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Something was up at one of the DC courthouses. Apparently the mentally unstable seditious former President was posting all manner of social media about it.

I don't think I ever spent the extra couple bucks for any of the Japanese pressings. Don't know why.

What was not solid were the previews that went on for 30 minutes describing a pile of hot flaming crap. The prestige movies apparently didn't need to advertise. Sad, because I was raring to see Dune 2 after Oppenheimer -- not some recycled Disney ride inspired movie.

Oppenheimer was solid.

Yes for sure. I do know that when I had a very nice [insert brand name] rack system back in the day I could definitely tell the difference between brands of speakers. My [brand] studio monitors were better than some jive [brand] loudspeakers. The quality of production mattered too. We definitely thought that certain bands had higher quality of production. Not to get into specifics because what I thought was good wasn't the absolute audiophile stuff but I had good stuff for what a GI on enlisted pay could get if he saved all his pennies, didn't fly home to the US more than once a year, and only drank so much.

Someone is paid to engage

Worship of strength is one of the phenomena behind the appeal of fascism.

One of the biggest challenges is how much hardware we have to hold back to stave off the invasion of Taiwan. I really wish we could provide two more Patriot units to Ukraine. They will be critical against the PRC though.

Everyday I learn something more about WWII and I've been reading about it for 50 years.

This series is the cold shower

Hardly the stuff of international crisis but still shows the Poles are pushing Vladdy.

Lets go get Verlander

The boomers grew up conditioned to have it all their way.

well, there is the digital compression issue. There is also the issue that for most of us, our ears are not that trained to hear a difference in high end audio. My interest was academic. I just had that memory of making a special trip to the store in Ann Arbor from Livonia and seeing those "magic" Japanese pressings.

Oh, I missed this Just make that Oh HIMARS.

Well, there was this one time in Syria...when they faced the US Air Force, Army aviation and a slew of MQ-9 Reaper drones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khasham

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-07-21-23/h_13683193b1ef7848f917d70d52cdea34

The Suwalki corridor. Yeah...it would be Art 5 and no amount of BS would protect Putin.

Not challenging the McKinstry tag. The single road from Eindoven. The Polish brigade dropping without their gear. The drop zones being too far from the bridge.

and this https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/japanese-pressings-are-they-the-best-quality-vinyl-and-what-do-you-have.849853/ some interesting comments

found this https://www.rarerecords.net/record-info/japanese-records/

Angry are the Polish. I just hope the Russian ambassador doesn't try to amuse them with jokes about changing light bulbs.

You can turn this one off. They are playing this one for the betting interests. The non-challenge of the McKinstry play tells you that.

Olson did not like giving up the long HR.

question for audiophiles: Back in the day a highly anticipated trip to a record store would have me looking at the Japanese pressings of albums. Were they actually superior in audio quality than regular vinyl?