Dusty Chalk

Thanks, guys. It comes and goes. And goes. And goes... I think I'm going to skip tonight's so I can get a full night's sleep.

+ brownie points for using "talk its foot off the gas pedal" instead of "take its foot off the gas pedal". Damn. Extra nudity this week. I might have to watch this episode again when I'm less tired, try to pick up on the nuances. I was ...uh... distracted. I wonder what that player piano song that was playing ultra fast was after he snapped his fingers.. I might have to sample it and slow it down, see if I recognize it.

Well I didn't. I had to look up neutron star and spot that it's diameter is approx. 30km. I thought they just left off the primary measurement. And/or expected us to just figure out what that was based on the math that was previously presented (because "intuitively obvious"...not). And: exactly.

The funny thing is, they didn't even mean "standard deviation of 20 km", they meant "approximately 20km".

All I saw in my feed. Lollers. My immediate first thought was to response with, "I love the sound of breaking glass..." I love power pop.

I think Larry Atkinson uses laser interferometry.

I'd be curious if you agreed with her on everything. For example, she suggests that you turn your oven on as high as it can go when seasoning the pan.

Not cooking right now, but there were a lot of good tips in here: I'm curious if you all agree with the advice to take the oil well past it's smoke point -- that's not at all what I did. I also probably left too much oil on, as per the video.

That's what happens when you release all the magic smoke at once, kids.

I wonder if they still make anything like my Sony DVP-PQ1. It has a digital coaxial out (the main reason I got it, as most of them were optical): There aren't too many half-rack (that's what you're looking for, essentially) CD players. If you Google "half rack cd player", you get a bunch of Teacs, and a Rolls HR72, whatever that is. Tascam appears to have a couple of tall somethings, but they appear to be overkill, I'd stick with either the Rega or -- what I use to play all my silver disks -- the Oppo BDP-whatever-the-current-model-is. It's full-size, but I use the built-in DAC.

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The only reason I can think is that it only plays CDs (I.E. not DVDs, SACDs, nor Blu-Rays), and I'm not sure it even plays CD-Rs (earlier Rega models had problems). But yes, it is an excellent transport, if all you're going to play are CDs. I've gotten to the point where I either rip the CD right away, or use the download (if it's Bandcamp/lossless). Then any old computer will do. Or my little portable Sony. There's probably one with a digital out that you can link up to a DAC or the Oppo DAC/amp. I understand that's not what you're asking, so feel free to ignore.

No worries, I have to admit, I never researched Blu-Tack, so was willing to be corrected, but it appears according to Stereophile that it dampens somewhat (Wikipedia cited this as a source, Blu-Tack is introduced on page 3): link. (I'll have to read the whole article later, seems interesting.) I was just going on intuition -- the best vibration conductor is going to be solid (resonances may actually amplify vibrations at certain frequencies) -- anything that "gives" is going to dampen somewhat, and ... I can just imagine trying to listen "through" Blu-Tack -- it would probably be extremely muffled. Hence I just assumed it was a dampener. Now, you may still be right -- maybe a thin enough amount would act as a conductor by keeping the two surfaces "glued" together -- I.E. coupled, but then the answer would be to use more. Or maybe at low frequencies it stops absorbing/dampening and starts acting like a conductor (all insulators would be frequency dependent, based on my research into soundproofing and sound insulation). I think more research is warranted.

That wasn't my understanding -- a spike would couple the speaker to whatever the speaker was on (speaker stand, floor, or, in your case, granite slabs). In your case, the decoupling occurs at the sorbothane pads. Think of it as insulation.

Exactly, I think it's environment-specific.

Isn't that coupling? Decoupling is blu-tak, cork, foam, or the like. The idea being if there are any floor-borne vibrations, they stop at the decoupling. Coupling is an entirely different school of thought, where you assume the earth is the most inert and try to keep as strong a coupling from there to the speakers to feed off that inertness. Supposedly the best decoupling method (conducts the least vibration) is sand, but that would still require other parts (a rigid stand on top of the sand or something).

They still have those. Some interfaces just never get old.

Damn, son, those are both beautiful, the speakers and the stands. I'm fully a believe in speaker stands, but not sure where I stand, in the 'decouple' camp, where the speakers are intended to be decoupled from the floor so that floor-borne vibrations don't transmit back to the speaker through conduction, or the other camp, where you start with the assumption the floor is the most inert thing, and ...couple? Whatever the opposite of decouple is...the speakers to the floor. It sounds like from what you say that the speaker stands are inert enough that you coupled your speakers to the stands. Honestly, I would have them as forward on the stands as possible. You know, edge effect. It's less noticeable near the bass driver, so you may be fine, but I always want my drivers to be the most forward thing in the vicinity.

Winter Kills/All Cried Out/This House -- one of these days, I'm covering all 3 of those. Maybe a fourth, and make it an EP. I never get tired of watching people who know how to move:

It shore is purty.

Oh, interesting, hadn't of that latter. Thought of ham radio, but that would be missing a 'M' or at least a 'k'. Might it be the lowest frequency for a carrier frequency for voice quality? Maybe this is his favourite frequency region to cut or boost? Not sure what any of those have to do with Hz, Mikey, but thanks for the larph.

I saw this on a license plate: "3958 HZ", and since it's within the audible spectrum, I thought I'd ask here. Anyone know the significance?

You lost me.