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http://flashbak.com/yugoslavian-computer-magazine-cover-girls-of-the-1980s-90s-370271/ Santa Cruz, CA. When the trees don't render. A carbonised loaf of bread with the stamp ‘Property of Celer, Slave of Q. Granius Verus’ from Herculaneum (near Pompeii), 79 AD. Daniel Sorine photographed a couple of mimes performing in Central Park in 1974. Thirty five years later, while going through his old photographs, he realized that he had captured a then unknown Robin Williams. Christmas in Vienna. Yardley, PA. Northern Ontario. Askja in Iceland, where two volcanic craters sit one next to the other. Mike Dred's The ACID LAB UK. 1992. Milton Road East. Crater Lake, Oregon by Alex Noriega. McWay Falls - Big Sur, California. Yaquina Bay Bridge. Winter morning in Stockholm, Sweden. Sunset over the mountains of Las Vegas. Sunset at Boulder Bay, Christchurch, New Zealand. Motorhead cake. Reventador Volcano, Ecuador. Sunrise at Bradford Beach. Milwaukee, WI. Moody weather on the Cliffs of Moher - Co. Clare, Ireland. Faroe Islands. Tarcului Mountains, Romania. Odell Lake, OR. Heceta Lighthouse in Oreogn. Salem County, NJ. Hays, KS. Nevers, France. Faroe Islands. Aurora over Thingvellirkirkja, Iceland. Swift River in White Mountains Natl. Forest, NH. Kirkjufell just after midnight, West Iceland. Roxborough State Park, CO. Star Trail Over Nederland Colorado Combined with a Single Still Image. Cape Schanck, VIC, Australia, looking towards Pulpit Rock just after sunrise.

Luckily on this ride we did some real mountain biking with logs and drop offs etc. and I realized I dislike MTBing on a fatbike just as much as I did on a full suspension 29er so saved $4k today as the Fatboy is just fine for a winter commute bike, no need for anything more. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Finished up my data center closet shelf. Most of the work is hidden behind my UPS, but basically coax, Ethernet and power in a 2-gang wall plate.

This thing feels to me like it could be pretty significant. Put aside all the conspiracy theory nonsense and what you've got is a distribution format that allows streaming good quality at a reasonable bandwidth cost. Considering that all music nowadays (more or less) is all distributed via streaming. That's huge. Yeah, MQA fake 24/whatever might not be quite as good as real 24/whatever, but that's not the point. With truly lossless encoding, for each itty bitty little increase in quality you have to pay double in bandwidth. Streaming services at real lossless 24/92 (or whatever)? Faggidaboutit. It's a 95% of something vs 100% of nothing kind of thing. DSDs and hires downloads might be wonderful but they only exist in the audiophile fringe niche. The music you really want to hear is rarely available that way. If streaming services can stream something for us that sounds more or less like, say, 24/96 from the same distribution file they use for deaf millennials, that's something that might actually happen and I'm down with it. Archiving is the same story. Harsh reality is that digital assets, whether pictures, video, or audio are stored in their distribution formats in any kind of archive that you snd I are likely to have access to. The original photographer may have the RAWs and the engineer may have lossless masters, but fat lot of good that does us. What matters to us is archives we can actually get to. (Like when each streaming service dies and orphans a lot of music.) I'd rather have almost hires than exactly Red Book. Now, we won't know if any of this magic is for real until we've had a chance to live with the format for a while to know if it's not flawed. All we have now is first impressions and hokey A/B tests that aren't worth spit. We can't pass judgement until we've heard music we care about, long term. And for that to happen, the product has to gain traction in the marketplace. And for that to happen, some hypesters have hype their asses off and actually sell the shit. So we shouldn't fear the hype. Be one with the hype. Grahame - I only made it through the first link in your posts. I couldn't go on. That guy had me screaming at the walls halfway through. Good lord! I propose we start a charity that provides free line and copy editing to financially or intellectually impoverished bloviators. Some of these people need some discipline, dammit. Maybe instead of green eyeshades our charity editors come come in leather and studs. They could carry whips.

I miss spending hours in record stores.

A - I was giving Ryan a hard time in a friendly way (hence the suggestion to go to the store 2 blocks from one of his favorite restaurants). B - call it what you will, but for me, vinyl is about experiencing music in a way that has been lost with digital and streaming. Slowing down listening is certainly one part of it, but so is being able to dig through record bins, talking to people at record stores, holding a large physical object with real cover art, etc.

Shelter After some snowing: Cotton (he goes out in morning, comes back at night): Btw they became lovers. I mean they also started to hump already, ffs they are 8 months old. And the last, Cutipie napping with my mom

Great link, MPI. As ever, the best way to increase your enjoyment (positive emotional response) is to get high and/or go to a meet.

