Knuckledragger

A friend of mine posted this to his Facebook page: Remembering Alex Chilton: An Underground 'Big Star' : NPR "One last bit of remembrance: A couple short interviews with Chilton, from a number of years ago. Most interesting to me are his attitude about That 70s Show and how his lyrics were messed with and his feelings about the Box Tops's The Letter."

On the shelf between the HK rifle and HK guitar amp? Hopefully not next to the HK vibrator.

Goes well with the HK assault rifle, for fighting Hello Zombies.

Photos from this guy who apparently likes him some B&W. Click through for the flickr pages with notes.

#1 Never listen to aerius. #2, this may not apply to you, but the weather here is gorgeous today, and I'm about to take a roll of Fuji Velvia 50 out of the fridge and load it into my Rebel K2. If you don't have V50 and a film SLR lying around, get a cheap point & shoot (the dollar store me sells truly horrid film cameras, I've had a lot of fun with them) and whatever cheap print film you can find. Leave your digital camera at home. Film is much more demanding than digital, and much more rewarding. This is hardly the only technique for vitalizing one's creativity, but it works for me. Conversely, my friend Eddy has been shooting 4x5" large format B&W film for years, and just got a PowerShot G11. He's having a blast with the near infinite depth of field it provides (what large format photographers have to go through to get decent DoF is insane.) Unrelated: WAT.

CD2 of this album is one of my favorite drum n bass recordings ever. If all dnb sounded like this, I'd love the genre. Sublime atmospherics, hypnotic (but not monotonous) melodies, and steady snares that don't grate. A decade on, I still love it.

IIRC, even the humble GLite puts out 1W.

Mostly better, thanks. It doesn't hurt anymore but it still doesn't feel exactly "right." I did see my general practitioner last week. He asked me a couple basic questions and said I didn't need to see the optometrist immediately (I just saw one a month ago.) I have another appointment with my doc in early May. He said if my eye is still bothering me then, I should go back to the eye doc. I do have a prescription for eye glasses now. They have to be made out of "safety glass" material, whatever that is (plastic?) Of course that still won't help with stray laser beams.

Didn't sleep, that's for damn sure.

The message you have entered is too short. "Stuff -> hug -> play."

ASR's Pico DAC.

I'm speaking about running one cabinet at a time. Once I had this speakers wired up to a Marantz receiver (which is as old as I am) I turned the balance knob (dial, actually) from L to R and the in-phase speaker sounded a lot more bassy to me. When I pointed the speakers at each other and turned them both on, the bass frequencies disappeared nearly completely, of course.

*chuckle* I am not particularly OCD about burn-in/break/what-have-you, but it is true that an out-of-phase speaker seems to produce a hell of a lot less bass than an in-phase one. It seems at least vaguely probable than the bass drivers of a speaker connected out of phase might not move nearly as much as an in-phase one. Maybe I'll switch the phases on the speakers halfway through this process. If I remember. Now, let me tell you about how much my K701s have changed after a couple hundred (thousand) hours of break-in.

From the description:

Now that's pretty cool.

Sauce: HiFiTubes.org: Wood glue deep cleaning vinyl records

I just finished wrestling the Unisounds out of their boxes and upstairs to my housemate's old room. They now have white noise from an untuned FM receiver blaring through them. I did a trick I read about in an audio magazine 20 or so years ago where I wired one of the speakers out of phase and pointed them at each other to cut down on the noise. This technique gets rid of the bass part of the white noise, but that just makes the upper scope seem louder. I shut the door and it's not too bad. It's a good thing I live alone now. Has anyone ever done the out-of-phase trick before? Does it somehow impact the burn-in process?

Seource: Chris Supranowitz's OPT 307 Final Project