It’s nice but there’s a real lack of tigers.

LGIO is so damn good. Cracks me up every time.

I had a friend who had a high end FLAC player and kept trying to convince me it was the best thing ever. Honestly though it didn’t sound any different than a really good MP3 to me though.

The actual intent behind MP3 was to sound the same. Just like all later lossy codecs, it uses a psychoacoustic model to remove high frequency harmonics and other “buried” sounds that are supposedly imperceptible to most human ears, in order to save on data. At its max (CBR 320 kbps) almost nobody should be able to tell the difference from full CD quality.

I had a friend who had a high end FLAC player and kept trying to convince me it was the best thing ever. Honestly though it didn’t sound any different than a really good MP3 to me though.

FLAC has a different design philosophy. It’s lossless which means it literally keeps every byte of data from a CD or similar source but just compresses it. You can still get down to like 1/4 the size (vs like 1/8 for a high end MP3 or 1/12 for an average MP3). Storage was a big deal a couple decades ago but in this age of 4+ TB hard disks there’s not much reason not to go all FLAC all the time (except maybe if you really wanna cram as much music as possible into your phone).

I like both. I was just making the point that “better” can depend on circumstances.

I quite like the sound of vinyl in general.It’s highly variable depending on the exact material used and how much play play it has gotten and even the read head, but that’s also part of the charm.

A FLAC file will always sound the same on the same equipment. Which can also be a benefit.

I’ve never actually listened to a full BHS album or seen them in concert. I was just making a joke. But yeah they were known nationally in the 90’s. Their biggest hit was “Pepper” IIRC.

I’m having trouble connecting my record player to my car stereo over Bluetooth. Also it keeps skipping. Help!

That’s entirely possible.

This definitely happens, though it’s not remotely as common as just voting for your preferred party in the primary.

A friend and I both voted Republican in a primary a couple years ago. The Democratic lineup wasn’t interesting and it was obvious who was going to win on it. Quite frankly our votes didn’t matter much there. But the GOP contenders were a mixed bag of semi-moderates and MAGA bootlickers. We felt it was most important to keep the Trumpy psychos out of the general election, so we voted against them.

In a way I think it was the right call at the time. On the other hand, I get a lot of SMS spam to my number now from scammy pro-Trump sources. Of course I report those to the FTC every time, but it’s still gross.

Once upon a time I took a whole course on Pollock and his mentorship / inspiration under Thomas Hart Benton. A lot of his earlier work was figurative with flowing shapes and forms, much like Benton’s, before he went more abstract. This one is definitely a crowd of dancing figures IMO.

Pollock sometimes incorporated his signature into the painting as well, though in this one it’s just at the bottom.

I love this movie, though honestly the first half is a long, boring set of sunshiney schoolgirl fluff. I guess it contrasts with all the weirdness that happens when they finally arrive at the house, but it does take quite a while to get to the good part.

If you like this, try the Jodorowski film Holy Mountain for even more of a trip.