[Full Disclaimer: KBEAR / TRI supplied the Meteor, TK-2, and Grace-S cable free of charge as part of their European Review Tour. I am under no obligation to provide a positive review. If anything in here is merde, I will call it out. Thanks to WendyLi for organizing this tour.] I am a car guy at heart. I love them all. Classic American muscle cars. German cars. British cars. French cars. Japanese cars. Yes, Italian cars, of course. That new Chinese EV staged to compete with the Tesla looks pretty hot. So does newcomer Alpha Motor Corp with their...

To be heard while reading the intro ... My side hurt from the lumps, but I didn't mind. After falling over while seated on a thin blanket, lumps of sand underneath the wool dug into my rib cage and cast my hips at a strange angle. The sun touched everything in sight, scintillating off the tops of countless small mounds of pure white sand, glinting like spinning diamonds off the crests of the waves breaking beyond. The deep hollow sounds of crushing Pacific rollers reverberated somewhere far away in my thoughts, a backdrop that will echo forever in...