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Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid A wonderfully recorded album, devoid of the loudness war nonsense that plagues many modern records. This is my favourite album from the Manchester lads and features a guest appearance from Richard Hawley. I never understood why they didn't attract a much larger audience.

One of his best.

BANG!! done

In memoriam.....

In between the hail and heat and cooking flathead in the kitchen it's been the big suit guy.

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros, Live at Acton Town hall One of the last gig's by Joe ,with Mick Jones joining him for three songs. Was prepared to be disappointed by this live recording but music and sound are great.

Hey guys, Dont see much JVC threads around here, not much projector activity at all? Would like to hear from new 7 or 9 series JVC owners, let me know your thoughts, what have you upgraded from, more importantly how good is the sample you received?? Me, I just got my 9900 a couple days ago, it was meant to be replacing my 9500, and lets just say I am extremely happy I had not offloaded my 9500 as yet, I was able to stack them and do a shootout as long as I wished, they are still there now, I run both at the same time, cover the IR port on one machine, hit HIDE on the remote, then uncover the IR port, from then, every time I hit hide on the one remote (which controls both machines) they instantly switch within mere milliseconds. Anyway, aside from Eshift 5 offering almost nothing, clear black Low/Off is certainly a higher quality difference than the difference between eshift 4 and 5, it seems I pretty much have a bad 9900 sample in regards to its lens and panel alignment. I am going through the process right now to try and have my unit swapped as essentially unaccaptable and see how I go with sample #2. If I still dont like that, I am going to wash my hands of the 9900 this round and keep my apparantly stellar sample of my 9500. Here are my lens comparisons. Keep in mind my DSLR lens is close to the screen here, so the focal plane is small, pay attention only to the center line portion of the images as they are in focus on my camera, so the vertical lines and the middle area should be ok to look at. Left side of screen: X9500 X9900 Right side of screen: X9500 X9900 Left side of screen, both projectors at the same time. Convergence, X9900 right side only - left side is stellar: What happens when I correct the convergence with zone alignment... This is a single 1080p pixel horizontal line pattern, gee this artefact looks SUPER familiar X9900 X9500 with normal panel alignment: Obviously the 9900 can show that screen as clear grey too, but if I want panel alignment to be correct, I get artefacts, yay! Here is real content, top corner of screen showing the real world lens difference with content on the screen: X9500 X9900

Speaking of Elbow...... Suppose I better get out the vinyl and listen to it on my new Legend Kantu 9's !!!!!!!!! Got them on Wednesday, thanks to CAV for getting them delivered to me direct. Yes, Mirrorball does sound allright. Decided to get the Fuji XE2 and take some reasonably better snaps than my phone......special event. Thanks to fellow netters for advice, very satisfied. Matt

I have seen many versions of installations of these speakers an many homes. Krix is a very popular brand,. It is Australian, the guys actually know what they are doing, they have very good experience in doing real movie theatres and it is accessible to the public and installers via Harvey Norman. I have been in a 2 story house where they were installed and could not hear them from the bottom floor - I dont know the full details of their installation. IMO it depends a lot of the level you are going to run them at and the material on the floor of the second level. $800 is a lot of money, I agree. I hope the alternatives you are implementing works. Please keep us up to date.

Wow I just finished listening to this!

I think Bylbo's might be easier as they're a bit closer but if you like sun,sand,fishing and the enjoyment of one set of traffic lights in the whole town(beer, roasted macadamia nuts and a nonchalant attitude towards what constitutes entertainment and we can sit and watch them change!) your most welcome. One chair listening room and very little popular music(ask evil) but excellent beer choices and of course fresh fish 4 T, none of your pulled pig up here though mate.

Agree the 45 2 LP release is awesome - Mirrorball cranked up is brilliant!

If you have the budget and room for Dynaboxes then that's your solution. I've used them on 2x in-ceiling rears and sat inside the ceiling with the rears running flat out and there was - ZERO - noise bleed.

What would we do without IKEA and Bunnings hacks!

