Thad E Ginathom

Besides the medical term I've always associated "Atrium" with "gathering place" since that's how the parlance translates here, even if it doesn't always overlap with the classical architectural definition. Language nuance is fun and idiotic!

recalling my history of architecture classes, it's derived from Latin meaning the entrance to a larger space, or literally "door/entrance to a hall".

Oh, thanks, folk. I guess I should have googled.

So, a headphone, then, could indeed be an entrance to larger space. It all makes sense now! :)

I very much enjoyed my revisit to their music. And Debbie Harry's voice: restrained power and control. Wow.

Yeah, she is far more than just a pretty face. Incredible talent.

She seems to have huge control and skill to belt out songs which are probably not at all easy to perform at all, let alone as part of a high-energy act.
No disrespect meant by that terminology! Her voice is lovely, and the songs seem very musical

I'm a middle-class white guy born in early fifties. Privileged. I can never know the experience of indigenous folk of those countries at that time but...

I was born to an unmarried teenage mother. I was adopted as a baby by a wonderful couple, but things could have been different. Britain was still shipping orphans to other countries at that time, and it was often not to a happy fate.

... They were still putting the mothers in lunatic asylums too.

Yes, *19*50s --- not 1850s. :/

Actually, there's only one word for how Britain treated those kids (it's own kids) back then: Human trafficking.

(ok, ok.... two words)

I understand that the guy behind KXstudio is now the maintainer of JACK (1 and 2?) among other things. Amazing guy: completely self-taught in software development.

No chance this was due to you switching from pulseaudio/JACK to pipewire? I found that moving to pipewire really did a lot from me, especially on duplex devices.

No chance at all. So far, I've only vaguely heard of pipewire.

There is no real reason for me to even use JACK. Just that I sometime plug in an EQ and... I've been using it for years. Ever since it was the only way to get my Echo Audio firewire thingy to work with Linux.

Ow... This is one reason I can't do IEMs -- I get that stuck/pressure thing going with even the simplest of earbuds.

Which ear?

@Kunlun. One of the ones on the sides of my head. Left side, actually. Don't ask which head. Since covid-vaccine side effects, life is increasingly crazy! Had third shot today: will I grow a third head?

Worst thing is I now want to throw Linux away, and install latest Windows, full Enterprise edition. I guess that must be the microchips at work. Resisting so far.

I knew it.

I want to take a home antibody test. But I fear it showing that I am an ant.

Or, worse... an anty

one day at a time.... inhale, exhale..... :)))

@Thad E Ginathom You should see relief today. PM incoming.

Please be here as much as you can stomach...your presence is appreciated by many (myself included)

@shotgunshane to the rescue! Hopefully problem is fixed at least for now.

And humble thanks to all those who appreciate my (mostly) offtopic noise! Warms the heart :)

Then it was. Now it isn't again. I'm enjoying it while it lasts :)

And now it is again.

I get random bans when I use VPNs.

The madcat cries!

Not a country ban, it seems. Koth Ganesh is ok. And I'm ok on a mobile data device.

Can someone look into this please? Who do I @ ?

@purr1n ?

Also, the contract-us mail address is dead

The news and photos from Chennai, in particular, were worrying -glad you're doing ok

Only some areas were severely flooded. Many underpasses were literally full though!

Our area was not severe but we are low so vulnerable.

Some people are dry, but no electricity for a week now

That is unnerving. Stay dry and safe.

Thanks, doing ok so far!

Rains used to be a treat since the great flood of 2015 they have become a threat.

Yet I still see kiddies, whatever their age, longing for more, more records broken. Maybe they'll grow up when it's their house under water.

But putting up with that because there is also good weather information on that site. Often way ahead of the official stuff.

Hope @Koth Ganesh is dry! I saw a pic of water in his area.

Never had foam issues, but the pleather-fake-whatever headbands on the lower models always had a short life for me. I probably when through five or six of them on the HD280 over its lifespan.

My brother got a cheap set from Allie expres that's fine and cheap for his 600's

Thinking of putting some very thin cloth to keep the dust and cat/human hair away form the drivers. I'm on a bot of ropey temporary setup just now: highest of fi is not the priority.

I'm not plugging it in until I get house wiring checked.

Did this cost anything? Only transport: "How can I charge you for a quick test and a quick look inside?" :)

You need to move to a new home.

I need a sinecure!

83 is a good run.

True.

Also true that it is far too long since I regularly listened to the music of the Chieftains.

weedwacker for the win!

Remember this guy? https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTcgzrM8lzMocaTgd4ed9bNvxQpeMQ-mn8WyQ&usqp=CAU

@GoodEnoughGear, no, but spot on. Except of course, that the old kerosene blowlamp is now replaced by a propane torch.

From the board: Assembled by Pam, checked by Sam :). In November 2011. I've had it since 2012.

Yep, do contact Syed asap

Yep, done, as you know, and, sometime soon, with your assistance, it will be winging its way there :)

The conversation is currently closed. I don't dispute such decisions.

But I still want to acknowledge that I feel better informed after reading the last few pages of conversation, even as to where people I may not agree with are coming from and why.

Cheers all!

One thing I am grateful to the forum for is that it's helped temper some long-held biases and been instrumental in developing a modicum of patience when dealing with less savoury types online. Own opinions aside, it was certainly educational if somewhat popcorn-munchy.

The nice part in computer audio is you can buy lots of little gadgets which audiophools will tell you are essential, like for instance this audiophile switch, choose the best available clock and you are in for just over 4000 US $:

https://www.adark.co/products/afterdark-project-clayx-buffalo-bs-gs2016-cascade-x-giesemann-ocxo-black-modernize-edition?variant=39397872271478

There is all that, but there is also basic, factual stuff, like how our operating systems are not real-time, but sound is. Gaps in the music don't sound good. It's not even audiophile, let alone audiophool: its like a bulb flickering.

True I got interrupts from time to time, increasing buffer did. not work, switched to real time kernel and the problem was gone. Funnily the cpu load increases due to irq but that is not a problem no more unwanted gaps