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Their mojo comes from the input signal, which should be plenty of mojo to drive a linestage. That being said, I also heard the KX-R at RMAF, and the system it was in (Ayre and Vandersteen) was breathtaking. The demo guy was a real asshole, too, but in the fun "don't torture me with your boring chamber music grandpa" kind of way which I always enjoy.

I read the article. I have a difficult time believing that any active linestage cuold be more transparent than an excellent passive linestage, and breathtaking transparency is what's in play here. I'm not well versed enough to have a truly technical discussion of the product, though, as some of the measurements and theories were over my head.

It takes hours for moms to bite all the hair off my balls. Who has the time?

Since we're clearly beyond redemption, I prefer "plasma shaving". I also have a razor milled in the depths of space from the Bose-Einstein condensate. Traditional forms of matter offer an inferior shave.

Knowing that you just ordered a dustcover, I think it would look fantastic if you windowpaned one yourself. Build a wooden frame with slats and use sheets of acrylic in between them. I suppose the weight could be an issue, but I'm not an expert at anything. I don't doubt that the custom cover will look great, but I wonder if it is majestic enough...

Whoa whoa whoa... How did we actually start discussing shaving?

Well, we can't all be Nordic bread Barons, Birgir...

well then the better question is: what did you get?

Thanks, that's all the review I need

That thing costs more than a hooker, even on A'Gon. For that money, I expect more satisfaction than a hooker.

Remote=FTMFW x a billion. I absolutely love remote. I had a pretty easy setup before with front row, but remote shames it. I finally, finally feel good about having a computer at the helm of my audio ship now. Now I just need a decent source...

Oh shit, then I shouldn't have sent that invite to TFarney? It was wrapped around a brick.

The market for "giants" over 2k is pretty negligible. I'm assuming all the giant killers now just square off against each other throwing stones far too high in the air.

Part of the feel of the Colorado festivals is that the performers stay in camp, and after hours they play old standards really informally. People kinda swap in and out on instruments. There are also instrument clinics with many of the performers. I'm hardly in the league of nickel creek, so I'd embarass myself on stage, but it was really an honor to sit in with them on a few tunes. That aspect of the planet bluegrass stuff is really a lot of what makes it so monumental -- sitting down and talking with the musicians over a breakfast burrito at 2am... I'd pay pretty good money to see Bonnie Prince, Elvis, OR Iron&wine. All three for free is something else.

Aw snap! Iron and Wine, Bonnie Prince Billy, Gogol Bordello, Elvis Costello, The Gourds... that really is phenomenal.

That is indeed a phenomenal bluegrass festival, you are to be congratulated. Feast your eyes, however, on planet bluegrass. Next year will be Bela Fleck's 28th, and Del McRoury's 33rd consecutive years at Telluride. I played standup bass with Nickel Creek (though not on stage) two years ago. It's an effing event. Also, MC Hammer?

I'm pretty sure Castle Rock, CO's Jazz festival would be nothing but David Sanborn cd's played on high school gym's PA system followed by a rousing Nickelback concert, so I'm glad someone is taking advantage of fantastic jazz. Wish I was out there with you. I'm betting you can't hold a candle to our bluegrass, though

It's pointless to go with the Slazenger unless you have a ball machine.

Ah, yes, Peter Gunn... That's the dude who wanted 2 grand to build a giant wooden box for my beloved Maggies. I'd rather not support his $100 CD habit.

No! How has this thread been derailed by debate! Portable is teh sux. I listen to bare wire out of a tennis ball.

The pissing contest is the problem. Have you ever read an honest, thoughtful review that concluded "I could not hear a difference"? I've never written one. How could I? I kept listening until the difference was there. Stereophile, a rag if ever there was one, actually enforces "difference hearing" as an editorial strategy. No less, they credit their success directly to it, along with describing how something sounds in addition to how it measures. Moreover, they have to constantly defend the decision to measure equipment at all. The measurements are the only thing that hold true between the reviewer's system and the end user's, but they're abstract and thus useless. You should have seen some of the rooms at RMAF two weeks ago. The best room of the entire show, bar none, was Ray Kimber's soundlab panels through pro EMM Labs gear powered by Pass 350 stereo amps. That whole setup would run around $100,000 for the pair. A titanic sum to any reasonable individual, no doubt, but it represented a concept. The concept was "this is the outer limit of the possible, using the best equipment that can be purchased". Meanwhile there were guys selling gilded 300b boxes for about that much. That kind of shit does nothing for the hobby. The people who buy those aren't contributing to better sound reproduction in any way. They're allowing con men to steal their money for shiny boxes.

Versus, say, the Kondo's Tangos, which are then wound in silver.

$126k and they're buying trafos off the shelf.

I went to the trouble of reading the specs breakdown on the Wavac. Long story short, under 1% THD it puts out 2 watts, not the claimed 150. At listenable power, it's putting out 10% distortion, and not all of it the benign, tubey 2nd order distortion. Plenty of 7th order shit that sounds like what it is. I'll wager the Lamm, lousy as it is, is still at least 30% as good as that nonsense. I'd love to see some measurements on the Kondo, though.