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Quite a distance away and not very sharp. Photo taken from my yard. The Pileated Woodpecker is very shy.

Never saw you smilin , cheese @dirtmudd cheese 😂

Here is a bobcat. Some neighbors on my road don't care for them, apparently they like chicken too...

I´ve contacted him once, he told me to write eMail directly for orders. I think the address is mentioned on the UTube channel. If You can´t find it, tell me, I´ll look it up!

The drummer was non other than Bill Bruford

I really liked this, it has very an interesting musical arrangement in 7/4. Easy to count, a measure of 4 then a measure of 3. 1-2-3-4-1-2-3. I loved the bass line and I am not usually a bass guitar guy. This guy was creative and pleasant to listen to. I am a drummer and I loved the tasty playing. I thought the drum kit's tuning was a bit odd as it was thin and ringing like a roto-tom. I'm sure those were not roto toms so it's apparent that was the sound the drummer was going for, a bit of a unique sound. Good stuff. Thanks for sharing. -Dave

We will be showing the jubs.

Back to business , the SME is built up and sounds better than ever before . In two days I´ll install the MA 505 MK II . In the meantime I use the Micro Seiki AX 1 Armborad to place record covers there. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention " One size fits it all " This picture shows the bronze cutting bearing which supports the arm. The following work was done on the tone arm - Arm completely disassembled and cleaned - Vertical bearing cleaned, sprayed and the bearing play precisely adjusted - Cleaned the contacts of the headshell connector and checked the ease of movement of the spring contacts. - Replaced plastic cutting bearing with bronze cutting bearing - Cleaning and polishing of the horizontal bearing seat - Rewiring of the tone arm with ultra pure copper stranded silk wire - New 24 carat gold plated RCA jacks The SME 3009 Improved S 2 sounds quieter, at the same time also more dynamic, finer and more natural. Voices are more graceful and realistic. The stage structure is clearly better. Width and depth are a bit more pronounced. So, I like the tonearm very much and in my opinion it has made a real class leap. Wonderful, I do not regret a cent !

Typical!!! lol

Having inherited a pair of Klipsch Heresy speakers and having been told incorrectly it seems, that they were Heresy 2s,(the paper label had faded to illegibility) I took note of the kits available from Klipsch to upgrade to Heresy 3s. I sent in pics and serial #s, waited months for the kits to become available and purchased 2 for under 6 hundred bucks delivered. The instruction sheet mentioned an earlier model with a round input cap that this kit was imcompatible with, whereas I had no hole at all, just a terminal strip, and my original drivers were mounted from inside, an E2 crossover to the sidewall with the large silver oil capacitors. I now realize these are Heresy 1s even less compatible with this kit, but I made it work. The slots on my Heresys were narrow as they were not designed to pass drivers through the front, and the metal horns were narrower, with a thin flange compared to the new plastic horns, so the holes had to (gulp) be widened with a wood rasp including the woofer hole, and because the new wider tweeter driver had to pass through the front I had to cut a slot between the mid and tweeter holes, grind plastic off the bottom flange of the plastic tweeter horn right up to the mounting holes, and cut away a slot in the flange of the top of the midrange horn where they still overlapped. Finally I had to cut rectangular holes in the back panels with a drill, a forstner bit and a keyhole saw to accept the beautiful new crossovers. I sense you all shaking your heads and cringing out there, but the speakers sound AMAZING, transcendently beautiful clarity, the tendency towards glare on bright material is reduced, they are more dynamic, the bass goes a little lower and they play a little louder, SO worth the 3 days of cursing experimenting and worry! Klipschs are emotional laser beams with good single-ended amplification, they PLAY MUSIC!

Try heart of underground @MicroMara Thought I saw they had a shop in the UK, but could not find it now. My order came from mexico city. *they don't have it, but I need that Sting also... it could be played with that smooth Steve Miller album!

A quick photo of my $25 speakers. Still listening to them. Really surprised how they sound. EDIT:Is it normal for speakers that have sat for a long time to improve after playing for a few days? They seem to have gotten better a couple days or is it my brain lying to me?

