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22nd December 2010, 12:15 AM | #1 |
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Tubelab Single Ended Amps
I didn't see any late postings about the amps from Tubelabs so I thought I would ask if any of you have built any of the amps that they sell the PCB's for?
I see the TubelabSE, the Simple SE and the Simple PP amp. Is the owner a member here? I like the idea of the simple SE one because of the variety of power tubes it can run. Also the driver and Constant Current Source semiconductor are pretty unique, to me at least. What is the general opinion of the Simple SE amp and would that be a good project for my first Hi Fi amp? Thanks, Tom |
22nd December 2010, 12:32 AM | #2 |
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Hi Tom,
George (tubelab) is a member here of long standing, and hundreds of forum members have built one or more of George's designs. There is an entire forum here devoted to all things tubelab: Tubelab - diyAudio Considering who designed it and the support available here I would recommend it as an excellent choice as a first build.
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." - Thomas Paine |
22nd December 2010, 12:32 AM | #3 |
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Yes, George is a well respected member here. He has his own forum:
Tubelab - diyAudio The amps are excellent. [edit] I see Kevin beat me to it. ..Todd |
22nd December 2010, 12:35 AM | #4 |
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Beware ! You will find you spend a LOT of time here if you build one of George's designs. Not because they fail, but because they are so good and adaptable and endlessly tweakable.
George's tendancy toward pyrotechnic displays are also legendary and well worth hanging around for.
"It may not be easy for some to not hear differences, even if they are not there." - Vacuphile, |
22nd December 2010, 12:44 AM | #5 |
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Thanks guys, I don't know how I missed that section, or is it hidden?
I'm still stumbling around here. A quick question that I am having trouble finding the answer to.... What does DHT stand for and is there an "Idiots guide to single end amps?" Like a glossary of terms or something? I like the idea of a simple amp to play some vinyl on. I have been immersed in pentodes so long in guitar amps I'm having trouble getting up to speed on these fine audio amps. Take the Simple SE amp, can a regular CD player drive that amp or do you need a preamp as well? |
22nd December 2010, 12:49 AM | #6 |
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DHT = Directly Heated Tube (the filament is the cathode)
Yes the Simple SE will accept a signal direct from a line device eg a CD player. Don't sweat the pentode thing - George loves them - the bigger and redder, the better! Take a look at his avatar...
"It may not be easy for some to not hear differences, even if they are not there." - Vacuphile, |
22nd December 2010, 12:50 AM | #7 | |
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DHT - Direct heated triode. Examples would include the 300B, 2A3, 45, etc.. Go to the tubelab commercial site for answers to a lot of your questions. You'll learn a whole lot more than you ever imagined just hanging out here..
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22nd December 2010, 02:41 PM | #8 | |||||||
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I haven't had the time to update the Tubelab web site as often as I would like either. About a year ago I got an email from the operator of the diyAudio forums offering me my own forum. I set up my own forum here on diyAudio so that people interested in the Tubelab designs can discuss them in one place. If you have a question about one of my designs chances are it has already been answered there. Most of the postings about Tubelab amps has been moved there. My usual tube experiments will remain here in the main forums, but there haven't been many lately. The Tubelab forum has helped reduce the repettitive email I get asking the same questions, but has made my postings here on the main forums a bit thin lately. The tubelab forums is a paid forum, and I have decided to renew it for 2011. It is here: Tubelab - diyAudio Quote:
None of these (or any other basic amplifier) can be driven directly from a turntable. A phono preamp (also called a phono stage) is needed to boost the level provided by a turntable to a level similar to that provided by a CD player. It can be tube, solid state, or even a chip amp. Quote:
The Tubelab SE was the first amp, It was not intended for beginners, in fact it wasn't intended to be a kit at all. I made one for myself, then another, then.....Before long I couldn't make them fast enough, so I had some friends make their own (many were fellow engineers). The makeshift instructions I gave them were refined using their input into what is currently on the web site. It uses DHT's and requires adjustments made on a live board, and is somewhat complicated to build. I got dozens of requests for something simple, so the Simple SE was born. It is a build it, plug it in and listen design. It is by far the most popular board and the easiest to build. Quote:
Tubelab, it's 5 year mission. To explore strange new tubes, to seek out new circuits and topologies, to boldly go where no tube has gone before...... |
22nd December 2010, 03:55 PM | #9 |
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Thanks for the update George.
