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I find coat hangers braided around old foil candy wrappers with a sweaty old t-shirt for insulation works just fine for me SIR! no need for your fancy metals or clean t-shirts!

happy birthday!

happy birthday billy!

sounds like this "review" was literally a "first look at the Oppo BDP-83 web site".

Symphony this afternoon. Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto, with guest pianist Alpin Hong, who was really fun to watch. Then Beethoven's 7th. A wonderful day of music. Also we drove over to New Orleans last night for a friend's engagement party. It was a pretty classy affair, complete with an awesome jazz trio. It was a trip to sit in this old New Orleans uptown home, eat perfect rare tenderloin and au gratin potatoes, and listen to these three guys (one from London, one from New York, and one from Gretna) tell stories and play jazz. An unexpected musical treat!

hot sometimes, but other times not so much?

happy birthday!

Cream - Disraeli Gears (MFSL Mono)

BC-13 vinyl when i was younger, and this album was always winning "greatest album of all time" recognition, i always used to scoff. I loved the Beatles, but didn't understand why this was better then Sgt. Pepper, or White Album, or Abbey Road. I get it know. I could listen to just "She Said, She Said" and "For No One" over and over and over and never get sick of them for the rest of my life. Its eerie how many of this songs could have been written at various points in rock history and fit in perfectly.

In! This was fun last year.

yeah, these headphones are pissing me off for a reason I can't rationally explain.

i am intrigued by this. explain. Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy

happy birthday!

Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

looks fantastic!

OPPO BDP-83 Special Edition Blu-ray Disc Player (emphasis mine) I was under the impression that the only difference was the Sabre DACs, but the all new analog output stage puts a smile on my face. This could be a swell sounding player, the true universal (even HDCD!) deck I've been wanting for years, and for just $900.

by all accounts, their products have all been top notch.

*responsive.

such a stupid name. however, they were very responsible to my email queries in the past.

I saw Phish last weekend at Festival 8, a three day Halloween Festival in Indio, CA. It was awesome. 8 sets, including their first all acoustic set, and the obligatory "musical costume" set. This Halloween, they covered the Rolling Stones "Exile on Main Street" in its entirety, with a tight horn section and two amazing female backup singers (one was Sharon Jones, the other I can't remember). It was outrageous. The Coachella grounds are gorgeous, and the comfort level of the festival was higher then any I've been to, partly because of the professionalism of the staff (except a couple of instances where vendor friends of mine were shook down), partly because of the efforts of the band to maximize comfort (tons of couches and shade all over the place), and partly because there were maybe only 35,000 people at what was supposed to be a 60,000 person festival. I had a blast! iPhone pics on my facebook. Also, I finally had my first In N Out burger. Delicious!

Talking Heads - Remain in Light (rhino vinyl)

absolutely, as does the time of the day. I am a firm believer that my system sounds better after 10pm.

Stretch, do you have a test record you use? The Hi-Fi News Test LP always sets my mind at ease when I'm unsure of my settings. Then again so does the simplicity of aligning using an arc protractor specific to my TT. Does your TT have an arc protractor available anywhere? I got mine at vinylengine.

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