DigMe

They better have some approved Shatski glasses…

Not impressed with their choices of equipment, esp. considering the amount of money they sunk into the place.

More interested to hear their gear than our Oakland audiophile Bar Shiru https://www.barshiru.com/ They have Line Magnetic and I got excited but it did not sound that great.

I’m also pretty sure that the product managers at Dell are tired of me asking for their Collaboration series of monitors to accept screw-in locking USB-C connectors on their entire line up, but still think it would solve a lot of problems for them. (Sorry for rambling in your profile post)

I think it basically came down to Europe forcing Apple’s hand by requiring USB-C. No worries about the rambles! :)

Lightning ports are generally good. It's the cables that usually end up being hot garbage for me. I've thrown out my share of USB cables, but I've thrown out at least twice over as many Lightning.

Logistics not always logical.

I usually get that on random FedEx shipments, but not from Amazon. 3rd party seller?

It's okay now.

Yes. Formatting and stuff gone awol.

It came back later. OK now.

Just now a cymbal started playing at the beginning of a song in the left channel and I thought it was kind of rude of the guy next to me 3 feet over in the coffee shop to be playing music out loud. It felt very much live and not up in my ear which I have noticed a lot with the Kato.

I appreciated the input on speaker brands from everyone in my earlier post. I was also interested in Focal and Morel but they didn’t have 6x9’s that fit my doors. Sounds pretty good so far. I’d love to get a DSP and amp at some point in the future too. Materials quality of the factory speakers was insanely craptastic.

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"blown front car speakers"

Add commas, hyphens, etc etc, to taste --- and still be confused!

(OKOK --- yes, I know what you mean.)

I saw him perform a few years back.. the immediate and lasting impression was how much the band hated him, and his distain for them. I can't enjoy his recordings anymore.

It was a banger! They rocked it.

What model? All the ones I'm seeing online are selling new for $7k-$10k

@Merrick No3. He says they’re brand new unopened and it’s for the pair. I wouldn’t buy them if I was in the market either way. The pics are pics of sealed cardboard boxes.

That's like those ebay listings for PS5...boxes.

They're Australian, so they're intimately familiar with the meaning ;)
I guess they could get away with it because it's in a conference proceedings volume, and they did define how they were using it in a footnote on p. 17 ("gratification of shared interests", lol).

Metaphorical use is totally fair enough, is it not?

My favourite Americanism: brown nosing.

The Brits say arse licking, but the American expression has so much more.... Lets just say so much more.

@Biodegraded I really didn’t doubt it. Just thinking of a funny scenario.

Yeah, right now he uses my Drop Portapro with the mic but I actually have trouble understanding him when we play together and I was wanting to get him something a bit more immersive as well. Another one I was looking at was the open-back Koss GMR 545. It has an extended detachable boom mic that I thought might be better. Anyone tried them?

https://www.amazon.com/Koss-GMR-545-AIR-Headphones-Detachable-Microphones/dp/B0759XHKQK/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8&th=1

Yea, I assume the over ear one is the same mic in the porta pro headset. Friend had it on for a call and it sounded pretty good.
Amazon reviews has a video with the mic test.

I just snagged one on amazon for the same price. I went with the matte steel finish - just to avoid fingerprint magnetitis.

I went with the blue. Def wasn’t even considering the mirror steel hope the blue aren’t print magnets.

@DigMe I’m terrible. Was torn between matte and blue. Went w/matte because it arrived 2 days earlier. Lol… tie breaker!

@YMO which is mainly just saving up for the best possible dog hair vacuum.

I wasn't gonna, but decided to slim down my bedside rig. MCTH plus LPS takes up too much space, plus hot toob.

I'm tempted to put mine on a personal loaner tour for anyone that missed out. After I've had some time with it, of course.

Big balls

https://tinyurl.com/bdfytrff

My 6+ mo daughter kicks like a mule. I'm dreading the day she scores a direct hit with her heel to my Balzac.

Or Kobe's condoms

In what condition are the condoms?

On offer in trade: Richard Dean Anderson's Audi 2.7T Allroad https://tinyurl.com/4nrw2ewe

Hey, thanks for all then suggestions. Currently considering JL Audio, Focal and Kicker. I wasn’t planning on adding an amp and Crutchfield seems to indicate that the Focals I was looking at would benefit more from an amp.

Also, looking at 6x9’s because these are in a front door that can take either 6.5” or 6x9. I usually have it faded to the front because of my kids so I want full range up there. All of Focal’s 6x9’s are too deep for the door so it would have to be 6.5. The JL audio speakers fit. I think Kicker will too.

A set of kicker KS 6x9s will sound great up front if they will fit. I have a pair in the back of my Polara and they sound great.

@yotacowboy , get a Marvin. A robot with brains the size of a planet and also skilled at manual labour. See "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy."

A close friend told me that he very distressed as a child when a slice of pizza went from 90¢ to a dollar. In 1986, 10¢ was not an utterly trifling sum to a youngster.

I remember when a phone call when from 10c to a quarter. Almost doubled in price! The cost of a mailing stamp, the "Forever Stamp", is now 60c. I was in a meeting the other day, and we all guessed wrong at the cost of a stamp. I think the highest someone said was 45c.