spwath

And I didn't steal irrigation system covers from a golf course, put them under the rear wheels of my '76 Honda Civic, yank the parking brake, and do donuts in a parking lot.

Very happy to hear of this responsible behaviour by you guys. :)

Hey, we returned it where we found it. Also not very secure...

Yeah, lots of errors in the developer console. Same here.

Hmm weird, works fine for me

Works on my phone and my Win 7 64-bit laptop, not on my 32-bit machine. Maybe that's it? Erm, whatsit do?

Lots of alt coins are up while tech stock is tanking. Fun times.

Still alt coins going up with tech stock going down. Good thing I bought ethereum.

Should be a good market for a while yet, im in

Carver was very clever with marketing speak, which is akin to sales bullshit.

The first “high end” system I ever heard had a Carver Sonic Holography preamp in it (C-1 or ‘2 maybe?) . It was impressive but I smoked a lot of pot back then. I often wondered what my reaction would be to hear it today, but those old Carver Preamps still sell for too much for me to experiment.

I had a carver preamp as well i got in a trade on craigslist. Sounded good to me but didnt do any critical listening on it, big JBL PA speakers, and i had the same issue as you

In one of the courses I took, instructor came up with very nice yet simple solution. He requested course takers to evaluate team members. Trick is that one person is only given (team size-3) * 10 to allocate (team size-1) members. Peer evaluation results heavily counted toward final grade. This system significantly reduced free riders. Procrastinators executed before the midterm lol.

Getting you ready for work in the real world...

See, I'm a real dick. I would be such a pain to work with on those that you just wanna get it done as fast as possible to be done with me. Fuck up your grades on your own time was my way.

That was my plan. Right now my plan is: Work at Epic for at least 5 years until I get my paid vacation (They pay for a vacation for me and a friend!!!!!), taking my friend from college on a trip to japan, then from there decide if I want to keep working at epic, or change it up. But I am getting this free trip to japan.

Grad school debt has ruined my life, don't do it. You won't get paid better or have more opportunities as a result, unless the masters program involves on-site job experience, which you should additionally be paid for.

I wont go to grad school unless I get it paid for somehow. I dont have any undergrad debt, I dont want any grad debt either.

I take it back

Congrats! Good luck on your next steps!

It seems like yesterday you posted that you were heading off to college for the first time. They grow up so fast nowadays!

Having owned a Vali three times, the second Vali kind of did this. Sent it into Schiit, and they fixed something - major improvement after it was shipped back to me!

I only owned one and it was just like Spwath’s description. Loved the sound, though!

The original threads for the Vali had pages of comments on this which turned into a meta discussion of how much ringing was acceptable at the price point. Great amp though. I think someone found a better quality sticky pad to keep that toob from pitching a tent.

Loves Porsches *and* Toyota Land Cruisers? That's the weird bit.

^ Guess I'm weird too then.
In all seriousness though - IMO even though the Land Cruiser is just a more subtle way of saying "I have money" vs the Porsche, it's still a cool car and I'd still want one.
I'm 50/50 on the watches posted though...

An older Land Cruiser is actually practical, and not expensive compared to an older Porsche.
I'm under 50% on the watches.

After eating 2 tenders, I felt death upon my face and body. But the only thing my mind wanted was to eat the other 2 tenders left in the box. So I did. Felt fine, but combining that with a few glasses of whiskey led to disasterous results and burning sensations from every hole in my body.
10/10 would get that chicken again.

above or below 2x samyang noodles hot?

Above, maybe even above the 3x spicy hot. But so good...

Yeah, sims like COMSOL will eat up a ton of ram.

How many CPU cores are you running?

2 6 core 12 thread xeons. Glad my college has this nice computer. Running a fluid structure interaction in comsol to simulate vortex induced vibrations on a chimney

I am getting vaccinated today as well! J&J also so one and done, can't wait. What a relief.

Maybe it was the absinthe

The peyote will wear off soon. Enjoy your epiphany!

LED, you say? How many did you take?

Sounds mostly realistic to me, lateral placement seems fine. Depth a bit less though, wind instruments sound too dominant at times, as if they were in front of the orchestra, when they should be in the back.

They are in the back, but I had to adjust levels a bit, maybe I need to turn them down a bit more. Anyway, I just posted a thread with more information on this. https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/a-study-on-just-noticeable-difference-in-reverberation-time-and-creating-realistic-convolutions.10817/

This is presumably a one point recording. Just to illustrate what I mean regarding relative loudness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adNdFrcAyQ8

Indeed. Are you preparing it the traditional way? With or without a sugar cube?

Yes, 2 oz absinthe, 3 oz water poured over sugar cube to dissolve it

Another time will come.

I made a Sazerac tonight. My recipe: 1.5 oz Redemption Bourbon, .75 oz Owl Mescal, .25 oz rich simple syrup, 8 drops Honest Johns New Orleans Bitters.

4 Absinthe spritzes over ice, then added water to chill the glass. Mixed all other ingredients in a separate glass, dumped out ice, and poured. Expressed an orange peel and rubbed the peel over the rim of the glass.

When drinking, take a deep mouth breath until you can almost taste the drink on the top of your mouth, then take a large sip and slosh around your mouth, slowly warming the drink and swallowing just as it starts to burn. Then wait for the wonderful aftertaste and enjoy!