by Michael

A victim of our success here on the blog

Sorry for the delay in the show report.

Apparently the blog here has become successful enough to attract the attention of our host, lunarpages. (Bluehost, HostGator and Lunarpages are all owned by the same company.)

So they suspended us for a day or so, for no reason except we are getting only slightly above average traffic) and have now disabled our ability to upload photos to the blog (and our ability to move the blog to a different host).

And it is not over yet. It is taking them days for them to get back to us about some basic performance guidelines that they expect us to meet. Meanwhile we languish.

I guess this is one way to reduce our load on their server, by driving our traffic away. But we are not happy about it. [understatement alert]

To be continued.

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 by Michael

Newport 2014. Dartzeel and Evolution Acoustics


Evolution Acoustics speakers, Dartzeel electronics, Wave Kinetics turntable and Ampex ATR reel-to-reel

This room sounded good at this show [really prefer these larger speakers than the little monitors], and was in the top five or six rooms at the show, sound wise, to our ears.

Hit all the main points of music reproduction – not doing anything terribly wrong, nor stupendously right, either. A little on the neutral side, detailed, and fairly even across the frequency spectrum and, well, that kind of describes it.


Wave Kinetics turntable


Dartzeel NHB 18NS preamplifier


Dartzeel integrated amplifier


Evolution Acoustics speaker and Running Springs Audio power conditioner


Ampex ATR reel-to-reel


Ampex ATR reel-to-reel player recorder

Tape is really incomparable as a source.

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