Times are hard everywhere. I haven't worked in over a year thanks to the jokers on Wall St. As soon as I can afford it I will build one of these amps. Do you feel the Tubelab SE is markedly better than the Simple SE? I liked the idea of the Simple amp being able to run a variety of tubes. I would say I am a intermediate builder. I have built some fairly complex guitar amps. Thanks again, Tom |
22nd December 2010, 04:13 PM | #10 |
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The two amps are just "different". It is going to depend a great deal on your speakers and your listening space. The Tubelab SE (TSE for short) puts out about 4W when built for 300Bs and can just manage about 2W with 45s. The Simple SE (SSE) can crank out 14W with KT88s and can really rock if you get some nice output transformers.
I have both and the SSE sees the most use by far. Of course, my TSE keeps getting bumped down the priority list and so it still lives on a bread board. But I do drag it out when I want to do some serious listening. It has a sort of precision that the SSE can't manage. The SSE can come close, though, if it has a good set of OPTs and is setup with a nice pair of EL34s. I built mine to be able to run pretty much whatever tube (of the supported types) that I want. Here is the story of mine, if you are interested. There are some SSE vs TSE impressions in the latter half: Tubelab Simple SE with big honkin' Edcors? |
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You probably shouldn't use these columns in your app in the first place. What about using the ORDINAL_POSITION column in INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS? Will this also do the trick? Since you've posted this in the old SQL Server 2000 thread, I will assume that you are using SQL Server 2000. If so, have a look at the first links here: http://www.google.ch/search?hl=de&q=how+to+fix+inconsistent+metadata&btnG=Google-Suche&meta= Might work out for you, but in the long run I would try to get away from using this columns, because accessing and updating system tables is even more difficult in SQL Server 2005.
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Welcome to the forums. How big is this database? Is it possible to detach and attach the same database to see whether this is corrected?
Thanks Satya. The MDF file is 40Mb, and the LDF file is 22Mb. Yes, I have detatched and re-attached the database several times without success. - Colin
Ok, not a problem with service pack then and in this case I see that a FULLTEXT record which means in the past have you tried or stopped any of fulltext settings?
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Recently in Nha Trang, we spent most of our time on the beach and visited some famous places in between. We went to Long Son pagoda where the most biggest Buddha is located on the hill. Our taxi driver drove us to the top instead of us climbing up the hill as before, a quick way that I didn't know before. You can see a really good view of Nha Trang from here, the ocean and the other parts of the city. Downstairs from the white Buddha is a beautiful reclining Buddha. I love this pagoda not just because of its beauty, but also because it reminds me alot of my childhood when my family used to come here every New Year's Eve to wish for a good new year.
After the beautiful white Buddha pagoda, we went to the Cham Towers, the most famous tourist stop in Nha Trang. We spent more than an hour looking around and took lots of photos and of course bought some stone statues and spoke to the lady who makes sand paintings. She makes really amazing pictures inside glasses, bottles and some tiny vases. I regret that I didn't buy one painting from her but I also think it'd be a dust collector as well.
We also visited the city Cathedral which is located right in the city centre. It was built by the French in 1928 and sports a grand clock on its face together with three giant bells. This is a popular stop for both tourists and locals. Most local couple come here for their wedding shots and pray for a happy marriage. Good idea, isn't it?
We ended our afternoon at the Hon Chong peninsula in the fresh ocean air looking back at the beautiful long white sand beach of Nha Trang. When we were there, we saw lots of young couples and kids hanging around, taking photos of each other and diving into the sea.
One day I hope to find a good job in Nha Trang then I can live there. Unfortunately, this trip was too short and I didn't have the chance o spend much time with my family or eat at my favourite local restaurants. My friends loved Nha Trang and said they will be back here again in the future for sure.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
6 comments:
- Mindy said...
The Cathedral is beautiful. I'll definitely go to Nha Trang when I'm in Vietnam.
- Buddhist with an attitude said...
I love Nha Trang as well. Great food and such nice people....
- junebee said...
How wonderfully lucky you were to grow up in such a beautiful area.
- Godknows said...
Thanks for all comments. Yes, Nha Trang is a beautiful city and I love my hometown.
Have a good week!!! - 12:43 AM
- Applecart T. said...
wow, it is gorgeous.
wish i could move there! - 4:49 AM
- Loan Nguyen said...
I love Nha Trang, Nha Trang beautiful.
