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"perfect weather" <> the 4th driest April in history. Colorado will burn all summer without Spring moisture. Let. It. Snow.

Fair. Good for being outside, but we can definitely use moisture.

A lot of branches down out there though. It's tough on the trees.

That’s been my travel setup for 2.5 years now. For me, foam tips made a big improvement. Simplicity and decent sound gets two thumbs up.

Even if I were to take my next level up portable setup (RU6+Timeless), I still would be using AirPods Pro when in transit.

Android is fine, just that Sony doesn't know how to use it and won't maintain it, so we have to buy another Sony DAP in two years.

I mean if it sounds good, it sounds good. Just dunno if its really worth the price seeing the market is far more saturated than ever.

On the plus side I can stick with my WM1A without worrying that I'm missing out.

Probably getting deeper blacks now? Oh wait... he isn't talking about laser printers!

I used to say, "A house without a turntable is not a home." Now... I don't.

Might be the number one reason I don't roll different cartridges. I would gladly ship and pay to have someone else do that nonsense.

Rechecked everything this afternoon with fresh eyes and it all looks good. Then I did it all over again, putting the old cartridge on the original (beta) Sol tonearm I had sitting in a box.

I never have a bad time listening to the modi multibit

To remind you to never take the mountains for granted. I know the feeling, I used to drive from south of Denver to Minneapolis on numerous occasions. Good listening time.

Ha ha. Today gym bud mentioned he’s driving to Denver to see family. We made jokes about i80 through Nebraska. Man that drive sucks.

Did the opposite for the same reason. Made it ok, dismal as ever, especially 76 through eastern Colorado which I always seem to block out from my memory.

I likewise ordered mine right after it came out. I've used it with my Andros, too! That's too funny. I used it to burn in a pair of Vérité the other week. I gave it a quick lesson, to make sure the volume was not too loud, and the sound was much better than I'd expected.

until it died, my headroom amp from ‘99 sounded bettter than most laptop outs.

Still have my Fulla 2 as well. It was my work desk volume control for the longest time.

Can't find any proper archive links for that site unfortunately, they had some cool Lego scans a little while back.

bwahaha. I thought it said "scam of the month." Which would be an interesting website as well. Anyways, I kept scrolling, skimming the description, waiting for the revelation of the scam. I'm a dork.

Realistically I think it maybe should just be a blog post at this point.

Both are necessary while recording the tape to avoid drop outs during sample rate switching on the DAC and wild volume swings between tracks.

Same regrets over a handful of albums; lost my entire CD collection to a house flood in 2014 and have been painfully rebuilding it since. Some of those out-of-print or foreign-press albums are painful to replace.

@Qildail another good push to continue to rip my rare CDs to my Roon Core. That loss must be frustrating.

Ew.

Bandcamp just send me the email saying this shipped about an hour ago. USPS is faster than email?

I know if something will be wrong for me on a known chain within the first couple of minutes tops. I think the longer you're in the hobby and the more set in your ways you are, you can reject headphones much faster. I know @purr1n will pull shit off almost immediately if he doesn't like it.

Depends on the gear and type of review you’re writing. It sometimes only takes me a few minutes with a pair of problematic headphones. But to write a full review I force myself to listen for other things other than those problems and spend more time with it. I didn’t need anymore than a minute with the HD8XX to write the brief review I wrote.

I agree that on a chain you know intimately, bad gear or poorly synergizing gear in particular is easier to rule out. Good gear I generally need more time with to evaluate WHY it's good, even if I've already had the emotional reaction and can tell it's good.

Issue has been open for 6 years, there is a simple fix linked in the discussion, but it's still not actually fixed in the software. https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/issues/1179

that seems like a super weird hill to die on