Don't forget that blowing through the mute requires extra effort. Not unlike plugging-in another amp.

... I like the jazz. Miles Davis in particular.
I looked without delight twice, for the french curve "Timesaver #26" although I'm not here to bitch or anything... very interesting Vitruvius

Aye, Glasnost, and for those who are wondering, here is the
referant of Marc's Timesaver #26 French Curve comment ;-)

HILARIOUS Video: “Protect Yo’ Cheddah” w/ Greenberg & Greenberg

By Debbie Schlussel

Don’t drink coffee (or anything else) while watching this.

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/

Re: The schematic ... Just as I figured!

So Vitruvius, where do the human ears go in that schematic? :-)

Either everywhere, Dave, or in the Koss Pro-4AA Headphones
node, depending on whether or not invoking the power amplifiers
would incur my neighbours' wrath at this time of day ;-)

dbx!!!!!

A true Hi Fi Geek!

Michael Moriarty concludes that Barack Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize...and vice-versa.

"The Nobel committee's illusions of peace"

Very nice selection!

I've always been partial to Eva Cassidy, to those who are unfamiliar with her work, I strongly advise you check her stuff out. Her version of "Fields of Gold" is quite incredible.

Here is her Autumn Leaves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55p8JHjSACw

Tragically early death from melanoma at age 33

Daniel - thanks for posting that. Kinds of cut thru to the heart of the matter, I would say.

Nice to see someone else owns a DBX500.

Should be "Technics", not "Techniques" for your turntable and cassette.

People seem to be touchy about that Frenchy stuff around here... ;)

CTV disguises reality:

syncrodox.blogspot.com

Syncro

Remember when Obama scoffed when asked what he thought of Americas exceptionalism?

http://www.pjtv.com/video/Afterburner_with_Bill_Whittle/Bill_Maher%2C_Barack_Obama_and_the_Truth_About_American_Exceptionalism/2378/

Two Sansui AU7500s yet. Dear God, man.
And here I felt just silly with my AU777 and TU777
becuse I only use them as a, um ... stereo.
Always happy to see someone worse-off than me!

Goreacle shoots, eats crow, leaves autumn.
...-

"Biggest news you’ve never heard: Earth isn’t warming"

"Taken together, what does it all mean?

“Climate change — no matter how benign or severe a course it takes — makes legislating during the 21st century one of the most complicated and complex tasks for elected officials in human history,” writes Morgan Josey Glover in the Greensboro, N.C., News-Record newspaper."
urlm.in/depn
...-

"Climate Myths and National Security

Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

The President of the United States recently told the United Nations that "global warming" poses a threat to national security and may engender conflicts as populations are displaced by rising sea levels, droughts, floods, storms etc. etc. etc. However, it is now clear that there is no basis for the notion that the barely-detectable human influence on the climate is likely to prove a threat to climate, still less to national security.

The first principle to which any national security advisor must adhere is that of objective truth. Though he must have an understanding of politics, he is not a politician: he is a truth-bearer. Therefore, he begins by narrowing down the issue to a single, central question whose answer determines whether the suggested threat is real. He then tries to find the truthful answer to that question, and draws his conclusion from that."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360445/posts
...-

"Scientists Rebut Claim That Man Causes Climate Change"
urlm.in/depo

Goreacle's Skeleton Footprint: Canadian chocolate* and green fingernails.

AGW fraud exposed.

AGW buried in PET Cemetery.

AGW bammed**.
...-

BBC announces death of AGW:

"What happened to global warming?

his headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stm
...-

*"Chocolate makes Earth worth saving

So says Bronwyn Heighton, Green Kid"

* >>> "Bronwyn, who was flown to Toronto last week for a ceremony to mark the start of the panel’s work."

"Bronwyn Heighton’s fingernails match the way she lives: green.

And not in a subtle way.

The Grade 5 Beaverbank Monarch Drive Elementary School student is one of 10 children between eight and 13 selected to be on the Sunlight Green Clean Kids panel, and she’s the only one in Atlantic Canada.

Bronwyn learned recycling from her parents and said her father is so vigilant he only produces one bag of garbage a month.