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Two of the most common ways of applying the rake are the dealt method and the contributed method. Which one is used does not affect the amount of rake taken, but it can have an impact on loyalty points awarded for play.
Under the dealt method, credit for the total rake is divided between the players that were dealt into the hand. This may seem a bit unfair, because players who drop out pre-flop get the same credit for the hand as those who compete in the final showdown. In effect, players are rewarded for the number of hands they see not the number they actually play.
Under the contributed method, credit is based upon how much of the total rake was added by each player. This is a more equitable system, because it more fairly credits players who put more money in the pot. This method also encourages tight aggressive play, because the less one plays, the less one pays.
Those who wish to avoid paying out much of their winnings as rakes are well advised to choose tables with the highest limit for a given rake structure, such as £2/£4 instead of £1/£2 if the maximum rake is £3 at both. Tables offering the highest ratio between bet size and rake will minimise the impact that the rake has on player winnings.
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It seems certain that Chuck Hagel will be confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next secretary of defense. But it shouldn't be. For the Hagel issue is the perfect symbol of the dilemmas faced by America today.
The first problem is that the mass media and the Democratic Party are all to willing to be a doormat for President Barack Obama, even though this stance is against their own interests. Many Democratic senators resent the fact that they are so pressured to vote for Hagel even though it makes them look foolish and might endanger their reelection chances.
Their willingness to vote for Hagel, however, shows the triumph of partisanship and ideology over national interest. Obviously, there are times when those factors will prevail, especially if the question is more marginal. But when a clearly unqualified man who has made a fool of himself in public hearings is going to take a post that involves the very lives of so many, that's where you should draw the line.
In other words, even if one argues that the president should be given whoever he wants in high posts unless there is a really good reason to deny consent to such a nomination, here is the case where that exception applies.
Second, there is the way the issue is defined. A New York senator and a New York newspaper, for example, wants to narrow the problem into the idea that Hagel may have used one word—Jewish as in Jewish lobby–in an offensive way. That's supposedly why Hagel isn't fit for the job.
If that's true then anyone who opposed Hagel might be considered to represent a selfish, narrow, interest group. Indeed, some of Hagel's defenders have turned the issue of his being criticized for saying nasty things about Jews having too much power into proof that Jews have too much power.
In defending Hagel's gaffe, both that senator and that editorial staff have also committed what might be called ideological antisemitism. If Hagel is innocent then those who oppose him are merely too (right-wing) Jewish or pro-Israel or "neo-conservative" (a code-word for "Jewish," especially in the Middle East). And if they block Hagel then doesn't that prove Hagel was right?
What makes this view objectively absurd is that there are dozens of reasons to oppose Hagel's nomination, most of them having nothing to do with Israel.
First and foremost among these is that he has expressed objectively anti-American views, as was shown for example, in his agreeing with an al-Jazeera caller who described the United States as an aggressive bully. Anti-Americanism may be fashionable among the U.S. elite today, but it is not a good characteristic for a secretary of defense. Aside from everything else, if the United States has always been bad for pursing its interests in the past why should this secretary of defense compound the sin by championing U.S. interests today?
Second, it is painfully clear—even to his supporters who would never admit it in public—that Hagel doesn't understand the issues and is incapable of running a huge bureaucracy. Hagel even admitted his incapability in his own defense, boating that this didn't matter since he wouldn't be making any decisions anyway!
Once again, though, Hillary Clinton's 2008 election advertisement test applies: Who do you want to answer the call at three AM? We have before us at this moment a perfect example. The attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, where four Americans were murdered, was dropped into the lap of Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. How many Americans might die when Hagel is given the responsibility for action?
Third, one could point out that the ultimate choices for Benghazi were with Obama. But that's also a reason for understanding why Hagel shouldn't be confirmed. A secretary of defense should not just be a "yes-man." He should represent an independent point of view and also represent his department's interests.
If the secretary of defense is only a "yes-man" for the White House that means the views of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and commanders in the field will be left out of decision-making. With Hagel at the helm, the uniformed military will have no spokesman when the top-level priorities and choices are set.


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After all of the anticipation, we finally get the first look at McLaren's upcoming P1, which the brand has dubbed the next "ultimate supercar."
This vehicle is set to debut at the Paris Motor Show next week, and will serve as the successor to the iconic McLaren F1. Unfortunately we will have to wait until next week when the vehicle is unveiled to get the official technical specifications on the car, but judging how much the brand has been hyping this model, you can expect that it will be putting down some impressive numbers.
