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I was gonna post this isn Slow, but I think it's more appropriate here. TMBG's Flood came out 30 years ago today. After I got past my initial "holy shit am I old" reaction, I reflected upon the first time I heard it. I was in a local record store called Al Bum's (get it) that still sold a lot of vinyl. They were BLARING Istanbul (Not Constantinople) and I, a sullen, disaffected metalhead who had recently branched out into industrial, goth rock (as in Bauhaus) and some proto-grunge (thanks to college radio) was all like "WTF is THIS SHIT?!? It's so HAPPY and MANIC ....can I hear it again?" I didn't get my first CD player until the fall of 1990. The first CD I bought was the Led Zeppelin 4CD boxed set (the first "boxed set" that launched that craze of the 1990s.) It wasn't until early 1991 that I bought Flood on CD. IIRC, I had a copied cassette in the summer of 1990. I was severely depressed that year (as I was throughout high school, anyone who tells you that HS is the best years of your life is stuck in the 1950s) but in spite of/because of that I loved the maniac lunacy of Flood. I got to see TMBG live a couple times in the 1990s. They played UMASS at one point in the early 90s and they played most of Flood. I didn't recognize many of the non-Flood songs. I saw them again in '96 in a club called Lupo's in Rhode Island. That second show was amazing. I remember pogoing like a madman to Anna Ng. Clearly by '96 TMBG were getting sick of Flood. They did super fast versions of the songs they knew the crowd wanted to hear and moved on to other things. At some point maybe 10 years ago (2010 is now a decade ago ...ayep) TMBG played locally and did the entirety of Flood. Sadly, I was not able to be at that show.

Update to add that I love this thing. The BluOS upgrades that are regularly pushed out keep it up to date. I just added HD to my Amazon Music service and now I get lossless and Hi-Rez streaming on it too. Sounds flat out amazing. Edit: I configured it to Bi-amp the satellites. Awesome.

Four Gold Lion KT77 in a mini T2. G3 connected to plate on PCB. It rocks Beautiful!

I've heard the large MBL's, quite nice speakers!

Quincy Jones - Live in Ludwigshafen 1961 "His Orchestra" were this bunch: Benny Bailey: trumpet; Freddie Hubbard: trumpet; Paul Cohen: trumpet; Curtis Fuller: trombone; Melba Liston: trombone; Ake Persson: trombone; David Baker: trombone; Julius Watkins: French horn; Phil Woods: alto saxophone; Joe Lopes: alto saxophone; Eric Dixon: tenor saxophone, flute; Budd Johnson: tenor saxophone; Sahib Shahib: baritone saxophone, flute; Patti Bown: piano; Les Spann: guitar, flute; Buddy Catlett: bass; Carlos "Patato" Valdes: conga drums; Stu Martin: drums; It's a bittersweet experience listening to such good performers at their prime trying to succeed when their craft was losing the popularity contest. Such is life, who would have told Quincy in those days that he would hit it producing Thriller about twenty years later. He went next to bankruptcy because of that european tour in the early 60s.

I got through the full Dirac setup and splurged for the full frequency range correction to let me correct above 500Hz. The system sounds fucking amazing. It's like an audio scapel! I can pull the entire image apart and hear everything. It sounds as good as anything I have ever heard. I need to build a filter with the few dB roll off rather than dead flat. I had to cut out the back of my rack to get it to fit but it does fit now. The BluOS features have also made my Squeezebox Touch obsolete.

Found a cool article on the Japanese "city pop" genre of the 80s (my interest is mainly derivative – video game music influenced by city pop, e.g., Sega Genesis soundtracks): https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbzabv/city-pop-guide-history-interview

Agreed! Heard the MBL's more than 10 years ago in a store in Wisconsin Rapids following auditioning of a pair of top-end Audio Physics speakers (don't remember if it was the Medea or the Caldera now). When the MBL started playing, I did not want to think HiFi and all the stuff, I just wanted to lay back in the chair and enjoy the music!

Hah, thanks for the birthday wishes! Holy crap am I old. I guess that's why I hang out with you lot. ?

Ok, still not strictly music, but I am having waaaaaaaaaaay too much fun with the TD-3. I wanted to try my hand at some stinky oldskool jungle on the Digitakt and the TD-3. Guess who bit off more than they could chew? The DT is very realtime, so keeping up with 170 bpm with the knob-twiddling and button mashing was challenging. The result isn't really music per se, but it's loud and angry and was fun as hell to do: I apologise to anyone who needs therapy as a result.

If interested in the story of good old tubes, I recommend Guide to the EL34/6CA7 by Pasquale Russo. Also some information on the KT77. 365 pages of interesting stuff.

First I'm going to agree with Jim on NAD's quality. I've owned lots of their gear over several decades, and it's bullet proof. I also have that same feeling about Parasound. Everything I've owned from them sounds great and just keeps rolling, like an old Subaru.