Dusty Chalk

Being an SACD fanatical-boy, I have to weigh in on this matter. However, I have no idea. The best I can come up with is this: maybe those of us on this side of the pond are embarrassed to be siding with Sony, whereas Europeans don't have that problem.

Did you find the Esoterics at decent prices, or did you just buy them?

What's the platter made out of? Looks pretty high-tech, with the carbon fiber. "High silicon alloy magnesium"? Me wanty.

Right now: 26; Feels like: 11.

Project: Trio -- CDBaby link 1; CDBaby link 2 I like how the flautist is the closest thing to a percussionist on this track:

EQ? How's the reach (extension vs. quantity)?

I woke up feeling achy all over, and I had a beer last night, so ... maybe. I felt better once I got some water in me.

Knuckledragger! And: melikey.

"Suckit."

That was fantasy, dude.

Happy New Year, Happy New Decade, and Fuck The Pedants -- 1990 was not part of the 80's; 2000 was not part of the 90's. I mean, sure, we can argue that we haven't technically started the 201st decade yet, but no-one calls it that.

"...I'm crushing your head..."

The voice coils are on the bottom, pointing upward. The tops are fixed. When sound is applied, the voice coils move (literally) up and down, which squeezes the "leaves", forcing them to move inwards and outwards. There are 12 of them for each driver. Read the bottom half of this page. Yeah, if I ever win the lottery, the first thing I do (after moving to a new abode) is to get a pair of MBL's. Not sure which ones, though. Probably either the 101's or the 111's.

Watched several episodes of South Park last night -- forgot what a great show that was (saw the Fellowship of the Lord of the Rings and the Alien Abduction Repeat episodes).

Norah Jones, The Fall

Happy Birthday, yung'n!

The drives that have problems reading SACD's are usually DVD-ROMs, at least. If you can get access to a pure CD-ROM (no DVD-anything) -- E.G. an external USB drive -- it shouldn't have a problem.

I didn't think He was back, yet. C'mon, I couldn't have been the only one thinking it.

Are you kidding? That's wonderful. Vaguely reminiscent of Shiina Ringo.

Actually, it's more like, "you have few friends, and they probably get this joke, too".

Oh shit, thought just crossed my mind -- what laserdisc do you have, not The Space Movie, is it?

You didn't find them different? I found the HE60's more "rock and roll" than the HE90's, IIRC. They also amp quite differently -- what's better for one is not necessarily better for the other.

Maybe they wouldn't bitch if you fucking pleased them.

Yeah, except IIRC, the boxed set one is bandwidth limited (by the nature of the matrix encoding). But you're alright if you have the recent box set, because I think there's a surround mix on there, isn't there? Just not the original one.

Oh yeah, those things are great. Oh, in that case, no.