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Do the French have to put up with TicketMaster and the like?

They do have Ticketmaster but there’s a lot more restrictions with pricing over the US.

If you have CC points in the right places, the Air France directs to CDG are usually nicely priced.

Can we get rid of the weird east vs west distinction and just seed them normally?

It’s not as bad as Fall Out Boy.

Oh wait, it is

I only scan and read a few threads nowadays, is there some drama going on? I saw Marv's profile posts but didn't know where to look.

just the usual, my DAC is bigger than your DAC

So sorry to hear of the loss of your family member and friend. Very sad.

If your cough persists, please try to get CT scan etc. My experience... I had a very nasty and debilitating cough for five years. A couple of times a year I'd get sent to the specialist (British NHS) and an x-ray would show nothing. They would tell me to stop smoking and send me away.

...

...

Well, finally I /did/ stop smoking, which had no effect at all. Further tests followed, and, whilst x-rays continued to show no abnormality, a CT scan showed a large ball-shaped thing in the middle of my chest. ...

... Right up to surgery itself, they could not tell /what/ it was. Turned out to be a cyst. But it had become infected.

x-rays are wonderful. And what physicians can read from them is incredible to me. But sometimes they do not tell the whole story.

using small input tubes in a 6 figure headphone amp is ballsy

I've seen and heard a few "boutique" headphone amps in the $40k-100k+ range before at a few hi-fi stores overseas before... Let's just say that most of them felt more like a game of "how much will someone pay to show off to their friends" than "make good sound". Two of the amps did sound REALLY good though, better than anything production or custom I've heard here.

JJ tubes in the 100k amp made me laugh.

IIRC @E_Schaaf is currently visiting Japan.

@JK47 - I never heard of buyee but I'll look into in the future. This particular item though is on a local used swap site and would probably involve communicating with someone in Japanese. Not sure how that would work

Nevermind. Looked a bit deeper and that particular site seems super scammy. If it sounds too good to be true it probably is

Modi Multibit 2 still has the 2-FET buffer that Yggdrasil OG had. Doing 8 discrete actual gain stages for current-output multiplying DACs (4 phases, 4 references) is not in the cards given space and current requirements.

I don't know many pro audio DAC's that are discrete output. I know those are DS, but still.

But I thought the TI chips take less mA to run them @schiit, at least if I am reading the datasheet correctly. And still no room/power for a discrete I/V and op amp buffer?

I was thinking about selling my binder full of 300 CD's for like $50, just to clear off some space. Now because of SBAF, I might spend $800 on a Shanling to see if it sounds better than streaming...

@Ksorota Thanks for that! We're moving into the new house in a couple weeks and the kitchen will need to be reno'd at some point, including all new appliances.

@Armaegis - product evaluations are definitely suspect on both. For recipes though YouTube is superior. On Google I usually end up on a food blogger page or a major publication with a ton of ads and slows down my computer. On YouTube it’s someone filming their grandmother cooking and the recipe is pretty authentic

@Gazny If your friend is still looking for people for a Kagi family plan I will join. Kagi is legit.

It kind of went to shit when Condé Nast took it over. But, yes, it's a shame, and I'm sorry for those losing their jobs.

And now look what’s happened to Sports Illustrated today. Sports journalism has been going down the same drain for a while now.

At first I thought this would have something to do with The Stanley Parable. I was mistaken. How disappointing

i’m avoiding calling it Stanley Cups because that’s a major hockey trophy

Doesn’t look bad

https://www.parts-express.com/Dayton-Audio-TT-1BTB-Belt-Drive-Turntable-with-USB-Bluetooth-Audio-Technica-AT-VM95E-Cartri-300-362

I would discover new music by going to a local CD store and browsing the pop punk section. They had CD players and headphones set up for demos. I bought anything from Drive Thru Records and visited absolutepunk.net for reviews and other recommendations.

@zonto - I remember CD players setup in some stores but it was usually for new releases and we couldn’t sample whatever we wanted.

While it shouldn’t be related I have found that album cover quality correlated pretty well with if I liked the album. Dogshit album covers usually had terrible music

mp3 blogs!

His real name was Gordon Shumway...

C'mon @YMO you know I'm hairless like a baby dolphin. I use a squeegee like the civilized mammal that I am.

Once I get my passport we will change that.

iPod shuffle was my goto for the gym for many years. Solid, tiny,
and decent sound

I suggest https://eoe.works if you want to buy a refurb iPod. Battery upgrades and SD card conversions available.

I refurbed a 1st gen 5GB scroll wheel (and attendant IEEE 1394 charger, original packaging, and USB adapter; iTunes still supports it!). Ping me if you're feeling nostalgic.

I think this was Jason's project

Jason and Mike have definitely clashed on certain ideas