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Picked up two Pair of new RCA at 0.5m length.

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Due to diminishing returns I think over expensive cables are a waste of good money.

However I also feel something well made is a worthwhile investment. Being a Chord Company fan, I’ve always used their bottom of the line cables from RCA to HDMI and they have served me well.

These replace a 1m version and a 0.5m other Chord cable which sounded too bright and clinical.

These shorter lengths should keep resistance down and signal clean. Now for the burn in phase.
 
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Picked up a Dayton DSP-408 on a restock deal for $109:
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It's a four in/eight out DSP box. The 44+ y/o passive crossovers in my mains likely don't crossover the way they used to and I've always wanted to do an active crossover network. This is step 1, and the garage is gonna sound amazing, lol.

In the end it will be an Adcom 545 on tweeters, a 545 on mids, a 555 on woofers (mains: EPI A240's w/ dome mids added) and an EV CPS-1 running a pair of 12" subs (Infinity Kappa Perfects from my car audio days). Got all the pieces, now all I need to do is build stuff. I am going to brace/chamber the two 10's in the EPI's while I'm hacking up the cabs for the mids. Coolest part is, the factory grills have enough clearance for the mids so they'll look completely stock.👍

We'll see how the neighbors hold up.😁
 
TB
Audio wires need to be burned in?
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It’s a whole big debate of do they, don’t they.

I have personally noticed the C-Line cable I have (1.0m length) after some hours of use, it relaxed a little in sound and was less edgy.

Futureshop offer a burn in service for cabling but I like to do it myself and see what kind of a difference it makes.

The cables I picked up are also directional too which is in of itself another controversy.
 
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I need things for my new apartment, so I ordered them off the IKEA website and then drove to the store to pick them up. I’m going to do it this way from now on. It took less than five minutes from the moment I pulled up to them bringing me my order. The woman who brought it out was professional and friendly, and didn’t make me feel like I was inconveniencing her by making her do her job.

Green bath mat to match my shower curtain.
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Plates, cups, bowls, and cutlery. These are designed for children, but they’re easy to clean, they fit in my tiny microwave, won’t break, and the high sides on the plates to help keep the food on them is useful for anyone, regardless of age.
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Kitchen knife and spatula.
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4x6 picture frames. Two each of black, white, green and blue. I would have had the order delivered, but the blue and green frames are in-store purchase or pickup only. They’re also listed as “last chance”. That makes me think they’re discontinuing them in those colors.
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So with the new Power Supply coming I needed to pick up a power cable for it (doesn’t ship with one) as I didn’t have a spare kicking about in my old-man box of cables (rats nest).

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Picked up a relatively decent shielded one. Again doing things on a low-ish budget I won’t pay £200 for one, but didn’t want to pick up on for a few £’s either.

I also picked up a 13amp fuse too. Now this is a stab in the dark verging on snake oil buy but for a minimal cost and free shipping I thought I’d give it a whirl.

Some people think that audiophile fuses are total nonsense others swear by them. I’ll reserve judgment until I’ve tested it.

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Welp, it's Record Store Day today! Admittedly, there wasn't too much on the release list that got my attention, but there was one exception...

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Saturday Teenage Kick by Junkie XL, with the vinyls themselves being pressed in a dark Sea Blue color.

I'll be honest, most of my attachment to this one comes from hearing select tracks in NFS High Stakes and Gran Turismo 3, so nostalgia played a heavy role here.

Also my CD pickups this week:

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Considering that Lifestylez by Big L is a highly popular album that at minimum goes for $150-$200 on vinyl, I was more than a little ecstatic seeing the CD out in the wild, let alone for $12.
 
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Welp, it's Record Store Day today! Admittedly, there wasn't too much on the release list that got my attention, but there was one exception...

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Saturday Teenage Kick by Junkie XL, with the vinyls themselves being pressed in a dark Sea Blue color.

I'll be honest, most of my attachment to this one comes from hearing select tracks in NFS High Stakes and Gran Turismo 3, so nostalgia played a heavy role here.

Also my CD pickups this week:

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Considering that Lifestylez by Big L is a highly popular album that at minimum goes for $150-$200 on vinyl, I was more than a little ecstatic seeing the CD out in the wild, let alone for $12.
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Garbage, the second best band ever in the world IMHO :cheers: Well done!

I came to cut you up, I came to knock you down
I came around to tear your little world apart
I came to shut you up, I came to drag you down
I came around to tear your little world apart and break your soul apart
 
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NotThePrez
Welp, it's Record Store Day today! Admittedly, there wasn't too much on the release list that got my attention, but there was one exception...

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Saturday Teenage Kick by Junkie XL, with the vinyls themselves being pressed in a dark Sea Blue color.

I'll be honest, most of my attachment to this one comes from hearing select tracks in NFS High Stakes and Gran Turismo 3, so nostalgia played a heavy role here.

Also my CD pickups this week:

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Considering that Lifestylez by Big L is a highly popular album that at minimum goes for $150-$200 on vinyl, I was more than a little ecstatic seeing the CD out in the wild, let alone for $12.
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AEKara38
Garbage, the second best band ever in the world IMHO :cheers: Well done!