Heritage Kipsch. Klipschorn, Chor… | Electronics | ksl.com (not my ad) 1990 Klipschorn -- $4200 1992 Chorus II -- These are the desirable ones with 15" on back side -- $1500 These are in walnut with black cloth, and in exceptional condition for their age. 1986 Cornwall II -- New Crites crossover with Titanium tweeters were installed recently. The change is astounding. The sound rivals the mightly Khorn -- $1500 1998 KLF 30 -- If you like bass, these have it! Dual 12" woofers in each cabinet. Relatively few of these were made and therefore they can be very hard to find. $900 KLF 10 -- cabinets are in fair condition. For $400, you can't go wrong. VERY strong bass from dual 10". Titanium driver installed recently. KLF 20 -- All original in good condition. $700

I'm still laughing here. The perp knows his name? So why does he "mess" with him? Thinks he'll get a payoff? https://twitter.com/ArtValley818_/status/1517153220207939586

"stupid is as stupid does......"

As long as you just use one pick up than you don´t get these problems my cousin had, but having more cartridges and changing them , then the problems arise. The most important reason why he exchanged the 9cc for a Jelco tonearm was that he can equip it with headshells and different pick-ups. The Music Hall mmf 9.1 is a very good tt and not expensive at all.

That´s good to hear . The string / counterweight technique is the antiscating technique from the 1960s. On the Micro Seiki MA 505, I can also set this with a rotary knob.

Scorpions " Best of " Rocki´n the SME Arm

Better than having a Mamba crawling up your britches leg. They are eating constrictor eggs and snakes down in the overrun Everglades, it is reported. May taste like chicken.

Like You I always wanted to, but I didn´t up to now.... There´s so much to choose from. But there are two or three CDs that I will order in the future, it´s on my backlist.

Hey André , thanx for chim´in , I do remember that you´ve ordered some CD´s directly from him. Gonna check it out and let you know.

I listen to her without the videos a lot . I do a lot of stationary bike routines and if you want tenacious , relentless , high tempo eight counts her stuff is great . She is only a performer though and not the creator of the material . I post a lot of videos by the group Perfume , they also do not create the material . Both may have a say or influence but the one person behind both is Yasutaka Nakata who is also the group Capsule . Perfume is my favorite but I enjoy and use them all .

I have found a live version of that track with Bill Bruford Enjoy

Mine is on vinyl, so nothing. Wish we had your humidity, but it's the opposite of a desert here. I've seen a beaver lodge on the side of the road with the prevalence of swamps. Opened up when we had 60% this week. Cooking in the oven heats this place quickly. The 50s outside can be brought in easy with two big windows in the kitchen here.

I am waiting for the wife to get a text for me. I don't even know how to do that... said with a certain degree of pride... wife is winding up the school year..... and she's is a wee busy. in business terms she has quarterly reports and an annual...which come at ...co-incidentally, at the end of the school year - go figure so, I was out in the doghouse being "quiet" for her. That is not making noise in the house while she is decompressing from the day fire season is in full swing. It takes a little bit of nothing to start a fire. Been a couple small ones near. A few hundred acres at a time. Wind is a sign of spring, and we're getting it. Sun up to sundown. Almost no humidity... single digit is not out of the norm any of you have Stop Making Sense? At the end of my CD there is a little tick just before the disc ends.Anyone else's do that?

Looks like the RP-600m II will be released in July. New woofer, larger Tractrix Horn, & upgraded binding posts.

Full disclosure...I'm not the one who just got this today. My 24 y/o grandson just picked up an open-box Cambridge Audio phono pre-amp today, and I'm really proud to have another audio geek in the family. He's assembled a pretty decent hodge podge system over the last few years and has a huge collection of vinyl. I can't tell you how much fun it is when he sends me a text about the newest album he has picked up. Unfortunately, he lives about 300 miles away, so we don't get to actually listen together that often.

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I didn’t need to add saturation.

Great looking credenza @rplace Snagged this the other day and it's now sitting on a Mcintosh tech's bench right now. What's a 3 hour drive on a beautiful Ohio day? A pita but I scratched an itch I'd had for years. Oh it played but it was also time to be gone over. Back in the day this was nothing but goodness imo.

