audio-talk

Ive got plenty of bits of hardwoods here, walnut, some very dense and old oak, some beech and some sapele thats kinda soft if you want me to send some bits to experiment with? Saves buying panzerholtz or ebony which might not float yer boat.

Quite frankly, going from a 'commercial' ( if you can call an f5 clone commercial) power amp back to my diy se el34 was a shock. A real shock as the el34 is shit compared to it. Spending nearly 10 years with diy amps I had no frame of reference to compare my efforts with. The commercial side is real...

I remember hearing doms prototype of his cart a few years ago at owston and being gobsmacked at it. Nothing else has come close since, ive not heard better tbh

Listening to a new copy of led zep 4 atm, it hasn't half got some life to it. Seems to dig right in and bring more detail out, and and and ect.
Seems sensitive to azimuth, needs to be tweaked spot on or the soundstage gets small

Ok, the at150 is on. Ooooh. We like

There is a tiny bit of mechanical hum from it, I could probably pretty much shut it up with some thicker rubber washers anyway. As it will be in a cupboard its unlikely I would hear it anyway. Didnt hear anything from it in use until I stuck my head in the cupboard to turn it off. So just a thermist...

Cheers Ali and Phil. Ive taken it back out and gone to normal mains to check im not hearing what i want to hear, and I think the is an improvement with it in. So i'll make a nice box for it to go in. I can switch it off at the wall as there is a separate socket inside the cupboard it will be sat in,...

Ok, so plugged the amp, phono stage, step up and deck into the bmu and I can hear a difference. in the hf mostly, on decay on cymbals ect. The micro detail. It seems smoother over the range, a subtle tightening up in the bass. Wether this is the motor in the deck behaving better I'm not sure, there ...

Bought a new cart today, I decided to go (after much deliberation, carts seem to be a bloody minefield these days) with an audio technica at150 sa moving magnet. I like the new audio technicas, i couldnt stand the old ones such as the original oc 7, 9 ect and the low end stuff like the at95 ect. Blo...

A live band called harmony of spheres in a pub.....yes a pub! Havent been in one for a while...
Loads of rush, floyd, yes, Genesis, moody blues.... And focus
Played sylvia.
Brilliant

My bad, t'was the voices on it that foxed him Steve ( the guitar teacher) has a really nice approach in that he asked for a list of bands she liked the first time he came. Next time he came he started based on the list. She had the openings to everlong and buck Rogers ( the feeder song) to practice ...

He knows tangerine dream, he just cant stand them

Beths guitar teacher has just walked in while I was playing tangerine dream 'cyclone'.
After about a minute, his exact words were ' what the hell is that?'......

Asia - xxx. Noticed our own mike h looks abit like the pic of steve howe on the inner sleeve

Robin trower - bridge of sighs