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First quote that comes to my mind Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic “That’s what’s so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you’re so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can’t remember what comes next.”

I spy with my little eye a record in a box I know not the title, but hope it’s Prog 🤘😎🤘

Pink Floyd Live at Knebworth is spinning. Wanted to write slowly but it's actually 45 revolutions per minute.

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Yes but unfortunately record is heavily warped. Good thing I have secret weapon for that, vacuum platter.

@KROCKCan't wait to see what's in that Record Shipping box It will blow me away if it is an Ortofon Test record... mine came 2 days ago

Yes those look great. Used to play a little bit...

Bought that today ..don´t know how to handle that ..any advise ?

Well in the last two days I spun these records The Spliff Radio Show The sec. Spliff Album 85555 , btw Spliff was a succesfulln german band in the 1980tees The german Rock Band Grobschnitt ( rough cut if you like ) the debut from Lake , awarded by the german phono academy Was fun boys .....

@KROCK got that thing laying here and debating on unzipping it. I've heard most of it and not really too impressed. Gonna tell me to unzip it aren't you? Could be their last but... BTW, Candy Dufner dropped this today if your interested. Does a lil sax work if your interested. She gets it for sure! Better jump. They'll be gone in a heartbeat! Mine's on the way! Gonna soooo make room for her. She's nummy AF! Why jump? A lil hot a$$ jazzzzzz... Saxuality is the successful debut album by Dutch alto saxophonist Candy Dulfer and contained two singles, 'Heavenly City' and 'Saxuality'. Following up the huge worldwide hit 'Lily Was Here' with Dave Stewart, the album was a guaranteed seller and charted in Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, and United States. It was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album. The album is not just a collection of songs, but a testament to the artist's undeniable talent and creative vision. Saxuality is available as a limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on gold colored vinyl and includes an insert. Official website: https://candydulfer. Nl/ LISTEN: https://youtu. #be/wL2D4Fph1KA * 180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL * INCLUDES INSERT * HER DEBUT ALBUM FEATURING THE SINGLES 'SAXUALITY' AND 'HEAVENLY CITY' * RECEIVED GRAMMY AWARD-NOMINATION FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY JAZZ ALBUM * REACHED #3 IN THE DUTCH ALBUM TOP 100 * LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED COPIES ON GOLD COLORED VINYL Track listing: SIDE A 1. Pee Wee 2. Saxuality 3. So What 4. Jazzid 5. Heavenly City SIDE B 1. Donja 2. There Goes The Neighbourhood 3. Mr. Lee 4. Get The Funk 5. Home Is Not A House Now listen WHILE you're lookin and thank me later. Lil note to you all in Europe, WHY DO I HAVE TO BREAK THIS ALBUM IN HERE??? YOU have ONE JOB TO DO. THAT'S IT! JUST ONE STINKIN JOB!!! Keep it up and ur gettin a lump of coal for Xmas! 😂

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Guess what came in today???????

@Bacek from one of "the red-headed stepchildren" as the "DJ" puts it welcome to the show & tell vinyl thread! The way I understand it the 45 rpm LPs are of better sound quality and are used by Analogue Recordings for their high end offerings. Bet it does sound good!

Extreme caution!! Those are known to cut finger tips like razor blades!! Next time get the Classical air guitar ones :), they require less stitches after playing

I'm glad to hear that you've found the amps that make you happiest, and I'm being sincere. I try to avoid BS. I've never heard really good tube amps, so I have no opinion about them. I know that the amps I use were designed for home use, and have their lowest distortion figures in the 6 to 10 watt range, and below that, they're still really good. They are the amps that make me happiest. Yes, truth and facts are important, especially in a hardware-centred hobby like ours, but making friends is at least as important as trading specifications, don't you think? They can certainly co-exist, and that's the kind of forum that I like. Keep in mind that perfection is a bit like the speed of light: it can be approached, but never attained. If a perfect amplifier was ever created, what would the company have to do to get repeat business? The Bold New Grille? Eventually, everyone who wanted their amps would have them, and that would be that. Time to shut down the business, unless they can get by selling company-branded shirts and caps.

