I go to Germany every summer to teach at a Classical Guitar festival.
I got an email from Lufthansa re the sale.

Dallas to Dusseldorf in August (high season) for 2,300.
To put this in perspective, Luft. has no 1st class on these flights cause their Bus. class is just as good:
Motorized seats with massage that make into a bed.

I am interested in buying a decibel meter. Not just for the stereo, also for a guitar amp. I see some as cheap as $50 and some over $200.

Are there differences in accuracy, or is this feature driven? I don't see using it often, so I'd like to stay cheap if there is no reason to go expensive.

Thoughts?

I just finished reading a (Norwegian) test of the jawdropping Marten Design Coltrane speakers. Somebody please lend me 48.000 Euro pronto!

Stephen Mejias has the guts to defy the disapproval of the rest of the tribe and tell the world he wants a cassette deck because he wants to hear music that's available only on that format. I salute him because....well, mainly because I'm kind of like him.

As I have mentioned in another thread, I have recently gone from having lots of gauge to much less from my amp speaker terminals to my speakers. My reason for doing so was that the two (different brand) cables, even though the exact same length, did not sound the same. I listened carefully before changing the cables, in order to compare them. One (unnamed multi-strand 7*AWG22) cable smeared the HF, and the other (unnamed solid core AWG18) was a born bi-wiring cable, which provided a better soundstage, LF and HF. Together the two cables provided good LF but a smeared soundstage.

One of the daddies in my wife's mommies group is an oddsmaker for a sports book in town.

In general, oddsmakers establish a betting point for an event that will generate as close to equal betting on either side of a proposition - and the house makes money from what they rake rather than making money by betting against a given outcome. Less risk that way.

He's been watching the betting on the Super Bowl and says that there is a huge load of small action on the Colts, but right now the focused, large bets arfe being laid down for the Saints.

http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.ph...ather+Statement

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LOOKING BACK AT THE BIGGEST STORM OF RECORD FOR WASHINGTON DC... THE JANUARY 1922 KNICKERBOCKER STORM...28.0 INCHES OF SNOW WAS PRODUCED FROM 3.02 INCHES OF LIQUID WATER.

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Innocently channel surfing the other day I stumbled upon Katy Perry's recently released unplugged performance.

Not really a huge pop music lover, but this performance is a very intimate one and of course being MTV Unplugged acoustic in nature.

I picked up the cd/dvd combo at the local Best Buy for $11.99 and highly recommend it even if you don't like pop music. It is a very emotional involving performance.

If you like Tomasz Stanko give a listen to the Italian trumpet player Paolo Fresu. The recording by Carla Bley "The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu" on the Watts/ECM label is a good place to start.

In addition you may also enjoy some of Stanko earlier recordings, such as the 1997 recording on ECM "Litania: The Music of Krzysztof Komeda". Another CD filled with beautiful and haunting music. And of course don't forget to try any of the recordings Stanko made with Komeda back in the 19609's such as "Astigmatic".

I have a Cayin tube amp that uses Chinese 6N6 tubes - does anyone know of a replacement NOS tube that would work as an upgrade?

Many thanks,

Bill