ergopower

Which zmf pad sound like the 650 stock pads ?

@rlow - I will post impressions on Sunday or Monday

Posted a couple thoughts in this post - https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/the-ultimate-lurkers-guide-to-a-winning-budget-setup-sbaf-style.12955/page-2#post-397703

Release date of 28 October

Gonna look batty walking with that down the street as a dude in his 40’s. Apt name i suppose. Thinking on it i think the new Utopia is more understated.

What does the name mean anyway? All I could find was "A small river of Pontus"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bathys

Greek for deep

Happy to find they're quite good live, and the venue wasn't shit

My son is a LOTR geek. He told me the RoP series is an abomination of the original lore, He stated there are to many mistakes made in the series to tell me about. Obviously, he is not watching it. I'm taking his word for it and skipping it too.

Haven't bothered yet but i feel the same about House of the dragon. Started rewatching some old favorites.

A damn shame, considering the colossal budget. Rewatched the extended edition trilogy for the 5th time just prior, and I agree with the negative show impressions so far. Will likely continue watching to see where the plot leads.

British, but no great monarchist. However, she's been there all my life. Saw the coronation aged about 1. Have one of those picture-postcard memories of it on TV!

She stuck around long enough to ensure more royalties (no pun intended) for Johnny et al.: https://consequence.net/2022/06/sex-pistols-god-save-the-queen-uk-charts-platinum-jubilee/
I guess now we can expect a re-release of The Smiths' 'The Queen is Dead'.

@Biodegraded Was literally listening to that album earlier today before the news broke. Purely a coincidence cuz I revisit it sometimes but jeebus

Speed Queen is probably at same level in terms of reliability

I have Indian-model Bosch. It is not even comparable to European Bosch.

I did have a European Bosch, but a rat committed suicide in the circuitry. PCBs don't seem to do well with dead rat.

We got a Miele canister vac recently. It is sublime.

Starting November 15, the same policy update will apply to Canada (email received August 14).

ugh.

We've never had F&F (personal) in Taiwan, so makes no difference here.

Really happy with this purchase - can just use a small Amazon Fire tablet to use Spotify on headphone or stereo rig. And definitely notice better sound than Bluetooth 4.0 which is all my current gear supports. Now have incentive to rip 100+ CDs to FLAC and hang an SSD on it.

"Trying to educate them which makes them even more furious because they think they know everything."

Bahahahahahahahaha

Video is too long though, only watched the first bit.

Don’t mind long vids. I watched a 1 hr video on the retro game scam as well as a 1 hr follow up

I juat watched it, while cooking, and its a good listen. Watch between 10:15 and around 35:00.

Taking tube glow to a whole new level, all you need now is tubes with mercury vapor to round out the package.

Honestly not sure how I'm gonna get 90V DC. Cheapest I see doing a quick search is $220. And no guarantee the thing works anyway - sold as 'untested'.

Also pretty spooky that the day before it arrived, I watched the first 2 episodes of 'Meltdown - 3 Mile Island' on Netflix. You see the yellow plastic version of mine dozens of times.

With the winter we’re having, riding outside is pretty rare, so it’s usually 3x/week in the basement on the trainer. Most of my headphones are open back, too much trainer & fan noise comes through. Didn’t really like the Classics, too bassy for me. But I tried them this week, and damn if they don’t sound great on the trainer. Not sure why, but I’ll take it. Music is all that gets me through longer sessions.

How do you exercise with full size headphones? Sounds like a sweaty mess and like they'd get annoying as hell.

I don't do much interval work anymore, the basement is just below 60, and I have a beast of a fan.

Now need to shower to get rid of fine dirt in hair & clothes. Worth it.

https://worldofoutlaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ZG75A0018-1024x683.jpg

@fraggler any ramen recommendations in Chicago?

I very much get sushi and sushimi. Or rather, wish, these days, I did!

Ashamed to say that despite my time in Japanese restaurants being quite substantial, I never tried ramen.

@ergopower Sounds like the ramen nazi

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I think we've all been confused as to HFMs "strategy" with regards to versioning for the last ten years... I don't have any idea what the difference between a $400 and $4000 HP is in their lineup, and I'm too afraid to ask at this point.

i.e. they had a bunch of HE4XX cups, the bog standard headbands, and the magnet arrays tweaked from the HD5XX, and whatever screws and bolts and other things lying around (that amount to "incorporating several all-new components") and figured they could pass them off as something new. Or just recycling parts from warranty returns?

Pretty sure its the 400se with different earpads and headband, for 30 dollars less. Probably a good deal, but would need some testing to see if corners were cut.

It'd be interesting to hear @CEE TEE 's take on this

Keyboards? Is that seriously a big market? People are weird.

Man the level of whining over there about this is OOC.