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BoomMF

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  1. To be fair, that period produced a some great soundtracks, too. Like,
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    Vinyl

    $150 shipped. Still have eyes peeled for Sunday at the Village Vanguard but ffs.
  3. A few things, imo. You can tell it's a AAAA top from a mile away. Quilted is pretty rare, I think, on HPs which might be my favorite iteration of LP Standards Gibson ever attempted with their main line releases. Though 2018 is my least favorite or that run, I still appreciate some of the chances on the 2018 that lead to a more playable/better user experience guitar (I think this was the only year where the necks were Plek'd AND cryo'd as standard, for instance). If this was a 2016-2017 HP I wouldn't even be asking you jokers, I'd just be posting about how I screwed up the paint and help me plz. I'm even down with the Tronical because I'm old but not that old. Short story long, I've never seen quilted HP before (they always have those deep, gorgeous 3D-looking fuck you flame tops).
  4. Well, damn. This is not giving me much confidence. We can put a man on the moon but can't remove some sharpie in 2022? What have we been doing with ourselves as a people? Offered him $2200, he replied that the best he could do $2700. I'm starting to wonder what I'm willing to live with to get that top because that top fucks.
  5. So, hypothetically speaking, if one wanted to remove sharpie from a nitro guitar, a Magic Eraser should do the trick, no? Nitrocellulose is pourous and I expect it to hold onto the ink pretty well, but has anyone attempted something like this? https://reverb.com/item/61047082-gibson-les-paul-standard-hp-2018-mojave-fade-signed-by-leon-bridges I might make an offer, but if removing that signature fucks up the finish it's going to royally suck.
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    Vinyl

    Thanks to your heads-up: Arrived today along with some other bougee pickups. Tonight's listening is all MoFi.
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    Led Zeppelin

    Came across this still sealed OG IV. It's so early that some notable songs are left off the hype sticker. If you're buying that album just to get those two songs, brother, you're in for a treat.
  8. OP outlines the strongest argument that the last 20 years were not a golden age. (Side: OMW to download Gangs of New York because this is the second time this week someone mentioned that movie and I might be remembering it wrong.)
  9. Anyone in OH care to pick up an amp? First time in about 3 years one of these came up for sale. #7 of 25 - CME - Marshall Astoria Custom - Black / Gold - with custom road case https://reverb.com/item/63846101-7-of-25-cme-marshall-astoria-custom-black-gold-with-custom-road-case?utm_source=android-app&utm_medium=android-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=63846101
  10. Chessup boards have begun shipping. So far I've received the board, bag, and checkers. Still waiting on the velvet pieces bag and the phone stand, but what has arrived has been of stellar quality. Played a quick game against the Ai after calibrating the board and everything went off without a hitch. Can already tell this is going to be a great product to learn/practice/improve chess and compete with.
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    Yellowstone

    If those were the rules he was following he would've faught Beth after ("You know the rules...") and knocked the shit out of her. That might've saved the scene.
  12. There's been a development. Back when I was in college there was a home theater/hifi store on Burnet, just north of Anderson, whose name I can't recall, but I vividly remember the first time I saw Bowers and Wilkins 800 Series speakers. They had a pair hooked up to a small fortune worth of Mcintosh gear, including a pair of monoblocks the size of a Corolla. They demoed the setup with SACDs and the one I remember most was Kind of Blue (it made such an impression that I've used KoB as a favorite to demo gear since). But it was those gorgeous B+W Nautilus speakers that stole the show. They sounded so clean, so vibrant, so full, and most of all so sharp. I've since come to find out that the reason I liked the punchy treble of B+Ws is because that's how my brain discerns clarity, it's that top-end polish you get by boosted highs that conveys precision to me, but whatevs. We're talking about the speakers they use in Abbey Road and Skywalker Sound. There are pics of John Williams sitting in front of 800s, mixing. I mean, come on. I didn't really consider ever having any - they were ridiculous for a college student then and time doesn't really do much to devalue Bowers & Wilkins speakers compared to other brands, but I've always thought 800s to be the pinnacle of design, both looks and performance so have wanted them since I first saw them decades ago. Anyway, I bought a pair. Minty Nautilus 802's with brand new tweeters. (The tweeters are notoriously fragile.) I'm looking at them now and I still barely believe it. They're hooked up on the second zone of the pre/pro being served by about 400Wx2 carried by wire as thick as my wrist. I can't set them in the room in an ideal way, but I've pulled them forward to remove as much obstruction from the bass ports, but in a room that dictates so many compromises, this is another. Regardless, they sound sublime. In preparation, I had to redo the rack, eliminating the slanted rack posted earlier. I busted out the table saw and made a console, installed rack rails, and moved everything to the center of the wall leaving the speakers as much room as I possibly could. I'm not going to be mistaken for a Mennonite, but the gear is secure and organized. My biggest issue is that I had to take the door off the hinges to make room enough to walk in. I'll flip the hinges and have it open outward. I might just eliminate the Atlantic Technology speakers and make the front line all Bowers & Wilkins with a new center, but I like the idea of having dedicated HT speakers and a dedicated stereo setup for critical listening. Living the dream. Here's a cool factory tour. Really brings home what it takes to make 800s. Now I need to finish putting up acoustic treatments.
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    Yellowstone

