I think about food more now than I did when I was younger. I also think my appreciation of good food is much greater now. There was a time several years ago when I was fortunate enough to be able to experience truly excellent meals on a semi-regular basis while traveling on business. I went to restaurants you read about in Conde Nast, Bon Appetit & Wine Spectator in LA, SF, Chicago, New Orleans, Vegas, etc. Gawd I miss those days! Now it's back to Taco Bell. Occasionally, I can get to a Ruth's Chris or a Capital Grille - but the days of $400 bottles of wine, squid ink pasta, foie gras, osso buco, etc are loooong gone...

My family used to go to Florida on business every year. Of course we made a vacation of it, and we hit about half a dozen upscale restaurants every year. We had it all; lobster, steak, sushi, the works...even when I was young I recognized that was pretty swank, but I never realized just how good it was to be able to do that until much later, when we haven't been there in at least ten years and there's no way we could ever live like that again.

gelocks said:

  MF!
You see what happens when you don't post more here?!?
We are right back to food!!
 
LOL!!

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I halfway suspect they do it just to spite me. I've stated several times I don't like seeing tons of pages of food talk, and there are plenty of other threads for them to do it in, after all.
 
It actually makes me nauseated to read about and see pics of food because I have IBD and am on some hardcore medications for it. So it would be a total nice thing for people to not post about it in my diary.

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ohmyohmyohmy

Got a call for an interview tomorrow for a "R&D engineer" in a PA System company. Wat do! (wish me luck)

jgray91 said:

ohmyohmyohmy

Got a call for an interview tomorrow for a "R&D engineer" in a PA System company. Wat do! (wish me luck)

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Good luck!

gooooo luuuh
 

If any one here is into scary harcore experimental hip hop.
 

 
 

That sucks.
 
Have you heard any of them?

Okay, I may have said "tomorrow" yesterday (???) but I managed to postpone it til Friday. Apparently, it's a technical job, so.....

What do you mean by a "technical job"?

Good luck Jgray. I'm sure you'll nail this.

billybob_jcv said:

What do you mean by a "technical job"?

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I asked how's the interview's going to go, and said that there's some small adhoc written quiz or something, but mostly they will test my technical knowledge verbally.

driver 8 said:

  That sucks.
 
Have you heard any of them?

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Yes, I've heard the Monbrison pre-amp and some of his monoblocks. Shindo-san was very fond of using vintage and NOS parts, and his designers were always based around very specific components. I felt like he really embodied the spirit of high-end boutique audio in Japan. It's something I've touched on before: many Japanese designers value the unique character of specific tubes, transformers, caps, metals, woods etc. A contrasting view would see all that as merely getting in the way, with fidelity as a singular path in which gear is really just an interchangeable means to an end. There's a Platonic ideal of good sound that exists apart from any one playback system, and gear can be judged based on how close it comes to helping you obtain that ideal. You see phrases like "as the artist intended" with this kind of view. The boutique Japanese view on the other hand sees music as inseparable from the context in which it's given. Like watching a specific performance in a specific venue, the music cannot be separated from the gear being used to play it back. Rather than try to make the source inert and disappear, you should instead honor it and the specific context in which you're listening. This is why Japanese gear is often thematic (like their restaurants), voiced in a very distinct way, and / or meant to be part of a whole carefully matched system.
 
 
Ken Shindo's artform:
 

 

 

 
 
Below, the Shindo turntable based on a restored Garrard 301. The tonearm is a Shindo Mersault.

 
Images from Tone Imports.