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Went with the cheap AT table. She asked me if she could only put one speaker in her room and figured anything more was overkill 🤦‍♂️

Saw an IG clip today in sorrow for all the fan fathers out there. Not only did they have to buy expensive tickets for their daughters, but for the rest of their lives, when asked, they have to say their favorite concert was Taylor Swift.

Not to steal any G's thunder.. Curry! About 7 quarts of it. What is it? 'Kinda curry.' It is kind of like tikka, but also coconut, and aloo.. So, it is just Saturday chicken curry. It needs to cook for a bit and then I will adjust the final spice levels. oh yeah, it is kinda like butter chicken too.

The rock history podcast I listen to just had an episode on the Band and "The Weight." What a great goddamn song. Have heard it a million times and I could hear it a million more before I get sick of it. RIP Robbie, btw. https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-167-the-weight-by-the-band/ One of my favorite versions of it is on Before the Flood. Killer live album front to back.

Kinda impressed

Those AT are the modern equivalent of the trusted Technics 1200.

w/naan, sans 🍌

Her budget. That things is as much as a Taylor Swift ticket, I’ve already bought her a couple. 🤦‍♂️

Another great version was on the Don Was produced album : Rhythm, Country and Blues, with Marty Stewart and The Staple Singers.

I've been going through scans of film exposures I took in '06-09. I had very mixed results. For reasons still unclear to me, I had massive beginner's luck with Kodak BW400CN and Fuji Velvia 50, followed by some just awful photos (largely due to bad processing I think.) I experienced hugely mixed results with Kodak Gold 200, which is to say I did quite well with a meh film stock. I also had a lot of fun with a couple trash cams. One I bought at a dollar store in 2006: Shown here last week (taken with my new 5D IV and 85/1.8). I actually had two of these IIRC. A black one and this blue one. Both have crappy plastic 35mm F/11 lenses and lots of light leaks. I got rid of the black one at some point, because one dollar store camera is arguably too many. I also had (and still have) a Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim: Seen here in the summer of '08. It's got a 28mm F/22 lens and considerable better build quality than the $1 camera. It's still a plastic toy, but it's a damn Leica by comparison. I put 3 rolls of film through the $1 camera(s), and one through the Vivitar. I had mixed results with both. At the time, I only uploaded a handful of photos from each roll. Revisiting the scans I'm much more forgiving of bad shots now. My relaxed attitude is for a host of reasons not the least of which is the fact that's been 15 years. Below are only newly uploaded photos. I might go over some ones I liked back in '08 later. The family cottage on MV, taken with the $1 camer and Kodak Gold 200 in November of '06. I really like this shot, and not just because the cottage has been torn down for over a dozen years now. The $1 camera managed to do organically what all the Hipstamatic type cameraphone apps attempt to recreate. The hill across the street from my house on MV, November '06. This shot has been hugely popular on Flickr and I'm not entirely sure why. The truth is that it was a cold November day, but not nearly as bleak looking as the $1 camera and Kodak Gold made it out to be. Pointing a cheap plastic camera with an F/11 lens and fixed 1/30th shutter at the setting sun is a dumb idea. This is a terribly exposed shot, but the car with is headlights on makes the image for me. I get a strong 70s horror movie aesthetic from it. My yard on the mainland, October '06. Six years before I had a bunch of trees cut down. That's an authentic $1 camera light leak on the side there. The view from my back yard on MV, April 07. $1 camera and Kodak Gold engaging in some impressive synergy here. Another shot of my back yard, very similar to the one above. Most of those trees are gone now. What these two shots illustrate is that lighting is the single most important part of photography. Also water is wet, and I strongly suspect it rolls downhill. Edgartown Harbor with Chappaquiddick in the background. That's the famous Mad Max catamaran sailing along, which is something I only just down figured out. My mother had a good friend on MV for many years named Ruth. She was an Austrian, born in 1924. Ruth had done a great many things including being a skilled sailor. She spent her last years owning a farm on Chappaquiddick (Chappy is not that big and there are not many farms on it.) Ruth took a very dim view of Mad Max precisely because it was a catamaran. The first shot I ever took with my Canon EF 17-40mm F/4L, 7/23/08 - 5:58PM (by that point I'd learned to take mostly complete notes on time and exposure.) I had the 17-40 attached to my Rebel K2 loaded with Fuji Superia X-Tra ISO 800 bleh print film. Not a very interesting shot, but it was my first time using the 17-40 on a full frame format. None of the photos I've posted so far had any edits to them, except for this one. The colors were too washed out and the contrast was just awful, so I relented and did a slightly cleanup in Photoshop. $1 camera and Kodak Gold, October '06. In this case, the cheap plastic lens made the image look cheery and nostalgic and less like a horror movie. I have ...a lot more print exposures that I've gone through. Next time: A cheap fisheye adapter a friend lent me attached to a mid 1950s 50mm prime, further evidence that 35mm F/2 is my favorite lens and maybe some terrible B&W shots. Also maybe some current stuff taken with the 5D IV.

Another round of Fondant Potatoes.

Do.. do they not know who you are?

