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  1. On 1/2/2023 at 3:50 PM, BoomMF said:

    Thanks to your heads-up: Arrived today along with some other bougee pickups. Tonight's listening is all MoFi.

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    Wanted to circle back to this. This might be the most successful haul to date. Every one of these were stellar. In a Silent Way was expected, but side two of Milestones is some killer bebop that I've gone back to a few times already. It's bebop, but all grown up and polished. Side one of Jack Johnson was similarly eye-opening (side note, Jack talking at the end of side 2 came out of nowhere and startled me good. Lol). I don't know how I missed I Robot, but I'm glad to have discovered it. I knew of Alan Parsons from his Pink Floyd connection, so it's odd to me that it took this long. And if you haven't, Suite Judy Blue Eyes post-haste. After Thriller, this is my second favorite One Step of the year and I'm not much a CSN fan. But I am getting pretty damn old so that might be changing. Bill Evans is Bill Evans, dude's a witch. This One Step is the best I've heard Portrait sound. I'm refusing to get the AP Riverside box on principle so maybe this is the best I'll ever hear it sound. Also, there was a cool documentary on Bill Evans that came out in 2015 called Time Remembered. Worth a watch.

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  2. Wow. One of the greats who has an unimpeachable place among the most influential guitarists but whose catalog I know hardly anything about. He's up there with Rory Gallagher shredding on some songs I've still never heard but, if the rest of the guitar playing community is any indication, are probably pretty damn awesome. RIP

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  3. On 12/23/2022 at 4:49 PM, YGIFS said:

    What we often forget is that he basically records for the first 6 years of his career, and the last 6 years of his career.  [BpThere's some crappy movie soundtracks in there, but the heavy, bonafide Elvis studio stuff was really just done in a hair over a decade.[/b]  And yet, we are still unpacking it today.  There's far more complexity to it than most realize. 

     

    To be fair, that period produced a some great soundtracks, too. Like,

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  4. How much did you pay for the Bill Evans Trio?
    $150 shipped. Still have eyes peeled for Sunday at the Village Vanguard but ffs.
  5. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Is there something about that LP that's rare?   You can't find that top elsewhere, sans Sharpie?

    A few things, imo. You can tell it's a AAAA top from a mile away. Quilted is pretty rare, I think, on HPs which might be my favorite iteration of LP Standards Gibson ever attempted with their main line releases. Though 2018 is my least favorite or that run, I still appreciate some of the chances on the 2018 that lead to a more playable/better user experience guitar (I think this was the only year where the necks were Plek'd AND cryo'd as standard, for instance). If this was a 2016-2017 HP I wouldn't even be asking you jokers, I'd just be posting about how I screwed up the paint and help me plz. I'm even down with the Tronical because I'm old but not that old. Short story long, I've never seen quilted HP before (they always have those deep, gorgeous 3D-looking fuck you flame tops).

  6. Well, damn. This is not giving me much confidence. We can put a man on the moon but can't remove some sharpie in 2022? What have we been doing with ourselves as a people?

    Offered him $2200, he replied that the best he could do $2700.

    I'm starting to wonder what I'm willing to live with to get that top because that top fucks.

  7. So, hypothetically speaking, if one wanted to remove sharpie from a nitro guitar, a Magic Eraser should do the trick, no? Nitrocellulose is pourous and I expect it to hold onto the ink pretty well, but has anyone attempted something like this?

    https://reverb.com/item/61047082-gibson-les-paul-standard-hp-2018-mojave-fade-signed-by-leon-bridges

    I might make an offer, but if removing that signature fucks up the finish it's going to royally suck.

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  8. On 12/25/2022 at 9:34 PM, Anton Chigurh said:

    MoFi restocked I think around 1k each of some Miles Davis releases, including In A Silent Way (possibly my favorite Miles record), which is a $220 median record on Discogs (I’d had it in my want-list for years, unfortunately after it exploded in value).

    Now it’s available at $40 until they last. They also have Sketches of Spain, Milestones, and A Tribute To Jack Johnson.

    https://www.musicdirect.com/music/vinyl/miles-davis-in-a-silent-way-numbered-180g-vinyl-lp/

    Thanks to your heads-up: Arrived today along with some other bougee pickups. Tonight's listening is all MoFi.

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  9. Came across this still sealed OG IV. It's so early that some notable songs are left off the hype sticker. If you're buying that album just to get those two songs, brother, you're in for a treat.

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  10. Chessup boards have begun shipping. So far I've received the board, bag, and checkers. Still waiting on the velvet pieces bag and the phone stand, but what has arrived has been of stellar quality. Played a quick game against the Ai after calibrating the board and everything went off without a hitch. Can already tell this is going to be a great product to learn/practice/improve chess and compete with.

  11. 1 hour ago, Kennythetiger said:

    I liked it. Rip made them fight like Walker and Lloyd. 

    If those were the rules he was following he would've faught Beth after ("You know the rules...") and knocked the shit out of her. That might've saved the scene.

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  12. There's been a development.

