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got a switch 2 today, not even a line or anything but there was a big group of people waiting to buy pokemon cards, what a strange future Jun 5, 2025

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      got a switch 2 today, not even a line or anything but there was a big group of people waiting to buy pokemon cards, what a strange future
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      3. YMO
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        ...before the shop like Target opens so they can run to the Pokemon Card section and buy the good stuff for flipping. Even my local comic book store who also does Pokemon cards get hit a lot of the Pokemon Card Buyers/Scalpers.
        Jun 5, 2025
      4. YMO
        YMO
        Also Switch 2 with everything else (games, add-ons, etc.) cost too much for casual gaming in my opinion. Good option for neckbeards though who is lacking the physical contact of the other sex.
        Jun 5, 2025
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        that makes a lot of sense I was kind of guessing it must be the day they get in new stock, I was sitting there thinking "surely they can't be doing this every day". Switch 2 probably does cost too much tbh, I mainly went after it early because the day 0 console versions are always the ones that get cracked later - path of exile update comes out next week so I'm not gonna be playing it for a while anyways
        Jun 5, 2025
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      finally bothered to set up my scope for speaker amps, pleasantly surprised to find my diy F6 hits 29 watts, rated for 25
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      always hate to see it when a great album only has terribly mixed/recorded releases available
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        relationship of command came on in the car this morning and got me thinking about this, it's always a bit of a bummer how flat that album sounds
        May 3, 2025
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      my apartment building got hit by lightning yesterday! thankfully nothing broken, glad I didn't cheap out on power stuff
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      3. Kernel Kurtz
        Kernel Kurtz
        A decent power bar should alert you, either with a light or by just not working, when it's joule capacity has been used up. Unfortunately there seems to be no way of knowing where it is on that scale, at least with the consumer stuff I've seen.
        Mar 29, 2025
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        Thad E Ginathom
        Mar 29, 2025
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      5. atomicbob
        atomicbob
        Given the amount of energy discharged in close proximity to your system I would heed @Kernel Kurtz advice.
        Mar 29, 2025
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      Apparently the beta version of REW has a rest api, looks like there's cool potential to automate measurements with it
      1. Kernel Kurtz
        Kernel Kurtz
        I'd like to see a ARM port. Not needing x86 would open it up to SBCs or embedded devices with many possibilities. Could even license/build it in to audio components.
        Mar 25, 2025
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      3. joch
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        Cognac swirling jazz enthusiasts
        Mar 23, 2025
      4. Thad E Ginathom
        Thad E Ginathom
        My friend with a fancy deck (don't recall if it was an actual Revox) thought that BBC Radio transmissions of live classical music was higher quality than vinyl. He recorded that.
        Mar 23, 2025
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      5. Thad E Ginathom
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        Of course, I loved those machines. Who wouldn't?

        But the novelty does wear off when one needs to find the start of a particular track on a big reel.
        Mar 23, 2025
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      Been enjoying making digital rips of my (modest) vinyl collection, a surprisingly relaxing way to pass the time
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      2. Thad E Ginathom
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        Nice work. But it can certainly be hard work, depending on the condition of the vinyl.

        I haven't done any for a long time: don't have the hearing or the energy. But I do have own-rips that I prefer to clean CD/download versions, even where it is not a question of poor remasters. ...
        Mar 14, 2025
      3. Thad E Ginathom
        Thad E Ginathom
        Where it does not approach painful, I actually like to hear traces of vinyl imperfection. I became used to hearing those small things, sometimes for decades. They are part of my experience of that record.
        Mar 14, 2025
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      4. Thad E Ginathom
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        I never believed in hi-res. But hey, I thought I might be inviting the bats for dinner at some time!
        Mar 14, 2025
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      Got my supernaut a few months ahead of schedule, great way to start off March
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        haven't heard any of the other donald amps, but initial impressions in comparison to starlett after spending a night with it - even airier feeling, more sense of space between things and really excellent sense of layering and seperation that I appreciate a lot. also feels punchier/quicker on stuff like snare drums especially, the word "taut" comes to mind, but not in a bad way to say that decays feel dampened.
        Mar 5, 2025
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      finally bought some random tapes to test my reel to reel with, these things are a lot heavier than I would have guessed
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        really neat machines, but totally understandable how they fell off - I had to buy a lot of random tapes on ebay because I couldn't find any tapes locally even at the antique stores, found way more 8 track tapes than I would have expected though
        Feb 7, 2025
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        How much weight we talking
        Feb 7, 2025
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        I bought a box of 12 of them and its around 10 pounds, I guess it makes sense since rolled up tape reels would be dense
        Feb 7, 2025
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      got a verite closed, wow these are something different, the reverb effect is really interesting coming from auteur classic/atrium
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      2. ilikebananafudge_
        ilikebananafudge_
        I'm addicted.
        Jan 29, 2025
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      Got a new drive to rip cds since I lost my old one, surprised to see they still sell strictly cd/dvd drives - wonder if they're all just nos
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        I ended up getting an ASUS BW-16D1HT bd drive with an external enclosure - definitely overkill but should hopefully take less time to rip than the slim external drives do, that seems to be the only real complaint with those
        Jan 18, 2025
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      3. Riotvan
        Riotvan
        Plextor or go bust.
        Jan 18, 2025
      4. Josh83
        Josh83
        I have a handful of external drives, and the Pioneer BDR-S13J-X in an enclosure may be my favorite.
        Jan 18, 2025
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      moondrop making speakers now apparently - probably not something I'd buy but I don't think I've seen any other chinese brands doing speakers
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      3. darmok
        darmok
        FiiO has some powered monitors to go with their desktop Android streamers.
        Jan 7, 2025
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        cool, never seen the fiio stuff - and yeah I more meant I hadn't seen any chinese hifi companies trying to do speakers for western markets, just ran out of characters
        Jan 8, 2025
      5. Ti_Leo
        Ti_Leo
        Edifier? It's more focused on speakers, but it also makes BT headphones, and, IIRC, bought STAX
        Jan 8, 2025
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      picked up zero:2 iems to check out on a whim based on recommendations here, gotta agree these are pretty impressive for 25 bucks
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      really enjoying auteur classics with the torpedo 3, feels like it eases most of the nasty treble I heard with these on the jot 2 sometimes
      1. zonto
        zonto
        I could definitely see that. Does your Torpedo 3 have all the "upgrades" or is it the OG version with no CCS and the Edcor output transformers?
        Nov 29, 2023
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        it's the "maxed out" version with CCS, mundorf caps, and cinemag transformers. I didn't like most of the cheaper tube gear I heard when I was younger, but I've been pleasantly surprised with this one. I listen to some stuff where it's either a bit abrasive or just was recorded badly (ex. some metal, DIY punk), so that's where it's really shined for me as far as easing up what I heard as "nasty treble"
        Nov 29, 2023
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        zonto
        Glad you like it!
        Nov 29, 2023
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