Not really audio diy but but diy for the HT room. Knocked up a wall hanging for the HT room today out of 6mm mdf and some spare LEDs. House Stark sigil back lit with the leds.

Fats Domino - Little School Girl Domino was present in the audience of 2,200 people at Elvis Presley's first concert at the Las Vegas Hilton on July 31, 1969. At a press conference after the show, when a journalist referred to Presley as "The King", Presley gestured toward Domino, who was taking in the scene. "No," Presley said, "that's the real king of rock and roll." Fats Domino, the amiable rock 'n' roll pioneer whose steady, pounding piano and easy baritone helped change popular music, has died aged 89. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-26/rock-and-roll-pioneer-fats-domino-dead-at-89/9086790

And a few from Oman 1986/7.

Kenny Burrell ‎ A Generation Ago Today. Verve Records ‎ V6-8656 US 1967.

Item: Technics SL 1200 Mk2 Location: Brunswick, Melbourne Price: $800 Item Condition: very good Reason for selling: upgrade Payment Method: Pickup - Cash Extra Info: Turntable is in great condition and has been well looked after. Serviced back in January and used very little since. Cartridge and stylus are like new. Pictures:

A great amplifier at a crazy low price. I have one of these with the matching X-Ray CD player and the combination is stunning. It is a wide open,spacious and energetic sound with really good detail and has no problems at all with relatively insensitive speakers and/ or 3-4 ohm loads. For $350 you would be nutso to not buy it.

Collin Walcott ‎ Cloud Dance. ECM Records ‎ ECM 1062 ST Germany 1976.

Radiohead - In Rainbows What can I say about this record that hasn't been said before? Um. Um. Um. FBI have a new program called For The Record where the presenters play an entire record. In Rainbows was the choice this week and I only heard the first few songs - and through a crappy car system to boot. Thankfully I've had time to rectify that tonight. Currently listening to Videotape - I love Philip Selway's drumming on this; the way it organically falls apart is pure genius. It has been pointed out to me by @ferchersan that he was heavily inspired by Autechre (can't recall the particular song). I love it regardless.

the dynabox cost what they do because they are quite ingenious devices in giving a full enclosure that can retrofit and why cost what they do. as per kaynins post above. we can be watching a movie down stairs and kids fast asleep upstairs which says a lot. there youtube videos I've seen showing how effective. as mentioned dynamat is really just something that is like old lead lining and adds mass to light thin sheet metal panels of a car. I have always used on my cars as well where adding car audio its a must. but it works differently in increasing mass of the sheet metal to stop drumming. i.e. vibrating not only from noise of the speakers but also road noise. its sound deadening. another brand of it is be quiet ultimate or brown bread as it used to be known. slang for dead. you can get acoustic bats definitely if going that way make sure you stuff them well around the speakers

Oh goody--a new entry in the Ugly Stick contest.

Item: airy3 Location:Melb Price: $2500 Item Condition: new in box Reason for selling: surplus Payment Method: Pickup - Cash, Paypal, COD Only Extra Info: guys. this is a brand new Airy3 i have for sale . it is Australain delivery unit . Pictures:

