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Steel is not as hard as diamond. Nowhere near.

I think you would be safe playing a stainless-steel record of anything. Unless it knocks the stylus off its mount.

(pedantic afterthought: yes, diamond is brittle, and, although it can scratch a hammer, the hammer can crush it. So... how hefty are those transients? lol)

But the GOOLIES always respond the same way.

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The dude that did the pre-move survey was an audio guy and asked a bunch of questions about my setup, and at the end he said he was going to insist they make crates for the KEFs. Pretty awesome since my wife's work is footing the bill for the whole move.

Was speaker placement a factor when you chose the house?

Congrats on your new home, (assuming it is Wyoming and not Mississippi.)

It's Jackson Michigan actually. And yes, a living room with an appropriate wall for the 5.1/2.0 setups was a requirement.

Spotify doesn't have the same DRM? I thought UMG did that on all of their music that's not on CDs, including bought(!) digital copies.

I haven't noticed it on Spotify. It was most noticeable on hi-res content on Tidal, so maybe lower bitrate makes it harder to discern. Also I don't critically listen with Spotify, whereas if I'm paying for lossless I want it to be indistinguishable from my CD rips. Either way, Tidal supports MQA so I won't support them.

Oh, I don't listen to the 'Master' tracks on Tidal, either. I think Music that isn't UMG should be fine, though. I know it was in the past, but maybe things have changed.

Avoid houses with basements, if at all possible; thereby avoiding 2/3ds of the Things That Can Go Wrong. Watch out for polybutylene pipes & people passing off damaged Masonite by repainting it a dark color. Best luck!

Congrats. What part of Michigan? My wife and I met in Ann Arbor, and she's from the Detroit area. We miss A2...except for the weather.

@Josh83 We'll be in Jackson, so about an hour or so from friends and family. Which is way better than the 5.5 hours now.

You don't know what the architecture of the platform is going to be yourself. Not sure why were even talking about panel gaps on model 3s at this point.

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Before I had only listened on headphones and couldn't get into it. The big bass hits on the 4th track are rattling the dishes in the kitchen cabinets. The dynamic range is wild.

Plus I can put my desktop to sleep now and save some $ on the electric bill.

Going to try it out today. Main reason is right now all my music is hosted from a shared folder on my desktop PC, which has a 3TB raid1 just for media. I want to be able to put it to sleep when I'm not using it but I can't stream music while it's sleeping.

Security concerns aside, performance won’t be good, though probably good enough for music?

It's a pretty nice router for being 2+ years old. Its a Netgear Nighthawk R6700 rev2. It has a dual-core 1ghz processor, so probably fine for hosting a file system that I can edit from my desktop and access from my RPi to stream music.

I had to order a new external HDD, the one I have isn't compatible with the router (needs a driver) since it's an internal 2.5" HDD/SSD WD dual drive in an external enclosure.

T200 is bigger than T100 but T500 is smaller than T400. What the hell is going on over there, Comply??

Really not sure if that's even accurate but it's the only thing I could find.

Wow memory foam tips are legit. They are so stuck in my ear it's a chore to take them out, which is the whole reason I wanted them. The silicon tips that came with these IEMs would fall out constantly, no matter what size I used. And these are just more comfortable.

Overnight? How big is your library? Mine takes about an hour or less and it's over 400gb.

About 600GB, shouldn't take too long but it's already 1130 and the wife is sleeping ;)

Honestly can't believe how much better moOde sounds than volumio...

Great record, second only to Colors IMHO. Reminded me that I've got that 5.1 mix version of this, and man, that's weird as hell to listen to.

Edit: thanks for the tip on the reissue; this was the original reason for the message. Ha.

Colors was my favorite for a long time but TGM has overtaken it recently. Swim to the Moon is an incredible piece of music.

Back from class and cleaned up the records. Yes is near mint, traffic is also near mint on side 1, VG+ on side 2. Aqualung is VG+, Houses is perfect with only a minor scuff on side 1, LZ4 is also mint, but it's a recent remaster pressing. AiC is also brand new. Listening will commence after they dry fully.

Some wonderful records you have there

Very nice. All stuff I would like to live with again.

I remember really liking that Traffic album, though I can't recall anything about it now: I'd better ask the internet.

And Jethro Tull, at the time of Aqualung, was one of my first live rock concerts. Biggest problem is that you can never, for the rest of your life, sit on a park bench without doing it to that tune!

Cards? Where we’re going, we don’t need cards.

Not even the best credit card for rewards. Locks you into the Apple Pay system.

It actually has some great features, but you need an iPhone to use it.

These are pretty comfortable, which isn't often something I can say about IEMs. You can tell they actually put some thought into the ergonomics, and the fact they are DD means they cared about the sound as well. https://i.imgur.com/CqiKo5L.jpg

I actually use the same ones daily when I need less bulk. Surprisingly competent for a came-with pair of IEMs, good for YouTube and Spotify at least.

+1 comfort, I usually have trouble with IEMs that aren't tiny bullet ones but these aren't irritating enough for me to lose my temper at them :))

Send them over! I'm supposed to be mowing the lawn and... I'm not.

This on their ubistore i guess? Thanks, I'll make sure to grab it!

Yes on Uplay.

Such a nice gesture by Ubisoft! At least someone tries to give like a cool atmosphere or something. Can imagine people getting tired of the circle jerk of life & pointless stress. I am probably going to watch GOT and play Assassins Creed: Unity tonight for peace of mind!