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Hey! Congrats!! Mine just turned 1 and 3. Your life as you knew it is so O-V-E-R!!!! (usually in a good way, though, no worries...)

Build it. It's fun. Sub? Blah. Have your dad get the S.E.X., a nice fostex based, or similar (like those ones that Mark Deneen keeps posting about!), single driver speaker, and an Oppo for cd duties. Hot damn! It's magic with money to spare.

NIce! Beautiful arm...looks like a Grey or an old GRace.

There is a new one by Art Dudley in the latest issue as well.

It's pouring over here, so I'm inside with my Delirium Tremens.

Probably some are, but that statement is way too broad. I've had three and they were all fine. It's a fantastic turntable and I'd hate to see someone turned off by this.

Get a press from Bodum (maybe $15). That might do it for you.

However - gas has gone up nearly 300% in the last 5 years. I don't know where you are buying rice from - but I pay less for it now than I did 5 years ago - however milk has nearly tripled in the same time period. Interesting that my pay does not reflect these same changes. There is some weird rice problem going on, though as some of the stores in our area (Sam's?) have limited the amount you can buy.

Uh oh...I see a PayPal shakedown in your future. PayPal / eBay has really become difficult for sellers lately. I recently sold about 4 items on eBay after not using my account for almost 2 years. Now they have frozen my account for "suspicious activity" which means I cannot access a balance of several thousand dollars until I jump through multiple hoops including providing tracking numbers for every item, verifying a bank account, verifying my address among others. Anyone want to guess if they are making interest on my balance in the meantime?

I love that reasoning...nitelife is better, girls are hotter, crime is lower, whale oil is plentiful, Bjork. That is worth the extra $4 per.

$4.09/99 per gallon here in Chicago; damn near $60 (Saab 4door sedan) fill-up! Wow!!

Thanks again, Mark. Looking forward to the official release. I've received the Peach II from Glen (actually got it about a week ago) and am enjoying it immensely as I did the BBX. As soon as I can get off my lazy bones, I'll be pairing it with a Rowland 112 and exploring the world of (hopefully!) not crappy solid state.

Nice, Mark. Thanks. Curious, was the switch done for sonic reasons or parts availability / cost reasons? Any pics of the new chassis?

Can you spill the beans on the specifics of the update or do we have to wait until the 25th?

Didn't Gary Thain die from a heroin overdose?

Really REALLY strange statement from a guy with Tenor amp$.

I guess it's a comment about Russian vodka that your friend uses Swedish vodka?

Looks kinda steampunk to me. The veneer is awfully nice, a little flashy for my taste, but a certain kind of beautiful. From an interior design perspective, I'm trying to think of the kind of house in which those would look natural. Drawing a blank. I'm pretty sure those houses haven't been built yet...or they are in the past...I'm thinking maybe the sitting room of Jules Verne.

That's where I'm missing the logic though. Seems to me in just about any application, you can buy a 'consumer grade' tool or a 'professional grade' tool to do the same job (Snapon wrench -vs- ?? Craftsman?... Hilti verses Black & Decker) I'd suggest that someone take a Black & Decker hammer drill and go punch maybe 10, one inch holes in concrete (it's made for that job, right?? it is a hammer drill) Now, go get a Hilti and punch 10 more holes... then tell me which one you'd rather me buy you for Christmas!! Just seems to me in about any application the "professional" is going to win out yet, here in this arena, all the sudden (and as best I can tell) most if not all "pro" amps are in some way inferior to (ostensibly 'nicer' verses walmart brand) home amps? I can certainly understand that a named professional might not be as good as a named home brand but it just doesn't make sense to suggest home amps are by & large, better in the home than pro amps as a catagory (my interpretation of what I've been reading over last several weeks) Aren't they all doing the same thing? (amplifying) Nvermind. No kidding.

My sense (and I'm not quoting anyone directly, is that this argument does sort of play to those who think that pro amps are just swell for home applications. In other words, that a pro amp is being asked to do the same thing as a "home" amp ("big" or "clean" sound being some of the descriptive words tossed about) as a Milwaukee is basically asked to do the same job as a Black and Decker. Advocates of home amps for home use, however, will likely tell you that these are different tools for different jobs...

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Are you insane?

Yeah - I saw this before, but couldn't quite figure it out. How the heck could you ship this thing?

QUOTE: "Given the existence of musical-instrument energy above 20 kilohertz, it is natural to ask whether the energy matters to human perception or music recording. The common view is that energy above 20 kHz does not matter, but AES preprint 3207 by Oohashi et al. claims that reproduced sound above 26 kHz "induces activation of alpha-EEG (electroencephalogram) rhythms that persist in the absence of high frequency stimulation, and can affect perception of sound quality." [4] END QUOTE Here's the study: http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~boyk/spectra/spectra.htm In short, the author shows musical instruments with SUBSTANTIAL energy out to 100khz. And, in the secondary analysis he quotes the Oohashi paper to support the idea that people can and do process this information in the brain, and know when it is "missing." Secondly, there is an alternative and much more logical explanation for why PA amps are bandwidth limited: lower cost and high reliability, the twin towers of pro design. So good engineering practice would dictate the LOWEST and SLOWEST that would be tolerated in the application. For PA work, that is really slow, and really low. Just because there is a quote and a study doesn't mean the whole premise studied and reported is not utter quackery. I believe you found a quack. It seems these people congregate wherever there are masses yearning for improvement. I especially love the medical ones that claim "The cure for cancer the government does not want you to know." Seems the last I knew, there were some very, very, very rich musicians - capable of purchasing the most expensive equipment available - buying up and using all this professional - LOW and SLOW - equipment. Sorry, but this is horsepuckey. Perhaps there are some substantial sonic differences between these two classes of equipment - whatever they might be. But, I can assure you most of the time, you will find, regardless of the category, that there is plenty of junk in each and plenty of great stuff in each. I don't think you can slap a broad brush argument against these amps based on an over-simplified categorization as has been attempted. Ten-to-one, I bet once you've spent $2,000 (cost new) on an amp, you'd find the odds of a person discerning which is which to be slim-to-none. If you A-B'd them back and forth about 10-20 times, you might be able to pick up some very, very fine distinctions. Before that, the distinctions were almost discardible, but now that an "afficionado" knows they are there, they become all so important. It's strange that way. Much like a $300 bottle of wine, when Beringer is a really good buy for the money. Awesome. Pro amps are good this week.