Travis In Austin
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Gary,
My God, I go away for a couple of days to enjoy Van Morrison in concert and looked what you caused. I dare you to post a Tube vs. SS post or better yet, post a review how you just bought some $2000 speaker cables and now the BC Tweeters sound better then the K77 and you have changed your mind again[
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Travis,
When the amps arrive and your setting things up if you have any questions at all feel free to call me or shoot me an email with your number and I'll call you my LD is free so no big deal. Congratulations on your new toys!
Craig
Craig,
Thank you so much on that gracious offer. Says a lot about you and your amps that you are willing to stand behind them even if you did not profit from the sale.
I sure do appreciate it and will for sure be giving you a call at some point.
Travis
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I shipped those beautiful amps off to Houstin yesterday.
Scott,
I am so grateful that you shipped them yesterday, but hopefully you are a typical Yankee and don't know the difference between Houston and Austin. <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Austin, where I live, is the Capital of Texas, live music capitol of the world, home of Willie Nelson, Lance Armstrong, and formerly Cheryl Crow. Houston is a three hour drive to the Southeast, its the largest city in the south, one of the largest ports, they have the Astrodome, Astros, which no longer play in the Astrodome, an NFL team I have never heard of, they dont play in the dome either, and Mission Control (Houston we have a problem).
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So if you sent those speakers to Houston give me the address so I can go camp out on that persons lawn while I wait for the USPS/UPS/FedEx/DHL driver to arrive and I can grab my VRDs and then drive back to Austin.
Since you outed yourself, who makes the best lobster roll in Maine?
Travis
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Gotta love those SECRETS!
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I heard so many good comments about Craig's VRD's I went and bought me an almost unused pair from a forum member and he says they will arrive about this Friday. I forgot to ask said forum member if he had any objection to me using his name, so all I can say is he hangs with Gary once in awhile in M.D., coaches tennis (when I grow up and retire I want that job, or women's swim coach). I am hoping they do arrive this Friday so I can get them home and unpacked and start doing some reviewing on my own.
Stay tunned.
Travis
P.S. OT: Who makes the best lobster roll in Maine?
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Chris,
I am a little over an hour away? What do you need?
Travis
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Pink Floyd
in Lounge
Does this bring back any concert memories???
Born,
What concert(s) were those photos from?
Travis
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I take it you are considering seeing Galen here in San Antonio? Have you been to Ne Plus Ultra in Austin? http://www.neplusultrainc.comMax,
... I am going to need to travel an hour South or 3 hours North to demo one.
Travis
Yes, indeed, Galen has always done right by me, I like to do business with him whenever possible. I am going to make a trip to Ne Plus, I have been afraid to go in there, might lead to going off the deep end in Audio and then divorce. I am going to wear blinders when I go in and tell him that I only want to see the TT. However, he does have the Avantgarde set up, which scares me the most. $20K horn speakers that sound just incredible, I believe 103db efficiency, Have to stay away from those for sure.
Travis
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Max,
Just saw your post, incredible, and thank you very much. Not too long at all, was precisely was what I was looking for. Going to do some more reseach on it and see, but this looks like the way to go for me. The Nottingham, like your TT, can also be done in a multiple arm setup, which is really the way I want to go. One for arm for stereo and one for mono. But with the clear audio I could go one linear, and one with one of the longer tone arms you mentioned. It would seem like I need to do some reseach, get with my dealer(s) to see this thing do a demo. I am for sure going to have to go see the dealer in Austin because I am not going to have the skills to do what you have done with the LT, so I will have to make him do it.
Thanks again!!!
Travis
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Max,
Thanks for the info.. Is there much of a difference between the Tangent and TQ-1 linear tonearms other then the $1,250 price difference? What does the tonearm do when it hits the deadwax at the end, does it automaticaly lift or is it strictly manual? Is there much to moving the tonearm into place after the record is on the platter, in other words does it simply pivot into place. Sorry about the questions, unfortunately, we don't have a dealer here in Austin and I am going to need to travel an hour South or 3 hours North to demo one.
Travis
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Looks Sweeeeeeet!
Where did you get the carpet, what brand?
Travis
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Indy,
Where are the photos, the one in your profile has red X. I am dying to see this thing.
