wateroftyne

Ah... hello, Greg!

The discussion is about why a BMW seems to be priced far more in the UK than in another country. It's nice to get a bit of rationale behind why, even if we don't agree with it. By the way, if you click the cross at the top-right of your browser, it'll close the window so you don't have to tolerate it any more.

I do wonder why the buyer should stump up via the back door to cover warranty repairs anyway...?

It sounds to me like it was still at the 'doodle' stage. Had it been a McCartney tune, he would whittled it down to about half the notes. IMO, obv.

At least the bloke that wrote it agrees with me 😄

Maybe be missed having a knob to twiddle, etc.

He’s so marvellous I can even forgive him for murdering ‘Something’.

Had time for a bit of noodling over the last couple of days. Here's a clip with the pre-amp being hit hard. I'd love to do something to show the power stage in overdrive, but neither my cheap Zoom recorder nor neighbours would ever speak to me again.

As an aside, this clip also makes me mourn the loss of regional TV.

According to Charlie, the bass player concerned, it's there '..to help me keep time, obviously.' 😄

...courtesy of 1970s Newcastle rockers, Sandgate...

Lots of thoughts here:

Yep, and when the pricing was mentioned on TB (frequently over the years), I've never seen it be challenged.

I was always under the impression - based on comments over the years on TB - that Mesa rules pricing with an iron fist (no discounting, etc.)..?

..forgot to mention, I think the PRO15s would be a slightly better match for me, but the 17s will do fine. They have a flatter response, too.

I used my PRO17's for the first time atlast weekend's gigs. They were incredible - I'm used to the usual basic earplugs, and these are a different league. Amazing flat response. You can hear people talking quietly in the room, but they seem to kick in at volume. I have no idea how they do it. And.. singing doesn't feel weird and boomy. That occlusion reduction really works. I completely recommend getting them via the musicians' hearing scheme I mentioned above. £40 is a complete bargain.

It’s been like that for years. It’s a shame.

A pic from tonight. Happy face...

Thank you for not calling the men in white coats 😄

If I may reply in kind: yes, you're right. And we all interpret what we hear in exactly the same way, like robots.

..besides, we’re talking about music, not science.

It might, but it doesn’t fit my particular bill.

As much as I can in the woolly world of describing heft... When I play a note, it feels tangible. It has a solid core. Yes, that sounds ridiculous... but I don’t care.