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Heart rate now a mandatory indicator on every SBAF review.

See if the IRS (or your tax authority) will now accept hi fi costs as deductible medical expenses.

Are we looking for a U curve response rate of heart rate to headphones? Lower rate = sedation/relaxation = good; higher rate = excitement = good; no response = boredom = bad?

Imagines pachyderm trying to use touch-screen... :-O

It’s just too bad it never really went anywhere :/

If people like myself are just now discovering it, then I wouldn't write it off as lost just yet.

The pickup option is long gone. I will normally direct all deliveries to my local walgreens/fedex center, but it's not letting me this time. For some reasons, Monoprice is determined to have a $700 amp arrive on my doorstep when I'm not home and without signature confirmation.

Ah, gotcha. Redirecting to a local FedEx pick-up location is what I meant as pick-up. Looks like the earlier pick-up option worked quite differently. I hope your amp arrives safe and sound.

Yeah, we used to have pickup options at the actual fedex
shipping/receiving centers...this was before Walgreens and all the additional shops were really a thing.

Ditto on Viva tubes

Sadly, Viva doesn't quite have what I'm looking for. Mercedesman has something close and his reviews seem solid.

Take a look in this seller: totempole_999 he’s Indian and have huge British tubes stock. Bought several Mullard ecc35 from him. Good stuff

Have actually done this, minus the headphones part. It didn't clean the pads as well as I had hoped. Made me question quality of washing machine. Got nervosa and researched washing machines for 3 weeks before deciding not to buy. Samsung = too bright. LG = flat and lifeless. Whirlpool = chifi.

Need @zach915m to make washing machines please.

@Elnrik, next time, try Bosch/Siemens. They probably have a tie-up with Sennheiser. Miele doesn't work any better but lasts longer, and costs a lot more.

Avoid... anything with a fake-wood worktop.

Thanks all. I'll give him this list tomorrow. He likes to "stand out", so I wouldn't be surprised if he went for the portapros simply because there is NOBODY else in high school walking around with those things :P

PortaPros are legendary.

Yeah, I think a lot of the Massdrop stuff is very good value. Like the NuForce EDC collaborations. Tell him to check there

I'm thinking of getting some cheap Beyer closed backs Tyll recommended. $70 on Amazon

seems obvious that selling one of Dan's abominations to another unsuspecting human is not allowed on intelligent inter webs.

Hey now. I'm quite fond of this headphone, thanks.

I don't see it in your Postings history. I would say duplicate away.

I'm surprised that Google-imaging "tyrant" didn't yield the same results. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

He deserves it. When you ask for it, the internet can be cruel.

The last two Republican presidents who were called stupid won second terms. So, Democrats need a candidate who can retake the Rust Belt. A native son (Brown, Biden); someone who can drive black turnout (Patrick, Booker). Preferably both.

Track 1 has that drum with distortion on it...scared me...thought I got a bum download. Such sounds should not be allowed. :P

Me too! I thought I had a driver going out or something. I actually was thinking it’s a physically created sound.. like a drum with some beads on it maybe.

Glad I'm not insane. I even switched headphones to double check.

Come on, Robert. I'm disappointed.

Cyberlink power DVD is what I use for bluray playback. It's the only software I've found that can correctly load up and display menus. My bluray drive included a free copy but you could always easily download a keygen to create yourself a product key. Otherwise it is kind of an expensive product. Works great though. $80 and I believe the license does not expire.

Yep. That $$, though. It's amazing that there aren't any solid open source options.

My buddy, who watches lots of movies and writes for Aintitcool.com, says he uses Leawo.

I feel that in general, while episodic long-form content on Netflix/HBO/Amazon/Showtime is ultimately more satisfying due to deep character/plot development, today's big-budget movie releases are meh. That said, taking the kids to Incredibles 2 today.

I typically prefer more cerebral indie flicks. But, when I see movies like Marvel, Star Wars, etc., I shut that part of my brain down, take my daughter with me, and enjoy it for what it is. Life's too short to nitpick a superhero film or space opera.

Killmonger was such a great character...

I went despite the reviews and really liked it.

It's usually the movies I expect the least from that I enjoy the most.

I enjoyed it more than Infinity War.

Is "gooey" bass a commonly used audiophile term?

I had a blue/green one once, somehow I lost track of it before my curiosity got the best of me and I popped that bottle cap

I have a blue and an orange one. the blue one its better

I can go to a marketplace here and order SD cards that register as, say, 64GB but in reality are only 16GB cards.

Yeah, that is why I use H2testw. It writes data to the whole card and then reads it back for errors or mismatches. There might be more modern ways to test, but it is still my go to.

Practical point: for music, it doesn't matter a damn how fast you can write to the card, because you only do it when you add new songs, and minutes don't matter. So keep the high-performance cards for writing video to, and stuff like that. Not necessary to top out on performance for audio... Mind you, somebody will complain that they don't like waiting 750 miliseconds for the album art to show!