Naim Audio - You have trashed my bank account!!!

Sounds like a case of "music in, money out". Looking forward to the pictures of the lovely grain on those "Deebles". Have you got them, and how do they sound?

Warm-up music suggestions: Fila Brazillia (A Touch of Cloth), Leggo Beast (From Here to G), Possum Dixon (Possum Dixon), Lynrrd Skynrrd, Steve Vai (Alien Love Secrets), Leftfield (Leftism).

That should loosen off those cones nicely.

Alternatively, you could try the Grease Soundtrack

Andrew

Andrew Randle
2B || !2B;
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Andrew, no I haven't got them yet, they are currently 'on-soak' at Naim. I'm going to Salisbury on Wednesday to have a look and take a photo of them (insurance purposes, nothing more anal I'm afraid) so if you wish I'll upload it to the forum. I've burned the Grease CD.

Trevor, yes Led Zep on Classic Records vinyl I have them waiting. PS Classic Records are doing a Led Zep 1 to 4 vinyl box set with 'Whole Lotta Love' cut as 12" 45 rpm single. Sounds promising.

Johnathon, I didn't play you the really mad Dub Syndicate either. Yet another thing to play I suppose. Michelle's Madonna CDs could go missing in the mid-Atlantic you know. PS Has the M*n* showed up yet?

Frankly I am jealous - DBL's! New speakers are definately in my future but until then please feel free to spin the following for me. They wil also have the added benefit of running your DBL's in.

1) Movement - Perpetual Drum and Bass motion (compliation mixed by Ray Keith and Bryan Gee)

2) Essential Rewindz - On the Renegade Hardware label (another compilation mixed by Grooverider)

3) Danny Howells - Nubreed Global Underground (White Cover with a picture of him on it). This is deep deep house but none of that cheesey Radio One nonsense

4) Danny Tengala - Global Underground in London. The last time I played track 3 on CD2 on a pair of DBL's (with a six pack) the owner was shocked. He thought he was clubbing in Fabric.

5) Kemistry and Storm - DJ Kicks compilatio

and for when you are chilling out and not dancing in front of the speakers try out if you don't have these already:

6) Ragas and Sagas - Jan Gabarek and the Musicians from Pakistan (on ECM).

7) Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus - by you guess it Charles Mingus.

8) The All Seeing Eye - Wayne Shorter

9) Anything by Cleveland Watkiss.

Please avoid anything by that overhypped artist Talvin Singh it is utter pants, better to get some Fun-da-mental. Or try and get that David Holmes compliation with all those cool Ananda Shankar tracks.

Respect!

Dev

Or perhaps not.

If I see Jaybar, I will convey your best wishes.

At the same time, I will try to find a US beer that is not p*ss poor. A thorough in-depth appraisal of this area is planned. As a sideline I will also check out Mick Parry's thesis of 'Billy Joel on a Dansette while drunk is comparible to The Meters on a 3x500/DBL set-up while sober'. If proven correct, I can then go into bars and ask the barman to 'Upgrade me' and see what happens.

I better take my wife with me to the bar as you never know what happens in a bar when asking to be 'Upgraded'.

I feel a Amazon session coming on.

I've also dumped some money on Jawed's electronica recommendations and Autechre.

Dev, I think a date with DBLs is imminent for you judging by your music tastes and system. You only have to decide whether to go the 'Slaphead' route - 500/SBL or the 'Mullet' route - 135s/DBL. I went Mullet as its damned funky and I prefer the scale, volume and depth of bass that the 'Mullet' provides. For me, a 500 is a few years off but nonetheless required. Having said that 500/SBL should be pretty smoking too....

Well our friends in the west see no irony in 'Its Miller Time' as it means the same as it does here, i.e. ' There's nothing left in fridge except Miller and I can't be arsed going around the off-license/liquor store. Miller it is then'.

Micro breweries are good, and Sam Adams tastes of something, and in fact tastes of something quite good, so there is hope.

I will experiment with Mick's theory of beer/music by seeing how much I enjoy progressively worse music as I drink more. I have a copy of 'Billy Joel's Greatest Hits' behind sealed glass with hammer next to it in case I manage to down 26 pints of 'heavy' and still live.

