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Seriously great rec there, HS. Used wheel/tire combos are aplenty. Oh, my buddy actually started a national race car swap meet thing on the facebook; I'll invite you, Chris. **BRENT**

You guys are cracking me up...needed a chuckle. Dread - I would take a hard look at someone's throw-aways for race wheels. I'm assuming you've found a good Ford based forum. There or somewhere like Racingjunk you'll be able to find a nice set of wheels that some poor schmuck is taking a bath on trying to unload. If you're lucky, they'll have rubbers that suit you for a dime on the dollar... I respect some folks are OCD, but you're going to beat on them anyhoo... My two bits. HS

Hawks are done. Embarrassing effort on offense (from the top two lines in particular) combined with poor coaching decisions on DMan assignments (playing the slow, more physical blue liners which falls exactly into St Louis' strategy is a pretty terribly idea). Lots of people saying "Oh look, one goal has separated them in all three losses, it's been so close." No it hasn't. The Blues are playing as-expected and Elliot is not being challenged by net-front presence at all. NO fucking way we can win 3 straight. This is not the same 2013 crew. I kind of knew this was all coming based on the regular season. The team never looked right. Incredibly inconsistent, no aggressiveness, no resilience. They fooled me the last few weeks when it looked like they might've found some old spark, but since this series started I've seen the same hesitant, underachieving group that got demolished by divisional foes (hello Dallas and Minnesota) all year.

I'd get a STi for winter driving.

Hang on, you bloody well forgot Australia.

My vantage tonight, seeing Hilary Hahn. I could have taken the 'leper colony' seats, again, but decided to chance it. It was fine. The young lady next to me didn't take her shit out of my seat when I got there, but there was no-one on the other side of me, and it was kind of a bench, so I sat between two seats, sort of. It was fine at first, but I was sitting right on the seam, so it got kinda old. At the intermission I was going to ask her to keep her shit, but they never returned, so no problems on either side of me for the rest of the show. She played a solo violin piece that one of her patrons had commissioned for her that was just fantastic. Show opened with the first part of that, then it was her and the pianist Cory Smyth playing Mozart, then she played the second part of the new piece, intermission, third part, then the pianist returned for a Sonata by Copland. This was a much more Hilary-centric concert than the last one, so I was happy.

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Toyo&tireModel=Proxes+R888

Well that's because HF hasn't had any serious Stax discussion for years. I actually checked out the Stax thread over there this morning (replying to PM's is the only reason to go there) and seeing the discussion about diaphragm thickness just cracked me up. All of that info is in the old threads or stuck in the heads of us the old timers. As one of the mafia members said, "we've forgotten more about Stax than those fools will ever know". He isn't far off..

Yes, that's her! Sweet kid, too. They're from the Cincinnati area. His son goes by his first and middle names: The kids are both trying to make it professionally, but you know, odds and all...

I like to point things out. It's what I do. While I think flats are pricey, anyone already planning to pick up a replacement soon wouldn't be spending that much more in grabbing one of these. I'll stick with my cheap-bastard HD414 pads while they are still about $10 apiece. Even if you need to buy a knife to cut the holes, you're still saving a bunch of dosh. Consumer matters, automotive matters, anti-Colin matters

It ain't me...I'm lactose intolerant.

^I'm game. Thunderpants doing it some justice... Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain

You mean the Dairy Queen is a real person who advises you on consumer matters?

I do love the markings on old equipment stating the number of semiconductors inside. They should do that on computers these days...

Recently got a chance to audition the Lotoo Paw Gold and this DAP, despite its high price, is definitely the best sounding stand-alone portable digital player I've tried to date. Bass is so very texture and the overall tonality is quite neutral and natural. The spatial qualities are well done and the depth of the soundstage is rather convincing. It comes with 500 mw into 32 ohm so it drive my HD800 very well. It edges out my ZX100, ZX2, and a friend QP1R during my short time with it. Sadly it doesn't have any digital output feature and the UI is very basic. It takes a full-size SD card, so one can easily take along 512GB of music with you. Battery life is rated at 10 hours.

