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Sounds like she was quite the trooper (from the days when it was okay to name your kids Jack and Jill). RIP Marie

Happy B Day! And thanks for sharing your cool toys with the community over the years! It's much appreciated!

Happy B Day Ryan!

Jesus! I got full just look at your pic's! Looks like a hell of a time boys!

Those Spheres get the wacky lookin' award from me! Sure hope they sound better than they look (those speakers always sounded shrill to me when I've heard them driven by Jadis gear). Can't wait for some burger porn!

Happy B Day John!

Nice going Ric! Does it sound creamy? BTW heres a shot of RSD in Oz

Hey,.. that sounds awful good to me too! Maybe something to look out for on the Record Store Day run (sure would like to get that Third Man Records Elvis though!).

A four part PBS/BBC series due next fall. Exec. Producers; T Bone Burnett Robert Redford Jack White http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/american-epic-tv-series-examines-1920s-recordings/?mabReward=A5&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=1

Interesting early Janis Joplin recordings and a story of when she first made the scene in the Bay Area (I dig the songs with the jazz bands). http://jazzhotbigstep.com/428723.html

The PBS series "Twice Born" is pretty amazing. Sometimes tragic and sad but you can't help but wonder if everything is possible.

Happy B Day!

Happy B Day Tyler! Always thinking of others.

RIP Doug Sax. Probably the best "cutter" there ever was evidenced by amazing Sheffield Labs pressings. http://www.analogplanet.com/content/legendary-mastering-engineer-doug-sax-has-passed-away

Best of,.. remastered HDtracks 24/96 Perfect thing to get me through doing my taxes!

Happy B Day Doug! While the rest of us are swinging dead cats at each other, you're always the voice of reason. Keep up the good work!

It hasn't been that long since I went to a meet but I have to say that I was shocked by the sheer number of vendors mentioned in the thread. And I'm not surprised that the Chord gear sounds good. I've listened to lots of their speaker amps/preamps and I like 'em. Their DAC's aren't too shabby either but like you said Andy,..big money for all that sculpted aluminum!

Really fun race! Those 2 rookies should be putting a fire under the seats of any driver who isn't giving it 110%! What a difference a season of sucking exhaust fumes did for Vettel! I have to admit that I was totally rooting for the kid the whole race (so I guess the year did me some good too). Poor Alonzo. But like I've said before, he has nothing to prove. No current driver is more respected and loved. I just hope McLaren get their shit together quickly. That race really bodes well for the season even if Bernie and the FIA are competing for the upper class twit award like never before (loosing the German GP is insane IMHO).

Hippy B Day Doug! See you in June.

Browsed the impressions thread and it looks like Sat. was a great turnout. I'll leave any real impressions of the atmosphere to folks like Peter (irondreamer) and anyone else that was actually there but it looks like there was tons of vendors and gear to check out (surprised to see microphone builders Blue). Frank Cooter had his 845 stat amp which folks were loving. I'd like to hear that! Anyway, here's a couple of photo links so you guys can skip all the typical dribble and drool. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhlducks35/sets/72157649301805003/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/79651000@N00/sets/72157651213242250/

RIP Samuel Charters. Tireless champion of the blues and most likely his book "the Country Blues" is responsible for rock and roll as we know it. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/arts/music/samuel-charters-foundational-scholar-of-the-blues-dies-at-85.html?_r=1

If you're talking about "Bosch", those are Ohm's. Really a classic "music lover's" speaker. http://www.soundadviceblog.com/home-theater/ohm-walsh-speakers-unique-technology-stunning-performance/

Picked up some nice info about using a Metric Halo unit for a phono preamp. There was a discussion of this on the MIO mailing list and this email came from BJ (Metric Halo's designer). So, the ULN-2 has 3 ways to get audio in analog: 1) Mic Input on XLR of the combo jack. This is 1.65k from each leg to ground (3.3k between the balanced legs) 2) Line Input on TRS of the combo jack. This is 100k from each leg to ground (200k between the balanced legs) with a DC path to ground. 3) Send Return. This is 100k from each leg to ground (200k between the balanced legs) AC coupled from the connector (no DC path to ground on the connector side). 1 + 2 have selectable gain. 3 does not. The gain on path 2 is less than the gain on path 1 for the same gain setting. For large gains the difference is about -9.5 dB. For small gains, it is less. What this means is that you can have a max gain of about 72-9.5 = 62.5 on the line input, with a 100k bridging impedance when you are running single ended. This allows you to adjust the bridging impedance with a resistor between hot and ground. Adding an additional 100k in parallel will give you about 50k bridging impedance (which is probably fine, if you want exactly 47k then the parallel resistance needs to be 88.679k [or as close as you can get]). Putting resistance in series with the input is not really what you want to do because you are adding a noise source to the high gain path. So on the ULN-2 the best approach is to use the Line In with a bridging impedance to match what your cartridge wants to see, plus appropriate gain, plus the RIAA filter in the EQ. You can use the RCA to TS adapters for this purpose, or you can put TS connectors in place of the RCAs on the turntable leads. You definitely need to short the turntable grounding lug to the chassis ground of the ULN-2. For the ULN-8 and LIO-8 we have a factory mod available for the DI board that sets the input impedance and gain properly to use as a turntable input. You can, of course just use an external phono stage and come in line level as well. That being said, we do have a bunch of feedback to the effect that using the ULN/DI input + the EQ as the phono stage is one of the best sounding configurations around; it is certainly substantially less expensive than any external phono stage that is in the same range of performance (if you already have the MIO, that is -- and maybe even if you don't)! Hope this helps. B.J. Buchalter Metric Halo

Happy B Day Al! And thanks for the things you do all year long to make this NFLO! You're the King!

Here's a link to the live SXSW stream; http://live.sxsw.com/detail/videos/sxsw-live/video/4100908992001/sxsw-2015-live-player?autoStart=true NPR has a bit of coverage from Stubb's; http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2015/03/19/394019913/npr-music-at-sxsw-2015-wednesday