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please no spoilers for anything not in the show, I will read the books at some point once its clear no more tv show will be coming lol but I agree, the whole laconia plot shouldn't have even been there, they didn't go anywhere with it

The Laconia plotline feels like setup for a next installment (series/movie) if they can find funding and distribution for it. At first I didn't like that plotline, but towards the end I like how they built up to the big reveal of... well, no spoilers here.

I think the showrunners did a good job with Season 6 given the constraints they had. I just watched the last episode and found it satisfying and a nice place to stop (hopefully just pause, but I'm not getting my hopes up) the series.

Wait, you use what essentially is a terminal client as a music player? :) Yep, Roon is not for you...it's defiantly not the 10 sided dice of the music player world ;)

if it doesn't crash on the ipad, I thought that was its true platform

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the world who has never even seen Roon! Whoa, I guess I've never even streamed!

Oh wait, yes I have. I used to have a Squeezebox. That wonderful project that was so far ahead of its time that Logitech killed it :(

I supposed burned is as bad as slashed.

Track day fodder...burn them up going sideways.

that's actually a great news. usually adding more unnecessary stuff in the chain is detrimental.

In fact, the album of the year could only be released on one day of the year ;-)

Unless of course it’s a double album and they somehow release it over multiple days?? :)

Getting replaced with Toshiba 16tb enterprise drives

Those things are workhorses. One of the SANs I manage still has the original 24 Reds we bought with it in 2017 - not a single failure, somehow.

Was expecting a great movie or a total flop... glad it's the former.

come context, ive never seen the original movie or read the book. I was just hyped for another Villeneuve Scifi movie since I enjoy Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 is one of my favorite movies ever. My hype was through the roof, and I won't say it blew me away, but it lived up to my hype

Ive got the balanced version. Fake as in the opposite of "real". Which isn't to say it sounds real, I guess it could be better, but in that its a step function increase in "realness", such that everything else I've heard sounds noticeably less real as a result

realness also isn't a first order effect, its 2nd or 3rd order, a combination of several other things. I would guess micro dynamics, detail, plankton and macro dynamics being the most crucial aspects to creating realness in this context

Out of all the crazy shit I've heard thanks to the locals, the Wavedream and the EC Af are the ones that captivated me from first listen. They made me believe in magic :)

Because of the lack of comparison material a review may not come, but I will almost certainly end up writing about the staging/imaging/separation this thing accomplishes. Its astounding how uncongested it always is

You wouldn't happen to have experience with the Holo Spring 3 to compare it to would you?

I do not, I heard a May at a meetup a few weeks back, but it was on an unfamiliar rig, it was worthy of consideration, if you're willing to deal with software upsampling, and I consider that a pretty big if. But I can't say anything about the spring 3

another thing to keep in mind is that positioning and setup in general with speakers has such a huge impact on sound, and you can't always count on dealers to do that optimally, even if you'd they should be since its their job to sell them

They are big. They need the right amplification which I never see.

I'd say the Naim Statement was more than enough amplification, but the complete lack of any imaging was most likely due to its size relative to the room. I'd say Khorns do a better job of sounding massive than the Grand Utopias too while fitting into more normal sized spaces.

@Mystic oh man, I like pretty much everything they've done since I got into them with Bilateral. Ill do one off each album, White, Restless, The Valley, Third Law, From the Flame, Distant Bells, and Running Low.

And ill have it be known lol that liking Chvrches will probably not guarantee you will like Leprous, Leprous is a progressive metal band, though have been leaning more towards poppier compositions recently

I’m a metal head as well so it’s working for me.

doesn't have to be. :-) now I am curious... I know the AKM line gets brighter and leaner and less "velvet" as we go up the line and that special care is needed instead of moar SINAD.

the d90se is Sabre, 9038 pro, the D90 was AKM4499, I assume the fire had something to do with that

Contrary to your experience, I have a Topping DAC on TV optical because the Gungnir did not cope. Also, it sounds pretty great.

Only downside is now I really want the Elrog 845 too, even though I know it won't make as big of a difference as the 300b did

Seems like you can't use typical magnetic headphones in an MRI so E-stats are needed

Holy moley. Hang in there.

I filled a bunch of pitchers with water last Tuesday before the water went out when I woke up and pressure was pretty low. After that, I bought some water at the store, and luckily I had several gallons of distilled water from when I setup the water loop in my PC in the cabinet I'd forgotten about.

Glad it worked out for you, man. We have always kept some backup water but this whole deal has had me reconsidering how much even if we didn’t lost it this time.

Since I finally got one yesterday the trick is... use the app on your phone for Walmart. I have tried 20+ times on various websites, no dice. The app I got it on the 5th try. Good Luck!

yeah i switched to using the app as well haha i missed best buy and walmart yesterday. as well as psdirect today

Finally copped a PS5 from PS Direct tonight, the gamer gods were shining on me with my queue number I guess.

At first I thought it was a new turbo for your Supra

Lol the Supra struggles to put the power it has down, heaven help it if it had more

Of all the tube set that got shipped to me with the amp, all of them made it in one piece except one of the 6em7 input tubes. Luckily id bought another set of those a week or so back, so I was still able to get up and running today.

A 3-part series on the 2020 Pikes Peak Hill Climb that I worked on is going to be on the MotorTrend app (and somewhere else I can’t talk about yet). I have such respect for everyone involved after documenting it. It is America’s Nurburgring.

The trailer I put together just came out today, as well as the series, if anyone's interested https://vimeo.com/475233185/

If anyone wants to watch it, you can stream it from the MotorTrend app. They have a 7-day free trial so you can cancel before the week's up.

I like the symphony no 9 in there. Makes me want to do some ultra violence.