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Wow, manaox, that's some scary stuff. Some of the pics I've seen in the news are truly catastrophic. Glad you're ok!

Nice, thanks! That Voxative speaker looks really interesting! Any recollection of the name of the ' 4 wpc amp that runs $3k'?

Just delicious. But you'd have to like sweet lambics. That NY Strip was pretty tasty, too! Sorry about the crayons.

No, they're completely broken. Banana to spade, the banana has no more stem. I had to get a pair of pliers to pull the stem out. I do have in mind to unplug, clean, and replug every connection every now and then, but it pretty much never happens. Unless I'm forced to by a broken connector, of course. I put that ProGold stuff on the connections, too.

Well, who knows. I don't suppose it matters any more in my case, since I'm not going to put the old broken jumpers back in! But fun to discuss and hear everyone's thoughts, anyway. I have to say that the sound continues to amaze me. Even if biwiring made a difference, it would probably be much more subtle than this. I'm thinking now that those old jumpers either just sucked that bad, or were partly damaged when I got them, and my kids (or one of their friends) did me a favor when they broke it completely. They came with the speakers, weren't the original, and were just thrown in by the seller when I asked, because I didn't have any. 'Yeah, I think I have some old jumpers sitting around here somewhere', he said. I think I had convinced myself at the time that it wouldn't make a difference to biwire, so never bothered with it.

Tyll, I think that I misunderstood this part of your post the first time through. I don't know squat about technical design but thought I remembered a thread trashing star grounding, and thought you were agreeing with everyone that biwiring doesn't do much. But a quick Google search suggests that star grounding can help reduce ground loops and such, creating a blacker background. Is this what you were saying about biwiring,? Again, technically ignorant ... but one thing I remember about the Meadowlark speaker design principle was high quality, first order crossovers, and high quality Scanspeak drivers. Don't know if this was truth or just marketing speak ...

Yeah, ok. So it's all psychosemantics (wow, spell check just turned that into 'pay hose antics'). That's cool. I had to do something, though, when the jumpers broke. Hey, maybe there's improvement from just replacing the random jumpers which came with these speakers, which I got used? Ok, I'm grasping at straws. The tube for treble and SS for bass was what was on my mind, that sounds intriguing; the biamping with active crossover sounds really intriguing. But in the end, I'll probably opt for the more beer option. I'm happy with the sound, it's just audiophile masturbation. Piss on the electric fence?! Ouch! I think I'd rather biamp it! Pics? I'm terribly embarrassed about the state of my former man cave. It's as much a kid's playground as anything. There's a rear projection big screen TV on the back wall, wires and crap everywhere, boxes of stuff, kids toys, CD/DVDs everywhere ... I'm ashamed. I've tried to keep the acoustics as good as possible, but truly, it's not picture worthy here. I'd be permabanned for 'ugliest state of an audio room in HC.' If I really wanted to improve my speaker rig, it'd be to clean up the damn place ... Thanks for setting me straight. And for the intriguing ideas.

Someone (I have a pretty guess as to who it was) got behind my electrified fence, barbed/razor wire and broken glass set on top of a concrete wall in front of my A/V system, and broke the jumper cables on my speakers. After being pissed and lecturing everyone about no one being allowed back there and turning up the current on the electrified fence, I figured it was a chance to biwire my speakers, which I'd thought about for a while, but never did. I've had all of one hour to listen last night, but it sure seems to sound better! Mostly I'm hearing better spatial resolution - each voice and instrument seems better separated from one another, vocals seem clearer, everything was more three dimensional, more depth, just a whole lot cleaner overall in the time realm - less smearing, more coherence, blah blah. I always wonder if I just want to hear something after I've spend some money, but has anyone else biwired and heard improvements? Is what I read about keeping the bass and mid/treble signals separated in their own cables so they don't interfere with each other a reasonable technical explanation, or just so much cable marketing mumbo jumbo? How about going the next step to biamping? I'm curious, but it seems inherently wrong to have two different amps for a number of technical reasons.

2 pre-sales tix for Alison Krauss in Chicago! Thanks for the tip, ASR!

Anne has grown basil on and off indoors in a pot and dirt. She's also had rosemary. And a bunch of veggies on the back porch. She and her friends discuss this a bit. We know people who have gardens on their garage rooftops. I just asked her about this, and she says there's a pretty big movement for urban gardening. Try Googling 'Urban Gardening'. She also says to tell you that the only plants I've ever taken an interest in are the ones I could eat.

Best wishes on ear aches, Salty - very yucky. Hopefully it'll turn out to be a fun day at home playing games and reading books. Hopefully. Nice refund, Torpedo! Unfortunately, very much the oppposite for me.

Started riding my bike to work again yesterday and today. It's a beautiful thing ... it feels like Spring is really here now.

Right back at ya, my man!

Macallan 12. Cheers, Dan!

Wow! Truly stunning work, Steve. Congrats, Al.

Oh man, yer makin' me hungry!

Damn, that's really awful! Glad you went in last night. Keep us informed ... Now get some sleep, if you can.

What is a 'Registered Non-Newbie'? Are we supposed to be nice to them?

Sorry, Shelly. Good luck w/ hubby. Hope you got some sleep!

Bryan, that sounds like a reasonable decision. Good luck! It'll happen ... you haven't even graduated yet, right? Vicki, Wow! Sounds pretty dramatic! Would've been amazing video if you had your camera out!

Required class for those double majoring in Psychology and English.

Psychosomatic? Sorry, being pedantic ... someone else's job?

He loved it. For a few minutes. Then he said it was boring. I can't believe it! I told him it was the coolest thing around at the time. He does seem to like Centipede, though!

Heh.I was thinking this, too.

Thanks for Soundhound, Manaox. So far: couldn't identify the Brahms Trio #1, but it did get the Beethoven Pathetique Sonata. Obviously, it didn't get the correct performers, but that may be asking much. I'm guessing there is too much out there, and not enough of a market to make it worthwhile. But maybe it'll improve over time.