Dusty Chalk

He's totally right. However, I personally put great value in lack of doubt. It's purely psychological, but if you think it will be an improvement, then that's $900 well spent ... DEW ET.

It's just two different approaches. The "magical resonance" thing is almost universal in the luthier business. Personally, I'm with you, which is why I prefer Parker guitars. It's harder to quantize resonances and establish metrics as to exactly which ones work and which ones don't. But also, it's not that black and white -- there are middle grounds, one can choose a certain amount of inertness and minimize resonances and then still work with them. I personally think that's what Spendor does, because the S3/5 that I had for a while wasn't "loosey goosey". It felt fairly stable. And it's Spendor, not Splendor.

You know, I noticed that, but that that rigorously (only subconsciously). :/

Looks like they also did Free Fall, but not Dregs of the Earth, the one with which I'm most familiar. Alas. We could always get Louis to remaster them for us. Or I could remaster them myself.

I think it's going to be a Dregs kind of day. Starting with Dregs of the Earth.

Happy belated birthday! (sends party favour noise back in time)

Lollers @ penis This.

Happy birthday! (party favour noise) 90 minutes of Grateful Dead

They also did speakers against the big 3-way BBC design monitors (BC-1) that was pretty spectacular (SP-1). Standmount, not floorstanders. I just didn't have the room for those, was looking for a nice tight 2.1 system.

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Talk to me about marinades, Jacob. I rarely see you using anything acidic, which was my understanding was the primary purpose of marinades (tenderizing), after "adding flavor".

Spendor never named their designs based on the LS3/5A after the LS3/5A -- there was the S3/5, S3/5R, S3/5SE, etc., for some reason, they always dropped the L. I have a feeling their variant was significantly different from the LS3/5A (perhaps they used more easily sourced drivers?) that they didn't feel comfortable calling it the LS3/5A. Or perhaps it was pride -- the name evoked its heritage, but it was its own speaker. Absolute Sound reviewed the first iteration (the one I bought, perhaps simply named the S3/5) and called it the best sub US$1K speaker on the market at the time. This was why I was even at that store, so the fact that they were playing it just reinforced that opinion. But yes, it was entirely a direct descendant of the LS3/5A, so my ears prick up any time I hear that as a reference. I have a fantasy of designing an omnidirectional speaker based on the LS3/5A "sound". KEF's current LS50 speakers pique my interest similarly.

I think I would have liked to have posterized that, if it weren't for the glaring typo. Ah, okay:

It was a Jolida integrated (JD102B) and Spendor S3/5? speakers -- my first audiophile system. I added my own subwoofer, because I was too cheap to buy theirs (I think theirs was a Bag End Infrasub, mine was a Sunfire Sub Jr., which worked just fine when it was between the CD player and the integrated, plus tiny room). But honestly, I think it was just that my old system had deteriorated so radically, and it was such a large step to a full-frequency-bandwidth system. Plus, the recording was fantastic -- I think it was some straight-to-two-channel jazz thing. Plus, tubes.

First thing I put on was the radio, and it was all brimstone and fire -- in terms of how strongly they were warning us against going out and driving in the snow -- looked outside, it wasn't snowing yet, so immediately went and ran the one errand I needed to run today. By the time I got home about an hour later, one couldn't see the streets or parking lots -- the ground was cold enough from the past two days of single digit temperatures that it started sticking immediately, even when being driven on. And I was skidding all over the place, so went straight home and am staying here. Will cook some, clean some, practice some, and laze some. Started with the lazing.

Hanggai -- Mongolian/Chinese folk+ band. First album, Introducing Hanggai -- is more indigenous music, but He Who Travels Far and Baifang introduce elements of rock and prog. Still has a lot of folk elements to it, they're just stirred up into a complex stew. EDIT: This shit is awesome:

I've always loved music, but the equipment to make it was always just a tool to hear the music until recently. Bought a sample CD (Uwe Schmidt) that included a warning against blowing one's woofers -- I paid no heed, and blew my woofers. Went to a store to hear some speakers I wanted to hear. They sounded like they had a live band playing inside, so I stayed outside. When they finished I heard what was obviously a much larger audience than could possibly fit in the small store. Immediately bought said system (less the source -- a turntable -- since I was CD based).

I love Night of the Living Dregs Dregs of the Earth, but never got anything else by them. Any pointers? I could do with some good fusion. EDIT: Correct album title, not sure why I always do that.

It's so cold out, that my apartment complex management asked us all to leave our faucets on 'drip' so that the pipes don't freeze and burst. Sad part is, it makes sense, because if they do have to fix the burst pipes, you know they're going to raise our rent, so we're going to pay for it either way.

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A very cool German dub techno playlist on Tidal.

You mean, Nevada?

I got my packages yesterday, from both FedEx and UPS. Still, this:

Not sure where else to post this, so I'll post it here: Amazon greenlights Man in the High Castle, amongst others I watched the pilot. I am excite.