Dusty Chalk

Super-geeky DIYers hold their soldering iron like a light saber and make whoosh-whoosh noises.

Shit, I forgot that's today. Didn't stand in line. Will go see what I can still get.

If it was elastic at all, is there a way you can just braid from one end to the other? Oh, and yes: very cool.

Corrosion affects wire most at the connection -- I bet if you cleaned and put the jumpers back (that is, if they weren't broken), you would hear a difference. Sometimes you should do that -- just disconnect, clean, and reconnect. And that goes with RCA cables, too.

Tried the Bodega Norton non-reserva last night -- meh, not as good.

's'awesome.

I'm a-ready for Halloween!

Had the Norton Reserva malbec last night -- outstanding. Thanks for the rec, Shelly. I even had a second glass. Any opinions on the Privada or the regular variants?

Or, because they know that if DSP is done right, it can be a solution, but then make the incorrect leap that if it is done in DSP, then it's done right, which, at least with commercially available solutions, isn't always (or even usually) the case. That said, I don't think it's fair to rule out DSP based on a few bad solutions, if good ones exist. I was just reading an article on all-band-pass filters that were designed to do exactly that -- correct phase.

Why does it have to be for retail sale? I just told you that they'd do it, you just have to go into the retail store and ask for it. Here, go to your closest store and ask. Wait a minute, retail store...retail sale...that actually qualifies! It's obviously not something that everyone needs, so there's no need to advertise it. It doesn't behoove them to do so, there's no return on advertising small quantity stuff. But they will put together any combination you want. They'll even reterminate your dual Sennheiser 3-pin XLR's to RCA's if you want (which is why I know -- I was going to use a preamp as a headphone amp).

Yeah, but that's more of an indication that ...uh... there's nothing special about Monster cables.

Here's to hoping he keeps getting better. Plenty of liquids and plenty of rest. For both of you!

This one? Let me know if it works, I have something else I want to try. EDIT: The first one, that is. EDIT #2: Never mind, it does.

You may, please do, thanks, ...

Or you could just go straight to the high res version.

(cue Steve) Or was that one just a little too obvious?

So it'd be nice if the links automatically took out the referencing URL (see, for example, one of my most recent posts before this one), so that the targeted website didn't know from whence it came. I figure one way that would work is if it first went to a common url that would then take it to the target website, like a form post, rather than embedded in the URL.

No, if I'm going to do that, I'm going to use The Arts/Comedy and Tragedy like I do: :-Dusty :-Chalk d-_-b or: :-Dusty (halk d-_-b[/code]But actually, yeah, I may want to do that, too. I wish I could do that size=1, then I'd put an emoticon kitty next to me.

Actually, they do -- they'll do anything. You'll just have to go to your local retailer, and they'll charge full price.

Awyeah, even better. Thanks for that. EDIT: But actually, it'll probably be: Dusty Chalk d-_-b

Yeah, that was my reasoning -- for $30 more and the cost of a hard drive, I could try it, and then I would have 3 iPods. Or I could go all out and get a ridiculously huge SSD drive, since it's the older, fatter model. That would be fun -- a tricked out iPod classic. Or for $70 more I could just get a new one and have "Dusty Chalk" laser engraved on it. EDIT: I can even break it up -- buy the replacement iPod now, get the hard drive for the other one later.

I used to biwire, but I convinced myself that it was mumbo jumbo. The biggest benefit was psychological -- I didn't have to worry about which speaker terminal to attach the wires to, and which driver to receive the inferior jumpered signal -- I used them both. You can't tell electrons where to go, unless you introduce a demon (similar to Maxwell's) or a diode into the equation. That said, the whole thing about drivers (and associated circuitry, I.E. the crossover) and their associated amps "seeing" each other (impedance, back-EMF) does make a little bit more sense. But in my financial situation, I wouldn't do it unless I was doing something additional like putting an active crossover in front of the amps...and perhaps correcting for everything, like the Meridian or JH Audio systems do. I think you should biamp the electrified fence.

Anyone? Anyone replace their hard drive in their iPod classic and think $179 is a good deal, even if a refurb, and I have to trade my current old one in?

Sebastian -- still working on the ratio.

Finished the Y+B Malbec. Meh, will keep looking.