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More vintage audio this weekend. Got the Grado Black cartridge installed on the Dual 1245 and replaced the belt. Now we’re spinning at exactly 33 and 1/3 RPM - so I can finally accurately convert some vinyl to CD format. That way, we can keep listening to these great Christmas records years down the road without the worry of them decomposing on us. Ooh, additionally, I received and tested the center channel for the surround set-up I am putting together. It sounds perfect - I got a $450 speaker for $74 shipped (the magic of eBay). I am a happy camper. I try to advance the progress on this system every week, so this coming week we will be installing the re-foamed 8” driver on the HPM-60’s and hopefully veneering them. If I am lucky, we might be able to order the DVD player (which is the core of this system as it has the pre-outs for all 6 channels), but that would be stretching it. To avoid dragging this out any longer: my goal has become Christmas for completion. Here’s what remains: install re-foamed drivers, veneer rear surrounds, build stands for rear surrounds, move furniture to basement, move tv to basement, order DVD player, move current equipment rack, buy speaker cable, locate (and buy) center channel amp, build subwoofer. Despite that long list, we only have three major unknowns (center amp, DVD, sub) - hopefully it will work out - I really want to share the audio with a good group of people. Maybe it will turn out to be just a dream, but I think I can make this work.

Back at the beginning of this post I had something meaningful to say. It has somehow eluded the grasp of my conscious mind so I will simply have to wait until … whoops there something popped into my head - this is about dreams: you ever notice how, when you have slept in a long time, you can “think” yourself back into a dream? I experienced that this morning - it was rather cool. Try it sometime!

That reminds me, in my listening at home again, I pulled out the Toy Story 2 soundtrack:

When somebody loved me
Everything was beautiful
Every hour spent together
Lives winthin my heart

And when she was sad
I was there to dry her tears
And when was happy
So was I
When she loved me

I like that song.

Agenda: Othello, Hesse, Calc II, Lucretius, Descartes. Yes, that should about cover it. Do me a favor: go back and find a song that you haven’t listened to in a long time, toss it in the CD player, listen to the whole thing, and remember what life was like when you first heard that song - you’ll surprise yourself.

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