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1: General Asylum, Adorable and talented Emma Kok is everywhere one looks singing Voila (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-29, 07:45:17 (97.82.221.142)
Voila with Andre Rieu I could listen to her all day but the song was co-written and sung at Eurovision by Barbara Pravi whose performance I much prefer. The lyrics are quite moving Vi .......
2: Classical Court, What's Cooking Tonight (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-28, 15:14:44 (97.82.221.142)
In the middle of prepping yellow rice and sauteed chicken breast with zucchini and capers, to the accompaniment of, .......
3: Tube DIY Asylum, Didja Get The E-Mail Announcement From Digikey? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-28, 14:23:04 (97.82.221.142)
New digs. Looks just like Ikea. And I had just posted below about how they put up with us. .......
4: Inmate Central, RE: We interrupt this hiatus for ... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-28, 14:16:12 (97.82.221.142)
...my latest custom bumper sticker featuring a most obscure reference designed to keep me safe from the locals. .......
5: Classical Court, RE: "Do you think [Scarbo] is actually technically more difficult than Islamey?" (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-27, 07:17:28 (97.82.221.142)
Looking at the score is more terrifying than what may be lurking under the bed. .......
6: Classical Court, RE: SFS Bartok again... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-24, 18:30:08 (97.82.221.142)
What's this Dolby Atmos I see on Apple Classical and how many iPhones do I need? .......
7: General Asylum, RE: Simaudio 820S, Part 27 (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-24, 04:16:03 (97.82.221.142)
Should the back of a 'reference level' preamplifier look like the back of a cheap Dolby 5.1 Surround Receiver? I know the proof is in the listening but how much 'better' could it be with a more minim .......
8: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: With a Moniker Like 6BQ5, Care To Comment? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-22, 14:18:14 (97.82.221.142)
I'm about to order the iron for this build Tubelab Simple Push Pull Over 20 years ago I adopted a used RM-10 and corresponded with Roger. He kindly sent me some parts and instructions to make a passi .......
9: Tube DIY Asylum, Ever wonder how Mouser or Digikey look at us? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-20, 17:42:45 (97.82.221.142)
Never occurred to me after 20 years but just now I added one $1.10 switch to a build list, "23,901 available for immediate shipment". I think the largest single quantity I ever bought was 10 or maybe .......
10: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: So it is (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-20, 16:55:38 (97.82.221.142)
And a really classy chassis .......
11: Classical Court, RE: Yuja is indeed a wonder, but. . . (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-20, 14:12:25 (97.82.221.142)
That's one of the good things about Low-Fi. .......
12: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: Great looking stand (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-20, 14:10:32 (97.82.221.142)
Dowels make such a wonderful design element beyond their utility. .......
13: Classical Court, Yuja Wang, No Legs! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-20, 13:44:50 (97.82.221.142)
Listening now to her playing the Rachmaninoff Second, LA Dudamel; DG All 4 Concertos and Paganini Rhapsody It's newly listed on Apple Classical and a treat even over my kitchen radio system. I have a .......
14: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Midriff, Midriff (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-19, 16:13:37 (97.82.221.142)
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15: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Mid Drift? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-19, 13:41:31 (97.82.221.142)
I guess so as it only goes halfway up the car. .......
16: General Asylum, RE: Yea Verily, Go Forth And Copy Image Addresses (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-19, 13:37:34 (97.82.221.142)
(img src="image address") substitute carats for parentheses .......
17: Classical Court, RE: A trumpet virtuoso, Ahem, Playing A Cornet (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-18, 04:14:24 (97.82.221.142)
Classical Mavens can't tell the difference in construction and tone? .......
18: Classical Court, There's Nothing Quite Like The Voices Of Children (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-14, 15:54:34 (97.82.221.142)
I know there are actual Bulgarian choirs singing this but these Kiwi Kids directed by a guy who must be beloved by them gets everything from them. View YouTube Video .......
19: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: A Woman Is Just A Woman But An Amplifier Is A Smoke? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-13, 17:51:51 (97.82.221.142)
With apologies to Sir Winston. .......
20: Classical Court, RE: You must have remembered to bring the score (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-11, 07:50:19 (97.82.221.142)
We had these regional solo contests when I was in Junior High and 80 miles from home one year, my sister the piano prodigy had "forgotten" to bring her part (she was an only child). The judges let me .......
21: General Asylum, RE: I Was Too Old Then, But I Can Do The Freddie nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-08, 10:10:47 (97.82.221.142)
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22: Classical Court, RE: Sadly, Tall Girls gone. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-07, 12:24:39 (97.82.221.142)
I decided she was my new Emma Kirkby the first time I heard them 3 or 4 years ago. The new high soprano is just as good but, darn it, she's not tall. .......
23: Classical Court, And Now, A Brief Musical Interlude (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-07, 07:05:48 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
24: General Asylum, RE: You think that's bad? Paypal withholds my funds for 30 days (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-05, 09:30:14 (97.82.221.142)
Since we don't have your tax ID, payments you receive for goods and services are on hold. Without your tax ID, we'll start sending 24% of your payments to the IRS for backup withholding as soon as No .......
25: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: They were Edcor OPT's (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-03, 16:50:00 (97.82.221.142)
Hammond not being an SE contender and Transcendar no longer around, I used the little Edcor GXSE in my recent small footprint SSE build. I lowered the coupling caps from .47 to .22 to compensate (per .......
26: Classical Court, RE: A masterpiece to be sure (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-03, 12:02:39 (97.82.221.142)
It is that one you cite and it is a masterpiece. I only have an iPhone and a Bluetooth receiver. I suppose that means I have Aether, not Atmos. .......
27: Classical Court, New Release: Monteverde Vespro della Beata Vergine (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-03, 07:57:53 (97.82.221.142)
Anton Rondepierre, etc. Apple Classical App Just perfect for Sunday morning .......
28: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Discriminating Posaune'rs Agree (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-03, 04:30:11 (97.82.221.142)
My collection features a lot of Opera and lucky me grew up with singers in the house. I'm not a fan of Callas' voice either. I do love her in this Tosca, however, where she doesn't have as much scr .......
29: Vinyl Asylum, RE: That's her, thanks. John, shame on you ;-} nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-09-01, 05:55:13 (97.82.221.142)
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30: Vinyl Asylum, Hey Old Ghost, who's that country gal singer with the funny lyrics? nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-08-31, 19:34:14 (97.82.221.142)
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31: General Asylum, RE: For an even better thrill (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-08-28, 16:37:27 (97.82.221.142)
My elderly Thinkpad needed a dongle (a new vocabulary word for me) when I got a wireless trackball. So no Bluetooth, right? .......
32: General Asylum, RE:BTW, the phone is now an 11S. Does that make a difference? nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-08-28, 12:17:34 (97.82.221.142)
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33: General Asylum, REVIEW: Audioengine B1 Preamplifier (SS) (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-08-28, 11:49:47 (97.82.221.142)
Model: B1 Category: Preamplifier (SS) Suggested Retail Price: $189 Description: Bluetooth Receiver DAC Manufacturer URL: Audioengine Model Picture: View Review by B. Scarpia on Augus .......
34: Speaker Asylum, RE: Way To Recycle, John (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-08-25, 05:10:50 (97.82.221.142)
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35: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Ozite Points All-In-One Record Player-Tuner Part I (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-08-22, 06:51:02 (97.82.221.142)
When I left home for college my dad gave me a little Panasonic record player he won for repping Ozite carpet tiles (remember carpet tiles?). The lid was the second speaker, the tone arm a piece of alu .......
36: Inmate Central, RE: You obviously never tried Old Frothingschloss (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-07-12, 07:02:04 (97.82.221.142)
The pale, stale, ale; King Of Christmas Beers View YouTube Video .......
37: General Asylum, RE: ...then jump down, turn around, say "High Captain", and spit (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-07-12, 06:58:16 (97.82.221.142)
IEEE text missing .......
38: Inmate Central, RE: Here's a bike review that says a lot about spending big dollars on many things (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-07-12, 04:14:08 (97.82.221.142)
Including Audio. View YouTube Video .......
39: Classical Court, RE: I was just wondering what to begin my listening today, thanks for that (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-07-11, 03:42:37 (97.82.221.142)
Now it's sitting on the music stand awaiting the neighbors to leave for work ;-) .......
40: Inmate Central, Hey, G. Squared, It's Jambalaya Time (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-07-10, 15:29:02 (97.82.221.142)
I made the Serious Eats recipe tonight. Looks right, tastes great. "Sweating" the cut up vegetables to work the fond is a great technique. I only had bone-in thighs on hand so I left'm whole to cut u .......
41: Inmate Central, RE: Women's Fast Pitch: the most exciting Stick And Ball Sport (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-07-10, 06:39:36 (97.82.221.142)
Just one example from the WCWS but Podunk H.S. vs. Smallville is just as much fun. View YouTube Video .......
42: Inmate Central, RE: Jambalaya (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-07-09, 04:37:44 (97.82.221.142)
Do try this at home This recipe seems to take nothing for granted in the skills/savvy dep't. as so many do, explaining each step carefully. I'm looking forward to a try. .......
43: Inmate Central, I just received an E-mail from Dicks Forbes confirming my recent purchase (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-07-07, 14:19:34 (97.82.221.142)
There was a PDF symbol to download my invoice. That Dicks (his friends call him Dicks), what a kidder. .......
44: General Asylum, RE:Krap! I Clicked! Now the Youtube Algorithim will think I want to see more of the idiot (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-07-07, 12:44:38 (97.82.221.142)
There should be a warning. I recently spent $200 renting an Aegir to find out what at least the fringe of the latest bestest SS amplifiers sound like. Good, but not too much detail so individual voic .......
45: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: Spud Amp Alert! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-07-07, 07:04:04 (97.82.221.142)
There's a bunch of them out there, here's a Pete Millett .......
46: Classical Court, RE: Absolutely! I love Ann Murray! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-07-06, 10:54:17 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
47: Inmate Central, RE: That last should be on a great big wall. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-07-04, 08:39:59 (97.82.221.142)
"... race has become the great American surrogate for more basic and ubiquitous inequities such as poverty and poor public schools as exist in many areas." .......
48: General Asylum, RE: Many changes, yes, but never from dissatisfaction (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-07-02, 09:34:54 (97.82.221.142)
OK, almost never. Way back in 1978 I bought a Harmon Kardon pre-amp, the one with the tiny square buttons?, I bought new that was absolutely dreadful. But that was an outlier. I had just acquired the .......
49: Inmate Central, RE: Actually, Uncle Mike ... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-07-01, 12:33:36 (97.82.221.142)
... although Caesar's doesn't have a Killadelphia Special or even a Marguerita on a menu tailored to bring ketchup covered cardboard to the masses, this particular sausage-heavy pie is pretty good. I .......
50: Inmate Central, No Fault No Fault (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-07-01, 05:10:58 (97.82.221.142)
I cook everything I eat at home but once a month or so I get a taste for some strange and it's usually either pizza or Chinese. So as I'm just beginning to look back to the right after looking left a .......
51: Classical Court, RE: Bernstein Mahler on DG Vinyl (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-30, 07:26:50 (97.82.221.142)
Any of you three guys play an acoustic instrument well, surrounded by other musicians on diverse acoustic instruments? On a daily basis? Just asking. .......
52: Vinyl Asylum, RE: 2 Ways You Can Easily Do This For Yourself (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-30, 04:28:53 (97.82.221.142)
#1 - Go to a craft store and buy a nominal 1/8" piece of plywood or solid pine. At an auto parts, a set of feeler gauges. Measure, then sand or shim the wood using the gauge set taken apart, to the pr .......
53: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Confirmation... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-29, 19:51:26 (97.82.221.142)
I have no idea what the 'settlement' relates to but, "The Bridge" would be a knockout on any system, especially mine. .......
54: General Asylum, RE: The problem with opinion pieces like these is, (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-29, 19:47:10 (97.82.221.142)
there are half as many opinions as there are ears. .......
55: Classical Court, What a kick these kids got from their performance (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-27, 12:27:22 (97.82.221.142)
Listening past the open air mic'ing they're some darned good musicians, too. Just another old age regret, the Flash Mob hadn't been invented yet when I was their age. View YouTube Video .......
56: Inmate Central, RE: Are you old enough to remember... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-27, 12:20:48 (97.82.221.142)
We original RX-7 drivers used to give the headlight salute. .......
57: Inmate Central, RE: Just Can't Beat Latex (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-27, 10:28:37 (97.82.221.142)
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58: Vinyl Asylum, RE: K-Whopper Conventional, Eastbound and Down (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-23, 15:00:59 (97.82.221.142)
Shades of Claude Akin, "Movin' On". Great show. .......
59: Vinyl Asylum, Speaking of Truck Driving Music (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-23, 07:15:55 (97.82.221.142)
Taj Mahal, "6 Days On The Road" from Giant Step. View YouTube Video .......
60: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: I won't ask how you did that (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-22, 12:44:28 (97.82.221.142)
But I'm laughing out loud .......
61: Inmate Central, RE: Oh, And Bill Walton, Too (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-22, 05:17:15 (97.82.221.142)
May I watch while your world comes crashing down? .......
62: Inmate Central, RE: Go find the interview for yourself (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-22, 03:25:32 (97.82.221.142)
It's out there, 2016-ish. .......
63: Inmate Central, RE: So's Laura Ingraham (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-21, 18:12:27 (97.82.221.142)
So there's that. .......
64: Inmate Central, RE: My English Lit Prof drove one of these in nice weather: (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-21, 08:35:43 (97.82.221.142)
1939 Jaguar SS100. Andy Armstrong the original Marlboro Man in the back of the Limo with Julie London and was the retired art supervisor of Leo Burnett of that time. . He had a lot of young women .......
65: Inmate Central, RE: DBOTD (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-21, 04:25:03 (97.82.221.142)
Back in '66 Morris garage was right around the corner on Broad Street. Some of us made a pilgrimage on our bikes, my Gold Star, Tom's Velocette, and Lurch's Royal Enfield. We didn't get to see much. T .......
66: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Kumquats, Kumquats, ya spell that with one quat or two? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-20, 09:49:23 (97.82.221.142)
Why I, and I'm certain many others, look forward to the Luminator's many posts. If you haven't seen Field's "It's A Gift", where the line comes from, you should. .......
67: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Think "Carole with an E" is my favorite tune on the disk. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-19, 16:56:27 (97.82.221.142)
A Big 10-4 On Those! But don't forget "Every time I do I remember why I don't". .......
68: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Made Me Look (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-19, 16:17:13 (97.82.221.142)
Got it on the KRS right now. I like her voice, I like the Fiddler, the band, and "Someone's Drinkin' About You" is such a great title. .......
69: Vinyl Asylum, RE: TT shelf (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-19, 12:52:33 (97.82.221.142)
Between the plywood shelf and the metal brackets, EAR SD-40. Available, hopefully, Michael Percy; he's winding down. I first used it under Hammond power transformers that notoriously buzzed with vibra .......
70: Inmate Central, It Was Nice Of Them To Make My Birthday A National Holiday But ... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-19, 03:29:39 (97.82.221.142)
... someone forgot to tell the Weather Bureau. .......
71: Inmate Central, Tuesday, my daughter the Filbert will be there (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-18, 10:33:55 (97.82.221.142)
Running half (only 50 miles!) the Mont Blanc Trail. The full route, held in August, is known as the Super Bowl of Distance Running. Obviously, this isn't the one that was recently Summa Cum Laude! .......
72: Vinyl Asylum, RE: I don't have $250 but I do have $37.50 (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-16, 13:28:16 (97.82.221.142)
Searching found mentions of the Classic Set at $250 but nowhere to buy it which is OK. I just snagged an original NM Everest set on Discogs. Thanks for the mention, one can never have too many Beethov .......
73: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Handling vinyl (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-15, 07:37:03 (97.82.221.142)
That has to be unnerving. I've had a tremor in my right hand for years that makes soldering an adventure so I can sympathize. What if you took one of the after market platter mats and cut it down a 1/ .......
74: Classical Court, RE: I am usually a huge "Pavarotti Anti-Fan." But this video shows what all the fuss was about... back when. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-13, 09:02:03 (97.82.221.142)
First time I heard his voice was on the Mehta Turandot when it first came out in 73. I knew right away that was the best tenor voice ever and that with my Stone Age Lab 80, Fisher 201, and XP-66 speak .......
75: General Asylum, RE: Buncha Cultural Illiterates! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-12, 18:23:41 (97.82.221.142)
No one knows the job Nanki-Poo had before he washed up in The Town Of Titipu? .......
76: General Asylum, RE: It's even better to be the Nanki Poo! nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-12, 10:14:14 (97.82.221.142)
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77: General Asylum, RE: Ah, the "Interlochen Theme"! (YT) (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-12, 09:20:36 (97.82.221.142)
Under the screen is "share" Click on that Then embed then copy then paste Asylum Preview fargles the embed so don't do that .......
78: General Asylum, "A Tradition Like No Other" (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-12, 07:27:44 (97.82.221.142)
Today is the 60th anniversary of the first day of my Interlochen Summer. Please forgive me for a little old man's nostalgia, something I experience more and more these days. If you have any influence .......
79: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Somehow it just felt like a Johnny Winter morning. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-11, 19:40:24 (97.82.221.142)
It was Joni Mitchell At Carnegie here. What a masterful treatment of that concert by Rhino. Fed my new little single-ended darling just what it does best. .......
80: General Asylum, RE: Being Dead Means Never (again) Having To Say You're Sorry (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-11, 19:23:23 (97.82.221.142)
I won't be 'survived by wife' but my 3 kids, who are well set up, will have at least 600 LPs and over 100 books to deal with besides multiple DIY amps, pre-amps (with lethal high voltages) and speaker .......
81: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: Parafeed caps, who needs them? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-10, 04:10:50 (97.82.221.142)
I used Obbligato Film and Oil Caps in my Parafeed, direct coupled 45 amp . 10uF 630V just $11.60 from Parts Connexion. .......
82: General Asylum, I thought the debt limit deal had no Defense Budget cuts? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-09, 14:07:36 (97.82.221.142)
The USMC is reduced to a stripped down President's Own doing store openings now? View YouTube Video .......
83: Speaker Asylum, RE: By Height??? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-09, 11:25:24 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
84: Classical Court, RE: It was the height of the Cold War, not long after the missile crisis (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-08, 08:52:04 (97.82.221.142)
If Harvey had gotten up and danced a Kazotzky during the Kadenza, maybe the Times, and for sure the Tribune, still would've called it an American triumph. .......
85: Classical Court, Listened to my Tchaikowsky 1, Van Cliburn Kondrashin yesterday (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-08, 03:40:26 (97.82.221.142)
Finally had enough hours on my new amplifier to critically listen to my favorite of a half dozen of this work. Still the best, I reckon. Back in the Summer of '64, at Interlochen, he was a guest condu .......
86: Inmate Central, RE: I see that Sweden has been training Ukranian pilots on their Bigguns (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-08, 03:25:02 (97.82.221.142)
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87: Vinyl Asylum, RE: They still have the big Magnolia Thunderpussy shows in Columbus? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-07, 16:49:28 (97.82.221.142)
I never missed them while I lived in Mansfield. Must be a quarter of my collection from those. Waiting in line for it to open with 100 other record geeks 2001 to 2008 was one of the best parts. Lot's .......
88: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Should she have worn sackcloth and ashes? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-07, 16:45:16 (97.82.221.142)
I just watched both her and Newman. She sang it, he delivered it. Point to Newman, but ... There's only one Randy Newman and a good cover isn't gonna happen. At least she didn't try this: .......
89: Vinyl Asylum, RE: She's anything but tone deaf (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-07, 09:37:34 (97.82.221.142)
You don't feel she did it "everything's wrong with America" enough for you? Newman's genius is there for those who listen, even if sung by the Peasall Sisters View YouTube Video ::: T .......
90: Vinyl Asylum, Thinking about a better pressing of Heart Like A Wheel and came across this review (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-07, 07:35:46 (97.82.221.142)
An enjoyable read but "the peak of Linda Ronstadt's power as a singer nonpareil."? In my narrow-minded opinion, that would be Pirates Of Penzance. They don't call me Scarpia for nuttin'. All the re-is .......
91: Inmate Central, RE: See my reply to srdavis below (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-06, 10:56:40 (97.82.221.142)
You were likely still learning your ABC's when I went for the first custom sports orthotics. Your local Tootsie-Tech Grad inked your feet and had you walk on a long strip of paper which he mailed off .......
92: Inmate Central, RE: I'm guessing you spent more than $13.95 for Good Feets (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-06, 10:39:39 (97.82.221.142)
I live in a pair of totally flat scuffs not unlike your Crocs for lack of support. Putting the Doctor Scholls in them didn't just relieve most of the pain when I wear them, the relief extends to even .......
93: Vinyl Asylum, What are the best sounding albums you've acquired lately? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-06, 10:26:52 (97.82.221.142)
Me? George Szell Conducts Russian Music; Epic LC8483 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonius Monk;Analog Spark RZR-39828-01 The Thelonius Monk Memorial Album; Milestone M-47064 Patricia Barber Caf .......
94: Inmate Central, I Too Once Joined In The Debate Over Which Shoe Is Best For (state it's name) (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-05, 19:22:56 (97.82.221.142)
Now, with just 13 shopping days until my 76th, it's what to replace the Spenco in the aging NB's with so I can at least get from the car to the shopping buggies. It's not enough that I'm (and likely n .......
95: Classical Court, RE: Szell was also anything but beloved (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-04, 18:03:43 (97.82.221.142)
I remember being shocked the first time my teacher called him 'Smell' (I must have been 12 or 13 at the time). When he noticed the look on my face he added that all the players called him that. He cer .......
96: Inmate Central, RE: You don't know who he is? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-03, 19:16:09 (97.82.221.142)
Or are you following your own weird? .......
97: General Asylum, RE: Just Wait. Very Soon ... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-03, 15:11:39 (97.82.221.142)
You'll get numerous emails and texts announcing an imminent arrival kinda like that kid's tale about the "Vindow Viper". .......
98: Inmate Central, RE: Adam Tooze (whoever he is) is llena de mierda (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-03, 12:59:18 (97.82.221.142)
30 years of doing business with middle class Latins in their towns and cities tells me this Tooze is as full of shit as Alan Watts and condescending, guilt-ridden do-gooders everywhere. Yeah, I know, .......
99: Classical Court, RE: I'll never know, sigh ... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-03, 12:26:37 (97.82.221.142)
Can't get my turntable to rotate fast enough. .......
100: Inmate Central, Social Media, 1950's Style (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-03, 07:59:28 (97.82.221.142)
The only difference with today? Newspapers and Radio instead of One's and Zero's. In 1952 the Taft Campaign, in reaction to Eisenhower announcing he would run, put about that, "Ike The Kike was Jewish .......
101: Classical Court, RE: You're right, of course (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-03, 04:55:13 (97.82.221.142)
I don't know why I had the idea he was an assistant. I blame Bob Conrad. Or maybe it was Albert Petrak. Are you old enough to have visited WCLV behind Eastgate or the Jazz radio station that was above .......
102: Classical Court, Is this SXL Box Set, 4 Brahms Symph. Maazel/Cleveland worth plunging 100 Bucks? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-02, 20:00:33 (97.82.221.142)
I have the Szell set on Columbia, good, but not great sounding and a half dozen other individual symphonies on various labels. This set would be a big investment for me but I do love Brahms. Interesti .......
103: Inmate Central, RE: Next year, bowing to pressure, they're going to make a perfect score 12 (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-02, 12:37:03 (97.82.221.142)
Just like 60 years ago, my 9 is looking poor. .......
104: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Where did Bedini go? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-01, 17:49:04 (97.82.221.142)
I thought the company died in the early 90's but I guess his brother ran it for a few more years. There's a website but it's kaput. I tried the Find Box here and Googled some. Can't find anything past .......
105: Inmate Central, RE: Oh No, Please No "Build Back Better" (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-01, 14:25:00 (97.82.221.142)
That, and "Shovel Ready", should get the shovel. .......
106: Classical Court, RE: They Will Indeed Attack (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-01, 13:35:34 (97.82.221.142)
And they have thrust vectoring! Couple of years ago when we had our Cicada incursion we watched awestruck at the Mocking Birds aerobatics, plucking those bugs out of the sky. View YouT .......
107: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: C'mon, Abe, you just broke the bank at Monaco with your truck (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-01, 13:25:38 (97.82.221.142)
Live a little! .......
108: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Laid back and romantic int amp. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-01, 13:21:14 (97.82.221.142)
For tubes the question should be, "which tube", not "which amp"? The 6550 family including KT-88 are likely out. I never had any luck getting great sound from 6550 and I'm hearing that KT-120s are li .......
109: Inmate Central, RE: Hot And Cold Running Hookers And Range Rovers Will Carry A Regime Just So Far (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-06-01, 08:38:24 (97.82.221.142)
Pass the Beluga please, time's awastin'. .......
110: Classical Court, Variations On A Neighbors Car Alarm (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-31, 17:53:56 (97.82.221.142)
And consider this: There's a particular tree at the local park that has a resident Mocking Bird which knows every car alarm and ambulance tone ever heard and will rattle them off, one after another. .......
111: Inmate Central, I Wonder How An Agent Of The Kremlin Can Defect To Russia? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-31, 08:27:05 (97.82.221.142)
Isn't that just returning home? Woman who accused Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993 defects to Russia .......
112: General Asylum, RE: Minority Report (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-30, 15:27:03 (97.82.221.142)
I only listen to my main system a few times a week, when I want a concert. Every day, though, I practice my horn, as I've done all my life, mainly exercises and a few excerpts. One never knows when th .......
113: Inmate Central, In Between Bike Sizes? Is That Your Trouble, Bunky? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-30, 14:06:01 (97.82.221.142)
Here's help: View YouTube Video Seth has almost a million subscribers, can ride with the best and is always entertaining. The features he rides toward the end are in his "backyard" here .......
114: Classical Court, RE: Widest, most detailed soundstage recordings? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-29, 15:19:49 (97.82.221.142)
Widest has too much to do with the room. Detailed is nearly a pejorative in my book with some of the gear I've heard that's slobbered over by too many. A believable, accurately portrayed soundstage, A .......
115: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Aegir (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-29, 12:06:51 (97.82.221.142)
I haven't made up my mind yet. I have until Friday. I really, really like it now, but I had to re-position my speakers so the horns are facing behind my listening position and I'm not sure I like tha .......
116: Inmate Central, RE: A Dodge, From An Italian Company? Some Honor! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-29, 08:33:19 (97.82.221.142)
Colonel Doolittle and the other flyers took off from the Hornet certain it was to their death. Certain! And they flew anyway. Besides, that's not a Dodge. This is a Dodge! .......
117: Inmate Central, RE: Or the Shangri-La, CV-8 (nt) (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-29, 06:30:16 (97.82.221.142)
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118: Inmate Central, RE: It's An Alfa Romeo! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-29, 04:56:50 (97.82.221.142)
And it can be repaired at a Chrysler Dealer. But it ain't no Stelvio. .......
119: Inmate Central, RE: North Of Palm Beach Gardens? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-28, 09:46:59 (97.82.221.142)
It's the Folks. .......
120: Inmate Central, RE: Productivity? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-28, 06:48:50 (97.82.221.142)
Isn't that what Cyberdyne Systems was working on? .......
121: Inmate Central, RE: Yeah, Times Change (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-27, 15:16:30 (97.82.221.142)
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122: Inmate Central, RE: You don't like that song? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-27, 15:04:53 (97.82.221.142)
It's the one your people always sang when they came to our village to rape the men and murder the women. .......
123: Inmate Central, RE: Kalinka (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-27, 14:37:14 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
124: Inmate Central, RE: Breathable Bedsheets (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-27, 07:59:53 (97.82.221.142)
My late wife, who grew up in Lima, Peru, insisted on being under a quilt year round. I slept on top of it. It's a wonder we had any children. .......
125: Speaker Asylum, RE: check partsexpress dot com, they have some /nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-27, 07:54:00 (97.82.221.142)
I had a pair of their then $99 powered BT's on my bench a few years ago. Dreadful highs, boomy bass. So I gave them to my granddaughter to not listen too while she doesn't use the A-T turntable I boug .......
