octopus
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| Seattle, WA Buy a sense of humor. | |
| Seattle, WA The Pacific Northwest Audio Society meets the first Thursday of every month on Mercer Island. I went to a meeting one time - the combination of church basement, folding chairs, coffee, and sketchy individuals looked exactly like AA. Or maybe that ... | |
| Do Audionut Cable Elevators Work?? Opinions... You can always try something first. Get some styrofoam cups and carve a dip across the top lip, big enough to set your cable in. Fill the cups with sand or lead shot, lay your cable across the top. Looks like the aftermath of a cheap party, but wo... | |
| Please Describe your Music Collection Hands down the worst I've ever owned was "Out Of The Cradle" by Lindsey Buckingham, ex Fleetwood Mac. I can't believe allmusic.com gives it a 4 1/2 star. I was actually embarrassed for the artist while listening to it. Laughably bad. | |
| Inexpensive tweak We called it "driving the porcelain bus". | |
| Speaker tweak If you want more weight than sand can provide, go to a gun shop and get a bag of #9 lead shot for reloading shotgun shells. Putting the lead shot in freezer bags as described above does a nice job. | |
| The Biggest Disappointments in Rock and Roll Jrwr7:Uhhh...Izzy Stradlin isn't dead yet. He is working with Slash to put together a new band. | |
| Where are you? Do you know what your FM is doing? Hey, Seattle has KEXP. This publicly-supported station is worth getting a tuner for all by itself. See www.kexp.orgIt's nice to see a station with such a broad range of non-commercial music that posts its playlists on the web so if you hear someth... | |
| Why are you here? ...music or equipment I do it for the chicks. | |
| hearing loss from compressed music If it's rock music, it also causes drug use, satanism, and general moral decay. Probably brain damage, too, which is why I still like it. | |
| Round Two: Best Speakers for LOUD music and rock?? There are some ESP Concert Grands for sale on the 'gon right now for around $4600. These have 3 Scanspeak 8" woofers, 2 5" DynAudio midranges, and 2 1" Seas tweeters (one fires out of phase) per side. Sensitivity is advertised at 96 dB, they are r... | |
| The Blues : A Primer Awesome. | |
| Christmas Music My favorite is Jill Sobule's "Merry Christmas From The Family". Need to get it off KaZaa as it's not on her albums. And get a can of fake snow from the Stop N' Go while you're out. | |
| what is the meaning of this??? I usually associate the term with the fatigue associated with surfing porn sites for five or six hours. | |
| Anyone heard the Meadowlark Blue Herons ? I second the motion for more power. |