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Saw this and literally thought, "God bless them for having the sense to use the best parts available."

A weird cat, but I kinda like it. Neither Silver nor Oatmeal Johnny agree.

Finally got the new (to me) ride out for a proper shakedown. It feels good, I felt slow this morning. Weather was pretty much perfect.

Up in Maine for the long weekend, after some quick but heavy rains got a nice view (our neighbor's place is basically the same as ours).

Went out for a ride with Xavier and Colin last week. I've almost recovered from the ride, so finally able to post it.

Grey forever. Unless it’s a Ferrari.

Reminds me of this gem.....

Well it is certainly not something brilliant but we'd need better pics of the amp section to be sure. I'm certainly not impressed by the 9$ Alps RK27 volume control...

I expect someone who knows about amplifier topology and construction to show up in this thread and say something pithy and rude about the resistors on that main board.

I have been commuting to work on this since March of last year. I don’t have to worry about gas.

Piper started calling her Jelly Bean and it seems to have stuck. Integration is going pretty well. Nutella seems wary of another female, but Marshmallow seems to have accepted her quickly. They play together a lot and Lauren sent me this earlier today. I’m happy to call that a win. And even though she’s still getting settled, there clearly isn’t too much drama. from yesterday…

opened up the weber a few weeks ago and the rusted bottom dropped out and the thing collapsed. So... steak florentine

My “fast” car was 0.34 CoD. Awful. What I could have done with 0.20… HS

Why would they use a balanced expensive pot if almost none of their wealthy moronic customers is going to notice?

I don't mind it. Hurray for it not being black/white/grey/silver. Bring back some funky-ass colors.

Lucid Air in the wild

Yountville community park picnic

DCS and cost-effective in the same sentence 🤣

The rise and fall of taxi dance halls, where eager male customers paid their ballroom partners ten cents per song https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/the-dance-business-that-scandalized

I bought a 711 clone rig on Taobao, here is the link: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.18.b2407a72U22HcB&id=41416109881&ns=1&abbucket=3#detail Contains a clone coupler based on IEC-711 standard, a preamp, a silicone pinna and a calibration file based on B&K4128C. the clone coupler has been confirmed by the headphone factory to perform almost the same as the G.R.A.S RA0045. Unfortunately , the silicone pinna is not a standard pinna clone from G.R.A.S or B&K, resulting in an additional 5k~6khz attenuation in the frequency response diagram.

Some folks aren't understanding the difference between something being publicly accessible but still not "a public space." This is a MODERATED forum. Over the years it has established itself to have a certain personality, for lack of a better term; and it is moderated to fit that personality. Yes, it can be exclusionary, but only to people who argue excessively about the personality and try to change it. Otherwise, we want it to be open. When someone is banned, it's not us being cowards, it's reducing excess noise from someone who doesn't respect what this forum is about. There are a good number of very technically-inclined and experienced people here. They freely give advice to those who ask, some design their own equipment, and overall have earned the respect they get. I have seen countless cases of people posting pictures and getting some great advice about what is good and bad about a design. As a group, we DO listen to a lot of music. There are dedicated threads for this, but there are also many threads for other things as well; we're quite an eclectic bunch. When it comes to equipment, though, we're not going to ONLY judge based on sound. As I mentioned before, sound is on par with build quality in this forum, and even if something sounds good but has potential build issues, it will get called out. That is part of the personality of this forum. I will read and respect someone's thought on sound, but will also read and respect good technical input, brash or not. If something is built well and sounds good, it gets praised. Otherwise, it's open season for criticism (based on sound or build). Again....this is the personality of this forum. Accept it, join and try to have fun. Or leave. But if you keep fighting it, you will be banned - to reduce the noise.

Interesting Route Planner / What if? tool for the EV Curious. https://abetterrouteplanner.com/ Enter your Vehicle spec, and proposed route and see if it meets your use case ... e.g. Visit the Seattle crew in a VW ID 4 https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=339fd7aa-1564-4792-b94f-cf02e7b6f1d9 Shows the importance of the Charging infrastructure.

We had a track rental for today. Weather got the better of us...need to swap back to the street tires on my piggy. Bummer... The good thing is I can start my drink a bit earlier...LOL. This cold and wet weather is overrated for most things, but brown liquor compliments it. HS