Category: In the life
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Pickering vs Grado: Chapter two — Penny Lane
This time we're looking at a Beatles classic for our cartridge comparison. Penny Lane from the Canadian pressing of 1967 - 1970. Which will sound better?
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Pickering vs Grado: Chapter one — introduction, review, and listening to an old favourite
Two cartridges. One vintage, the other new. Which sounds 'better'? What is better? I get to play with charts and audio stuff, and play cool tunes to YouTube! What's not to like. And maybe we find out a bit more about these two cartridges.
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Akai AP-Q41 won’t quite fit the Pickering XV-15 625E cartridge with brush
Five minutes with a wire and some creative bending...
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The Frankenstein Cartridge is Alive!
Just a quick post to capture the first playback of the Frankenstein Cartridge.
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PLEX Privacy Problem.
At the beginning of November 2023, PLEX enabled some new features that have turned out to be a bit of a PR and Privacy nightmare. Basically, they’ve started emailing all members of a PLEX server with the recent viewing habits of other members of that server. Even if the members don’t know each other, PLEX…
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Making progress
Updating my slowly-evolving analog audio project wherein I undertake to rebuild/recover my enjoyment of observing the phenomonon created when a tiny diamond rides merrily through a vinyl groove, delightedly vibrating, producing a minuscule electrical current that eventually (through amplification magic) becomes the sweet sound that we call analog music. The project makes progress and it's…
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This pile of gear is starting to come to life… and a list of vinyl test albums
An old turntable, a new cartridge, and a list of awesome albums to pick up. What's not to like!
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Aziz! Light!
An AI chatbot leads me on a coding adventure that ultimately ends up ignoring all the work the AI did in the first place.
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Note to self — use the reboxing service
Shipping something a fair distance? Pack it well or use a packing service. I learned a lesson the hard way.
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Q. What’s the best way to add a new boot drive to a Windows 10 system, without losing too much of my installed configuration?
Some steps to adding a new boot drive to an existing Windows 10 system.
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TS1000 upgrade – log entry 4 — Oh the memories we’ll make with 16k!
Part four already? Memory -- that thing where the more you've got, the better things are for your computer? Yeah, that stuff. We'll be upgrading this vintage computer using a bit more modern tech to get it up to a whopping 16K. Oh, and there's a bit of gold in this story too...
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Don’t want to install employer’s Multi-Function Authentication app on your phone? Five reasons to support your position.
In case you are looking for a few reasons beyond 'I just don't want to', which is fine, and a valid reason on its own. Here's more.