I love the look of Rega tonearms! I should get one for my Sonographe...! 😊

I had a client like that once. I had mastered his whole CD, which he loved, except for 1 track. Even before he sent me the mixes, that 1 particular track was bugging him. Well, by the end of the session, I was making EQ and level changes of as little as 0.1dB, before he was satisfied with the...

Is @bcowen his Pinocchio...? 🤣

That reminds me when we added a network server to our cutting lathes at Nimbus. Twenty 50Gb SCSI drives, in a rack server 2'x4'x4', for a total of 1 terabyte of storage! We thought we were something! Showed it off to every tour that came through...! 🤣

I assume she must have been a Cat Lady? No one can resist the charms of Finnegan. 🤣

I use at times (prior to Schiit), a Xiang Sheng DAC-01A. It's a hybrid DAC, and I use a GE JAN5670W in it too. Very respectable sound from that tube...! 🥴

Still thinking about that "I have to ask: is your Cowen power amp as awesome as who it's named after?" comment. I totally understand...! 🤣

Can you expound on that comment? Just curious as to your Gumby preference(s)? It's nice to hear, for whatever reason, that the Gumby is still worthy...! 😃 Thanks...! 🙂

I meet Joe Grado once, when he came to Nimbus for a CD project we were pressing. Joe hung out in the audio suites with us, while waiting for test press samples. While there, Joe showed us his then new headphones, which were great. But Joe also brought some CD cleaner liquid he made. Joe...

Nimbus designed and built their own proprietary CD cutting lathes. Our lathes could cut the glass masters at 1X speed. Many labels felt our CDs sounded better as a result. We used to press for many of the audiophile labels. I ran those cutting lathes for about 8 years, before transferring to...

We were in Virginia. So our discs were definitely for the US market. Though, the UK had 2 Nimbus plants for quite some time.

GRAZ in Australia makes replacement ribbons and bass panels. Bass panels have to be installed by an Apogee Acoustics tech. Bill Thalmann at Music Technology in VA, is the East Coast rep. A great repair shop. You probably know all of this, but it doesn't hurt to spread the word. A beautiful...

When I worked at Nimbus Records, we pressed that disc on CD. I wonder if your pressing is a "Mastered By Nimbus" release...? :thinking: Check the center of the disc, and our logo would be there, if so?

You've got to train Finnegan that it's definitely not a squirrel...! 🥴

I think there's a spaceship hidden in there...! :anguished: