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---------------- On 4/22/2005 9:59:50 AM Parrot wrote: ---------------- On 4/21/2005 10:18:06 PM DizRotus wrote: In the 70's, when I had a mobile DJ business, I would use this stuff prophylactically on new records. ---------------- Let me get this straight. When making love to music, the prophylactic goes on the record? ---------------- Wow I've been doing it wrong all these years after work today I am going to the Prophylactic Emporium.

My room is just a little too lively. I think if I put up just a few acoustic panels it would maike a big difference. What are the best locations for putting a few accoustic panels in Ceiling, side, front or back walls? I want to start with 4 24" by 24" by 2" thick panels.

Wow those are beautiful! The workmanship on the inside is impressive would love to hear a pair. Anyone in Little Rock have a pair ?

A while back there was a gathering at someones house where everyone was talking about this cheap lp cleaning system where you put the lp in and literally spun ? hand cranked it clean ? Anyone have a clue as to what i'm thinking of ?

---------------- On 4/21/2005 3:13:42 PM NOSValves wrote: You know I wonder if you some of you guy's listen to your gear or stand there smelling it http://forums.klipsch.com/idealbb/images/smilies/2.gif"> ---------------- It's a bit messy but i like to burn my hash on my tubes

I think a small scale riot is in order I'll pass out the pitch forks and torches : ) and SET amps : )

I like the fact that they spell CON out on the first page Sorry couldn't resist.

I want the Flying Cirus box set so bad it must be 15 DVDs. Of course right after i buy it the special criterion edition will come out at the same price. I hate it when that happens. Jones is dead sexy! LOL

How much power do you really need? I have been very supprised at the performance of my SET amps. My friends laughed when I told them my amps were 8wpc after they listened to them they thought I was pulling their legs and I had to show them the specs. Now I am curious at what volume I regularly listen hmm guess I need to got to RadioShack. What I love about my SET is the soundstage it's just perfect for me. The fact that i can sit down close my eyes and be able to hear each instrument clearly and at different places in the soundstage is just remarkable to me. Most reviews I have read about SET the downfall is the bass but with my Belles I have been happy with that as well. I still want some Quad II push pull amps for mostly nostalgic reasons as it was the first tube gear I ever heard and made me want to have tube gear.

---------------- On 4/17/2005 6:29:01 PM Tubes, Horns, and Buds wrote: There is alot of good new music out there for sure. Additional bands to listen to that are great: Wilco (especially Being There and Summer Teeth) Flaming Lips (Soft Bulletin, a true gem) Guided By Voices (All) Franz Ferdinand (British rock that makes a white guy want to dance) Moe (any live recording) Tenacious D (Jack Black at his absolute best, good music and hilarious) Modest Mouse (my favorite album name: Good News for People who Like Bad News) White Stripes Los Lonely Boys Queens of the Stone Age (if you like it a little heavier) For the record, I love The Dandy Warhols. ---------------- Cool thanks for the sugestions guys! Emo is not my cup of tea but I will check out the rest. I love the White Stripes and I hope they have the staying power instead of being short lived two album wonders. I like modest mouse and ten d. The flaming lips were the first live band I ever saw in 1988 or 1989 at DMZ or was it 7th and Chester in Little Rock they were terrible but the opening band the squids from Ft.Smith were great. The flaming lips improved over the years thank god as the afros, crush velvet, and smoke machine were scary.

