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York-aholic wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 5:25 am
If you don’t want to be the epitome of “puffery”, I’ll trade you three good lacquered top caps for those silver ones.

Your silver finger buttons? Those enhance the valve action!


P.S. I’m glad that project sorted itself out so frugally. That is awesome!

Sending you a PM.

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Mrs. bloke just picked out which mouthpiece (of four that I grabbed up) sounds best with the King sousaphone that I just brought back from the dead.

I didn't place the one that she chose in any particular place in the order; I think it was either #2 or #3. I tried to play my best with all four of them. She picked the mouthpiece that I've always used with sousaphones over the last several years. Sadly, it's one of my stainless steel component mouthpieces (which costs me money, just like they cost anyone else money). I was really hoping that she would choose the gold sparkly $1X.XX Kellyberg, but alas...

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Be careful of the more inexpensive RCA cables. I learned that they are completely plastic with only a foil covering to conduct the electricity. I learned because one of the male pins broke off in my amp socket.

Rick Denney wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 9:10 am I'm reminded of the silliness that high-end audio has become.

Yes it has. I have some nice audio gear, including a pair of KEF speakers on my computer. However, one of the nicest sounding rigs I ever had was a small receiver/speaker combo I bought from Radio Shack many, many years ago. As I remember it, it was a little over $130. It finally gave up about 10 years ago.

peterbas wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 1:34 am Did she choose what sounded the best or the one which is the more familiar?

The smarter thing to do was to play the Kellyberg every time

' hesitant to appear to be advertising, but my "Imperial" up (which is Helleberg-like - WERE IT THAT any Helleberg mouthpiece cups were "medium" depth, rather than "medium-deep" or "deep"). It just seems to put the right amount of "punch" into the sound of a sousaphone, allow it to still sound broad, but not allow the typical (mouthpieces that are too deep...??) fuzz/mud.

I have ONE saved-back lexan rim (in my preferred rim profile). I screwed it onto that cup.

I is/was my last in-stock Imperials, so now I'm going to have to order another run of them.

bloke "striving to be frugal, and to pay off debt, and the glitter gold Kellyberg actually came in second...and no: I can never fool her. When I play the same thing three or four times in a row, she doesn't know they are the same, but always identifies all of them as sounding the same."

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re:
audiophile stuff
Decades ago, I picked up a behemoth (wattage-wise) Radio Shack/"Realistic" transister receiver (thrift/second-hand store - $15)...gawd...amazing....though I'm sure it's not considered to be "audiophile".