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Truth ! We used to have a cat in the neighborhood who would come and sit about a foot outside chain length from our Treeing Walker coonhounds way back when I was a kid. Dad fixed that cat one day by adding two feet to the chain. That cat levitated about 10' into the air, when it hit the ground it was kicking up rocks for about 6 yards down the neighborhood. It was never seen in our yard again.... -
^^^Excellent! Arrogant pukes, with few exceptions.I disabled signatures.
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I'm not ordering Calamari at this joint ever again.
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Things are starting to look up....
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Sony 850c 4k
Pioneer elite vhx 21
Sony 4k BRP
SVS SB-2000
Polk Sig. 20's
Polk FX500 surrounds
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Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable
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Sonos zp90
Grant Fidelity tube dac
B&k 1420
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Mrs. H's Honda was at the dealership today for some service (and a detailing that had been scheduled before we knew about the weekend's weather forecast*.
This was sitting out on the parking lot. I love these things.
13 inch wheels. Remember those?
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* It's clean and shiny and smells good (if in an artificial kind of way) -- and it's staying in the garage for a few days!
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I haven't seen one of those in a long time.I disabled signatures.
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That's almost as bad as this fugly POS.
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^^^ That's what I'm talkin' about!
That was a Toyota Tercel variant, wasn't it?
One of the Tappet Brothers (EDIT: Tappet Brother Ray Magliozzi, per Google) claimed to have had, if memory serves, a Dodge Colt Vista. Not quite as much panache as the above, but still on the spectrum.
EDIT: I suffered a catastrophic water pump failure in my '84 Chevy Cavalier hatchback one day driving to work in Cambridge, MA. Our purchasing agent's boyfriend was a mechanic in the garage next to our company's extremely modest HQ building in Cambridgeport. She got him to fix it for me. I only found out after I picked up the car that he worked in the (the) "Good News Garage", which was, as I understood it, operated as a sort of mechanics' co-op under the aforementioned Magliozzis.
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Nice Civic wagon! I wonder what Ray is up to.
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Was it both of them who had crazy laughs, or just one? I used to get a good laugh at with those guys when I'd listen sometimes.I disabled signatures.
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Was it both of them who had crazy laughs, or just one? I used to get a good laugh at with those guys when I'd listen sometimes.
Ray was the noisier one. I guess Tom was deteriorating due to cognitive decline for his last few years. Heck, even their reruns are better to listen to than much current programming. Yeah -- I'm old.
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A photo of Sonny Rollins and Dizzy taken by John Abbot:
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Gustard X26 Pro DAC
Belles 21A Pre modded with Mundorf Supreme caps
B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)
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The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson -
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Finally, a weather report that's accurate! Only took humankind between five million and seven million years to pull off. Bravo Larry!
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
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“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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we had some snow flurries yesterday (Saturday)...
22 inches of flurries.
There was no snow at all on the ground on Friday night when we went to bed.
Snow plow came twice yesterday and a third time this morning.
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That'll cool the turkeys down a bit
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That looks a bit like Mt Rainier....When I lived up there, we'd see a cloud over the peak quite often, of course not quite as cool as this though.Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2
Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)
EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
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For all my fellow physical media fans (you know who you are… and aren’t, lol).
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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For all my fellow physical media fans (you know who you are… and aren’t, lol).
I’m not a physical media guy, and haven’t used physical media in years for audio or video, but I can still appreciate the potential veracity of this statement. 😂
Apple TV makes it a lot easier than Google, and I don’t subscribe to seven services, but there are still limitations to how it works. 🤦♂️
Some services like Netflix won’t even let users manage their subscription from within Apple TV (a Netflix website login is required instead). Sling is similar. I can understand that they don’t want to pay Apple the 15-30% of subscription fees for that, but the end result is that I rarely activate my subscription at all because I can’t turn it on or off conveniently with with my Apple ID. The end result in my case is that they are definitely losing tons of potential revenue. 🤷♂️
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For all my fellow physical media fans (you know who you are… and aren’t, lol).
It used to be so much easier to browse and make selections on streaming platforms. And then they started trying to get creative, and completely ruined everything with their stupid UI redesigns, limited content while letting you see what you could be able to watch if you upgrade upgrade-upgrade, or accept ads.
Over the past two or three years I've realized that I exhaust myself just browsing crap content in a tedious, inefficient browser, to the point that I'm no longer in the mood to watch anything at all, by the end, and so I don't.
I wondered at times whether it's the same business model as overselling a gym to just get your money, while making it unpleasant enough to make you stop using it, and they can sell more memberships.
Netflix DVD at least you got what you wanted to watch. Owning physical media, though? While I have some favorites, I prefer not to amass a catalog. One thing I do miss is bonus content and accurate pause rewind and frame advance. Can't do that with streaming.
This world's de-evolution is accelerating. The handbasket industry must be booming, though. I just hope I get a nice quality one for my trip to hell. Not one of those poorly made Amazon import jobs to give me splinters, jab me, or have the bottom fall out. I prefer going to hell in comfort, enjoying nuanced refinements.
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Who would have ever thought that getting in your car and driving to Blockbuster was an easier way to find a movie?Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.-John Wooden
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Well… the choice at Blockbuster was more limited, and they could run out of some titles, whereas streaming is almost unlimited for choice and availability.Alea jacta est!
