I used the 1/4" output @Low impedance setting for everything. It just sounded more solid and foundational to me that way. There's no power penalty for doing so, even though you get more volume out of higher imedance settings and the XLR output. This amp has crazy power, more than enough for...

My, my. This is flat-out beautiful! I thought from day-1 that the Caldera's screen was a true design statement, as good as patterns found in art installations, fine furniture and architecture. I also appreciate the slight concavity, which minimizes the apparent depth of each earcup and enhances...

Videos weren't yet major market in the '70s. But they existed, and sometimes they killed. Here's one of my favorite demo cuts*, compellingly supported by the backing video. Favorite line of the intro: "You know, keyboards. I don't say I play them, but I do play them." *Played this alot...

It's not the journey--it's the destination

Here's how crazy this hobby is: I don't own a Velo yet ... I'm just "interested" in a Velo, mainly because (I'm guessing) its two RCA output pairs can be used simultaneously. Between that & the remote control + stepped pot, it becomes a pretty fascinating preamp possibility.* ...and yet here I...

I know about these amazing input tubes only because of you! One of the great audio "finds" of my career.

Has anyone used matched Brimar/Footscray CV455s as input tubes? (sorry if an answer was posted here & I mssed it somehow)

Yesterday I stumbled across a review thread on "the other headphone site" for the Lake People G-111 (they trashed it), which led me to an older review thread for the Lake People G-109 (they didn't just trash it--they crushed it). Couldn't do anything but burst out laughing.... My first real...

3 words: "self-protective memory loss"

ZMF Lifestyle Furnishings - Single Rooms And Complete Houses (hot new DIY channel series) Each room a veritable English manor movie set, but for real - and the sound is amaaaaaaaaaaazing.

... perfect, not-smoky fire in fireplace ... crystal glass tumbler of single malt scotch on table ... next to classic leather club chair ... Irish Wolfhound snoozing on bear skin rug

As the great philosopher, Kermit the frog, said, "It's not easy being green."

This a tune I keep circling back to for the vibe of doomed love, what Brazilians call "saudede," a feeling of melancholy longing. Melody Gardot quite often sings in French, but this happens to be English: Another, a stone classic of the samba literature:

Funny! Just spit out a mouthful of iced coffee on the keyboard, somehow (thankfully) missing the HP8.

don't forget the self-flagellation radius (essential in RabbitHoleLand)