[Sinister Whisperz]

Folklore is a great record. The rest of the catalog does nothing for me, but T Swift is great at business.

1 of every 25 vinyl records sold in 2022 was a Taylor Swift album.

McDonald's sells 2.365 billion hamburgers a year, proving people's tastes are questionable at best...

 

[corndog71]

Turns out not to be the case. Board must be turned sideways and 90° connectors used, but it fits.
.

Why not bump it up to a Modius sized box?

 

[Verde And Black]

McDonald's sells 2.365 billion hamburgers a year, proving people's tastes are questionable at best...

Listen to that record. It’s very, very good. Her collaborators were from The National and Bon Iver.

 

[Verde And Black]

So tell me I made a good choice. Please.

Prime Day deal on the Anker Soundcore Life Q30 for $59.

Wireless, which I didn’t want, but seemingly average + ANC, decent battery life, corded operation for when I inevitably forget to charge before a long flight, a carrying case and easily EQable via the Soundcore app, if I find them too bass forward (I’m going to find them too bass forward).

I don’t need this to be the ultimate in HiFi sound. I like anticipating coming home to my 2.1 channel system, and I just need these to be ‘good enough’ to make the time in air pass pleasantly….

Bout to board my 4th 3 hour plus flight since grabbing these and I like ‘em. They’re boomy as all get out in the stock config, but EQ through the app is terrific, and I’m shocked how awesome the noise cancelling is for me. Never knew I needed it, probably couldn’t live without it on a plane now.

Bonus is that the battery has barely ticked down.

 

[bevanc]

I looked it up because I was curious; for Folklore she sold 17 physical versions of the album, including eight CDs, eight LPs and a cassette.

I completely read that she had sold that many actual copies!

 

[Verde And Black]

I completely read that she had sold that many actual copies!

Collect ‘em all!

 

[JamminVMI]

Thanks, Jammin - I just bought it... my first music CD purchase since (checks Amazon) 13 August 2017?!? That was Rodrigo y Gabriela's 9 Dead Alive.

I have bought a non-music CD in the interim, though: the Cardas - Ayre Acoustics Irrational, But Efficacious burn-in disc... anybody else have any experience with this one? It's irrational as hell that playing tracks of frequency sweeps and different noise types could 'exercise' your system, but it actually seems to be efficacious. Could be confirmation bias on my part, though. <g>

I’m all cd, though I can stream (amazon hd), i only listen to new music there (generally. But the darned URD has brought new joy to discs. I admittedly ordered a couple more of her discs last nigh from discogs. I’d never heard of her, but I’m impressed. Glad you enjoy!

 

[JamminVMI]

Urd is the word, Roon is the moon, Pi is the sky. Put them together and you got music.

Because since long Raspberry Pi's are available again, I ordered one this week, printed a cabinet for it and installed Ropieee.
It is a Raspberry Pi model 4B with 4 GB of RAM. Model 4 is the best for using USB for audio.
Next I connected it to ....... Urd input 2.

First thing I noticed is that Roon treats Urd input1 and input2 as 2 different zones, where I expected it to be just ONE and I just switch inputs at Urd.
To switch from input 1 to 2 I had to switch zone in Roon and switch inputs on Urd. No problem, just surprised.

So I made a group from Urd input 1 and Urd input 2 in Roon, to only have to switch inputs on Urd.
The reason for all this, I want to test quality differences (if any) between RaspBerry Pi, my PC output and CD.
On the PC I use a USB PCI card with a separate power supply for the USB port.

Looking forward to experimenting and listening.

I’m running my Pis with PiCorePlayer on my squeezebox system, and it also id’s the Urd input ports as 1 and 2. Surprised me, too!

 

[sopranomi]

I completely read that she had sold that many actual copies!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-succeed-in-business-like-taylor-swift-8165be7c

 

[Charente]

A recommendation if you're into cool jazz and austere French-flavored fusion. This tasty treat just showed up in my Qobuz fresh release pile:

https://open.qobuz.com/album/lgreswgyk0qyb

Really nicely recorded capturing all the timbres and decays, and mixed with near holographic instrument and voice placement. I don't have a Syn, but played through one, maybe it'll feel like you're sitting there right in the midst of the musicians. Enjoy!

Did someone say French ? Queued up !!

 

[hearditontheX]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-succeed-in-business-like-taylor-swift-8165be7c

Paywall.

 

[US Blues]

McDonald's sells 2.365 billion hamburgers a year, proving people's tastes are questionable at best...

In America, the thing that is most popular is never the best.

 

[RCBinTN]

Germany was my introduction to heffeweizen beer and excellent beer in general. Franziskaner brand is my goto when I can find it, but Weihenstephaner is outstanding also. Spaten Pils is another favorite German beer. I have yet to find any American brew that can touch a German hefe.

Give Spaten Oktoberfest a try in the autumn ...

 

[Brubacca]

If there's someone with a printer in Canada....
.

Please explain to a guy that used to believe he was smart. Will this work with any 3d printer, a specific brand of 3d printer or a specific 3d printer only?

 

[RCBinTN]

Bonus that, if you’re a visitor, the Tap Room is along the Colorado River and shouting distance from the airport. I may or may not have waited out a fair few LONG flight delays there.

I think we waited out a delay there, too ... watching a 747 pilot doing touch and goes on that super-long runway. It was fun ...