Senor Bob Dylan played a gig here at the Aladdin Theater last week, with Merle Haggard as the opening act.

The billing and promotional imagery was much like that of Rolling Thunder tour of 1975, which was a good first sign.

Merle was killer, with a seven piece band behind him - in a loose and happy mood.

We sat right in front of the mixing station, one foot in front of their mixing guy, and the sound was nearly hi-fi.

The system actually imaged! I find that a rare sensation at an amplified arena show.

This is posted under analog by default - there's no Misc catagory.

It seems that people are often going on about what they, or someone else can or cannot hear, and what it caused me to wonder is how good people think they can hear.

This might end up being the same as asking a person to rate their own intelligence...

I just sent uncle sam and his local relative over $8000! I could have bought another 4m pair of Purist Dominus for that!!!

He sure has become my least favorite relative.

From John Marks: A BIG Ad with some familiar music: www.bigad.com.au/movie.html . Great stuff, beer.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile