Gee, Andre, not getting enough attention lately?

Well, if I had to go to a DESERT isle, I wouldn't be too concerned about
pre-recorded music. A shortwave transmitter with a solar panel array would
be much more useful.

I'd be sure to draft Andre as well.

He could provide volumes of fertilizer that could soon cover the arid turf,
and might improve the prospect of horticulture.

Failing that, he could be put to his second best use . . . . in the soup
pot.

; -)

In message .com,
Andre Jute writes

Andre Jute wrote:

Most posters on these two conferences are senior audiophiles; almost by
definition they have more than one amp, and sweet memories of perhaps
many more they have parted from. Here's a tough question:

Suppose you can take only one amp with you to a desert island, which
would it be? (To make it easy, we'll assume your record collection, a
source and speakers are waiting for you, and the island is plugged in
to the universal mains electricity.) Why would it be that particular
amp?

Try to keep it clean, fellows.

Andre Jute

Okay, I'll go first.

My favourite speakers in all the world are first series Quad
electrostats, retroactively known as ESL57.
Why not the Quad 989's Andre, they are an advancement on the previous
two and I can vouch for that having got a pair recently. They now cover
the bass more than adequately. I am deliberately understating this
because of the anti-ESL fraternity.
Might I add I use all Quad, 99, 909 and now 989 and I would not swap
them for the world, or a Desert Island.
--
Derrick Fawsitt

Derrick Fawsitt wrote:
In message .com,
Andre Jute writes

Andre Jute wrote:

Most posters on these two conferences are senior audiophiles; almost by
definition they have more than one amp, and sweet memories of perhaps
many more they have parted from. Here's a tough question:

Suppose you can take only one amp with you to a desert island, which
would it be? (To make it easy, we'll assume your record collection, a
source and speakers are waiting for you, and the island is plugged in
to the universal mains electricity.) Why would it be that particular
amp?

Try to keep it clean, fellows.

Andre Jute

Okay, I'll go first.

My favourite speakers in all the world are first series Quad
electrostats, retroactively known as ESL57.

Why not the Quad 989's Andre, they are an advancement on the previous
two and I can vouch for that having got a pair recently. They now cover
the bass more than adequately. I am deliberately understating this
because of the anti-ESL fraternity.
Might I add I use all Quad, 99, 909 and now 989 and I would not swap
them for the world, or a Desert Island.
--
Derrick Fawsitt

My preference for the first series ESL stems from the delicacy of their
sound. Nothing in all the world sounds sweeter.

I shall keep my ESL63 (today probably a more practical speaker) for the
two simple reasons that replacing them all will be very expensive and
I don't either need or want more bass.

If the Fitzwilliam you're online with is the one in Cambridge, my
favourite small art gallery, I'll give you a call the next time I speak
or dine there, and we'll have a drink or lunch or something.

Andre Jute

In message .com,
Andre Jute writes
If the Fitzwilliam you're online with is the one in Cambridge, my
favourite small art gallery, I'll give you a call the next time I speak
or dine there, and we'll have a drink or lunch or something.

Andre Jute
Thank you Andre, no its not that one although I have played classical
symphonic music in Cambridge, (its concert hall, I think its West Road).
You might actually find my fitzwilliam link equally interesting if you
care to email me and I can then send you some info.
Drink or lunch in Cambridge, most enticing, I wonder if that basement
restaurant is still in business. I am in Stamford Lincolnshire, equally
nice but smaller. See www.stamford.co.uk.
Kind regards and apologies to all for the personal details.
--
Derrick Fawsitt

The crooked garage trader and Atlanta rentass Jon Yaeger wrote:
Gee, Andre, not getting enough attention lately?

Well, if I had to go to a DESERT isle, I wouldn't be too concerned about
pre-recorded music. A shortwave transmitter with a solar panel array would
be much more useful.

I'd be sure to draft Andre as well.

He could provide volumes of fertilizer that could soon cover the arid turf,
and might improve the prospect of horticulture.

Failing that, he could be put to his second best use . . . . in the soup
pot.

; -)

I ate with cannibals once in the Congo, because there were too many
more of them than of us to refuse the invitation; of course I talked
our way out of that little bother, as out of so much else, or I
wouldn't be here now. The next time I was in the Congo, hunting
crocodiles, I took 70 askari to call on the chief and tell him to wash
the big leaves they use as crockery more often. Since my Swahili
visibly trembled for the command to burn him and his entire filetooth
tribe, I also took the opportunity to tell him to get a stronger
mouthwash; he thanked me most sincerely for the advice.

I imagine between me and the crooked garage trader no one will be dumb
enough to bet against Yaeger being the one who ends up in the pot. On
the other hand, considering Yaeger's personal habits and hygiene, a
diet of scorpions starts to look attractive. The trick is to rip the
sting off before they can sting themselves to death to spite you by
poisoning their own flesh. Otherwise scorpions taste just like raw
chicken but with less danger of salmonella, and of course more crunchy
bits and sometimes the sand gets in your teeth with is yech.

BTW, Yaeger, didn't you promise faithfully to put me in your killfile?
Or is that just another lie, like the provenance of the amps you
butcher and then try to sell?

Andre Jute

Mike Gilmour wrote:

"Patrick Turner" wrote in message
...


Andre Jute wrote:

tony sayer wrote:

In article .com,
Andre Jute writes
Most posters on these two conferences are senior audiophiles; almost
by
definition they have more than one amp, and sweet memories of perhaps
many more they have parted from. Here's a tough question:

Suppose you can take only one amp with you to a desert island, which
would it be? (To make it easy, we'll assume your record collection, a
source and speakers are waiting for you, and the island is plugged in
to the universal mains electricity.) Why would it be that particular
amp?

