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[blessingx]

If anyone is looking for a headphone stand. 40% off. 
 

[blessingx]

Timbuk2 sale ending today if anyone needs even more bags. 

https://www.timbuk2.com/collections/sale 

[blessingx]

Using their Mic+ most of the time. Suspect the MiC 48k for Mac sounds pretty similar. Refurbs on sale at the moment. $199 for $49. 

https://apogeedigital.com/shop/apogee-mic-for-mac-factory-refurbished?utm_source=Apogee+Registered+Customers&utm_campaign=9459077d9f-sio-soundgrid-availability-press-release_COPY_01&utm_medium=email

[MexicanDragon]

7 hours ago, blessingx said:

Using their Mic+ most of the time. Suspect the MiC 48k for Mac sounds pretty similar. Refurbs on sale at the moment. $199 for $49. 

https://apogeedigital.com/shop/apogee-mic-for-mac-factory-refurbished?utm_source=Apogee+Registered+Customers&utm_campaign=9459077d9f-sio-soundgrid-availability-press-release_COPY_01&utm_medium=email

Hmmmm... looks like a good idea for upgrading the audio on mobile Zoom events

[blessingx]

Sennheiser HD8XX are down to $949

https://drop.com/buy/drop-sennheiser-hd-8xx-headphones 

[jpelg]

^I see that the HD6xx are also on sale - lowest I've seen & "cheap as chips", as they say.

[blessingx]

Lapham’s Quarterly Collections sale. Jump back through the ages on minor subjects like war, time, death, happiness, eros, epidemics, etc. I have the Essentials Collection and it's great. I should read them some time. 

Use code LIBRARY at checkout

https://store.laphamsquarterly.us/collections/?campaign=JBALQB6 

Also while you're there, good posters... 

Edited November 29, 2021 by blessingx

[Torpedo]

It's funny that Spain didn't even bother to blame anyone else

[blessingx]

Annual Taschen sale going on. If you’re looking for fat, impressive books, to collect dust, now’s the time. 
https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/sale/all.htm 

 

[blessingx]

Criterion 50% off sale for the next 14 hours. 
https://www.criterion.com/sale 

Maybe grab https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4117-world-of-wong-kar-wai ? 

Edited March 9, 2022 by blessingx

[blessingx]

Never heard them, but if they even hint at the Clears they may be worth grabbing. Focal Elegia Down to $380. 
https://www.adorama.com/fofelegia.html?EmailPrice=T 

[blessingx]

Save 50% Off on All Back Issues of Lapham's Quarterly until July 4th. 
https://store.laphamsquarterly.us/collections 

https://store.laphamsquarterly.us/back-issues/

Use code SUM22

[swt61]

I believe Bear is also running a 50% off special. Brent?

[blessingx]

Anyone need a MS Office license for Mac or PC? Lots of other options out there, but probably the best deal if you need one.  

https://shop.popsci.com/sales/microsoft-office-home-business-for-mac-2021-lifetime-license-2

 

[shellylh]

Monitor audio silver 200 speakers on sale for over half off ($400 per speaker).  

https://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=MRSIL200&variation=ERNT

Edited July 18, 2022 by shellylh

[Augsburger]

I find it funny when speaker manufacturers advertise their speakers as "$XXX per speaker".  Who buys one speaker, V. van Gogh?

🤣

[recstar24]

Brian Wilson maybe?

[jamesmking]

6 hours ago, Augsburger said:

I find it funny when speaker manufacturers advertise their speakers as "$XXX per speaker".  Who buys one speaker, V. van Gogh?

🤣

mono has a multitude of advantages over stereo, both in terms of economics and practicality:

mono is more "pure" than stereo.

for sessions recorded on tape full width mono had better signal to noise ratio than half track stereo.

you have more control over speaker placement,

you get no cross talk,

you can buy better sounding mono components for the same money as the stereo equivalents,

your interconnect and speaker cable costs are halved as is the cable clutter

almost all recordings before about 1958 are mono anyway,

you can store twice as much music on your harddisk/ssd as stereo, 

stereo recordings often had mono mixes - because at the introduction of stereo many studios where unsure of if stereo would be popular due to its higher cost, and of course, had much more experience recording with mono. Many of the mono mixes are better regarded and more sought after than the stereo mixes from the same sessions. e.g. the Beatles... (https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-beatles-mono-mixes-lennon-edit-20141003-story.html)

do you critically listen and prefer music in 7.1 surround sound? no why because its artificial, complex and detracts from the music, its a gimmick.. then why listen in stereo,? Apply Occam's razor reduce to the simplest form use the original and best form... mono...

 mono ©️ the way it was meant to be played

...

🙂

 

Edited July 26, 2022 by jamesmking

[Dusty Chalk]

Also, 2, 5, and 7 are all divisible by one.

[Augsburger]

I read on the innernetz that mono is best in a geodesic dome or a pyramid, so there's that.

[blessingx]

Silence is mono 2.0 

[Dusty Chalk]

On 7/27/2022 at 11:37 PM, Augsburger said:

I read on the innernetz that mono is best in a geodesic dome or a pyramid, so there's that.

"...there's one underneath my bed..."

- Alan Parsons, or whoever wrote the lyrics

[Grahame]

"For one day (Saturday), you can pay $3 for a movie ticket at most American theaters"

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/28/1119852232/movie-tickets-national-cinema-day

It's true!

[blessingx]

All the greats. 
 

[Knuckledragger]

Holly balls.  Anyone need a 27" 1440 165Hz FreeSync monitor?  BozosPenisRocketAndBridgeDemolition has got one for Prime members for $160.   It also does HDR, but I've yet to see HDR on a gaming monitor worth a crap.  I've got a notion to buy two of them and I ...don't have room for two.