aardvark baguette

i get a strange comfort out of how uncomfortable it is.

IIRC you can put SSDs in the drobo 5d. It would be expensive to use large capacity SSDs, of course.

If you aren't already using it, I heartily recommend Backblaze. Its basically my favorite thing about the internet.

Yeah, the case fans have a really high pitched whine. Like too many rpms. Think of the motorcycle thing in the last few Batman movies. The drobos were fairly quiet for the most part, but when you exit the computer out of sleep you would hear the disks ramp up and/or click on. For the La Cie, if you have a compartment out of the way it would probably conceal most of the noise. Like a closet or something.

i've been thinking about it. on my old drobos i never did get the email notifications when I had hard drive failures though. im sure I set it up wrong, but then again its supposed to be idiot proof. i guess they will always build a better idiot. the drives that haven't failed are getting pretty old at this point and I should really do something about it. i do have 2 of the la cie ssd thunderbolt drives and they absolutely smoke anything else i've ever had. too bad they are too small to put a music library on. they are annoyingly loud though. its stupid loud.

beets by the roots

happy birthday!

TIL if you're trying to eat wheat crackers with a stuffed up nose in a reclined position you're going to have a bad time.

this is....really good.

Just in time for tomorrow's snowmageddon even in the car these were promising. (I tried the Spivakovsky, bottom right) had to crank the volume knob, a great sign

black if white isn't an option. is it stupid that i'd actually consider this?

I looked at the bitcoin charts today. LOL If I had not been so hesitant towards these I'd be buying Voxativ Dues right now. I'm going to throw up.

Build quality on that Rowland is looking nice. I like the ayre-esque individual chambers I need to read up on this 'point of load' dc regulation and figure out if its special or just marketing speak. Do other dacs not care or bother about voltage matching? Some of the reviews make it sound like its (the dac, not point of load) just what I've been looking for.

what is that?

this is the set im talking about

there is no order to how i select these from the box set. just pull at random. speaking of, lol @ the prices on amazon now. i remember at the time thinking i should buy 3 or 4 of them and wait.

avant garde has some interesting bass, even though its 2 different players bags & trane has some real pocket.

just finished: coltrane plays the blues now putting on: john coltrane - coltrane's sound

first did this one a few times milt jackson & john coltrane - bags & trane just moved onto this: john coltrane - ole coltrane this has been the best weekend in a while absolutely nothing but music. coltrane is amazing on this rig for whatever reason, jesus christ.

john coltrane & don cherry - avant-garde

happy birthday!

Coltrane Jazz

tool - 72826 (tape transfer)