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Location: Bay Area
Joined: December 11, 2000
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Sometime during the Spring 1991 semester, my friends (some, like me, were in college, but the rest were still in high school) and I saw Bay Area rock band Heathen at The Stone in San Francisco. It was empty! Anyway, Heathen were supporting their new album, Victims Of Deception, which was (and still is!) critically acclaimed, as a shining example of progressive metal.
As the school year was winding down, my friends went to Golden Gate Park, to play softball. For whatever reason, we were low on energy, and were getting outplayed. On the bench, my late friend Skull popped in the new Heathen CD into my Sony D-10 Discman, which fed a boombox. The technical thrash of "Hypnotized" woke us up, but instead of playing some more sports, we just took a walk.
When the school year did end, my family packed up, and went to Honolulu, our second home, and where most of my relatives lived and still live. Of course, one of the first places I wanted to visit was the late Stewart Ono's (UncleStu52 here on AA) Audio
Directions Ltd., then located on Waialae Avenue, near the Palolo McDonald's. The store was strewn with electronic parts and papers, and on a shelf was a stack of CD Greenbacks. At a $1.50 each, less than a shave ice, why not?
In practice, the CD Greenback is safest on CD transports with a spindle. And that included the Sony D-10 Discman. On the trashy-sounding D-10, the CD Greenback's slight reduction of hash was welcomed. Some of my old audiophle friends liked what a CD Greenback did, in their Pioneer Stable-Platter players. And I liked the CD Greenback more in the Theta Data Basic, versus the Cal Delta, both of which had drawers. Do not use a CD Greenback in slot-loading drives.
Interestingly, a short blurb about the CD Greenback would appear in the February 1993 issue of Stereophile. See pages 175-176.
-Lummy The Loch Monster
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