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Meanwhile more ECM from Keswick Collectables : The track 'Arion' is extremely good, just listening to that now. The use of fretless bass is very much to be applauded.

Well that's two from my top 20 of all time already !

Meteorite impact ?

Flat and punchy is fine - it can't be expected to have much tone if it's only working over one octave or 1.5 octaves - Nick and I had pretty good results with it driven by miniDSP together with the Mk2 folded horn ( I think ) and I would expect more improvement with a longer upper-bass/mid horn. It ...

Wow - you're not kidding !
But they do look heroic, which is very fitting.

All the best Ray, must be awful for your wife, hope she can get through the worst of it soon.

Somewhat spookily, I just spotted a very interesting comment from Steve Schell ( via 'Hollowboy' ) about horn subs ( post #15 ) , which backs up everything I was saying about the flare rate for my upper bass horn :
https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/subwoof ... rns-2.html

I remember Guys horns too, they were very dry for my taste, good for classical/operatic music. From what I remember they didn’t go too low. Now for bottom end it was Pete’s ( I should coco) system , that came a couple of years later, with the wall of bass drivers which had more realism. I am probab...

Good info, thanks Steve and I agree with you re. amps, especially from mids upwards where the compression drivers really demand low distortion at low signal levels. Don’t know if you’ve seen this Mark, thought it might be of interest- http://zero-distortion.org/diy-horns/ Thanks, not sure if I've se...

This album is just great. First play last night. I had my eye on it for EBay but found a copy with a nice disc in the shop in Keswick.
Great ensemble playing, Nils' exemplary guitar and piano work, and his vocals I really like - very 'un-rock', a nice antidote to eg. Robert Plant !

Shop in Keswick continues to exceed expectations. The Nils Lofgren 'bootleg' album I was looking for, as if by magic, appears - got this for about £25 . Disc excellent, just needs a clean, one or two light scratches & relatively few spindle-marks. Cover is split at the bottom edge, hence bargain pri...

Flooding or squatters ?

"We are not worthy"

Well...first listening tests show that ... it's not that good :roll: It's a small increment on, vs. the last build, but it hasn't done the 'thing' I wanted in the upper bass. It sounds like it's properly loaded the lower mids, in fact the mids overall sound really good, but it's not quite got the 's...

I have no idea what was going on with the picture-inserting routine there - couldn't get it right. Hopefully you can try & match the captions to the pictures. Here's the last one that wouldn't load :