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Fun venue, I’ve seen a few shows there and the last was Dick Dale (ages ago) and I remember watching him hang a Fender Reverb unit from the ceiling with a rope and it just stayed there the whole show. I guess to minimize vibrations. Good times!

Loved his shows here!

Honestly, it’s not for everything, but for a lot of things Perplexity is a far better search engine than Google ever was.

Are there any free search engines that largely filter out modern click driven AI content from search results? Feel like too much stuff on most search engines returns what basically amounts to glorified ads now.

@penguins If you find one, let me know, that feels like the holy grail of web search right now

Shoots forward up to 120mph to zip you up up to the twisting skyward hairpin turn that twists you back to the earth straight towards the earth. It's all over so fast that you might not get scared in time. Killer improvements over the first iteration.

It was not down at all, sirens curse was shut down a bunch. Didn't get to ride it.

Grew up in Ohio, so Cedar Point was an annual summer tradition. Haven't been in 10 years. Steel Vengeance looks incredible. Millennium Force and Magnum have always been my two faves; Millennium for the rush and Magnum for the awesome view of Lake Erie.

Also I still stand by my assertion that circlotron is the best sounding Schiit implementation for balanced chains so far and they have yet to top it.

Mine pulls double duty as an integrated speaker amp too, and I use the rca output to feed a minidsp 2x4 for sub and supertweeter duty. It's truly the core of my tri-amped system. I have zero upgraditis

I wonder how much the no overall feedback in the rag1 contributed to its sound, and if a no-overall-feedback version of nexus (as demonstrated in the wotan) would be just as good or better

Haven’t found anything better yet. I’m sure it’s out there, and there’s better for specific cans, but overall? It’s the one.

So glad you love it. And thanks to @schiit !

Oh fo'sho!

before seeing your reply I thought you were going to say your living room setup amp exploded, some of the thiels dip below 2 ohms and had a nasty reputation for that on other forums - really cool speakers though

My living room setup is Micro Seiki + dl110>Skoll>Nakamichi PA-7A MK2. And the speakers are Theil CS3 at the moment.

@decompositions , mostly they explode when you crank them too hard, but that is the only thing that I know, of course we don't install them anymore, but a ton of our customers still have them running!

No that I have read. @schiit hooked my interest hard with the chapter about it on HF...

I admit I am curious also.

I love how you say that you're excited to "listen to music on.." not just "listen to [sounds on]". Awesome attitude!

Airist RDAC / MCTH is fire for synergy. That definitely takes me back - tons of hours of enjoyment with that stack.

Substitute Elex for Clear and Siemens tube for stock and I found great synergy with this chain, too

Don't have any Siemens of this type, but grabbed RCA smoked, Mullard and Sylvania... But the one Siemens tube I have and heard is great!

No. Its quite mild IME.

Not very abrasive at all, but if you use water it could get messy. Also, if you use them often don't buy brand name Magic Erasers in the grocery store. I got a 100 pack of generic melamine sponges on Amazon for like 20 bucks. Will probably last me forever.

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Damn 5 years!

@yotacowboy man that was right around when I first joined SBAF. Not sure if I miss how frenetic and combative things used to be back then but it's nostalgic at this point haha.

$2 fuse fixer was my favorite thread

One man's aggro is another man's trigger. Probably best we don't dump it on each other here.
I never used to bother about politics etc, but after events over the past few years, and comments thereon, there are people that I don't want to even talk audio with. I don't care, they don't care, but it would be nicer if this didn't happen here.

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@Case and anyone else who can should go see it!

Classic!

Murray from the New Zealand consulate will be in touch.

I already gave it a 'like'

Where’s your shotgun?

Reverse psychology time, pretend you really like the little shit. He will be gone quick and you don't look like an asshole.

Not sure I can completely agree @HotRatSalad , I listened to Animals WAY more and am not sick of it, or Angel Dust by Faith No More.

Both great albums but I'm not sure how Animals and Angel Dust are related other than being next to each other my in album list. In that case Amused to Death, Animal Magnetism and Appetite for Destruction never grow old either.

@Kernel Kurtz , albums I have listened to an absurd amount of times and have not gotten tired of.... Sorry I was unclear!

after all, only one word in SBAF pertains to audio

Hope it was a good orgy.

In the words of the immortal Dr. Steve Brule, "Orgies are no fun when nobody wants to do it with you."