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Just got back from a 2-day event at Sonoma. Track driving is the BEST. Had to give point-bys to an instructor in fiesta ST last two sessions so good to get served a lesson of how far i still have to go as a driver. 😂

Today I dropped my Prop 50 ballot in the mail. It's just one little vote, but it made me feel so good.

A Jazz Portrait Of Frank Sinatra by Oscar Peterson (1959) https://open.qobuz.com/album/0060254747135 Example: Jaunty morning jazz.

My vote is received and counted!

Before AI

Have the best day!

Listened to the CRBN again this year, but with a Mjolnir Audio amp this time instead of whatever they were using last year. It's mostly the same but better and the improvements are what one would expect from an amp upgrade. Dynamics are better, bass is filled in and hits harder, and it pretty much sounds like my home setup with the LCD-XC. Take my LCD-XC, remove the last traces of the closed headphone sound, move the perspective back a row or so, add more resolution, and that's the CRBN.

Got a chance to hear these at an audio show a few days ago and in short, they suck. I'd heard the Stax amps are less than ideal so I did plug them into the Mjolnir audio amp at the Audeze table which improved things but not nearly enough to make them listenable. My main problem with them is they suck at dynamics & impact, especially in the lower midrange to bass region. Metal, rock, reggae, anything with kettle drums, all that stuff gets ruined since there's not nearly enough weight or impact down low. There's also some kind of wonky resonance in the midrange & treble which pops up from time to time, it sounds a bit like the cuppy or slightly out of phase sound you get from most closed headphones, not nearly as bad but still enough to annoy me. Didn't pay much attention to soundstaging, imaging, or detail & resolution. There were just way too many issues with the frequency response & lack of dynamics for me to really care about that stuff. Overall, I'd have to say it was one of the bigger disappointments I've had in the headphone world.

Thought I never shared pictures of my build, et voilà. Those 3.5 and 4.4 input connectors on the front do really a pragmatic job... I fit a normal bias plug (thanks @JoaMat) so the writing is now aged 😁

Happy Birthday, Dusty!!!! ¡Feliz día!

^^ this. It is very good, such an early release @ 1951. Thanks Rob.

Today Al and I pretty much finished up the table saw jig that I started a while back. This is basically where I left off... Today we mortised for the tracks, made the arched dados for the tenoning portion of the jig and fitted the L fence and splining accessories that Al made on Friday.

Bach Fugue in F minor, BWV 881

Sunday Funday!

RIP Anthony Jackson, superb bassist..... I got to see him with the Hiromi Trio Project, so incredible; both Karen and I loved him (all of them), and she wasn't even a jazz fan. https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/bassists/anthony-jackson-dies-aged-73