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They look beautiful! Fantastic work for "no cabinet maker".

I have Linda Ronstadt's Heart Like a Wheel on vinyl and the seamless segue from When Will I Be Loved to Willin' has always been magic to me. I haven't found that same segue on any other medium. That probably isn't a very rational justification for owning a turntable and keeping a bunch of vinyl, but I'm old enough and have enough money that I can get away with it. Not the worst reasoning...LOL

I can't make out the script...what is it?

That is the way I read it.

The initial post says he is using a JBL SDA-2200 in bridged mode. I just looked it up and it is, in fact, a two-channel amp that can be bridged for up to 1100 watts into 4 ohms. I'm thinking the guess of dropping the ohms too low by linking all the speakers together is the problem.

Well, the Hawkeyes lost, but the lasagna was great!

I will look into this and give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion.

Thank you for checking this.

I'm listening to these through Amazon Music over my Bluesound Node and the icon below the cover art says HR. I believe that is supposed to be Hi-Res. I wondered if what I'm hearing is distortion that occurred during the recording process. In all the places where I hear it, it is where more than one instrument is hitting the note hard. I can imagine it would be quite loud live, but on the recording it isn't. Interestingly, when there is a sax solo there isn't any distortion. Tis a puzzlement.

I've been noticing a harsh, distorted sound associated with saxophones on some jazz recordings. Only saxophones. For example, I'm listening to an HD version of Kind of Blue. In the Opening bars of So What, when the sax comes in, there is a very gritty sound from my right speaker. At the beginning of Freddie Freeloader it is in the left speaker. I noticed the same thing the other night when I was listening to Take Five. It never happens throughout the entire recording, though. And, I haven't noticed this on anything but some older jazz recordings. It may be there, but I haven't heard it. Has anyone else noticed anything like this?

Getting together with friends to root for Iowa this evening. What I'm really rooting for, though, is the big pan of lasagna my wife made for the group.

This is a forum I access via the internet. I read this here, therefore I accept it as truth. 🙃

Now, THAT would be a lovely gift, indeed. 🥳

Is kicking wires the audiophile equivalent of a gearhead kicking tires? 🤣

Thinking will get you in trouble every time. 😉

I used it for the first time this past Sunday and stayed with the same station for several hours. I didn't have any problems, but that may not be representative. I'm still learning how to use the BlueOS app, so I don't know if direct stream is even an option for me.

My Bluesound Node 3 offers TuneIn. I haven't used it much, yet, but plan to start exploring. I live in central Iowa and radio here is pretty much a wasteland. I hope this thread takes off so I can get suggestions of stations to try.

And, sadly, Dawn Wells is no longer with us.

LOL...retirement is a big plus.

I had never paid careful attention to the cabinet and, until I took everything apart to clean it, assumed it was a veneered plywood. Mine is not. it is a very dense particle board of some sort, but with a great veneer.

Wow, that is stunning! I really like the black faceplate. I may look for one.

Well, if we're going to branch out...

@henry4841 Your Sony is a beauty! This is my 1973 Marantz 1060. I bought it in 1974 and used it for several years. In the late 80s, I replaced it with a Denon integrated then later with a Rotel multi-channel system. A few years ago, I thought I might sell it since I wasn't using it. I pulled it out of storage, cleaned it up, and replaced a switch that had gone bad. The walnut case had dried out a bit over the years so I cleaned it, gave it a once over with some 0000 steel wool, then a few coats of finish oil. Other than the worn screen printing over the Power button, it looks great. So great that I decided to keep it with plans to someday re-cap it. I finally tackled the rebuild a couple of years ago with new/larger caps and replaced the output transistors at the same time. My brother-in-law has a stock 1060 of approximately the same vintage and we put them together one day so we could A/B them to see if we could really tell a difference. We could, and it was pretty amazing. The upgrade turned this already good amp into something special and I've been using it since. I don't plan to let this one go.

I had beautiful collector editions of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy that I lost when our house burned. Beyond being beautiful books, the set had a particular personal significance so I don't intend to replace them, but do miss having them.

@AndreG. I agree that your German edition is stunning! I do almost all my reading on my iPad these days. I do miss having a real book in my hands, though. I've just started a book called The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams. So far, so good.