I’m playing a gig with my band Invisible Inks in a few hours. It’s the Eastside Studio Tour weekend. Tonight I’m heading to Dallas to hang with my best friend Ed. Tomorrow I’ll be soaking at King Spa and getting some much needed detoxing and acupressure done. Monday morning heading to Sound Organisation to say hello and talk shop. I hope they have the new Rega DAC there to listen to! I’m really looking forward to my mini-trip!
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I’ll be at End of an Ear record shop (2209 South 1st St.) Saturday evening, November 27th playing the new Rega RP-1 turntable ($449), Rega Brio3 integrated amp ($695) and Rega RS-5 loudspeakers ($1595). Come hear a quality UK built hi-fi that won’t drain your savings account! Spend the rest of your money on beer & records! Now that’s sound advice!

Check out this Rega RP-1 review from Tone Audio

After many years coveting these two lines, I am now a dealer! LFD electronics and Harbeth Loudspeakers are now on the floor! I have the new LFD LE IV integrated amp and Harbeth P3ESR which is based on the famous BBC LS3/5A. The Harbeth Compact 7ES-3 should be here next week. I also have the 40.1 on the floor (kindly on loan / consignment). I will be rounding out the lines over the next few months.

I’ve been getting lots of calls. If you have a local Harbeth dealer, please deal with them. I WILL NOT SELL TO YOU IF YOU HAVE A LOCAL DEALER. I DO NOT DISCOUNT! If you’re not sure you can look HERE

Whetstone Audio is the only Texas dealer authorized to sell Harbeth and LFD.

After 43 years of using cheap plastic 45 adapters I got in some nice precision machined Rega adapters made by this fine English bloke.

rega machinist

What’s on the turntable these days?

Grinderman 2
Abner Jay
Little Joe Washington
Radio City
Sahib Shihab
Tom Verlaine
Black Slavery Days

Last night I took my eight year old daughter, Lily, to see Janelle Monae (who was amazing) and of Montreal. We had a blast! I got her a T-shirt to wear today at school (remember doing that?) We even got to be right up front! I’m glad my kids are finally at an age where I can bring them to concerts. No, Barney was never allowed in our home… so obnoxious! I figured of Montreal was a good bet because of all the theatrics and costumes. Thankfully the risque’ themes were over her head! Can’t wait for the next show!

It’s 10am the morning after Naim came to town. The turnout was excellent. I’d say around 70-80 folks came throughout the evening. The keg of Real Ale Fireman’s 4 floated and my head hurts.. I saw lots of folks I haven’t seen in a while and met some new ones. It occurred to me that I should probably have a throw down more often.

The Bentley Continental Supersports was beyond nice. Sitting in a $285,000 car made me wish I had gotten into banking. I didn’t get to drive it but I revved it up and jammed out to some Alex Chilton. I was going to kick out some syrup induced Screw, but didn’t have any. My ’96 Toyota truck is worth about as much as the windshield wiper. A big “Thank You” to Jason from Bentley of Austin for bringing the sweet ride by for us to molest.

The Naim gear was great. I think the NDX is going to be a hugely popular product. I’ve finally got my head around the whole network streaming thing. After spending the last three weeks loading all my CD’s into the UnitiServe, I can tell you it’s worth it. All my music at my fingertips is convenient. The app works great. The days of whole house wiring are over.

Doug Graham gave various dems throughout the evening between trips to oogle the Bentley. We had the Uniti, UnitiServe, UnitiQute, DAC in one system and 282/ HiCap, 250, NDX and Ovator 400 in another. Switching back and forth over the evening.

I brought Dave & Doug out to my favorite late night taco trailer. A lifesaver. I got to bed around 3:00am…

Here’s a write up about the event from The Vinyl Anachronist

Naim UK’s Doug Graham and Dave Dever from Naim USA will be coming to the shop October 21st. They will be introducing lots of new Naim goodies fresh from The Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. Jeff Dorgay from the awesome Tone Audio e-zine will be present as will Jason Schieck from Bentley of Austin who will be showing a Naim equipped car. I bet the trunk won’t even rattle! Brad Farbstein, owner of Real Ale, will be bringing a keg of delicious beer. This will be an awesome event!

Whoa! Can’t wait to hear these baaad mamba jambas! I think the new Dynavector HX100 amp will push these just fine! It’s always good to have goals!
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