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Posted by Luminator (A) on September 4, 2024 at 17:36:01

In Reply to: RE: (Re)Visiting UC Berkeley posted by Inmate51 on September 4, 2024 at 07:50:38:

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!

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Topic - (Re)Visiting UC Berkeley - Luminator 20:55:27 09/03/24 (16)

Lots of brutalist concrete architecture - Brian H P 17:46:43 09/04/24 (7)

The best of the Berkeley Campus? - vacuous 19:24:05 09/04/24 (6)

More library pics - Luminator 22:39:19 09/04/24 (5)

The most disastrous planning mistake for large libraries? Building underground! - vacuous 09:52:51 09/06/24 (4)

Lake Lagunita - Luminator 12:01:08 09/06/24 (0)

I'm sure you're also familiar with Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford? - Chris from Lafayette 10:40:29 09/06/24 (2)

On weekday evenings, Dinkelspiel often holds free lectures - Luminator 12:16:18 09/06/24 (1)

Ms. CfL was an event manager at Dink for a couple of years - Chris from Lafayette 00:39:05 09/07/24 (0)

RE: (Re)Visiting UC Berkeley - Inmate51 07:50:38 09/04/24 (3)

Music Lovers Audio - Luminator 17:36:01 09/04/24 (2)

RE: Music Lovers Audio - Inmate51 19:02:21 09/04/24 (1)

We go back to Berkeley several times a year - Luminator 19:35:17 09/04/24 (0)

Excellent tour of the campus! More detail from the perspective of a librarian. - vacuous 01:02:11 09/04/24 (1)

My late aunt was a civilian librarian for the U.S. military - Luminator 07:44:27 09/04/24 (0)

RE: (Re)Visiting UC Berkeley - Chris from Lafayette 00:46:26 09/04/24 (1)

My wife got her old violin fixed - Luminator 07:26:33 09/04/24 (0)

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Music Lovers Audio - Luminator 17:36:01 09/04/24 (2)

RE: Music Lovers Audio - Inmate51 19:02:21 09/04/24 (1)

We go back to Berkeley several times a year - Luminator 19:35:17 09/04/24 (0)

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