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I would like present my new Focus MTB...

Today I learned the value of calling around for car repair quotes. It saved me at least $400 over the original quote because they wanted to replace the whole control arm rather than just the bushings.I also got them to match the dealer for the exact same service and saved $120 right there.

I'd kinda like to hear Momentums that are broken in and on a rig they get along with. Shelly's pair were straight out of the box and it was hardly love at first sight with my portable. Portable stuff is still finicky. Nobody's gotten it quite right yet. Musings aside, I think the point that portables should be heard with stuff meant to be used with portables - which the Momentums are - is really well taken. I'm optimistic. Hi-res DAPs are selling by the boatload - by audiophile standards, anyway. CDBaby is selling FLACs. The crappy headphones I see on heads at Urban Brew are getting a little less crappy. Kids are buying records. The other day I found an intern cutting video with a pair of Shure SRH 440s on. Quality is edging toward the mainstream. The real main part of the stream will always be garbage. It's the littoral zone where there's life. Remember the "good old days". Most people listened to scratched LPs on systems that couldn't aspire to reach absolute crap status. Or cassettes that were dubbed at ten or twenty times speed. And yet, they still manged to make enough records that sounded good enough that we could enjoy them. Win or lose, this Pono thing is bound to help.

Do you expect me to talk? No, Mr Bond, I expect you to listen to every version of all the albums of Roberto Carlos!

Hodor!

because of another thread...

No shit. I can't wait to do the review (should go up by Friday). It'll cause a stir, I'm going to be very complementary. Then the week after I'll do the Studio2 review....that's not going to go so well for Beats. Put your head on a pillow and the noise canceling circuit goes into a wicked low frequency oscillation. That's what the whole "Do you wear headphones in bed at night" thing was about. 40% of folks listen to headphones in bed more than once a week. They're going to be very disappointed.

Well fuck me sideways!

Markt.

Ippudo was my favorite, and Hide Chan was really good too. I think I remember going to Totto and Sapporo and liking them, but less sure.

I don't remember, you'd have to ask Jin and/or Colin. Or search through the thread. Actually, I need to figure it out. Okay: menKui ten is one of them. Jin says Ippudo is another. That's all I'm finding in the thread.

Little video from today.

I am going to have to break down and try Ramen at same point.

Here you go.... Stock cable Long Mogami Short Mogami