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Wearing extra layers early in the day, but after that it is warming up nicely to low C 20s.

Getting warmer and warmer.
UK seems to have relocated to the tropics!

Let me put it another way ;)
London was not hot for me. It was almost my ideal temperature, and mostly ten C degrees less than Indian home!

In fact the 26/27C days, which made Londoners grumble... That is the temperature I set my Aircon to at home!

I did break into a sweat when I ran for a bus on one 30C day. Otherwise, fine. Lovely! Even 30C is comfortable.

Have a ball!

Cheers all.
Currently London shoping mostly. Met with an online friend from another forum this afternoon and evening and ate good food.

@Deep Funk, yes I have a towel.

It's a soft, fluffy, pink microfibre towel, such as Ford Prefect could not have imagined in his wildest dreams!

I'm ready for anything!

Needs to burn in a bit first for maximum flavor

I am ashamed to admit that whenever I see "stock", I either think markets or store inventory. Argh, I need to cook more!

@FallingObjects: Lightly browned?

@Biodegraded , what a genius comment!! Lol

My cat gets shit all over herself regularly and then does the butt scoot on the carpet to get it off.

Today, I could even say yes to the litter tray.

Tomorrow, I hope to be able to say no to that. But maybe ok sicking up grass on the floor. Especially as we have a maid to clean up after cats!

As to kissing after she takes a crap, Well... now you come to mention it, I'm not so sure about the tongue stuff. But kissing is academic today.

Hoping for a better tomorrow!

I'm reading it as "E No B." So part abbreviation and part acronym? (I'm pedantic about maintaining the difference).

@9suns: "but living in the atlantic." Are you a whale?

@rtaylor76: EABOD is a new one to me. My keyboard had another narrow escape.

I gained some extra pounds this year (now working out to get back to shape), so you may be onto something LOL

I will say the card scanning is significantly faster than my Pono, and actually shows the progress it’s making, unlike the ZX2 which gets to 35% and stays there until it magically finishes scanning.

Also I believe you can immediately access the files on a card without scanning it, but it only shows you folder and file names and can be hard to read.

I'm not too outraged either way- the SoC in there must be tiny and stupidly low power- plus it doesn't seem to be able to do card I/O all that fast- can't expect miracles.

If it was a 1K A+K thing, I'd be way more salty about it, of course.

My aforementioned Cowon Brick (in size, not as in paperweight: it might even still work today) had a hard disk inside it. I don't know the relative access speeds compared to sd card? But when I think "How fast does access have to be for audio," I remind myself that I can play music direct from a PC CD drive.

And I still prefer the electrode with a USB-c port in my brain

I find stem cells to have wonky treble anyway

stem cells just wave around in the wind too much.

Too young indeed: 71.

I know he was around a lot of places, but I only really encountered him on hydrogen audio. It is going to feel like that site has lost part of its soul. Lost one of its balls even!

Krueger. With two Es.

Sorry.

This is how you moisten a mf cloth for that sort of cleaning:

run a little water into the sink and let it run away. Just lay the cloth on the wet surface.

More aggressive cleaning: mist with IPA/water/detergent-drop mix.

For years I used isopropyl alcohol at work. Not long ago I discovered “drinking IPA” actually meant “India Pale Ale”. Careful not to get them confused.

lol, @murray! I don't think that drinking IPA would be good for you, but beer would be even worse for records, with or without microfibre!

It's not so much the gear, as the fact that they have proper houses, with matching furniture, suites, carpets etc.

Somehow I just never made it that far.

I plan to have that. Something like this: http://www.audioheritage.org/images/jbl/photos/home-speakers/paragon-color.jpg
When I get my own place after college, it will be a mid century/60s/70s style like that.

Or something like this... Alex had it right http://www.cgarchitect.com/content/portfolioitems/2012/03/47424/CWO-Night_large.jpg

It's probably because the kitty litter is the place in your house that's most similar to a natural environment they'd want to poop in. It's interesting stuff the amount of instinctual knowledge animals have

Cats are desert animals and are hunters. They instinctually bury their droppings to hide the scent from potential prey.

Don't really know but that is one of the things I love about cats. I noticed that my previous cat could spot a new cat toy as I was taking it out of the bag. He would get all excited. :) I tried eliminating every "tell" I could think of. That never did any good.

You might be the first person to mod their hearing to fit HD800 (I assume they're stock?) as opposed to the other way around :)

Lol, it wasn't voluntary!

They are not stock: they have the cork-ring mod (oj-neg? I forget) but they are still giving me at least some higher notes that I couldn't here before, along with greater vocal clarity.

I am not amping them to their max. In fact, mostly I'm still using the headphone out of my Cyrus amp for convenience. My little GeekOut 450 does a slightly better job. But... for various reasons I do not want a tube amp (a bit blasphemous around here!) and... My audio budget has long-since been nil, and look what I just did!

Minus balls, he is still speaking to me, But not much.

If a. you were in the same continent and b. I wasn't in the middle of moving I'd take you up on that :p

Have 3 in my house. They are all psychopaths

They moved out.

Well... mum has moved them to a place nearby. They will not be nearly as safe, but, even if we were to fetch them back I don't think it would work out. Ever tried arguing with a cat?

Not sure that mum is still counted as our cat... but, come mealtimes, I expect she will be!

... , but it is still okay to spell shit like, well, just s h i t, when talking about... shit and stuff.

I also like NutSac bags. https://nutsacbags.com

I could not forget the Goons! Spike Milligan was one of the Great Grand-daddies of surrealistic British humour.

Born in the early 1950s, protocol required me to be in bed by 6pm. Even when I became a High Court Judge! (see Python). But I was allowed to listen to the, ahem, wireless until quite late, and started enjoying BBC radio drama, as well as the comedies, when I was five or six.

When I was permitted to stay up with the parents and the TV, I frequently preferred the radio. My reason... the pictures were better!

I never thought of modding these 'phones. But if I did, it would be for... more treble

???

Food for thought:
http://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/bill-ps-sennheiser-hd580-mod.4940/

More treble would probably just require less materials than what I listed.

Thanks @Bill-P. Probably my lazy answer will be to replace the Senn foam.

In an ideal world, if I was to undertake a moddification, the aim would be to achieve a more balanced sound, but I don't have balanced hearing. Actually, I found the HD600s pretty "balanced" even before my hearing took another turn for the worse.

Another vote for Anker. They make good USB-Micro to USB-C adapters as well.

My favourite is Aukey, but the vote for Anker is noted and the recommendation appreciated. I have Aukey QuickCharge chargers in the house and car, and quite a few of their cables.

I'm no cable guy, but hey, we now live in a world where many old USB cables won't even charge a modern phone.

The Macbook Pro I have is all USB-C/Thunderbolt 3. I bought a whole mess of adapters after I bought the laptop. That being said, it's kind interesting to be able to charge my laptop and smartphone with the same cable.........if I used Android......