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Martha Argerich plays Beethoven - Conductor Ion Marin - ARTE Concert full of goodness.

iPad stuff seems long overdue. Now we just need to be able to run desktop apps and I can ditch my old MacBook. The rest of it seems mostly like a design and polish year which, honestly after the AI debacle, is fine by me.

These were the big announcements according to Apple. Remember when these were cool?

So a Scottish Turducken? And to think you could have had Bacon and Whisky as well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmoral_chicken

Chicken stuffed with haggis

Sometimes things can be two things I mean, who makes a "mono" headphone amp?

I thought so as well! I own two of Doug’s amps and they are so good I’ve never felt the need to shop for anything else. Love the woodwork on these ones.

"AI" sorry "Apple Intelligence" count over / under ? Ironic , given their recent paper on the limits of LLM's / AI https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking TLDR https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/682693/apples-new-research-paper-says-ai-reasoning-isnt-all-its-cracked-up-to-be Ask AI to summarize paper on AI?, sure! https://www.perplexity.ai/search/summarize-the-following-articl-TFncTlcfTKSKzr_O59OjNQ#0

Ok, so between 15/20 V, make it today Edit: done, works like a charm. Discovered also there's enough power to play with unbalanced inputs, later today will try it after my phono preamp. For the enclosure, I guess I'll need some bespoke heatsinks and cutting aluminum myself, the power transformer with its pot has a diameter of 130mm. Please don't suggest me Hifi2000, tough I'm Italian, they're the most expensive around 😅

Picture 2: An “audio grade transformer “ didn’t care to color code the wires properly, such that the assembly tech has to attach hand-written labels to tell them apart. Maybe only the decal is custom made? Nonetheless it shows the production volume of this kit. Picture 3 and 4: It’s funny they try to use different colored quick disconnect to do dummy-proofing. Did they not know that those quick disconnects are colored differently for a reason? Pink/red for 18GA or smaller, blue for 14/16GA and yellow for 12/10GA. They used similar wire sizes regardless of the requirement of the quick disconnect, and the yellow one is apparently oversized (loose crimping). So much for a “professionally put together” kit.

if you engage the servo, you'll see the output will hover around zero pretty quickly

I always thought (wanted?? maybe) the "DS" is for Doug's initials..... 😄 Nice review!

Not yet, yesterday had the first working power up and wanted to listen to it a couple of hours 😁

From the picture it looks like you didn't engage the servo?

Episode 3... Still conscious and thoroughly hooked. Will have to postpone Episode 4 until tomorrow evening.

Qu'est-ce que-c'est

And after episode 2, it's quite good. If one can remain conscious at any rate.

Unholy carp, she (Saoirse Ronan) is so good in this!

Oddly enough, after rewatching and not dozing off for more than have of episode 1, this makes much more sense. I'm changing my opinion to 'pretty good'.

Back in Novato to see aja vu and their commendable version of Steely Dan Then they bought out the horn section for a few Chicago numbers And threw in a horn solo and drum solo for good measure. A fun time with all the hits.

This looks interesting...

And another one's singing. Friends, this is my first home experience with stax cans, now with a sr303 bought for a dime. And I guess it'll be a long, long journey... I'm in love with this cfa, its speed and clarity are a perfect match with speed and clarity of staxes, wow... It is refined, delicate and well behaved (apart the offset that needs a screwdriver sometimes... What's the tolerance for balance and offset? Trying to keep em spot on on zero, but slowly drifts away...) Thanks Kevin! 🙏

This Blue Prince game... haven't played anything like it since Outer Wilds. I am loving it. Another puzzle game masterpiece. If you enjoy puzzles this is not to be missed.

^^ this. I had it high in my queue and your post pushed it forward. Not an easy listen. Not that it is not really good. It is pretty great. But it is not for the faint of heart. There are a lot of notes, and they are not in the order that I would expect. But listening deeply there are themes and phrases that emerge that are very rewarding. And some tunes that are absolutely beautiful. Well recorded and minimizes the Jarrett mumble. Side note - last week when I had a friend visiting, I tried to explain - The Köln Concert - It was hard with someone that does not listen to jazz and had never heard of it before.