SteveFord

There's no rhyme or reason as to how they mount those outlets: prong on bottom, prong on top, I've got at least two pieces that have them sideways. If you're only going to use two prongs quit being so cheap and stick on a two prong connector or just hard wire it in there and then you can complain about no detachable power cord. Frank Van Alstine was funny, he said he finally put in a detachable power cord socket so you can buy your own fancy one and it can fall right out!

The issue is there's a 3 prong receptacle on the amplifier and it specifically states in the owner's manual not to use a cheater plug, make sure to plug it into a 3 prong outlet for safety reasons. A kit amp for enthusiasts is one thing, a production model is a different animal. That's what the ruckus is about.

On page 2 of the Owner's Manual it says not to defeat the purpose of the grounding plug and to connect the amplifier only to an outlet with a protective grounding socket. This is not hooked up on either the CarverFest or production 275s, the third prong has nothing attached to it. Are you planning on providing a safety upgrade to actually put this grounding plug into operation?

The first episode is kind of slow, second is a little different and the third one is really good. They really perked up when Billy Preston arrived. I don't know if they would have had much of an album without him spurring them on.

Last day of the year, last day of my one month Disney+ subscription so I watched Get Back again. When those guys were "on" they were just magic. Thanks for all of the great music, Fabs!

Oh, please. Everyone knows that the real Paul McCartney was killed during the Bay Of Pigs invasion. That imposter guy is actually Melvin Metrick from Liverpool, New York.

I'll probably watch it tomorrow, today it was work and I'm a little under the weather. Have surgery coming up on 12/22, The Alien is living in my guts. Fun fun fun! I've seen a little bit of the roof top stuff before, they really were the best rock band ever. No real virtuosos in the group but they had a magic to them which nobody else has ever come close to matching. I kept waiting for another Beatles to come along and then finally realized they're one and done.

I liked when Paul's daughter started screaming into the mic and they went "YOKO!", that was great.

My guess is that they didn't work like they did in this movie prior to Yoko coming on the scene. They were really under the gun to come up with stuff with all the cameras on them, just taking basic ideas and writing it on the fly. If you're not a Beatles fan it would be pretty dull to sit through 6 hours of it. One thing I learned is that Apple Scruffs was about the fans hanging around outside the studio. Not the most flattering thing to be called by your heroes but oh well.

Quality over quantity and one for each episode so it all works out. In part 2, did you see John start to take something out of his coat pocket, he realized the camera on him and he quickly put it back?

Saw Part One last night. It's fab!

Ortofon 2M Black, a recommendation from Obi many years ago. The crabby old duffer was right, it does everything well.

Just finished all 8 sides of this. I saw him about 10 days before this was recorded and a lot of the tracks are on this album BUT he changed the arrangements on them: different bits thrown in, different tempos, moved the order of parts of the songs around... That must have been so hard to do as this band was flawless and no sheet music on stage. I guess he'd go back to his room at night and mess around with the songs and then rehearse the band during the day so they'd get the changes down. This shows Zappa at the height of his powers, well worth getting.

A headphone amp brought me back here but for a lot of those guys, they're probably not futzing around with audio gear all that much. Odds are that most of them are busy doing other things: restoring cars, doing yard work, planning family vacations or fishing trips or (most likely) doing Google searches at work for midgets in their underwear. This should do the trick:

I was hoping to see Reese and I think it was RadioEngineer? And Geoff-B, MadMaxxx and the cantankerous F1 Nut. I know Jesse (F1 Nut) is still kicking on other forums (Polk, Steve Hoffman's site, probably two dozen others, ha ha). Also WeitRhino. I did hear from Snow a few years back, he needed to use me as a reference for a pile of tubes he was selling. Maybe a polar bear got him. Does anyone remember who it was who got so traumatized when I posted a picture of Bridget The Midget?

I don't know what you guys are talking about, I'm right here.

No problems with Amazon or with the vendors there. Not a one.

Reptiles make me laugh, they're always up to something weird. I'll have to take some pictures of the preamps , they look like boxes with knobs on them. One of them has tubes sticking out of the top.

I don't get much company, I don't understand it? That big Burmese isn't mine but I wish it was. This old girl is full of little ones, I think.

This made me laugh, I found this thread and thought this looks interesting and I started it years ago. All of the PJ Harvey titles have been rereleased and all of the Zappa remasters are really good.

Glad to hear that 4000t is still going strong. I had that for a bit using 4 Magnepan MMGs and then got a wild hair up my ass to get a Sunfire tube preamp used with a Barcus Berry Sonic Maximizer which worked really well. I wish that python would stop dragging me around, I'm on blood thinners and bleed like a stuck pig.

Yes, the 20.7s were just too big. What I didn't realize was that the panel starts about 18" off of the floor so to get far enough back I'd have to either sit in the kitchen or get up in the air on a barstool. There was also way too much bass for the area. As Wendall put it, a trombone in a phone booth. Let me know about Capital Audiofest, I'd like to hit that. I purposely avoided the 30.7 tour, why torture yourself? I did my best to try and get Magnepan to make a smaller version of the 20.7 but they weren't interested in doing a $10,000 speaker. Last I heard they were working on something north of 30K before the pandemic shut everything down. I do have a set of the new LRS on order for the upcoming Midget System. They're only $780 to my door but delivery time is 14-16 weeks out.

Here's the upstairs which sounds really good, everything is sized just right. You don't have the ribbons with the 1.7s so you lose some resolution but you can't have everything. The SVS passive sub was listed here under Found Deals many years ago and it came with two little wall mount Magnepans which I hung up but never plugged into anything. Why, who knows. That sub really did the trick.