Hopstretch

What does Grahame say: "Reassuringly expensive"?

Happy Florida Birthday Nums!

Good info. Doesn't come in silver though, I don't think?

Ayre QX-5 Twenty streams TIDAL, Deezer and Spotify, is "Roon ready" and has balanced, remote switchable headphone output. Hmmm.

How do those two-play together Kerry? Keep hearing about Roon but I get, like, five pages deep into their Web site and give up, because I still can't really see what it does if you don't have terabytes of audio files on a NAS.

Noice.

Restores my soul.

AMGs are noice.

Just noodling. If I don't want to own physical media or even manage files on my computer anymore, what is the state of the art? How would one spec an optimal all-streaming setup?

Can now control a Sonos system directly from within the TIDAL app/player. The is actually pretty great as Sonos's own front end is ... clunky.

Stay strong. My X has just moved to "Preparing To Ship".

The Railway Children -- Reunion Wilderness Did they ever make it across the pond?

^^^ This!

REM -- Automatic For The People (25th Anniversary Hi-Res Remaster) As above ...

Solid.

Hmmm.

Take the opportunity to monkey around!

Emily Haines (from Metric) covering LCD Soundsystem and think I like her take better. Some of it is a bit close to home for me ...

Carnitas, sprouts & beer. Toot toot.

Twas all good.

Used to be the standard response here to the "moar power" tendency. Still holds up I think?

Super gay! NTTAWRT!

Swapped out all the smoke alarms in the house with Nest Protect 2G units. They talk to you, which is a little weird. Hopefully they're not also listening -- no mic in the specs but who knows in these paranoid days? Anyway, now have the outside security cameras and indoor thermostats and smokes all accessible on my phone in one app, which I like. Probably would have preferred to use Apple HomeKit as a platform, but the device ecosystem isn't there at the moment.

Bumping this lively thread because TTVJ is no longer selling the Pinnacle -- don't ask why I was browsing -- but says to look out for the "Pinnacle 2" and (OMG) "Ultra Pinnacle".