126: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Great Line From Tina Friend, Cher (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-25, 17:24:38 (97.82.221.142)
"What kind of shoes? Tina Turner shoes!" .......
127: Vinyl Asylum, Thumbed through my Count Basie today, two gems, seldom heard (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-25, 17:15:33 (97.82.221.142)
Funny how albums remembered as great get neglected as the collection grows. Great songs, great charts and performances as tight as anything George Szell conducted. Williams voice is mesmerizing an .......
128: Inmate Central, This Headline Is NOT From The Onion Or the Bee (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-25, 13:31:37 (97.82.221.142)
A man has been arrested after shooting his roommate during a fight about eating the last Hot Pocket, police in Kentucky say .......
129: Inmate Central, RE: Why Do I Suspect That Many Of You ... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-25, 06:34:04 (97.82.221.142)
... regard Gulliver's Travels simply as an amusing adventure story? .......
130: Inmate Central, The New 'Me Too' (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-25, 04:44:56 (97.82.221.142)
From the mouths of Bees, Babylon Bees that is: "...if the government isn't able to borrow more money to burn on stupid stuff or send to Ukraine, I'm kinda on board with it." Me too. If it comes to pas .......
131: Inmate Central, RE: So why do you choose Detroit over, ummm, Czestochowa? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-25, 04:26:20 (97.82.221.142)
I hear there's a little place down on the Warta that serves great Czernina. .......
132: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: I'm auditioning an amplifier right now that's said to be "the warm side of neutral" (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-23, 18:10:03 (97.82.221.142)
Also, more "tubey" than solid state; it is indeed solid state. I find it to be mostly neutral in frequency response as compared to the neutrality of my benchmark tube amps except for a touch of solid .......
133: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Replacing power indicator light in Jolida 202a (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-23, 14:19:28 (97.82.221.142)
It's a 5 minute job. Some vacation! It's almost certainly one of these 5 Watt 5 mm. Blue LED It'll have two legs, the longer one is (+) positive. The negative (ground) eyelet will be in a really wide .......
134: Inmate Central, RE: Paella (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-23, 14:00:57 (97.82.221.142)
In a cookbook I've had for 40 years, Pierre Franey's Kitchen , among other gems is a great Paella recipe. I often made it for company; used a Club Aluminum Dutch Oven. Of course, back then, you could .......
135: Speaker Asylum, RE: Every complex design is off-putting until the pieces are arranged (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-22, 19:06:00 (97.82.221.142)
Now I'm not comparing the far simpler pictured build to the SB but every stage can be made manageable. Desire is the only limiting factor. That, BTW, turned out to be a complex AM Radio with that w .......
136: Inmate Central, RE: I loved those steel drums when I was a kid (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-22, 08:42:06 (97.82.221.142)
I thought the do-gooders did away with the Mummer's Parade? And Muskets in the Northeast? Heaven's to Murgatroyd, even! .......
137: Inmate Central, You Can't Make This Stuff Up Department (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-22, 04:52:39 (97.82.221.142)
The NOAA Weather Page this morning had a headline about "strong downpour in Cherryville..." so I Googled a map of the nearby town and read, "Cherryville is a small city in northwestern Gaston County, .......
138: Vinyl Asylum, RE: The neighbors both split so I played my Orange Kiwi Decca SXL Simphonie Fantastique (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-21, 17:08:46 (97.82.221.142)
Solti/Chicago. It's very good. It has all the positive attributes the reviewer linked by Alaska mentioned, except presence . The first symphonic work played with my recently arrived new amplifier. Th .......
139: Inmate Central, RE: How could you possibly "pare yourself"... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-21, 16:52:29 (97.82.221.142)
...being a Polack and all? Not that I wouldn't mind witnessing that. .......
140: Inmate Central, RE: Give The Girls A Break (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-21, 11:18:01 (97.82.221.142)
You think they're still buying your story about the water being cold? .......
141: Vinyl Asylum, RE: I've discovered an Orange Label among my SXL's (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-21, 04:53:51 (97.82.221.142)
It's labeled Made In New Zealand. Apparently, Decca shipped metal masters to various countries around the world. Hmmm. New Zealand ... I wonder if it'll sound "woolie"? .......
142: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: interested to hear how you like it (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-21, 04:47:03 (97.82.221.142)
My JE Labs Line Stage (6SN7 Cathode Follower) has an output impedance of about 600 Ohms so no problem there. Beginning Monday, when the neighbors on each side go to work, I'll get to work with a quad .......
143: General Asylum, RE: Might have been better if Nat had never sung a note (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-20, 18:58:22 (97.82.221.142)
Hear him play piano on "Jazz At The Philharmonic, the 1940's" and know he was one of the best. His brother Freddie also had a great voice. His early 2000's SACD is a must hear. .......
144: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Praise for YouTube reviewer Analogholic on the Aegir (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-20, 17:23:28 (97.82.221.142)
I was quite awhile thinking about trying an Aegir and finally went to YouTube although all the reviewers there had always seemed a bunch of clowns. This guy's Vid popped up and I had a look. After a f .......
145: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Thank you (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-20, 15:32:09 (97.82.221.142)
I see now I was confused by the Heifetz mention, the SXL's are simply British Decca's. I have a few of the mentioned London CS Made In England he reviewed as well as others and am satisfied with them .......
146: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Urban legends never seem to go away. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-20, 13:35:21 (97.82.221.142)
I've always made a point of buying Made In England Londons. What does The Ghost know about these "SXL" numbered editions as being special, of indeed they are? .......
147: Vinyl Asylum, Wondering About Decca SXL Recordings Issued As London? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-20, 09:11:01 (97.82.221.142)
Heifetz has a post on Speakers here today about his super-tweeter and makes mention of Decca SXL releases. Got me wondering what might be in my collection. A look at my complete catalogue on Discogs s .......
148: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: "Clarity" - 70W Class AB power amp (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-20, 07:07:52 (97.82.221.142)
It seems like your hyperlink wasn't there before or I didn't scroll down far enough. I highlighted the phrase and used Google, it didn't work. I'll check out Clarity now with interst. .......
149: Inmate Central, RE: Whose Experts? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-20, 04:23:38 (97.82.221.142)
(BBC) "The Devil Is In The Details" .......
150: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: No "Clarity" - "Sorry, the page you were looking for in this blog does not exist." nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-20, 04:12:13 (97.82.221.142)
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151: Inmate Central, RE: She divorced one and buried two others. What's your point? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-18, 07:10:32 (97.82.221.142)
Too Jewish for you? .......
152: Inmate Central, RE: What, the first response doesn't get even one Ding? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-17, 06:39:31 (97.82.221.142)
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153: Inmate Central, RE: Only The Wrong People Care (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-16, 14:49:48 (97.82.221.142)
Those in a position to help you are too busy getting re-elected to govern. Those with the clout on either side to move group one are afraid to. Those with the power to move those with the clout have f .......
154: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: I should have mentioned all I have is a DVM and a smile nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-16, 08:43:56 (97.82.221.142)
I'm going to try out a solid state amp, 22k input impedance, and wondering if the 20 foot cable run I now have from the 76 is an issue. With the phono pre close to the 'table I'm not sure I have other .......
155: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: I should have mentioned all I have is a DVM and a smile nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-16, 08:08:38 (97.82.221.142)
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156: Tube DIY Asylum, How do I SAFELY measure output impedance of a tube preamp? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-16, 07:34:29 (97.82.221.142)
Safe to the unit of course. I'm not worth all that much ;-) .......
157: Inmate Central, RE: Sensational! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-14, 20:08:34 (97.82.221.142)
Composition, line, focus. Wow! I find paintings in art museums a bore, I do appreciate sculpture, but only great photography really draws my eye and that work certainly does. .......
158: Inmate Central, RE: I dunno, ED-209 may violate Title 69 (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-14, 14:32:12 (97.82.221.142)
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159: Inmate Central, Should I install this iOS 16.4.1 Rabid Security update? nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-14, 14:26:23 (97.82.221.142)
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160: Inmate Central, RE: Nice! What fields? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-14, 14:20:01 (97.82.221.142)
Thank you, thanks to all who replied. I hang my head and admit She is an HR manager for a chain of nursing homes. (I always prided myself during my career for giving HR people fits) He is so quiet an .......
161: Inmate Central, Two Summa Cum Laude, my daughter and son-in-law (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-14, 09:01:22 (97.82.221.142)
Yesterday, both at the tender age of 41. .......
162: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Decided I need more Monk (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-14, 05:29:21 (97.82.221.142)
I have the "With Rollins" album so "With Coltrane" (Nutty on both) makes just 2. Dove into the Find Box and found pre-Ghost Old Dude 55 liked the Jazz Messengers so I ordered the Analog Spark re-issu .......
163: Inmate Central, RE: My time markers were different, for some reason, but... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-13, 17:12:21 (97.82.221.142)
Thanks. Don't you just love the stately and luxurious 60's Intourist hotel portrayed? Regardless, I just love that show. .......
164: Inmate Central, RE: Episode 7 at 30:30 nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-13, 14:06:36 (97.82.221.142)
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165: Inmate Central, RE: Victor, an OT Russian Language question (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-13, 12:33:25 (97.82.221.142)
In "The Queen's Gambit" last episode when the players and their countries are announced, the guy clearly says SSR, Italia, Shvetsiya, etc. but after he says Harmon's name it sounds like he says one sy .......
166: Inmate Central, RE: Busy? Nah! Just waiting for my ticket to ride. nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-13, 11:47:20 (97.82.221.142)
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167: General Asylum, REVIEW: Tubelab Simple SE Amplifier (Tube) (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-13, 08:09:19 (97.82.221.142)
Model: Simple SE Category: Amplifier (Tube) Suggested Retail Price: $XX.XX Description: DIY Single-ended Triode Wired Pentode Main Amplifier Manufacturer URL: Tubelab Model Picture: View .......
168: Inmate Central, Pleasantly Surprised By My $4.99/Month Paramount+ Account (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-13, 05:11:56 (97.82.221.142)
Must be 10 years ago CBS shut down it's local repeater and I lost AFC Football, The Masters, etc. Not coincidentally, I'm sure, they launched a streaming channel. I reluctantly, being an anti-Cable gu .......
169: Vinyl Asylum, I read somewhere that "Ruby My Dear" on The Monk And Coltrane Album Was Sublime (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-12, 20:13:27 (97.82.221.142)
So I added it to my Monk collection and it was. What's above sublime? The first cut on side two, "Nutty" Jazzland 946 .......
170: Inmate Central, Didja Know We're Building A Billion Dollar Embassy In A Failed State? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-12, 14:45:58 (97.82.221.142)
Lebanon? Seriously? In case you're wondering which Donkey to pin the tail on, the announcement was made in 2015. .......
171: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: One of the foremost tube circuit designers has this to say: (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-12, 10:40:41 (97.82.221.142)
"The OPT is the most critical component in any tube amplifier," George Anderson of Tubelab in the Tubes and Applications section of his Simple SE Manual. As for the never-ending debate on Tubes vs. Tr .......
172: General Asylum, RE: Why Sell? A Possible Dissolution In Bankruptcy Would Degrade The Sound? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-12, 10:18:13 (97.82.221.142)
So the used value may drop in the first few years ... it's almost a layup that the value would rise again as it will always be sought after gear. And someone would buy the current stock of parts from .......
173: General Asylum, A few Years Ago This Band of 3 Young Women Popped Up On my YT Rec's (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-12, 06:47:29 (97.82.221.142)
It seems a few other people now appreciate their music as well. View YouTube Video .......
174: General Asylum, RE: Oh, For Joy! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-11, 08:40:38 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
175: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: "Anyone Hear These?" Every Day Fot 15 Years! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-10, 14:56:28 (97.82.221.142)
Sensitivity is 97dB. For the first 10 years I used a single-ended, direct coupled, parafeed 45 amp with all the goodies: Magnequest Plate Chokes and OPT's, CCS, and a beautifully simple John Tucker ci .......
176: Inmate Central, RE: This is me considering there's a degree of free speech in Putin's Russia (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-10, 11:32:02 (97.82.221.142)
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177: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Why Sheepish? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-10, 03:56:47 (97.82.221.142)
I'm on my fourth Moniker. .......
178: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: "Anyone Hear These?" Every Day Fot 15 Years! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-09, 20:13:03 (97.82.221.142)
The 19's are such a great looking speaker with the horn in that "floating" cabinet, separate-looking, but of course open to the bottom. Kick Drum does hit you in the chest and the organ pedal notes ar .......
179: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: "Anyone Hear These?" Every Day Fot 15 Years! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-09, 05:43:29 (97.82.221.142)
BTW, Tom's 20 year old pic shows 'Theater' 4Pi's with a bigger cabinet to accommodate the lower cost option Eminence Woofer, CD, and Horn. They went deeper but lacked the taut bass and sophisticated m .......
180: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Don't Laugh, It's $230 and has features, features, features (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-08, 13:01:28 (97.82.221.142)
I never watched Guttenberg before but yesterday I clicked to hear what he had to say about the LRS+. He not quite damned this 100 Watt Tube Amp with faint praise. PE has a 60 Day Guarantee and I'm .......
181: Inmate Central, RE: With one exception, Asheville is a Bakery Wasteland (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-08, 00:54:08 (97.82.221.142)
The exception is a nearby pie shop with good, but not great pies by the slice with a selection and prices just like the Freeport menu Stan quoted. For $30 I can bake great pies and cakes and have done .......
182: Inmate Central, RE: "US entry into WWII had nothing to do with Europe" (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-07, 07:42:22 (97.82.221.142)
Like all absolutes, false. Yes, we almost certainly would have fought Japan in a separate war over our natural resources embargo of Southeast Asia. But the vulnerability of Great Britain to the anti- .......
183: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Rolling, rolling, rolling, keep those toobies rollin.... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-07, 05:58:50 (97.82.221.142)
I've been proselytizing for the GL KT-88s ever since they went into my push-pull mono blocks in 2015, blowing away the Sovtek Label version. Lately, I'm seeing more and more posts here and elsewhere t .......
