deepak

You have Pittsburgh beating your team in post 72, I don't think you need any more luck

I see Detroit beating SJ in another game 7.

Perhaps this discussion will warrant a new thread and I certainly need to experiment more. But so far I've achieved the best imaging using the Cardas setup guide. I'm sitting 8' away from the speakers (with a setup in a semi equilateral shape) and this is near field by their definition. Moving about a foot back I lose a lot of the precision but the soundstage does get bigger. Looking at a lot of "reviewer" rooms which may not mean a whole lot most of them sit closer to the speakers. Before doing a bit of research on this subject I was sitting closer to the back of the room (14' from speakers) and the imaging was really non-existant.

By the Cardas/Barry Diament definition of near field room treatments will definitely help.

I mean Coltrane is buried in the Analogue Productions vinyl. He is right in the mix in the original 1962 Impulse! vinyl from what I have read. No one from Analogue Productions has spoke up on the issue. I don't know if they had master tapes for a lot of these AP Impulse reissues and that remains some what of an ambiguous area.

Dan's Pass Labs Pearl which sounds great. I really need a rack for the headphone setup \

The mingus mingus mingus mingus mingus is supposed to be killer on 45 rpm vinyl I imagine the SACD is the same. I'd be interested to hear if John Coltrane is buried in the mix in "Coltrane" like the 45 rpm vinyl. Supposedly sounds nothing like the original Impulse vinyl.

Coltrane/Dameron - Mating Call (ojc vinyl) on Pass Labs Pearl phono

Happy birthday!

In renaming the thread I hope I haven't doomed the Wings tomorrow

I enjoyed Mastodon for a short bit, but they couldn't hold my interest long term. The music was catchy I'll give them that.

I have two 1.5 TB green drives (WD15EARS) and they work fine and operate quietly. Though the computer they are in isn't turned on all the time, after 10 hours or so of heavy use they are still cooler than my Seagates. Both have a very low flow (inaudible from a few feet) 120 mm fan blowing over them. Yup too true. The strictest trackers I'm on limit clients to utorrent, rtorrent and whatever the most popular Mac client is.

Happy birthday Kevin

Great listen for jazz fans. The .ram file is converted to an MP3 in the SendSpace link. Roughly an hour. BBC - Radio 3 - Discovering Music - Miles Davis Celebration - Kind of Blue Download The Secret Kind of Blue 20090818 BBC R2.mp3 from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way

The big Sound Labs have genuinely scary bass. The dealer even put on home theater bass test discs and I was mighty impressed. I must have a pair of 945s or Ultimate PX-1. But I'm going to settle for Maggies for the time being, $33k speakers are just out of the question at the moment. But a kitty had been started the moment I heard them!

The National's new album streaming from the NY Times website The National Agenda - NYTimes.com

Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction mfsl vinyl

pffft Oilers/Red Wings fan

Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record

Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session classic records vinyl edit: :-0 10000 posts

I never said the BH makes the O2 more forward and dynamic if that's what you mean? Dynamics has nothing to do with how forward or relaxed something sounds. Maybe the BH makes the 404Le less forward by giving it more spatial resolution- it definitely does this moving from a Pro bias transformer box with the O2 to the BH. But I haven't heard the LE on a pro bias transformer box. We'll have to disagree with the Lambda sound signatures. The regular 404 didn't have particularly hard hitting bass when I owned them. The Pros certainly did on the same amp with more midbass. The 404 did have better extension, but moot really. I'd like to hear all three now that I have a Blue Hawaii, I somehow doubt my ranking would change much from SR-404LE > SR-Lambda > SR-Lambda Sig > 404 > Sr-Lambda Pro

I think you're underplaying the role of an electrostatic amp. The Lambda Pro mids aren't terribly detailed given the midrange suck out. They are impressive sounding and probably the most "dynamic sounding" of the Lambda series with the hard hitting bass.

Yup I thought the same thing when I heard them with meet amps (they also sounded very forward). I changed my mind with the Blue Hawaii.

Shouldn't a fully functional pair of drivers charge up instantly?

I dislike every Lambda I've heard except the SR-Lambda and SR-404LE. The SR-404LE is definitely the most resolving of the Lambas as well. They (LE) do not surpass the HE60 or SR-007 mk1.