Smitty

You mean you replaced an A1 with an A2/OG, I assume? Be sure to let us know what you think.

Wonderful! Welcome back :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkeZfc5IpkE

Unless it's some Apple Music specific Dolby Atmos garbage mix? https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/30/22601508/the-beatles-dolby-atmos-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-remix-mono-stereo-apple-music

I have no experience with the vinyl, but my understanding is that the definitive digital mix is the 2009 mono remaster. Sgt. Pepper was mixed and mastered with mono in mind, and the 2017 version of the mono mix was apparently compressed. See: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/beatles-pepper-mono-cd-2009-or-2017.672566/page-5#post-16535323

I believe Giles Martin redid the atmos mix for Sgt Pepper which is why it has a 2021 date on it.

Turns out lockdown has resulted in a lot of tube wear and tear, so I've had to shell out tubes for the first time since I stopped my crazy tube rolling adventures. But none of my normal vendors carry 6n3p for some reason.

You located in the states? If you are, I have a few 6n3p tubes available.

I have 1 (of unknown mfg) as well - PM me if you need it.

Congrats! What’s your new line of work?

Good to see you! Best of luck with the new job.

@DigMe The new line of work is dragging government software into the 21st century. My old company used a lot of older tech as well, so it's fun to actually use the technologies I've been eyeing for years.

@Smitty, really sorry to hear this. It just sucks. Not much else to say.
According to me, a lot of modern management thinking is just crap, but it was an evil day when someone thought of dividing a company into cost centers and profit centers. Like just working together wasn't good enough?

All I can encourage with, is... that after a couple of years of increasing angst and decreasing morale among many, the end, when it came, was one of the best things that ever happened to me, and took me to new and unexpected things in life. After 11 years in the job.

You never know...

Take care. At least your superiors care enough about you to properly inform you. Life as a temp is even worse so I quit that life.

I saw them a few years ago, great show.

It's the best show I've ever seen. Paul McCartney had the best music, but damn does TSO put on a performance.

Man that was a major fall you took. Sounds like you got checked by a doc. But thank god no MFSL discs weren't damaged! The horror, the horror. :). Ice man, ice if you haven't already. Trust us "experienced" folks.

@Ringingears - Worked wonders for the shoulder. And yeah, saw a doc about it, didn't want to take chances. I had a relative nearly die due to a larger albeit similar fall. Spleens are serious business.

Good. I've experienced the same thing with stairs and older relatives and family friends. Except some of them didn't make it. Best friends father for one. Hence the eventual move. Take care and rest.

Errr... Not that I would know, or have to worry about such things, or even have a basement.

@Elnrik Yeah, have to watch out so this doesn't happen during the tour for the new homeowners https://goo.gl/mtfgEs

@zerodeefex - I've been forced to move around so much in the past few years that I've gotten a bit used to the stress. I also blackmailed my brother into helping with the heavy lifting, so my back isn't killing me today.

That is stunning. Bravo Lego!

I can't wait to see @Marvey 's photos of it complete...

Still praying for a rerun of the Fallingwater, although Apollo is tempting.

Oh yeah, I've avoided that stuff. To be honest, if I hit the lottery today and could buy them, I probably wouldn't anyways. They're too kitsch for me.

just sell excess gear and buy the utopias hombre

The HD600 has ruined the Utopias for me.

Wonderful. This is just so audiophool that I find it almost tempting.

Except that if the motor driving the pot on an amp is so noisy, it must be lousy engineering.

And if there *is* such a thing, real audiophools would just do without remote.

I vaguely remember something like this. It was either from the early days of remote volume control on audio equipment or it was actually the first (that I saw).

the funny thing is that it looks like the motor is attached at the know, not as part of the potentiometer box. It looks like the belt drive is just so they could lay out the thing with the pot in the center. Also, it should be mentioned that the box for the pot is apparently solid copper, they just decided to paint it black for some reason.

It's ok here

just you I guess?

For some reason It's loading everything from a mainland Chinese CDN, from what I can tell. I guess I'll blame Comcast and move on.

@shipsupt - No idea what the new policy is, need to check the new HR portal. I bet the answer is that there are sick days, but they're probably hidden.

Either way, feel better! I've been fighting a stomach bug for almost a week now myself... NO FUN!

Thanks! Found a max strength cold/flu med with 4 active ingredients that seems to be working.

They also claim 4x range, but I can't find the actual spec to confirm, just press releases.

In 15 years Apple will support this.

What games? Pick anything good up during the BF deals?

Whoa, what CPU and mobo cost you over $1K to replace? Or did you replace them with a newer platform?

I was playing dota2 and civ5. Played some civ6, confirmed I still hate it and moved on.

I started with the x99 platform, and stuck with it. I run some other things on this computer via VMs, so the extra threads are useful. I will say that the slower clock speed versus my old 4790k from a couple years ago actually caused a minor decrease in performance for games, but not enough for me to get upset about

It should be noted that it's an undocumented non-compliant revision, so I'm just pissed at Asus right now. I buy a Rampage V, and the one I get has the wrong f'ing backplate? WTF are you smoking over there in Taiwan?

This aggression will not stand, asus

The sad thing is, the rampage V is still the best motherboard for what I'm doing.