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The Opera Dead Man Walking is can now be viewed on the Metropolitan Opera Player on demand. We had a great night with friends in the AV room last night. Jake Heggie's two act opera Dead Man Walking is now available to watch on Met Player. This is the operatic dramatization of Helen Prejean's...

I went to a wonderful concert last night at the Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota. This hall houses one of the finest Orchestral organs in the world. It was built by the famed Aeolian Skinner company between 1932 and 1936. These organs are massive and complex, and a lot have...

I highly recommend this concert to members. It has lot of great music that you will enjoy and really test your systems literally from top to bottom . Listen to the 40th. Pipedreams Anniversary Concert Here. Pipedreams has been aired weekly for 40 years. It has been hosted by longtime MPR host...

Dr. K as he calls himself is a very talented musician, who regularly gives impromptu performances on the free Piano donated by Sir Elton John at St. Pancras Railway station. On January 19, this year he had an interaction with agents of the Chinese Communist party secret agents. One of whom is...

One of my sons when he and his family visite Christmas Day, brings with him a miserable SONOS sound bar, belonging to his wife's twin sister and brother in law. A fairly common mishap has occurred. In the Christmas hubbub someone has broken off the the end of the Optical cable between the...

I have touched on this issue in many posts. This is another area where Audiophool myths abound. I have replied to posts over the years as to why the CD 44.1KHz and the 16 bit depth has adequate FR and dynamic range. That is what I use for archiving on my hard drives and with good reason. As...

These don't come up very often. There has never been a better device for keeping your vinyl

I'm looking for an alternative to Comcast. Quantum are offering 940 mbs up and down at a reasonable cost. This can be combined with Direct TV over Internet. My past experience of Direct TV was not very good. I'm suspicious because Quantum seems to have morphed out of Century Link, which did...

For most the AV experience is limited to a flat screen, a sound bar and may be a small sub. Almost everyone I know has at least one rig like this. Alternatives in most instances are not viable, mainly due to architectural issues and complexity. The issues. An AVR or AVP is a huge barrier...

I have just got back from St. Mary's Hospital Rochester. I suffered a near lethal medical event this week and I'm very lucky to be making this post. This occurred sometime Monday night to Tuesday morning. I found I was very short of breath on trivial exertion when I got up on Tuesday morning...

After owning, and largely personally maintaining the above vehicle for 33 years, it is now up for Auction on BaT (Bring a Trailer) It is time to let the old girl go. Since moving to Eagan it has only done around 200 miles. There are professionally taken photographs on the site and a couple of...

Gene and Matt recently posted an extended interview with Arnaud Laborie, founder of Trinnov labs in France, on the Audioholics website. This I think is certainly the best discussion I have ever heard on room acoustics and their modification. In fact it was one of the most interesting and...

Just going live now. My brother Paul is racing his 1929 Bentley. He had a fire due to a copper fuel pipe splitting yesterday, so his car is the one with the burnt paint! It is number 53.

MATT is King Charles' favorite cartoonist. Mine too, come to that.

A couple of months ago, I received a call from an individual I had assisted almost forty years ago. This was an individual that was a colleague if a close friend the late Dr. Philip Marin, a close friend and colleague of mine. This lady had recently moved to the Midwest from New York and...

This is really concerning. He can't keep his grandchildren straight and has already forgotten his recent visit to Ireland. He has to be prompted by a child.

I think we should mark the passing of Len Goodman, head judge of Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars for many years. Len was born and spent his early years in Bethnal Green in North East London. This was historically a poor area and in times past, and the center of the silk trade...

Netflix are filming episodes of the next series of the Crown in my home town of Rochester Kent. They have redone Rochester High Street to make it look like Windsor. The locals are all asking "why they did not film in Windsor as it already looks like Windsor." Honestly I have no idea. Filming...

Frankly, I had never heard of this movie before all the Oscar buzz and publicity. Anyhow after the buzz about town the family want to watch it. Our granddaughter saw it in a cinema, not Atmos. There are only three Atmos theaters in the metro. Anyhow, the reviews are in the main good, with a...

Just an FYI for members. You will have a slow response to posts and PMs from me next week. I am having surgery at St. Mary's Hospital Rochester on Monday, February 13. I am having an ectopic parathyroid which is excreting excess parathormone from my chest removed. Hopefully this can be...