xenolith

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Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile?
@mahgister Well, there is a certain wisdom to laziness...I think of it as a form of efficiency...      
Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile?
@jjss49 😀 Ha!  The jig is up!  
Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile?
Happily, when one has no pride, they can feel no shame...  
Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile?
@mahgister  Truth be told, I was gonna say that, but I'm even more humble than I am lazy 😎  
Going Battery Powered
Thanks mkgus.  And I apologize for my assertion; clearly I was wrong to think that I could have any insight into your psychology, let alone to then assert such. As self reported in the other thread that I'm posting in today, the 'system details' ... 
Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile?
@jjss49 Well free cocktails occupies a position well outside the domain of my laziness...better plan for me to beat that 2041 timeline! 🤣 @toro3 Ha! Forgot I mustered the ooomph to create a "my system" page a couple years ago...didn’t get ver... 
Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile?
Well I’m very disciplined about how I apply my laziness.   Honestly, photographing and posting photos of le gear chez xeno just doesn’t occupy a position in priority space beyond the domain of my laziness. Heck, I could barely muster the motivat... 
Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile?
I'm lazy  
Going Battery Powered
What are "...many of the problems with direct battery powered systems."? I’ll reveal my thinking by typing this: you’re making this up try to rationalize your irrational actions.  
Tube Preamp: How many tubes does it take to .................
I think that sound reproduction fidelity is inversely proportional to the number of gain devices.  So do a lot of people.  Accordingly, I don't think it's coincidence that the best sounding preamp that I've ever heard uses only one-half of a doubl... 
6DJ8 vs. 6922?
Mid 70's Voskhod 6N23-P has been best to my ears.  
Don't sell your tube amps
Got enough signal, input and output tubes to last 'til I'm 140 years old...should be good  
Why do almost all women today hate home audio?
I apologize. I understand why my post re: impermanence was removed. Even Old Sid (i.e. The Buddha) said "Not all will be ready to learn this truth in their current Life; indeed many will not want to learn this truth in their current Life." The co... 
Why do almost all women today hate home audio?
She told me at the party that she was looking for Don McLean’s American Pie in the 45’s rack. I’m starting to think that the management of this site has become anti-democracy, anti-thinking, anti-sanity; in other words, anti-United States of Amer... 
Why do almost all women today hate home audio?
Met my wife in 1985 in the Licorice Pizza record store in Santa Barbara, CA where I worked when I was 19 (I was the LP buyer!!!). She roller skated into the store and my heart went pitter-patter :). I’d never approached a girl/woman before...obvio...