For Axpona 2022 , klipsch bi-amped 2 S5. Rotel 500 wpc Michi amps for the Jubillee

My Chorus II are not designed to be bi-amped from the factory. Those Cornwall's have the ability to put a nice sounding 5 watt tuber on the top and a nice 500 watt solid stater on that big ole woofer. I have found it is my woofers in my Chorus that loves the watts. So I have found in my years of searching a pair of amps that sound great on my horns and able to take complete control of my woofers. This is a great forum and it really doesn't need polluted with personal attacks on amplifier preference. I am sure I would enjoy listening to every forum members systems. We all put a lot of time and effort into what we feel sounds best in our environments and preferences in music. I prefer classic, hard, progressive rock and heavy metal. Quite a few of those recordings have much to be desired and I probably listen a bit too loud sometimes.🙂 Give me 5 great watts for my horns, 500 watts for my woofers and 1000 watts for my subs.👍

Different amps have different characteristics, and vary in their sound presentation, clarity, detail retrieval, and so on. That said, a variety of amps can be said to sound excellent, while all sounding slightly different. In the same way, there are many different restaurants, all serving different styles of food (different "cuisines"). Which one is best? Which food is best? There can be many "very good', some "excellent", and so on. Best? Is great French food better than great Japanese food? That would be impossible to say. I have not heard Cornwalls, but I can say that La Scalas can sound great when powered with amplifiers putting out anything between 5 and 500 watts per speaker. The advantage of higher power is that clipping is less likely to become an issue, but depending on your choice of music and listening levels, that may never become an issue, so that factor could be irrelevant to you, while it might be a major concern for another person. So one can say that there is no best power amplifier for any speaker, just as there is no best speaker, although the Heritage Jubilee would have to be among the very best speakers, of course. There's no point in insulting each other, because this goes beyond the specs, as I discussed above. Beyond a certain threshold of sound quality/performance, there is a variety of amps that can be extremely satisfying to listen to. Can we just agree on that, and quit the sniping at each other?

sooo pity , I´m not a facebook member Charles

Another good tune ! https://www.facebook.com/100088852669817/videos/857214089402879/?idorvanity=379100825612533&mibextid=W9rl1R

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https://www.discogs.com/release/27306630-Wytch-Hazel-IV-Sacrament

Sitting next to my wood burning stove, enjoying a glass of Leffe Blond and playing some great music!

yes i have some amps ... collected during a few years (over 40 years). I also have Proton AA2120, Hiraga 8W class A Monster (DIY), Yves Cochet AL2 (EL34 PP - a french tube (or valve i do not know how you call it) amp maker). I tried Topping D Class amp, a little Musical Fidelity, a SAE 2200 power amp, a very old NAD 1020 preamp and some more. Over 40 years of trying to find the good sound .. In speakers, i had Onken with Iwata horn - jbl 2440 drivers, jbl 2405 tweeters, Fostex FT90h, T925, FT65, .. B&C drivers, Atlas sound pd-5vh when i tried to make La Scala clones, ect ect .. now i am trying to have a simple and good working hifi system .. with Cornwall IV speakers, McIntosh amp, an old Sony CDP-X7ESD cd, a little Logitech squeezebox Touch streamer, a Topping dx7s dac that i will not more use when i will receive my McIntosh MA7200 amp.

I listen at Concert levels. Not to Chamber Music. 🙂

I have a Tektronix 502A scope, all tubes. A battleship of its day. It still works fine except for one little issue. The front panel is 60 v above ground. I am not equipped to work on tube gear. Anyone have an idea how this is a happening? I have the tech manual for it. TIA!

I've had really good results using Benjamin Moore Advance Hybrid Alkyd Acrylic enamel.

