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I was cutting and stripping the wires for the innards of the Jensen speakers I have been working on, and listening to a CD while doing it. I tried some exotic stuff an audiobuddy gave me, but it was difficult and stripping broke the wires too many times. Settled on Radio Shack Megacable, 16...

I got as far as "Supreme Lord Krishna."

That meteor came awful close to taking out the visitors' center...

Somewhere in Missouri...

I heard R.S.I. yesterday on the local classical station. The composer named the piece after a common problem piano players have.

No, not at all. I took the Pig up to about 20 watts. My Denon AV machine was not up to the task, however. No surprise. "...the last 50 watts..." WTF! How many are you pumping into them??

Soooooooooooooo...you're happy with the sound?

I like them, but I don't like living with them...if that even makes sense.

It was fairly easy, with no children, dogs or cats in the house.

Welcome to Phoenix...sorry about your wallet.

A good day at the thrifts today - scored a near-perfect copy of "Warming Up Kansas City," the companion CD of "WARM" which I praised on page six of this thread. But not listening to it yet, as I'm listening to the Mike White Quartet's "Tiempo." The MWQ CD has clips on EweToob, which I have not...

I can't help but wonder if some "scientist" got a grant to figure that out.

I remember the Viking lander back in the 1970's found an indicator of "life," but the folks at Never A Straight Answer didn't like the result. They found a way to nullify the result after the fact. Bad science? Well, not good science. The Viking technology went on to become a hospital...

I read about that Audio Desk doo-dad years ago in the pages of "Stereopile" [sp?]. I mostly remember it being very expen$ive.

My wife is especially fond of this, and the vids about its construction are an education.

Bought Ian Matthew's LP many years ago, and it had this tune:

This may be the last step - I really prefer passive antennas, so I dug out a set of rabbit ears (minus all the electronic gee-gaws), mounted them on a glass base which used to serve for a desk pen and made the connection: four bars, good sound. It looks better too.

UPDATE - On the advise of a fellow over on AK, I reconnected the Radio Shack antenna, reduced the gain setting to "1" (of 3) and fiddled with the rabbit ears so that the tuner barely registered five bars. Success! It sounds great, just about as good as the Rotel tuner in the main system. I...

Well, this hecksperiment has failed. The antenna is for VHF/UHF/HDTV and not so good for FM. The signal was strong, but not consistent. I've gone back to the attic antenna, three bars and all.

If your stereo hums...it's because it doesn't know the words.