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Select Mac Applications: Subtle Yet Significant Solutions
Some free, one paid, and a subscription. Worth checking out.
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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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Poirot discusses the movie Knives Out with his friends.
A dinner party and a movie review. The famous Belgian detective and friends discuss Knives Out.
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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!