2 points
  37. I have a Monty Python 3 sided album
    2 points
  38. No center stands here. I do have a set of PitBull stands for the Tuono though.
    2 points
  39. This guy? Tommy Bolin's "Energy II" isn't really a bad album but so many don't take into consideration the way things were in the late 60's and early 70's. Sounds were sounds it was how they could improvise and not only sound good but become a God. Started with his group Zephyr, continued workin with The James Gang and even a stint with Deep Purple. Some good stuff with a 15 minute solo burning up all of side 2. A "different" kinda Canned Heat. Some sweet bluesy versions of their stuff. JIMMY ROGERS ALL STARS BLUES BAND - Chicago totally jams the only down side is the fact that it's ANOTHER 3-sided record package! This becomes the norm Imma gonna start a revolution! It's a great album w/appearances by: EC,Fulson, Healey, Mick, Taj Mahal, Page, Plant, Keef and Stephen Stills. I didn't pay too much attention to that until I started listening. I think they did it to play a lil game with us. Who's that in this cut? You been there I'm sure. Does what it's supposed to do though! Of course I saved this til last. Willie Dixon's "I AM THE BLUES" is pretty amazing and one I'd grab again. Yup, it's him. ALL him!
    2 points
  40. I have a couple pieces of DAW (digital audio workstation) software, that I occasionally use to record friends. Most would know the name ProTools, but there are a lot of different ones out there, some very expensive, some not so much. Some are free. The one I have and like is Harrison Mixbus 32C, which is based on the mostly open source Ardour. ANyway, on teh Harrison forums is a page were folks can post links to mixes/work they have done using Mixbus. They are interesting to check out. One of them, done by a man in Europe, entered a contest where you could download ALL of the tracks for a song, and submit it. Here's the mix, "The seeds of your sorrow", by the band Spitting Ibex, a band from Vienna, Austria. He put text on the screen to tell what he was doing in the mix. It really can give one an idea what gets done in the mixing...
    2 points
  41. Bye Dave. You will be missed.
    2 points
  42. The Little amp that could !!!!!!!!!!!!! So browsing over on AK I came across this little amp for sale. Its a modified Magnavox 8600 design runs in pure Class A, Is tube rectified and sounds simply amazing, this thing has detail, clarity, resolution, and believe it or not it has great bass. I dare say you will have to spend 1K+ from the normal manufacturers to even get close to the sound this amp produces.
    2 points
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