I would like to bring an example. My tube amps have a very nice sound in some respects. I won't go into details, but spaciousness, strings, airiness and much more...everything is wonderful. Especially with Klipsch speakers, my old LaScala. But I want to balance my impressions a bit. For example, I really like that absolutely thick and powerful guitar tone of Jazz guitarist Pat Martino. His 1972 recording of "Road song" or "How intensitive" has a physicality and a powerful roundness over my Quad Transistor amps, especially my 606 Mk1, that none! of my tube amps can realize. I'm talking from 4 watt 6V6 single ended self build by a friend, Audion 300B 7 watt SET, Leak stereo 20 PP EL84, Quad2 KT66 PP, up to Mcintosh MC275 Mk4 KT88 and MC2101 8x KT88. This is not to say that my Quad606 is better in every way, it is not. But I am saying that there is no such thing as the best...apart from the synergies. My meanwhile 30 years old Tannoy 15" Alnico Canterbury also have high efficiency but the crossover is a bit tricky and they were designed for mighty SS amps...unlike the very old Tannoy gold monitors from the early 60s with 16 ohm coils and 20 watt max handling which are happy with everything tube. Mine have been in the 70s under the designation HPD385 in the Abbey Road and Decca Studios in London in Lockwood cabinets always paired with Quad SS amps. Alan Parsons has mixed with them the "Dark side of the moon" for instance at Abbey Road Studios. So please, there is not only one side of a non plus ultra. Both can please us to the highest level, tubes and sand, even AB sand...with the right partners in each case.

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Pullin out all the stops this year again huh? No waiting is ALWAYS a good thing. When the Bratwurst Festival started 50 years ago they'd have about 15 lined up on the tree lawn at the Elks where the beer garden was. Whoever owned them had those twist lock hasps on the outside of the door. Guess they'd lock them up so ppl didn't use them wherever they came from. Let the fun begin! Closed the hasp and twisted the other part of it mounted on the pot so no one could get out. Then it went to another level. Someone you didn't like went in and you'd lock him in and leave him there yellin for someone to let him out. Next step we'd get it rockin, tip it over and beat feet leavin him in there. Didn't take 'em long to post a rent-a-cop guardin the place. Just make sure it doesn't have a hasp on it before you go in. Ya never know!

If anyone wants to take this discussion of power needs of 100db speakers further I will more than happy to take this subject up on a technical forum. I belong to the majority of them but consider diyaudio.com as the one I like best. Those that only talk BS do not last long on a forum where truth and facts are more important than making friends. All that really matters is that single ended triode amplifiers are perfect with 5 to 7 watts for our speakers. Anyone that disagrees can certainly spend their money on something else. By the way the colorful reviewer guy on youtube, Steve Guttenberg, has nothing but praise for the Decware Zen with it's 2 watts of power with speakers other than horns. I guess many on this forum will consider him stupid like me and Nelson Pass.

First to admit my social schools are somewhat lacking. Sorry if anyone is offended by anything I said. I would not say there is an optimum power need but I will say a single ended triode amplifier with 5 to 7 watts will be more than adequate for most on this forum using our speakers. I want slightly more in a SS amplifier being a SS amp clips horribly whereas a SET that clips at 7watts will sound perfectly fine at say 10 watts. In other words you will not notice it. Nature of tube amplifiers. Being that I consider class A is superior to any other form of amplification one is limited to 15 to 25 watt amplifiers which I consider amplifiers by Nelson Pass as the best. Many will not say superior but no one with electronic knowledge will dispute as being purist form of amplification. Why, because the audio signal is not manipulated in any way and another plus is less parts in simple class A reproduction. By the way all SET tube amplifiers are run in class A.