    Back when I was in college there was a home theater/hifi store on Burnet, just north of Anderson, whose name I can't recall, but I vividly remember the first time I saw Bowers and Wilkins 800 Series speakers. They had a pair hooked up to a small fortune worth of Mcintosh gear, including a pair of monoblocks the size of a Corolla. They demoed the setup with SACDs and the one I remember most was Kind of Blue (it made such an impression that I've used KoB as a favorite to demo gear since). But it was those gorgeous B+W Nautilus speakers that stole the show. They sounded so clean, so vibrant, so full, and most of all so sharp. I've since come to find out that the reason I liked the punchy treble of B+Ws is because that's how my brain discerns clarity, it's that top-end polish you get by boosted highs that conveys precision to me, but whatevs. 

    We're talking about the speakers they use in Abbey Road and Skywalker Sound. There are pics of John Williams sitting in front of 800s, mixing. I mean, come on.

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    I didn't really consider ever having any - they were ridiculous for a college student then and time doesn't really do much to devalue Bowers & Wilkins speakers compared to other brands, but I've always thought 800s to be the pinnacle of design, both looks and performance so have wanted them since I first saw them decades ago.

    Anyway, I bought a pair.

    Minty Nautilus 802's with brand new tweeters. (The tweeters are notoriously fragile.)

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    I'm looking at them now and I still barely believe it.

    They're hooked up on the second zone of the pre/pro being served by about 400Wx2 carried by wire as thick as my wrist. I can't set them in the room in an ideal way, but I've pulled them forward to remove as much obstruction from the bass ports, but in a room that dictates so many compromises, this is another. Regardless, they sound sublime.

    In preparation, I had to redo the rack, eliminating the slanted rack posted earlier. I busted out the table saw and made a console, installed rack rails, and moved everything to the center of the wall leaving the speakers as much room as I possibly could. I'm not going to be mistaken for a Mennonite, but the gear is secure and organized.

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    My biggest issue is that I had to take the door off the hinges to make room enough to walk in. I'll flip the hinges and have it open outward.

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    I might just eliminate the Atlantic Technology speakers and make the front line all Bowers & Wilkins with a new center, but I like the idea of having dedicated HT speakers and a dedicated stereo setup for critical listening.

    Living the dream.

    Here's a cool factory tour. Really brings home what it takes to make 800s.

    Now I need to finish putting up acoustic treatments.

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  13. On 11/27/2022 at 10:00 PM, Buzzrock said:

    Everything Beth and John do is stupid. Rip is good. Jamie will never be redeemed. Kayce is basically MIA with his mopey ass wife.

    ... who killed their son but he's cool with it because her mopeyness comes first.

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  14. On 12/1/2022 at 7:44 PM, jimmyjazz said:

    I'm embarassed that I was able to decode that.

    When you're posting from a late-90s Cingular flip phone that charges by the letter you can't just spell out "Super Bowl." Do you think he's made of money?

  15. While I was picking up some speakers, I asked the dealer about cartridges. I'm still hunting for an endgame MC. He proceeds to show me a trade-in he has, customer bought a Mcintosh MT10 (as photogenic a turntable as there ever was) and swapped out the cart. It's a Mcintosh branded Clearaudio Talismann v2 Gold low output MC. He sent it home with me to check and see if I liked it. Cool. Popped open the phonostage, monkeyed with some jumpers, and set it up for thr new cart. Installed the cart and immediately upon touching the tonearm to drop the needle, I get a buzz. Fuck me. So I dusted of the multimeter to track down the problem. I had to pull EVERYTHING apart tracing back the continuity problem. Made it all the way to cable interface, so I pull out the mount to get to it and noticed the set screw holding the tonearm  in the mount was set too deep and snapped off a copper lead. I don't know how it happened, we don't need to point fingers. Contacted Transrotor, in Germany mind, to see if they had a replacement to that piece that they could send me and they were like nein. Argh. So I busted out the soldering iron and dropped an ugly bead (soldering isn't like riding a bike apparently) where the copper lead was supposed to terminate, threw it all back together and viola, dude's grounding like a champ. Crisis averted.

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    The Talismann is an eye-opening experience. There's a noticeable increase in life to records. I like to test with Kind of Blue, but Randy Travis's voice on Storm's of Life (MoFi) is something I know like the back of my hand and he has never sounded so present as with the new cart. I had my heart set on a Sumiko Starling, but damn son.

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    Gonna play it a lot this week and give homeboy the yay or nay. 

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  16. On 11/21/2022 at 2:06 PM, Pescado_Rojo said:

    Santa came on Saturday. Wall mounted my 65” TV and sound bar to free the top of my entertainment center for the turntable. I have a mild depth issue, but it’s not terrible. If it bothers me, I’ll cut out the backing so the plugs and ports stick out the back. That would buy me a few inches, which is all I need. (TWSS). 
     

    it sounds great, even with my shitty, scratched up 30+ year old vinyl. I’ll probably add a sub sooner or later. The phono preamp in the Preamp sounds better than the one in the turntable. C142C639-439D-46A3-B789-B45B3D598153.thumb.jpeg.2994a81d761e52badc38d26a58ff6133.jpeg3235CE8B-D441-40B0-AE28-F7C0D4ACB26B.thumb.jpeg.6320624a5a8ac6d51bdd373afd6b8444.jpeg

    Fuck and yeah.

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  17. Walmart is doing their $15 vinyl sale. Every Walmart I visited in the east Austin area had every title on sale for $15, and I mean every. $50 Rolling Stones Hot Rocks, $15. $70 George Harrison All Things Must Pass box set, $15, and on and on. Good luck.

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