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https://foodsled.com/sbaf/misc/mogwai_skeletons_hf.jpg

Curious if you hit any better luck than the used tube market I’ve wandered the shallow end of.

After visual inspection this batch is hit or miss. I tossed about a quarter of them for heat or mold damage. The rest look ok but not tested yet. This was all church recordings from the 90s and 2000s and were not carefully stored.

Nothing wrong with recording them for backup/archiving. The stupid bit was digging out the ancient Mac and a monitor that it could connect to so I could stay in the digital domain. It would have been far simpler to use my normal audio interface and just recorded the line level output.

@scblock - For some reason a simple SPDIF -> USB input is really hard to find. I have a 2012 Mac mini that still has optical input thankfully. I did find this little doodad that I plan on buying even if I never use it.

https://hifimediy.com/product/hifime-ur23-spdif-optical-to-usb-converter/

I think this miniDSP streamer works too

https://www.minidsp.com/products/usb-audio-interface/usbstreamer

I liked it. The last third seemed to wander a bit. One too many plot twists, maybe? I really noticed the camera work though; it was excellent.

This happened to me years ago with MediaMonkey when I was busy ripping my music collection. Even WMP would sometimes change things. At one point I would just rip, check everything by hand and put it in a folder, on a separate drive. Yup...

@YMO but which Abacab cover?

Hush @MellowVelo

I used to love wandering around that place. Bought my last (really, forever) phono pre there.

Last EP was in 2020
https://open.spotify.com/album/1WO7e2JlDMEJ2spYeXaZzc?si=RzfHwA5aSHiglPAqf7qp4w
https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-description-of-the-sky/1538665430

I found it! Simulation Swarm by Big Thief, and yes it's very good.

+1 - I've had the album on rotation for a bit now: Dragon new warm mountain I believe in you.

"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.