Everything We Thought We Knew About the Sun Is Now Out of Date

Everything We Thought We Knew About the Sun Is Now Out of Date

The Japanese orbiting solar observatory Hinode has captured startling images of the Sun's outer limb and giant magnetic field loops crashing down into its surface. "Where astronomers expected to see a calm region called the chromosphere, they saw a seething mass of swaying spikes."

Touchstone

Touchstone

It's a good thing for us that Jeremy Denk got restless at a concert recently. One thought led to another, he rushed home to check out a CD he thought linked to his thoughts, and the next thing we know, he's deep into an analysis of the chorale in Beethoven's "Spring" sonata (No. 5 in F, Op. 24).

B&W 802D vs. B&W N802

I mean't to ask what changed between the B&W N802 which I believe was originally rated a class A restricted LF speaker vs. the B&W 802D which is currently rated in the class A with no such restriction. I know the integration between the HF and mid has improved, but I don't remember reading why the LF would have greatly improved given the LF speaker modules haven't changed.

New Quads unreliable?

My father is on his 2nd set of Quad ESL 2905s already.
The 1st set had a panel failure, and also one speaker kept triggering his McIntosh amp (MC501s) protection/distorting then recovered and played same track again without fault.
His 2nd pair also has one unit that triggers protection, yet played fine for a fortnight once spades were fitted.
Now speaker regular & intermittently causes amp to fault (and to whichever mono amp it is connected.)
Quad have offered a replacement set, but there is no guarantee that these will resolve the problem.

S + K + A = "E"

Aloha!

Feelin' chatty today.

Last Friday night went with Big Mike, Mrs. Big Mike, and another friend to see English Beat at the House of Blues.

I'm a bit of an "audience aficionado," and this crowd was as friendly as an ecstasy crowd.

Ecstasy crowds tend to be friendly, talkative, accommodating, and polite. When you try carrying a couple of drinks through an "E" crowd, people actually try to help make room and say nice things, like "Cool show," or "How ya doing?"

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