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Went to woot, saw Reks (and maybe Dusty) approved gear:

Sure, I'll reword the question: Are you aware that you have typed out wrong and potentially misleading information on the issue of balanced amps in the past? Pull your head out your ass, I was trying to be as nice as I can (which admittedly isn't very much).

Elias, are you aware that you are quite wrong on many aspects of amplifier design? AMB Laboratories DIY Audio • View topic - Benchmark Engineer on Balanced v Unbalanced Headphone Amps No hate, just wondering.

Happy birthday! Glad you had a nice day, and sad I can't make it to the meet.

Oh goody, I missed that.

Reminds me, where the heck is Dreadhead?

That must've been pretty cool, did the luthier make it to your specifications or something?

I've always wondered how long it takes a violin to mature. Just my experience playing various violins, I haven't actually heard any good sounding ones newer than 40-50 years old. Cool, I'll try the Karneols and avoid the regular Larsens. I don't think I'll ever try the normal Visions and have heard bad things about the Titanium Solos... you should try Vision Solos sometime.

Which Warchals do you recommend? I'm thinking the Karneols? And I actually don't like the Obligatos. The best strings I think I've tried so far, ranked are: Vision Solo, Dominant, Larsen Tzigane. Reaaallly want to try the Passiones but they are fricking expensive (~$90 a set). Dominants are cheap, but they die really fast.

For the few (one person...?) possibly following, I forgot to update my findings on trying new strings. I put a Pirastro Obligato A on, everything else the same (G and D Thomastik Vision Solo, E is Pirastro Gold Label). It's not as shitty sounding as the Evah Pirazzi but what is. But it doesn't have a pure fundamental, and always sounds like it's false. Also doesn't project. Going to stop experimenting now and just stick with Vision Solos + Gold Label E from now on. Or at least for another year or two.

Yeah, I definitely feel like I need six months of hard work, no engineering bullshit getting in the way, to actually get good. And sure, that'd be great.

Still not sure I agree with you. The orchestra I have the most experience with is obviously the NSO, I studied under the co-concert mistress or whatever her position is, she was okay but not great, and I would say the same about the orchestra. We should find a cellist and a pianist and get that Messiaen quartet thing going.

Based on my experiences, I wouldn't agree with you. There are so many people (the vast majority) in grade school who play an instrument just to have something to write on their resume. And most music graduates from my uni don't end up with jobs in music. I don't see how they could. Edit: No, haven't heard of him. But he's a DeLay student, which is funny because that's what 90% of people from that era (the era before DeLay died) write on their resumes, even if they only had 2 or 3 lessons with her. I'm sure he's a decent violinist, more or less.

I'll bet. I hate that none of the soloists of today measure up to even half of what the greats were (no offense to them). Kanye's newest album. Have to compare it against some Mozart. Not Mozart opera, that would make me want to kill myself.

As it should be. note: never heard of the above people

Oh I thought you were going to use them for CrossFit, I think they'd work well. They definitely helped me make sure I was putting the weight on my heels and they're real nice for deadlifts. Good casual shoe too.

Nice, that's what I use as well (with red stitching). Good stepping stone shoes to real olympic weightlifting shoes. Decent powerlifting shoes in general. Just kind of frail.

I find it hilarious Beyer did absolutely no innovative thinking at all in designing the T1 (moar stronger magnets lulz) and it is worth about $250 in terms of sound quality. Less if you factor in the fact that you can buy a vintage Lambda/Pro for that price.

Might be playing this with people next semester.

I probably should.. or maybe my thyroid... that was only ~1900 calories though, half my daily intake.

Wat, they didn't make you participate in sports? What we did was spend a few weeks on some sport or two and then move on to some other sport for a few weeks. I specifically remember table tennis, indoor mini golf, archery, wrestling, dodgeball, soccer, and never bothering learning football.

Breakfast/lunch: Large bowl of oatmeal w/ honey, egg+ham+thyme leave wheat bread sandwich, 2 more eggs, 6 pancakes w/ maple syrup, some wasabi peas, and a glass of milk w/ a spoonful of Cytogainer. Still hungry, gonna find a muffin or fruit or something.

I fractured my collarbone in 8th grade PE class during the wrestling curriculum.

Congrats on the good news, Shelly!