[Mr Rick]

I occasionally use my short-wave receiver. It was all I had to hear around the world in decades gone by. Ah, the internet.

HCJB, RSA, Radio Moscow, Radio Netherlands,Hilversum, Radio Havana, Radio Australia, Radio Canada International, and of course The Voice of America in special English.

 

[Ableza]

“Welcome to Radio Moscow, the voice of Soviet peace and freedom.”

 

[sixergixer]

I’m very late to the party regarding Porcupine Tree but I’m really enjoying them now.

My first exposure to Steven Wilson was his remixes of Jethro Tull and Yes albums which I think are excellent. If only all remixed/remastered albums sounded as good!

As an example of Steven Wilson's - and band's - absolute professionalism and skill, I saw Porcupine Tree live in Portland when they were touring The Incident (my favorite album of theirs - it's a brilliant concept album brilliantly executed) and they managed to sound exactly like they do on the album.

Sometimes it's nice when bands break loose during live sets and show off some extra creativity but it's also cool to experience a band utterly at their prime sounding their very best with zero f*ckups. They played perfectly.

 

[sixergixer]

For the record, I'm still thinking about that Mezcal Negroni.

Need to make that happen soon.

 

[bcschmerker4]

Happy Cinco de Mayo, if applicable!

That's bueno cinco de Mayo. I've learned phrases en español méxicano y centroamericano. Balance? No comprende.

 

[Verde And Black]

For the record, I'm still thinking about that Mezcal Negroni.

Need to make that happen soon.

Choose a lighter vermouth like Dolin.

 

[jonathan c]

DAC's I might place into my system at times are:
Holo Audio May KTE
Yggy + OG
Aqua La Voce
Doge Seven
PrimaLuna EVO 100

I have access to maybe five others but above are some of my favorites.

I rarely swap out speakers because of their size and weight but I have access to many.
My main power amps are
PrimaLuna
Cary
the Cowen (my design and build) I had another name for it but I do not recall lol
and Carver TFM 45

Turntables include
Hitachi PS 58
Pro-Ject (modified)
Eventually a Thorens and a Rek O Kut

Various pre-amps and phono pre amps etc.

Headphone amps, maybe seven or eight at this point in time. Headphones include Focal Utopia, OPPO 1's, Mr Speakers Mad Dog's or whatever they were called, I forget. Alpha Prime.

.... I have to ask: is your Cowen power amp orthogonally challenged ?

 

[earnmyturns]

Besides Linux and it's variants, what standard originated in the public sector? I can't think of any in electronics off the top of my head.

Just the foundation that makes it possible for us to spend our time here: TCP/IP, DNS, BGP, HTTP/HTML, ...

 

[bcowen]

.... I have to ask: is your Cowen power amp as awesome as who it's named after?

FTFY.

 

[earnmyturns]

Back to the classics... Craft has had this in vinyl, but I'm a heathen so I got it as downloadable bits.

 

[jonathan c]

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[theeclone]

I like my iPhone and without Apple's closed standards building their revenue, I'd be stuck using something from Samsung and Google.

If you like iOS, you have in large part FreeBSD to thank; based on (you guessed it) open standards

 

[bcowen]

Back to the classics... Craft has had this in vinyl, but I'm a heathen so I got it as downloadable bits.

Blasphemy!!

 

[Waffle Prime]

And I played bass trombone on that Procul Harum recording. The recording engineer was Wally Heider; I remember driving him to the airport after we finished. Very good memories...

Great stuff! If I remember correctly, it was quite a fun and unusual experience for all.

 

[TheoFire]

Does your Wiim Pro get fed its signal from WiFi or Ethernet hard wire? Thinking of the Wiim Pro.

I use Wifi for mine with no problem. I fairness it is a really easy shot as one of my WiFi points (running a mesh system) is not very far away.