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I'm a Wes Anderson superfan. He's the one director I get all his movies Criterion. His films are obviously influenced by French Cinema and he makes that transparent with this movie

@Cspirou I hope Criterion gives this a run in their new series of 4K releases. The last third was a bit weak, but I still found it quite entertaining.

I’m not as much of a devoted cinephile as I used to be but when Bottle Rocket originally came out I was a big fan and he’s only gotten better since,

Room acoustics are wild. I distinctly remember when I went from a wide shallow particle board construction desk to a narrow deep pine/metal construction desk the sound of my nearfield setup changed drastically for the better.

So I can pay less and get free protection from MQA? Awesome!

Not if the AAC You're listening to on the free tier is sourced from MQA files.

@crenca hopefully they just zero out the least significant bits that normally have mqa data.

er, your room is too warm?

Maybe yet still. I've had the room at 68F pretty consistently. May be time to try pushing that down a bit more.

I sleep at 65-62 this time of year. Also try melatonin 1 hr. before bed and do 1mg or less. The big doses over do it. I move way less when melatonined. :)

The only record i own is the Voyager 44th anniversary box set!

I had to cover up the basil, sage and rosemary on the porch. Temp at 4:30am said 36F, so it was close but no frost.

@crazychile We brought in our still-potted replacement trees where they will spend the next five months under an assortment of growing lamps. I may end up stealing one of those lamps for my work office before it's over.

I use an SL-1800 too! Mk1 for me, bought it before I learned how much of an improvement Mk2 was.

Yea I thought about that. But for the shape it was in, with that cart, and a run through a technician already, I knew it wasn’t going to stay up long at the price.

The stylus is not long for this world, so that’ll be another bit, but I justify it by saying I saved five times the total price by not buying a new 1500C for Christmas.

Audiophile math at its finest, eh?

Oh, I've done the "convince myself I'm going to buy super expensive thing" then I don't so I buy something else that I shouldn't but is way cheaper than the super expensive thing I had convinced myself I was going to buy in the first place haha

"What is this desk cleaning you speak of?"

I vaguely remember that there might be one under the heap of crud in front of me.

@Thad E Ginathom *cleans mess. Realizes there is no desk there at all*

LOL *sweeps up the dust: suddenly everything collapses, the dust was holding it all up*

Any comments? I want to cop before the price increase but the reviews all seem to be written by untrusted sources.

@zerodeefex I just got around to set up tonight. Still have a lot of tuning I think (there is a serious bass null in my room), but it passed the "two hour test".

Bought a return/like new from an authorized dealer for $650. Figured I'd cop before the price increase goes in. Given the size and high WAF, seemed like a good move.