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  1. It was Spam, Gene just wanted to see if you would fall for that old "call it Sushi" trick.
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  2. Giant space plane. Cool Military Planes Overall view of the main hall.
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  3. I found Major Tom Tiny little stunt plane. Tiny little non-stunt plane. Slightly larger tiny plane
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  4. Figured I would grab one and try it out today at the Air and Space Museum.
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  5. That's a part of my youth right there. Mom is still a Cubs fan, but I remember Ernie from my youth. Such an always up, positive kind of guy. Weird that this one is hitting me a little hard. I can remember watching him foul off 5 - 10 balls in a row, just measuring up a pitcher to then hit one out of the park. So good in his prime. So maybe I need to go to Wrigley this year on a warm, sunny day and think "let's play two today!"
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  6. So, Colin ... is Hock(e)y now like Whisk(e)y? Is this some Hipster, Douche, Sports thing I've missed out on? Please keep me informed of this stuff ... it's hard to figure out without a guide.
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  7. This one is for grawk, as I know he loves hocky.
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  8. Thanks guys, especially nearly-the-same-birthday Uncle Absorbine. And of course, a happy birthday to very-nearly-the-same-birthday Dom!
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  9. It is a fantastic museum. I have never made it into the restoration areas, it was pretty neat. First a few ISO 16000 samples.
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  10. I was born in a country that is no more - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. At that time just about everything was scarce as cavities on hens teeth. So basically if you somehow got something, you surely needed to able to fix it. Have you seen plastic bags being machine washed and then fitted with cotton inlays to keep them go longer? I have. My pops, after he came back from serving in the red army (he was lucky to be dumb enough to tell the conscription commission that he had relatives in US, which saved him from Soviet-Afghan war), scraped up enough cash to buy a Sharp two cassette decker from sailors. That catapulted him to the top of his local crowd of 20-somethings. He was able to copy records, which at that time meant being the local music kingpin. Records were rare and usually came from the same sailors or were ripped from foreign radio transmissions. The main man who did the first copies was called the The Great Audiopirate - if you somehow got your hands on the second copies, everyone would automatically worship you because evidently you were "up-there" pretty high. Usually second tape copies went to high caliber underground discos, then they trickled down through further copying through guys like my dad. The funny thing was that due to the quality of these records being abysmal, many of the older folks don't recognize western music from that time being played from good records - things like cymbals were absent in these records. So when I came into this world I had more music at my disposal than 95% of the other kids. I also had many peers who taught me interesting things like soldering, basic electronics and making explosives (strangely enough that's also a big thing in our family). I also learned to read at the tender age of five, which meant a lot of reading and rapidly widening my worldview through various encyclopedias and Jules Verne books. Yet the affliction of audiophilia came much much later. I've loved music all my life, yet the thought of "better playback" came to me at the age of 23 when I also had the cash to make some of it come true. My mother flew to NY that year and bought a Grado SR80i for me with the money I gave her. The next year I went to study to Iceland...
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  11. Well, finally got around finishing the design for the amplifier case and sent it to FrontPanel today.
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  12. Not today, but at a recent fencing tournament. Heh
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  13. NECROPOST! Wow, this is one of the very early SFD-2s. The SFD-II Mk.III I'm listening to right now was an original Mk.I SFD-2 as well. My case is rather different - rather than just the top coming off it's a top and side type arrangement. Mine says 1994 on the analog board near the output jacks. Apparently the analog board changed a bit over the Mk.I run. If you bought a brand new Mk.II, you have the latest analog board. Some Mk.Is have the same but only the later ones. I'm not sure that the Mk.II upgrade changed much other than the digital filter swapout to PMD100... The Mk.III was available as an upgrade only as far as I am aware. The Mk.III added SF's funky I^2-Se input (output mod available for SFT-1 and standard on Transport 3, and Assemblage D2D-1 upsampler). Mk.III uses CS8414 receiver for all but I^2-Se, PMD200, PCM1704s (eight of 'em!) and OPA627s for I/V... The Mk.III is fucking great... and insane with the D2D-2 via I^2-Se... (changing my redbook life, i'm in heaven! you know that face Fremer's pulling in the gizmodo article listening to Avalon? that's me right now but with Stax on, and for only 5 cents on his $350k dollar and instead of a big black vynil disc it's the fabulous redbook layer of the SACD version of this album) my only complaint is the bass (both quantity and quality) falls short compred to my Pass D1 (24/96 upgraded unit with CS8414/DF1704/8xPCM1704). Chris Johnson tells me the SE+ upgrade should more than address that and I'm going to have Bursons put in place of the OPA627s as well... just waiting for funds to materialize... As for digital cables, I have a SFT-1 (sans I^2-Se output...) with ST-optical output and have used it extensively with my Pass D1, and a bit with the SFD-2 Mk.III (rocking a Micromega Drive 3 mostly these days). It's definitely got its own sound, different than coax or xlr... I've only got one ST cable, a grey plain looking AT&T jobbie. Aural Symphonics would be happy to sell you a $1k "Optimism V2"... anyway, I find ST and XLR to be opposite sounds with coax a happy medium. XLR = smooth, laid back, good in the extremes, kind of fat and slow PRaT wise. ST = awesome midrange, wicked PRaT, weak in the extremes. coax = great balance of the two. This has held true with all the cables and transports I've used...
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