184: Inmate Central, RE: Bambu were always my favorite (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-06, 18:22:24 (97.82.221.142)
2 glued together and then tightly rolled made for a great Joint that burned cool. .......
185: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, $1,000 and even a $1200 Dollar 1.4 and 2" Compression Driver (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-06, 08:55:35 (97.82.221.142)
I do a good bit of business with Parts Express so their ads frequently pop up on sites I exempt from Adblock. Today these expensive drivers were shown. B&C DCX464-8 1.4" Neodymium Coaxial Compression .......
186: Inmate Central, RE: A little higher, $ .1747 here in Asheville, but... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-05, 08:33:51 (97.82.221.142)
.. they have to send the power up our mountains. .......
187: Inmate Central, Alex Jones Is Back, Only Worse (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-04, 16:18:22 (97.82.221.142)
At least Jones apparently, as came out in the trial, didn't really believe most of what he was spewing. He was only in it for the money. This Anti-Vaxxer, like the Kennedy who has just thrown his hat .......
188: Inmate Central, RE: Just like the bogus Bob Lee Rampant Crime stabbing ... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-04, 14:35:23 (97.82.221.142)
the two 10 year old's forced into McDonald's Servitude turned out to be children of the night manager who had no one to leave them with. As for the Southern Border? We have no Southern Border. Both P .......
189: Inmate Central, Feel Good Story Of The Day (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-04, 08:21:02 (97.82.221.142)
Say what you want about healthcare in America today, just read this: Doctors performed brain surgery on a baby before she was born and now she's thriving .......
190: Inmate Central, RE: Thanks Tom, Now I See The Attraction Of Tick Tock (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-04, 08:15:15 (97.82.221.142)
Who cares about Chinese infiltrators, Military Intelligence is more oxymoronic today than ever. The Chow Mein'rs will get to steal whatever they want any way. Tick Tock is so worth it. I'm going to ge .......
191: Inmate Central, RE: From Where I Squat ... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-02, 17:57:37 (97.82.221.142)
It seems like only these Hunger Games Aristocracy Wannabees can afford EVs. .......
192: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Does Ali sell those Red Copper Fever Inductors separately? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-02, 17:33:03 (97.82.221.142)
My Bile Ducts are inflamed from that Fever and my SQ gone to hell. .......
193: General Asylum, RE: A hint of "Sketches of Spain" ..... on tape (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-02, 10:48:33 (97.82.221.142)
I have both stereo and mono very early originals. The mono is my favorite. Not that big a fan of Davis but the music, arrangement, and backing group makes "Sketches" an overall fav in my collection. .......
194: Inmate Central, ABBCHOTD (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-02, 10:09:46 (97.82.221.142)
Soldier shoots dead politician he was guarding , Is it only amusing in American syntax? .......
195: Inmate Central, 4.2 Million Likes (!) I was happy to add mine (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-02, 08:25:35 (97.82.221.142)
My late wife would have come instantly awake and slugged me. .......
196: General Asylum, Haunting! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-02, 05:29:55 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
197: Inmate Central, Fractured Fairy Tales are back! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-02, 05:25:09 (97.82.221.142)
Or maybe they've never left but one came up on my Youtube recommended the other day and I'm revelling. And willing to share: View YouTube Video .......
198: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Building Yourself Is A "Downside "? Unh-unh. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-05-02, 05:14:32 (97.82.221.142)
Sourcing parts, corresponding with those who can get you out of pickles, drilling and cutting and watching just the right amount of solder bubble onto a smooth, shiny joint, all that is equally reward .......
199: General Asylum, RE: Why Do Some people Just Have To Issue A, "Nah,Nah,Da, Nah-nah"? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-30, 16:54:44 (97.82.221.142)
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200: Inmate Central, RE: And Well Before That Clinton Allowed The Repeal Of Glass-Steagall (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-30, 10:16:22 (97.82.221.142)
THAT was the true watershed. .......
201: Inmate Central, RE: Simple Way To Cut Down School Violence, Keep Backpacks Out Of Schools (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-30, 10:08:25 (97.82.221.142)
Backpacks are simply a fashion like Saddle Shoes or pants worn low. There's no necessity. All of us Wrinklies rode a bus every day with 3 or 4 textbooks and a ring binder or two under our arms and in .......
202: General Asylum, I'm always knocked out by the voices of children (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-30, 08:24:38 (97.82.221.142)
They're Italian, Alabamian, but Bluegrass All The Way View YouTube Video .......
203: General Asylum, Who Doesn't Love A Hurdy-Gurdy? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-30, 05:23:58 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
204: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: 1/4 28 cones or spike (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-30, 05:19:58 (97.82.221.142)
You can drill and tap any smaller thread size hole for 1/4-28. The only challenge is holding a cone in a vise. Place rubber jaws in the vise for a better grip. Alternatively, you can drill out the thr .......
205: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Careful Guys, "Who's Taken Their Amp In The Shower"? ... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-27, 11:14:32 (97.82.221.142)
...could well be Trioderob's question for tomorrow. .......
206: General Asylum, Thanks, RodM. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-27, 05:28:07 (97.82.221.142)
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207: General Asylum, RE: Need to use my Gallery (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-26, 08:29:45 (97.82.221.142)
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208: General Asylum, RodM, if you're not going to acknowledge my contribution on the 16th ... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-26, 06:58:25 (97.82.221.142)
...at least send me some ads with deep cleavage for Horny Russian War Widows. .......
209: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, True Full-Range Horn (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-25, 09:11:56 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
210: Music Lane, RE: "What were YOU doing at 9 years old?" (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-21, 13:05:36 (97.82.221.142)
I was the neighborhood Hula Hoop champ. I forget how many hundred. I went on to become a New year's Party Simon champion. .......
211: Rocky Road, RE: "They Must Have Trouble Gettin' Gigs" (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-21, 06:43:35 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
212: Jazz Alley, RE: His Playing Is Cooking! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-21, 06:39:54 (97.82.221.142)
What a talent. .......
213: Inmate Central, RE: NASA " forgot " all the tech they had to land on the moon (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-20, 14:53:40 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
214: Inmate Central, RE: Try the Singletary Method (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-20, 10:20:16 (97.82.221.142)
I assume you were referencing the latest nutjob who 'stood his ground' against some 6 year olds, wounding one? And her father? .......
215: Classical Court, RE: Uh-Huh (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-20, 06:21:21 (97.82.221.142)
And then imagine all those marbles getting loose and rolling around on the stage! View YouTube Video .......
216: Classical Court, RE: What? Support the over-played music of that terrible person? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-20, 06:15:34 (97.82.221.142)
Especially when you're Furtuna not to hear it in every other movie soundtrack? Well, several years ago my daughter asked to hear it on my system, 'so in love with it she was'. I was abashed as I've ne .......
217: Inmate Central, RE: Burke, Santayana, and Churchill were all hopeless romantics (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-17, 08:47:31 (97.82.221.142)
No study of history, regardless of how intense, will forestall it's endless repetition. View YouTube Video .......
218: General Asylum, RE: Not Using Stereo Much (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-16, 13:21:49 (97.82.221.142)
Over the years, whenever my interest has flagged, I've built something new. Often an amplifier. A Tube amplifier is the simplest circuit and requires the least parts. For about $150 you can buy a goo .......
219: Inmate Central, Perfect Running Mate For Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-11, 15:41:59 (97.82.221.142)
Likely we'll be hearing a lot from Kristina Karamo in the future. Says here she lost her 2022 race by 14%, the largest gap by any Republican race in Michigan but, oh my, that means a significant mino .......
220: General Asylum, RE: Better Off With A "Find Asylum" (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-10, 08:30:22 (97.82.221.142)
For those who have been unable to "find" the "Find" box. Is it possible there's anything new to post about record cleaning? Perhaps a "New Products Asylum" would be better. But if limited to something .......
221: Inmate Central, RE: What could Regmac possibly share? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-09, 10:09:36 (97.82.221.142)
He has no facts. All he can share are the prejudices of the Red Hat-ed on one side and the Squad and their followers on the other who eschew facts. .......
222: Speaker Asylum, RE: Any benefits to mounting a tweeter above the cabinet? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-09, 04:52:50 (97.82.221.142)
No benefit from my laughable attempts at speaker design 20 years ago. Turns out, it does require more than WinISD and great drivers; some education and test equipment is necessary for success. Highly .......
223: General Asylum, A Once In A Generation Breakthrough In Audio Reproduction Technology (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-08, 17:02:39 (97.82.221.142)
"No transformers, circuit boards, caps, op-amps, ferrites, coils, chips, plastics, LED's or degrading parts that would create any electronic signature to the sound". But all point-to-point wiring. Of .......
224: Inmate Central, RE: That's exactly the expession my dear, departed Murdock had... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-07, 20:51:30 (97.82.221.142)
... when interrupted from licking his balls. .......
225: General Asylum, RE: Unfortunately, the Harvest wasn't great last year :) (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-07, 10:40:07 (97.82.221.142)
The last of my BB 5AR4s is in the 76 Line Stage and there's no budget for more. The GL GZ34 in the phot was about $50 and that was before the war with the Czar. Lucky for me, sonically, not financiall .......
226: General Asylum, RE: Oldest and newest equipment in your current system (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-07, 08:41:39 (97.82.221.142)
Oldest: RCA/Cunningham UX-45 1937 Newest: Tubelab Simple SE born just last month. Isn't she just the sweetest little thing? .......
227: Inmate Central, RE: I have to admit my disappointment (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-07, 05:16:03 (97.82.221.142)
Watched episode two last night. 180 degrees off from the excellence of the first episode. It seemed a silly premise, the language was stilted, Woo phoned it in, and there was nothing to a tease about .......
228: Inmate Central, "Extraordinary Attorney Woo" on Netflix, best thing on TV since The "Queens Gambit" (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-06, 15:11:45 (97.82.221.142)
Like me, are you unable to watch any of these endless cookie cutter bang-bang mutant shoot-m-ups? Try this one from Korea with English over-dub. A court room drama story as old as Perry Mason but so c .......
229: Inmate Central, RE: Article for Scarpia - Oxford U. depicted as an academic hell-hole! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-05, 19:51:17 (97.82.221.142)
The Economist has a decided political POV. I have no idea what Oxford's like today but back in '67 it was all school scarves and capes, elitist to the max. I met many young Dukes, Earls and Duchesses- .......
230: Inmate Central, "Don't Look Up", "Dr. Strangelove" For A New Century (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-05, 19:23:06 (97.82.221.142)
On Netflix tonight so I finally got to see it. The Slim Pickens was no Slim Pickens, embarrassing in fact. Did Meryl Streep suck or was it just her lines? Satire needs a writer with a lighter touch bu .......
231: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: DIY Tube Amp Builders Dying (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-05, 04:43:21 (97.82.221.142)
Yeah, tinning is the worst. Not tinning, though, is worster. I've had a tremor in my 'good' right hand for years. I keep several short pieces of plywood in several thicknesses and a couple of pieces o .......
232: Speaker Asylum, RE: Good catch. More Steep, Less Filling (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-05, 04:31:44 (97.82.221.142)
I've reached the age when I need to employ someone to follow me around to turn off the stovetop and lift my, errr, tonearm. .......
233: Vinyl Asylum, RE: She'd Soften My Hard nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-03, 14:41:23 (97.82.221.142)
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234: Inmate Central, One Wonders How Popular Bud Light Will Be At NASCAR This Season (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-03, 09:09:14 (97.82.221.142)
Trans Beer Yes I know, right thinkers, it's Fox News and it's not nice to make fun but I still think the juxtaposition of beer with it's demographic and a Trans influencer with theirs (see how I got .......
235: Inmate Central, Ghost has pointed out a lot of this Auto Sales info, but ... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-03, 08:45:03 (97.82.221.142)
...to see it all in one place is a real eye-opener. Back in 1986 when I finally "made it" into the 50% Tax Bracket I celebrated by splurging on a $30,000 Volvo 740 Turbo. Average sales price of a pick .......
236: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: And So Are We ;-) nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-03, 05:57:56 (97.82.221.142)
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237: Speaker Asylum, RE: How low would you cross a tweeter with an Fs of 600 Hz? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-03, 05:56:43 (97.82.221.142)
Thanks guys. I understood just a little of what Tom advised and that woofer is a three-for-a-dollar 1970's Utah so I won't be using the services of Solen. I'll try taking the SB tweeter down to 1200 .......
238: Speaker Asylum, How low would you cross a tweeter with an Fs of 600 Hz? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-02, 07:20:31 (97.82.221.142)
Re 3.0 QMS 2.2 QES 2.9 QTS 6.4 I used the Woofer once before and loved the low frequencies but with a First Order at 1600 wasn't happy with the mids. I'm also thinking perhaps a 3rd or 4th order would .......
239: Vinyl Asylum, RE: My SECOND-FAVORITE RODRIGUES!!!! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-02, 05:19:10 (97.82.221.142)
בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה, יְיָ אֱלֹהֵינוּ .......
240: General Asylum, The Gershwin Prize Concert Was Filled With Stars And Great Music (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-02, 05:09:33 (97.82.221.142)
One new-to-me Capital "M" Musician stood out though, Celisse. .......
241: General Asylum, RE: I Promise You ... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-01, 12:16:12 (97.82.221.142)
...I'm alone among anyone I know in owning Jerry Lee albums. .......
242: General Asylum, RE: Can't Thank You Enough! nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-01, 09:47:06 (97.82.221.142)
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243: General Asylum, RE: This Geezer's 5 classic rock albums (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-04-01, 09:43:29 (97.82.221.142)
BS&T Child Is Father To The Man The Who Sell Out Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet The Doors The Doors Could've maybe gone with because I based upon most frequent plays a .......
244: Inmate Central, RE: obviously a Trojan Horse...-nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-31, 12:32:31 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
245: Speaker Asylum, Anyone Try The $50 Monolith By Monoprice Stands? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-31, 10:39:42 (97.82.221.142)
TGTBT or a real bargain? I might be after my first bookshelf-sized since forever and will need affordable stands. .......
246: Inmate Central, RE: Oh, Please! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-31, 09:09:04 (97.82.221.142)
Everyone in both parties has to eventually stand for re-election. They just have different constituencies. .......
247: Inmate Central, RE: One almost wishes the Red Head had won (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-31, 09:04:24 (97.82.221.142)
With the events of the past two years, imagine the pickle the Republicans would be in. These would be far more interesting times. .......
248: Inmate Central, RE: I'm on the side of the 7 women (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-31, 08:58:05 (97.82.221.142)
The linked article should be read. OTOH, "Greek Life" is just another way of saying "us and them" or, as a wise man, errr person said, "a bunch of men/girls/they dressing alike and following each oth .......
249: Inmate Central, RE: the presumption of innocence ... enshrined ... in the U.S.? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-31, 08:47:57 (97.82.221.142)
Not if you're poor. .......
250: General Asylum, RE: The "I Can't Have It So It's Bad" Crowd Has Had There Say (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-31, 05:02:00 (97.82.221.142)
I say, it must have been a culminating, wonderful experience for it's owner and that's good. .......
251: Speaker Asylum, RE: Best I ever heard, but I don't get out much (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-30, 03:03:09 (97.82.221.142)
Still, they were so far out in front of anything else in my experience, were best in show RMAF 2006, and set up in my own room with $100,000 in electronics back then ... I give you the XLH 1812 JBL .......
252: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: "You supply the parts and desire..." All good, but without the skills... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-29, 18:05:22 (97.82.221.142)
Thanks for the kind words. I list "desire" right along with parts because it's that that keeps one going, learning from and then forgetting the frustration of mistakes; the building blocks of Skills. .......
253: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Assembled? Don't look at me (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-29, 13:05:23 (97.82.221.142)
By clicking the link, all you get is the schematic. You supply the parts and desire. .......
254: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: I've heard most of the greats and this one's up there (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-29, 10:47:43 (97.82.221.142)
JE is a genius. The 76 is unfashionable, relatively cheap, and fabulous. Parts cost is about 3 times the Ali Baba with custom Heyboer PT, all those chokes, and Glassware (John Broskie) LV Regulator f .......
255: Speaker Asylum, RE: HELP WITH PLACEMENT (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-26, 16:01:04 (97.82.221.142)
You have it right. Your speakers are narrow, so you should be able to find the best distance between them while keping the left channel some distance away from the french doors. .......
256: Inmate Central, It's like a car crash, I can't look away. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-26, 11:31:23 (97.82.221.142)
Anyone remember the Kennedy nephew rape trial where razor-sharp Roy Black won an acquittal. These clowns make the personal injury lawyers that star in their own commercials look good. .......
257: Speaker Asylum, RE: Broken Link, try this one (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-26, 11:15:10 (97.82.221.142)
iMongol ... a name worth a Guffaw. .......
258: Speaker Asylum, RE: Yup (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-26, 10:07:14 (97.82.221.142)
It's the secret ingredient in great Pi. Been inhaling it since 15 years ago. Might be all particled out by now. .......
259: Inmate Central, Could care less about the Sanderson v. Paltrow outcome, but ... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-25, 13:21:11 (97.82.221.142)
...accidentally stumbled (OK, I went looking) on a Google page of "media" coverage and it's a hoot. Just, as we thought. .......
260: Inmate Central, RE: You think that's bad ... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-25, 08:50:28 (97.82.221.142)
Try fielding a Co-Ed Flag Football team from the school orchestra. Cornerbacks? We had the Viola section. They couldn't play together on the field any better than in rehearsals. .......
261: Speaker Asylum, RE: I decided to remodel rather than buy or build (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-25, 08:41:55 (97.82.221.142)
I had some up to the minute new tower speakers in last week and while they were very good in the mids and treble, surprisingly, they didn't image as well as the Pis. I was prepared to trade less b .......
262: Inmate Central, Who Has Thigh Pain 2-3 Years After Hip Replacement? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-25, 08:24:16 (97.82.221.142)
I do and it's damned uncomfortable. Fortunately, not at rest, only while walking. According to what I Googled it's not uncommon and doctor's think, but are unsure, that it's the fit of the spike in t .......
263: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Had a ball doing that in college (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-24, 17:41:08 (97.82.221.142)
Two guys down the hall had a recorder that they'd use to record songs and lectures then run the tape backwards by hand over the heads. Sometimes they'd rotate a record backwards, tape that and then pl .......
264: Speaker Asylum, RE: I am not an oscilloscope (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-23, 17:18:07 (97.82.221.142)
I am someone who has had excellent seats for thousands of rehearsals and concerts in an orchestra section. My criteria for dynamics come from Mahler, etc., not waveforms. My ears told me that my exce .......
265: Inmate Central, It's About Time Someone Came To Their Senses (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-23, 13:25:24 (97.82.221.142)
BBC reports, It's a start . Men are physiologically different from women. Duh. No question that it isn't about Rue Pauls but rather the science of a not insignificant amount of live births that result .......
266: Speaker Asylum, RE: Not active as most know the term (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-23, 10:28:23 (97.82.221.142)
There's a 'mini-DSP ...DAC' available, "amplifier required". Something like 1000 Watts might do it with that 4th order crossover. Not going down that road. I already have as good a powerhouse set of m .......
267: Speaker Asylum, RE: Upon further review ... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-23, 10:21:36 (97.82.221.142)
OK, 82. Still won't perform for me. .......
268: Speaker Asylum, RE: and then there's BSC, another (-) 2 dB (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-23, 05:06:21 (97.82.221.142)
Baffle Step Correction attenuation circuit further lowers efficiency. I can see it being a worthwhile trade-off in highly efficient driver design like some Fostex I'm familiar with but from 82 to 80? .......
269: Speaker Asylum, Had a look at the Seas Loki Kit (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-22, 18:34:44 (97.82.221.142)
Concentric - Check Favorable reviews - Check Crossover design - Check Price - Check Sensitivity - WTF! 80dB I'm thinking of moving on from my 4 Pis but not my amplifier. Anyone getting orchestral dyna .......
270: Inmate Central, RE: You Do Know That Economics Was Invented By Astrologers? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-22, 12:50:13 (97.82.221.142)
To make them look good? .......
271: General Asylum, RE: Queen of the Neighborhood (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-22, 11:07:54 (97.82.221.142)
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272: General Asylum, Who doesn't love a Girl Band? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-22, 08:07:33 (97.82.221.142)
Especially one this talented. Apparently well-known on Tik-Tok which is why this Geezer just discovered them on Youtube. Remember Monday. View YouTube Video .......
273: General Asylum, RE: How I felt recently after auditioning new speakers at home (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-22, 04:41:33 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
274: Inmate Central, RE: Republicans don't believe Democrats who don't believe Republicans (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-21, 07:39:50 (97.82.221.142)
It's a puzzlement. .......
275: Inmate Central, RE: "World can still avoid worst of climate collapse"? ...Too Late! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-21, 05:19:43 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
276: Inmate Central, RE: Would they let you in ? I visited Poland after 20 years (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-20, 12:31:09 (97.82.221.142)
Tell them no real American can be bothered to mow the grass and BBQs turn into gun battles but we do, more than ever, speak broken English. .......
277: Inmate Central, RE: 100% (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-20, 09:13:50 (97.82.221.142)
I used to think the breakdown of American society was due to legal abortion and it's negative effect on the Western Bedrock Ethos of delayed reward. But you're right, it was the loss of Soviet Russia .......
278: Inmate Central, RE: Sharks? You know nothing about Sharks. Nothing! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-20, 09:07:27 (97.82.221.142)
I have 3 daughters, for a few years, all teenagers at the same time. .......
279: Inmate Central, I Agree With Florida On Elementary School Sex Ed (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-19, 10:09:36 (97.82.221.142)
Fox Banner Headline: " Florida on way to banning elementary school discussions on STDs, menstrual cycles " .......
280: Vinyl Asylum, RE: You really have a stationary rotation test setup? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-19, 09:54:07 (97.82.221.142)
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281: General Asylum, RE: I'm Listening To Her Sing 'Stardust'...Chills! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-19, 08:13:24 (97.82.221.142)
From her eponymous album. .......
282: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Outstanding! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-19, 06:01:15 (97.82.221.142)
Wish I had had those connectors available back when I used to be a manic parts swapper and board trace killer. .......
283: General Asylum, Anyone Care About 2023 Best New Artist Grammy? I didn't (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-19, 05:20:52 (97.82.221.142)
Haven't cared about the Grammy Zoo for decades, but BBC News astounded me this morning with Samara Joy. View YouTube Video .......
284: Inmate Central, I Could Watch This All Day (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-18, 12:06:00 (97.82.221.142)
My favorite part is Cop #3 puffing her way into the shot and who should have a word bubble overhead, "I gotta start eating right and working out". .......
285: General Asylum, RE: She's got the "nonchalant" part down pat... nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-17, 19:13:01 (97.82.221.142)
Nothing wrong with that, I abhor dancing violinists and woodwinds that can out-produce Wind Turbines. That young woman can play. Lovely tone and flawless intonation. BTW, as an Ivy league man you mig .......
286: General Asylum, I'm In Love (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-17, 14:33:12 (97.82.221.142)
Fake Tango View YouTube Video Was it Mrs. Astor who said the Tango "was a navel engagement without the seaman"? .......
287: Classical Court, RE: Virtuosity and not just speed; Volfie would no doubt approve (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-17, 07:02:20 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
288: Classical Court, RE: Talk about smokin' AND keyboards! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-17, 06:57:08 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
289: General Asylum, As Promised: Lucy At Royal Festival Hall (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-16, 09:45:07 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
290: Inmate Central, COTD (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-16, 08:33:50 (97.82.221.142)
Yup, Cartoon! First Indy Car Race of the seasoon. .......
291: Inmate Central, RE: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-14, 13:31:08 (97.82.221.142)
Fox has the answer right now in the article led by: "...Democrats dominated SVB's Board" .......
292: Inmate Central, Dick Fosbury Died (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-13, 18:02:03 (97.82.221.142)
In 1968, he changed his sport forever with his "Fosbury Flop". View YouTube Video .......
293: General Asylum, RE: You are right (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-12, 06:40:07 (97.82.221.142)
Should have written 'not worth the price', or at least not worth 2 Maserati's. I was DST'd. .......
294: General Asylum, RE: Because most think they're stupidly expensive and can't afford them they're bad? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-12, 05:14:02 (97.82.221.142)
Fox, meet Grapes. Me? I'd be interested to hear what the designer calls, "the synchronicity of the leading edge of each note" does for progress in speaker design. As long as I've been involved in the .......
295: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Did I not disconnect the first driver to test it? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-11, 10:55:09 (97.82.221.142)
I didn't not disconnect it. It's amusing to watch an Ohmmeter wander through a complex circuit but of little real value. .......
296: Inmate Central, RE: That's Hilarious (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-11, 08:23:42 (97.82.221.142)
" How difficult can skiing be? You glide down hill with those sticks and long skies to keep your balance. It's not like you have to go UP the hill. " You know as much about skiing as I do about Dark .......
297: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Just as a point of interest (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-11, 08:13:24 (97.82.221.142)
I removed and tested the 226J in the good speaker and it measured only slightly higher at 8.9 Ohms. There's a place marked on the label for Serial Number but it's blank so no point contacting Northrid .......
298: Inmate Central, RE: You Don't Cover Your Best Girlfriend Ever? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-11, 07:05:56 (97.82.221.142)
Shame on you! Google says it could also be Big Gay Energy. You may want to keep that covered up. .......
299: Inmate Central, RE: You lie with your statistics, I'll lie with mine (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-11, 06:41:49 (97.82.221.142)
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300: Inmate Central, She Did It Just Now, #87 (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-11, 05:44:03 (97.82.221.142)
Mikaela Shiffrin is the Greatest Skier, the greatest individual athlete Of All Time! Her over 35% win percentage is ahead of legends like Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams, Nadia Comaneci, .......
301: Inmate Central, RE: No, I'm tellin' ya, it's Wooly (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-11, 04:14:46 (97.82.221.142)
Doesn't anyone around here go to the movies? .......
302: Inmate Central, RE: Interesting article and speculation from The Jerusalem Post (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-10, 18:37:37 (97.82.221.142)
You meant to write "Putin's whole apparatus is looking wooly at Prigozhin"? .......
303: Inmate Central, She Should Have Been The Halftime Show (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-10, 13:18:03 (97.82.221.142)
Rihanna, who! View YouTube Video .......
304: Inmate Central, So Mikaela Tied Ruth, errr, Stenmark (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-10, 09:14:29 (97.82.221.142)
86 World Cup victories. I like what she told him after the race, ""No matter what I do, it doesn't ever compare to what you achieved," Shiffrin said into the TV6 camera from the lakeside resort. "Mayb .......
305: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Not a recone (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-10, 08:59:30 (97.82.221.142)
Fresh off the storied JBL Tent Sale ca. 2003 .......
306: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, My JBL 2226J measures 8 Ohms across the terminals (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-10, 07:31:55 (97.82.221.142)
I'm trying to track down a lowered gain/muffled sound from this speaker. I've ruled out the compression driver and haven't been into the crossover yet. The J is a 16 Ohm unit, shouldn't it measure 16 .......
307: General Asylum, RE: Why stop with the Sixties? Here's the 1951 Chart Topper (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-10, 07:04:56 (97.82.221.142)
Actually #2. I was 5 years old and remember hating my older sister for loving it. The Flip side, Cry" was #1 making this the saddest (!) Hit Record of, perhaps, all time. View YouTub .......
308: General Asylum, RE: Sugar, Sugar by the forgettable Archies? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-10, 06:31:07 (97.82.221.142)
4 weeks at the Top in 1969. View YouTube Video .......
309: General Asylum, RE: Do Tell ... Please (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-10, 04:25:18 (97.82.221.142)
I admit I'm biased because of all the times I've been a part of the back row of the orchestra with all the brass and percussion. It's thrilling to play and never gets old. What don't you like? ::: TOP .......
310: General Asylum, RE: For anyone who didn't follow up the other links (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-09, 07:51:08 (97.82.221.142)
This Mika (who I'm not familiar with) and Lang Lang are going to perform at Royal Albert later this year. The dozen or so other pianists and Lucy unknowingly were vying for a spot in the concert. Of c .......
