Was this said about the previous administration or the current one...

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"Quite frankly, I'm tiring of politicians using national security issues such as terrorism as a political football," ... "They are going out there. They're unknowing of the facts. And they're making charges and allegations that are not anchored in reality."

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Hi all, was wondering if anyone has heard the new version five of Paradigm's Studio 100 speaker. I curently own the version two which have been great for about nine years in my system and was wondering if the new changes were worthy of upgrading to the version five. It seems the new speakers have curved enclosures, and the midrange driver went from a 6.5 inch to a 7 inch aluminum driver. They also decreased the size of the woofers from 8.5 inches in the version two to seven inches in the new speaker but they added one more driver so there is three 7 inch woofers instead of two 8.5 inchers.

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.