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Dose Response Study of Inhaled Ciclesonide (Glucocorticosteroid) to Patients With Persistent Asthma
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To investigate the efficacy and safety of ciclesonide inhaled into the lungs in a range of doses in a new dry powder inhaler compared to ciclesonide inhaled into the lungs using a metered dose inhaler
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Drug: AVE2635A |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | A Placebo- and Active-Controlled (Ciclesonide Metered-Dose Inhaler), Randomized, Parallel-Group, Dose-Range Finding Study of Ciclesonide Administered by Dry Powder Inhaler (Ultrahaler) in Adult and Adolescent Patients With Persistent Asthma |
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- Primary endpoint will be the change from baseline to week 6 in FEV1
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- PK parameters measured after 4 weeks of treatment. Change from baseline in serum cortisol pre-and post ACTH stimulation, AM and PM peak expiratory flow rates, AM and PM asthma symptoms, and albuterol use after 6 weeks of treatment.
Enrollment: | 1145 |
Study Start Date: | March 2005 |
Study Completion Date: | November 2005 |
Primary Completion Date: | November 2005 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Ages Eligible for Study: | 12 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Males or females 12 years or older; History of persistent bronchial asthma for at least 6 months; Documented use of an inhaled steroid for at least 1 month before screening; At screening, FEV1 40% or more of predicted normal and at randomization, FEV1 between 40 and 80% predicted normal; Reversibility of FEV1 by at least 12% and 200 ml post-bronchodilator; Be able to use oral inhalers; Non-smokers
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- History of life-threatening asthma; other pulmonary diseases; URI within 4 weeks before screening; Use of systemic steroids within 1 month before screening or more than 3 times in previous 6 months; beta-adrenergic blocking agent use; More than 2 in-patient hospitalizations or ER visits due to asthma exacerbations in the prior year before screening; Pregnant or breast-feeding females; Females of child-bearing potential not using adequate means of birth control; Clinically relevant cardiovascular, hepatic, neurologic, endocrine, or other major systemic disease; Abnormal clinical laboratory parameters that would limit participation in the study or interfere with interpretation of study results; History of drug or alcohol abuse; Treatment with any investigational product within 30 days prior to study entry
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Study First Received: | September 13, 2005 |
Last Updated: | April 7, 2009 |
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Mary Katrantzou will be releasing a Spring 2012 collaboration for Topshop and one of the looks, which was leaked on Twitter, bears more than a passing resemblance to her gorgeous Fall/Winter 2011 collection... Photos courtesy of Elle UK.
Coming up for air after a long brutal period at work and I'm ready to pick up a regular blogging and social schedule before diving into another holiday season.... Hope you have a fantastic weekend. And enjoy these weekend links...
- Three ways content and commerce are coming together online [via L2]
- Your Klout score just dropped - do you care? [via Read Write Web]
- Style.com is releasing a print magazine Monday - will you pick up a copy? [via NY Times]
- How to navigate the Chinese social media landscape (weibo, anyone?) [via Luxury Daily]
- A book deal for blogger Emily Schuman of Cupcakes and Cashmere [via Business Insider]
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Workday is looking for an associate security engineer who has strong analytical skills and can understand attack methods. You should be familiar with one or more of: OWASP Top 10, IDS/IPS, and ISO 27001. You should also possess knowledge of network and systems security.
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* Consult with product teams to provide security best practices, secure design patterns
* Analyze incidents and security review findings to determine security impact
* Establish security policies and guidelines to ensure security best practices are followed
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Sneak Peak of one of the most adorable 1st birthday parties - Crab Shack theme! I had so much fun collaborating with the mom of the birthday boy to come up with the perfect red and blue crabby sweet's for little Cash's special day! More pictures and details to come soon, but for now enjoy this tiny peak into what just might be my new favorite party theme!
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Grayson is now sleeping with his WALL-E shoes. I'm not sure if this validates Reed's point or mine.
Monday, October 20, 2008
New Shoes
It started innocently enough. Scott needed to pick up some tennis shoes for training, so I sent Reed and the boys shoe shopping with him. Next thing I know Mattson and Grayson are the proud owners of brilliant, gorgeous, flashing character shoes.
Put that down as number 101 of things I swore I'd NEVER do as a parent. On the plus side, they do love them and they are definitely snazzy
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Airshow, Part 1.