311: General Asylum, RE: MY guy walks into a bar with a really ornate wooden box in his hands (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-09, 07:45:18 (97.82.221.142)
Bartender pours him a drink and asks what's in the box? Guy says you wouldn't believe me if I told you. Bartender says, c'mon, what 's in it? The guy sighs, opens the box and pulls out a tiny piano, a .......
312: SET Asylum, RE: Wholeheartedly Agree! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-09, 04:48:16 (97.82.221.142)
And the execution is first rate. Might I suggest, though, taking the inputs/outputs and power to the rear panel as in my mono blocks here? It only takes a bit of extra measuring and a short while t .......
313: General Asylum, RE: Thoughts. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-08, 15:23:02 (97.82.221.142)
You didn't enjoy seeing Lang Lang, who I happen to think is brilliant, with tears in his eyes? The other fellow I don't know but apparently this is an ongoing show that has featured many pianists in t .......
314: General Asylum, RE: But I watched the "Story" Vid and her Teacher captured me (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-08, 15:02:44 (97.82.221.142)
He said that he is not her Teacher, Lucy can't be taught. But she is able to learn and his job is to help her learn. That's a profound realization. One with application throughout any population. :: .......
315: Inmate Central, RE: That's How It's Done (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-08, 13:45:20 (97.82.221.142)
I light one end of 2) 1/3 of the circumference lines of Kingsford briquettes side-by-side with a third straddling them on top so every briquette is touching it's neighbor gives me a steady 250 for .......
316: General Asylum, If This Doesn't Give You Chills, Have Someone Take Your Pulse (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-08, 11:02:39 (97.82.221.142)
I don't know that I've ever been so moved by the making of music. View YouTube Video .......
317: Inmate Central, RE: Desperate teams do desparate things (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-08, 08:40:56 (97.82.221.142)
With Rodgers possibly in play and the Watson deal now a benchmark, why would Jackson not test the market? And with Ozzie Newsome still in the building, why wouldn't the Ravens covet a couple of extra .......
318: Inmate Central, An Oven Is Just An Oven, But A Webber Is A Smoke! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-08, 08:27:16 (97.82.221.142)
First smoke of the season, a pork loin. Made a rub of about 1/2 Arthur Bryants, 1/2 Grill Mates Smokehouse Maple, and the other 1/2 black pepper/cayenne. .......
319: Inmate Central, RE: Used to do (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-07, 13:38:18 (97.82.221.142)
While my wife was alive I had to pretend to like coffee; before I retired I always brought back beans from the business trip country of the month. Surprisingly, Peru (according to her) had by far the .......
320: Inmate Central, Anyone have this Ninja CE-251 Coffee Maker? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-07, 08:28:50 (97.82.221.142)
My Cuisinart died yesterday after faithfully turning Maxwell House into dark brown water for 12 years. I don't care much about coffee, just drink it in the morning for medicinal purposes but though .......
321: Inmate Central, Thousands Of Beautiful Girls And Three Ugly Ones (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-06, 08:45:23 (97.82.221.142)
This zany French photographer visited hundreds of American strip clubs and never went in At least he wasn't funded by an NIH Grant. Too bad he had to miss my fav Miami landmark .......
322: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Headshells - suggestion and question (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-05, 14:50:38 (97.82.221.142)
Soundsmith has cartridge screws in various weights by material. They weren't long enough for my cartridge so check. I wound up cutting and drilling some 1/8" aluminum plate to add 4 gms. ::: TOPIC: .......
323: Inmate Central, How About Some Good News For A Change (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-05, 14:03:32 (97.82.221.142)
Surprise! A Baby Girl delivered by the husband. I really like Baby Girls, my youngest just made the Dean's List, again, and at the tender age of 41 will graduate in May Magna Cum Laude. She has a succ .......
324: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Cackling Audibly nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-05, 04:20:54 (97.82.221.142)
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325: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Just gorgeous! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-04, 10:13:38 (97.82.221.142)
So many of these custom chassis' are garishly covered in a heavily figured wood with a finish that makes them look like plastic laminate. Your's has some architectural interest from the ply's and with .......
326: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Another Old Favorite On Now (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-04, 09:39:11 (97.82.221.142)
Duke Ellington; Jazz Party In Stereo And it's a 'not for resale'. Everyone knows a white label sounds better. .......
327: Inmate Central, RE: No argument there (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-04, 08:54:21 (97.82.221.142)
Why a bunch of brown-skinned folks from various marginalized populations would want to glamorize Hamilton is beyond me. Hamilton would have loved the Koch Brothers. Still, the repeal of Glass-Steagall .......
328: Vinyl Asylum, Now Playing (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-04, 08:26:45 (97.82.221.142)
The Clifford Brown/Max Roach Emarcy Albums; 4 record set Mosaic Record One, Side A: Clifford brown, Harold Land TS, Richie Powell P, George Morrow B, Max Roach. Just the thing to put some hours on my .......
329: Inmate Central, RE: An egg, maybe, hopefully?... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-04, 07:55:24 (97.82.221.142)
There's an excellent spy novel you might enjoy, The Falconer's Tale, by Gordon Kent with a plot built around Sea Eagles on the Isle Of Mull. .......
330: Inmate Central, RE: All pretense of democracy went up in smoke after the Glass-Steagall repeal and Citizen's United nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-04, 07:51:25 (97.82.221.142)
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331: Inmate Central, RE: So you had a girlfriend (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-04, 07:48:19 (97.82.221.142)
So what, the nurse lived upstairs. I had a girl friend too but our buildings balconies connected every two apartments. Next door was the very attractive girl who "wouldn't quit" and would often climb .......
332: Inmate Central, Saw This Vanity Plate Today, MXD DBLS, And Got To Wondering (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-03, 09:06:33 (97.82.221.142)
What with all the Headlines and Brouhaha over Transgender Sports... could this be the ultimate conondrum in that regard? .......
333: Inmate Central, RE: You know how many of you say you wouldn't be caught dead in Walmart (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-02, 13:56:55 (97.82.221.142)
I feel the same way about Twitter. .......
334: Inmate Central, RE: I'm not from California. Thought it was something with real Corinthian Leather (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-02, 13:54:08 (97.82.221.142)
nt .......
335: Inmate Central, California City Has Eliminated Homelessness (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-02, 13:01:01 (97.82.221.142)
Everyone's favorite news source, especially mine, reports getting people help and enforcing ordinances has resulted in zero encampments, zero homeless in the city of Coronado. What ends up happening i .......
336: Inmate Central, RE: But Wait! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-03-01, 09:36:59 (97.82.221.142)
The best model to cure what ails us is the new (my ass) concept of the 15 Minute City. So naturally the usual suspects, and there are multitudes, are at the SM Barricades outraged at the idea of bein .......
337: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Sunny and 70, Simple SE is done, heading out to the deck today (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-28, 06:46:52 (97.82.221.142)
Time to machine the chassis wood and complete the "nice looking" Pass B1. Should be interesting to hear how it handles 6 Watts vs. 60. .......
338: Inmate Central, RE: Rupert doesn't admit it was Fox News from what I read (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-28, 04:57:29 (97.82.221.142)
Maybe some other post here agrees with that but I wasn't going to open every post. What Murdoch explicitly wrote in the released material is that "Fox comentators endorsed false theories, not Fox News .......
339: Inmate Central, RE: But Fox Is Such Fun!!! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-27, 14:57:32 (97.82.221.142)
You have to see the video capture and it's caption here .......
340: Inmate Central, So Griner got honored last night for getting busted with drugs (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-27, 10:53:21 (97.82.221.142)
That'd be right. .......
341: General Asylum, RE: There's some peculiar things about USAM (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-27, 09:49:04 (97.82.221.142)
For the past couple of months I've been checking 'solid state amplifiers' there, first, occasionally, and then after I noticed some shenanigans, several times a day. There are a dozen or so same ite .......
342: Inmate Central, RE: What a shame that is (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-26, 14:23:35 (97.82.221.142)
One of the most historically significant areas in the U.K. overrun by cars. I'd be in the street protesting in favor of not just filters but outright banning of cars from at least Balliol College sou .......
343: Inmate Central, This goes out to Ghost (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-26, 07:54:46 (97.82.221.142)
The Baron saw this just now at the Super. Better than showroom perfect restoration. .......
344: General Asylum, RE: You'd think Amazon could have found a big guy who wasn't made out of wood? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-26, 05:56:17 (97.82.221.142)
I found the series unwatchable. Of course, like all extended book series, the formula get's stale after awhile. I've even gotten tired of Gabriel Allon. Check out John Birmingham who writes trilogies .......
345: Cable Asylum, RE: Thanks (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-26, 05:03:55 (97.82.221.142)
That's sensible. I read somewhere of making both wires "hot" and the ground mesh neutral. My current cables, diy white lightning are unshielded so I thnk I'll leave the mesh open at both ends and see. .......
346: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: Thank goodness there's no room for them at current price of $132 (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-26, 04:57:00 (97.82.221.142)
If there was and they were still $80 bucks I might consider it. .......
347: General Asylum, RE: I can't play a note on a guitar and think 'it' should be called "Kind Of Boring" ... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-26, 04:44:13 (97.82.221.142)
Do I get to deserve my great system and music collection because, among other organizations, I played for the Oxford Musical Society Symphony Orchestra? .......
348: Vinyl Asylum, Omigosh! I Just Love Uranus! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-25, 13:24:19 (97.82.221.142)
Just spun the Mehta Planets. The best! .......
349: Cable Asylum, Mogami 2549 Connect, 2 wires hot or shield as shield? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-25, 11:30:38 (97.82.221.142)
20 ft. runs from JE Labs linestage to amps. .......
350: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: That's a great line but I prefer this one (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-25, 08:32:38 (97.82.221.142)
Groucho recounts this episode when he was booked at a Bal Harbour (which was restricted) hotel lounge in the Fifties. He took his family to the hotel pool but was told that, being Jewish, they couldn' .......
351: Tube DIY Asylum, I bought the tubes more than a year ago, honest...I have receipts! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-25, 08:09:51 (97.82.221.142)
I'm calling this the SSE Gerald R. Ford. It's had countless delays and cost over-runs. Finally made it's maiden voyage yesterday. (Yeah, I noticed the power switch too, after the epoxy dried. Natch .......
352: Inmate Central, RE: Not indicated. More likely, Easternslavicsclerosis. nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-25, 07:53:01 (97.82.221.142)
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353: Inmate Central, RE: My mandatory rye or wheat bread ingredient made your list (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-25, 07:47:07 (97.82.221.142)
Blackstrap molasses. Just a TBSP in a 450-500 gram recipe. .......
354: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Amen, Brother (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-24, 15:15:59 (97.82.221.142)
"...people who spend 10 or 100 times what a Goldpoint stepped attenuator costs on cables or speakers and they get smaller improvements." The Goldpoint's value problem is that it's hidden from view. : .......
355: Inmate Central, RE: Around here NOAA is the Voice Of Doom (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-24, 09:34:27 (97.82.221.142)
Sure, the higher Blue Ridge elevations will see more snow and ice is more prevalent but they go with these huge red box WARNING!!! for the entire region. Type Los Angeles in the NOAA search box and, M .......
356: Inmate Central, CNN headlines Blizzard Warning for Los Angeles (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-24, 07:23:21 (97.82.221.142)
NOAA has nothing, just aomw rain and cool temps next few days. Anyone surprised? .......
357: General Asylum, RE: I still have my first Nickel (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-23, 14:10:58 (97.82.221.142)
Unfortunately, that's all I have. .......
358: General Asylum, RE: The Courts Have Pretty Much Ruled That: There's Nothing New Under The Sun (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-23, 14:09:27 (97.82.221.142)
There's no Taurus at The Top Of The Stairs .......
359: General Asylum, RE: "Most Epic" is really this one written by Dolly to Porter, made epic by Whitney (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-23, 05:25:49 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
360: Inmate Central, RE: 70 Years Ago, Heaven For This Kid Was A Zagnut And The Latest Captain Marvel Comic (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-23, 04:23:00 (97.82.221.142)
Oh, Zagnut is real. 70 Years later, a lock to wreak havoc on aged pipes. Some memories are best left as just that. .......
361: Inmate Central, 70 Years Ago, Heaven For This Kid Was A Zagnut And The Latest Captain Marvel Comic (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-22, 19:10:42 (97.82.221.142)
Last night I watched Shazam . Heaven it was not! Oy! Do they still make Zagnut? .......
362: General Asylum, RE: First and last, sue me. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-22, 18:52:25 (97.82.221.142)
The day I brought it home. .......
363: General Asylum, "The Most Epic Song Ever Written", a little BBC hyperbole for ya (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-22, 18:50:45 (97.82.221.142)
Interesting article (no paywall) on Total Eclipse Of The Heart .......
364: Inmate Central, RE: Yes, but only on one end (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-21, 08:07:11 (97.82.221.142)
Just add a 'dutchman'. And while we're denigrating, relax and have another Tinto, it's Spain. .......
365: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: The labels both say Made In Canada (nt) (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-21, 06:57:16 (97.82.221.142)
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366: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: But there is good news on Magnetics (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-21, 04:56:14 (97.82.221.142)
Hammond prices are also up from a few years ago but I recently found Hawk Electronics whose prices are a bit more than 10% off all others. I ordered a 374BX and 193H on the 15th, they arrived yesterda .......
367: Inmate Central, Another proud American has had his Second Amendment rights violated (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-20, 08:55:07 (97.82.221.142)
New Orleans man stopped from carrying AR and 163 rounds of ammunition onto flight .......
368: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: I had an Accuphase E-450 (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-18, 13:19:12 (97.82.221.142)
Loved everything technical about it but the sound, over time, made me want something warmer and richer. Something that sounded like music. .......
369: General Asylum, RE: Apologies (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-18, 12:03:26 (97.82.221.142)
I should have qualified my remarks with, "excepting puny gods". View YouTube Video .......
370: General Asylum, RE: You think that perhaps... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-18, 11:47:51 (97.82.221.142)
...if your audio system convincingly re-creates acoustic instruments and human voices in a performance space it might do well with other sorts of noise? If there's any Forum horse more deserving of be .......
371: Inmate Central, RE: "I've been out of touch lately, tell me, do Brits still use separate faucets???" (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-18, 05:01:13 (97.82.221.142)
That was quite a shock when I first entered my college room in that green and pleasant land. Then I noticed the hot water came out of a vessel on the wall above the sink one needed to feed with Shilli .......
