Craig Sawyers

Hope you had a superb day, Todd!

They have to be B&W speakers - the pod on the top with the kevlar midrange started off in the 801 back in 1980. I used to lust after those so badly it almost hurt. Forty years ago now, and they are still drop dead gorgeous. And I'd still like a pair - just because...

RIP David Prowse. I had no idea he was the Green Cross Code guy - thanks for that Grahame!

This to VPI's post on Tuesday: You need to watch where you use purpleheart. If it is exposed to bright sunlight the surface oxidizes to a rather dull browny-purple. But freshly cut it is a spectacular wood.

The moving magnet cartridge shown (the Elys-2) is pretty quirky - it does not have a removable stylus. It is similar to a moving coil in that regard - when the stylus wears you return it to Rega for rebuild or exchange. https://www.rega.co.uk/products/elys-2

Bloody hell Jose - I had no idea you were going through all this. As Tice says - fingers firmly crossed.

I have a Garrard 401. Stylus drag doesn't slow that sucker down. Oh - and a Thorens TD150II, and that is a pretty weak force unit. But I'm using that with a Shure V15IV with Jico stylus. Since that thing runs at 0.75g tracking, it is just fine. That feeds, via a phono stage, a BH original, with all the unobtainium silicon, and a pair of SR007. That is one of my wife-is-asleep headphone systems. Don't ask...

Have a great one!

I've just checked into this thread again - I can hardly type for laughing! OMG the thread moved on - that was in reply to Tice's comment on the last page on Nov 9th!! Back to the current posts. So sad that Maradonna has gone. Such a flawed genius in the same way that George Best was. Best drank himself to death, and Diego Maradonna had the same demons.

Ugh. What a hideous product. Also I don't know about the FCC mark, but the CE mark is fake - it does not conform with the very precise requirements of the mark geometry. The not so far from the truth joke was that CE from a Chinese product was not a CE mark at all - it stands for China Export.

The stunning Mae West. Born 1893 and died forty years ago today

The Reks nuke incident aside - we want photos!

The stunning Hedy Lamar, born Nov 9th 1914. Actress, beauty, and inventor (of spread spectrum communication).

I wish we had a thumbs up option. "Like" is too weak to attach to that Pie diatribe. Brilliant as usual, and makes the point that even dictatorships are remaining silent regarding the orange menace's defeat. And on behalf of the rest of the non-dictatorial world - hoo fucking ray! Bye bye to Trump and his miserable cohort of acolytes, and welcome to someone who is actually presidential.

First film I took my wife-to-be aged 18 was Zardoz, RIP Sean Connery.

I use the later (current version) black bodied Zu Denon DL103, and can confirm its excellence. I use the later (current version) black bodied Zu Denon DL103, and can confirm its excellence. Repeated sentence, sentence repeated.....

Quite a good interview with Tom Walker, the real guy behind Jonathan Pie. He actually trained as an actor, but realized that the best he could hope for was third centurion with three lines in a Shakespeare play. So inventing Pie was a really good thing for him. Although his rants seem spontaneous, he writes them, learns them and delivers them as an actor.

Very, very sorry Fitz. What a lovely cat.

They are crossed over at 120Hz, which has a wavelength of 2.9 metres. which completely ignores the structure (because it is so much smaller than the wavelength of the sound; the structure is acoustically small).

I'd definitely go the M-frame route from that website. Sure you need two drivers per side, but you get the benefit of (at least to first order) distortion cancellation. These were mine during building maybe 5 years ago.

There is quite a lot about OB EQ on SL's website here https://www.linkwitzlab.com/models.htm Regarding Qts, he makes the point that ~0.7 is desirable (hence your comment about high Qts I guess). But since you can EQ that as well, even with a low value.

I use the ones that Siegfried Linkwitz specified for the LX521 - the SEAS L26RO4Y XM004-04. Although this is a 10" effective unit, two are used in a W-frame firing in opposite directions and wired antiphase. The idea is that non-linear distortions are effectively cancelled. Two of the SEAS units has an effective radiating area rather larger than the 12" AE one. One thing you have to watch with OB bass drives is wind noise (yeah, yeah!). So for large excursions, which you always have with the EQ needed for OB units, if the back of the driver is inadequately vented you hear a chuffing noise. That is entirely absent in the SEAS unit. That is not such a big issue with drivers used in boxes, but for OB it is a biggy. Worth asking AE about this specific point before putting your hand in your pocket. Why do you specifically want a high Qts by the way?

Is that just his kitchen system? Else why is there a microwave oven there?

Happy birthday!