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  1. Botch

    15 Most-hated pieces of audio gear/features

    Saw this kinda interesting read: https://www.headphonesty.com/2025/03/most-hated-audio-gear-time-according-audiophiles/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJKXCVleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHbQv6LtL5z-o39q9YyhpHo8hI0qo_8Q7AEt-lBk1o7sS6glTkdefDs7KQQ_aem__0dmCfCnk9PdE-7WvmIChA
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    Octave Records

    During my recent research on music streamers I found some audiophile channels that I've continued to enjoy, including a daily 4-6 minute one from Paul McGowen, PS Audio. He's the founder of PSA, whom I was unfamiliar with, pretty high-end stuff and it's all designed/built in Pueblo, CO. He has...
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    What Movie(s) Did You Watch Today?

    Figure there may be a couple folks here interested:
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    DeVore Fidelity O/Baby

    John Darko "re-posted" this video from a lady I'm unfamiliar with, about a Brooklyn speaker manufacturer I'm also unfamiliar with, on how they build their "economy-line" of speakers (apparently ~$6,500). Some of the materials used were rather, uh, ho-hum, but the amount of manual labor that...
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    What Are You Listening To?

    Max Cooper, 3D Reworks 001 This is an electronic music EP, done in a "binaural" recording. From what I remember, a "binaural" recording is normally a live music performance (usually classical) that is recorded with two small mics inside a styrofoam head, and what those two mics hear in the...
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    Heeman's New DIY MTM Project

    Wow, I'm surprised a "pencil"-style soldering iron could get hot enough to make a clean joint on a lug connector (granted, you have a variable-power unit, fancier than I ever had). As a part-time bar musician, I was constantly building my own 1/4" and XLR-ended cables, and I had to use a...
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    What Are You Listening To?

    Just checked Amazon; DT is selling this in a 3-disk set: the OG album, the album with just instrumentals, and a Bluray with 5.1 mixes. $60.00 Decision, decisions.
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    What Are You Listening To?

    :thumbsup: I too have SOS's first CD, and everything Sadé put out (including a couple concert videos). You have excellent taste! :toast:
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    Heeman's New DIY MTM Project

    It's pronounced "baaa-ffling".
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    What Are You Listening To?

    Been a Basia Saturday today, my favorite Polish singer/band.
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    The Vulfpeck Thread

    Epic WP piece, (I think) from Madison Square Garden. Joe Dart plays around the beat so much I kinda lose where it is (they don't), and the full, deep, non-gated reverb on the Epic cowbell part drives the crowd into frenzy!
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    What Are You Listening To?

    Brad Meldau is just... magic.
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    Heeman's New DIY MTM Project

    Coincidentally "Stumpy Nubs" just released a video today on working with MDF. I tend to agree more with Keith that properly-milled joints, plus lots of glue, is more secure for MDF than with adding fasteners, even if they get proper pilot holes; fasteners just seem to weaken the integrity of...
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    Heeman's New DIY MTM Project

    Gotcha, thanks!
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    Heeman's New DIY MTM Project

    Keith, I've been meaning to ask ever since you started this thread; what is "MTM"?? I've been wracking my brain and can't come up with a phrase.
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    The Vulfpeck Thread

    A new one! Here VP paired up with four male vocalists, often singing in unison a capella, but then occasionally breaking into 4-part harmony, very EW&F, LOVE it!
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    What Are You Listening To?

    I guess I'm Officially Old now. This song won Song, and Record of the Year at the grammies last night: https://youtu.be/3wkNLqetX0M?si=wgRQNzRhGZ-XrMTp This Record was also released this past year (not eligible for Song OTY as it was written in 1969); but, the contrast...
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    What Are You Listening To?

    Bummer! Just learned this morning that Blue Man Group are hanging up their PVC pipes and retiring! Some may view them as just a Las Vegas act, but they developed a totally unique persona, comedy show, their own musical instruments, and a worldwide empire. And they were musical. I have both...
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    What Are You Listening To?

    Cool article and video of a remix of A-Ha's Take on Me, forty years later. There's a lot going on, and if you're a gear-head this'll be the best tech-pr0n you'll see all week...
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    $70,000 headphones

    Randy, of the CheapAudioMan yt channel, got invited to the Sennheiser plant in central Ireland, to see their operation, listen to a drool-worthy $70K headphone/tube amp system that was a work of art, and actually built a set of phones which they were then gifted (some people have cool jobs). Enjoy.
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