I often hear people complain about the lack of good new music well IMHO opinion this is it..... I have not had this CD out of rotation in two weeks and still not tired of it all though the GF may be. That is the extent of my reviewing abilities so here is one I found. Experimental Jet-Set (Five Stars) Whatever-You-Call-It Music One can make the case that Brazilian Girls are too clever for their own good. Bands that are blessed with sexual persona, razor sharp wit, and intellect are often dismissed by the major music labels as too quirky or too scary to market. For over a year now, Brazilian Girls have been playing their stylish brand of experimental, jet-set, euro pop, world fusion, whatever-you-call-it music at the Nublu club in East Village, NYC. They are the band of the moment among New York's style conscious haute couture club crawlers who seemed drawn to the latest musical trend like moths to a flame. I've seen Brazilian Girls on a few occasions and this band deserves larger audience than the cadre of Manhattan wannabes, stockbrokers, and socialites who constitute the fringe of the "nearly famous" someone-or-anothers of the downtown art scene. Everyone inevitably falls under the spell of the vocalist, a mysterious European expatriate, Sabina Sciubba. Sabina commands the stage in a variety of outfits that appear to have been aquired from the costume department of a Zalman King production. The black lace eye mask and fishnets worked for me. She is a femme fatale in the Parisian tradition. As Raymond Chanler put it,"She's the kind of woman that would make the pope kick a hole in the stained glass window." Sabina's theatrical retro-cabaret performance is enhanced by the muscular groove of Brazilian Girls (who are actually men). Their improvised jams pulsate with rythyms and frenetic percussion that can fill a dance floor with or without Sabina. The music of the band explores samba, reggae, funk, French cafe musette, bossa nova, and just about any other sub-category of music beneath the umbrella of world fusion. Brazilian Girls integrate elements of both hip-hop and dub techniques to this strange array of music. The band even has ties to John Zorn and many of the downtown avant-garde musicians and performance artists who play the Bowery Ballroom, Knitting Factory and CB's Gallery and Lounge circuit. Brazilian Girls are so expansive and pluralistic in their musical approach, it is daunting to even describe their music to anyone, much less market it to a specific demographic group. The opening song, "Home" sounds a late Sixties song from the catalog of French pop stars, Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsboro. Birkin and Gainsboro's playful musical excursions were wrought with innuendo, double entendres, implicit and often explicit sexual imagery. In 1970, Jane Birkin was demonized by the protectors of our morality by either faking, or actually having multiple orgasms on the song "Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus"....only Ms. Birkin knows for sure. Like Birkin, Sabina can be sexually provactive to the point actually raising the body temperature and steaming the eyeglasses of the modern day Puritans who label her lyrics as purient. She can strike terror in the hearts of those men fear her unfettered feline sexuality. The worst enemy of the a bible thumping, anti-sexuality police state is the pleaure of orgasm. Sabina's provocative lyrics on "*****", a one-drop reggae song that praises of the aphrodisiac qualities of ganja is a gleeful tweak at the those same gaurdians of morality."Don't Stop" sounds like a sexually charged version of groove laid down by sunny trip-hop of the London based band, Saint Etienne. The swaying samba of "Lazy Lover" and "Sirè Nes de la Fête" invite comparisons to Astrid Gilberto but Sabina subverts each song by adding brusque spoken commentary in German and French, respectively. "Corner Store" transforms a lilting reggae riddim with a dark lyric straight out of Bertolt Brecht/KurtWeill opera. Sabina's obsessive, sensual and world weary lyrics are a subtle reframing of many themes that preoccupied Bertolt Brecht. Like the best Brecht/Weill songs, the Brazilian Girls' music leaves the listener with a profound sense of disorientation. Sabina's dark and edgy existentialism is a jarring counterpoint to the melodic lilt of the reggae and sonorous beat of the Brazilian puita friction drums. The closing tune "Ships In the Night" opens with the eerie sound of a solitary whistler. The theme of "Ships in the Night" embodies the French attitude of "C'est la Vie"; the idea that life seldom turns out the way we expected. "Ships In the Night" is a parable of "C'est la Vie"...Two lovers agree to end the illusion of love over a drink at last call...Closing time is often the darkest hour of the night for disenchanted lovers. The hour of "C'est la Vie", finality, closure and sad farewells. We can only hope that the abundantly talented Brazilian Girls don't become an object lesson in the meaning "C'est la Vie." Let's hope the Brazilian Girls' ship in the night finds their audience and a safe harbor to launch their promising musical career. Downloads available @ http://www.myspace.com/braziliangirls

Not like anything ever stays whithin budget : ) I would take some Josh Stipich 2A3's and one of his mercury vapor preamps to go with my Belles. Looks like hos site has been upgraded hmmmm shiny : ) http://www.electronluv.com/html/hifi/hifi.jsp

Even though I am a pessimist it sounds like it could even be good news : ) I really can't believe that they would alter a member of the heritage line of speakers. Perhaps drop or add from the line but not alter. I have had my Belles for about two years and so far three friends have bought from the heritage line after hearing mine. It would be nice to see fresh marketing and investment aimed at the Heritage line.

---------------- On 4/13/2005 9:03:56 PM richieb wrote: This development just reinforces what was said when I first brought my Oak/Cane Belles home - "Fear not Ms. Belle, you have now found a PERMANENT home". ---------------- I wish my Belles were cane. Thats the only thing I would change anout mine.

