I’ve been listening to alot of music lately and it hit me like a ton of bricks. The problem with modern music apart from it all sounding the same is dynamic range. New music has a ton of audio compression applied during mastering. This is not the same as digital compression mind you… much more…

Here is the stove up and running! It really reduced the amount of oil I used this winter. Should be alot more noticeable next season because I had some permit issues which delayed install. Looks kinda dark but trust me it was kicking off quite a bit of light. I’m not a photographer so that’s…

Hanging out listening to Steve Vai and re ripping my music. It’s slow going but once I’m done I will have everything shared accross all my audio devices in uncompressed FLAC. I will be setting up a Roon Nucleus to share to all my Bluesound endpoint. I just got a professional CD resurfacing machine so…

I spent some time this weekend painting again… this time I re-painted a room I had done for Patricia. It’s officially done and now I need to get the entire second floor carpeted. I will have to wait a few weeks because I need to get some time to get out and look at colors…

Spent most of today painting. I decided to finish upstairs so next week I can start on my current living room… which I decided to make my new listening room and make the room with the stove my new living room. I think it makes more sense to have the TV in the room with…

I found a cool new use for a roller lifter… Ya know the ones you use to lift drywall into place. It’s perfect for lifting a refrigerator to get a rug under it! I had to do this alone, not even Bentley wanted to help! With a lifter its a snap. So if you find…

Wow, I had Spotify running at a lower bit rate and didn’t notice it… I thought I had a speaker issue! I just set the bit rate and everything sounds better now. Getting back into the hobby now that I have a dedicated listening room in the house. Working on getting a roon server running…

My car has been in the shop for a few days with a DPF issue. I am not sure if it has something to do with the emissions “Fix” VW preformed on the car but I have a feeling it does…. DPF is part of the emissions system and it’s one of the new parts…

New find out of Sweden… EBM and what sounds like some analog synth!