Any trail without a bush to fall in is advanced to Brent.

Another interesting and relevant post is from a recent Tyll post: http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/paper-review-effects-mp3-compression-perceived-emotional-characteristics-musical-instruments#FGmflv70J55LFrjL.97 As usual, the scientists who wrote the paper have no idea what they are talking about, but Tyll and some of the comments on the page get more to the crux of the point. That is to say, red book and even lossy versions of red book up until a reasonable point, are NOT the bottleneck to good sound. There's so much other shit that people can and do get wrong that exceeding 16/44 is pretty laughable on a list of things to improve on audio. Remastering or swapping headphones/speakers offers infinitely more change in sound than going from 16/44 to 24/96.

That's because all their flagships keep sinking........

I decided to go with the Sunfire HRS-10. I used to drool over the Sunfire brand back in the day, so it's a bit nostalgic. Still considering the center channel, looking for opinions there

so the 2 piece version will be capacitor coupled output, the 4 piece version will be dc coupled output, the newest version of cast and cascode fet buffer. for balanced you will need 8 pieces. i'm sure a version of this is coming. as far as I know, no dsd but it should be capable of that. pricing is finally rational

Interesting thought. There's a reason you're my lawyer.

For those vinyl users, what online vendors do you use and trust? This would be for mostly new releases, I've got a few places around here that have bargain used bins but mostly the older stuff.

the MQA David Bowie stuff sounds great and yeah Mike B Grateful Dead live at Nassau Coliseum sounds stellar. I hope they don't jack the price for the masters mqa streaming.

mtoc deserves the ban hammer.

for me vinyl's not about nostalgia, but about slowing down. I don't want to slow down my shopping experience, I want to slow down my listening experience.

Isn't the point of vinyl nostalgia to reconnect with the old way of doing things? Laurie's Planet of Sound is 2 blocks from Garcia's ... http://chicagoist.com/2014/08/20/the_best_record_stores_in_chicago.php

I support 420 everyway.

My vet recommended 6 months.

Over here, it's recommended that for males, as soon as the balls drop, and I don't know what the female equivalent is. Bobby lost his at like 8 weeks. But I would trust the doctor's recommendations -- if he doesn't feel comfortable operating on them so small, then he shouldn't. ASPCA recommends 8 weeks

Haha, yes Dusty. He looks happy. Well, Vet said It's not recommended before 1 y.o. We'll see. Well ofc kittens won't end up in streets. That is for sure.

Well, yeah, they don't have age restrictions like we do. That's why it's recommended to have them fixed as early an age as possible. Cotton looks like he's smiling.

But the 'Q' stands for questionable

Pretty sick of them myself. First the HEK V2 and now this.

Where's the fun in that? I like the idea that this thread is our gingerbread house where the noobs can nibble until they prove themselves gluttons and we smoke them. Might have to clean up the thread each time a noob pie comes out of the oven...

The only on-topic posts in this thread are by deplorables, but I think we need to keep it alive. It's serving as a secondary filter. We chlorinate the water with the welcome PM, then use the DAVE thread to filter out whatever detritus survived.

^AKA

^^ Like for coming home, dislike for stupid bureaucracy....

Here are the boards mounted to the heatsinks. One small mod wire as the bloody layout software doesn't check the ground plane for continuity... The board has already been through major revisions to adapt this to mass production and I doubt I am done.

And they're going to release a fixed better version in 6 months (quality control and reliability issues abound in the first version) and not allow the customers to "upgrade" from v1 to v2. Yes we are well acquainted with the hifiman business model by now.

Mine arrived today too! Excited to hook it up tomorrow

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It's a shitty job, but somebody has to do it.

American Experience: The Battle of Chosin Exceptional documentary from PBS on one of the definitive and representative battles of the little discussed Korean war. The story of the battle, the heroism, sacrifice, and courage of the soldiers and marines, Chosin's significance in the Korean conflict, and the battle's lasting legacy are all here and all very well done. History/Military History fans, check this one out. Also, kudos to the producers and interviewees for going out of their way to describe the equally amazing courageousness and sacrifice of the battle's other two major participants, namely the Chinese soldiers and the Korean civilians caught in the crossfire. Can be streamed on Youtube here:

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no pictures, but I have a new favorite steak. sous vide ribeye cap, tied to a medalian, and sous vide at 117 for 4 hrs, then seared on a cast iron pan that had been preheated to 550, for a fantastic crust. Holy crap this is a life changing meal.

Taking part in a burger three way

A pity because it is an absolute beauty in the metal. I've gone to the dark side and am wearing this today:

I thought I had a basic grasp of the tourbillon, until I chanced on a 3-axis version. Just a pity the cages look so roughly finished.