372: Inmate Central, You Meet The Strangest People On A Harley-Davidson (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-17, 15:25:26 (97.82.221.142)
I'm a Flash Mob addict. This one's 9 years old but the production values and "plot" make it a classic I play at least once a year. Yeah, it's likely a soundtrack of, one hopes, the Savaria Symphony bu .......
373: Vinyl Asylum, Unloved, Forsaken, but a damned fine $5 investment (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-17, 04:37:10 (97.82.221.142)
Atlantic SD 2-502 0698 Any like this on your shelves? I was checking a different album in my Discogs collection and noticed that a few lines down, this largely forgotten album had become quite valuabl .......
374: General Asylum, RE: Under The Heading: Can You Top This? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-16, 12:33:31 (97.82.221.142)
I'm guessing 1961 my BIL was in charge of the entertainment for a party at his Rutger's Frat House. He booked Dylan, so he said, for $50 and a case of beer. Maybe it should be filed under Apocrypha, m .......
375: General Asylum, RE: How About Vicey-Vercey? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-16, 12:20:33 (97.82.221.142)
B.B. King, who we worshipped, came to town (1968?) and opened for The Moody Blues, who us Blues Guys thought belonged in a Holiday Inn Lounge. We 15 or 20 gave B.B. and Lucille a standing O, waited fo .......
376: Inmate Central, So He Bicycled From Alaska To Patagonia; Big Deal! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-16, 05:01:06 (97.82.221.142)
Anyone could do it. It's downhill all the way. .......
377: Inmate Central, RE: It hasn't been thatlong since I've seen a Caboose (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-15, 15:02:33 (97.82.221.142)
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378: Inmate Central, RE: This is not a balloon. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-15, 10:42:11 (97.82.221.142)
Maybe they want Seward's Folly back? We could get a refund and Sarah could win a seat in the Duma. Win-Win. .......
379: Inmate Central, RE: Waddaya say we go watch them tear down the old Endicott Building (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-15, 09:07:57 (97.82.221.142)
More entertaining than anything here. .......
380: Inmate Central, RE: That's right, I'm A Real Live Nephew Of My Uncle Sam (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-15, 08:11:06 (97.82.221.142)
Everything I have, I stole without any help from anybody! Oh, and Ivan, you really believe The Means Of Production are privately owned in the U.S. of A.? .......
381: Inmate Central, RE: Your Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Tax Dollars At Work. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-15, 06:50:29 (97.82.221.142)
Anyone remember "Shovel Ready Projects"? .......
382: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Audio rack options (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-15, 03:59:13 (97.82.221.142)
You say the front wall is an outside wall which, as load-bearing, makes it inherently better damped than non-load bearing. Less to worry about there. As the wall is being re-done there is the opprtuni .......
383: Inmate Central, RE: Yup. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-13, 09:38:58 (97.82.221.142)
I was likely in the kitchen heating some yummy Nathan's Angus Beef Hot Dogs. .......
384: Inmate Central, RE: Maybe Goober and el blanco should get together in a support group (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-13, 09:36:09 (97.82.221.142)
They could call it "kids always chosen in last". Both contested catches were, in the end, called correctly. Irregardless of the Corner Back owning up to the 'hold', it was clearly shown on replay, th .......
385: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Come on people, smile on your brother... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-12, 21:48:46 (97.82.221.142)
10 minutes with some 220 grit paper and 2 10 minute sessions with Watco Natural would have that table looking new. Remove the mechanism and send me the case. I'll do it for you. My treat. .......
386: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: I see 2 violins, a viola, and 2 clarinets (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-12, 21:40:41 (97.82.221.142)
And they all look like Princess Stephanie. .......
387: Inmate Central, See the Chief's viewing crowd in Munich, Germany? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-12, 18:33:21 (97.82.221.142)
Interesting how easily they adapted to the Tomahawk Chop! .......
388: Inmate Central, RE: I don't know who did what to whom and neither do any of you lot, but... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-12, 10:07:21 (97.82.221.142)
...there's plenty to cherchez in favor of the U.S. National Interest vis-a-vis strengthening NATO after 4 years of the reverse and reining in the Germans vs. any punitive action by the Romanovs Sovie .......
389: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: That Would Be Nine, Skippy! nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-11, 07:57:53 (97.82.221.142)
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390: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Nice! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-11, 05:52:51 (97.82.221.142)
Kinda makes my Pass B1 look like a 6th grade science project. .......
391: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Material To Reduce Display Brightness? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-11, 05:46:12 (97.82.221.142)
Shouldn't be all that difficult to find the resistor on the board that controls the voltage, likely 10 or 15k. Try a 20 or 30k instead. .......
392: Inmate Central, Vilhelm Kates Strikes Again (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-10, 18:50:11 (97.82.221.142)
I just went to look back at a really old download of an amplifier BOM in Documents and Windows told me I couldn't view "sensitive information" w/o logging in. I've managed to dodge that Log In To Your .......
393: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Wonder how it sounds? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-10, 15:11:50 (97.82.221.142)
I'll let you know. I ordered the manual to see if I should can do a build in my becoming more and more obvious decreptitude or buy one assembled. .......
394: Inmate Central, RE: I guess you have to spend $Thousands annually to get one (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-10, 12:35:39 (97.82.221.142)
Me, just a 6-pack or so of Benjamins. .......
395: Inmate Central, RE: Just Released Video (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-10, 12:09:16 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
396: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: What's the difference between Akitika GT-102 and 108? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-10, 07:58:50 (97.82.221.142)
Thank you. Now in the light of day, I get it. The 108 uses discrete devices as written in the text. I looked and looked (at 2 A.M.) and kept mistaking the 2 pictures, 102 and 104 for 102 and 108. So d .......
397: Amp/Preamp Asylum, What's the difference between Akitika GT-102 and 108? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-10, 06:10:13 (97.82.221.142)
I get that the 104 is 4 Ohm and the 108, 8, but the 102 is different from those? Maybe because I looked at the site late at night but I'm stumped and the "Ask A Question" button on it doesn't work. Th .......
398: General Asylum, RE: Yes, Deltronics, they're the greatest (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-08, 14:17:02 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
399: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: We had that in common until this recent stage in my life (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-08, 09:11:40 (97.82.221.142)
My main system was strictly for sitting and listening to a concert, often for an entire afternoon or evening. One might think I'd have a system like my "Kitchen Radio" at my workbench where I spend so .......
400: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Michael Percy has TKD Monos, $52, last time I checked nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-07, 10:47:37 (97.82.221.142)
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401: Inmate Central, RE: Some of us are as bored with your world view as you are with ours. MTT,MTA (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-07, 08:48:11 (97.82.221.142)
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402: General Asylum, RE: Well, some are victims of their own stereotypes (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-07, 08:37:10 (97.82.221.142)
Years ago I was at my bench in the garage when my next door neighbor, the wife, walked in and said, "I locked myself out of the house. Is there anything you can do? I know the door into the house from .......
403: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: What I can tell you for certain about the Alps Blue (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-06, 14:50:32 (97.82.221.142)
The second kit I built, back in 2002, after I got the bug with a Bottlehead Foreplay was the Diyhifisupply Ella. Push-pull 40 Watt 6550 integrated. There was a lot of online tweaking discussion and on .......
404: Inmate Central, RE: I'm Shocked!!! Shocked!!! Wells Fargo?!!! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-06, 09:12:46 (97.82.221.142)
Actually, they've never done me wrong and I'm a big Dale Robertson fan. .......
405: Inmate Central, RE: All You Need To Know About The Navy (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-06, 07:51:51 (97.82.221.142)
In 1941 and '42 up to 60% of U.S. Naval Torpedos failed to detonate. It wasn't until 1943 that the Admirals were willing to admit there was a hardware problem and not a crew problem. 80 years later th .......
406: Inmate Central, RE: Enjoyed the first several episodes, but... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-06, 07:27:05 (97.82.221.142)
...even being John Malkovich couldn't save his character or the others as the plot and writings kept getting siller. The last straw for netflix. I cancelled. Where's the next Queen's Gambit? ::: TOPIC .......
407: Inmate Central, RE: Same here, began in December. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-06, 07:21:52 (97.82.221.142)
More noteworthy is the nice raise I/WE got, more than double last years. .......
408: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: That's a great value for $699! A bargain even. But... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-05, 17:07:33 (97.82.221.142)
...if an Alps Pot, which I and many others consider a poor choice is an upgrade, then the quality of sound could go considerably higher. A $40 PEC KKA series for $40 or better yet, $80 TKD may work wo .......
409: Inmate Central, RE: Since it floated over my Carolina's you knew this was coming (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-05, 10:38:54 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
410: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Now towards the end of my 75th Year... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-05, 09:34:57 (97.82.221.142)
...I'm dusting my $2500 turntable/cartridge, $1,000 (of carefully chosen parts) Phono Stage, $1,000 (of carefully chosen parts) Line Stage, $3,000 (of, you guessed it) KT88 Mono Blocks, and yadda-yadd .......
411: Inmate Central, RE: Pointless argument over a world forever lost (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-05, 09:19:54 (97.82.221.142)
Until the next planetary war's aftermath. Back when we consumed what we produced and now unemployed Rosie's roamed the continent, their homes had 1 TV, 1 Radio, 1.3 cars, 1 leased telephone, clothes w .......
412: Inmate Central, RE: You Ain't Fibbin', McGee (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-04, 19:37:05 (97.82.221.142)
Imagine the outcry if the shoot down was done right away and three school buses had fallen on the Brad Little Idaho Statehouse. .......
413: Classical Court, RE: I've been flat on my back for the last two days! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-04, 19:00:36 (97.82.221.142)
You loved it? Please don't encourage anyone else to move here. We're overrun. Half of South Florida has moved here in the past 10 years. It's no wonder Dade and Broward counties can no longer politic .......
414: Inmate Central, RE: Looks to be following I-40 right to my place (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-04, 05:55:20 (97.82.221.142)
I'll have one from Column "A". Do I get an Egg Loll with that? .......
415: Inmate Central, RE: Ryobi is a Hong Kong "Mega-Brand" (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-04, 04:38:40 (97.82.221.142)
Google says: "Brands like Ryobi, Dirt Devil, Oreck, Milwaukee Electric and Hoover, for example, are owned by Techtronic Industries based out of Hong Kong. The Connecticut-based Stanley Black & Decker .......
416: Inmate Central, "The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year" (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-04, 03:07:48 (97.82.221.142)
Security footage shows suspects driving stolen car into shopping mall View YouTube Video .......
417: Inmate Central, RE: Ever since the Maria Schriver interview, Charlie is my Hero (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-04, 02:33:44 (97.82.221.142)
You remember the Hollywood Madam scandal? Heidi Fleiss? Charlie was a VERY good customer and agreed to be interviewed by the Terminator's Ex about it. She asked him, "Charlie, your famous, handsome, a .......
418: Inmate Central, RE: "Got any detail on how that can be done?" (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-03, 16:02:23 (97.82.221.142)
Yup! Compulsory National Service. No deferrals, no exemptions, no buyouts. Not a chance in hell of that happening, though. It's too late. Bye, gotta go now, Two And A Half Men is on. .......
419: Inmate Central, RE: It's a demographic pot that's bubbled for 40 years (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-03, 12:30:21 (97.82.221.142)
And now it's boiled over. Back in the Eighties the focus was on how down the road 2/3rds of the population when collecting Social Security would be supported by just 1/3 working and paying in. Some of .......
420: Classical Court, And Now A Special Shoutout To The Man From Lafayette (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-03, 11:36:23 (97.82.221.142)
With love from Asheville: View YouTube Video .......
421: Inmate Central, RE: I wonder if it's balloons we're using over their missile field? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-02, 16:06:46 (97.82.221.142)
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422: Inmate Central, RE: I tried hard to find a pic that would post of the one is more beautifuller but failed (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-02, 15:41:05 (97.82.221.142)
Look for a late 50's Facel Vega Facellia Roadster. .......
423: General Asylum, Have you seen this incredibly talented thirteen year old? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-01, 15:51:03 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
424: Inmate Central, RE: That's what I thought, too (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-01, 15:41:56 (97.82.221.142)
So I bought a fresh bottle which I tasted; hotter than hell and upped the dose beyond all the online rec's per pound. It stopped the smaller of the pair, the big one not at all. We have a lot of Mexic .......
425: Inmate Central, RE:Don't Post Angry, Punxsutawney Ghost nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-01, 15:31:59 (97.82.221.142)
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426: Inmate Central, I Fought The Squirrel and ...I Won! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-01, 10:57:28 (97.82.221.142)
My clever mount for the bracket for the feeder wasn't so clever. The post made a convenient place for the pair to empty it from. Cayenne Pepper powder worked for a day then the #$%&* Rodents develo .......
427: Inmate Central, Hey Dad...Let's see what Nathan does with a loaded gun (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-01, 03:47:20 (97.82.221.142)
Man let 6-year-old son play with his phone. See what ended up happening View YouTube Video .......
428: Inmate Central, RE: Cindy Williams best work: The First Nudie Musical (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-02-01, 03:34:51 (97.82.221.142)
Cult Classic! .......
429: Inmate Central, RE: Mmmm...Eat-n-Puke (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-31, 12:14:38 (97.82.221.142)
We had one across from my office. Terrible. No one went there. In Cleveland in the Sixties a drive-in chain called Manner's and licensed, I guess, the Big Boy name. Car hops and the great big statue .......
430: Inmate Central, RE:Mmmm..."Big Boy." (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-31, 10:27:32 (97.82.221.142)
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431: Inmate Central, RE: Bill Gates has threatened you? You must be a Very Important Person! nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-31, 05:30:20 (97.82.221.142)
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432: Inmate Central, RE: "China owns land in Ukraine" (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-30, 16:36:50 (97.82.221.142)
No surprise there. China has enormous holdings in feed lots and agricultural land in the U.S. and elsewhere around the world. We have no problem selling everyone the rope. .......
433: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Does the Aegir cause your A/C to run more in the Summer? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-29, 04:39:41 (97.82.221.142)
There are differing opinions online and I'm trying to get a handle on how hot it runs. .......