Forgot to take pics of the rest of our lunch but corn nuts and tempura fried zucchini with blue cheese tomato fonduta (sauce) and pea shoots were a very good start.

So a person accused me of faking my scope picture, because it had to be my signal generator. And that the amp performed better at the higher gain setting. I completely disagree. Q15 has no emitter resistor and the resulting gain of just this transistor is 30db. which makes the miller capacitance absolutely huge. which is why you see two different slew rates. the first bit is due to the output amp (everything left of r12 which is a diamond buffer driving a pair of current mirrors driving another diamond buffer). The second bit is due to Q15. edit: shenzen audio is now selling these things brand new in the box on ebay for $50 off. soon it will be $100 off.

The two went to Black's B-B-Q in Luling, TX, on one trip. I thought they were going to orgasm in their nickers! I've been to Black's many times. It's pretty damned tasty!

What.

Wasn’t me. I have a Rega.

BBC History Of Photography

I think I'd get one of these Audio Technica offers. Nothing to adjust, good speed control, and what is more important to me, a more than decent cartridge.

all day

For anyone mourning Bob Barker, Pluto streaming service has a 24x7 "Barker era Price is Right" channel.

Bob was a staple in our home growing up when I was home sick. He will be recommended people get their afterlife pets spayed and neutered. RIP Bob.

Thanks Peter. Now sitting at 95%, I donated personally today to make sure some of my contribution adds to the doubling effect.

Love it by The Band and also love it by The Staple Singers.

It's weird seeing him without that long, skinny microphone. RIP Bob

Obligatory,

Oh hey, remember this thread? This isn't a sound system. Those are self powered speakers sitting on either side of stack of Mac gear that is for sale. With that said it's a nice assortment of kit there.

I have some very good discussions with my son about various political theories: Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, and variants.... Ultimately I argue all would fail, because people will be in power, and they will be corrupted in some way. Theory is one thing, application into reality another. What Antonio says encapsulates much of that belief. It would almost be better to be in the Matrix.... But we are faced with the lesser of evils at this point, so I will do what I can to keep that lesser evil....

Madison, Wisconsin

More ingredients, more curry

Remember when I posted in Jacob's Mindless Mindlessing a few months back about picking up a Marantz PM7001 integrated amp for $40 (about a buck a pound) at the local second hand shop? It's been sitting on top of my dresser ever since, largely ignored. Yesterday I dug up one of the pair of Technics SL-1200 M3Ds I bought in late 2000 when I had notions of being a DJ. I've been going through the several thousand records I've accrued in the last 35 years this week. It turns out that it's handy to be able to listen to a few of them to figure out WTF they actually are. The M3D is almost too big to sit on the Marantz. Barely visible on either side are a pair of Rat Shack Minimus 7Ws I got from the same second hand shop. It's not exactly a high fidelity setup, but works. Sitting on the platter is the picture disc re-issue of AFX's Analord 10.

My neighbor Dave's wife is out of town, so I'm making and taking up batchelor burritos. Seasoned beef, refried beans, peppers, onion, tomatoes, cheese, sour cream and avocado. Batchelor chimichangas actually.

I got my Walkman back from repairs. The muting module had issues and it needed a new belt. Sounds great again.

After my initial, not so smooth run... Tested in again in an improved system, also tried two cables, sources, amps. Within a day, I decided that I got angry enough to put an end to this, because brain burn-in won't work so well on this one. My opinion still stands. Either I simply fail to comprehend its sound, or Spritzer is just plain right. Very fast, textured, but bright and thin, lacking energy, unnaturally dry timbre (a lot of estat haters say that about many other modern models) with forced detail. The tangible difference against an Omega is maybe not more than 10-25% depending on the aspect, but when adding it all up, its massive. Its usage case is quite narrow, the recording needs to be quite specific. I have quite a few other oldie but goody Staxes as well, where trading in a fair amount of technicalities and FR balance will bring in more of that enjoyment factor. On a more positive note, I expected the Omega to act like an emerging superpower and raise its abilities. With the Carbon, it has done just that. Nothing wrong with this amp at all. Whatever chain this headphone needs, has to be very specific (warm, lush) - and even then, some character traits might not really change, so it might just still get a good old fashioned beating by others...

Bob Barker, Longtime Host of ‘The Price Is Right,’ Dies at 99 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/arts/television/bob-barker-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=4YbM2mJnqZNndwBV99ivNoczqtsUTXhji-ygPqyfZBZYrVsUtTAxCzomNTRZMbpq7DwJ_1dcCBDeWojww25xevkjZfWLhYRg5l5zeFHHbWUYSNSF6r4dwnXGuigODMHtALYuQRKQTWW2Nzgiu1Qrw3zBSxK39OpBrytH0d8lyJqra54rkyFNcs9jmHLvAPOmkmlpJSQ2aj-NZke1aSa2K7bBXYs4NH5i_FkjZS0J1izeHq38BwzwtWUIwbIZ6neObqg6LopEdJd8Rql7aiFHSShB-rtrLVXegHBovBAI97M_sJIzg4tBQFOVMzKYUm1fg0TrY5QbgdXwfti7LeOySg&smid=url-share