I came to cut you up, I came to knock you down
I came around to tear your little world apart
I came to shut you up, I came to drag you down
I came around to tear your little world apart and break your soul apart
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People of good taste 👌
Though I think that must be a remastered version? The original CD cover from 1995 looks like [digs through CD collection] this:
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New wax.

I didn’t go to RSD as I’m trying to avoid big crowds. So I took a trip in today. They still had some ones I wanted to pick up.

Flying Lotus - 1983
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Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
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Plus picked up a new copy of Neuromancer (not sure where my original copy disappeared to) I hate this cover.

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I bought a kind of cheaper chair to sit on floor and play controller based games. It will lay completely flat so I can slide it under the bed for storage.

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I ordered it from Amazon last week and it was scheduled to be delivered on Sunday. When things are delivered to our Amazon hub we get a text message with a code to open the locker door. Sunday afternoon passes and no text. About 6:30pm or so I check the Amazon website and look at the tracking and it shows that it was delivered to a parcel locker meaning our hub. I rush down there to check because sometimes I have seen bigger boxes just sitting outside by the hub because they won't fit in any of the lockers. The delivery services are not supposed to do that. They are supposed to bring oversize items to our door. The Post Office was delivering this and I know they can get through our security gate on Sundays. Go down there and it's not anywhere around.

Come back and contact Amazon customer service and of course they say they showed it to be delivered and was I sure it wasn't anywhere around, it wasn't. But they said they could not send a replacement until 24 hours has passed. I waited until Monday night and it still hasn't showed up. Contacted them again and I told them that probably the driver keyed in that they delivered it but then decided against leaving it outside the hub and it was still on their truck. They say ok they will send out a replacement. Tuesday at 11am I come home for lunch and there it sits outside my door. Of course the replacement shows up yesterday and I had to take it to the UPS store today to ship back.
 
A Xbox Series X I bought used on ebay bundled with games, an extra controller, and chargers. The main reason I got this console was to replace my old Xbox One with its faulty disc drive (it doesn't feed games well). The other reasons were to run my xbox one games better and to play the newer Forza titles on console.
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TB
I haven't tried a new cologne since I switched from CK Eternity to CK Obsession 20 years ago. Figured I'd give this one a try.

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A friend of mine bought me a bottle of Dior Sauvage and I really, really like it. But I'm too cheap to spend $100+ on it (nevermind the fact I'll break my neck to spend $100+ on a model, pair of headphones, etc. My priorities are so weird :lol:), so I've found a cheaper imitation that I'm about to pull the trigger on.

I also got a sample of Bon Vivant Absolu and I really like that too. All of this yammering simply to say I might want to try this too. I'm not, or really I haven't been much of a cologne guy but that's changing now.
 
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A friend of mine bought me a bottle of Dior Sauvage and I really, really like it. But I'm too cheap to spend $100+ on it (nevermind the fact I'll break my neck to spend $100+ on a model, pair of headphones, etc. My priorities are so weird :lol:), so I've found a cheaper imitation that I'm about to pull the trigger on.

I also got a sample of Bon Vivant Absolu and I really like that too. All of this yammering simply to say I might want to try this too. I'm not, or really I haven't been much of a cologne guy but that's changing now.
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This is a $130 bottle I got off of Woot! for $44. Looked like it reviewed well so I took the plunge.

I'm not a cologne guy, either (my wife pucked out both CK variants for me), which is why I don't change for decades at a time. :p

Edit: Looks like it's still available but there was an additional 10% off for Prime members when I bought it.

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Montblanc Legend EDP Spray, 3.3 oz

Montblanc Legend EDP Spray, 3.3 oz
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TB
This is a $130 bottle I got off of Woot! for $44. Looked like it reviewed well so I took the plunge.

I'm not a cologne guy, either (my wife pucked out both CK variants for me), which is why I don't change for decades at a time. :p

Edit: Looks like it's still available but there was an additional 10% off for Prime members when I bought it.

www.woot.com

Montblanc Legend EDP Spray, 3.3 oz

Montblanc Legend EDP Spray, 3.3 oz
www.woot.com www.woot.com
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I use CK obsession lol...but I remembered recently how crazy a lot of the girls in my high school in the late 90s were for cool water so I recently picked that up
 
Hit my local record shop today. Picked up some more wax.

First up is the RSD Paparoach - Crooked Teeth.

Currently playing it and it’s well mastered, not cut hot at all and can be cranked to 11. Not the best PR album but worth the pickup.

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Also picked up two Rush albums. Counterparts & Presto.

Counterparts is crazy for a ‘93 pressing in good condition. Apparently this new remaster is a little thin sounding compared but we’ll see and £40 vs £200+ is a no brainier.

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Presto is similarly an expensive album not for an original pressing. From what I’ve read it also sounds thin and should have been spread across two records.

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Only 7 more to go and that’s all Rush studio albums completed.
 

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