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Heather Nova - Breath and Air. Been a huge fan for years, she has an inner passion that I just love. Even though I don't think all her newer music is as strong as much of her earlier work, she still has that passion I love. I FINALLY got to see her live in a small setting, a semi-acoustic set with her brother (who goes by Misha); this was maybe 2-3 years ago, after having 2 different shows cancelled before that. A wonderful experience, got to chat a tiny bit after the show, she is very nice and gracious, really appreciates her fans. Example:

Reminds me of some of the Steel Panther stuff..... EDIT: D'oh! Didn't read that one of the Steel Panther guys is in it! Makes sense....

When a comedy band writes better rock songs than most rock bands

Can't say I have ever seen a Trans Am that sexy.....woof! HS

1973 Pontiac Trans Am for 2025 World Time Attack Challenge (in Sydney, Australia - September 5-6):

Yep, that's what I've seen.

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Last night I did the first power-up. I used some very inexpensive 300Bs just in case anything went wrong and to avoid risking the expensive tubes. Balance was actually very normal. About 5 V on one channel and 3 V on the other. But the offset was around –100 V on both channels. I’m guessing this is the “–100 V output” issue you were referring to? Let me know if that matches what you’ve seen. I haven’t had time to swap the cathode resistors yet. Measured Vgk is about –42 V, which is clearly not deep enough. I’ve ordered some 7.5 kΩ resistors, which after calculation should bring Vgk closer to –90 V. Also, for anyone interested, here are the LMQ66430 output voltage setting resistor positions I used on my board: M20-8760542 is a header pin jumper. 1–2: reserved positions 3–4: 6.3 V 5–6: 5 V 7–8: 2.5 V 9–10: 1.5 V Hope this helps anyone planning similar setups.

Leftover dessert from yesterday's liquid diet.

Italian Tiramisu* & Farmers Market Strawberries *Product of Italy

Period instruments? Thanks, will add to queue.

Deck, Greek Sheet Pan Chicken and Lemon Rice.

Before: 2 After: Greek Sheet Pan Chicken Instant Pot Lemon Rice

Chicken Tikka Masala

Crossing Borders by La Serenissima (2025) https://album.link/j4gkqzjvdxptv Example: Not what I expected from the album cover, but a lovely collection of Telemann, Sieber, Durante, Vivaldi, and Brescianello. Very well recorded and performed.

May be worse than that and see below, however the above R4 was $50 more everywhere (including Hiby) for the 3-4 weeks I searched and only lowered on Amazon a few days ago. I did see a SmallRig tripod whose sale price was the same as everywhere else most of the time though. Guess it depends. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/07/amazon-grocery-deliveries-prime-day

Condolences. That's tragic and awful.

Not to be a party pooper, but isn't Prime Days a scam?

YouTube algorithm gave me this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0a3HdFyexE Preview render fail. Jazz Fusion It was awesome, so I looked up some of the others https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DimxQV6oCWI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmgGcE8vNPE ...which sent me down the Senri Kawaguchi rabbit hole (she's a jazz fusion drummer). I determined that she always associates with (chef's kiss) musicians, so I've been listening to a lot of her projects: Senri Kawaguchi Triangle, Jazz Avengers, et al. -- in addition to Nankai Trio. Antarctica will probably be my album of the year. I really love jazz fusion. EDIT: Oh, I fell down a different rabbit hole a while ago, while following the different acts that keyboardist Kiyomi Otaka from Casiopea was in. One of them was Kiyo*Sen, which was the two of them in a keyboard/drum collaboration.

Latest additions. GT4RS and BAC Mono I do fit the Mono, just can’t breath

After almost a week the smell from the stock SR-007S earpads has subsided so I put them back on... and they lasted there for a good hour before I removed them. What the hell were Stax thinking with these... Going from the 007Mk1 pads it was a drastic downgrade, bass, upper bass gets this reverb effect to it, midrange looses all definition and the top end is very peaky. The soundstage and imaging being poor on a 007 is pretty much rock bottom for performance. So I went back to the Kennerton pads as they were a better fit for the new arc and lack of rotation compared to the Mk1 pads. Sound is much tighter and more controlled with them with minimal downsides. As it stands now, I'm going to go with the Kennerton ECL-01 pads but I've gone on a bit of an earpad buying spree (as if I needed any more...) so there might be something better out there for them. To anybody with a set of SR-007S's, I'd recommend trying other earpads as the 105mm size is pretty common and they are easy enough to install.

A SRM-313 with a normal bias output would be a solid upgrade and one of the best normal bias amps out there. I'd pick it over a SRM-1 Mk2 as they are more reliable but it would also be an upgrade too.

I kind of liked him a lot more than that old bitch of Dr. Marko.