I will do my best to text, email, and PM you random questions every couple minutes for the next 48hrs… 
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If you can send me an e-mail about the LCD-1 shipping date that would be fantastic. I don’t have enough of them in my inbox so could definitely use some more!
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Figured I’d post the hilt I build along with the lighsabre. The experience is $199 + tax so not cheap. The lightsabre itself isn’t worth the price but the building experience is a bit like a 25 minute show that I would gladly do again. Very cool experience.
Also for anyone looking to bring it on the plane, TSA didn’t say anything about it when I carried it on and neither did WestJet.
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Excellent photographs. Hope you had a fantastic trip.
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Disney at Halloween is a lot of fun, especially the “Mickey’s Halloween Party” event.
We were there for that last year on Halloween Night (park was deserted during the day, since it’s a separate ticket for the evening event and the “normal” admission ends early that day).
Hope you had as much fun as it looks like you did!
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Awesome. I have tiny humans (2 & 5) so there is definitely a Disney trip in our horizon. I’d totally do the Lightsaber experience-- it’s not often you find a memento you’d actually want to display. 
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We are waiting for our daughter to turn 4 before we go 
as everyone says that is a perfect age for them to be completely amazed and have memories…and it will continue for at least another 4years before they start to realize something isn’t right lol (i.e. not real princess or that the costumes are costumes lol)
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I will never understand why people trying to trade for gear think they should get the full, original, MSRP for what they are offering, but expect to trade against the used value of what they are trying to trade for.
You can either compare both items on CURRENT new prices (I don’t care how much you paid for it a year ago, I care how much I can buy it for today), or you can compare on realistic used prices.
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And with that @Torq pinpointed the root cause of all political, financial, and religious disputes across all time and all cultures. “I’ve got to win, the other guy doesn’t matter.”
Known in psychological research as perspective taking:
Sadly weak everywhere (especially since the rise of social media).
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JHC on a pony … I remember those days …
And the pain of buying Duracell D-cells 9 at a time …
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One of my “even-less-off-topic-than-usual-posts” (maybe I should just create a “Random Thoughts” thread) …
Watching the high-resolution analyzer in EQuilibrium while playing “Giorgio by Moroder” (Daft Punk, “Random Access Memories”), particularly at the end of the track, is … well … quite fascinating!
(It’s not quite the same on the comparatively coarse display on the RME ADI-2 DAC fs, but still interesting).
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My wife and I were just there Oct 17th-27th! We hit Universal and Disney as well, Star Wars land was by far the highlight… along side visiting Audeze and the Schiiter of course!
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- There is no best wine for everyone.
It depends on personal taste to choose favorite wine.
- Law of diminishing return apply to both audio and wine.
100$ wine is not 10 times better than 10$ wine.
1,000$ wine is not 10 times better than 100$ wine.
- You need experience to acknowledge good audio or wine.
I am not wine connoisseur.
But I could taste some nice wines through one of my rich friend who is willing to treat nice wines in his listening room.
He treated 700$ wine to me last year. It is the best wine I had ever tasted.
I had never bought wine more than 150$ myself, since I do not have confidence in selecting right one.
Some rich guy paid huge price for big audio system.
It plays loud but not in the balanced way or without any nuanced flavor of nice wines.
Money can not buy you nice system.
You need experience to match right components and cables.
- One keeps looking for different flavor.
Most people do not want to drink same wine everyday.
They wish to taste different flavor.
Audiophile is looking for new flavor in their audio system.
They keep changing components every year or do some tweaks like cable rolling, tube rolling and power isolation.
Sometimes audiophile do sidegrade rather than upgrade.
I have my first serious audio system back to 1978 with ADS bookself speaker, Garrard Turntable and Fisher integrated amplifier.
After using dynamic speakers like Altech, Thiel and Canton, I was enamored by Apogee Duetta ribbon speaker and Martin Logan CLX full range electrostatic speaker around 1989.
I do not have enough listening space or money to buy two of them at the same time.
Although I loved silky violin tone out of Martin Logan, I chose Apogee based upon overall balance and seemless dynamics.
I had been happy with Apogee Duetta Sig driven by Krell KSA 150 from 1989 to 1999.
But I wish to get sub bass below 35 hz.
It is not easy to match subwoofer with Apogee Duetta Sig which is very fast.
Thus I had switched to Avalon Ascent II and then to Wilson Watt Puppy 4 and then B&W Notilus 801.
B&W Notilus 801(15 inch woofer) driven by Jadis 500(350 watts tube power) gave the most powerful and deep bass in my listening room.
But with too much heat and some tube popping out, I had swtiched to 300B SET amp with 8 watts from the recommendation of my friend who treated me 700$ wine.
I also replaced B&W Notilus 801 with full range high efficiency speaker.
Full range speaker is not my cup of tea with limited dynamics and bass extension.
Thus I had auditioned few speakers to replace full range.
It came down to Lansche 4.1 and JBL DD66000.
Although I liked enormous dynamics out of JBL, it may need more power than 8watts of Silbatone.SET.
Thus I had chosen Lansche on 2007 and been happy with its pristine treble out of plasma tweeter.
Last December, I came across Vintage Western horn full system which cost 300K$.
I really like its natural dynamics and timber out of it.
But I could not shell out 300K$ right now.
This year I had embarked upon earphones and headphones.
I need those listening to music when my wife is sleeping or I travel out of town.
I had lot of joy in Stax 009S driven by Carbon amp with nuanced details and wide and deep headstage.
Although I loved Martin Logan CLX sound, I had never had electrostatic speaker at home.
Now I enjoy Stax 009s instead.
I also had considered getting ribbon or planar speaker but will opt for ribbon headphone instead.
It is called Raal Sr1a which I auditioned last week.
It reminds me of Apogee Duetta with fast and open sound.
I expect to get it January next year.
Some people place more than two sets of speakers in one room.
But I do not like such placement since sound of speaker is very sensitive to room acoustics.
It is easier to have several headphones and choose them upon mood without paying attention to room acoustics or space.
For the time being I will play with several headphones with various flavors.
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You might want to check out Magnepan’s bass panels and think about what might have been. I love the Martin Logan CLX, and suspect the Maggie bass panels would work with them.
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Thanks a lot for your advice.
I had considered trying Mag LRS this year.
But I do not want to place two speakers side by side.
If I want to set up second system in my living room on second floor, then I shall get my wife’s permission.
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it’s like every time and then, some companys get away with everything and the fanboys close their eyes on it
have a look at this and think about, if you can accept it for yourself
what can we do about it? - share the information is one possibility
people should know about it
the other obvious problems are taxes, not been payed enough in the US and europe and the conditions in china the workers are under. … but everyone knows about these things since many years, don’t you?
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Apple’s ideas are nice in concept (clean UX, focus on QoL improvement v. bleeding edge tech, etc.) but the last iPhone I’ve ever wanted was the 4S way back— to be fair they aren’t the only company that’s shady as hell, but they push some absolute jank on people way too often and their prices are bullcrap. That’s besides how messed up their repairs are and how they keep trying to get people to upgrade when they needn’t. Same thing happened with my sisters’ (yes plural) Macbooks some time ago— minor screen connector issues but they claimed that the unit was completely dead, needed a motherboard replacement.
Also, Rossman FTW. Anyone considering buying a Macbook should check his repair and analysis videos out.
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Back in the day you just had to read all four volumes of Inside Macintosh. Before that the II and IIGS were pretty open an it was easy to swap boards. I was an Atari guy back then.
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