The FedEx man showed up during staining with a package from Parts Express. I'm going to cut and bend this metal grill material into grill (fret) frames. I've got several colors of grill (fret) cloth to choose from. I may wait until school is over (April 17) to undertake this project. I'm still not quite sure how to attack it.

Then I stained them the Minwax Red Mahagony I stained the M70s. They're still out in the garage drying. We'll see how they match the M70s tomorrow.

Today I took the little $15 IKEA pine end tables and turned them into semi-proper speaker stands. First I added spikes (from Meniscus Audio , my source for damping material, Solen capacitors, resistors, Beovoxian Americanizing terminal cups, banana plugs, grill cloth, gasket material, etc., etc., etc.) on both the top and bottom.

The spare RX-2 in the Frankenbeosystem has always worked a bit funky - the tonearm is jerky at times. Not as smooth an operation as the RX-2 I've owned since the 80s (and am listening to at my desk as I write). I haven't played it a whole lot, and certainly haven't gone over it with a fine tooth comb yet. (Background: I got it for $25 off

If I turn it sideways, I can just fit the latest acquisition into the Frankenbeosystem: a Beocord 4500 courtesy of member bsantini. Here's a picture of me recording an LP onto cassette for the first time in at least a decade. (Found a 10 pack of NIB Fuji DR-I 90 cassettes for $6 US in the surplus electronics store the other day.)

I love this site, the people on it, and the threads that develop.

Just for S&G, I'll throw my bit in. If B&O did not exist, this is what I would be looking for: A Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck Any Linn turntable with any tonearm and cartridge A PS Audio 4.6 preamp A Phase Linear 400 power amplifier A decent analog tuner from anyone - who cares, I rarely listen to the radio, but sometimes that's the

Congratulations valve1. And now I'm off to the pub quiz....

[quote user="PrizeDrawBot"] Second Prize – and it's all getting a bit hot under the collar now !! 2nd Prize - a Beo5 Remote Controller c/w Wall Charger The most advanced Remote Controller from Bang & Olufsen. Impressively capable, beautifully formed and once programmed - incredibly easy to use! The functions that are common for

[quote user="burantek"] I step away for a minute... [quote user="Rich"]TWO MONTHS IN A ROW! UNBELIEVABLE!!!![/quote] [/quote] I can only think the Beo Gods were kind because I paid for the shipping of last month's prize Finished those darn M70s That's what I'll tell the wife anyway.