This saturday we headed up to Dobbins Air base for their airshow. We're already schedule to go to Jacksonville, Fl next friday for the NAVY airshow, but since they won't have F-22, or the Thunderbirds we HAD to go to this one too (according to Reed). I'll have to admit, the F-22 were pretty cool and the weather was beautiful, so it was a great way to spend a Saturday.
This is GREAT!!!
***We also had the great pleasure of having Scott in town. Reed loved having his first best friend around (3rd grade) and Matts loved having the best seat in the house (Scott's VERY tall)
Singin' in the rain
When it's cold and rainy what are two busy boys to do? Read books? No. Bake cookies? No. Paint? No. Help Daddy wash the car? YES!
The Littlest helper
Not so much
Definitely a sweet one.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Today as I was coloring with Gray he requested that I draw WALL-E. No surprise there.
Then, he requested "Two WALL-E". Very impressed with his math and language skills I readily obliged.
Finally he handed me a purple crayon with the request "purple WALL-E". As I finished the sketch his response was priceless: "Purple. WALL-E. Funny."
Yes, yes it is.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Mattson's First School Picture
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Making Aunt Catherine proud
Growing up my sister, Catherine, used to declare that she was going to train her children to think that work was fun and play was hard. For example, "if you're really good you can dust your room" or, "if you throw a fit I'll make you go play outside". Today as my boys BEGGED to vacuum I couldn't help but laugh and think that maybe Catherine was onto something.
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The Alice Cooper phenomenon, which began with the chart entry of "I'm Eighteen," rose to diabolical heights with Killer and School's Out and extravaganzaed in the show surrounding Billion Dollar Babies, has now cooled itself down with Muscle Of Love. While the album contains several highlights and wild-card experiments, its mood reveals that both the group and Alice are uncertain of what new directions they might turn to their own uses. This isn't necessarily bad; it was only a matter of time before they fully eroded the twin themes of horror-movie outrage and teenage rebellion/identification. But the evolutionary hit-or-miss which permeates Muscle Of Love shows the Cooper machine has yet to come up with any replacements.
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Part of the problem is conceptual. Muscle Of Love is the first album since Alice's early efforts that doesn't center around a compleat stage routine or vaguely fleshed-out fantasy. The Cooper experience as a whole has seldom been song-oriented, rather relying on its strength as soundtrack and its cumulative image-impact. As a result, Muscle Of Love, a collection of tracks, has a curiously hazy feel, in which various facets of the group's concerns are laid out and then left for the listener to sort into place.
The album's packaging mirrors this, a series of nice ideas that never seem to fully mesh. Several trains of thought are tossed around — a book cover (shades of School's Out), a sleeve featuring happy sailors on leave (massage-parlor sex), all placed in a corrugated cardboard box ("Hey, why don't we ...") — yet, as they stand, tend to come off as cute gimmicks with little follow-through development.
Carried over to the included songs, the same sort of sensibility can be seen at work, Simply sterling moments are paired against acceptable ones, embellishments to place between the dental nightmare and the guillotine.
Still, Alice is surely a long way from giving up the good ghost, and when Muscle Of Love takes the time to settle squarely on a target, the switch of his blade is as sharp as ever. "Teenage Lament '74," helped out by an all-star cast, lights on a hometown world where gold lame pants and rooster haircuts are regarded as the norm rather than the aberration, coupled with an indelible chorus and a heated tinge of peer-group frustrado. In the same vein, the group's ongoing love affair with television theme music is given vent through "The Man With the Golden Gun," a bravura James Bond overkill in which Alice delivers his best Shirley Bassey impression.
As for the rest, the jury remains hung. Side one begins well with "Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo)," hunches into a "Never Been Sold Before" that is both straightforward and engrossing in the manner of "Raped And Freezing," and then happens on a song which might've been the album's most insightful had it been investigated further: "Hard Hearted Alice/Is what we want to be/Hard Hearted Alice/Is what we want to see," is placed against the almost abnormal placidity of the man offstage.
"Crazy Little Child" is a Dixieland exercise based on a born-to-be-wild story line, "Working Up a Sweat" and the title tune are Muscle Of Love's solid-state rockers, and "Woman Machine" closes out the session with some J. Airplane-ish guitars and a paean to encroaching technological advancement.
All things considered, it's not a bad collation, but the very safety that Muscle Of Love implies makes me slightly apprehensive for the band's creative future. Has success spoiled Alice Cooper? Leave us all remember the fate of Charles Van Doren.