Son-of-a-Weizen

I agree......this Yellowtail stuff is imminently drinkable but it's the type of bottle I'm going to break out when my mother swings over and has a couple of quick glasses (small aquariums ? ) out on the patio. She likes a nice tasting wine but isn't going to sit around and issue profundities about the complexity of the wine and all that biz.....so at $7.50 a bottle, go for it.

Yes, quite a few decent ones in that price range. A few that come to mind......Carmenet Dynamite Cabernet or the Indian Springs Cabernet (or Cabernet Franc) out of Nevada County, CA. Both affordable quality reds imo. If you're feeling flush at some point and want to drop a little more $ for a special occasion or so, the Carmenet 'Moon Mountain' Reserve should do the trick at a price that won't knock the wind out of you.

True, before this little exercise, I had no idea that Man With The Golden Splint wore pretty little green tights.

Yeah, so it would appear! Some interesting back 'n forth over at DECWARE....and for sure the first time I've ever heard the term "supply rail ripple rejection ratio" Based on what one guy said ("The hard thing is that some cords have a synergy for some components. The cord that sounds killer on my amp is not the best cord on my transport"), it seems as though you'd have to do a good bit of experimenting around with various cords in order to find the 'correct' match. Btw, why is it that so many of these cords are sold as 'kits' that you have to monkey around with. Not sure I'd wanna mess with that.

I'd only be offended if it was a semi-clad pic of Liz Taylor or Pat Schroeder...................nonetheless, I think that 'Free for All' has made a compelling point.

At first I thought the idea of changing power cords on an amp or pre-amp seemed a bit goofy, but now having read up on it a bit (and about specific products like the Wireworld Stratus, Asylum Power cord, etc) it does seem to make sense. Has anyone ever A/B'd certain jazz or classical discs using both the factory supplied cord and a replacement? Looks like they can get quite expensive...but there are a number in that $40-75 range. Worth it?

No question about it......but then again, the same can be said for the 'RVG vs McMaster'......'TOCJ vs JRVG'.......'Berigan's fleshy avitars vs. Evan's fleshy signature pic' topics -- well, maybe not that last one...that one hasn't been properly fleshed out yet. Many topics = .....but that's fine (imo). .......what Sangry said.

....some meaty brobblopps in between. Dare I ask what's going on with this?

Yes, it works!

Alot of folks probably drift in and sign up just for the heck of it and have no real intention of actually participating now. They see something they like and decide that they might just want to cruise back at another time if for some reason their currect favorite nesting spot goes in the tank (geez, never seen that happen before ), or they tire of it...or get locked in a death feud with someone and decide to flee....or whatever else.... By signing up they've basically thrown down a sleeping bag and feel like they can come back to crash whenever the spirit hits 'em. There are also people who have a favorite spot for asking one kind of question...and another spot for another. Oftentimes, rather than ask certain questions about audio related matters here....I'll go to an audio forum where no one knows me. And it's not because the technical question is one that someone here couldn't easily answer...it's just kinda like ya don't want to feel like a total dunce for not knowing what passive line-stage means, for instance. I mean, get real! ...everyone knows that passive line-stage is when ahh, um, um, um, um ah, um.... what is it exactly?

All day..every day.

Isn't he the guy who said that Albertson looked like Hitler or some other Nazi?

Anyone up yonder ever ship a 40 lb box from Ontario to Virginia (22202)...or close to that? I looked for a site that would have estimates but came up empty. Is UPS the way to go for audio stuff? or some other service? Thanks.

True.....and if Rooster's favorite Cowell Lp miraculously appeared out there as a K2, TOCJ & JRVG next weekend, I should think he'd be interested in tracking 'em all down (over time) in order to find the 'best' one.

Exciting stuff. I also thought it was great when Choi holed it from the fairway on 11. On top of that, the guys goes and shoots a 30 on the front nine on Fri!! I think I heard a commentator say that he used to have to drive 3 hours to a course on which to practise. That's some commitment..good for him!

I couldn't believe those two eagles on 16.

Looks schweeeeet!

