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But do you like fishsticks?

Playing a bit of it now. It's been awhile, forgot how much I enjoyed the 5th movement.

Buckethead + Les Claypool - Monsters And Robots

I like the way you guys think. Wrong age category, perhaps? Just kidding. Not sure I noticed that trend, but that's always been the case for Asians, since that's just how we naturally look.

I never really understood fashion. Don't get me wrong - I like a well-dressed person. Someone wearing odd geometric shapes or weird white frilly things and half of Peter Pan's shirt is not well-dressed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZsBL4d1Eus

Rapping the back doesn't have anything to do with string ratios/bridge placement... just has to do with checking whether or not there are any gaps or openings in the wood. The distance between the soundpost and the bridge makes huge differences in sound. Even a slightly tilted bridge makes a whole violin sound like junk, and if you're not careful, it can snap back and have the soundpost come loose, and then all of a sudden your violin doesn't look so good anymore. I did use to play the strings on the other side of the bridge for fun, but don't really get the joke. Speaking of Lalo, I'm going to the Kennedy Center on Saturday to listen to Josh Bell play it. Not particularly excited, but live performances are nice to attend.

Just because you can play a note by itself doesn't mean you can play it as a 32nd note in conjunction with a couple dozen others while shifting to different positions every 2 or 3 notes, and somehow make everything sound good and unforced. And there's plenty of music written for us by composers who didn't play our instruments. I'd go so far as to say that some of the ones that did play our instruments composed much harder to play pieces, since they knew the physical limits of the violin and the human body. Paganini, Ernst, Ysaye, etc etc.

True. I guess I've never really encountered anything I couldn't play with a bit of thinking and a bit of practice, so I sometimes take technical ability for granted. Those blasted Paganini caprices take me a damn while longer than usual, though. Edit: Random sidetrack: I love Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

The thing is, developing musical ideas is part of technique, or at least they go hand in hand. If you're missing out on the intentions of the composer, you're not really playing the piece, just going through the motions. /end douchey music major comment

The two violin concertos are easy. The double concerto is a bit harder, along with the Brandenburg concertos. Solo Sonatas and Partitas are toughest, and of course the Bach cello suites are pretty tough as well. Obligatory douchey music major comment: The beauty of classical music is there are always things to be improved and seemingly easy to play pieces can be very hard, depending on how strict you are on yourself and how much you want to develop the composers' ideas.

There were over a dozen Bachs who were all composers, most of them probably related in some way to the most famous one, Johann Sebastian Bach. That said, JS Bach was big into organ and harpsichord music, since that's what he played. Not too familiar with that, except the Goldberg Variations, of course.

Mm, balut

Go for it, and post up a schematic while you're at it. Might as well buy another SR-Omega (is your old pair still for sale?) just so you can directly compare with the SR-007 again.

Thanks for the pics and the background info; wish I could hear the effect it made for myself. Interesting that you can adjust the EQ with the trimpots. Did it happen to come with a schematic?

Happy birthday! I think I'll fire up my TT rig for the first time in forever today.

It's okay, he's also badass enough to also own an RGC-24. All he needs now is Judge power cable and ERS paper. Edit: Or not.

That's a lot of them. I like 'em okay after I plug the bass ports a bit, but IMO there's better to be had for the price. Edit: And this only applied to the 80 ohm version. If you have the newer consumer edition disregard what I said.

It's what's on the inside that counts.

Nah. But do return the cable and get a decent pair of headphones (hint: planar). The even cheaper solution for me would be to also sell the HD650 and replace it with an HD600. Might as well sell the DT990 too, since it's got too much bass, then buy something good like an HE5. FTFY

The Dacia is my dream car. I cried a little when that 18 wheeler backed into James's.

I can't really wear any of my headphones for over an hour at a time, which I view as a bonus, since it means I should get up off my ass and get some work done. Work + listening to music don't mix for me, I can only do one or the other.

Damn, you beat me to posting those. Not quite rated R, but close. I think I somewhat remember when she used to be at least vaguely attractive. She could never sing live for shit, though.

I reiterate: Hope you like it there.