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it was great!

Definitely listened to this whole album before. I think.

Quite certain I've never listened to this album.

Not sure I've ever listened to this album.

There was a tweet, and then this happened. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/world/europe/gary-lineker-tweet-match-of-the-day.html summary:

The only way to answer this question is probably to listen to both. I recommend buying both.

Didn't you get your answer already?

I actually don't mind AudioGD stuff, have a couple of their cheaper items in the past. But every time I see their name I can't help but picture this in my head

If you were really listening, then you wouldn't have anything to do with AudioGD, let alone name yourself after them.

I have never heard a 6 octave range from a male singer, until now.

I only spent a few minutes with it using the new DCA and Shangri-la SR with an unfamiliar source so I can't really comment on it. No issues I could hear but I'd need to spend some more time with it. It's an impressive beast though. I forgot to mention I also tried the Warwick Audio Bravura... what a piece of shit that is. Now the amp was broken so no high gain mode available so I couldn't push the volume far enough. Still it is the blandest sound imaginable, it does nothing well and you can clearly hear the DSP doing its best to try and fix the sound of the single ended transducers. I suspect this will be far worse when the volume is pushed to normal levels. I actually have a couple of the Sonoma M1 headphones (dirt cheap now) and was planning on designing an amp for them (the Bravura uses the same amp) but I might not bother. They clearly can't work with a direct signal so my plan is to just reuse the housings and design proper electrostatic drivers that fit in there.

Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration remaster (2012) Napalm Death - Scum 25th anniversary remaster (2012) Remastering proto grindcore strikes me as a silly idea. I had both of the above albums on cassette in the late 1980s. At that point Napalm Death were considered a death metal and/or hadcore band. I think it was nearly a decade later until I heard the term "grindcore." I downloaded a LUFS app for OSX yesterday and I'm going to run some of these remasters through it. ND is an amusing band, but they're not really my cuppa these days. With that said, one of their founded members went on to form a group I really like: Godflesh - Streetcleaner 2CD remaster (2010). This really is one of the heaviest albums I've ever heard. I remember first hearing on college radio in '89. That was a time period when: (A) I was listening to a lot of metal. (B) I was listening to a lot of college radio. (C) Both were experiencing a renaissance. Revisiting Streetcleaner, it has aged like a fine, dystopian industrial metal wine. Godflesh - Slavestate, original 1991 version. There is a 2013 remaster, but I have not heard it. An almost funky and danceable EP compared to the mechanical gloom of the previous album. I actually didn't like it much when I first got in '91, but it's now one of my favorite releases by the band. I did not plan this, but every (non ambient) album I've listen to in the last month has been on Earache records. Funny what a hugely significant label they are for extreme music.

It's not an SUV, it's an FU V, Ferrari Utility Vehicle.

Got another car control class on the books (with the BMW club, hopefully they accept my car 🙃) and I'm going to try my first road rally with the Porsche club. When I thought rally I thought of sliding cars around on dirt rally stages but this isn't like that at all. It is more like a scavenger hunt that you do from your car and that rewards precision, not speed. I like it! Trying to nail down a co-driver/co-navigator (@Grahame ?). I think maybe I'll do my first auto cross in April. This car hobby is quite the rabbit-hole of stuff to do. It is helpful that a large portion of hobbyist motorsport seems to be organized on a single website, https://www.motorsportreg.com, making it easy to find out a good amount of what is going on nearby.