Merrick

Too much turkey probably.

He shouldn’t have had the final cut.

SBF?

Making love to girls In magazines...

That is the closest thing I have heard this week.
What Cdrs did you get?

I had a pile of Verbatims in a box in the garage. I also have some higher end ones but moved them and forgot where I put them, ha.

I <3 CDs

Silly me still has that sealed waiting for the (next) turntable...

I've got the Ryan K. Smith mastered mono mix release from IIRC 2013, sound spectacular!

I & III. The more polarizing question is Presence or not?

I and III over II and IV always. Also physical graffiti and presence after those for me. Houses before IV but after II !!!

Whichever you pick, I think all it says is that you have discriminating tastes in your listening selection

U'metuka.

the biggest upgrade would be ProMotion, that's the only reason I upgraded to the 13 pro from my 11 pro

@SoupRKnowva I played with a 13 Pro at an Apple Store and pro motion was nice but not a MUST HAVE feature for me personally.

Love my 12 mini and bummed they only have biggie phones now. The “dynamic island” design and UI is very clever. Loved it. Still going to keep my 12 mini for another year at least.

It's got elements of TOS, some episodes felt they were taken from unused scripts or treatments from the likes of DC Fontana or Gene Coon.

DS9 was always my personal favorite — a series that finally leaned into the idea that all the factions were not “good” or “evil” as a binary choice.

@purr1n It’s taken them a long time to find the balance between old school Trek feel and ideas with the modern filmmaking/storytelling approach. I honestly wish they would make a clean break and say this is the reboot they wanted the movies to be.

I might go CD on this one, but the vinyl box isn't bad (pricewise) for what it is.

@Qildail I’m hearing very positive things about the vinyl set, but it is digitally sourced.

Well at least that part isn’t a surprise to anyone this time around…

Aja was one of the first pieces of vinyl I bought. Has sentimental value but also a great album. Hell, even the Fagan solo stuff is good although I haven't heard his last one.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/william-burroughs-reference-inspired-steely-dan-name/

No I'm never gonna do it without the fez on... Ohhh nooo

According to profile, Bottlehead S.E.X., Schiit Vali 1?

I haven’t even tried it with the Vali actually!

Yes, essentially hd650 off a sw51+ has beat everything I have heard to this point.

@MellowVelo The vinyl and SACDs are definitely mastered separately, and by different people as well. They both start with the same 4x DSD source.

I have to say, other than a few marquee jazz titles, the MoFi re-issue program, which heavily favors Boomer rock, isn't totally my bag. But I nearly picked up their Mingus, Ah, Um one-step back when. Probably wouldn't now.

Whatever the actual mastering chain, I’ve enjoyed a lot of MoFi titles over the years. I just hope that, moving forward, they strive for clarity in their marketing. Miles Showell at Abbey Road got a lot of shit for using a digital step. At least he was honest.

I have no problems with vinyl that uses a digital step, it's been happening since the late 70s. What I do mind is a company leading consumers to think their product is AAA when it isn't. It's not proven that's happening with MoFi yet, but if it is that's a big blow to their credibility.

I’ve always said I don’t really care about vinyl cause like 99% of what I listen to is recorded/mixed/mastered digitally. If at any point it hits digital before it’s pressed, just give me _that_ version

I guess to expand on my thought, if it was ever digital, I don’t see any reason to use a complicated mechanical system to attempt to recreate whatever dac was used to make the pressing, lemme use my own dac in the first place

That's happened to me before, I've sent a separate message to the person in question letting them know I can't read their PM for them to try again.

I believe it's an error that crops up if there are certain special characters in the subject header or body.

Bought three myself. Wish they had Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea in stock.

That’s a favorite of mine as well! The demos for that album are especially good, too.

Now look at your wallets and play "This mess we're in"

Marvel has become the manilla envelope of studios... just as bland, boring and inoffensive as possible. They were always kind of like this, but got worse after Endgame.

Agreed. A disapointment but I'm not especially surprised. I'm not stoked about the direction the MCU is heading and may skip Thor.

In the still of the niiiiiiight!

So it does get better after the first two episodes? I shouldn't cancel Disney yet?

@purr1n Just to calibrate my tastes here, I love The Last Jedi and Kenobi is very The Last Jedi. I’d say try the third episode and if you’re not enjoying it after that, abandon ship.

Love TLJ also but Kenobi is meh for me. It is getting better as it goes and it was a great seeing Hayden again. Story for me is not that great and I prefer when SW is expensive and they can go all out on production design.