Happy Holidays and Your Favorite Tips?

For sure... But many people had a lovely voice too...😊

His performance were expressive mastery dancing around an emotion ... It is the same expressive force over technical formal perfection that dominate piano school for me the greatest ...

Or Dostoievsky works...

Even mathematical Russian style which is expressive and didactic never formal or just pragmatic ...

It is why also i love Portuguese fado saudade and music , a particular form of sadness , and Russian soul sadness another form... Two very expressive art ...

From Portugal ascension at the height of the world as a powerful navigating nation and heroic to a smaller country... It seems to me in the saudade there is sadness and irony about the greatness love and his lost... Richard Burton the incredible explorator and genius in linguitic and in antho-pology before anthropology even existed, admired so much Camoens the greatest portuguese poet he take years to translate his main work... if you want to read the life of a real superman read the life of Richard Burton ... Totally incredible... A genius in the body of superman ...And a love story ...He beat 7 times the best swordman of France and spoke 50 languages...He discovered the Nile source and went alone at the Mecca speaking so well arabic no one suspected him... At this era an englishman at the Mecca would have been killed on the spot ... Try to imagine the iron will , the total self control and the absolute mastery of a speech in the minute details with no accent...He did it another time in the forbbiden city of Timbuktu where nobody from europe never came back alive ...I read 3 biographies so much incredible was his life ...I did no no other man that was at the same time an intellectual genius and a pure warrior...He wrote the first modern treatise on the use of the bayonnet  and write about escrime ...He was able to master a language in a record time ...he live without the prejudices of his time and his relation with his wife by itself is a love movie of the first order ...

I go into too much direction now.... From Vertinsky to Burton ...😁

What a lovely voice he had.

Read “Pale Fire” by Vladimir Nabokov

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em

Tip well. 

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Thanks, Mahgister. I've spent an entertaining 75 minutes reading around the subject matter from Pierrot and Harlequin to Madrugada!

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I've always been very suspicious of the wisdom of placing foam bungs in the ports of ported speakers. If they were designed to be ported, am I supposed to believe that suddenly it's ok to turn them into a sealed box design? I don't buy it, and knowing the experienced DIY'er that you are, I'm surprised that you do. 

Remove the lid from the top of your tube preamplifier. Especially, if the tubes are not outside the chassis.