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Nice Bryan! My son feels exactly the same way, for all the same reasons (sound quality + social + delay in HiFi). He will likely not go back. I upped my Tidal subscription to a family account so he and his GF can use it.....and I just bought a used Bluesound Node 2i for him to use with Tidal Connect (his existing Elac device that I gave him only does it through Airplay, and not very well).

I really shouldn't, but I HAD to laugh.....

Happy Birthday Mike!

RIP! He was certainly larger than life! I like the fact that some of my friends are remembering him via Rocky Horror pics and memories, even though songs like Paradise By The Dashboard Light were pretty much anthems for part of their youth.

Just your standard run-of-the-mill Ambient Avant-Garde Piano Folk music by a lovely Armenian woman....😄 Actually quite nice with some neat sound touches.

Very Happy Birthday Adam!!

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Happy Happy Birthday!

On FB there's a "10 year challenge" to post pics current and 10 years back....this one took the cake (pun intended!)

😄 That was a fun movie!

^^ My son is waiting for that....I am giving him my Elac Discovery endpoint, it does Roon (he can't use that when they move to their new apt.) and Spotify connect. I am also giving him a pair of speakers and a receiver. Sounded good with Spotify, but not as good as with Tidal/Roon.....

RIP, Sir 😪

Apparently latest forecast is 8-14" for us here in NE Mass. (originally was going to be less with the storm more South....something like 3-6") EDIT: another site says 6-12", maybe with my specific area just outside the heavier range.... This neighbor's tree is the one my wife called the Charlie Brown tree, it was very small and bare when we moved in.

That reminds me of a theory that Bob Carver (I think it was him) was espousing years ago....something to the effect of raising audio signals into much higher frequencies, 20k Hz apart, and having the "subtracted" signal be sent via a smaller speaker. It would beam similar to that demo above....and in theory you could get 20-20k Hz response. I may not be remembering it correctly, but I thought it was interesting at the time....

I think my brother had that album, looks very familiar! But I don't remember the sound....the song above is not familiar

Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday Dan!!

RIP to an old High School friend Chris. He was So into music, both listening, and playing. He fronted a rock/punk band in Salem, MA for many years. Back in HS, he was heavy into the burgeoning punk scene, embracing the music and the style so very early. Yet he was one of the most kind and decent people I knew. He never drank or did drugs, he was so very tolerant of so many faults in others. And he loved his family and his dogs (he loved Sheltie's) with a vengeance. It sounds like he passed from COVID issues. (EDIT: Bacterial Pneumonia brought on by Covid. I'm pretty sure he was vaccinated too). Fuck Fuck Fuck.... My very favorite story about Chris: a couple years after graduation, I found myself in our hometown. Driving into a 5-way intersection in our downtown, I see Chris across the street. He was dressed wearing a T-Shirt from the band Discharge. I shouted out my window, "Hey, CHRIS....Discharge rules!" And he shouts back, "YO, Discharge....oh, HEY Todd...!" It was so much about the music for him. I can't seem to stop the tears....every time I think of him they start to flow. A pic from a few years ago, the 4 of us were pretty close in HS, Chris on the lower right. And then a video of him and his dog Beau.

Happy 2022! May it be so....happy!

Happy Birthday Jacob! Celebrate with a large 7-11 Decaf 😄

Oh, man....RIP John Madden.... I just heard a "doink!" in my head in his voice. Football just lost one of the very best.....

Happy Birthday!

RIP Archbishop Desmond Tutu....an incredible voice for equality in South Africa and beyond.....

Merry Ho-Ho-Ho to all that Ho!