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No worries there for the drummer, listen through once, maybe twice, and it's down 'pat'. Easy peasy.

Not at all; he's right. It's you that's got it wrong. Best offer an apology. ...

Cheers; no need to shout, though. I know I'm old and deaf, but not that deaf.

Not so sure that we're 'typical', either, or even if that term means much in the French venues we've played.

Go to your Profile, select your User ID (top right...) and choose 'My Attachments' from the drop-down list. Hope this helps.

I can think of a couple of occasions where that has definitely been the case. On one, we played well, on a decently equipped stage, but the folk sitting around the tables were there for the 'turning to stone' little fellow for whom the event was planned. They had no interest in 'whooping it up' at all. A 'lead ballon' event; they needn't have booked a band at all.

Doesn't 'mint' mean that it's got a hole in the middle..? ...

Maybe with compensation from folk buying non-American products instead.

I'm neither jealous nor envious of other folk getting paid more than me whether it's a paid gig or a free one. I give my time and money when and where I want, and if I'm having a good time playing, and giving a good time to others, that's fine by me. For charity or not, I (and the band I have been playing in for the last decade or so...) neither want nor expect to be paid, whatever the event. It's just our way of thinking, that's all. Others do things differently, and that's fine too. Peace.

Just a 'throw-away' comment; I had a look at pictures of these various decks and, as a philistine, don't see any major difference in overall 'decor' aspect. I appreciate that we all have different perspectives, and it seems to be important for some, but it escapes me. They all look much of a muchness, to me, from a visual point of view. I have no comment on their technical merits; it's just the appreciation of their aesthetics that I fail to understand. Just sayin'; peace.

Resist, resist. Just another day to wait. Better that than be asking for details of a competent repair person for a blown-up valve amp, no..? Wise advice for any electronic equipment, really, but for an amp which will, by its functioning, heat up cold glass rapidly, it's a 'no-brainer'. Patience, young grasshopper; patience.

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This tends to be a rather clumsy option for the fretting hand, though. ...

I'm not sure that I understand the difference, unless one is playing into an oscilloscope for measuring. All that counts is what is perceived, I'd say. The end result of any active or passive system is that any change of one element affects the whole, as for as human hearing is concerned. Peace.

A winner, I think.

No need to get excited, though. I was just pointing out that adjusting any one setting does change the perception of the overall sound, so touching at 'treble' (or whatever...) would naturally lead to touching elsewhere, such as volume, to compensate. The overall sound changes if one changes any single element of that sound. That's all. Peace.

Perceived tone will change with a volume change, that's just in the physiological functioning of human ears. I realise, of course, that some musicians do not seem to have human ears (or, at least, human hearing...). There is no 'magic bullet' that compensates 'automatically' to keep it all 'as one wants it'; some adjustment around the original change is most often required, or acceptance that it's changed, and it's fine. (Disclaimer : I'm a drummer, so what would I know ..?)

I tried other browsers, no dice. Maybe a regional thing; the French are to be kept in the dark over this product. Hmm...

Nope, no cigar.

Ah, OK. Well then ... Klipsch 'The Fives' ... ... or ... M-Audio Forty-Eighty ...

Duff link, I think..?

Have a look here for some choices..? Best value bookshelf speakers 2025 ... Hope this helps.

Are you sure you don't mean 'HS8'..? 'NS8' existed, long ago, as mid-range HiFi, but are not at all 'bookshelf'... ...compared to Yamaha HS8 ...

@Happy Jack...

I tidy cales away using the 'figure of eight' method; I finish by lifting it up from each side (left and right...), and put a Velcro band around it to keep it as a loop. No tangles, no twists. Works with all types of cables, and garden hoses. Hope this helps.