From the very beginning of Star Wars in the 1970's, George Lucas had 9 episodes planned - of which the original 3 films formed the central section.
Then came the 3 opening parts and now we get the trilogy that should bring the whole series to some sort of conclusion.

jammy395 wrote:Nice one Fretless......"Boy do I like a good Choir"

And you think that Hifi is a weird hobby !!

After a long and exhausting evening rehearsing Christmas carols with my choir I'm relaxing to an ambient synth/sequencer CD.
'Life in Cosmic Highway' by Gert Emmens & Cadenced Haven.
And a couple of glasses of red wine really helps.

My 2nd system features a pair of Arcam One speakers (the original version in walnut from the early 80's) powered by an equally vintage Sansui AU-217. The sound can best be described as invitingly warm and rich. These speakers can be bi-wired although i've never tried it. Bought them originally with ...

Dingsking wrote:Last night, went to small venue in Devizes, Wiltshire to see Focus with My mate, Nigel. What an absolutely brilliant evening and the best gig I have really enjoyed for quite a long time. They did two longish stints mixing old favourites with new music.

Jealous? Yes, I'm jealous.

slinger wrote:Pink Floyd - Pulse
Tangerine Dream - Green Desert
V.A. - Son of Kraut.
The Flock - Dinosaur Swamp
Half Moon Run - Dark Eyes

Nice list, The Flock - love that album.
'Half Moon Run' are new to me, just had a quick listen - shades of Alt-J and Midlake - worth looking out for, thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Xezwkm66w

Short film from Discovery Channel showing how Martin Logan hybrid/electrostatic speakers are constructed.

All I know is that I was missing something from playing the CD's and doing this put the 'sparkle' back into the music.

A lot of CD's issued between 1995 - 2005 are HDCD encoded. I always thought that it meant that they should sound better and was somewhat disappointed that they didn't. My remastered editions of King Crimson, Roxy Music & Mike Oldfield sounded a bit dull and lifeless. Of course I didn't realise a...

Also had a Logic DM101 TT which was a pain to set up, and ran too fast (took me years to realise that though). It was when I used to live in Selby. A friend of mine was a drummer who practiced by playing along to LP's. When we were listening to 'Close to the Edge' he said "Even Bill Bruford ca...