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RE: (Re)Visiting UC Berkeley

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In Reply to: RE: (Re)Visiting UC Berkeley posted by Luminator on September 03, 2024 at 20:55:27

Did you get to Music Lovers hfi shop on (I think) Gilbert street? Is it still there?

Thai Noodle II on Telegraph was closed, the last I was told. Fantasy Studios has been closed for several years now.

I gotta get out there again sometime soon - my wife needs a new tie-dyed t-shirt, and I need my Beserkeley fix.

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Music Lovers Audio - Luminator 17:36:01 09/04/24 (2)
Scylla found a page of her notes from Multivariable Calculus. She says that, on account of high school AP classes, her start at UC Berkeley got skewed. She took the above Mutlivariable Calc, and Linear Algebra & Differential Equations. She says both math classes were "five days a week, almost two hours a day." "As it turns out," she says, "I ended up not needing those classes for my major [MCB]."

At Cal, freshmen are only guaranteed on-campus housing for that one year. So, as the Spring 1992 semester wound down, Scylla and three other girls found an apartment in the middle of Berkeley.

During the summer of 1992, I took BART from S.F. to Downtown Berkeley, and met up with Scylla. She and I went to Music Lovers Audio, which was on Walnut Street, not far from Chez Panisse and the Gourmet Ghetto. The entrance felt like we were walking on a plank or diving board. The salesman who latched on with us was a tall, skinny, nerdy guy, who wore a short-sleeved collared shirt.

Scylla and I asked about Conrad-Johnson's solid state PF-1 preamp. Alas, MLA on that day did not have a demo unit.

Unlike other audio stores, that initial visit to MLA was memorable. Afterward, Scylla wanted both Oscar's hamburgers (which was on Shattuck & Hearst) and the Top Dog which used to be up Hearst.

In the mid-1990s, a different Cal friend, ACS, accompanied me to MLA. We really liked the then-new Sonus Faber Concertino. Given that my room was small and square, with a hard wall behind the stereo, I should have gotten that SF Concertino instead of the Thiel CS.5 (purchased from San Francisco's Audio Excellence).

The last time I've been to MLA was in 2009, but that was their San Francisco store. An audiophile friend had to get his big-ass Wadia 781i fixed. I helped him lug that CD player, which was as large and heavy as a power amp.

My wife, who does not like to travel, reports to Dallas. Her colleagues love to travel, so they use up the travel budget by mid-year, and then my wife blissfully throws her hands up, "Sorry, there's no money left for me to travel."

I went to UC Santa Cruz, where tie-dyed Grateful Dead shirts were common. Heck, they probably still are common!
- RE: Music Lovers Audio - Inmate51 19:02:21 09/04/24 (1)
  So, anyway, did you get to Music Lovers? Or, was your post "revisiting Berkeley" just another nostalgic trip in your mind?
  
  I thought you actually recently went back to revisit Berkeley. Maybe I was wrong.
  
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  - We go back to Berkeley several times a year - Luminator 19:35:17 09/04/24 (0)
    My wife, relatives, and friends (but not I) went to UC Berkeley for undergrad. A smaller number went there for grad school. Because we lived scattered throughout the Bay Area, Berkeley is often centrally located. Plus, the Cal alums like to see how the campus and surrounding areas have changed.
    
    Per previous post, the last time I've been to Music Lovers Audio was in 2009, but that was the S.F store. As for the Berkeley store, I believe they've moved closer to the Bay. The last time I went to the North Berkeley location was the mid-2000s.
    
    Readers will have to judge for themselves, if they like the new entrance structure at the Downtown Berkeley BART station. Earlier this year, my family took BART from Bay Fair to Downtown Berkeley.
    
    Sorry, last weekend's visit didn't provide clear evening/night photos.
    
    Taken last school year, this shot at Valley Life Sciences Building shows actual chalk boards.
    
    Some marketing class at Haas.
    
    My friends may be Cal alums, but that does not give them a discount off of the $20 entrance fee at the Lawrence Hall Of Science.

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