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1959, The Year That Changed Jazz

As it turns out, Moondrop are finally releasing the MoonZero soon: https://www.hifihub.com.br/en/product-launches/moondrop-moonzero-445-electrostatic-headphone-takes-on-the-stax-sr-x1 This image courtesy of Fujiya Avic: Looks cool and if they can bring them in for under 500$... that is mighty tempting.

You're better than I. With apologies to Dolly (and all of you) this is the song I've been thinking about this week.

Béla Fleck, banjo; Sam Bush, mandolin; Jerry Douglas, dobro; Stuart Duncan, fiddle; Edgar Meyer, bass; Bryan Sutton, guitar

Music on TIDALThe Dark Third "Supercut"Playlist - The Dark Third "Supercut" - 12 itemsI recently found out Pure Reason Revolution played the entirety of a version of The Dark Third live and will be doing it some more, in honour of its 20th anniversary, so I was reminded how I tried to burn all the tracks from both versions onto a single CD-R and failed because it wouldn't fit. So I made a playlist. I could've done it the other way, and probably will at some point, but this sequencing was decided on first, so that's what I'm in the middle of listening to.

^ Michelle Goldberg wrote what many of us were thinking. "What a wretched time for Gloria Steinem to die." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/opinion/gloria-steinem-feminism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-lA.A-HN.zQSy2JfoMd5w&smid=url-share (gift article)

This song has been going through my head recently, for some odd reason.

DeAgostini Blue Note #2 Herbie & #3 Sonny Ex.

Long but wonderful day yesterday. Left the house at ~7:30, got back almost midnight. Visited a dear friend in CT for a day-late birthday celebration. She was so supportive to me as I went through so much with Karen, and she has had her tough issues and hardships as well. But we had a wonderful day just checking out some small towns near her, and having a nice lunch and dinner. Happy Birthday Nancy!

There is greed indeed, but the rise in oil prices caused by war is also an objective factor, and every aspect of modern industry is influenced by it. At least it provided an irrefutable reason for the price increase.

I think it is mostly just greed but yup, 10% on almost everything. The X9000 is up to 770KYen which is just stupid.

Stax is going to raise the price of its products by 10%. Thank U Trump🤬

The Audacity from AMC, but also showing on Netflix. Took a couple episodes, but I’m now so in. Angry, snarky comedy. Aka the other Cupertino. Trailer First episode

We’ve been many times. In fact, I start one of my usual bike loops from the Hotel Winters parking lot. It is a little hidden gem for sure. Only about a 20 minute drive from where I live.

While heading to Melissa's parent's house last weekend we visited the small town of Winters CA for the first time, and stumbled across their small car show in the early evening. So out came the M Monochrom (M9M) and LLL 35mm f/1.4 Double Aspherical "11873", shot mostly at f/2 for a classic, low res look. It's a cute little town if you haven't been @TMoney

Whatever you did to post like that, don’t do it again.

Hi everyone, I have a question: how do you select an output transformer for Stax headphones? I’ve built a circuit using 2A3 tubes, but I’m having trouble with the output transformer because I don’t know how to calculate the specs—though the LL1660 is said to be suitable. I want to order a custom transformer for 2A3 and 845 tubes.

Gloria Steinem too. https://apnews.com/article/gloria-steinem-dies-724836935f6547fda60f361c15238d14 with stepson

Sad news. We saw Jason Moran accompanying Cassandra on piano at SF Jazz in 2013 and I'm pretty sure we saw her perform elsewhere before then. Gone too young. ☹️

so you need about 4 times the current just to drive the cable. so say 100ma bias. only the D&G can do this. or a 150+ watt speaker amp and a really large boost transformer. say a pair of transformers from a mc2300.

I moved the cable chat over to another thread but yeah... this is not great: