I wouldn’t be surprised. It was a long time ago but I started collecting LPs long before I had a system to play them on.
I’ve recently been considering some type of frame or rack to hang on the wall that would allow easy swapping of albums to display. I don’t have the turntable set up but there’s some good album art just wasting away on a shelf.
So, the question is, who among us is a “Maximizer” and who is a “Satisfiser”?
For the record, I’m the latter.
Interesting, I have been typed as a “pleasure delayer” lol
I love haptics and transducers for adding feel to music. If you go to the Sphere in Vegas, they have them attached to the seats and for Dead & Co., they tied them in for Drums and Space which was fantastic. I know long drum solos are not everybody’s jam, but when you feel the bass, it takes it to another level. Most of my bass loving friends like bass like to feel it in their chests. No better way to feel it than adding transducers/haptics really.
I guess transducers are used on stages so bands can feel the beat, which makes a lot of sense to me. Some wild home audio guys have been adding them to get more bass feel and us crazy sim racers added them to our sim rigs to add feedback for bumps, curbs, and gear shifts. However, a lot of that software to utilize transducers from sim racing works based off sound frequency. Basically, turning bass frequencies into vibrations you can feel. I normally listen to music while I drive and will let the transducers play to add some immersion. I have one bigger one on my seat base for the big bumps and four smaller ones attached to my seat. For some music, it works pretty well and I think is fun but can wake my wife on the other side of the house due to the vibration. I actually ordered weight lifting mats to put under my sim ricing rig to isolate it to try and avoid waking my wife as I normally race after she goes to sleep.
I note to anyone that goes down this path, don’t order the thickest matts you can. I was placing an order from an online retailer and the shipping was going to be ~$200 so I cancelled the order. A bit later I got an email with free shipping offer and ordered the mat. Turns out, $200 for shipping was somehow a bargain and free shipping was insane. The 4x8 mat weigh seeming around 300lbs and the delivery driver legit dropped it at the bottom of my driveway and did not even try to bring it to my door. I don’t blame him and nearly died getting it up my stairs and end up paying a group of five additional guys who were doing some work on my house to help me get the mat under my rig. Six grown men struggled to do it and I think that mat may end up left in my house whenever we move. Turns out really thick rubber matting is way heavier than you imagined and is floppy dead weight once unrolled.
Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets
This might be quite the mess.
A friend of mine alerted me to this:
I have not watched it yet, but he said, “. . an absolute gem. . . It should appeal to music lovers, but I think that it will also appeal to anyone who has creates things, like photographers (or artists, cooks, writers, etc.). Its a video that focuses less on the equipment and more on the spirit or soul of making and listening to music. It got me to thinking a lot about my photography and how I shoot.”
I’ll look forward to watching with an interest in how, if at all, it relates to this podcast. I doubt the idea is news to anyone here. I definitely come down on the side of music first. It’s only after repeated listening that the lyrics start to sink in.
What I found particularly interesting is people can hear the simplest of things very differently.
In a recent interview with Rick Beato, Billy Joel commented that sometimes the lyrics are just meaningless words that just sound good together.
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Very interesting but the title is a bit misleading. It could be “The Art of Making - Hope Someone is Listening”
electrical geekery - plugs and sockets and breakers and fuses of the world 
This is not an article but I spend a lot of time on the NY Times TImesMachine and saw this today from a 1957 edition.
