God doesn't need to know what time it is.

@jrpnde: Gordon Lightfoot's Bobby McGee is my favorite version of that song. Good recording, too.

In 1973 I was visiting the newly-opened Audio Arts in Livermore California on the very day Bill Johnson was delivering and installing his complete ARC system (Thorens TD-125 table, ARC's pro-type arm which never made it into production, Decca Blue cartridge, SP-3 pre-amp, Magneplanar Tympani T-I loudspeakers bi-amped with D51 and D75 amps. The sound blew my young mind. Later in the year that system was in my house ;-) in the shop's listening room. AA proprietor Walter Davies played that very track, and Johnson remarked on the good sq of the recording. I bought a copy of the album (If You Could Read My Mind), when I got back to San Jose, and still have it.

Ry Cooder is a guitarist's guitarist. Good taste is (heh) timeless.

"I had a Blackface deluxe and a blackface vibrolux at the same time and enjoyed them both. Eventually I got frustrated with the finnicky nature of vintage amps but they sounded wonderful"

stuartk-

Yeah, they're noisy idling, the pots eventually get scratchy, and the tone conrols don't really do much-but once you plug in- the sound. I plug  in a tubed stomp box for  pseudo Marshall stack tones. 

whart- I've always admired the Submariner. Classic looks. Cool made cooler since it was the choice of Steve McQueen. I totally get the watch collector thing. It's a "hobby" reserved for someone with Tech Das Air Force One play money.

@jrbirdman333 

I’ve been collecting for 35 years and I’m still enamored by these miniature machines.

@pedroeb 

Because I can turn my arm and see the time vs reach in my pocket, take out the phone, and activate it in some manner to see what time it is. No comparison. 

CAN EVERYONE JUST PLEASE STOP SAYING BL@CKF@CE!!!