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https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/police-ukraine-investigate-death-us-embassy-employee-73358211 Wife of a colleague in neighboring Ukraine passed away, today. Authorities are simultaneously investigating murder and accidental death due to a collision with a train. Either is heartbreaking. State is a big organization, and anytime someone connected to the embassy dies it makes the news. I did not know the woman who passed or her family, but she had four children. Terrible news.

Sirs! Congratulations!

I've been told I snap it well.

It hardly counts as "building", but I am snapping together a Pootie Pie.

Mark Giuliana - BEAT MUSIC! BEAT MUSIC! BEAT MUSIC! I feel like I was lied to about jazz most of my life. I played it daily for eight years and never enjoyed it in the slightest. Now, fifteen years of atrophy later, I learn modern jazz is fantastic and inventive and I'd love to play it.

My six-year-old daughter just asked me today if I ever played Minecraft. There is a direct line between that question and me being her favorite parent.

That time is now. The Soncoz LA-QXD1 I purchased is pure garbage, and I can't believe I ever thought it would be a good idea. It gibbers and pops constantly, loses sync whenever my AC condenser cycles on, and defaults to minimum volume every time it does so. The interface is inscrutable, and I had to find direct links to the driver downloads through the Wayback Machine (!!) because the manufacturer's site is currently down. I ended up just buying the thing I wanted in the first place, the RME dac.

What a touching picture, Jose. Clearly a powerful man, brought down when he had a lot of living yet to do. It’s a humbling thought to all of us.

I've never heard any LS50, but I've never loved any of the KEF's I've owned. Ric, sounds like you're in my camp if they're still sitting in a box.

Terrible news, Jeff. Sorry to hear it.

Stretch! What wonderful news! Happiest of birthdays! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Disappointing and surprising. Doesn’t the built-in streamer run Linux? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Obviously we do, how else would we wear out phono cartridges? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

All these dumb vinyl resurgence articles always neglect to mention what percentage of people buying LPs actually listen to them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m not the last word in pros here, but I would put 57s on each amp so you can set your own mix. Vocals into an amp is not ideal, it would be better to have vocals into a mixer and then wedges on stage to monitor, but talent wants what talent wants. If the vocals share an amp with a guitar your levels there are out of your control, but I’d still close mic that then put an omni out for crowd noise and possibly some ambience on vocals.

Come at the king, you best not miss. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I just listened to the first episode of “Winds of Change”,@dsavitsk, and I’m hooked. His description of information security runs very close to my experience working in highly classified spaces — there is no “all access pass” to the good stuff. Lots of times the people who know the good stuff have no idea how good it is. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m perpetually aboard the DAC train, looking for a way off. My current operating theory is that enlightenment lies in feeding high bit rate DSD from Roon via HQPlayer to the cheapest DAC that technically works. I will update the dacses faithful once I realize that theory is wrong. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Neither do I, so I listen to those who do. I suppose the other approach is to just not care about things you don't understand.

Roon gives me back a lot of the ritual, but I also think the world has changed and I've changed with it. I can force myself to sit with an iPad as controller and listen to full albums, but I'm not as comfortable doing it as I am listening with less of my attention. My preference for how to listen deliberately is to fullscreen Roon, lock everything into exclusive mode so I don't get system sounds, then occupy my restlessness by reading Roon's equivalents of liner notes like lyrics, reviews, associated artists, etc. If you've not tried Roon, it's not cheap but it's a great experience.

It's a Nordost Odin left in Patrick's root cellar for 98 days, then cut with a serrated knife, hand woven into a nine-strand litz, and terminated with proprietary plugs cut off display Galaxy Notes at a local Orange shop. The mic itself is unimportant, the sound is all in the cable.

You can find all of Spritzer’s products on his site: https://mjolnir-audio.com/

Just terrible to hear, Al. So sorry for the Bedecarre family this evening.

Thank you for the links, Doug. To lose someone so unique and prolific at the height of their output is a real gut punch.