434: Inmate Central, RE: Whenever I See The Word, Salon..... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-27, 09:02:12 (97.82.221.142)
...I think of these wildly talented women. View YouTube Video I only got my weight under control when I gave up the weed and became addicted to Youtube. .......
435: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: "It looks like a lot of effort and refinement went into the power supply." (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-27, 03:52:25 (97.82.221.142)
Yup. $80 worth of Nichicon capacitors per side. .......
436: Inmate Central, RE: This month long 49er fan hopes so too. nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-26, 17:13:08 (97.82.221.142)
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437: Inmate Central, RE: You can just about make out the face of Manchin in the cab window (nt) (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-26, 17:10:54 (97.82.221.142)
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438: Inmate Central, RE: Who thinks that? nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-26, 09:04:10 (97.82.221.142)
The same social media denizens who think Tanks are good for more than making small breaches in hundreds of kilometers lines. Or providing boots, bullets, and beans. .......
439: Inmate Central, RE: We had a 50 Plymouth 4 door (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-26, 08:23:11 (97.82.221.142)
Mom's car. I was only about 5 but I well remember her struggling to turn that ships wheel and see out the back. Now of her '68 Newport she said, when asked by a friend in my hearing, "how do you lik .......
440: Inmate Central, RE: That's Pic-A-Nic To You, Sir (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-26, 07:56:33 (97.82.221.142)
One wonders at the political orientation of the Charmin Bears. .......
441: Inmate Central, RE: BEEE-yoootiful. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-25, 13:36:40 (97.82.221.142)
That radiator is worth the price of admission! .......
442: Inmate Central, Frequently mentioned here: 1970's Garbage Barges Are Going For 6 Figures (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-25, 09:10:23 (97.82.221.142)
One may have a truly masterful example of style and engineering like this 1940 Packard 160 Convertible Coupe though for $66,000. .......
443: Inmate Central, RE: And by years end the West will be singing: (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-24, 18:28:36 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
444: Inmate Central, RE: Leopards in the wild (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-24, 05:12:56 (97.82.221.142)
What is Griechenland going to do with all those Leopards? Cover the launch of a thousand ships? .......
445: Tweakers' Asylum, RE: Fuse direction question for my new build? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-23, 17:19:51 (97.82.221.142)
What sounds better? Mounting the fuse holder vertically or horizontally? .......
446: Inmate Central, RE: And the people who favor those infringements... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-23, 11:10:44 (97.82.221.142)
...become shocked!, shocked, I tell you, when others put on costumes and invade government buldings. .......
447: Inmate Central, RE: That's a law in an U.S. State? We don't even have speed limits here (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-23, 10:27:41 (97.82.221.142)
The posted limits are merely suggestions. .......
448: General Asylum, RE: More Of A Maze Than A Path (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-23, 10:14:11 (97.82.221.142)
I've had 150-150 to 1.8 Watt Tube Amps as well as 300-300 to 15 Watt Solid State. 83dB to 100dB speakers. What I couldn't get on loan, mainly the high power, low efficiency stuff, I built and contin .......
449: Inmate Central, RE: POTD (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-22, 15:20:57 (97.82.221.142)
Taken with my old 6S and granddaughter cropped out with the shoddy edit function so not too crisp, but here's young Mochi .......
450: Inmate Central, RE: It's snowing on both teams (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-22, 15:12:28 (97.82.221.142)
Bengals Lines, Offense and Defense both, dominated their Bills counterparts and that's all she wrote. Maybe the Pegula kid will come through for Buffalo in Melbourne. Likely it's not snowing there. :: .......
451: Inmate Central, RE: Jim Fixx taught me that way back in 1973 (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-22, 09:44:43 (97.82.221.142)
The body burns calories faster at low temperatures than at warm. A headwind cools the body more efficiently than a tailwind so is actually more beneficial. Pre-heat cold winter air before it enters .......
452: Amp/Preamp Asylum, A McCormack DNA 0.5 Deluxe @ $850 lasted just a few hours on USAM today (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-21, 15:07:31 (97.82.221.142)
One of the very few SS 'vintage' amps I've heard and loved. If I hadn't had that much invested in my two current projects it would have been mine. .......
453: Inmate Central, RE: NFL playoffs today, two teams that should meet in the AFC Championship Game... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-21, 08:44:41 (97.82.221.142)
I chuckled at his leftward 'feet don't fail me now' escapes, who didn't? Then the very good Greg Olson pointed out how Seattle's D-line was making a conscious effort to force just that and eventually .......
454: Inmate Central, RE: Dunno...First time I'd even heard of MSG (nt) (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-21, 05:18:49 (97.82.221.142)
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455: Inmate Central, RE: Remember that "evil" food-additive/flavor-enhancer--MSG?... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-21, 03:57:35 (97.82.221.142)
circa 1980 I one day got home from work, had my usual 5 mile run, showered, changed, shared my usual joint with wifey and we met another couple for dinner at a Chinese restaurant. Halfway through the .......
456: Inmate Central, RE: Jet Engine Need Jet Fuel, Tovarich, Da? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-20, 09:30:48 (97.82.221.142)
3 Gallon to mile, just like Stinking Kapitalist F-16. .......
457: Inmate Central, RE: According to the U.S. Army Armor Establishment... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-20, 08:01:04 (97.82.221.142)
...the M1A1 (doubtful the '2' would be considered) Abrams is an unreliable, overweight and thus immobile, fuel guzzling POS little Ukrainian Brother is entirely incapable of managing. In an era when A .......
458: General Asylum, Says Here (CNN), Shakira Is Airing Out Her Greivances With New Song (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-19, 09:04:48 (97.82.221.142)
Having seen a few seconds of her Super Bowl show, that's not all she likes to air out. .......
459: Inmate Central, RE: Early vintage Stingers 3 for a Dollar at fine bazaars everywhere nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-18, 09:46:51 (97.82.221.142)
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460: Inmate Central, RE: When I was her age I levitated the Pentagon (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-18, 09:15:04 (97.82.221.142)
And narrowly missed being present at the Kent State Massacre. You go, Greta! .......
461: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: Of course it comes with a schematic/blueprint (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-18, 04:22:46 (97.82.221.142)
Tubelab is the best when it comes to that. One has to remember to plan for and install the switch. .......
462: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: SSE, yes (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-17, 14:47:48 (97.82.221.142)
Back in 2004 the parts cost was under $400 and the documentation second to none. I noticed as I returned to it this past year George's website is even better. Great sounding amp anyone can build. Bac .......
463: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: That's the same decision I came to (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-17, 11:58:28 (97.82.221.142)
It's up front and even if a Forstener bit mars the finish, It's easily repairable. .......
464: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Wouldn't work for me (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-17, 09:00:18 (97.82.221.142)
At my age I can't recall whether or not I played an album last week. .......
465: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: BTW, the plastic cups in the photo? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-17, 08:55:50 (97.82.221.142)
Buy a hundred for a few dollars at fine stores everywhere. Mix epoxy and toss it. Tint shellac and toss it. Use one to decant a gallon of PVA glue then toss it. Hold small parts during a build then to .......
466: Inmate Central, RE: There's some oufit called Liquid Piston that maybe has an answer (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-17, 08:42:55 (97.82.221.142)
They say their ICE has 10 times the power of conventional which allows a far smaller and lighter package being considered for drone technology in paticular. And a great weight saving for hybrid cars. .......
467: Inmate Central, RE: Victorian British Maps marked great blank swaths of Africa MMBA (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-17, 07:24:11 (97.82.221.142)
"Miles and Miles of Bloody Africa". True, Wyoming on I-80 goes on and on but at least there's always mountains to view. Nebraska, OTOH, is MMBN. .......
468: Tube DIY Asylum, It's nice to be alive and 75 but it comes at a cost (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-17, 05:11:07 (97.82.221.142)
I'm proudly staring at my new creation last night after screwing up an unprecedented 2 previous $50 top plates to get the fabrication right and then it hits me... Where's the freaking power switch an .......
469: Inmate Central, RE: The Prime Directive. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-16, 09:09:23 (97.82.221.142)
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470: Inmate Central, She Was A Beauty For The Ages! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-16, 09:07:57 (97.82.221.142)
Gina Lollobrigida, legend of Italian cinema, dead at 95 .......
471: Inmate Central, RE: How do you like me now, ghost? A 99 yard fumble return on a QB sneak (mt) (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-16, 05:26:23 (97.82.221.142)
Bengals #51 clearly committed an illegal block in the back near the 20 yard line. No Touchdown, 10 yard penalty from the spot of the foul. Not that I care, I didn't even watch the game. .......
472: Inmate Central, Walk This Way, Mr. Teabag (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-15, 16:03:08 (97.82.221.142)
50 Years Of Research Determines The Monty Python Gag Wasn't .......
473: Inmate Central, RE: Same here, almost (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-15, 09:05:26 (97.82.221.142)
Didn't bother with the Chargers/Jaguars at all after my adopted teams win. Seems we're a lot like all the folks who turned off the TV at the Half, sat down to New Year's Dinner, and missed Ron Vander .......
474: Inmate Central, RE: To wit: (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-14, 06:59:27 (97.82.221.142)
View YouTube Video .......
475: Inmate Central, RE: Ummm.... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-14, 06:56:36 (97.82.221.142)
Biggus Dickus is Life Of Brian from which my two favorites are "Romans, Plural, Hmmm?" and " Welease Woger & Welease Bwian ". Best line in Brooks History is Madline Kahn replying to Gregory Hines, "sa .......
476: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Yeah, I had Polyphemus in the house for couple of years (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-11, 17:35:39 (97.82.221.142)
Finally stuck a burning tree stump in his big red eye just like the sailor did. .......
477: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Be very careful when choosing the output device (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-10, 12:01:45 (97.82.221.142)
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478: Tube DIY Asylum, Fun With Forstner Bits (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-10, 08:37:23 (97.82.221.142)
Just an excuse to post a Pic taken with my new iPhone. ;-} When one finally goes from a 6S to an 11 there's a lot of amaze. .......
479: Inmate Central, RE: Does it mention a worst that isn't vacant? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-10, 07:59:37 (97.82.221.142)
Cleveland? .......
480: Inmate Central, RE: Is that what became of Alvin Straight? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-10, 05:17:48 (97.82.221.142)
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481: Inmate Central, A Political Issue You Can Sink Your Teeth Into (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-10, 05:12:07 (97.82.221.142)
"M&M's new packaging sparks 'culture war' outrage A must read for those hungry for clarity. .......
482: Inmate Central, RE: NFL paying over $800 million to fired coaches and climbing (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-09, 11:34:41 (97.82.221.142)
I'm not sure that figure includes Kingsbury. What a great Country! .......
483: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: To know what a Dollar can sound like, build your own. (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-07, 14:50:16 (97.82.221.142)
After experiencing a large variety of commercial gear over many years. .......
484: Inmate Central, RE: Their idea of "critical listening" is to themselves. nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-07, 12:12:49 (97.82.221.142)
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485: Inmate Central, RE: then make sure YOU volunteer (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-06, 16:58:25 (97.82.221.142)
I already did, likely before you were potty trained. .......
486: Inmate Central, RE: Barry Goldwater had the solution way back in 1964 (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-06, 07:35:14 (97.82.221.142)
And people laughed. They laughed! .......
487: General Asylum, RE: Something meaningful to all, like... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-05, 08:50:15 (97.82.221.142)
...how will this foul weather affect the Rhubarb? .......
488: Inmate Central, RE: I've always admired the way you think, Abe nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-04, 18:08:26 (97.82.221.142)
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489: General Asylum, RE: Isn't time we stopped... (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-04, 18:06:35 (97.82.221.142)
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490: Classical Court, (AP) "At top of opera, Yoncheva worries about classical music" (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-04, 10:50:38 (97.82.221.142)
Opera, sure, Classical Music, it's just as always . But when you see something like the below video from GenZ Berklee kids, things maybe aren't so bad. View YouTube Video .......
491: Inmate Central, Speaking of Iphones, is there a problem with mine? (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-04, 10:38:59 (97.82.221.142)
Had my current 6S since 2018 and it's fine for the few calls and texts I get and make but lately the battery is low after just a day or so. In the past, 2 or 3 days. Twice now it says it's doing some .......
492: General Asylum, RE: Linda called to say she's very disappointed you passed her by nt (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-03, 09:10:46 (97.82.221.142)
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493: Inmate Central, RE: Perhaps Victor will bother to read the linked article (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-03, 05:44:49 (97.82.221.142)
The rest of you may continue to revel in Ukrainian and Russian Blood. .......
494: Inmate Central, A U.S. War With Russia might be just what the doctor ordered (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-02, 22:08:04 (97.82.221.142)
(BBC)Russia's war drains Ukraine's rich list of power De-Oligarchisation and a unifying threat could be restorative. .......
495: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: Front End. No, not one of those (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-02, 14:00:33 (97.82.221.142)
I was amazed by the Pass B1 I built not long ago. There are several recent threads at Amp/Preamp, Here's one from the buyer of the one I built. Especially if you have efficient speakers you might lik .......
496: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: Of course. Not much else to do in Moose Breath Maine in January! (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-02, 10:58:48 (97.82.221.142)
Plus he's always been dependable and had the best prices in the 20+ years I've dealt with him. .......
497: General Asylum, Just out: Rolling Stone's 200 Greatest Voices Of All Time (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-02, 09:14:27 (97.82.221.142)
"All Time" being the past 70 years. The list is a wonderful reference to revisit old favorites and discover those missed. I've written down 10 that I'll audition for the first time. That it's ranked .......
498: Inmate Central, RE: Smerdlovs, Cossacks, they all kill the same (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-02, 08:04:05 (97.82.221.142)
20 years from now, who will care? 50? Who will remember? .......
499: Tube DIY Asylum, RE: I just ordered from Michael last week (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2023-01-02, 03:57:12 (97.82.221.142)
His website now has an advisory to check stock by e-mail before ordering but he had all I needed and shipped promptly as always. .......
500: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: We both really need to get out more (0.00)
Posted by B. Scarpia on 2022-12-31, 17:38:09 (97.82.221.142)
And I thought $65 for a single Resistor was livin' large. .......
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