luckybaer

Both great albums! But I prefer Imperial Bedroom and think it sounds unique within Costello’s discography.

Sexy...you should post the humidor in the smoking thread.

@YMO It is just a small wood box with a glass lid, but I’ll see what I can do.

Tube stage is where it’s at. Far better than passive and buffer on OG Freya. Not even close IMO. Freya+ a bit of a different story (far better passive and buffer than OG), and tube mode even better.

@rlow I could miss the gain/bloom of the tubes, but I don't need ear-bleeding volume, and I seem to have plenty of headroom. So far, so good.

@ergopower Do you mean the remix?

On Spotify it is called Abbey Road Super Deluxe Edition. I heard about it while listening to the radio, the producer was being interviewed (in general). Won some kind of award for it.

Chances are that’s the remix. It does sound good, kind of makes the album a jangle-pop record.

Kinda know what you mean. I look kinda out of place for where I live and got shit for it growing up, lmao. Still easy compared to the proper hell loads go through where tensions are higher, may you all keep safe.

Up to my 20ties pretty much every job hunt was facing off against slurs. Hindu roots, flawless Dutch and English and then you look exotic enough to be mistaken for many people. After my C.V. was decent enough I could just give people the polite stare of "don't fuck with me" but I will never forget how I was treated. Many Dutchies like to forget about these things. I am not alone in this, thousands of people...

**deleted** did not want to call out a specific group that fed me the most slurs while growing up!

Listening and enjoying is so much better than writing about listening.

Early impressions: kicks ass w/Polk RT25i. Tried Dynaudio Evoke 10, and was underwhelmed. Will try Dynaudio again later.

Connected the Evoke 10 again. This time, they were the only speakers connected. Things sound a lot better. At least I know this amp won’t be a limit if I decided to upgrade speakers.

This one with 2x XLR in, 1x RCA in; 1x XLR out, 1x RCA out.

Pretty funny when we golden ears say, hey something is not right and the whole freaking left channel is gone. Happened to me when a tweeter was not connected. Makes you think perhaps all the chasing we do for a db better here or lower noise floor there is kinda crazy.

Perfect example. An audiophile meet at a guy's house. We /slowly/ started looking at each other and wondering what was wrong. Even he did not immediately realise...

His speakers had electrostatic tweaters. He's forgotten to plug the power in :)

Khozmo pre in primary system replacing OG Freya. No problem getting plenty of volume. Should be fine w/Vidar.

More listening is needed, but I may actually prefer Khozmo to OG Freya.