Woods made a big mistake by ditching his swing coach, Butch Harmon. He's been getting advise from Mark O'Meara...which is all fine & dandy except for the fact that O'Meara ain't Woods. The Wash Post had a piece yesterday about the computer generated analysis they've done of Woods swing...and how over time he's started to morph into an O'Meara. Not too swift. Suck it up and listen to Sally, Tiger......time to go phone Butch. ** As always, I'm pulling for Els. With Help From O'Meara, Woods Gets off the Mark By Sally Jenkins Saturday, April 10, 2004; Page D01 AUGUSTA, Ga. Swing theories abound when it comes to Tiger Woods. He's "off plane." He's "caught." He's "stuck." It's a tempo problem. He's too close to the ball. He hasn't won a major championship in two years, he can't drive it straight or find the greens the way he used to, and he's struggling to even contend in the Masters. What's the problem? Maybe we should ask "Mark-O." Woods's best friend on the PGA Tour, oddly enough, is 47-year-old Mark O'Meara, a very nice middle-aged player who has won exactly two majors to Woods's eight. Woods has Mark-O, as he calls him, on speed dial. He leans on him for advice on a variety of matters -- including, perhaps unfortunately, his golf swing. It's been two years since Woods quit working with Butch Harmon, the teacher who helped him build the technical glory of a swing that led to his extraordinary run of eight major titles in seven years. Woods has said that he doesn't particularly need Harmon anymore; he understands his swing enough to correct himself. If he wants another pair of eyes on the driving range, he says, he can turn to his buddy O'Meara. Now, this is sort of like the Ritz Carlton asking a Red Roof Inn for advice on hotels. If Tiger doesn't seem quite himself -- and he doesn't -- perhaps this is the reason. Rumor has it that Woods is not only accepting swing advice from O'Meara, but has begun to work with O'Meara's swing doctor, Hank Haney. According to another famed golf teacher, Jim McLean, writing in the April 9 issue of Golf World Magazine, Woods's backswing position has become "an almost carbon copy" of O'Meara's. Accompanying the article is a sequence of photographs comparing Woods's swing in 2000 versus 2004, in which it indeed appears to be noticeably altered. "O'Meara has a precise way to swing the club up to the top of the backswing followed by a precise way to swing through to a signature finish," McLean writes. "Tiger began to change his swing noticeably in early 2002 often using the same swing drills as O'Meara. Photos show that Tiger's backswing position in 2003 and 2004 has evolved into an almost carbon copy of O'Meara's." Is this why Woods's game seems somehow more ordinary than it used to? After two rounds at Augusta, Woods was at even par -- perfectly "viable," as he put it. And yet merely viable is somehow not what we've come to expect at the tournament he once won by a dozen strokes. In his opening round, he shot a whopping 40 on the front, and he hit just seven of 14 fairways. His second-round 69 was a slow climb back into contention, but he remains six shots off the lead. "You have to take baby steps," Woods said. "Slow improvement. I got back to even, and that's viable." The performance was entirely typical of Woods over the past year. Don't get me wrong -- about every third shot Woods hits is still better than most shots you'll ever see. But there is a troubling inability to gather momentum, a kind of halting, self-sabotaging quality to his game. It used to be that if Woods was at even after two rounds of a major, anything seemed possible. Now, Woods sounds almost grateful to have made the cut. "I played really well," he said. "I'm still here. I made a few, missed a few." The dilemma in assessing Woods is that even when he's not playing especially well, he can win -- he has four top-10 finishes and a match-play victory so far this year. But a statistical comparison of Woods this season with the Woods of 1999 and 2000 shows his game has clearly eroded. His driving accuracy has fallen from 71 percent to 61 percent. A player renowned for his recovery shots now makes par or better only a little more than half the time when he misses a green. He ranks 155th in scrambling, a category he used to lead the Tour in. He is nowhere to be found among the PGA's top 10 when it comes to scoring. In total driving, a category that combines accuracy plus distance, he ranked first for two consecutive years, but now ranks 22nd. He also led the Tour in greens in regulation for two straight years, and is now 62nd. In ball striking, which calculates total driving plus greens in regulation, he has fallen to 36th. The joke on the PGA Tour is that O'Meara should be nominated for Ryder Cup captain -- of the European team. Can't you hear Woods's fellow players in the locker room? "Hey Marko. Tell him to change his grip while you're at it." "Hey Marko. Can you get him to change his stance, too?" But O'Meara is not the one to blame. Woods is now 28, no longer a prodigy but an established champion who is, or should be, in charge of his own game. Maybe what he's experiencing are a few inevitable growing pains -- he's emancipated himself from his parents, as well as Harmon, he's engaged to be married to Elin Nordegren, and claims to be more content and relaxed than he's ever been. Maybe he wants to make his own mistakes. Maybe he has more distractions. Maybe, as McLean says in Golf World, "even the best players get off track and get confused about golf." Maybe he is weary of the constant pressure and scrutiny, and deconstructions of his backswing. Maybe he did himself no favors by being so extravagantly successful so young, and he's entitled to an ordinary lull in his career. But ordinariness is not what we expect of Woods, and it's never been what he expected of himself. Woods has steadfastly refused to admit there is any major problem in his game or to even utter the word "slump." Maybe Woods will suddenly drive the ball straight and shoot a low number here. But if he doesn't pick up the pace, it will be his seventh straight major without a victory. At some point, there has to be a reckoning -- even if it's a private one.

Vic Christenson?

No. I think he's mad as a hornet that I didn't order the last batch of 20 JRVGs.

ATTENTION BERIGAN!!! PLEASE DISREGARD MY EARLIER SUGGESTION! Forget that tired old black clad thing.

...... where is this hiding in Japan TKCB-71602

Hey Berigan, Pull a quick switch and let Scott gaze at this avitar for a couple of weeks....... he'll be on his knees begging you to return the black clad one.

Guess he found out that this doll wears GroperGuard™ and is thus unaffected by his GrOPes. Geez, Chris, for an allegedly "throttled rag-doll," you're remarkably resilient!

He has no time for that today.....there's serious drinking to be done!