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The only Dem in the top tier is Paffrath, a young “YouTube Millionaire” so 🤷‍♂️. I kinda want to have a beer with Papagan though.

I’m also voting against, but did you also pick a replacement just in case? So hard to choose.

The White Lotus soundtrack. Soothing tracks like WTF! and Fuck This Place!

Leslie Winer When I Hit You — You'll Feel It

I see RMAF is offering tests (tracking pre and walk-in), but are they explicitly requiring? Maybe follow CES's lead if not? https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/17/ces-to-require-covid-19-vaccinations/

Chuck Close R.I.P.

For what it's worth I found this multipart interview interesting. It's Chord-centric, but could apply to other FPGA implementations, including PS Audios. It’s also a comparison across DAC types. I don't know enough to determine the accuracy of the comments.

Gave the three available episodes of Sterlin Harjo & Taika Waititi's Reservation Dogs a watch. Will certainly continue with it. #rezlife

In the other direction… Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog

Marc Ribot Makes the Case for Loud Music On the Necessary Pain and Pleasure of Deafening Amplification https://lithub.com/marc-ribot-makes-the-case-for-loud-music

I've mentioned in another thread how much I've underestimated the advances in dacs in the the last decade. Although there are other recently introduced dacs I'd love to hear (looking at you Denafrips Pontus) I couldn't love the Chord Qutest more (well, maybe if it had balanced outs and a power switch). If someone is compiling a list, you may want to add it. If I didn't have other financial pulls (damn you photo gear) I'd probably have picked up a second unit for a different system. Gave up local digital music storage nearly a decade ago, so Roon is a complication here. All Quboz, Youtube, streaming radio, various other streams now (when not playing vinyl).

Ex:Re Ex:Re with 12 Ensemble

Daughter Not to Disappear

Thanks for the listen Rob. Voyager Quartet - Message of Love. Smaller heart tugs.

And then

Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms

Daughter concert

Brian Jackson (Muhammad & Younge) Jazz is Dead 8 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/listening-booth/an-undersung-master-of-jazz-gets-his-day

Bowie, bed-hopping and the Blues: the wild times of Dana Gillespie https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/aug/12/bowie-bed-hopping-and-the-blues-the-wild-times-of-dana-gillespie

Richard Hayman - Serenade for Love Picked this a) for the creepy cover and b) because I thought it said Richard Feynman.

Getting the daily working man’s Finnish Hawaiian fix. Kai Hyttinen - Honolulu.

I think he may have kicked off the Big Crunch.