CarlSeibert

I've been looking for a point and shoot. I was intrigued by the Nikon P300 but decided its noise reduction/sharpening was overcooked. So back to square one. How is the S95? Apart from being broken, that is. Today we caked a departing photographer. The boss claims we will be able to replace her. We'll see.

Bob Ludwig mastered your record? That's better than being famous.

I don't especially like the sound of foamies either. But I do like the "skinned" Complys and black olives (which I THINK will fit Etys. Can't keep the nozzle sizes straight) Might be worth a shot. I have only one pair of customs. That particular pair of earphones in my particular ears are great for comfort and not so great for isolation. If your ears are a more normal shape, your mileage will probably vary.

Lefsetz is an odd character. And not much into brevity. He seems to be more sympathetic to audiophiles, vinyl and high res lately than he has been in the past. Considering that everybody and his brother reads him, I take this as a good sign.

Hmmm. From today's Lefsetz letter:

Sounds like a shitty way to spend the holiday. Sorry. Couldn't help myself.

Speaking of Regas.... anybody got any thoughts on re-wiring the arm? I was thinking about using the 33 ga Cardas multi conductor cable and doing an unbroken run from cart to SUT. I snagged an RB-250 with the stainless steel RB-300 end stub for cheaps on eBay. I'm building a wide/heavy counterweight with a micro adjustor. When that's done, next up is rewiring it, then it will go on the more modded of my two Planar 3s. Which, by the way, is part of the fun of Regas. You can buy/make all sorts of stuff and try it. It it works, great. If not, it usually super-easy to return the table to stock condition.

Never underestimate the importance of strong foundation. Marc - Good wishes sent your way. Shelly - I hate it when good trees are threatened like that. But they usually pull through. Fitz - I also hate it when credit cards get cloned. What a pisser. The detective on my case(s) has actually convinced me to use cash, at least a little, like when dodgy-looking clerks take the card out of sight to swipe it (forgive the pun.) Aura - do they have potential record-cleaning stuff there? -- I'm "working" the easy middle day in what otherwise would be a four day weekend )

That's terrible news, Ken. My condolences to everybody involved.

Keep at it Brent! Congrats to Vicki for gaining round on the body fat pincers. Scary things, those. And for Shelly, this from Dr Jeff Masters blog (which is required reading for South Floridians this time of year) Rainy light at the end of the tunnel, perhaps): The mercury hit 109°F (42.8°C) yesterday at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, tying September 4, 2000 as the hottest day in the city's history. Yesterday was the also the hottest August day on record in Houston, besting the 108°F reading of August 18, 1909. This year, Houston has set its record for all-time hottest temperature, most 100° days in a year (36, old record was 32, and 4 is normal), and most consecutive 100° days (24, old record was 14.) Weather records in Houston go back to 1889. Houston needs 20.18" of rain to get to normal levels of rainfall for the year. Today's high is predicted to be 107°F in Houston, so yesterday's record may be in danger of being broken today. By the end of the week, Houston is expected to cool down below 100°, and a weather pattern conducive for bringing summer rains will move in

Welcome Todd!!!

I can't comment on the mods, but thank you for the link to the interconnect design. As one too cheap to buy silly expensive cables, I'm always interested in a new DIY wire recipe.

Yes. The record box kept the arm extended about 13". I guess there is something lacking in this mount - no locks on the arms. They move with a pretty fair amount of friction and stay put where you leave them, but I don't see any grub screws to lock them. Tilt locks down - securely - with a knob and screw arrangement. I've always tended to soap screws, mostly 'cause they go in so much easier. My battery powered drill will drive maybe a dozen deck screws un-soaped, or the whole box with soap. Besides, cleanliness is next to .... something

29! That's a high-value age. Many people get a decade's worth of use out of it. Happy Birthday Matt!!!

OK. The beast has been tied to the yardarm. It all went very smoothly. The TV is where it's supposed to be, can be moved when I want it to and stays put otherwise. The mount is branded "Mount-It!" on the box. Looks perfectly peachy-keen (allowing, of course for my zero experience with these things). I can't imagine anything it could do or include that isn't there. So it seems a bargain. I did buy new lag screws from the local hardware and I did soap them generously. Made sure I had the real centers of the studs and leveled in both directions, etc. I did have a start when I located one of my holes exactly on top of a wallboard screw, but I hit it so perfectly I was able to pull it out through the slot on the mount. I don't know if everybody who does this sort of thing does this as a matter of course, or if it was my contribution to mount-hanging culture, but I did stuff an Elusive Disk box in the works so the mount wouldn't retreat out of reach as we were hanging the panel on it. I have no way of measuring how much the thing sagged when it was put under load, but it wasn't much and the vertical position is just about perfect. Less than an inch of sag, I'd guess. Thank you one and all.

Accomplished stuff this weekend. Got the plasma on the wall of the home theater of the absurd. We did our Lake Watch sampling with a videographer in the canoe. (He wasn't that heavy, but yes, muscles I didn't know I have, or arguably, don't have, hurt.) Bunch of household stuff broke. Have repaired most of it. Brent - We're all on the edges of our seats following your adventure. Hang in there. Don't operate heavy machinery. Larry - Great news finding the cat! Give it a scratch behind the ear for me.

Get well soon Brent! Shelly congrats on the front page picture. I've always wondered what that would be like. Droughts aren't OK, but you learn to live them them and keep your trees alive and stuff and it's not so bad. We are forever having multi-year droughts around here. We have permanent water restrictions now, even though the most recent drought just broke. The dingbats in charge of such things messed up the levee around the lake, so we have no way of banking water until it's fixed in the year whatever. So the drought will come back. Meanwhile, there's Clean Water Action and a whole host of other groups you can support who work to try to keep governments from making things worse.

Way to go Dusty's Mom!

Wow. I'm glad to hear that parents are all on the mend! Trains are cool if you're not in a hurry. Bonnie and I took and Amtrak trip in our own little compartment once. We were, in fact, a couple hours late, but it was fun. I have no idea why people choose to kill themselves by getting in front of a train, but they do it l the time. (Most of the rest of the people who get hit by trains are either super-drunk, or --- I am not making this up --- they go to sleep, or pass out, on the tracks!) I once photographed a train accident/suicide where some lady literally danced a jig in front of the train, so said the engineer. Trains don't stop very fast, so I had to walk three or four blocks down the tracks, past itty bitty little pieces of the lady, to get to the front of the train. When I talked to the engineer, I asked if the railroad provided a program like post-event stress debriefings (which were new and all the rage at the time) in cases like that. The engineer scoffed. Not only did they not have any program like that, he said that one night he ran over two different people between Miami and Jacksonville and got chewed out royally for being late. I thought he was exaggerating, of course. No manager could ever be stupid and heartless enough to actually blame an employee for such a thing. But it made a good story nevertheless. A couple or three decades later.... not so sure. Postscript. I was off work and on a date when I got that call that night. For those of you are are still single, I'm sure there are occasions when letting the would-be girlfriend/boyfriend see what you do for a living is a great idea. And there are occasions when it's not such a good idea.

That dustcover place looked pretty cool. I once asked at my local acrylic place and it would have been pretty pricey. And they don't have specific experience with turntables.

Since were ranting again.. You gotta love what passes for "journalism" nowadays. Some TV guy does a little blog bloviation. No reporting. Doesn't even pretend to any. Doesn't even put forth an opinion. He's just sucking his thumb, which is fine. If he's entertaining, that's what he's paid to do. Shazzam! His post gets "aggregated" and pasted on one after another make-believe news sites with fancy banners and authoritative-looking logos and shit, none of which do a lick of useful work. Nobody follows up. No reporting is necessary. Yesterday was the day George Soros made a billion shorting treasuries. It's in Google. It's gotta be a fact. Six months form now, I'll get one of those right-wing chain letters written by high-priced flacks and well lawyered and it will "reveal" how dangerous Soros is because he made a billion shorting treasuries. Today, they're "aggregating" yesterday's "aggregations". We're two days into this "story" and nobody's done an ounce of actual, useful work. Yet it's provided "content" (and advertising revenue) all over the place. Revenue without work. It's easier than shorting treasuries. And just as beneficial for society. </end rant>

Tasty lookin' turntable, too.

FWIW, this thread popped up on the Twitter feed. Twitter feed = good thing.

Thanks. Grabbed three.

Wouldn't happen to be in warranty would it? They were very nice to me when one of mine died. And at least at that time, they had, in lieu of doing repairs, a program that gave a fairly massive discount toward a new unit. I didn't do it because they replaced my SB3 under warranty, but it was something like send in your unit and some money and they would send back whatever model you wanted.