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His review of the Raal SR1 was not glowing, but the EQ settings he came up with are really good. I use them daily, and I'm glad he took the time to post them even though he did not ultimately like the headphones much. I don't think he's totally worthless, but I don't think he is enough of a visionary to be leading the movement he has cultivated over there. As a regular forum user or a guy with a blog, he's informative and interesting. As an objectivist cult leader, he is grating and ill-informed. Also, I think his fucking ears are broken.

Greg gifted us a beautiful, original, one of a kind knife for BBQ and other meat related duties. These pics don't do it justice but I'll try again in the daylight. Thank you for your thoughtless and kudos on your artistry! The Meat Machete Rulez!

Me, too......

RIP

amir is just another idiot with an audio precision. And is concerned about .000000001 thd. And is otherwise clueless. look at his review of glite.

For Chick

I'll swap the wheels this weekend for the ones with the studded tires already mounted on them, but the COVID hardtail project is complete(ish). I probably need new brake pads but I'll deal with honky brakes for a little while.

It made the main news on the BBC here in the UK - so yes. I came to serious grief myself on black ice thirty years or so ago. I was on a busy freeway early in the morning, and braked into slower traffic. Car broke away, and went into the rear wheel cluster of a truck. So hard I blew his tyre and buckled his wheel rim. Then my car hit the barrier, and that pulled me out of the truck and I hit the barrier hard. Fortunately nothing else hit me. The French truck driver was very helpful and poured me coffee to help me calm down. Of course we'd blocked the road totally. Next the police turn up, and put their vehicle a good distance back with the flashing lights going. While I was talking to them, a small truck went out of control and hit the police car "oh bugger" said the policeman "you just can't believe how many forms I'm going to have to fill out now!" The road was pretty much a skating rink. Anyway, recovery vehicles arrived and pulled my car and the truck off the road; they took me and my car to a local scrap yard, where they showed me the wreckage of several cars and trucks that had hit black ice that morning. I ordered a hire car and went, a bit shakily and with a touch of whiplash, on my way. But the kicker was - the French truck did not have girders between the front and rear wheel clusters. So if I had been 10 feet further forward, I'd have gone underneath him and decapitated myself. And it was a petrol truck - so (a) there would not have been much of me left and (b) it would have hit the news for sure. When I got to the hotel I was staying at that night I awarded myself a steak dinner and good bottle of wine, as a cheating death award.

I might be abusing this thread a bit with this one. I don't even know what... https://www.guitarworld.com/news/man-builds-guitar-out-of-his-dead-uncles-skeleton-uses-it-to-play-black-metal

Spinning currently. Ugh what a beautiful man. RIP

One of my favorite pasta dishes. Pene with broccoli in a light olive oil/chicken bullion sauce. This time I added a little garlic, bacon and parmesan cheese.

Doesn't look the part, but tastes freaking delicious. Pad Thai

This looks like a great charity event. https://foodforlove.org/the-artists/

Though to be fair, are there such people as well-informed cult leaders? 😆

In the winter in Alaska, the roads get cold and stay cold. Pretty easy to control your vehicle on a road that is always cold, because Ice forms when you have temperature fluctuations. In Texas, overpasses can be extremely dangerous, the road gets cold, but you have warmer air blowing under the overpass, creating ice. I've driven on roads covered in ice in Alaska, but the road is cold enough that the ice is actually sticky. Somewhat like touching your tongue to a metal light post in freezing temperatures.

For them replace 'O2' with anything made by 'Topping' otherwise it's basically the same thing.

Agreed. I ventured over to ASR the other day, and happened upon a thread that Amir was measuring a couple of Stax amps. Kevin wandered by and explained to him why his standard 100K load wasn't going to cut it here. After much handwaving, Amir declared that he shouldn't have to read (and understand) an amp schematic in order to properly measure one. Somehow he managed to not blow up his AP or whatever it is he is using to do his measurements. Thread closed. D-bag indeed!

I don’t like any of these people, so it is fun to watch them fight.

Is that the new hip hop group I've been hearing about?

"The subwoofer was rattling." At this point it's an audiophile trope.

Watched the heck out of that show as a kid. RIP, Screech.

So I went ahead and modded my L700 mk1. I'm generally pretty skeptical of Lambda mods, but my yoke broke on the left side and I fixed it with duck tape and a coat hanger, and mysteriously my coat hanger solution ended up being far more comfortable than the stock setup. So I got to wondering if there was a way to custom-make a better yoke, and lo and behold, someone else has already done it. These are 3d printed by Socas and they work pretty well. They allow for a wider range of motion for the earcup and they fix the problem of having too much pressure at the top of the earpad and not enough at the bottom. So if you're one of the people who, like me, can't wear the current generation Lambdas properly, this is a solution. You will need a Torx 6 screwdriver to get the screw out that holds the yoke in place, and after that it's an easy swap. This does affect the sonics a bit. In the past I always read accounts of people hearing the L700 as overly warm and a bit congested and wondered what on earth they were hearing, but how... that's kinda how it sounds. The frequency response gets rotated clockwise, the highs are much smoother and more palatable, but the midrange shout and upper mid dip gets even more noticeable. The solution of course is EQ. I'm not gonna post all of my settings since you really need to personalize your own EQ but -5db at 1150hz q1.41 and +2db 3khz q0.5 evens out the mids, then you also need to drop the peaks in the highs - which we all hear in different places - and adjust the lows to taste. I have a MiniDSP ears now and will probably be able to EQ more accurately, but I thought I'd give a heads up to @yaluen and others who are in the same boat that there is a fix, and you don't need to write the current-gen Lambdas off (though I don't know if this works for the L300/500). This thing sounds very smooth and natural now, with great imaging and clarity but a bit lackluster impact in the lows, which I'm sure a more powerful amp than my 717 will fix. Oh, and the Mk2? My opinion of it has turned pretty sharply downwards. I prefer my modded mk1 by a good margin.

Just got the boards back for the GR78/9xx boards. They look good. I'm hoping to have them built up next weekend.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/56034657 Fernando Alonso: Two-time Formula 1 champion involved in road accident while cycling...

RIP the dead in the horrendous pile up on a freeway in Fort Worth. Black Ice was apparently the cause. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-56035298 Very much hope that no HC folks were involved in that.

Not really snow related, but here's my forecast. The kids had two days of school this week.

RIP Chick Corea!

RIP Frank Shankwitz, co-founder of Make-A-Wish: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/07/us/frank-shankwitz-make-a-wish-death/index.html