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This just aired on PBS about 4 days ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian's_Song

Cheers to many more Jim!

Why do both of those bands remind me of something I'd see on Wacky Races, on Saturday mornings, as a child? NTTAWWT!

I got a used PC and installed Ubuntu Studio on it. Has anyone used a Linux DAW before? I think I'll probably start with LMMS for composition, and kick it over to Ardour or something for processing.

"It's been about 6 months since I put this on a welder at work and no one has said anything. It's a magnet with sharpie on it."

Yup,.. I don't eat candy much but I love getting these unexpected treats once in a blue moon. Reminds me of Halloweeeeenie! (a different Steve)

(takes a deep breath) If I could only remember to suck and not bite down, especially with my molars, I’d be fine, but I’m pretty sure I will forget myself. (cue Steve)

I have some sweets coming my way next week too!!! You should give those Indiana boys a call. That or contact UAD direct. Super nice guys over there in Scotts Valley. Universal is a small shop with just a few guys outside of the assembly area. They have one of the most awesome collections of vintage gear since they need the real thing to model most of their plugins. A gorgeous Live Room for recording and testing too (they make some killer empanadas too!). Got to spend the evening there on an AES event. This video was shot there about the same time I visited.

RIP Juliette Gréco. Actress for/with Jean Cocteau, Ingrid Bergman, Orson Welles and Ava Gardner, muse for Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, and longtime girlfriend of Miles Davis. That's a life. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44230634

They've been in and out and I'm a fan, but mostly in box recently due to non-SQ reasons. Shelter-in-place required me to setup a video switcher rig with multiple laptops in their place. In their other place my daughter can't ask the LS50s to play Taylor Swift and she starts. Agree with Steve the imaging is stellar. The earlier version LS50W was looked at as I'm trying to simplify the post-Airport Express/post-Chromecast Audio world in our living room. I don't want to start to deal with local music storage (outside of vinyl) after years of not doing so, and I want video audio to be included, and the LS50Ws, Qobuz/Tidal w/phone and YT/HBO/Netflix, etc w/Apple TV seems perfect. Well, and then to deal with vinyl.

I did a "recovery ride" with 2 category 4 climbs. So 1.8 miles of what I need to do for 33 miles straight to do maui. I have a long road ahead of me.

A matching wireless sub would be a great addition.

Yup....instant Roon Endpoint! And their new internal back wave diffusion design.....

As happy as I am with Edifier in the living room, the Wireless 2 LS50 sure looks fucking great.

I almost bought the LS50W a month ago. Now I understand the previous sale prices. Must resist.

T2 first listening impressions. wow..... erm.... wow..... erm..... wow The first thing that strikes me is marco dynamics are amazing, on recordings that are not that dynamic the amp does not exaggerate the dynamics, but on dynamic recordings like full orchestra the dynamics are so powerful but not overdone. This is backed up with bass is far more defined, less mushy, more full than my other stax amps but the bass is not not dry or hard or overblown Stereo images are more solid and tangible and more precise than any other stax amp I have, its so close to the experience my Quad 2805 speakers..... Detail is amazing, but the detail is not thrown at you and its therefore not tiring to listen to. But I do notice tape edits, dropped violin bows, musical score page turns more... but it just adds to the experience that tens of musicians in a room can't be totally silent all the time. when music gets complicated there is far less tendency for sounds to just clump together into a messy mushy ball. However you still get the feeling of musicians playing together and the detail is not analytic. The amp just says here is all the detail let it wash over you and you decide how much you want to listen into the detail and how much you want the whole music. This is the first time I have been satisfied with the bass and dynamics from my sr007a mk2. I think it shows that my stax sr007a just need as much drive as they cant get. My journey: stax srm006 (piece of mushy yet bass light and less bass the higher the volume, undynamic, undetailed, poorly constructed, stereo thick soup, gloop with the sweetness of a lemon), hi-amp alpha centauri (improvement in every way over the srm06, its an upgrade but you still feel there is music missing. Overall you get the impression is nothing special and has but poor bass, slightly deeper than the srm006, but mid and upper bass is almost non existent. Bass loss with volume is far less), blue hawaii (murders the alpha in every way but maybe slightly hard sounding for me and a bit of a tiring long term listen. It was a very enjoyable build and a considerable step up from the alpha but I rarely could relax into the music), Mini T2 (better micro dynamics, smoother and more refined more listenable than the hawaii but lacking in some drive and macro dynamics, detail and bass. I still got the feeling with it that it was struggling with the sr007s a bit) and finally the T2 (im sure I will eventually find something wrong with it... that's just the way my brain works but for now im content [which is rare])... So whats next after the T2? (other than building a second one).... Many many thanks to Kevin for the T2 and joamat for the modified T2 and mini T2, spritzer for providing the nos transistors and everyone for their encouragement and help.

While things are suitability apocalyptic ...

Seems appropriate ... Given

RIP Gale Sayers https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29951448/chicago-bears-hall-fame-running-back-gale-sayers-dies-age-77