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We have a winner! (a fellow Texan at that....)

I just happen to have one that's new, first email to asmuck@sbcglobal.net gets it....

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Look terrific Michael. I have to say, my new speakers have Speakons and man is that a more user friendly connection, nice work!

Best part might be that it's a definite sign that she's given up on trying to stifle the spend on my audio habit!

Thanks, I thought it was pretty cool myself! Here's their site Bill http://www.customisolation.com/

Absolutely Check out what my wife had made for me...I may have to keep her [A]

Does a new rack for my gear count?

Great point Carl, good catch. Oldbuckster, Bill at Response is in upstate NY, you should drop him a line to discuss the Jolida and I believe he offers modded versions, not positive. You can find him over at Audio Circle as well.

Kind of odd given that I know Bill at Response, have worked with him and am working with him on gear currently, and he is the exact opposite of what the seller describes. Bill is a very quick communicator and really customer friendly in my experience.

There's a right or wrong answer for every individual, but not universally. Personally, I have a decent level of playback rig for both CD and vinyl, and enjoy both in pretty equal amounts....mood, music, recording, number of glasses of wine, all play a role in which sounds better to me in a given listen...

Dang it Jeff, I'll be in Chicago at a wedding that weekend, I always seem to get aced out when you're hosting something...bummer...have an enjoyable day everyone who can make it, the systems look great!

Lamm makes sweet gear, true enough....sounds like a great system

We're pretty lucky at our place in Fort Worth. Quite a bit of my property, landscaping and my pool have been brutalized, but we're thankful.... 1 - everyone here is safe and sound 2 - the house has been relatively untouched 3 - the audio room is upstairs.....[] All in all a pretty tough spring for our area, lots of homes and some lives lost, it's been really rough and pretty depressing....but soon it will be 105 and we'll have more bugs than ever before, so we have that going for us! Thanks for the kind thoughts and well wishes guys....

Nic - long long time no talk to, that's great news....congrats! (you can always get more gear, the right girl is the move here dude, well played)

2005 Escalade ESV Platinum.....White Diamond paint....it's the Sopranomobile....

Off topic, but I did start this thread five years ago...thought you guys might get a laugh out of this...I forgot I ever owned a Jolida player until I saw this thread again today, and even then it took me a few minutes to recollect, I was worried someone had posted under my name until I saw the date......I can't remember what tubes I ended up with....but did get a kick out of how far my brain has declined, okay maybe it was depressing......[:$]

Hi guys, I hosted the amp shootout at my place and was the "roadie" who determined the shootout method, switched all the gear as we went and did all the writing for the article. I had the luxury of having all the amps in my place for a couple of weeks prior and the Trends is a sweet little performer. A couple guys I know have the Michael Mardis modded version and have said it is a step way up from the stock, just more of everything...that's second hand so insert grain of salt here....the speakers from the shootout are 91db efficient line arrays, so I think you'd get some more out of them driving horns than we heard, but peaks of 80ish were the best it could get on my speakers....very balanced sound and really incredible tonality with it....I got one just because it sounded so sweet...now to find some horns for a second system with it....

Can't get the pic to load, but here's my cable junction http://www.audiocircle.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=1480&pos=5 http://www.audiocircle.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=0''>http://www.audiocircle.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=0' mce_href="http://www.audiocircle.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=0">

I'd take a look at these as well. gary warrants his product for life, whoever owns it. They are super smooth and can drive RF-7's easily.... http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstube&1179536707

I'm actually in unincorporated Fort Worth, right near Haslet, drop me a note and let's figure out a good time to come by. This weekend will be tough with the race traffic, but if you're brave, I'll be around....

Do we need to upgrade you to Captain Seadog?

Which is next weekend isn't it? Yep, race weekend is next weekend........[]