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"Bad" drivers? Maybe in US you created automotive industry with T-Ford, but we created the fastest cars, and about "bad" drivers, this was one of your guys...maybe a little north eastern then So Cal Porcy, Thanks for posting those pics! Gilles was one of the greatest drivers of all time... that man had "speed" written all over him! He embodied all that was pure about racing... I don't think anyone had greater raw speed than him (not Senna, not Fangio, and sure as hell not any of the British drivers that F1 Racing magazine gushes over in each issue). F1 season starts next week... I think it might be time to start a new thread! Cheers, Shane Agree about Gilles, I quitted to watch F1 Racing after his death. Though Ayrton had "speed" too. I am a motorbiker so I watch closely MotoGP, and the great Doctor Valentino Rossi, Superbike is fun too.

I said a little north eastern... few ours of driving at Gilles' average speed Seriously when he and Didier Pironi were at Ferrari' team, they both live in Montecarlo. Often, when they had to do some drive tests in Maranello, they runned their private GP between Montecarlo and Maranello on italian highways, they both drived Ferrari, obviously.

Just wait for the ridiculousness on some early Kenny G' records

I don't totally agree about it. My mono original copy of Kind Of Blue, though slower then the correct master, sounds good. As you said it depends on sound engineers. edit. Ah, yes, welcome back Shrdlu!

Don't even try to join places like Steve Hoffman Forum, otherwise you should even check the "best " stampers on the dead wax out

"Audiophiles" think mono LPs sound better. Not me, I think that early BN and Atlantic stereos sound worse, often much worse, then their mono issues. Impulse! stereos sound good to me, like Contemporary's stereos. Japanese collectors are "mono" maniacs, as they are "mono triode" (the vacuum tube) and "Horns" (louspeakers) maniacs. So if they are a big part of the crazyness about mono blame them, not the whole category of "audiophiles".

"Bad" drivers? Maybe in US you created automotive industry with T-Ford, but we created the fastest cars, and about "bad" drivers, this was one of your guys...maybe a little north eastern then So Cal

I noted that they issued four volumes of the sessions on vinyl, wich one do you suggests, considering that I am not a huge Pepper's fan?

That's one thing I always wanted to try, but I am the worst DIYselfer in the EU. If it were up to me to build Noah's ark, now we would be again amphibious creatures.

Thanks, You know, I still read Joyce's books in a italian translated version. And being sober prevents me to understand sophisticated interpretation.

? May you please translate it in English for Dummies, Vol. 1?

Ah - Audio Research/Linn with an LP12. I would love to audition those speaker cables and then maybe sell a few body parts to purchase them. I can only imagine what the ol' 47W63rd monos sound like on that little lot. Nice ! I bought the Audio Research and the Wilson used, at half the retail price. I think that when you're dealing with such expensive and sofisticated stuff, used is the way to go. Most of my previous stuff were used to, so I usually loose only the 10% of the difference that my seller keep from keeping back my gear and the price of a used one. A relatively cheap way to upgrade your system. And, yes, I listened to Byrd In Flight (47W63rd mono) yesterday and I was in heaven. BTW this record is the best sounding RVG I have.

Thanks. Since I never quitted to listen to Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin from my teenager hood, I tend to believe that I am still a sixteen years old boy. I think Keith Richards has the same problem.

Lotto win? Is that with a Naim system, Porcy? Not a lotto win, but a consequence of my latest blood analysis, and the diet I have to follow prevent me to drink any alchohol and eat most of my preferred expensive food, so I presume I will spare on that side in the next months (and I was so depressed that I have to made myself some sort of present) If you consider that a decent bottle of wine here is around ten euros or more, and I used to drink one every dinner, plus now and then some expensive bottles of aged single malt, three months of diet is roughly 1000 euros. My system is here http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...ster&st=120

Yeah, but when testosterone levels drops, reaction time and sight drops too. So it's safer to stay at distance of large pickup tracks anyway.

Sonny Rollins NOW'S THE TIME! (RCA VICTOR, stereo)

Weird stuff

I think his death was a loss for the Seven Art. Belushi, if well, and streng, directed, could have had been a great actor.

My pair, that is Harmonix's top of the line, is outrageouse expensive, 1.7 K euros for 1.5 meters and terminations. At the start I didn't want to keep them, I was scared by the price, I was ready to pay half that price, but my dealer insisted a lot: "Try, you have to hear them, if you don't like them, just give me them back, and we can find some cheaper stuff". At the end I kept them. Their effect on my system is huge, I think I couldn't reach the same satisfaction even if I would change the cd player or loudspeakers. Probably, like Jazzbo pointed out, I hit on cables that really works for my system. And my dealer gave me 500 euros discount for my old 12 feet Red Rose cables and a lost power chord I found during my move. The good thing with my long trusted seller is that he keep back the used stuff he sold to me at 40 % of the retail price. Anyway HARMONIX has cheaper stuff in their catalog, that, according to my seller, outperform all other cables in the same range of price.

Roth's body of work (IMHO) makes him a strong candidate for the Nobel in literature. The only other book of him I read is "The Plot Against America", good book, but I wasn't too much impressed by it. "American Pastoral" will be next in my list. As much I loved Henry Roth's "Call It Sleep" as much I couldn't end a book of Saul Bellow, and I tried, I really tried.

You know that some of you out there don't believe in the relevance of cables for the sound quality, so I am ready to ignore all the posts who will mock this thread. Since I am against censorship you'll allowed to do any comment. It happened I changed home, and gears' disposition so I could use shorter loudspeakers' cables. Instead of cutting and retip them, I changed them. I bought a pair of HARMONIX. Well, I couldn't believe to my ears, after an afternoon of listening, my gears sound incredibly better. It's just perfect, bass, drums, ecc, at their places, sounding as they should sound. Pure Clean Music, from Led Zeppelin to Bach. I don't know if I were particulary lucky because the cables matched perfectly the other stuff I have, but... Well, to make short a long story, and to avoid all the audiophile's bullshits and description, I am extremely happy with them. I didn't try yet their other products, interconnects, ecc, but I think I will borrow some other cables from my dealer in the future and listen to them. So if you are looking for cables, my suggestion is giving to HARMONIX a chance if you can. Take it as a suggestion from a friend, plain and simple. P.S. I am not involved in their business. website: http://www.combak.net/

THE ARTISTRY OF FREDDY HUBBARD (Impulse! mono)

Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint". Absolutely Brilliant! One the funniest book, without being trivial, I read in the last years. After this one I will head to the closest bookshop to buy some more of his works.

He was an artist, that's the right place to post this. RIP

and you listened to him? if you drink nothing for a week or so, you will need to see your doctor again. Please let us know whether he has other ideas up his sleeve. The list of banned food from his sleeves is so long that I will spare you the time to read it.