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Took an early lunch to watch The Red Arrows fly over The Golden Gate as part of their North American Tour, 2019 Nice day!

Talking Heads - Fear Of Music

Last night, went to LobsterFest!

Bosnian highland Kruzi above Livno.

Poor camel!

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Swapped the flat pads to the Alessandro MS-1 and surprise, surprise, they sound better than the comfy pads. I do have to turn the volume down a bit with the drivers firing directly into my ears. I may have been wrong about the deluxe flat pads feeling denser – that might have been normal manufacturing variance. The regular flat pads on the MS-1 hurt my ears after about 2 hours, since they have the stock Grado ear-crushing clamp. The pain I endure for dat bass. I tried the flats on the MS-1 when I first got the flats, but they never got a fair chance because the flats were going on the HP 2. The comfy pads tend to cut a bit of the treble and transparency (transients, attack speed, decay, etc.), but I guess I was in denial, not wanting to buy another pair of flats back then. Win-win today. There is a spare pair of bowl pads sitting around my place somewhere (not crumbling). I'm not sure what John Grado does to the drivers, etc. to voice them for bowl and bagel pads, but you'd think there would be some major changes to sculpt the bass and to avoid a midrange-treble suckout with the additional volume around your ears. I wasn't a fan of the bowls as the treble reverberations sounded fake with my HP 2 and MS-1 and bass quality and quantity were dramatically reduced.

I have one again tried to get by with a video card on air.. But I hate dust busters, so had to order a water block and throw together a loop with what I had around. The sound of silence!

Can I pay an extra $5 to get Neil Young to stop talking about compression?

I will happily pay an extra $5 to not support Amazon. https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/12/25/streaming-music-services-pay-2019/

I hope Apple Music and Spotify add a lossless tier as well. Tidal has worked great but I'm open to trying something new.

New Ken Burns!

And in two of my absolute favourite pieces - the finale Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, and Im Abendrot from Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs, both of which bring me to tears.

RIP Jessye Norman, one of the finest classical sopranos there have been. In full glory as Sieglinde in die Walkure https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49887748