Travis
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Pink Floyd
in Lounge
I saw Floyd 3 times, but the best was in 1977 in Boston Garden. It was their "Animals" tour and I was in row 17 center. I was so blown away that I couldn't talk for 2 weeks!! It still ranks as "the BEST concert that I have ever been to".
Wow,
That really brings back some memories. I saw them on their Animals Tour at the Oakland Collisuem. I was in the front row, there were 8 of us, we were not dead center though, we were at the left end of the stage (Stage Right), which put us dead center in front of Gilmore. I was 17 and was so wasted at that concert. I remember it was the best concert I have ever been to, but I can't really remember anything specific about the concert at all. I do remember that Giant inflatable pig floating down from the back of the with bright red lights for eyes. I remember there were several other inflateables that they used during that concert, but can't remember what they were. I remember the giant circular screen behind the band, I remember they played Money as the first song of their 5 song encore, and all the money flashing by on that screne.
I remember seeing that giant am/fm radio set up on it's own stand with a mike right in front of it. The start of that song Roger Waters was tuning live to local SF/Bay Area stations, he hit a great station playing a great song, wish I could remember that song.
That was quite a trip. I took about 6 rolls of film of that concert with Ektrachrome 400 slide film pushed to 1600. I let my Swim coach borrow them to make prints and never saw them again. I have to track his *** down and get those slides, there were some great shots in there.
Travis
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RIP Brother, a true classic. His movies were sooooooooo good.
Travis
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http://www.tracertek.com/spin_clean.htm
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http://www.garage-a-records.com/spin.htmlIf anyone is interested in the Spin Clean system, I have one I need to get rid of (wife bought me a VPI for XMAS). I cleaned less then 25 records with it, and purchased extra cleaning solution for it. I may be missing one of the two plastic rollers that the record rotates on (I would fire the maid but she is too good looking). If anyone is interested let me know and I will make one last hard ditch search for the roller, and if no luck, I will order another one from the Manuf.
Travis
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Max,
Have you ever run you Clearaudtio TT in a multiple tonearm configuration. I am looking to upgrade my TT now, but was thinking it would be cheaper in the long run to just pull the trigger on the Clearaudio with one tonearm with stereo cartridge, and then upgrade it with an additional tonearm and mono cartridge as opposed to two seperate TT, arms and cartridges.
So, from what I have seen so far, I beleive your rig is the only one capable of running multiple tonearms and was wondering if you have ever tried it?
Travis
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Craig,
Out thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
Gods speed man,
Travis
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Does anyone own a SME 20/2, there is one for sale on Audiogon that is about 10 minutes from me.
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgtabl&1145839590
There is also a Thorens TD-850 for sale by another guy I have done business with here in Austin.
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgtabl&1144179705
Just wanted to see if anyone had any firsthand experience with either of these TT, I am looking to upgrade what I have now, just not sure how much I want to upgrade.
There is a Basis Debut Signature Vacuum w/ vector lll arm down the road, but for 13.5K I don't think I want to upgrade that much.
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgtabl&1145386222
Any thoughts?
Travis
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Chris,
I will tell you about your Cornwalls, and there is no easy way to put this, so I am just going to go ahead and say it: they were adopted. Yes adopted, it doesn't mean that they were not loved or unwanted, the original owner just didn't have room anymore, like all parents they moved up in the progression of life and bought LaScallas, the CW's were put in the extra room, Then came along a 2.33 children, a dog and a cat, and KHorns. As hard as this is to say, the CWs were relegated to the garage for a short while, albeit under wraps and a other protection. While your CW's were very much loved and appreciated by their original owners, there was just not enough room for them. It was because they did understand there beauty and enjoyment that they decided that it was too selfish to keep them for themselves so they looked long and hard to find some good new owners.
They did have some ups and downs along the way, and were even slightly mistreated, however, they come from good clean stock and you will never be able to tell. So while they are adopted, that does not mean they are inferior in anyway. In fact, they are special, because they were selected and wanted for precisely who they were, by you.
I will leave for another time the tales of all that they have been through. You now know there birth date, and you can have the satisfaction of having a special month for them each year.
Enjoy the hell out of em!
Travis
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Looks like the Dr. had another late night, Oh to be young again.
Travis
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Dang,
Sounds like a fun trip, makes me really pumped up for the Hope get together.
So where does "Steamer" come from, I don't think Colter ever said.