So this below post, from another forum is actually my first thoughts, before I did any of the calibration and comparisons above... Still interesting, the eshift stuff is closesly looked at here... ---- I am disappointed overall, and its mainly a gut feeling though, a few things stand out, but it seems to gain a couple steps in one area we give up one or two steps in another area.. I am torn on weather I will keep this projector. There, got that out of the way. Here is what my shelf looks like right now... Eshift buzz is definitely reduced since when I first turned it on, it sounded dead set like an electric razor at first, by the end of the night, 4 hours later it was about the same volume as my old unit, unless you put your ear right up to the 9900 and then the frequency was a bit different. No big deal here. The 5 seconds improve sync time in Low Lag mode is very nice. 11.8s in low lag mode ON, 16.8s Low Lag mode off for a 4k Desktop to appear. Turns out this lens is not as sharp as my 9500, once I studied all the corners of the lens it was clear it wasn't quite as sharp. My 9500 lens is pretty much pin sharp in all the corners, this 9900 lens appeared to be, but when I had both projectors stacked, they were both super sharp in the center, but the 9900 slightly less so, and was a couple clicks less sharp on the corners and this could not exactly be brought in line with the sharpness of the center. Both of these lenses though are still far out sharper than my X7000 lens ever was, so I would still say both these lenses are excellent and would quality for hand selection for the 9XXX series projectors, its just that my old one is better than the other. However because the left side has perfect convergence, the pixel delineation appears to be stronger, however the focus grid is sharper on the X9500 in person, no doubt about it.. X9900 X9500 The chromatic aberration on the right side of the lens I have come to decide is unacceptable. I think this will be the basis of at least exchanging this unit to try another sample. While the 2/3rds of the left hand side are perfect, I would actually prefer if the panel alignment was out, that it be out by a consistent amount across the whole screen, my last two JVC's were both exactly 1 pixel blur out vertically, which is easy fix, this would require zone alignment and I am not doing that with an MSRP $10k projector. EShift 5 with text is better than EShift 4, but in real data in video, I am not sure it can be seen at all. My X9900 is DIMMER than my X9500 is right now at 700 hours. I'll let that sink in for a moment. I have to run the X9900 on iris -9 and contrast -2 to brightness match the X9500 currently at iris -10 contrast -1. This is a shame, because my X9500 was at least 10% brighter than this when it was new and has dimmed itself since new. So the 9900 starting out where it is, its not looking good here. There is some ugly super warm colour temp cast over just the menu screen, the X9500 menu screen looks like a correct calibrated almost 18% grey menu, I don't know how else to say that. I did calibrate both grey-scales on the projectors, there still seems to be a slight colour difference on screen however despite very quick cal, the menu doesn't seem to be affected by calibration at all, so that ugly red bias grey menu seems there to stay... HDMI SYNC TIMES: When Low Latency mode is on, my projector was syncing in 11.8 seconds for a 4k desktop image to appear, and 16.8 seconds when Low Latency mode is off. Thats also a repeatable 5 seconds quicker than the 9500 was generally. All modes seem to be between 2-3 seconds quicker syncing vs the 9500 when low latency mode is off. LOW LATENCY MODE: This seems like it needs to be left ON at all times, at least on my unit, its sharper with it, there is some effed up blur ghosting artefact with Low Latency off, yes you read that right, Low Latency needs to be on for sharpest image. Its totally odd but the pics don't lie. Perhaps my unit is misbehaving? It did come at default switched to On OOTB. EDIT - This has actually be corroborated by other owners, this may be a bug, but for best quality Low Latency must be off, oddly, cycling CMD on then off again removed the ghosting... but how long does that stick for? Perhaps on next power up the ghosting will be back, best to leave it ON. LOW LATENCY ON: LOW LATENCY OFF: Low Latency Roll over comparisons On / Off http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/121488 http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/121489 http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/121490 ESHIFT 5 DOES NOT HAVE LESS MOSQUITO NOISE THAN ESHIFT 4. It just doesn't. The fine buzzing noise with your face to the screen is identical on both models. Sorry to see this, it was one of the things I was hoping to see improved, for a calmer image, but no. Windows Desktop at 4k/ Still not native on either machine but no doubt the 9900 is getting closer to where it should be. X9500 X9900 Rollover http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/121495 Now for this, lets look at Eshift 5 vs 4. At first your eyes may be drawn to the vertical lines being far sharper with actual gaps between then on eshift 4 and you would be right, but look at the letters and words... eshift 5 kills it with high density 4k text. But it seems to give up something all the same while doing it... which is a lesser evil? I really don't know, I am truly torn here... CHROMA TEST X9500 X9900 http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/121753 X9500 X9900 Chroma Rollovers: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/121496 http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/121497

There are these: https://www.bunnings.com.au/whites-on-site-100-x-12-5mm-rubber-anti-vibration-mat-4-pack_p3961547 however I have also been using smaller ones found in the same section. They are about 3.5 cms square. Pack of 8 for under 5$. https://www.bunnings.com.au/whites-50-x-50-x-12mm-anti-vibration-squares-8-pack_p3961977

My firmware updated on the C7 a few days back and i now have the Technicolour preset.I played around with it a bit but after doing A/B comparisons with my ISF bright/dark room presets with various content i prefer to stick with them.Technicolour preset seems to have an over saturation of red compared to ISF which looks more natural.

good to know. will be grabbing this. Like the new avatar Shane..

