CTA

For those in the know, the curmudgeon being one since he is writing this, the CTA is the Chicago Transit Authority.  It is also the first album from the band Chicago, released in 1969.  


They had very energetic music, and a stunning bass line, something that always gets my attention.


We would all run to Don Loft's room to play Chicago.  He had Wharfdale speakers.  They had sand sandwiched in the speaker walls - the idea apparently was to provide sonic perfection because the walls on mere mortal speakers would vibrate at the volume levels we used in college, and ruin the sonic purity of, say, Jimi Hendrix or Cream.  They also weighed a ton.


And they could really pound out the bass, the CTA album making Don very proud.


Of course, I still have the album and was recently moving the music to my iPod, and as I've steadfastly maintained, you must give it a test run at the volumes it was intended for.


Yeow.  Still thrills 40 years later. 


 And, to my knowledge, I don't have sand in my speaker walls.