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3" drivers? I don't know, man, sounds like you'd have to listen to them really quietly to get any sort of linearity out of it. I mean, yeah, you can't know until you've heard it for yourself, but...I wouldn't have.

Postman Always Rings Twice -- "It's the best echo I ever heard."

I suspect there's something distracting on that side. Perhaps the audience.

Spent some time with my mother, sister, and cousin. Win.

Happy belated!

Happy Birthday, Shelly!

I haven't laughed that hard in a good long time.

Yeah, well, you're kind of vague on that. I honestly didn't think you did (other than the Benchmark), given your response to that question initially. I gave you an opportunity to clarify, and you really didn't put a whole lot of meat with those potatoes.

Unfortunately, I could never get your show in linux, and by the time I boot into my Windows system, I suspect it's too late. What's that DAW controller-looking thing? It looks kind of like the Livid Ohm...actually, it pretty obviously says "Ohm" at the top right, so I assume it's just a different iteration...

Well, that's one way to look at it. The other way to look at it is that hearing something in context is a lot different than hearing it at all. Dither, for example, sounds completely different than, for example, road noise, or thermal noise, especially in the context of a digital recording, but at the lowest levels alone, they all sound the same to an untrained ear. If you overdrive your ADC at the recording point at very low levels, it might sound tolerable, but put it on top of a recording and it will sound awful. There's also the nature of the distortion -- that whole even-order harmonics vs. odd-order harmonics thing.

Wow. Clearly thought-out and lucidly stated.

You know, that particular shade of yellow goes with just about anything. The slight bleached-out-ness to it makes it look almost the same hue as raw carbon fiber.

There's a tequila joke in there somewhere.

So you have heard more expensive crap?

Except he made exactly that claim to the contrary: I mean, I understand working a niche ($100 range, in this case), but then don't make the other claim if you have little or no experience in that area. That's what head-fi is for.

Agreed, it's pretty intense, and I mean that in a good way.

Because it's the best thing that has ever happened to me since ... well, since the last best thing that has ever happened to me. I mean, really, Greatest Meme Evar. Also, not entirely honest -- I have yet to get through an entire album paulstretched -- I only got through "God Bird Change" and most of the title track of Electric Rendez-Vous, and "Slow" and "Chocolate" from Kylie, but I could tell the entire album would have worked in both cases. It's interesting what doesn't work: "Blue Monday" really didn't work -- the fast drum beats just turned into this long noise, and I think anything with too much obvious simple repetition doesn't work. "Autobahn" didn't work. Killing Joke's "Change" didn't work. On the other hand, Nitzer Ebb, "Fun to be Had" and "Getting Closer" both worked surprisingly well. NP: Alison Moyet, "All Cried Out", paulstretched Also, I haven't gotten laid in way too long, so not so much "bored" as "restless".

I think the only two I've seen are Cellar Door (which doesn't seem like a good "starter" and the Stateside Saison. I really want to try Existent or A Saison Darkly or one of those. Will keep looking. Last night: Washington Hills gewurtztraminer and Graffigna malbec

The only Stillwaters I've seen are the farmhouse ales. :\

"You'll have to excuse me, I've got something stuck in my teeth. I think it's ...I don't know what it's called (I'm a dog!), but it's that flap of skin between the thumb and forefinger."

paulstretched Electric Rendez-vous, Al Di Meola. Up next: Kylie Minogue's Body Language, might stop and listen to "Blue Monday". NP: "Stairway to Heaven", LZ, paulstretched.

(squints)

No, because that would be necromancy.

You ever heard Cypher 7? They have a track called "Dead Drop" which is just outstanding. "Ladder of Lights" is pretty great, too. "Dead Drop" takes over 2 minutes to "get started", your comment is what made me think of them. Dead Drop would be over a hundred and forty-one minutes in paulstretch time... Oh, and yes, I listen to that sort of thing all the time at work.

Space Boogie didn't work so well. Neither did Shriekback's "This Big Hush". Now on: "Kagirohi Ha Yomi Ni Mata Muto" (the 10-minute finale of Ghost in the Shell: Innocence with heavy drumming) -- all 71 minutes of it.