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I forgot I had a bunch of 1975 (50yo) albums in my queue. so Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John (1975) https://album.link/s73nbgfjm47tw (hey look album link is working again) 🤷‍♂️ Example: I was going to share the title track which I like so much, but this is just prettier. I grew up with this album, my sister had this. I spent a lot of time with looking at the cover.

It's the start of the Holiday Concert Season at the College of Marin

Been in the Seattle - Museum of Pop Culture (MOPOP) - many times - always enjoyed the building as much as the collections. Here is an exceedingly boring shot.

...and the Apple Peace Prize goes to Donald J Trump!

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Saw that some people in Marin are making an effort with their Christmas / Holiday decorations.

Met @swt61 in the Costco parking lot. By Chance.

Hehe, I don't think I'll ever be there but I have a lot of fun messing with this stuff. I might open this up as a DIY project if anybody is interested as this isn't all that hard to do and no bad chemicals are used. While on the subject, I finally got the last parts to get my reclaimed SR-009 drivers up and running with new diaphragms and dust covers. I skipped straight to the Mk2 version of the main diaphragm rings and they are now sitting on my head with nothing holding the earpads on them and cables just dangling off. I keep reiterating the new cable entry design so I won't post pics until the system is all complete.

It looks like the HFM diaphragm is stick to the stators. Most of the diy estats failures I encountered were due to conductive coating problems causing the buzzing sound. I found a frequency response test of Shang-mini, and it seems that the mini driver is a reduced tension version of the Jade2. Considering the diaphragm size(Jade2 and Shang sr are almost the same area as the 90mm Omega）, the DS-gap of the Shang jr/sr is 0.7mm+, while the Jade2 is 0.5mm. For low-tension diaphragms, 0.5mm DS-gap is difficult to work stably. I can understand the "hangs there in mid-air" of HFM estats. The bass of HFM estats are even weaker than many Lambdas. The main reason is that HFM adds additional gaskets on the stators for support to prevent the low-tension diaphragm from sticking to the stators, but the gaskets will significantly suppress the diaphragm swing, and the overly breathable design of the HFM earpads also make it impossible for the low-tension diaphragm to work like many planars. Perhaps this is what HFM thinks is good, cause there are many treble heads audiophiles.

Hifiman bicycle Jade 1 Hifiman bicycle Jade 2 Hifiman train Jade 1 Hifiman train Jade 2

Frank Gehry will be missed. RIP. https://www.npr.org/2025/12/05/527785250/frank-gehry-dead https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/frank-gehry-dead-guggenheim-bilbao-1234765549/ Two bonuses... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/06/04/your-name-here and

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Man in the High Castle, The Last Emperor, Bond film Licence to Kill, much from the Mortal Kombat franchise, bunch of action movies(!), &c.)