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Good to see you again - jon_5912Happy Listening!

batmanfan,

You possess more equanimity than I...

jafant,

Thanks, glad you got a kick out of my wacky journey.

prof
you are a very fortunate soul to have that kind of access to all of those dealers/retailers!Happy Listening!

hi Jafant,   thanks so much.   I am selling the 2.7's here and on audiomart just in case someone does not know that but wants a beautiful pair of them. The electronics are all upper end PS Audio which i swear by.   the rack is a beautiful piece i got from Mapleshade. 

Here's a little wood trip for those sort of folks. There is a wood in Bolivia of two principal species, Machaerium schleroxylon or acutifolium, the former upland and the latter lowland. Since mid twentieth century the Germans have exported it to Europe as Santos Rosewood, named for a port in Southeast Brazil as its "source". Lots of intrigue there, but not today. The Danish "Rosewood" finish has been this wood since the beginning. Not a Dalbergia (rosewood species) it acts and looks a lot like rosewood. In the 1980s I developed a direct Bolivian source including a substantial plantation project with the Chiquitano Natives. They distinguished between the upland and lowland types and I applied the names "Amberwood" to the lighter colored, more contrasty upland type and "Morado" to the darker, more purple, homogenous lowland type. Note that they are both photo-sensitive and lighten toward amber with exposure to ultraviolet. The photo tagged above seems to have a fairly dark stain, which looks like the "Dark Cherry" color, but Morado and Cherry are structurally different. Amberwood generally has no stain.