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Agreed. I've basically lost all interest in SBAF other than for breaking news, meets, and the for-sale thread. Sounds like another prominent headphone related website we all know. I've never been quite sure quite what to make of Mike Moffat as an engineer. Anecdotally, some of the things he says publicly leave me scratching my head. While he does have some impressive innovations under his belt, being first to market has never seemed as important to me as being good. I have met him a few times and that didn't clear anything up. I own his current two top DACs in Yggy and Gun-MB, but I'm no where near confident enough to say that I hear big differences between those two and my Sabre based Oppo 105. Then again, I'm also getting to the point of satisfaction where a new component or headphone has to make a huge difference to even pique my interest.

tidal.com/playlist/e32aab07-2c05-40a7-a7e0-2edf8ea35426

http://www.stereophile.com/content/schiit-audio-yggdrasil-da-processor#pAzGWSeu2fDjl18R.97 ?

Watched this during my lunch break and it also seems helpful:

Found these short guide videos on how to play the various Titans. It is hard to realize what is going on in the heat of battle so I found these to be very helpful. I wasn't even using Ion's best damage dealing ability, his 'Q'. Tone and Legion: https://youtu.be/XMMLeYymqWs Scorch and Ion: https://youtu.be/bQ5h5Q61UHo Northstar and Ronin: https://youtu.be/p9zZlaQZxt4 I highly recommend playing through the campaign on "Hard" before joining us in multi-player to get familiar the game. It takes about 6 hours and is a very nice primer on the basics of the game. Or you could join our resident geniuses/MLG pro-gamers Brent and Colin and just jump right in to multiplayer and wing it .

I finally started joining the guys for some Titanfall 2 multi-player this weekend. I have to say, it is actually pretty darn fun. Haven't won a game yet but we seem to be learning fast.

Happy birthday, fellow Aquarius.

On a different note, about to leave the office early for the day and take the ferry in to SF for a little birthday dinner @ the Slanted Door with friends and family. Damn I am feeling old today.

I'll say this, for people who wanted a Washington outsider they definitely got one. Do we even know who he cares about?

All that is also mentioned in the Frontline Doc, I just didn't mention it. Will give the TAL episode a listen when I get a chance.

I was watching the latest Frontline special last night (a retrospective look at the last 8 years of the Obama presidency) and one of the theories Frontline put forward was that a lot of the roots of the explosion of populism and populist rage can be traced to the 2008 recession, the subsequent bailouts, and the uneven distribution of the fruits of the recovery. It actually made a lot of sense. I'll post more on it once I finish watching. It a 4 hour long program. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/divided-states-of-america/

Well, that certainly wasn't the inaugural address I was expecting. Not exactly unifying. He really feels like a true populist. This is the closest we are going to get to actually electing Willie Stark.

I like these two.

Today must be my lucky day. Typically I end up owing a couple of grand every year on my taxes because I must have checked too many boxes at some point. Last year it was about $3k. We just got our W-2's and it looks like I'm due for a $50 buck refund this time around! Going from thinking I owed another $3k to getting 50 bucks back sure put a smile on my face.

What happened to the GT3?

Happy birthday, G-Unit!

Agreed. Might be in the minority here, but I've never heard a Grado headphone I've liked and I've heard damn near all of them. Different strokes, I guess.

New XX album, "I See You."

Happy birthday, gentlemen!

I think I am also out.

Just drove home through the monsoon. Glad to get off the road with sheets of rain coming down. Stay dry out there, Bay Area crew!

Over the past few weeks I re-read the Foundation trilogy for the first time since my freshmen year of college. I suggested them to Brent and he said he didn't like the first book and gave up on the series. After going through them again I'm amazed how well they still hold up. Yes, the first book isn't the best, but the second and third totally redeem it. The trilogy is one of the best things to come out of the golden age of sci-fi and stands with the Robot novels as the best things Asimov has ever done. 5/5. Obviously. Brent, you are an idiot.

Tidal has the MQA software decoder built in so it is able to "unfold" the file. The next version of Audirvana will have it also.

First Aid Kit - Stay Gold

It is interesting to me that he does kind of bury the lead here which is that these MQA titles do sound really good. I don't see Jason ever wanting to fork over royalties to Meridian, but with the software decoder built in to Tidal I'm not sure its an issue. This is what I am worried about.