Lyander

@fraggler Not sure if that's a joke or not right now. Brain can't be arsed to figure out what I might have done.

Lol. Sorry. Just joking. You were the first to bring to my attention all the stuff going on and I saw this update about the apology and shutting down for a week.

Gotcha. Nah I'm just slightly brain dead at the moment so have trouble with entirely text humour haha. It's a weird situation and I until recently watched the channel for fun (GN or HUB for strict information), but this has been a mess indeed.

Guilty as charged here... I pretty much gave up photography because I couldn't keep up with the gear chase; and I felt it was never going to amount to anything without the gear. Fighting the good fight on the audio side though, for now anyway.

@Qildail good on you! I think there's a bit more "push" towards GAS for creative hobbies as opposed to hobbies of consumption like hi-fi and personal audio, mostly because it's easier to rationalise? But yeah, very often it's more the artist than the tools they use... within reason.

I would have previously ignored Anker in the past but recently I got a brand new pair of their Liberty Pro 3 ANC IEM’s in a woot bag of crap that I won in a contest and I’ve been very surprised by them.

My one USB cable is Anker and I've got a couple 30W chargers from the brand— that's all my experience with Anker to date. Rather curious now but I think they're considering Senn HD350BT. Will maybe be trying out the lot in store

I got 4 sets of the Anker Q35s for people to use at the office. They work just right for the price.

liked for using the excellent & severely underused, bordering on archaic now, word, "misbegotten"

A few years ago I had a card I had (quite literally) never used get frauded for ~$1800 for a furniture order in Africa. Get the right merchant with the wrong controls and it’s not hard to brute force card numbers until one hits.

Turns out it was $2660 worth, just got SMS notif for four of the transactions. Dispute filed, no decision yet just gotta wait for the results of their investigation. Blegh. Stress.

@yotacowboy Given how often I find the cats are the ones clambering all over my stuff and how cool "faraday cage" sounds that one gets my vote :P

Possible corrosion from humidity? Could be that the switch is particularly susceptible to it as the symptoms are the same and the wiggling sounds like friction is the solution. How could cat hair even get in there?

@Sqveak I was kinda being facetious, but I'm sure some very fine cat hairs might have gotten into it over the months I've had the amp, just not necessarily IN the gain switch. Corrosion is a more likely suspect, on a serious note, because I remember that WD40 contact cleaner DID help with the 3+'s issues... temporarily. Yeah electronics in this climate are just debuffed, gah.

@Biodegraded Amperex ECC88, and I am wanting to kick myself in the face now because now that you mention it I feel like this is something I used to know but have since forgotten because I have 2MBs' worth of non-volatile memory in my brain (maybe in an old PM thread?). That explains a LOT. Thank you!

DC offset issue exacerbating the effect?

@E_Schaaf I am not even going to pretend that I remember what that is, only that I know I've come across the phrase before, hah. Gonna be googling that now. Either way, going back to the Piety I do differences between original and inverted absolute polarity still, but it's a lot subtler, yeah.

Yeah I get it that sometimes this way is the fastest way to get pressure on a company but at the same time it literally had people in the twitter thread completely unrelated saying they were going to review bomb us as a result. Silly stuff but doesn't seem like I noticed that on where people actually rate us

Saw those as well, and given HUB's history I can sorta see why they'd draw a... protective sorta crowd, but this was just weird. Cheers A, may the rest of the week be less silly. Might wanna do a review of your sponsor spots to date lmao.

Yeah there is some overlap with HUB audience and audiophiles but not like its big. Think it was us trying out different sponsorships since we tried a whole bunch of different channels last year in the fall. Now we can see what worked and what didn't lol

Calling yourself "everyperson" is selling yourself short methinks.

Oh eww no I don't use Blue mics I'm a lot pickier than that :P

I don't even own a mic other than in my phone, because no one really wants to hear what I have to say.

None of the parts are that exotic and you can always use a different capacitor

@Cspirou Yup, I was aware, just felt like it was one of those strange things to mark how time passes. Don't mind me, in a weird mood is all hah.

Are you building a noise nuke?
(is your WhatsApp down?)

@Thad E Ginathom I somehow feel that the sorta folk who'd be buying those JBLs aren't going to be... proper audiophiles. More like people who think bigger box = better sound, but not for any specific reason.

Party speakers! Is fair enough. If it goes loud, and lager can be consumed to it, then pretty flashing lights is good.

Yeah I imagine these are more college dorm or young adult living room showpieces than anything else. Having said that, I AM a sucker for pretty lights haha

TIL Nightwish

@gixxerwimp They were in Taiwan just yesterday, did you catch their show? :P But yeah I reference their music in a lot of my impressions, genuinely a band whose music I enjoy a lot. I am still seething that there was no readily visible promotion locally. No offence to K Pop but every mediocre Korean group that deigns to visit gets exposure out the wazoo

(Nothing against K Pop, I'm just not a massive fan-- saturation of K Pop hereabouts is just maddeningly high and hype even for relatively niche folk within the genre is loud)

PM me.

Lol, Ozzy Mandias.

They will find it in the ruins of my closet 1000 years from now engraved into granite.

"the ruins of my closet"

Makes me think of The Windmills of Your Mind.

Interesting. I swear his channel was called "XY Science Videos" or something when I posted this: https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?profile-posts/32213/

@gixxerwimp I only learned of his channel relatively recently so it's always been "Steve Mould" for me, but yeah he has a lot of really intriguing videos about teapots.

Maybe I'm misremembering ...

Noble or crazy. What caused the dog to attack in the first place?

Hmmm, yes.

@Philimon Likely both, hah. No idea specifically but we were playing and I ended up near his food bowl. Was walking away with my back turned when he bit, so maybe he thought I was trying to steal his food? Can never tell, but he's been vacillating between zoomy playful with tail wagging and slinking away whenever he sees me now. He knows he fucked up.

Quick update but after verifying via DMDE that my files were still present I opted to do a full system shutdown to ameliorate risk of blocks being overwritten. When I booted my PC back up... the drive looks and works as normal? Home videos, music, and likely games too but haven't checked those yet. I am confused.

Quickly copy important stuff elsewhere, don't write to the disk until you're sure what's going on?

Good luck!

Too right. Never neglect it when a HDD gives a second chance.

I had a dead one, Put machine on table, on its side to open it up. Tried starting up. Yes, my hdd spun up and read, so I got the contents off it. And I was right: it was the last chance.

Happy belated birthday Lysander! From a fellow in his early 30s to a newly minted 30-year-old, I can say it does get better haha :)

Thanks all. I really do appreciate it. It's been a fairly strange couple of weeks, but hopefully things chill out sooner than later. Hope you're all doing well!

happy belated birthday

Sadly, the universe does not always repay kindness with kindness :/

Ouch!! Take care, dude. TIL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avulsion_injury

Yeah, I actually have a really strong mental image of the injury, and that's shaking me a bit right now, that. I have some time to relax. Eh, still just wish the best for the doggo and hope that he adjusts soon. Thanks for the well wishes guys. And yes, the odd punctuation is because this is speech to text. I'm not able to type.