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Unsomnambulist said:
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Jerry Garcia's McIntosh Amps Sells For $378,000

Pretty cool. Description Property of Grateful Dead Productions Wall of Sound Budman — Jerry Garcia's Favorite McIntosh 2300 Amplifier Solid-state power amplifier (10.5H x 19W x 17D), 300 watts per channel or 600 watts per monoblock, with anodized gold and black panel. Serial number: 1Y460. With o...
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More power to the buyer.

He must be totally amped.
 
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Verzuz - Wikipedia

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Verzuz is an online video "competition" started during the C19 pandemic lockdown. Each episode takes two similarly-"powered" acts from Hip-Hop or R&B, and has them alternates live songs before an audience who votes to determine the winner. Performers have included some of the biggest acts of the 60s-the early aughts - competitions have featured Gladys Knight vs Patti LaBelle, EWF vs Isley Brothers, and last night's battle of KRS-1 vs Big Daddy Kane.

I haven't seen an entire episode yet, but I have enjoyed countless clips online. For many other people, each episode is Must-See-TV.

The most viewed battle featured Gucci Mane versuz Jeezy, which has received over 7Billion views so far. Alicia Keys versuz John Legend got over 1billion views. Several others passed 1Billion views.

Billboard magazine rated Jill Scottt vs Erykah Badu as the top battle so far.
 
Nickyboy said:
The iPod debut on this day in 2001.
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From "Things That Make You Feel Old" report:
Last week, my youngest kid (13yo) and I were watching kids from her school walk away from school while we sat in the van for a minute before pulling away.e van. One kid, walking alone, put in ear buds, pulled a smallish device out his pocket and plugged in his ear buds.
Daughter: "What was that? It was too small to be a phone."
Me: "Probably an old iPod his parents don't use anymore and they gave to him because they haven't gotten him a phone yet."
Daughter: "What's an iPod?"
Me: "You can listen to music on your phone. When cell phone first came out, we could not. So they created devices that allowed us to put a few albums on and listen to music. iPods were one of those."
Daughter, looking confused: "Y'all couldn't listen to music on your phone??? That's crazy!"
 
JazzyRandy said:
From "Things That Make You Feel Old" report:
Last week, my youngest kid (13yo) and I were watching kids from her school walk away from school while we sat in the van for a minute before pulling away.e van. One kid, walking alone, put in ear buds, pulled a smallish device out his pocket and plugged in his ear buds.
Daughter: "What was that? It was too small to be a phone."
Me: "Probably an old iPod his parents don't use anymore and they gave to him because they haven't gotten him a phone yet."
Daughter: "What's an iPod?"
Me: "You can listen to music on your phone. When cell phone first came out, we could not. So they created devices that allowed us to put a few albums on and listen to music. iPods were one of those."
Daughter, looking confused: "Y'all couldn't listen to music on your phone??? That's crazy!"
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Sony, Astrell & Kern and FiiO still make DAPs like iPods. Apple still makes the iPod Touch.
 
My great re-ripping journey has a blown tire. I made it all the way to the Y-Z border and it appears the optical drive has gone to its great maker in the sky. When I try to rip, the rip speed fluctuates between 0.03 and 0.00, meaning it would take hours to rip one CD. At first I thought it was a problem with a specific disc or two, but it's obvious now that it's a hardware issue. I guess I burned it out. Now it doesn't even read a CD upon entry every time.

The good news is a replacement is very inexpensive, assuming I don't go Blu-Ray. Looks like I can pick up one in the $20-$25 range. For some reason I thought it would cost a lot more.

Then again, I can probably just take one out of one of the two desktops I don't use anymore and install it in my current box. Hmmmm
 
JazzyRandy said:
My great re-ripping journey has a blown tire. I made it all the way to the Y-Z border and it appears the optical drive has gone to its great maker in the sky. When I try to rip, the rip speed fluctuates between 0.03 and 0.00, meaning it would take hours to rip one CD. At first I thought it was a problem with a specific disc or two, but it's obvious now that it's a hardware issue. I guess I burned it out. Now it doesn't even read a CD upon entry every time.

The good news is a replacement is very inexpensive, assuming I don't go Blu-Ray. Looks like I can pick up one in the $20-$25 range. For some reason I thought it would cost a lot more.

Then again, I can probably just take one out of one of the two desktops I don't use anymore and install it in my current box. Hmmmm
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It could be that the lens is dirty. I remember cleaning it on a laptop drive and getting it working again. I don't know if that would work on a desktop drive, if you can get access to the lens.
 
Unsomnambulist said:
It could be that the lens is dirty. I remember cleaning it on a laptop drive and getting it working again. I don't know if that would work on a desktop drive, if you can get access to the lens.
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After your advice, but not yet ready to take the machine apart, I did a very bad job of blowing into the open slot. Predictably, that did not fix the problem.

When I awakened this morning, apparently my computer had undergone some sort of Microsoft update. On a lark, I tried to rip a cd again. It worked!

I know no answers, I ask no questions. I merely accept what happened. :shrug:
 
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