Summer Time and (sometimes) the livin’ is easy. Last evening was grilled salmon fillets topped with homemade pesto (our garlic and basic, store for pignola nuts) grilled (our own home grown) Bok Choy, and grilled (our own homemade) Cheese Ciabatta and Rosemary/black olive loaf breads. Washed...

So, all this tube talk gets me to wondering… @Jason Stoddard what tube(s) will upcoming Stjarna require, and how many of each?

Haha… yeah, I’m thinking about that. I think I’m going to put a small “stopper” around it all flush with the floor, and then spay foam insulation from below… when I play my evening “fetch the crushed ice cubes” game with Bismarck, it involves throwing cubes from the kitchen at the far end of the...

Makes me think of Stevie Ray and the lyrics: “It’s raining down in Texas, can’t get by baby on the line”…

And the new @Paladin79 custom sycamore spacers complete the new, clean, end of the room… Now just gotta figure what to do with that hideous TV… (concession to have the room at all)

So, finally got the new Hana SL fully dialed in… My previous comments about the capabilities of Kara and Skoll stand. They are excellent for this lifetime vinyl-head. Pouring through my shaded dog collection, with muh dog on my lap. Life is good.

Makes my lowly VPI HW16.5 (vintage 1988) seem a bit humbled… WOW

Should have picked NH instead of TX. They have Schiit-tons of HOA property rules just about everywhere down there now… speaking of Rant == 11 But, I agree the infants are taking over ever more of our society… harrrumph

Glad it arrived pristine. Enjoy! On tubes into Focals should be awesome

That is one of the two Paradigm Ref Studio 20’s I use for the (extremely occasional = like maybe 3 hours a week) TV viewing… L/R and C under the TV itself. It isn’t completely ideal, as it is obviously reflective. But planars don’t put out that much to the side, and it diminishes rapidly at more...

Horizontally blocking the tv whilst spewing sound UP and DOWN instead of staging left and right… the thought of a horizontally mounted line source planar makes me shudder… talk about worst possible ever speaker setup… intentional first reflections for every frequency off the floor and ceiling at...

That scares even me. Wifey would poison me.

It WAS intentional… Sorry… but, cardboard has met its match. Only two RCA’s in (one Chopin, the other Scheherazade) and it was quite clear that sycamore is superior in all ways to cardboard. The winds were windier, the reeds, reedier, … added warmth throughout…. No more “eau de moldy...

Haha, what a small world! I know setting up guiding for that long a focal length can be a super fiddly process; I only ever went to my C11’s native f/l, so 2800mm. It was ok for guided 5 min subs there, but only once I used an OAG setup with my QSI583WSG camera; using my STV couldn’t quite get...

They’ve arrived. Speaker Jewelry. Beautiful. Look at how well they match the red oak flooring, yet their elegant chess-board-like mottling adds class. Ending work early today and will give them a “listen”… ;)

I’ve found that when the book is good enough, I can’t listen to music that is also good enough. It’s thus either/or for me, because I don’t want to waste time reading non-good books, nor listening to non-good music. If they are good enough for me, then they deserve one at a time. The whole...

I am looking forward to checking them out. And, bonus, the sunny weather has returned, I might be able to get a photo with them in the direct sunlight tomorrow AM.

Nice setup! What is that mount, it LOOKS like my MI250? Could that be?

Having lived in LA (1979/1980) and in San Antonio (well 20 miles due north for 4 1/2 years). And having almost an entire summer in Germany, including a week in Berlin at the age of 17, and back dozens of times since… @ArmchairPhilosopher nailed it. I think LA/Berlin is it indeed

Er ist nicht (genug) Deutsch…

Our variant (in our Engineering Fraternity we always ragged on which discipline was for the dumbest guys): What does it take to be a Civil Engineer? Shiit flows down. Fire/Heat flows up. You can’t push a Rope. But yeah, it was the Chem Eng’s, and the EE’s doing most of the mocking. But those...

Excellent. Fits my needs perfectly. That way nothing wasted when I race Kara against my (hopefully at some point in the future) re-capped Classe’ DR6R… Kara is wonderful, I don’t see a need to replace what she does for me. Thank you!

This is awesome, thank you! Don’t need those other curves (my old Harmon Kardon integrated had like 6 or 7 - LOL, but it dated to before RIAA standardized. It has to be the right mono records…. 50’s Jazz ones in particular (IME). But the bestest part is how much easier and faster it makes it to...

Could something similar be done for balanced XLR?

Haha. Yes! I have the SL Stereo now, so I just wanna flip the switch. Yes, I do know that a cartridge *designed* for mono grooves will track even better and more silently… but going dedicated mono version necessitates another headshell for my arm ($300 ish)… No, I’m not going to swap entire...