--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <richard@...> wrote: > > > Nothing surprises me much anymore. Rita and I went over to visit > friends the other day and I took along an audio CD of our band > playing at a local club. Unfotunately the guy didn't have a home > stereo (he's an eye doctor, go figure), so we had to put the music > CD in the DVD player and listen to it through the flat-screen TV's > speakers.
What sort of stuff do you play Willy? I can picture you with maraccas. > Needless to say the sound really sucked! > > From what I've read here, this is not unusual. One list informant > watches movies on his laptop computer; another apparently lugs > around an external hard drive with his stuff on it. > > One guy I know has hundreds of audio CDs all piled up in a closet > inside a whirling plastic CD rack - he takes a flashlight in there > with him - one time he was in there for ten minutes looking for a > tune to play (there's no AC in there). LoL! > > My first stereo system back in 1962 was a Sherwood reciever with > Advent speakers and an AR turntable with a Shure M95E cartridge. > The only problem was I couldn't turn up the volume much because > of the neighbors. Go figure. I've only got headphones now (sigh). I do miss a bit of weight with my Zeppelin but I made up for it by getting a really good pair of Sennheisers and a dedicated valve headamp. > These days, I'm still using the Yamaha separate rack components I > got back in 1995 at Doc Holliday's Pawn Shop in Austin. Now that > I'm in the country, I like to occasionaly crank it up and play dance > tunes in the barn. > > The Yamaha basic amplifier puts out 250 watts per channel in > stereo with less than .00001% total harmonic distortion. With that > kind of power I need some really robust speakers, so I moved up > from Advents to floor-standing JBLs. > > What's unique about my system is the the ability to play vinyl > recordings. For audiophile HI-Fi I use the Sansui fitted with the > Grado cartridge tracking under 2.0 grams. > > Equipment profile: > > Sansui SR 929 Quartz Servo Direct Drive Turntable > > Yamaha Natural Sound > > MX 800 Basic Amplifier > C65 Pre Amplifier > TX 900 FM/FM Tuner > KX-W900U Casste Deck > SR 929 DVD-CD Player > > http://youtu.be/lh6uNblb6Ho <http://youtu.be/lh6uNblb6Ho> > > <http://youtu.be/lh6uNblb6Ho> I think you should post a video of you dancing, might change our opinion of you, round you out so to speak....
