Thad E Ginathom

It seems that it was written by a guy called Keith Reid --- and he died, aged 76.

Thank you, Keith, for this strange and beautiful thing that has haunted for over fifty years

I agree

It’s funny, you post here a lot but I know almost nothing about your setup.

@Cspirou... Who, me? i wouldn't really call it a setup!

I don't even have a dedicated headphone amp. I usually run my HD 800 from the socket on a Cyrus integrated amp. Currently, that is under repair, and I'm listening from the headphone socket of my DAC, a Motu M4.

I'm missing my speakers, and if this goes on much longer I'll have to seek a new integrated or, at least, a basic dedicated amp better than the M4 output.

It's several years since I decided that my ears were not good enough to spend money on :/

Oh god, apparently he is doing a thing called "Dilbert Reborn" which he says is "spicier" than the original. Might as well write for the Babylon Bee at this point.

"dilbert reborn"... Yep. Count me out.

I think it is amazing that he has kept up daily comment on office/corporate life for thirty years. But enough was enough. With or without more spice.

I didn't follow the details of Adams's fall from grace. I just know that he said some bad, racist, stuff.

His recent black male character on the strip was quite clever. IIRC, he ended up defying all pointy-hair's diversity plans by "identifying as a white woman."

That the strip was 99.9% white, though, should have sounded alarm bells long ago.

Love. Per your original post. I detect disingenuousness. Lol.

Hey, I *like* bats. They have sweet faces.

What it was all really about... Paul Simon's beautiful poetry and music.

:)

I have not changed any power component recently. There is a huge hotchpotch of equipment plugged in. Very non-audiophile. So it could have been a bad day for that stuff.

Or a bad day for the computer. That certainly happens.

Sad age-related fact: bad days for my ears happen much more often

@SoupRKnowva, the large, ear-enclosing cups of the HDs are a winner for me, but the downside (literally, haha) is the interaction where they meet the lower jaw. And I sometimes wish they didn't.

But HD800 bothers me less in that respect than HD600 did.

The nice thing about tautologies is that they are always correct.

And statements of pure fact are so un-romantic.

I wish I had the cover (might even have some value). But I guess it was Phil's record.

Does everyone know the song?

The Beatles (McCartney) posited that that one gets what one gives.
The typesetter put... one gets what one gets.

The latter has always seemed more real to me :/

"Ridden on a horse?"
"Yes."
"You're using coconuts"
"What?"

Aaargh! My sound effects are clipping!

(and clopping)

Anyway, to-do list: back to Youtube (or whatever) and revisit Melanie. She sang other songs. I wonder how many I will remember.

In the mean time, lovely bunch of coconuts? I'll get some limes.

@Woland --- as I have commented, I have from-vinyl rips that, noise and all, I would rather listen to than newer, clean, digital versions. But I don't think it is the technology that screws up the music, but what the mastering guys do with their knobs.

But you AT LEAST need ECC RAM to make sure no bits get flipped! (Sarcasm).

I *love* the sound that bits make as they flip!

Anyone heard from our resident Floridaman @YMO?

Hopefully, the air trapped in his chest hair will keep him afloat!

But seriously, though... ???

I am fine, @shotgunshane was the one to worry due to his location.

Always check wind direction before using.

I'm getting old. Some days, the pressure just doesn't happen :/

Looking on the bright side: I don't have to clean my own floors :)

The comment must meet some algorithmic conclusion that only a psycho would like such a comment.

That makes it even more worrying that it let me like your comment.

Indeed

@Thad E Ginathom I simply can't imagine what those problems might be. Pray tell.

@YMO I enjoy my boomerism, thank you very much.

"a job as @YMO's straightman"

I will continue as before, on an occasional, voluntary basis.

Pity about the flights. But I guess that's how the world is. Free business-class flights would probably tend to involve somebody's arse. Metaphorical or otherwise.

Record collecting is fun if you don't let it get out of hand. Out of hand, for me anyway, is dropping more than $50 on an LP on the regular. Never mind $125 +

Of course, good used bin scores are harder and harder to find in these tulip-craze-like times. Which is why spending, say, $40 on a good re-issue starts to seem a sensible idea. You never see old Blue Note in the wild now, for example, and buying on Discogs, even when supposedly VG+, is often disappointing. So the re-issues are great.

I've got a couple Mo-Fi Miles, b/c Miles is in such heavy demand it's hard to get good used copies. They're DSD-sourced, solid, not amazing, IMO, and I thought that before Mo-Fi gate. But you get a quiet copy for your cash.

Sure. And also, it can't be perfect. And shouldn't be expected to be.

We're... just people.

You know where this place originated right? The old place was quite eventful...

...and brought about its own demise.

I had a Beosound Level loudspeaker for a few weeks when I started dipping my toes into a little more expensive hi-fi. I remember it as being an impressive little thing, sound-wise. Of course, you can get much better sound by very far for the same price, but if a battery powered portable WiFi/BT speaker is what you want, I doubt there is a better offer on the market.

(Take that with a grain of salt, though, I didn’t have much to compare to at the time.)

Here you go: https://vancouver.craigslist.org/van/ele/d/vancouver-bo-cd-5500-beogram-3000/7521750281.html

worst dream ever! I don't even know how to turn a windows computer on.

Clippy: "It looks like you are trying to turn me on. Would you like some help with that?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFb3HSXgEY4

This happened up and down the Americas as well, it’s a function of colonial settler states and eradication of indigenous cultures is an ongoing process in those states.

If not colonial, then colonial legacy, yes.

Back in the 1950s the Brits (I am one) shipped out children from their own orphanages, nominally for adoption, but many of them became cheap labour on farms, etc.

Unmarried mothers risked spending their lives committed to a mental-health "hospital." (Asylum was the term then).

I was born in 1952 to an unmarried mother. I was not privileged to be born into a good, middle class family: I was damned lucky to be adopted by one.

I lived in Kentucky for 8 years. Don't worry, there just in there boats fishing parts of the river they have not been on before... ;)

Well, it does seem pretty serious.

I did see one of the youtubers posting again: he's dry.

But some awful tragedy reports in the media.

The other youtuber looks dry too.

Still feeling for the folk who are not. Flood is pretty awful

A German would never immediately think “alpine peasant hoarse” when he sees the word Sennheiser, though, as the er in the end has the first connotation of sb doing sth, like in English, too (maker, player etc.).

horse or hoarse?

Hoarse. Yes, it doesn’t add up to something that really makes sense, but still, it’s funny.