LetMeBeFrank

That blower looks to scale. Noice!

All the best to Mr and Mrs Frank. Does it mean a new job for the husband too?

Small world. I’m from Youngstown, Ohio, too. My wife is from Oak Park, just outside Detroit, and we met at UMich.

Depending on the house we buy I might be doing allot of renovation myself, so I'm not too worried about finding a job just yet.

Could only see three. Then I enlarged, and was able to see the nose of number 4. :)

@zonto haha thanks you are probably right. Maybe I'm trying to justify what I have.

@Imraan good idea about the notes I'll try that next time.

A/B switching can be useful to avoid mental distraction of making the change with cables, etc. Don't set time limits or A/B rapidly unless there is a particular sound that stands out differing. @Imraan point about perceived differences should be heeded; I've experienced this frequently as well.

I use a player with A/B repeat feature (e.g. Neutron) and listen to short song snippets in a loop. As an example, to assess timbre and detail resolution with cymbals, I listen to a 20 second snippet from Diana Krall's Boy from Ipanema, starting from 1:50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=110&v=Qht2T13kyCI

Really beautiful pics

Thank you! The early ones were taken on my Olympus E-M10 Mark II, the last half, starting with the nature center (and any from inside the Jeep) were taken with my Note 9 due to rain.

I really miss the Blue Ridge. Spent over a decade between NC and DC. So gorgeous in the Fall.

you're lucky man i have the opposite experience when i go from speaker to headphone haha

I go back and forth. A while ago I was totally blown away by the 2.1 system. Now I'm used to it so going back to headphones is great again.

Frank picks up headphones and is a happy man.

Frank puts down headphones, turns on speakers, and is a happy man,

Frank is getting something right here, I think! Talk about "win-win!"

(OK, two things, I guess)

Thanks guys!

Excellent choices! Congrats on the awesome new music, and may you have many more happy years :)

Sweet selections. A happy birthday definitely!

Sharing some photos wouldn't be out of line

I'll post them once I get back to my PC in Indy, took too many to go through on my phone.

Cycling is good (said the cyclist). But it shouldn't be all of your activity, it is not weight bearing in the way walking is. Even pro cyclists who did many thousands of miles year after year have been found to have higher-than-normal osteoporosis. Mix it up as best you can

Thanks @ergopower, I'm looking forward to walking more again as well. When I was a manager at Lowe's I walked 10+ miles per day and that was only a few years back.

@LetMeBeFrank I had to drop some weight a while back. Found a book by Mark Bitman. Basically I was a vegetarian during the day and ate whatever I wanted for dinner. Dropped about 30 pounds in three months. Felt great, never felt starving. P.M. me if you want more info.

Congratulations!!! Long listening session in your near future to savor the achievement.

Fantastic. Way to go.

Congratulations, that’s a wonderful achievement!

The Philips has more low end. It is a better fun headphone although it can sound great with Classical music. Organ music sounds amazing but YMMV...

Soundstage and treble extension is a bit better on the SHPs, but I have leather pads on my 6XX, which makes the lows more than the SHPs. The SHPs sound very thin in the mids and lows after using the Senns.

Yeah won't go with a laptop again. Though, gpu prices need to drop a fair bit before I go building another pc :-(

Christ! I kept hearing about how the cryptominers were jacking up the prices but hadn’t actually looked until just now.

The prices are much better now than they were 3 months ago. 1080 Ti's were about 1200-1500, 1070s were 800-900 and 1060s were 400-500. Everything at Fry's this weekend was within 10% of MSRP except AMD cards.

Zoiks! Unplug everything!

You must now eat a chocolate covered fish, whilst singing a song you wrote about Jude, and stream it live. (“Hey Jude” covers will not be accepted. Creepily touching his backpack when he isn’t looking would be a good lyrical place to start, PM @BillOhio for more).

@David De Lucena we do not speak of the ritual, on pain of pain.

Thanks guys! Looking forward to the chocolate covered fish and the hazing... I have a case of beer to get me through it.