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Hanging with Lil Bro and the Missus.

Pork belly sope at South with tequila Negroni

Family left a few hours ago. Got my Masters Thursday night, shook the SECAF's hand and got rather drunk that night. Movers come on Monday.

Don't know if I've bragged on my local record store before, but I consistently find amazing deals on rare records at Mobile Records. The guy who runs it Keith is a real pro. From Australia but fell in love with a southerner and relocated to the deep south. Yesterday's haul: Peter Gabriel - Melt: Apparently he recorded alternate versions of his early albums with German lyrics. I had no idea. This is the german version, haven't listened yet. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead: original Rough Trade pressing, hell yes! Pearl Jam - Vitalogy: original pressing, not the remixed recent release. hell yes again! Also noted, but did not purchase, he has an original pressing of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Too rich for me at $300 but was happy just to see it.

Went ahead and picked up a no-date sub for myself. Turning 32 in a few days - so happy birthday to me.

Too afraid of Arkansas.

Just to report back that I've bought a dac to complement my LS50, and it is Mytek DAC 192, and so far I'm loving it very much. Thanks for the advice on not to look at AudioGD product everybody.

I thought you and Debbie were driving down for the Crawfish boil at the ice house? I've been waiting for you all day!

I don't know who you are, but that is an acceptable first post in my book.

Speaking of which, I question the idea that Stax is extensively changing or even tweaking these production lines. I work in a similar business. While we're not as small as Stax by far, my product is the best scientific instrumentation in the world for this particular application. The devices are expensive ($100k), small (handheld), and specialized. I've also worked in similar industries so have experience in these kinds of production lines. FIrst, it would be very unusual for a company to change an existing line while in production, for several reasons. Motivation: there is none. Extensive R&D has gone into the existing design, who in their right mind would want to mess with it while trying to get product out to customers and make bills? Another way to say it, "don't mess with your cash cow" Difficulty: it's called "changing the airplane engines while in flight". Any change has potential side effects that only show up over time, who would do this on an existing production line? Staffing. R&D is always tasked for the next products, why revisit what is working and selling, and who has staff for that? Cost. Small production lines are expensive. Suppliers only want to do one, simple thing. Changing and making variations costs money and time. Certainly some things like coatings are not changed, except for necessity or good reason. Additionally it would be unlikely there would be great variation across the products for the basic components like film and coatings, it's too expensive (another topic would be production line design, which is how to create a myriad of seemingly different products that are actually just small variants of each other) Change sells. In other words, say you figure out an improvement, why would you give it away for free and unannounced on the existing line? You'd be crazy to do this, what you'd want to do is create a new product and trumpet the improvement. I've never seen it at any company that anything changes in production except for bug fixes, and reluctantly at that. Now note I'm not arguing whether people are hearing some kind of variation with the existing production line, but it's highly unlikely they've actually changed the line. If it is true, then it's highly likely to be sample variation. And if that was true, I'd say either Stax has poor control over production (seems unlikely), or that the headphones are so difficult to manufacture that there is an inherent degree of variability (this happens frequently, such as with silicon). And if that was true, the variability wouldn't be systematic, but instance based. Meaning a batch of headphones from one day would all be different. Systematic variation would have to be due to something like what the humidity was when they made the headphone (just an example, Stax appears to assemble in a 'near cleanroom' environment). Edit: I'll add that I happened to work in Japan for years in this industry, so have a sense of how the Japanese electronics industry works. Production engineering is mostly the same world wide, but for a Japanese only company like Stax I'd opine that it would be extremely unlikely for them to do this. Japanese companies are very conservative in this way, only the Germans are their equal.

The Octonauts http://youtu.be/-uLe2VcUCJw

Finished season 3 of House of Cards

Test Tone @ Home live right now: http://mixlr.com/illuminator/chat

I predict beautiful, beautiful music.

Maui seemed southern enough for biscuits and gravy. They didn't have enough for Brent, tho.

All perfectly valid reasons.

I have never particularly cared for the cyclops and its goofy giant numbers. That is why I like my Seadweller more than my Sub/GMT II. I really just want to try the new Ceramic, improved bracelet and blue lume in something, and I am bored.

I can't help but think that Clarkson may have engineered this. Clarkson reported the incident to BBC management, not the producer he assaulted. The million signatures on the petition in his support and all the publicity over this incident can only increase his commercial value to rival broadcasters. His contract was running out.