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Yep. I ditched FB nearly two years ago and have missed it exactly 0 times.

Wife bought me a Benchmade Barrage 580-2 for Christmas a few years ago. Pretty much my endgame edc knife.

@LetMeBeFrank Your wife gives good gifts. I've looked at that one a few times, I have a Benchmade CLA 4300 (auto) with a similar profile, though honestly I think I'd have preferred the assisted open/Axis lock on the Barrage.

I have a lowly Benchmade minigriptilian that was a also a wife Christmas gift. It has been a faithful partner for years.

@Ringingears The Greatest Showman. My wife's a sucker for the music and I'm a sucker for my wife

Always a good thing. Especially the last part. Have a great time with the kids. They are only kids once.

@Scott Kramer it was my my first time trying out the PA speakers (EAW FR-122) but they did really well. The Marantz receiver had Audyssey correction so I got to weird out the neighbors with frequency sweeps.

@Ringingears I ended up with a free lightning cable.

My single purchase wasn't a Prime Day deal, but I need it: a pack of 200 record sleeves at 18.5c CDN per.

I scrolled a bit on Amazon.in[dia]. Nothing. And any interesting things were mostly like INR10 off... Or something really silly.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable 4th. Happy Birthday U.S.A. Still a good idea 242 years later. Still a work in progress.

You just sold me on the film. I have to watch it now. Thanks.

Any Donkey Kong Country? :-)

Summer sickness sucks balls!
(says the guy getting over a virus/sinus infection)
Hope the family is healthy & together again soon
(Congrats in the incoming child!!)

I always found time alone with my son to be really good for us. I think it was even better for the wife

Used CDs are so cheap right now!

I still do both. Of course it was much easier finding the CD's in the US but I still like the streaming for discovering and exploring new stuff .

Ironically enough I am discovering more new music now than when I was streaming. I never had much luck with music discovery/suggestions on various services, but when I'm looking at $1 CDs and see an artist I'm remotely interested in I grab it.

Side note - Bernstein's Beethoven symphonies box set is the best music purchase I've made in a long time. More depth of expression in a minute than many entire albums in my collection.

Yeah, I was just noticing the prices on some Ultrasone IEMs at my local headphone shop. Over 5k usd for one of them.

Meanwhile the founder of Adam Audio is coming out with this at his new company http://www.hedd.audio/en/heddphone/

Correction - it was the Vision Ears Erlkonig IEM that was over 5000usd. The Ultrasone Sapphire IEM is "only" 4300usd with the current good exchange rate.

I know that feeling; makes it hard to pull away from tube amps.

Pro tip to save money: instead of buying a better amp, get worse wiring in your house.

I resemble that remark.

I'm sure there were no misunderstandings.

Also despite the post's reputation for sticky fingers those are still MY parcels thanks very much :))

Our postal worker has managed to deliver 3 headphones to the wrong house over the last 4 years. I ship everything with FedEx 2-day just so that it gets to my house!

I almost forgot. My HD800’s were delivered to the wrong address. Luckily I was working outside and stopped him. The house numbers weren’t even close. I only use Fed-Ex or UPS.

Me and @Brause saw them here in Calgary in 2004, when they were reputedly 'the best live band in the world'. Crap sound, lots of shouting. We left well before it was over. Never bothered to listen again since.

Whereas Gomez, same venue same year (or maybe 03), were excellent - hugely entertaining, great music, and properly executed live sound. Became a fan after that.

Muse were a bunch of self-indulgent wankers.

Often times in minimal techno specifically this is done by design. You can pull off quite a bit with some smart mixing and the right polyrhythms.

https://rochester.craigslist.org/for/d/rochester-82-mitsubishi-dlp/6855329260.html

My local craigslist had someone selling a ratty old cycling cap in the bikes section for $20 because it was "vintage". I swear that thing has been getting weekly bumps for almost 2 years.

They do it to make you guys feel at home! Same familiar ads: all is well with the world!

@spwath, you get the secret special-deals edition that no-one else sees!

eg. fleetwood mac rumours album, hotel california, etc.

I always wondered why people made a big thing of Hotel California. But I used to be able to listen to it.

I think its a byproduct of ever increasing availability of immediate consumption.

Special Forty. Not quite there yet, but I'm getting close. They can be a bit picky as you said

Yep they can be finicky little mofos. They like space. And they go low enough to be a bit of a pain to integrate with subs, at least my sub was a pain for sure. How do you find the tweeter on them?

The tweeter steals the show for sure. Similar presentation to the Esotec (well extended and smooth) but with greater low level detail and soundstage depth. Really nice.