Sounds like insane sacrilidge to me. I am glad I got my Belles. Instead of butchering the heritage bring back all the old heritage speakers.

A friend has a 70's Thorens and it is built like a tank. I have a music hall and it is ok but I can't get over the build quality of the thorens. These can be had for very reasonable prices 200-500. I think he paid $200 for his. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=48649&item=5767210519&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=73371&item=5571150127&rd=1 I bet this quad II's would rock some cornwalls the bid is up to $880 but dam are these clean and never modified. Wish I had the cash.

************** Most interestingly it is an "all tube" recording - very audiophile of course - but I have had more diverse reactions to it than any other recording I own. For example - I adore it and Tony loathes it with a vengence - as a recording that is. ************** I know what you mean about the all tube recordings. I recently started listening to T-Rex and was immediately struck by how well his recordings sounded so I looked up his producer which was Tony Visconti. As it turns out all of T-Rexs albums were recorded on all tube analog which Tony Visconti still uses to this day.

---------------- On 4/10/2005 12:42:27 AM codhead wrote: Thanks. This little system has turned out to be quite addicting. I'm happy that I've managed to select components that play so well together, but the Alnico drivers have left me wanting for an improvement in my main system. Another wonderful but frustrating audio experience! ---------------- At least with the heritage line there are only so many upgrades you can do LOL.. Cornwall-->LaScala-->Belle--->Khorn..... : ) Congrats on the Hereseys glad they are in good shape hate that bent box feeling...

I am actually borrowing a friends cdp so I would need transport and dac but I will keep an eye out on the AG site. Do I really need a sub with the Belles maybe not : ) but the custom made sub is beautiful and was made to match the Belles. I heard it when I auditioned the Belles and I can honestly say on some passages I noticed when the sub was not in play not alot but enough to be interesting. I have some good mics at work gonna have to bring one home to try out. I have had really bad luck with electronics and ups or fedex. I almost hate to do it anymore. Good luck with FedEX perhaps you'll take to someone willing to help uhhh I mean good luck with the Welbournes...

The moth gear looks incredible but I want the nightlight. I bought the Wright Pre based on recommendations from you and members of this forum everyone made it clear that the 6SN7 was the way to go. I am still saving up for a good CDP source hopefully an AH! 4000 and a subwoofer amp and crossover. This hobby turned out to be more expensive than I thought lol. I downloaded Fuzz but do I need a proper mike to get a good reading? Looks interesting. I really wish there was more tube gear locally as I would love to hear differnt tube systems. I met some local audiophiles the other night and we may start meeting soon to listen to gear but I am the only one with toobs. How did that DIY project go you were working on?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/05/greatrecordings.ap/index.html "WASHINGTON (AP) -- The discovery of a previously unknown recording by jazz masters Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane was announced Tuesday by the Library of Congress as it revealed this year's additions to its National Recording Registry." "The newly discovered performance by pianist Monk and saxophonist Coltrane at Carnegie Hall was never commercially recorded, the library said. The collaboration is not one of the 50 recordings being added to the registry." Why the bloody hell not~! Do they release music from the archives of the National Recording Registry?

---------------- On 4/4/2005 5:44:24 PM codhead wrote: Hey SETI - bet you've got my other pair of CA-300's! Treasure those output tubes, cause they don't make the heavy ones like that anymore (and they don't sound as nice either). ---------------- LOL were they Canary Blue! I guess the internet isn't that big after all : ) The CA-300's won't be leaving my possesion any time soon very happy with them. The only thing I have had to do is replace the 6SL7's that went out with some Sylvania military chrome domes. The george wright preamp was a good purchase as well but I need to order some 6SN7's soon hopefully next month. The JJ 300B's sound dreamy and the bass is much better than I expected. People told me the 300B was not great with bass but I guess I was fooled.

Oh cool! Thank you so much. I have been searching the web incesantly. That was one of 6 rectifiers I received with a George Wright preamp but I am currently using the Mullard EZ35. I don't think my ears are that tuned to tube rolling yet. I can tell extreme differences but not subtle ones. Wow I noticed in your profile that you have a Canary preamp I have the CA-300 monoblocks. I almost bought the CA-301s.

Image attached This tube is driving me crazy can't figure out who made it any ideas ? Second from the right brown base with white print. Markings It is a 6X5GT 7210 CV574 KB/FE Is there a good tube indentification site ?