Wow!! - My system sounds Great !!

[Piranha]

You have to love Mammoth Mountain. It doesn't get much better than that as far as local skiing goes out here.

[Klipschfoot]

something about the cadence of that line

[LonestarBlues]

Great pictures Kevin. I like to eat fish but have not fished in years. I should take up fishing again. Here in Corpus Christi we have salt water fishing-bays & Gulf of Mexico. And fresh water fishing-several rivers & a lake nearby. I used to own a boat & water ski back in the 80's. We used to ski in the Aransas River-the Welder Ranch & Wildlife Refuge border the river. The river has alligators but they were well fed & never bothered any one. Thank God. We used to see gators all the time & had a running joke among us friends as wiping out & being gator bait. I used to snow ski on a regular basis when I lived in New Mexico & West Texas. I was a decent intermediate skier, could ski easy black runs, stuck mainly to blue runs & easy black runs. I knew my limitations, no double black diamond runs for me. Used to go to Angel Fire, Red River, Santa Fe & Taos. Taos was the the best New Mexico has to offer. Used to go to Colorado also Wolf Creek, Arapahoe Basin, Keystone, Vail/Beaver Creek

etc. There are a bunch of ski resorts on the way to Vail/Beaver Creek. I still own my skiis,boots, poles etc. Last went skiing 5 years ago in Colorado. It is a long drive from deep South Texas. I fired up my Welborne Labs gear for the first time in several weeks. The Moondoggies are singing

& sound very good to my ears. I picked up some new cd's this evening. Some Texas music-The Essential Jimmie Vaughan-Stevie Ray's older brother is an excellent guitar slinger. Omar & The Howlers-Boogie Man-Omar is a Texas blues/rock institution who has been around for a long time here in the Lonestar state. Kim

Wilson-Lookin' For Trouble-lead singer/harmonica player for another Texas blues institution-

The Fabulous Thunderbirds. Jimmie Lee Vaughan was the lead guitar player for the T-Birds for many years & quit in the early 90's to pursue a solo gig. Los Lonely Boys

are three Mexican brothers in their 20's whose dad was a musician. They were raised on a wide range of music-Tejano, blues, jazz, rock, country. They are very popular here in Texas. They have appeared on the Tonight Show, Conan O'Brian. They are a 3 piece band-guitar,bass & drums. They play rock & roll/Tejano. The brothers harmonize very well together. The vocals are 90% English with a little Spanish thrown into the mix. They are from San Angelo-West Texas. We have an excellent radio station here in Corpus Christi-94.7-Texas Music Radio. They have a Texas music format that plays 80+% of Texas music-rock, blues, country. They mix in other national artist in different genres to round out the mix. I picked up a Doug Sahm-He's About A Groover 2 cd. The 1st cd has a very young Doug Sahm with recordings from his early San Antonio years when he was a young pup just starting out. Recording quality is not top notch but the music gets my toes a tappin'. The 2nd cd is The Best of The Sir Douglas Quintet. Doug Sahm was another Texas Treasure and institution. Dale Watson-Dreamland

is the real deal Texas Country

Music. Dreamland was produced by Ray Benson/Asleep At The Wheel. His cd was just released this past Monday. Dale's voice reminds me of a young Merle Haggard but Dale has a better voice. Last night I went down to the Executive Surf Club-a

bar/restaurant with an outdoor patio for live music. They book a lot of the bands that 94.7 Texs Music Radio plays. I saw Aaron Watson from Amarillo, Texas-The Honky Tonk Kid. I used to spend a lot of time in Amarillo-1985-88. I wore a a cream colored pair of Nocona elephant cowboy boots that I purchased from Boots n' Jeans in Amarillo. I wear size 11-1/2 B-narrow width. Both Amarillo & Lubbock had western wear shops that carried a good selection of boots in my size. If I want boots here in Corpus I have to special order the boots from Tony Llama. Justin, Nocona etc. Aaron Watson is 26 & no relation to Dale Watson. Ray Benson also produced his cd. He has a duet with Willie Nelson & another with Dale Watson on his newest cd-The Honky Tonk Kid. Brad Lomax the owner of The Executive Surf Club is a surfer. He owns a complex downtown that contains 2 Water Street Seafood Restaurants, the Executive Surf

Club,Surf Club Records that sells Texas Music, a coffee bar with free internet use & numerous other shops that he leases to other businesses. He also has a Water Street Seafood Restaurant in San Antonio. Used to have one in Houston but he closed it several years ago. I ordered a pair of 6AH4 tubes from the Tube

Store to get my used but new to me Dehavilland Verve preamp up & running. Will be delivered Monday. With 5 of the 8 tubes destroyed in shipping, those are the tubes I need. The Tung Sol 6SN7, Tung Sol 5U4GB & Sylvania 5U4GB rectifier tubes survived. Ted the seller ordered me a complete new set of tubes from ATSI in Florida: 1-6Sn7, 2-6AH4 used as a cathode follower & 1-5U4 rectifier Will be a week before they arrive. I also ordered a pair of 12SX7 tubes to use in the VA2 voltage section of my Llano mosfet/tube hybrid amp.

The 12SX7 is a WW II military version of the 12SN7 tube & supposedly rivals the sonics of the best 6SN7 tubes. I read this from tube guys much more knowledgeable about tubes than myself over at Audioasylum. The

12SX7 tubes were $29.95 a tube. Since my VA2 voltage section of the Llano uses 6SN7/12SN7/6SL7 tubes I decided to try them out.

I have several 6SN7, 1-12SN7 & 1-6SL7 that came with the Llano.

I am going to pair the Dehavilland Verve preamp up with my Lubbock, Texas made-(Buddy Holly Country)

mosfet/tube hybrid amp. Well that's enough of my rambling for now.

Regards, Mike

[Cut-Throat]

Danny,

Let me assure you that all these fish were catch, Photograph and Release. CPR. None in the frying pan. I love fish, but prefer to eat Farm raised Salmon. That way I can continue to torture the wild trout year in and year out.

Eric,

Yes, I am using the T-7 AVA pre-amp with my DRD45s.