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'Tis the season for chickpea turmeric stew

A gentleman told me about the electrostatic amplifier Sirrah designed by Andreas Rauenbuehler. See http://www.high-amp.de/ . Inspired by Sirrah I draw this sketch… …20 mA per channel. Accompanied with small GRHV regulators and 50VA transformer - could be built in a small box for the bedside table? maybe it won't work at all.

Didn’t found it on streamers but some kind person in Germany sold me this CD. Thanks! Worth every pfennig.

Well, I've got a Niche Zero ordered. Will be selling blood later this afternoon...LOL. HS

espresso is way more important than audio.

Dear lord, and we complained about the nonsensical long reviews at Head-fi

Bose will be closing all of its retail stores in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia in a few months: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/15/21067715/bose-shutting-down-retail-stores-layoffs-north-america-europe-japan-australia They were the closest thing to a mass-market high-end stereo manufacturer for most people. It's almost more interesting to see which regions were exempted from the shutdown – still some strength in those markets.

This morning there have been quite a few birds in the yard and especially in the bird bath where they have been splashing around in rain water. A few minutes ago I looked up because I heard a thud on the window and saw several birds streaking by. I went to the front door worried that one had hit the window. There was a little house finch laying on its side that was alive but stunned and maybe injured. Just as I put my hand on the doorknob to check it out, a small hawk -- probably of the short-shinned variety -- swooped down and flew off with the finch in its talons. It was very startling, but I'm assuming the finches had been fleeing the hawk in the first place. #WildKingdom

Some similar ingredients but not Chana Masala. https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019772-spiced-chickpea-stew-with-coconut-and-turmeric

Yes, the Deluge looks great too. The 3.0 firmware updates look pretty cool. They seem to do similar things differently – I'm looking at the heavy-duty MPC units out of curiosity – the MPC Live, MPC X, and also the Force.

Glad you are doing better Jose. That is pretty scary.

I am relieved?

The Akai MPC One just got a lot of press at NAMM 2020. The $699 price seems to be a big part of its appeal – it looks like an easy way to get into music making without a PC workstation... https://www.akaipro.com/mpc-one

Snowy White - Little Wing

You can't buy this kind of advertising. Sent from his iPhone, naturally.

The album is simply spectacular. I really liked "September Second"

Update from at least a few minutes ago - Astros fire their GM and manager (I mean makes sense, why pay them or have them on staff for a whole year of suspension)

Real world impressions and benchmarks for pro audio and post production audio with the new Mac Pro's are trickling in. It seems like audio professionals are opting for the 16 core processors and installing OWC ram so their machines are clocking in at the $8k range. The benchmarks in Logic and Cubase are pretty astonishing compared to the 2013 dust bins. I haven't seen any direct comparisons to the top of the line iMac Pro's but those aren't that much less and they are not user upgradeable. Just a handful of buyers in the virtual composer communities so far but there are quite a few doing the "wait and see" to decide on configurations they should order. Here's a video of 850 instances of Absynth.

On the other side of things - New Years Beach Life. Fujifilm X-Pro2 and Fujinon XF 16mm f/1.4.