"I want to save the environment a lot, because we don’t want to be living in a dump," the 10-year-old said Saturday."

http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1147013.html

(** H/T Liberal Kyoto Dionky)

*"they're going to have to crawl back,".

They are the Liberal Ignatieffs.

MSM is all a-twitter with free advice, lifesavers, prayers, novenas even, hailmarys, etc., for their PET Party.

But, pollster says, and they know all, see all: "*"they're going to have to crawl back,".

From the PET Cemetery? How? Why?

Let the dead bury their dead.
...-

*Libs concerned about drop in polls, afraid of 'Conservative attack machine'
But other Liberals say they're positioned for the next while to provide good opposition.
By HARRIS MACLEOD"

http://www.thehilltimes.ca/page/view/libs_concerned_drop_polls-10-12-2009

Well written and passionate piece by Norman Lord Tebbitt on current responses to terrorism:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6303778/Will-we-ever-learn-from-the-Brighton-bomb.html

The debauchment/corruption of youth by the Red-Greens.

The message is bannered there; the message will not be repeated here.

Courtesy of Lizzy May (background here*).

Get a screenshot now.

http://youth.greenparty.ca/en/

Wiki:
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_May

Warning: May has been caught editing wiki.

"News Edmonton

Missing snowmobiler may have fallen through ice on Sandy Beach Lake"

http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2009/10/12/11375866-sun.html

Vit

the set up is perfect for watching "the Wizard of Oz" and syncronizing Pink Floyds "Dark Side of the Moon" as the alternative sound track. a great project , most of it lines up anyway. use the MGM lion as the needle cue.

A remarkable analysis on the economic front.

“Obama fails to win Nobel prize in economics”

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/obama-fails-to-win-nobel-prize-in-economics-2009-10-12

something for the audiophile

http://gethighnow.com/audio-highs/

Support for banning handguns continues to fall in America: Public support for a ban on handguns has fallen to 28%, the lowest level in nearly 50 years.

http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14632169&source=features_box_main

Chavez says Obama did "nothing" to deserve Nobel:
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE59A1MU20091011

I agree with CHAVEZ! A sure sign of the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse...

Chicago Cubs file for bankruptcy. Also, the Chicago Transit Authority raises fares a couple of years after the Mayor of Chicago pays $750 million to renovate Soldier Field for da Bears.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/chicago-transit-authority-hike-train-fares-30-300-2010

Congrats on the Nobel Prize nomination in Literature Kate, just noticed. Glad I wasn't drinking coffee.

A blast from the PET Cemetery.
Tommy Who?
...-

"Feds sued over secret Tommy Douglas file"
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2009/10/12/11378521-cp.html

CanPress is the wanna-be gravedigger.

Warning to CanPress:

You may find a passle of skeletons, among them, e.g.:

Tommy Douglas: National Socialist.

"The Greatest Canadian?
11 Mar 2006 ... After Hitler showed the world how eugenics would work out in practice, ... Would the victors, perhaps having read Tommy Douglas's thesis,"
www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=35201

Vitruviue:

I don't understand your technology. You're providing your viewers with a link to Youtube and a host of various performances, that I enjoy very much. Howevah! What does the DBX have to do with that??

If you follow my link supra to Marc's nudiustertian comment, Joe, you will find that he asked whether or not my studio stereophonic set-up is as eclectic as my selections and B.Sc.(EE) might indicate? It was in answer to that question that I supplied the schematic drawing, and you must admit that the DBX 500 is nothing if not eclectic ;-)

Eclectic is maybe 1 word for it haha.

Well Vitruvius, I do enjoy the eclectic mix of odd and unusual tunes. What I found most captivating however, was the inclusion of an HP-67? Surely now, you are not actually using ancient technology in these days of wikis and iphones?

Good on ya, if you are.

Ah. Just found your collection of templates. Have a few of those myself! Your educational background obviously parallels mine, and your interests similar.

Definitely - good on ya.

Thanks!! I had a host of electronic equipment when I was a "younger" kid. My favorite was a Shortwave-Fm-Am-8-track-cassette-Quadraphonic stereo that I put together using a "Zenith Allegro" and a "Radio Shack" amp, among other equipment.