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I listened to Alec Baldwins podcast with guest Michael Wolff, the author of Fire & Fury: Trump in the White House. Real eye opener. He says no one listens to Trump. Everyone in his staff since day one saw this as a netbliss for all of them and their individual businesses.Well this is fun
I'll buy the book soon. Great funny podcast episode.
https://castbox.fm/vb/65705235
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I've been watching Black Mirror. Really interesting... Kind of a high tech Twilight Zone.
Freaking love some Black Mirror. Some of the episodes miss the mark with me a but that's ok because each episode is a completely different story with different characters entirely, but some of them are really good.
The entire history of you and USS Callister are wonderful. It really is like today's version of The Twilight Zone.Half way through The Terror -- AMC series. I read the book a few years ago. Series is extremely well done
So good. I waited for months for this, as soon as I saw the trailer. This show is just dropping with atmosphere and looks and feels so authentic to that time.
The show is exactly what I hoped it would be. I'm usually not into series shows at all but this is right up my alley.
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Wow. Steven Pinker. Thanks for the reminder. He wrote The Language Instinct.x2
My mind was blown from reading that learning g about how lNguage works and where it comes from. I also just learned tons of random tidbits dropped in that book regarding every day Life.
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I'd like to read it as well. The most challenging book I've read was called Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett. I needed a dictionary to look up a few words per page and a note pad to pull together sentences that had many commas in them, causing me to get lost at times.
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Never heard of it looks cool.
The Dark Forest (Three Body Problem Book 2).
Just outstanding! I liked it even more than the first book.
Consider it an absolute must read if you enjoyed the Three Body Problem.
Out if curiosity the cover says it's grounded in cutting edge science. I love Michael Crichton books for that vreason books like Prey and Sphere and Jurassic Park.
Would this be something for a Crichton fan?
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Same thing happened to me with Curb Your Enthusiasm, always wanted to see it growing up never had HBO access. Watched it in 2017 laughing my ass off.
I realize I'm a couple of decades late to this party, but I saw The Larry Sanders Show was streaming on HBOGO and decided to give it a shot. I'm so glad I did, it is F#$%ing hilarious!
Always saw Larry Sanders show floating around never got to see it. It's finally time. Will do it in 2018.
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Avoided this for ages for no reason at all, recently got a subscription to Starz channel on Prime video and saw that it was available.
Starting Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Ferguson. For someone into this kind of sci-fi creature film I thought it was an intense ride that did not let up once it got going. Really cool.
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Just IMDB'd it, wow Joaquin Phoenix in a head trip of a plot. Looks pretty freakin' good if the director did a good job with it.You Were Never Really Here.
What the fucking fuck? Fuck!
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Oh lol ok thanks. I guess its part of Jessica Jones.
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Tin cup?Finished Jessica Jones.
Holy shit, best season of the whole franchise. For me, it just took off with episode 8 and didn't stop until the season was done. What a fucking ride.
Fucking dark, too. This is not a feel-good...well, anything.
I do want to try Tin Cup now, though.
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Pretty cool Ironbut.
I myself have been on a Neil Blomkampf tare.
This the video that got me into him. Short sci-fi film with a guest appearance by Sigourney Weaver. The way the aliens take down the buildings blows my mind.
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Waaat? I loved first season of Better Call Saul. Such a unique atmosphere and even lighting great to that show with interesting and unique dialog and situations. Was engulfed in that show but it's not for everyone. It's a prequel to breaking bad?i've going through it 2-3 times. afterwards you can also watch the BB movie someone made by editing down the series. And the Better Call Saul prequel which will be back on TV soon
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It's a personal favorite of mine for dirty cop movies (Casey Affleck, Anthony Mackie, Clifton Collins Jr. Gal Gadot, Kate Winslet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Norman Reedus, Woody Harrelson, Aaron Paul).
Right up there or better than dirty cop flick Pride & Glory (Edward Norton, Colin Farrel, John Ortiz, Jon Voight, Frank Grillo).
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Holy mother.
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Joel Kinnaman was cool in suicide squad, glad to hear good things about altered carbon.
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Loved the first short film from S4 Black Mirror. My favorite episode is still "The entire history of You" starring Toby Kebell.Watched season 4 of Black Mirror and I'd have to say that they've upped their game!
Awesome stuff that left me begging for more.
Here's an animated short with a similar tone.
What I'm watching now is a bit off, but its hitting me hard. I couldn't stand the remake of the movie 'It' that recently came out in 2017. Im a big fan of the book, and thought the 1990's movie was quite good in its 10 hours of telling the story that takes place over 5000 pages in the book. Most importantly the 90's movie did alright in bringing Derry to life, something that was as important as the characters, in the book.
The 2017 just didn't feel like Derry and the cast didnt feel right, and they were too old for their parts.
But recently I caught a viewing of the refrigerator scene, in slow motion using my new soundbar, on YouTube. Its frightening slowed down. The music just sounds sick at .25x, the kids, aside from the distracting Stranger Things kid, all look horrified and the Clown is just nuts.
During a viewing at the theater I barely noticed anything in detail because of how rushed the story felt, but this scene on its own imo, has some effect.
