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Riotvan, like the Korg Noob Ass has? :D

Yeah that one lol

That looks like an AI designed and AI marketed product. Buzzword bingo.

It's a-gone and you can tell that one goodbye!

Put me in coach, I'm ready to play

Brown-eyed *women* and red grenadine

"sitting on a Gungnir"

To a well-known tune by Jethro Tull

Now Gungnir sitting on a SW51 and table on top would be somewhat out of place.

So the repair is $150 with free shipping both ways? :P

@Lyander The anchor price effect is real...

Oh! Wait! Serious thought! Why haven't extreme audiophiles thought of *clockwork turntables* in the present day? I mean serious clockwork like expensive watches. Practical? Or does the oscilating escapement tick tock rule it out?

@Thad E Ginathom , dunno about the workings of this one but it has jeweler input and a fancy-watch price: https://www.ysl.com/en-us/pr/bang-and-olufsen-beogram-4000c-saint-laurent-rive-droite-edition-by-anthony-vaccarello-800317RDTSA1164.html

Beautiful. I used to live in 1970s, and remember this stuff well. I admired it greatly in aesthetic terms, although I had no idea fo the sound.

Not clockwork, though.

Rather curious how that compares to modern DAPs

When does the empty bedroom to theatre space conversion happen?

Wait till you start babysitting.

SoCal pickle ball wars are raging, guess who's winning?

Imgur compresses the hell out of the thing, but you get the point...

I recently drove through one of the 4 "dark places" in the lower 48 amateur astronomers often travel to, the Gila national forest area. Truly the middle of nowhere, and beautiful, especially at the higher altitudes.

Am I invited?

Same thought as Bob - CGI can be created by computer tech people who do not have a pinch of creativity in them.

I think it’s less the quality and more how it influences production. Actors in front of a green screen just don’t engage with their environment the same way.

There’s also a tendency to go too over the top just because they can and it kills the suspension of disbelief.

Good CGI is unnoticeable nowadays, and CGI is everywhere nowadays. Definitely a situation where if you give studios the time they can put out good work but too common studios are crunching at the eleventh hour to make sure the product comes to market thus leading to bad CGI that is obvious.

Hoping Florida wins personally

I'm conflicted about this one. Would be nice to see a Canadian team bring home the cup, but Paul Maurice used to be our Jets coach and he deserves the win. Will be fun to watch in any case.

Can McJesus overcome the onslaught of grimy Panther hockey? Panthers out Bruined the Bruins, which is no small task

^^^ The only known antidote :)

https://youtu.be/-JlmvtAHhnc?si=Myiw8kfA85jTVSdt

But I don't hate the Eagles. I didn't hate Hotel California until I after I went to a few hifi meetups. And got fed up with it.

My bedroom is available

Stock tubes are often judged unfairly. It's easy to look down from on high when the desirables are within reach. But how many people judged something good as bad when its only crime was not being perfect? Seriously. Most of my amps run stock tubes and I'm perfectly happy with them. Contentment > nervosa!

Keep us posted as to which you like better please....seems like useful data points.

Was it a gay bar because the other seems to be a top and the other a bottom?

Also after you do your listening tests and notes, flip the stack and repeat because the top dac will run warmer and that might affect the sound.

I'll be offering handshakes at my touchphobics' booth. Or the special of the day: a distant wave :)

@YMO Be careful. I’ll hold you to it…

Sending you a distant, but friendly, wave, right now...

:)

"reflects"? Something to do with the finish?

The buttons are vampires or related evil spirits.