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Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday! Come back and give us a life update one of these days!

Yup! Pen's were manhandled. 3 Game 7's coming up, hoping for four!

Happy Birthday (again) !

Hmmm, plaid shirt, too. Is Justin slowly becoming hipster????

Won't be making this one, unfortunately. High School graduation for my son the night before, and parties the weekend..... Had a great time last year! Always a good show and after-show.....

Yeah, thinking the Rangers figured out what to do with the talent they have. If Boston had more (or maybe even just less injuries), it may have been B's and Rag's in round two. But happy to see NY getting their game on..... Boucher's 1-3-1 trap is mighty boring. Can anyone beat Pittsburgh, though?! Even without Crosby..... Their second-tier players are really coming through, despite an occasional Bonino-embellishment

Well, fuck, this is what I get for not paying attention to upcoming releases.....Jeffrey Lee Pierce lives! At least in some unreleased/resurrected songs.....

Agreed with above, several of the posts. I found that - once things like the USB interface are treated/isolated/re-clocked/whatever - the cables make less of a difference. One of my favorites now is a used Wireworld Starlight 7. Lists for maybe $100, got it for less than half that. Well-made, and a step above a well-shielded "gold" cable. The margin of return (sound for $) drops real fast for me....

Yes, surprising! With the Bruins having so many injuries, they really still could have taken the series (or at least brought it to seven games) without idiot ref calls. I thought the combo of the Rangers strength, scoring, and speed - along with the way King Henrik played in round 1 - would make it so they would handle the Sen's easier than the Bruins did. But yeah, they keep hanging on......

Happy Birthday!! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

Oh, wow.....RIP......he did a lot with music as well......

Bruins losing made me feel bad. Ref's skewed a few too many things, but Bruins were also without 2 of their top-3 D-men, mostly without their 2nd line center, and had some other injuries as well. And the Senators just outplayed them. Hats off to Ottawa, with few exceptions they are a tough team to hate. The handshake line, and the way Erik Karlsson handled himself, just oozed class and good grace. He's a great player and a credit to the game. Now I root for someone other than the Pens in the East. Would like to see Ovie get a ring, but can also root for the Rangers and King Henry. Not sure who I want in the West. I don't dislike the players in Edmonton, but I DO hate the fact that they tanked so much to get such talent. We'll see what happens.....

Needs moar wood Seriously, looks nice and comfy, and sounds like it SOUNDS nice, too....

Shit....I write goodly....where's my discount? Well-played Birgir. Now watch to see if he tries to bad-mouth anything Mjolnir. You'd have a great message to post about it! I would assume he'd be smart enough NOT to do something as stupid as that....but one never knows.

RIP Michele, so tragic. And tragic for Erin as well.....RIP too.

Boston extends at least one more game.....despite the refs' best attempts at fucking the Bruins over. The reffing has been bad a lot this year, and in these playoffs. But it seems that too many game-changing calls/non-calls have hurt the Bruins this series. They lost in OT last game after a roughing call that was MUCH less than non-calls during the game. And two calls last night went against the Bruins: a goaltender interference call (that was questionable; someone posted an even worse interference call in the Rangers/Montreal series that was allowed as a goal), and a missed call for an Ottawa D covering the puck in the blue paint. I am admiring what the Bruins are doing without 3 of their starting defensemen, and their best scorers not raising their game (one is likely hurt, and maybe re-injured in the last game by a knee on knee hit/trip that of course wasn't called). Some youth has stepped up, and it has their future looking a bit better. But would love to see them fight through and take this series...just not sure they have enough in them.

Yup, big problem in the Northeast so one "expert" has told me. The White-Nose fungus spreads easily, kills hard..... At times when warm and wet winters lead to massive mosquito populations, bats would be a welcome addition for me.....

Chiming in a bit late, just got back from vacation; glad you got to hear them Jacob. To some extent I agree with Jacob's impressions, there are several aspects of the sound & music that some other phones do better. For me, Soundstage is the biggest drawback of the Utopia's...especially coming from the Senn 800's. And the shear envelopment of a good Stax system (SR-007II and Mjolnir Carbon for me) edges out the Utopia for me. Where my findings - and personal taste - differ are a few as well: first and foremost, transparency. I hear things in basically all frequencies up through, say ~13-14kHz, that I have had trouble hearing with many other phones, at least dynamics. And in many recordings I do hear into the room, at least if the recording is good. And within that smaller soundstage, I think the ability to pick apart individual voices & instruments is still great. Lastly, while I DO hear some possible frequency variations, I don't hear a midrange honk to the level that Jacob describes. Where the Utopia still stays my favorite dynamic is in the total cohesive package. It delivers transparent and pretty balanced sound to these ears, to the point that the package ends up being better than the individually-analyzed parts. That said, my Senn 800 and 600 are both staying around as well. FWIW, my system has been either the Exogal Comet or the Denafrips Ares driving a loaner ECP DSHA-2; great match for the Utopia, and a DSHA-3 customized for low output impedance will come next. I still like the Mjolnir/Stax combo the best, so that is staying with the Exogal, my favorite DAC.

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Are you channeling your inner Trump?

RIP J. Geils. The first ever LP I got was Live Full House, I think in 1972 or 73.....I'm sure I wore out multiple needles playing that......

Happy Birthday, oh bringer of sunshine and happiness

I like it! Kind of "Aging Punk Rocker" look. All you need now is a ripped old Sex Pistols shirt and some safety pins!

RIP to Don and Paul.....Don made comedic insults into an art!