Travis
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Pet Sounds is absolutely incredibile, you have to have the mono lp, which is the way it was originally recorded. The rechanneled "stereo" does not sound good at all. Brain Wilson remixed it for the DVD-A, it comes in the original mono, a pretty good stereo mix, and a great surround mix, but none are as good as the mono lp, IMHO.
As far as overdubbing, Brian Wilson practically invented overdubbing, it was a required evil because of the limited tracts available at the time and Wilson doing everything in the studio in a modular approach. It would actually go to 24 tracks of analog, not 16 tracks of digital.
Travis
Please, can we give credit for inventing overdubbing to Les Paul, with George Martin and Brian WIlson really putting it to good first commercial use.
DrWho, check this out your history books
From Wikipedia:
The overdub was first used by inventor and guitarist Les Paul on his 1947 "Lover (When You're Near Me)", featuring eight different electric guitar pieces. His later work would be seminal in the popularization of multi-track recording.
Colter,
I stand corrected and mispoke. Brian Wilson was the one who began to utilize the full potential of multitrack overdubbing, which many others then began to follow. Pet Sounds was a major breakthrough in multitrack overdubbing.
With regard to the significance of Pet Sounds, this is what a few folks have said about Brian Wilson and Pet Sounds:
George Martin
If there is one person that I have to select as a living genius of pop music, I would choose Brian Wilson. Without Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper wouldn't have happened... Pepper was an attempt to equal Pet Sounds.
Paul McCartney
It was Pet Sounds that blew me out of the water. I love the album so much. I've just bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life ... I figure no one is educated musically 'til they've heard that album ... I love the orchestra, the arrangements ... it may be going overboard to say it's the classic of the century ... but to me, it certainly is a total, classic record that is unbeatable in many ways ... I've often played Pet Sounds and cried.
I played it to John so much that it would be difficult for him to escape the influence ... it was the record of the time. The thing that really made me sit up and take notice was the bass lines ... and also, putting melodies in the bass line. That I think was probably the big influence that set me thinking when we recorded 'Pepper', it set me off on a period I had then for a couple of years of nearly always writing quite melodic bass lines.
"God Only Knows" is a big favorite of mine ... very emotional, always a bit of a choker for me, that one. On "You Still Believe In Me", I love that melody - that kills me ... that's my favorite, I think ... it's so beautiful right at the end ... comes surging back in these multi-colored harmonies ... sends shivers up my spine."
Speaking of Deja Vu and CSYN:David Crosby
He was the most highly regarded pop musician in America, hands down. Everybody by that time had figured out who was writing and arranging it all. "In My Room" was the defining point for me. When I heard it, I thought "I give up - I can't do that - I'll never be able to do that."
Eric Clapton
All of us, Ginger (Baker), Jack (Bruce), and I consider Pet Sounds to be one of the greatest pop LPs to ever be released. It encompasses everthing that's ever knocked me out and rolled it all into one. Brian Wilson is, without a doubt, a pop genius.
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In there a forum member in WA. that is close by that they can give these things a listen? Would be interesting to hear how they sound. There is a guy in Spring, Texas that makes several models of speakers that are closely releated to Klipsch Herritage line. He has been the subject of previous threads, his stuff looks great and supposedly sounds great too.
There was a good market for this type of thing until Klipsch revamped the Heritage line. It's little guys like that who probably got Klipsch to wake up on Heritage.
Travis
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Pet Sounds is absolutely incredibile, you have to have the mono lp, which is the way it was originally recorded. The rechanneled "stereo" does not sound good at all. Brain Wilson remixed it for the DVD-A, it comes in the original mono, a pretty good stereo mix, and a great surround mix, but none are as good as the mono lp, IMHO.
As far as overdubbing, Brian Wilson practically invented overdubbing, it was a required evil because of the limited tracts available at the time and Wilson doing everything in the studio in a modular approach. It would actually go to 24 tracks of analog, not 16 tracks of digital.
Travis
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Poll: Are you the original owner of your Klipsch Heritage Speaker
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Just a suggestion, but you may want to add a couple of choices: "Don't own heritage" and "Own Heritage, but not original owner." That way you can compare how many are on the forums who saw your post but don't fit in the catagory, and most importantly, how many non-original owners there are compared to original owners.
I have second hand LS's and Heresay, original owner of KG-4's. I was too poor to get them in the 70's, and the internet has opened up a great second hand market.
Travis