a.miller

Fantastic read. Thank you for posting. Pretty much sums everything up for me.

Based on the overall price/value of the receiver, it could be totaled or repairable. If you're a guru and the thing cost a ton of money, it might be smart to get it fixed. If it's just an average model, I'd consider replacing it. You can get a pretty awesome model these days for $300-400.

I am not familiar with this. Could you elaborate?

does it turn off all the way or does the sound stop coming out? If it won't come on, it could be the power supply in the receiver. If it is on, but no sound coming out, the amp that drives the speakers could be dead.

That best of 2007 thread is making for a handsome iTunes bill. NP:

I think A_wheel does work in the home theatre / home audio industry -- you might shoot him a pm.

Damn right you should have. That was a cool performance. Be proud!!

It's no Andrew Bird...but I haven't found anything else that is that good so far.

If you're gonna be using the Barney Kessel the most, I'd keep your pickups on the middle setting. Maybe roll off your treble pickup to about 70% of the volume your rhythm pickup is at, and also roll your treble tone off a little bit. I find, when using an ES-335, that if I'm playing more rhythm these settings work pretty well. Then, if you need to pick some notes, you can just flip down to the treble pickup and get a little extra sparkle to your tone. Quick note on the Prunes and Custard -- I might avoid this as a 3 piece. I almost never use mine live; just recording.

A little late in coming back to this thread, but I got a high-quality capture of this from PBS Digital. It looks and sounds great, but weighs in at 4.8 Gb. I'm really not sure if it's possible to convert it to some other format that would maintain quality but be smaller in size. If I could find a way to do that or upload my huge file, I would be happy to share.

After a few times through Of Montreal's latest, I'm growing less-impressed. It could be that I finally got and got Spoon's latest, which really is good.

Great performance....but....did Jeff sound a little less-than-enthusiastic during Pot Kettle Black? Seemed like it was emotionless.... Too Far Apart was outstanding!!

Just picked this up after not hearing about it and then reading this thread. It is VERY cool.

None taken. I apologize if my post sounded accusatory; I realize that you, also, were only intending to help

I heard that as I was watching the game. I figured it was just a glitch with the audio feed, but another part of me thought about the "piping of sound" allegations. It sounded like a CD skipping 3 times, like eh eh eh.

I'll go on the record and say I've never seen player pan out so fast. He's been awesome since the first snap and is on pace to have a 2000 yards rushing.

I consider Wilco more of a band; Ryan Adams more of an individual. They both make beautiful music that I equally enjoy.

Hope this doesn't hurt any VCers. I have mixed feelings about strikes, labor unions, etc.

Simulating drowning is pretty damn terrible. I can't believe our current administration can justify this bullshit. The United States is supposed to be better than that shit, and try to stop it from happening -- not participate in it. It's absolutely disgusting.

I couldn't resist.

Cool thoughts all around. Didn't know AVS was such a "poor" source of info. I agree on taking most info on the Internet with a grain of salt. However, I still think you can get some good info if you filter the information well enough. EDIT: BTW, I was only trying to be helpful in steering people to AVS. Your tone seemed pretty unhappy, while perhaps not directed squarely at me, I was only trying to help.

I used to love Green Day when Dookie came out, then I sort of forgot about them. I think American Idiot is their masterpiece. The radio over-played the shit out of it and I can't listen to it anymore, but when it first came out I was just amazed.

Gram Parsons?