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Another option is to look at storing them without the jewel cases, just in sleeves. A lot of upfront work, and the cost is a smaller cabinet along with a whole bunch of sleeves that can store/display the covers. Digipaks, box sets, and special format CD's are the exception. I investigated this some years ago, got a fair amount that I'd like to keep but save some space. And yet another option is to just get several binders with pages/sleeves that can hold the CD and cover/insert. But bottom line, I'd recommend losing the jewel cases.....and to Doug's point, sell off or donate what you don't really want. Now, if only I could take this advice....!

My first vote would be to chuck them all. I did, when we moved, and I have not missed them at all. You can probably get a decent tax deduction if you donate them. My second vote would be to find a local cabinet maker, and to get him or her to make something for you.

Someone trained a neural net on Heavy Metal band names and ice cream flavors. The results were ... unpredictable.

They’re laughing at us because he’s still in office regardless of all the bullshit they cop to in the video. Fuck all of them.

Thanks, Dusty-san, listening links are always nice for the hard of being arsed. I think I know someone who will love that album, so passing on the link. Meanwhile:

I ripped all mine to a NAS drive, so I can instantly choose what I want. Took a month or more, using dbpoweramp https://www.dbpoweramp.com/ . But I have no intention of getting rid of the CD's. Audio is littered with defunct media - cartridge, cassette, VHS, Betamax, quadraphonic (in two varieties) and others. So I keep the CD's, and CD player(s) too in the event that (a) the NAS goes phut (the horror, the horror) or (b) the whole digital storage paradigm is superseded.

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Meatloaf & Mashed potatoes

Hey my good Sirs! I've been absent for a long time again w/o saying anything. Sorry about that. So... Not all the things happened today but, I got a really good job offer from a chemical company from my home town. I quit the job. I'm moving back to my hometown earlier than expected, in early june. My boss asker me to quit early even if i told them I'm going to quit at early august but, they are covering rent of 2 months. So all is ok. At last I'm getting away from here. Moar Cat photos and recipes are coming soon! @Dusty Chalk can i get my title back, my good sir?

Yeah - I use Tidal HiFi too. But that is a fragile technology. Digital streaming services can go bust, are prone to cyber crime and warfare, or new technologies based on human embedded augmented intelligence (maybe 10 years off) or similar might cause them to go phut as a business. But you know something really funny - I have all this digital shit - and now 80% of my listening is to vinyl.

Haha, well this doesn't mean it will never happen, just might take a long long time and I need to store the CDs until I am done.

Thanks Brent.

Just get a couple of those for storage purposes only, and eject when you want to put it on a real player. Problem solved.

Preceded by the new Amorphis, which is amazing!

That is pretty funny.

George Colligan - Come Together (2009) and as soon as it ends, getting ready for the "first listen" at NPR (for free, obviously) of the new Joshua Redman - Still Dreaming

Rip them all to a NAS, stored losslessly (e.g. FLAC). Use a small network streamer to feed your DAC. (I used EAC, as it's safer and more reliable with errors than dbpoweramp, and is completely free). Pack CDs away in air-tight plastic storage crates, with sachets of silica gel to prevent mould. Stack crates out of the way in a cupboard or something. I should really do that last one, I still have too many CDs lying about.

I believe it’s just cosmicground.bandcamp.com @Hopstretch here ya go: https://cosmicground.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-ground-iv

Ooh that sounds like my kinda thing! * wanders off to investigate *

So great -- Berlin school electronica w/ lots of mellotron.

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Paging Colin!

Got the amp assembled After cutting some leads and removing the IEC screws, everything fit fine. There's some small gaps here and there, but at this price point I think it's acceptable and you wouldn't really notice unless you look really closely. After running it for a couple hours the case can get pretty warm. Even the potentiometer starts feeling warm. I'll try it without the top cover to see what i get. Either way, the next revision is getting a lot more holes.

I finally built my Blue Hawaii - a single box KG 2015 which uses the mosfets, (but I will build the BJT boards too). All GR supplies. I was inspired by a Triumph Rocket motorcycle for the chrome trim and I wanted volume indication in the dark so it has a circle of leds and a delayed pointer off the heater warm up. While I was working all this out Kevin published the Grounded Grid so I am building one of those in a similar case. Looking forward to some extended listening now. Thanks Kevin for a great design

the feedback mod is only for 727

Well I don't know how many normal bias only SRM-727s exist, but I have one. I got the bias board built and installed today. I'm still waiting for one of the resistor values to arrive here, so for the moment I've ghetto rigged a couple of 100K resistors in series to get 200K on the first resistor, and I've switched the second resistor in the divider to 300K because I needed some for my SRX plus build and I figured I'd kill two birds with one stone. B+ runs a little hot on my amp at 365v so all together this setup yields a 225v Bias. I've got some 165K resistors enroute to replace the rigged 200k resistor on the input side so the final board should yield around 235V bias which I'm thinking will be just fine. The board is mounted to the side of the chassis on some nylon standoffs. Ground and B+ were tapped off of the test points on the board as indicated in the picture below. For ground you could actually just ground to the chassis using brass standoffs and connect ground on the bias board to one of the standoffs. I didn't have any brass standoffs so I just ran a wire for ground. She's powered up and my Lambda NBs are singing with the amp completely untethered so I'm happy. Mod success! If anybody else wants to build a bias supply like this the above schematic and values are correct as confirmed by spritzer. I'd also like to amend my previous comments on the sound of this amp. It's been a slow burner for me, but I've really warmed up to the sound. It's a little warmer than the SRM-1 MK2 which I think in short term A-B testing makes the 727 sound a little veiled. But actually all of the detail is there, it's just not as in your face as with the SRM-1 Mk2. I'm not great with all the audiophile lingo, so it's tough for me to describe exactly what this amp does, but I guess if I had to generalize I'd say it sounds more natural and effortless than the SRM-1 Mk2. It's strength is especially apparent with percussion instruments. I've listened to this amp for around 20 hours at this point, going through a significant chunk of my music collection that I'm really familiar with, and I prefer it's presentation over the SRM-1 Mk2 on everything I've heard so far. Well I think I'm done here, this is my new main amp, at least until I build the SRX Plus, but that will probably be a while.

Senn. factory tour focusing on the HD800 assembly line.