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Some Glenn system testing.. Current configuration in New place.

I celebrated go skateboarding day yesterday the obvious way. Managed to get some footage of my standup slide practice, which is finally paying off.

Some proper crumpets (with Marmite butter) for the G-Man. Also an omelette.

The effect is the same as attending a birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheese's

Spinning Roger.

I had a conversation with CGAW. Nothing fancy, just apples and peeling vs. Veggie Wash. Didn't get nervous, didn't say anything stupid, just a normal conversation between two coworkers. Okay, maybe a little bit of a spaz, but...you know, baby steps.

Ze Frank at his most hilarious (IMHO):

Here is some of it. I have about 10 more minutes of footage I haven't looked at yet.

The main reason why I bought a first production unit now was the L300 and zero issues with that run. Figured I'd give them another chance not to fuck this up. Any driver worth its salt will be run for a large number of hours before it ever sees an enclosure. Then run in again in the enclosure but none of this is done to loosen it up or anything like that. It is simply done to prevent and sort out any defective or marginal units. To think that adding some hours on top of that will change anything is pretty preposterous. So let's say this is real and if the drivers are matched into pairs after 50 hours and continue to change...wouldn't they have to be matched again? To think this is some linear change is irrational at its core so anything matched during production would have to be matched again. Now back to impressions, over all the 009S is a nice improvement over the 009. That bass issue bothers me but I also don't want to rip them off my head anytime something remotely bright pops up. They just lack the impact and power of the SR-Omega and 007's. The sound is more ethereal and not as grounded. I don't really want to rip these apart to change the earpads but I might take my regular 009's apart and try some new pads on them.

Omega is best watch.

Made me think of a bunch of years back, had just broken up with a G/F and was attracted to a lovely lady at work. Couldn't tell how approachable she was, so I got to her by befriending her co-worker and buddy, who had some project meetings in common with me. Long-short: lovely lady was seriously committed (she got married to him), and I made a new friend of this wonderfully-crazy-funny 40-something year old (I was about 23 at the time). Met up with her a few times as friends after work, had a ball.... Side benefit was that I got to know the lovely lady, and she wasn't my type for personality/tastes - figures i liked the weird one!

Blasphemy! 2/3rds of the trilogy and not the best option?

I have definitely gone fully over to preferring music in digital format. I live with my Sony Walkman. I did buy the most recent The Fierce and the Dead album as the special deluxe version, but mostly for Mark Buckingham's fantastic artwork. No more accidentally buying the album twice! Bandcamp is the best -- if you own the album, you can download as many times as you need, so they are your backup. HDTracks, not so much: only three downloads. Me: https://junoreactor.bandcamp.com/album/the-mutant-theatre Fuck yeah, I love Juno Reactor so much. Energetic, mostly instrumental, mostly techno music, but there's something inimitable about him and his music.

Imo they are equivalent. At least between the oyster and constellation. Seamaster/speed master can be found on a few different styles. I haven't worn all of them so I won't comment. Old style holes case oyster bracelets are worse but only right at the clasp. They also start to pull hair when they loosen up. But if I had a holes case I'd replace it with a leather strap.

Where is the blooper reel?

I recommend him (Peter Fabok). I have most of it from back when he gave away his music. Still a steal at that price. Now I just buy all his new releases at full price.

Both are great.

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...in other news I have the SR-009S sitting on my head. This is one of the very first sets shipped out and I only plugged them in just over an hour ago so first impressions only. It's funny to see what is essentially SR-007's parts on them and they do look very nice. Those stators always should have been gold plated as it looks so much better. In terms of sound my reaction is more mixed. Now the good...that horrible forward balance on the old 009's is gone. The treble is extended but well controlled, more like a refined version of the L700's without their slight bright nature. This is a massive change to the better. Now for the less great part...the bass suckout which is present in a part of the spectrum. When I got them I just plugged them into my office system (regular Carbon fed by a Denafrips Ares) and put the player on random. Don Henley - The boys of summer came on (fitting given the lack of a summer here) and the track just sounded thin and distant. I also tried one popular Icelandic song which starts with all the focus on the snare drum (Das Capital - Blindsker in case it is online) and it just sounds weird. They should sound powerful and heavy but on the 009S it is weak and distant sounding. I need to do some digging as to what is causing this but two things spring to mind, a port hidden in there or those awful earpads. The 009 earpads are a terrible design so that will probably be my first stop. I will need to do a bunch more listening but I'm a bit disappointed now...

Spent a nice afternoon at my dad and stepmom's, good food & good people. Got a rare pic of me with my two brothers and sister (officially adopted step-sister, but...sister). I'm the one with the least hair. Oh, and the big smiles were not due to being together, but because of FLUFFY, which Alexa found for us (EDIT: I JUST found out, the backing band for Gloria was Psychotic Pineapple!)

The opponent Lance lost to here just took gold in the Pan Am zonals. Nice job!

We took the old man to Napa to celebrate Fathers' Day. I can't think of many places in the world I enjoy more. We had a wonderful time!