Yep. I listed it a few weeks back. Very funky and lots of soul tracks. Really enjoyed it.

As seen on what digtal have you bought today *shameless proselytizing* https://www.stereo.net.au/forums/topic/124191-what-digital-have-you-bought-today /?page=3&tab=comments#comment-3777384 Bought these today playing Van the Man right now ahh.. the memories (Living in NZ in 1980 not 1960s memories though l am not quite that old)!

no words, just vision

A couple of photos I took whilst in the Falklands1983.

Nikon D750 + Nikkor 16-35 lens @ 16mm, f/8, ISO 400, 0/5 sec. After some recent rains I went to Natural Bridge on Sunday. Got there in the morning and the sky was clear which meant bright, harsh sunlight. No good. So I had headed up the range to nearby Springbrook National Park to check out some waterfalls, and came back in the late afternoon when the light was much better. This is a single shot, exposed for the waterfall, with the shadows brought up in Lightroom. Just an experiment really to see how the exposure would turn out. I wanted to take a pano but there was too much spray and I couldn't take multiple shots without the lens getting covered in droplets. Hopefully I'll be back when the water flow dies down a bit more. --Geoff

Now that sounds like a good plan - just got to find a spare Groß DAC. I have even sold my personal unit to a local that kept hounding me. Seriously though I will make a big effort to sneak one off the production line & get it to Melbourne in the not too distant future.

Item: Cambridge Audio CXA60 Integrated Amplifier Location: Upper Ferntree Gully, VIC Price: $850 non negotiable Item Condition: Excellent. Basically brand new physical condition with approx 1500 listening hrs. Looks and sounds as good as the day I bought it (September 2015). Reason for selling: Downsizing equipment / life in general. Payment Method: Cash - Pickup, local buyer's only please. Extra Info: Comes with Cambridge BT-100 Bluetooth receiver. I forgot to take a picture of but am happy to if needed. This is a fun and engaging amp that really speaks for itself. I will miss it I'm sure, but it's time for someone else to enjoy. https://www.cambridgeaudio.com/gbr/en/products/cx/cxa60 https://www.whathifi.com/cambridge-audio/cxa60/review Pictures:

****bites lip ****

A pleasant afternoon acquainting myself with Zu denon 103 cart and a few favourites NICK CAVE - THE GOOD SON TOM WAITS - HEART ATTACK AND VINE SONNY ROLLINS - HORN CULTURE

Jamie Branch: Fly or Die A superb sounding pressing from the International Anthem label. But more importantly, it's a 5 star album for mine, and one of the great jazz releases of the year. Hear it on bandcamp.

That's not universally accepted at all.

To clarify the DC resistance of the inductors; it should be 0.33 and 0.4 ohm respectively. I would not worry about the miniscule difference in the resistance values as this is a basic xover design. The value of C2 is 10 mFd.

Sonny Clark-Cool Struttin' Miles Davis-Live At The Blackhawk

Keith Jarrett ‎The Survivors' Suite. ECM Records ‎– ECM 1085, Germany 1977.

Just as well I’m over for three days.

@Darren69 Actually i've had a can or two. The can looked a bit familar. Clunes bottle shop is where I grabbed it as a traveller returning from Bangalow job. Back out that way next week and will see what they have. The Clunes village store bottle shop is small and they chatge like a wounded bull for the privilege of being Byron Hinterland trend-y . They have some nice wines there too but again they slug you. From memory those cans were 5.99.

Also, please make sure you are using tin/lead solder say 60/40. IME lead free is not for beginners

In this trip post there was post office EMS 50 LPs then Airline luggage 60 LPs and 12 special LP with carry on.

Loving the vintage Sony stack dude! When they did good, they did good.