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  1. on the topic of hi-fi, much like everything else in this world, it is all headed towards being one fucking company. samsung, who owns harman, purchased sound united for $350 million. sound united is marantz, bowers & wilkins, denon, polk, definitive. now those will be under the samsung's roof with jbl, akg, arcam, revel, mark levinson. bose bought mcintosh just a few months back as well. oh well. https://www.stereophile.com/content/sound-united-finds-new-home-harman
  2. either you have not spent time in england or you haven't seen the movie "bend it like beckham." also...west wing nailed it.
  3. humans are weird.
  4. beauties. very nice. I would get stands myself just to widen the soundstage a bit anyway (though i may be totally misreading the size of the room). though if you upgraded your isolation pad game just a little bit, putting the turntable on top would not be an issue at all. particularly if you connect a sub that isn't on the table and let it handle everything below 80hz. depends. are you my wife or insurance carrier? i think you have to tell me if you are. on that note, i love them so much. i would reflexively kill every single person in austin except my wife and kids to protect them and ensure their happiness (the monitors).
  5. i wonder if her ex husband and her had separate bathrooms at their house. special level of stupidity that these grifters assign to their supporters.
  6. judy has always been my favorite character but this season, she was the whole show for me. you say it, i'll suck it, fuck it, much it, or punch it. i do not understand how they get a single scene filmed with edi patterson. i would die every time.
  7. i don't like the looks of any of this. but i am an obsessive compulsive clean freak and i polish everything i own twice a day.
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    2025 ACL

    Juno position to salvage. pretty meh for me. if i go, it will be for finding something new to listen to outside of isakov and maybe checking out what doja cat is wearing on her ass.
  9. good.
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    New Austin Music

    i have to say, i find it incredibly fascinating that most of the music that jimmy throws out there that i have never heard of but sometimes dig always in some way takes me back to his favorite band of all time...garbage. i think a psychologist could have a real field day with that one...
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    New Austin Music

    that second song is a legit banger. really enjoyed that one as well as the slow tempo third song. i will seek these guys out...thanks, jimmy. the rest of the songs sound really nice too. that bass player is pure stage presence...lol. in my perfect world, that lead singer gives him a chance and changes his entire essence forever. that whole band is so mismatched in terms of stage presence...that girl gets to carry all the water. eta: lol, their top songs on the streamers is "greg abbott's maxi pad."
  12. i wonder if justin baldoni plays the drums.
  13. there are lots of amazing drummers everywhere. as someone who has picked up drumming as a hobby over the last couple of years, there are no-names on youtube that can play shit i could spend the rest of my life practicing and never be able to do...just like guitar. that said, if i had the opportunity to put together an ensemble of my choice for a studio session to make a "rock" album, the choice on drummer would be by far the easiest. i would not hesitate for even a moment...danny carey. the shit he was playing in the king crimson tour last fall was fucking amazing to see in person. octopus shit but more importantly, incredible feel and groove that has your head bobbing to not the most accessible music.
  14. if you have the ability to listen in spatial/dolby (AirPods max or other binaural headphones...or a 7.1/9.1 setup), you should check out the "in-side" mix for this track (which is just the dolby atmos version). It is fucking wildly immersive.
  15. Port holes you say? This is pro studio as opposed to hi fi technically but my new ATC SCM25a Mk II monitors are a revelation. My god, I’m listening to and making music for the first time ever. Still have the Neumann KH750 sub in the back but my god, if you’ve never spent time in a studio with ATCs, it is my opinion that you have not yet lived. The separation is other worldly…hard to describe. Just insert a bunch of other over-the-top platitudes here.
  16. Welp, now we just have to hope this is the 2005 series against Baylor.
  17. This weekend can officially get fucked obviously. but like I said earlier in the thread, it is typical in baseball for really good teams to go through an eat shit couple of weeks. Augie used to talk about it all the time. The key is fighting through it and regaining the confidence and playing hot before June starts. I would have preferred it not happen against Arkansas because fuck them but they caught us at home a week after series with agros and had their garbage weekends leading up to this. salvaging a game today goes a long way in safely procuring the sec title so they need to give them hell today. Gotta fight through the adversity. hook’em.
  18. that game fucking blew but it was inevitable. hopefully they have the same mental toughness they showed against lsu after the shitty friday night game. that said, most national champs in the last decade have hit a skid in the season at some point and we genuinely have not had that so far. if it is going to happen, rather it happen now than in june.
  19. lol, united and spurs are both going to finish below 15 in the league and they will play each other to get into champions league. incredible.
  20. well this was all terribly disappointing. i was looking forward to reading tigersnake's posts at 3am freaking out during the stall and jacking up the temperature super high and burning the shit out of the brisket and his mother in law writing him out of the will.
  21. lulz, kind of funny. props to the champs.
  22. hmm, three way with blake and scarlet. hmm.
  23. as a resident of west lake hills and an eanes property tax payor (25% property value increase yoy this year holla!), i suspect the one of the contributing factors is that dallas and houston have some much more extreme poor ass areas that austin just does not have. austin has extremely high property value areas but with the gentrification of the east side and even dove springs, north east austin is the only truly ghetto ass area left in austin from a property tax perspective. Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and El Paso all have some extremely nice areas but the extreme on the other end for them is far more extreme than austin. austin has somewhat insulated itself from those extremes. hisd doesn't just serve the areas west of 45, the also serve the areas east of 45. so they probably even out a bit more. the other thing is places like frisco fucking gaming the system and resetting their the tax % regularly to ensure they are not in a net payor position. that is the shit that needs to be revised. but the thing about it that pisses me off by far the most about it all is not the concept of recapture as a principle. i grew up in poor ass east texas and we would have probably had school in a creek bed if it weren't for it...but it is that it is not being utilized for education necessarily but instead is absconded with by the general fund and held hostage by politically motivated pieces of shit who are hell bent on pushing through voucher bullshit so their p.e. buddies with their boiler room charter schools can make a fortune. and that money very well may go to putting up razor balls for performative bullshit on the rio grande as opposed to actually funding schools in economically challenged communities. fucking makes me irate and i with nothing but pain and misery on every fucking cocksucking piece of shit involved in texas politics that allows this horseshit to go on.
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