RANT: I don't know why this stuff is always so hard for people. 1) Panel resonances. Vibrating panels radiate sound into a room. They are sources. 2) Vibrating panels are loss. You put energy into your terminals and somewhere acoustic power comes out. Exciting panels may/not help, but "warmth" & balance change when panel vibration changes. If you stiffen a cabinet, both your head and the speaker need rebalancing. 3) Standing waves. Parallel walls, in our current universe, produce them. Braces/filling/lined braces can alter them. Where drivers/ports/PR's etc are located with respect to nodes/antinodes is part of the "soup". 4) Rear-radiation from drivers relects around inside the box and comes out through the cone and cabinet walls again. Changing lining/bracing/filling changes this bit of the "soup". 5) Damping (as in driver) is affected by all the preceding in addition to everything we're not even talking-about. Yes, designers listen to the products they toiled on and Somebody made the final call (prod mgt, eng, team blah) and called it Good. However it shipped--it was a package not to be altered (or it would've had different pricing/configuration). That doesn't mean you can't change it, it just means it's your speaker and not theirs. Anyone can perform some reversible experiments to convince yourself. You want to know about cabinets, build an OB setup. You want to hear what comes out through a cone, toss a portable audio source (phone/radio/etc) inside your (non-running) speaker and listen. You want to know about bracing--add external clamps, listen for a week, and take the clamps off and listen. You want to know about panel vibration--knock at a cabinet corner and knock anywhere else--do they sound the same? How stiff a cabinet of what construction would it take for every spot to sound like a corner? You want to see standing waves, watch some here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrgyKFBPQW4 Once you hear this stuff you can't Unhear it. Ever. Convince yourselves. Measure if you can/seek to. Nothing is any different than it ever was but people still think this is all voodoo and a crapshoot. It's not voodoo, it's just inter-dependent and non-trivial to analyze. Ask non-audio people which sounds cleaner or better or whatever it is you seek to improve. If just curious, diy some test mules for the purpose and burn them when you are done--if your ears work and you repeatedly try 2 types of material (large soundbodies like cellos/pianos as one, heavy percussion as the other), you can hear night and day changes when altering filling/lining/bracing in about any "normal" cabinet larger than a couple breadboxes) as you change things. END RANT. (And stay off my lawn) To the OP: Applaud your curiosity and open-mindedness. It may well be that the way it is is the easiest thing and if you are happy, then you have Succeeded--they are Your speakers and all that matters is that you like them.

The vertical tracking angle from the tonearm isn´t correct , looks like an advertising vid for the Proc-Ject Tonearm. That´s why Ozzy is in a bad mood

Slow here too, today. Weird!

As far as I know you have a ProJect 9cc tonearm , yes he also has this string Antikscating , my cousin has the same tonearm on a Music Hall MMF 9.1 We have constantly had problems with the antiskating . With the SME you can set that exact, there are no problems. My cousin has replaced the 9cc arm with a Jelco tonearm. Now he is satisfied.

@MicroMara Do you have any opinion on the anti-skate weight being hung on a string as opposed to not? My old YAH P-520 had the weight?? with a dial on the plinth to adjust it. My ProJect Classic has the weight hanging by some fishing line like above. Aesthetics - looks retro but I dislike it Functionally - what is your opinion if any just curious haven't bothered to look it up

Anyone seen my coffee? 😂

Seem to dig up the prog stuff, and while I can´t digest King Crimson (or maybe I just found the wrong tracks...), the disciples of YES seem to be fine with my ears.

I bought a pair of nice Heresy Iis and got these bases with them. The previous owner told me that he just couldn't stand to drill holes in his speakers so he never installed the bases though he did set the speakers on the bases for a while. As far as I can tell, they are in perfect LN condition. The bases weight 2# 7oz. total, so figure 4# shipping from 55430. I will charge you only my actual cost.

fixed. had to hunt it down.

To my knowledge, no.

fixed

Ditto.

I've seen that too... I won't let it happen here. And I think we are nowhere near that realm of possibility at this time. Trust me, y'all have it good here.

fixed.