Knuckledragger

Bogen SRB-20 Tube Receiver.

Don't look now, but everyone's favorite fat headed Mexican is a 30 something ...for one more year.

Doing this show on equipment that's not been entirely tested post power outage/power surge, so this could get interesting.

After a two week hiatus, Test Tone @ Home is live on the internets right now! https://mixlr.com/illuminator/

Klipsch La Scalas.

What Mike Schultz looked like after battling COVID-19 for 6 weeks in the hospital. 1937 Western Clipper Motorhome. Political Compass, but it's Rammstein lyrics. 1976 Ferrari 308GT Rainbow. 1965 DKW Hummel 155.

I wonder what's anchoring that Tower of Scotch.

DIY tube amps made by the father of a user in reddit's /r/audiophile:

I dunno if I've mentioned this before, but I'm a crazed redneck who lives in the woods. I have an artesian well and the groundwater here is hard as a black metal album. I have not one but two filters between it and what I drink. The first is a grit filter, the second is a taste & odor (charcoal) filter. They needed to be changed when I locked myself in 9 weeks ago, and I was out of spares Today I arranged pickup of new filters and replaced them. This is what the grit filter looked like when I removed it: The filters are pure white when new. For two decades, I have snarkily referred to the filter swapping process as "changing the house's tampon" because I haven't matured terribly much in the last ~35 years. Mr. Frog was not at all impressed the proceedings.

I've been testing all night with the Blue Icicle plugged straight into a (USB3) port. So far, the yammering idiots in Discord haven't reported me going robotic once. Also, I should note that after I wrote the above message I remembered that my HeadAmp Pico DAC uses Micro USB. "The size no one uses anymore" indeed. Hi, Justin! 😁

"Toddler-Fi"

Interesting. I have my Icicle pugged into a USB hub. I have a PSU for the hub, but I have to leave it disconnected ...or the PC won't boot. For reasons that are unclear to me, the PC won't power on when the hub has a wall wart attached. Fortunately, my motherboard has a bunch of free ports. I just have to find a longer USB A to USB B mini (AKA the size no one uses anymore) cable to make it work. Thanks for the info.

I played two 16bit style JRPGs recently, Cthulhu Saves Christmas and and Cosmic Star Heroine. I'm still working on the latter, I haven't 100%'d it yet. I love Zeboyd games. 9 years ago, when I had a very crappy even for the time PC, I played both Cthulhu Saves The World and Breath of Death VII. All Zeboyd games are mechanically similar, but they have excellent writing and a very sharp sense of humor. Zeyboyd took over Penny Arcade's struggling On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness series and did two in that series (3 and 4). I beat 3 and never quite finished 4. I might resume it some day, but I just as likely might not. What I like about Zeboyd games is that they're very low impact, both in terms of system resources but also player commitment. I beat Cthulhu Saves Christmas in just over 11 hours. I'm not at a point in my life where I can dedicate 100+ hours to an RPG like anything from The Witcher series. Also, since all the dialog is text I don't need to have the sound up terrible loud so I can listen to music/yammering idiots in a Discord call while I play. I need to find some more RPGs in this vein when I finish Cosmic Star Heroine.