My wife doesn't smoke so luckily the chances of asking for a cigarette yet receiving a strap-on cock and a homosexual prostitute in a Ben Hill like mix-up are vague.

Meanwhile....

i will offer to run in your DBL's for you -- for FREE.

enjoy...

ken

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My wife doesn't smoke so luckily the chances of asking for a cigarette yet receiving a strap-on cock and a homosexual prostitute in a Ben Hill like mix-up are vague.

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I see your wife doesn't read the forum.... I get the feeling quite a few wives don't read the forum.

Andrew

Andrew Randle
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4 ^ = ?;

Having said that she knows all about the DBL's arrival. There little chance of me sneaking DBLs in and saying 'look honey the SBLs have grown'. So, I'm partially in the good-books.

Ken C, thank you for your kind offer. Unfortunately, I will have to pass on this occasion due my selfishness.

If you do come across something that approaches European standards (even Belguim or German whould be exceptable, I hold no hope for English) then please let me know. I am off to Houston TX, once again, for two weeks of 'lots of piss (poor) beer' (on expensives mind you) and Sam Adams just doesn't do it for me anymore, it's the way they serve it from a very cold fridge into a arctic conditoned tankard just does me every time - the novelty of floating ice in beer wears off rather quickly.

However, the STEAK, hmmmmmmm.

Matthew

davep

Hey David How about those Blues!!!? The trade deadline moves paid off. Physical play was the missing ingredient but they seem to have increased the blood on the ice quotient.

John
I was a season ticket holder during the Mike Keenan years.

A season ticket holder during the Mike Keanan years? Wow. I don't know of a single coach who has pissed off so many great players. Wasn't he the reason Gretzky left?

It's nice to see St. Louis crush Dallas. The Zubov blunder was particularly gratifying. And didn't Tchachuk have eyes on the back of his head in that play...It was a very good to great trade and gives St. Louis that one extra piece to make them a legit contender. With Colorado stumbling anything could happen.

I am an edmonton fan, so I would have prefered to see them take Dallas. Edmonton just needs a little more experience and one more sniper (Jani Rita, player of the tournament at the world juniors in December is Oiler property).

As for new speakers, my ACT 2s are soaring!

daveÿ

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American beer is dreadful but up here near Ann Arbor the microbreweries are good

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Eh, microbreweries aren't just limited to Canada, dontcha know.

Cheers

Keith.

(figuring out how to send a bottle of Anchor Steam Liberty Ale as an email attachment)

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(figuring out how to send a bottle of Anchor Steam Liberty Ale as an email attachment)

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How to send a bottle of Anchor Steam Liberty Ale as an email attachment.

1. Consume a bottle of Anchor Steam Liberty Ale - preferably while listening to music on your Naim hi-fi.

2. Repeat step 1 until the room begins to sway, ever so gently. This indicates that the ale's amazing reality-modulating properties are beginning to have an effect.

3. Switch on your PC. Before continuing, please do check that it is your PC, and not the TV, the rotisserie or the washing machine.

4. Run Outlook Express or whichever email program you use.

5a. In the unlikely event that you can still read, select "options" and switch from "2d attachments only" to "3d attachments" - isn't it amazing how you missed this option before?

5b. If, on the other hand, you are inexplicably unable to read anything then don't worry, for luck is on your side today - don't you just feel lucky? All you have to do is press keys at random, and with your amazing luck you'll switch from 2d mode to 3d mode in no time at all.

6. Switch your scanner from 2d to 3d mode, and place the ale on the scanner surface - preferably still in its bottle.

7. Scan and send. Do first make sure that your recipient has their email program set to 3d mode -things can get awfully messy otherwise. If the recipient is unable to switch to 3d mode, a crate of Anchor Steam Liberty Ale with the above instructions should do the trick...

--Jeremy

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Run Outlook Express or whichever email program you use

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Hi Sproggle,

Funny you should mention it; I've been trying to work with Outlook to do this. The problem is that they use the COORS compression protocol, which as you can tell from the results, is a "lossy" compression.

I also tried using ZIP compression, but the beer leaks through the zipper.

Cheers

Keith.

Any chance of that photo yet as I am intrigued to se what the DBL's look like in rosewood, as the black finish made them a little like a large cheap wardrobe from MFI (in my opinion) they sound damn good though ))

Scott