    ... who killed their son but he's cool with it because her mopeyness comes first.
  14. When you're posting from a late-90s Cingular flip phone that charges by the letter you can't just spell out "Super Bowl." Do you think he's made of money?
  15. Tone Masters sound great, but once you pick one up they sound really great.
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    Vinyl

    While I was picking up some speakers, I asked the dealer about cartridges. I'm still hunting for an endgame MC. He proceeds to show me a trade-in he has, customer bought a Mcintosh MT10 (as photogenic a turntable as there ever was) and swapped out the cart. It's a Mcintosh branded Clearaudio Talismann v2 Gold low output MC. He sent it home with me to check and see if I liked it. Cool. Popped open the phonostage, monkeyed with some jumpers, and set it up for thr new cart. Installed the cart and immediately upon touching the tonearm to drop the needle, I get a buzz. Fuck me. So I dusted of the multimeter to track down the problem. I had to pull EVERYTHING apart tracing back the continuity problem. Made it all the way to cable interface, so I pull out the mount to get to it and noticed the set screw holding the tonearm in the mount was set too deep and snapped off a copper lead. I don't know how it happened, we don't need to point fingers. Contacted Transrotor, in Germany mind, to see if they had a replacement to that piece that they could send me and they were like nein. Argh. So I busted out the soldering iron and dropped an ugly bead (soldering isn't like riding a bike apparently) where the copper lead was supposed to terminate, threw it all back together and viola, dude's grounding like a champ. Crisis averted. The Talismann is an eye-opening experience. There's a noticeable increase in life to records. I like to test with Kind of Blue, but Randy Travis's voice on Storm's of Life (MoFi) is something I know like the back of my hand and he has never sounded so present as with the new cart. I had my heart set on a Sumiko Starling, but damn son. Gonna play it a lot this week and give homeboy the yay or nay.
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    Vinyl

    You're a vegetable.
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    Vinyl

    Nice haul, but scoring that Guaraldi is next level.
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    Vinyl

    Walmart is doing their $15 vinyl sale. Every Walmart I visited in the east Austin area had every title on sale for $15, and I mean every. $50 Rolling Stones Hot Rocks, $15. $70 George Harrison All Things Must Pass box set, $15, and on and on. Good luck.
  20. Which is really something Slash would hope for his guitar tbh
  21. I try to hit up a Hard Rock Cafe whenever I travel (sometimes I just want predictable food), but the one here in Cabo is sparse as fuck. Nonsense like Nikki Minaj's shoes and like 4 things from Third Eye Blind. Buuuuut, they had this bad boy. I even saw them on that tour, maybe I saw this exact guitar and forgot about it because of its bland ass, way too OG for me top, who knows. I do know that I never even thought about fucking up the pickguard like that as a relic'ing technic, so I go to bed a better person tonight.
  22. Finding relevant reviews of boutique hardware years after launch from any brand is, I find, harder than it should be. Emotiva's processors are like a lot of products at this level - when they launch, their hardware far outpaces the state of the software. The hardware has a lot of untapped horsepower and over the course of its life the product will have most of its rough edges polished smooth. Most of the reviews of the Emotiva RMC-1 still available online by reputable reviewers, for example, are deep dives into a product whose name still exists but the processor is in a very different form today. The processor as reviewed no longer exists. And by the time we're several generations of software revisions into the life cycle, you're hard pressed to find a professional reviewer willing to give the product another exhaustive battery of tests - the machine is old, unsexy news. That's where the user base comes in. It's like buying any other niche product - You might want to take into account the company's history of software updates and, perhaps just as importantly, how active the users are. You know how buying a 3D printer, it's probably more important to see how active and numerous the users/owners are than any tech specs (which in 3D printings case, are usually just the product of off-the-shelf parts anyway, so specs between companies don't vary all too much anyway.). Boutique home theater electronics are the same. The health of the culture around a product will tell you everything you need to know and can't find in stale reviews. Long story short, Emotiva make rock solid amps (arguably in the conversation for the standard here, when all is said and done), processors that need a touch of massaging but yield industry leading results and well worth the effort, and an installed user base, with a knowledge base that that implies, that can see you through just about any unique use case you can come up with. You might get better performance (and I mean might) out of a Trinnov, but have fun tracking down someone that can answer a question when things go sideways. There are other companies that produce quality processors and amps that the above applies equally to. Anthem comes to mind. jmho
  23. They have a switch on the back labeled off and surface of the sun.
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