Please, no fight .. I only asked what amp for my CW IV. I have tried some, and each are different .. Valve amp or SS. It's a reality that our klipsch speakers do not need much power (because of a high efficiency) but sometimes, woofer (15 inch) need a little more power that some tubes (valves) can give. It's my opinion. I have tried SE 300B amp, push Pull EL34, those amp i have are not enough powered or better said, do not go to wide in the bass frequencies .. My integrated amp Audio Analogue Maestro Grand integre drive the CW iV much better. If i ordered a McIntosh MA7200, it's also to see the two big blue eyes and to test my first McIntosh .. I have listen here and there that Mc amps work fine with Klipsch speaker. I think, it can't be so much people that make bad experience with Mc Amps .. they are not all liers .. But please, no fight. Everybody has it's own ears .. and we do not all like the same sounds .. Someone i know has CW III with Air Tight tube amp, and another with KT88 Jolida, and it sound very good ..

Sir, I do not want to argue for the sake of arguing as you have shown you want to do but it is obvious to me and the other electronic engineers, technicians and geeks on this forum you do not know what you are talking about. Those that understand the basics of tube circuits understand that the high voltage is only necessary for the tube to function. A transistor can do the same with a fraction of the voltage a tube requires and make far more watts. From previous post of yours about power needs of our speakers I also now know you do not know or understand the function and purpose of an oscilloscope and how it captures signals including transients where they can be seen. I see no purpose to continue discussing electronics with someone who will not listen to reason. A layman's test of power usage of a speaker can be performed with just an AC volt meter using ohms law with no elaborate test as Nelson Pass has done using a scope. I am first to admit I am not an electronic professional only a geek but I do have a basic understanding of electronics building and repairing audio products. I say all of this with no disrespect to you or others that consider the needs of our speakers to be mega watts but the fact is it is just not true. I am sure you are well respected in your field and have way more knowledge of that field than I do and I mean no disrespect. I want us to be friends and not adversaries and I hope we can move on from this.

you can buy a genuine used pair of Lascala quite inexpensively , go to the GARAGE SALE , and Alerts , deals come up on a regular basis

Sierra Hull, 36 seconds on a 5 string electric mandolin riffing a Polyphia song... keeping time bouncing her foot in the air.

mmmm the best part, I like my iodine fried. Sardines are good but I would never eat a oyster from a can. 🤢 We were at Rodney's once and he was cooking salmon, before he started I cut a nice piece and just started eating it, they all kind of freaked out so I did it again, I love salmon or tuna. Salmon kind of taste like really good raw beef, very close in taste.

Yes, good stuff. Your thyroid may want some iodine. Figure you have had shrimp in Florida.😎

Thanks everyone for the input/suggestions! Im going to try to get to painting this weekend. Satin Black, 2 coats. Should be good to go. Will send some photos when they are done. Cheers,

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I'm going back to sleep...

Hi, In 1988, I was in Sochaux, for the construction in the huge Peugeot factory of a new factory for the 405 car. I was doing earthworks to divert the river which passed through the middle of the industrial complex. I had an office in Etupes, a town near Sochaux and there were Peugeot Sport workshops: I see trucks with covered sports cars and sometimes 205 WRCs in the parking lot. A few months after the 1988 Pike Peak I saw Ari Vataneen's 405 at the Peugeot Museum in Sochaux which opened that year in 1988: it was huge with its black fins, there were also the 205 WRC and the 205 Paris -Dakar yellows https://laventure-association.com/laventure-peugeot/le-musee-de-laventure-peugeot/

https://www.discogs.com/release/12267615-UK-UK One of my favorite albums. Got it on vinyl as well but need a better copy in the future...

https://www.discogs.com/release/27943083-Isaac-Hayes-Shaft

sure you're right , no tubes to mess with , lots of clean SS 200wpc hahaha , most tube guys brag about their 2 and 5 watts amps .

Some drawbacks. They are not high enough, no handles, not stackable (which prevents women with large chests from using them), they are not nearly as sturdy as they used to be, and gack!, they charge you for them. Now here's one I use for my classical collection, some Latin records and my vinyl test records. A loose tea chest from China. Tin-lined and useful for flipping. Kinda cool looking too and I presume, still easily obtainable. And you can sing the Leonard Cohen line "all the tea in China".