Try to keep it clean, fellows.

Andre Jute


Could you specify where the power is coming from;-).....
--
Tony Sayer

By day from the sun, by night from your magnetic personality?

Andre Jute
The difficult we do immediately. The impossible may have to wait until
after lunch.

I think I am already on an island which has 240V ac in most places.
There is very little culture, since culture declines proportionately to
the
square root
of the distance one is from Paris, or even Prague,
and my island has many acres of desert, and is a bloody huge desert
island.

So its hard to really feel there is point to keeping a huge recording
collection,
since its so depressing to not be able to catch a train or tram to a
suitable
opera out of many available for
an evening. One is forced to live in fantasy land, one where only the
feint
imagining of
culture, ie, recordings are all one mainly experiences.

Some people here go quite troppo, and give up trying to be european,
and they invent screaching artistes like Kylie Minogue.

But some escape from my island to the real culture world elsewhere and do
OK,
Dame Joan Sutherland did for quite awhile.

But for june or july Dunk Island in far nth Qld would be a nice place if
you
could
get all the drunk tourists to go home.

Patrick Turner.



Dunk Island. Isn't 'dunk' the sound your amp makes after it slipped though
the cargo net. Beautiful place but tropical rainforest though, not such a
quiet place for listening I'd guess.

I once camped in rainforests for a month and although it wasn't entirely quiet
since so many creatures lurk, it was natural, and Mozart almost seems out of
place there,
since one is aware of the natural symphony around you.
I was probably lucky that a taipan didn't crawl into my tent quite silently;
one bite and
I'd have been dead in a minute...

Rainforests here are quite silent compared to say those in Madagaskar, or
Brazil, or Africa.
We don't have the range of raoring screaming animals.
We invented Kylie MInogue though to compensate...

Meanwhile, on the Main Island, there is real desert, and its entirely
inhospitable,
and people die there regularly of hunger and thirst, usually after a vehicle
breaks down
hundreds of miles away from a phone....



My fav amps, Nestorovic Labs Alpha One's, wished I'd never sold them.

I never heard of those. Tubed?

Patrick Turner.





Mike

"Andre Jute" wrote in message
oups.com


Suppose you can take only one amp with you to a desert
island, which would it be? (To make it easy, we'll assume
your record collection, a source and speakers are waiting
for you, and the island is plugged in to the universal
mains electricity.) Why would it be that particular amp?

Whatever was built into the digital player that I fancied at that moment. My
*speakers* would be IEMs.

Arny Krueger wrote:

"Andre Jute" wrote in message
oups.com

Suppose you can take only one amp with you to a desert
island, which would it be? (To make it easy, we'll assume
your record collection, a source and speakers are waiting
for you, and the island is plugged in to the universal
mains electricity.) Why would it be that particular amp?

Whatever was built into the digital player that I fancied at that moment. My
*speakers* would be IEMs.

That is *so* cheap !

Graham

"Patrick Turner" wrote in message
...


Mike Gilmour wrote:

"Patrick Turner" wrote in message
...

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Some people here go quite troppo, and give up trying to be european,
and they invent screaching artistes like Kylie Minogue.

But some escape from my island to the real culture world elsewhere and
do
OK,
Dame Joan Sutherland did for quite awhile.

But for june or july Dunk Island in far nth Qld would be a nice place
if
you
could
get all the drunk tourists to go home.

Patrick Turner.



Dunk Island. Isn't 'dunk' the sound your amp makes after it slipped
though
the cargo net. Beautiful place but tropical rainforest though, not such
a
quiet place for listening I'd guess.

I once camped in rainforests for a month and although it wasn't entirely
quiet
since so many creatures lurk, it was natural, and Mozart almost seems out
of
place there,
since one is aware of the natural symphony around you.
I was probably lucky that a taipan didn't crawl into my tent quite
silently;
one bite and
I'd have been dead in a minute...

Taipan 1 Tube Audio Nil


Rainforests here are quite silent compared to say those in Madagaskar, or
Brazil, or Africa.
We don't have the range of raoring screaming animals.
We invented Kylie MInogue though to compensate...

Okay if you're deaf though :-)


Meanwhile, on the Main Island, there is real desert, and its entirely
inhospitable,
and people die there regularly of hunger and thirst, usually after a
vehicle
breaks down
hundreds of miles away from a phone....

I can well imagine, about 30 years ago I hired a minimoke to go inland 150
Km to see some spectactular waterfall, so long back I can't remember if it
was from Cairns or Mackay but remember thinking if this thing breaks down
there is no help :-(



My fav amps, Nestorovic Labs Alpha One's, wished I'd never sold them.

I never heard of those. Tubed?
Yep Mono's
2 x 6KD6, 1 x 6CG7, 5 x 6JD8 and about 120W in 4 & 8 if I remembered
correctly. Milo Nestorovic was a Mack designer before doing his own thing.
6KD6 I think were originally TV scan tubes, right??




Patrick Turner.





Mike

"Patrick Turner" wrote


Dunk Island. Isn't 'dunk' the sound your amp makes after it slipped
though
the cargo net. Beautiful place but tropical rainforest though, not such
a
quiet place for listening I'd guess.

I once camped in rainforests for a month and although it wasn't entirely
quiet
since so many creatures lurk, it was natural, and Mozart almost seems out
of
place there,


Worked well enough in 'Out Of Africa'....???