Dusty Chalk

Steve, we found your personal pic.

HiFiMan RE-262 Denon AH-D7000 Phonak Audéo PFE 122 Stax Sr-007 II & SRM-007tII Koss KDX 300 Small news announcement regarding release of 2 AKG wireless headphones

I think she's gotten as far as saying she's using it.

If I were Darth Vader, I'd use the force to make them Three Stooges each other to death. (coconut-against-coconut sound)

It's fiction dude. It's like, "what if Darth Vader had to take on Alien, who would win?" "Duh, the baddassest of them all, Darth Vader. It'd be like just one stroke of his light saber, he wouldn't even waste the mental energy to mind-choke them. In fact, he could probably take a whole army of them. And if he wanted to take a break from swinging his light saber (which really isn't that heavy), he would just mentally use the force to make them impale themselves on it. 'You don't want to live, you want to impale yourself on my..." "...penis..." "Dude. Ew." "That's what she said." "You mean the queen?" "No, dude, I was just vamping...thinking out loud...oh never mind..."

Yeah, but it's not until iPad 9 that they'll have the retina display. Fuckers.

Want.

I have to admit, this is one of the most epicly entertaining crash-n-burns I've ever witnessed. I mean, if you're going to go down in flames, he's doing the equivalent of dowsing himself in lighter fluid.

What do you mean by, "silly"?

Yeah, the Krell may not be. I like the higher end MF gear (A3 and up). A lot. I don't know about poorly implemented -- I specifically remember him worrying about the orientation of the choke because of the orthogonal nature of RF noise generated by other parts in the circuit (from an interview in Stereophile, of course). I say build. It'd be cool if you built your whole system. I just saw an article on the front of Elektor magazine about developing your own mp3 player. link ...which would, of course, mean building a Pass Labs schematic.

I'm not defending Hahn (nor Fischer), as I have yet to go back and listen to them comparatively, but I will say this about your more generalized statements -- speed isn't always an issue. Sometimes if a piece is played too slowly, ornamentation sounds like it's part of the melody when it shouldn't, and it needs to be played fast enough to "disappear" as it should. (I'm not sure this applies specifically to the pieces at hand, I'm actually thinking of my own piece, where certain aspects of melody don't come through unless it's played fast enough.) Now, that's not to say that it always needs to be played faster, not by any means. Correctly evoking the intention of the composer should be paramount, I will definitely agree with you there. Here, I'll throw you a curve ball -- when I criticized the Beaux Arts Trio, I wasn't talking about speed, I was talking about style and flow. I believe that Schubert should be played "stately", whereas their version just sounds too..I don't know...like they're trying to invoke their own personalities on top of the piece. A good comparison is comparing Keith Emerson's version of the Maple Leaf Rag: with Scott Joplin's: The speed is the same, but Keith Emerson's is much rockier and aggressive, whereas Scott Joplin's is lighter and more playful (presumably as it should be, since he composed it). He gives it a swing that most other renditions I've heard don't have, even at the same speed. I actually used to prefer Keith Emerson's version, since that's the way I played it. Similarly, others might prefer Beaux Arts Trio's rendition of Schubert, contrary to my beliefs of how I think it should be played (and the way most other renditions I've heard it played).

Misery Bear

You mentioned Krell, so I'm assuming you're buying, not building it yourself. Yes? I'm gay for Musical Fidelity, so I'd say the M3 or one of the M6's if you want new, or one of the ones with the Nu-Vista or Tri-Vista tubes in the front end for one of the old ones. But you'll probably ignore that, because no-one around here likes Musical Fidelity the way I do. But if you have a local store that sells used equipment, they're worth hearing.

Total Wine. I think. I'll check the next time I go in, which will probably be tonight.

I just bought two more of them, because I don't remember them being US$13/2 the last time I bought them. The biggest difference I found is that I almost never spill my beer. You have to tilt them really far before it starts to come out. And they're just slightly larger, so the foam almost never goes over the edge either (I can think of exactly once that it did, and that one was particularly foamy).

Typical (work): Typical (home):

He forgot that. Proving his point.

Science Diet is good stuff, but I was happy with the price to performance ratio of Wellness & Wellness Core. The primary criteria I was taught was look at the first couple ingredients on the ingredients list. If the first ingredient is "chicken", that's a good thing. "Chicken meal" is a good second choice (in the wild, they'd probably eat the feathers and whatnot then spit them out, so chicken meal is probably more comparable to what they'd eat in the real world), and anything else -- especially filler materials -- would be inferior, of course. I think they're doing the right thing, so I'll stay with them for now (unlike Iams, which I didn't, because it took them so long to come out with product after their recall that I ended up switching, and ended up being too lazy to switch back). Wellness is going to replace my cans, but I still feel terribly "un-green" throwing the old ones out -- anyone know whether or not I should donate them to a local shelter? My reasoning is, shelters end up running out of food a lot, so it's better than starving, but if it's really bad for them, then I won't. I'll probably just take it to them, and let them make the decision.

Lagunitas Wilco Tango Foxtrot -- lot more hoppy than the description is letting on. But still, surprisingly good, considering I don't like pale ales/grand crus/whatever the fuck this is.

I find your ideas interesting and wish to subscribe to your newsfeed.

It's funny, Dr. Wood became a better name for him after he came out. Serendipity? Or do you think you just subconsciously already knew?

Voluntary recall on Wellness canned cat food A letter from the CEO Anyone know anything about this? Specifically, I've been deliberately feeding Bobby Wellness Core, a mix of the poultry varieties formula, and the fish varieties formula, because it seemed not to make him so "spastic", as the regular Wellness canned cat food. I attributed this to thinking there was something in the non-Core that he had a sensitivity to, and this was some sort of "reaction". In hindsight, it may well be thiamine malnutrition. I'm tempted to just keep feeding it to him. My question is, are there any long term bad side effects? I'm kind of hoping there aren't -- I mean, he still bounces off the walls, he just bounces off the walls less. But I'm not going to take any chances. If I don't hear a reasonable explanation why this isn't bad for him, I'll make sure to return the cans I got that are within the purview of the recall, and put him on the good stuff. Spasticness or no.

Can I say it? I'm a-gonna say it... Sorry about your wallet! ...and, of course, the regular kind of pain, too.

One of the US$20 Pelican cases I posted in the deals thread.

Nope, the actual enclosure front-to-back is bowtie. Or maybe sort of a cross between a bowtie and an elbow (macaroni). And that'd be one per driver. And then you'd have to arrange three of them in an omnidirectional polydirectional configuration so that...no, wait, then the backwave would be out-of-phase...I guess it's either sealed, or whatever it's called when you fill the transmission line with (more or less) completely absorbing materials.