Craig Sawyers

Digital Deck Covers *is* in the US

Understood Shelly. Did you see my earlier post about Digital Deck Covers? Quilted black looks good (that is what I bought for my Thorens record deck), but you can have a range of colours and any custom size you specify..

I'm not a watch buff, but used to work at Oxford Instruments, where one of our product lines were superconducting magnets. 15,000 Gauss in new money is 1.5 Tesla, which is the fringe field of an exceptionally serious magnet. It is more than enough to erase every credit card in your wallet (got the badge on that several times). It is also the centre field in many MRI scanners. So unless you work in an advanced physics lab or particle accelerator, or want to tell the time while you are having an MRI scan.... I've read about the technology that is in there, and the use of advanced materials, and and exceptional it is too - I just don't see the point in everyday life. But hey - I've spent shed loads of money an audio gear over the years, which is just as nutty an obsession in pursuit of perfection!

Have a great day Al

Probably a daft question Shelly - but why not put the BHSE on the top shelf? Just looked at custom plastic covers (like for a record deck) - less expensive than I thought they would be. http://www.sora-shop.com/Customized-Products/Custom-Turntable-Cover.html put in 50cm x 40cm x 20cm with no base just for laughs and got 56 Euro - or about $65. I'm not suggesting for one instant that you buy in Europe and ship to the US - but there must be similar outfits locally that do the same sort of thing for not much money.

There is a possibility that PRO4AA pads fit the ESP6 - apparently they do for the ESP9. Dirt cheap from Koss https://www.koss.com/accessories/cushions/pro4aa-ear-cushion . Just seen a pair of ESP9's on UK eBay that I might well spring for.

I used these guys for a dust cover for my deck https://www.digitaldeckcovers.com/ and very nice it is too

Just dipping into this particular thread for the first time. I can listen to the SR007 and old normal bias Lambda's (1986) side by side, because I have the T2-klone set up with high bias and normal bias sockets. Much to my surprise, I actually prefer the old Lambdas to the SR007. Much to my financial puzzlement too given how much I paid for the 007's - but there it is. Way way back (late 70's) I had a pair of Koss ESP6, which was my introduction to electrostatic phones. Sounded great, but you needed perseverance - they weighed a ton (given the transformer and voltage multiplier in each cup, and the substantial construction) and it was like having your head in a vice.

I've also taken to oven cooking bacon, pretty recently. Very shallow tray with grease proof paper, fan oven on 200C for 15 to 20 minutes. Yummy.

Butter is better than batter, and that's banter

I love you guys - sometimes the banter just makes my day

Oh dear, how sad.

I'd quite forgotten that he started HeadWize. That was how I got my intro to headphone listening - via building KG's triode electrostatic phone amp (which I still have). And let's not forget the the original Blue Hawaii got its first airing on Headwize too. Which I built and still have. He was a man who singlehandedly kicked the whole HeadWize, Head-fi and Head-Case thing off, when the web was young. RIP Chu, a man with a vision.

Unless anyone has any specific advice, take the lid off and photograph what you see and post it. Or try head-fi rather than head-case.

That's sad - RIP Frank Jr

Pretty sure that is Pen Y Fan in the Brecon Beacons in South Wales. Only 2906 feet, but a nice hill. Been up there many times - but never in Winter. Whenever I thought about it I checked the mountain forecast and usually it mentioned things like "white out" or "deteriorating conditions", not a good time to be out walking.

You know - I'd forgotten how good the sequences were. Filmed in high definition, they were broadcast in 405 line black and white originally. Remember - 1965.

RIP Sylvia Anderson co-creator of Thunderbirds and voice of Lady Penelope. I don't know if this made it across the pond, but it was watched by huge numbers of kids in the UK in the 60's. Way ahead of its time, the soundtrack was used to trigger electronics in the puppets to perfectly lip sync to the dialogue. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35818530

That is so weird and disturbing

Have a great one Larry!

Like the grotesque Mrs Gamp in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit. An alcoholic and abusive nurse/midwife/undertaker who kept gin in her teapot, and was permanently sozzled. "Mrs Gamp stored all her household matters in a little cupboard by the fire-place; beginning below the surface (as in nature) with the coals, and mounting gradually upwards to the spirits, which, from motives of delicacy, she kept in a teapot"

Ah yes, I remember it well

Ours is a SEBO upright. Just keeps going - maybe ten years or more - and never missed a beat. Two filters, one of which I rinse out with soapy water maybe twice a year, and the other I take outdoors and beat the dust out. And the bag of course - everything that goes in stays in.

And here was I thinking extreme ironing was weird

This highlights Emerson's earlier reincarnation - keyboard in the Nice. In my original home town of Newcastle, the town council sponsored a piece of music called the Five Bridges Suite (since at that time Newcastle had five bridges across the river Tyne. It was semi classical with the Northern Symphony Orchestra and the Nice. Totally awesome. The cover image is of the Tyne Bridge that was used as the basis of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The highlight is the Sibelius Karelia Suite, with Emerson in full flight (might be on disc 2)