The latest Motor Trend seems to think the ST is the more fun than the RS. RS is good for the track but bad for everything else according to the review.

The Red Rising Trilogy is amazing. I'd recommend it to just about anyone.

I'd look at Nokians, or the general altimax which are the prior gen nokians) for winters.

Dan is a good friend of mine from high school. He was the best athlete in our class, QB on the football team, leading scorer in basketball, and hit nearly .500 in baseball. He's a businessman -- a successful marketing guy, not a professional musician. But everything he does, he does well. Both his son and daughter are 20-something musicians, and trying to eek out a living doing so. "Kitchen sessions are one take live performances in my kitchen (with an occasional post recording harmony thrown in)." https://soundcloud.com/dancarruthers/untitled?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook

He's not a cheap bastard. After all he custom ordered a beautiful Ebony, Bloodwood and Maple stand from yours truly.

Got a late start to riding this year. Had time, weather crappy. No time, weather beautiful. Typical Spring in Michigan. Finally got out for the first ride of the season, albeit just commuting. This is going to be fun this year. I am much more agile on the bike now that I've lost a few pounds. Rather than sit and ride, I should be able to ride and drive. Rather than steer into corners I'm flicking into and out of them.

So here's a progress update on my T2 mini build. I started off with the a golden reference version of the T2 supply. Had a couple of issues. There was some 60Hz noise I was hearing (I'm guessing from the integration of the negative rail supplies), which I can probably solve for. Also, the current limiting, which works, wasn't fast enough when there was a shorting issue with the amp on the negative rail (FETs in the output section shorted to the heat sinks). It would pretty much blow out several components in the supply. I decided to go back to the original design, but as a shrunken version (206mm x 200mm). I did some small mods (added cascaded current source for the 30V supply to the opamp and added some additional spots for compensation caps. I finished this over the weekend and have spent some time listening. I've still got to tweak the PS (some small oscillations - probably because I was experimenting with the .1uF cap to the negative input of the op amp and added a .1uF cap across the voltage divider). My BK multi-meter is showing between 1mV and 0 on the AC setting. I've had some of the supplies on the scope but will need to go through all of them. This causes some very faint background noise. The amp has had it's fair share of issues, primarily with the output FETs shorting to the heat sink. I've had this once on the left channel and three times on the right. I believe it was that some thermal compound found it's way inside the collar of the thermal washers (7721-3PPS). I've cleaned these up and have had the amp on for 12 hours now with no issues. Also, the right channel DC test points are all pretty much spot on, but the left channel has an issue with the -543V test point. It is sitting at -502V (the rest of the DC test points are pretty close except for the top of the batteries that sit at +238V). I've been looking at this issue for a while, but haven't figured it out yet. I've got to focus here a bit. Any thoughts would be appreciated. I also have to finesse the battery adjustments to get rid of some occasional noise coming through the right channel as well. I have had my 404's and then later O2's on this beast. Wow, how nice It's been too long...

I had an AK100II for a while, and to me it felt just like a luxury player. I really couldn't tell the difference between it and an iPod Classic with my Roxannes. Definitely not worth the price for me. Mind you, I didn't use the balanced output. Best DAP I've ever heard sound-wise was the Lotoo PAW Gold: very smooth, organic and tridimensional and also highly transparent and detailed. The equalizer is a pain to setup but fantastic, incredibly usable, flexible and precise. However, just like the Questyle Purk mentioned the UI is a joke and it looks like something made in the 90s. My current setup, which isn't an all-in one like you need but is still reasonably compact is a FiiO X5 1st gen driving a HeadAmp pico Slim. The sound IMO is up there with the best DAPs I've ever tried, but it's much cheaper. To me it sounds better than the HA-2: more neutral, especially in the midrange, which sounds leaner and slightly clearer. However, the UI still isn't too great – better than the Lotoo though – and these days I just cannot live without Spotify. I've done some reading on this because I want something with which I can use Spotify, and like purk recommended I narrowed my choices to the ZX2, the X7 and also to the Onkyo and Pioneer new DAPs. But unlike you, I don't exactly need an all-in-one so I guess I'll go with a Mojo