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Would you mind nami g some of the tracks you listened to on the HE-1? Just curious. I find myself listening almost exclusively to music with non vocals, and always keeping an eye out for anything exceptionally well recorded. Jazz Pistols, Chad Wackerman, Aluk Todolo, Zu. These are so.e of the sounds I wish I could hear on the HE-1 and Stax models. Thanks for your impressions.
Time for some impressions of this rare beast. [emoji4] The Icelandic distributor has a set on loan and they carved an entire afternoon out of the schedule for me to try it and do some comparisons. I showed up with the HE90 I built from spare parts, Aristaeus, Carbon amp and a port modded SR-007Mk2. Since they were using the built in dac on the HE-1, I just plugged both amps into as well to equalize the comparison.
Over all, I like the build quality of the headphones. Imagine a HD800 built properly and you are pretty much there. The leather earpads are super nice and the headband has nice extension to even fit my large melon. I don't think they are super comfy though as they are fucking heavy (550gr) and all of the pressure is on the top of the head. The Stax 4070 is just about as heavy but far more comfy due to the suspended headband design. The earcups get a bit warm due to the internal amps but only about 5-7°C above ambient. The cable is also pretty nice and not microphonic at all but more on the amps etc. later.
Amp itself...well it is just fucked up. I get that they were trying to cater to some nouveau-riche people who just want something expensive but the wank factor is off the charts. I also have serious doubts about what's hiding in that nice marble shell...
As for the headphones them selves... well the drivers look pretty much identical to the HE90 units and the few pictures of them that exist, point to that. I wanted to rip off the earpads to check further but people get antsy with something this expensive... [emoji6] One worrying thing I noticed though is that both sides of the drivers have porous dust covers. They look identical to the woven nylon found on the HE90 and well...I would expect solid covers.
Now for some actual impressions. As I said above the HE-1 dac was the source for all the amps. To that you have to turn off the headphones so no direct comparisons were possible but I know how both systems should sound so not a big problem there. The source feeding the HE-1 was a Macbook Pro running itunes but I bypassed that with my own FLAC files and player.
There are some major changes compared to the older system, this one can do bass and isn't as horribly colored either but over all...I was not impressed and the system never made me really interested in the music. It doesn't engage like a good 007 system can, where I sometimes just sit in awe even after owning a set for all these years. Here, it just doesn't pull me in. This is clearly a midrange issue as there just isn't enough presence there.
First off the major issues are the bass, treble and the soundstage. Let's start with the bass, it has this annoying hump to it sort of like the old Lambdas. I'm not sure if this is the mosfet driver (could be, the Cavalli crap boxes have similar issues) or the headphones but it is a clear coloration and once you notice it, just annoys the fuck out of me. Now on some tracks it wasn't as noticeable but always lurking in the background none the less.
Next up is the treble...which is both subdued and bright at the same time. I know plenty of people complain the 007's lack sparkle and with the Mk1 this was mostly true but they could be bright if the source called for it. The HE-1 manages something different, the treble is just flat and boring but then it suddenly bites hard. Now I was listening at higher levels but still nothing super loud, only about 12 o'clock on the dial. This also wasn't like the upper midrange bite of the 009's, more lower treble fizz but the source material didn't call for this. I'm so used to listening to SR-X Mk3 Pro drivers now (which are pretty much the gold standard for treble) as they are in my DIY headphones and nope, nothing like this. I suspect the amp is a huge influence here too but no way to verify that...
Last major issue, the soundstage. Many will know my stance on the old HE90 where it sounds like you are listening to some people playing in dense fog and you can't quite make out where they are. This time around it is much improved but the lack of pin point accuracy is still apparent. The soundstage is also a bit too far away for my liking and it just doesn't throw the same huge headspace the 007's can. This also affects the midrange and the whole "disconnected" feeling I got from the whole system. I once reached for my phone as I was just a bit bored listening to it.
Over all I like that Sennheiser built this but they really should have spent more time on the electronics. I don't think there are any improvements to moving the amps to the cups over something like the Carbon where I can burn 50+W as heat and overcome the small capacitance in the cable. Next post will discuss the tech specs of the system but I'll end with another picture of it all... It was really dark in there and I suck at taking pictures...
Now for some technical discussion. I found the specs in the back of the manual and it turns out the bias is 650VDC and the amps run at +780VDC. This makes this more than compatible with Stax so I see no issue with removing the internal amps and rewiring one of these for Stax use. I have been asked to that before but I'm really hesitant to mess with something this expensive.
That said, moving to proper amps which are not just the HEV70 rehashed can only be an improvement. I've never found any mosfet device with sufficiently low Cob to work in this role so I truly don't get what Senn were thinking.
Some other info, the entire amp only consumes 40W per the user manual which doesn't leave a lot for the actual amps. So we have 8 tubes running with heaters plus all the motors in there. HV supply for the tubes, another for the output stage and well...not a whole lot of power to spare here. Compare that to the BHSE, Carbon or even the T2. All of them use far more power and it is just for one goal, to power the headphones.
I also played around with the amp and I could swear that the volume control feels like a RK27. No way to know but how it felt when moving to the extremes...it was just like a RK27. Now as a proper volume control aficionado... [emoji6]... they all feel a bit different. TKD feels nothing like a P+G or a RK50... Until somebody opens one of these up, take it how you will. It is also clearly a volume pot and not a chip or some other setup.
MLB playoffs 2014
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Haha great way to end it with Machado on the ground with a strike out.
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