RIP Sad to lose you Phil, you made my life and other’s better.
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I’m seriously bummed. Saw many a Dead show back in the day (starting in 1976), as well as later related groups. A highlight was seeing Phil & Friends twice at his supper club in Marin, a very small venue where you could get within a few feet of Phil. He was one of a kind.
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“We love them not because they sound ghostly but because they sound so alive. They’re not haunting us. If anything, we’re haunting them.”
That old waltz story is something else.
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Might be interesting to see if this can tell how bad a scratch is on an LP.
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RIP Roy Haynes
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Seems like a potentially significant breakthrough…hope it is confirmed/reproduced:
I have been following this quest since I was in middle school.
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Wow. Thanks for sharing this. Amazing and near and dear to my heart.
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I also find this concept fascinating.
But, as stated by a commenter, “Extreme heat can be contained by ultra strong magnetic fields.” Thereby posing the question, how many gigawatts of electricity did it require to produce, and what was the net power gain generated? These are the two questions that the article avoided. While impressive, I still remain skeptical of these “announcements”.
A short while back, Lawrence Livermore Labs came out with this:
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I know two people, ex-colleages, who work at QKC. They love it.
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That is interesting, however how is that temperature converted to electricity? I realize they have talked about generating steam to drive a turbine. But doesn’t 300 million degrees do something else to water besides turning it into steam? Also, what metal can withstand that temperature or anything near that temperature? Lots of questions in my mind about this. Still, it’s pretty “cool”. Haha.
AFAIK, this has nothing to do with steam generators.
This is all about furthering advances related to the development of a stable fusion reaction/reactor.
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I actually think this is an empty column piece but since I wasted my time reading it and there’s no “Uninteresting Articles” topic in this forum, I thought I would post it.
Stereophile: To Attract Young Audiophiles, Stay Out Of Their Way
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On one hand, I agree with this article. On the other hand, as I sit here and reflect on when I was a young audiophile, it was precisely because older audiophiles got in my way that I learned so much and developed a lifelong love of both gear and music.
Also, we didn’t have the internet back then. Now the young folks are faced with a lot of bad information. The audiophile groups on social media are full of convos like this, which is of no help to young sparking audiophiles without an in-person mentor:
Poster: Just got new [insert brand] pre-amp and amp and I’m looking for recommendations on a great sounding rca cable in the $1000 range.
Answer 1: [insert brand] is the only way to go and it starts at $3K.
Answer 2: Cables don’t make a difference so [insert cheap Amazon cable here] is fine. See this ASR article [insert link]. Blah blah blah…. Lamp cord… blah blah blah… expensive cables are for morons.
Not helpful. This drives away young audiophiles. We need to get in their way to combat this nonsense. 
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I had initially enjoyed the social aspect of the hobby. Meeting up with those having similar interests at local audio salons, and on occasion meeting up at others’ homes to hear their systems. The internet has undermined that to a degree as we all sit cocooned listening to our music in solitude. As one Forum great mind summed it up, Baah!
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