Hopstretch

Headphones on to blot out the pre-holiday bickering. Serenity now!

All good, received today. Tres snappy. About 30 seconds after getting set up, it was confiscated to make unicorn animojis.

Something's fucky with my X. Shipped out of China a week ago, then back in a few days later and has been EXCEPTION/DELAY ever since.

The Clash sample in the background from "Straight To Hell".

Watch out for his signature Roofie rub! That's how he got Raffy to sign the indentured servitude contract.

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.