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Re: Desert Bus for Hope TEN. SMOOK BUS ERRY DAY
Ok so real talk. There was no way they were beating 2015's total. They were out of call-ins, auctions, and everything, and the graph was showing they were way behind the last two years.
Then, literally out of nowhere, people started donating like CRAZY. Not for a drive or auction. No, this was just viewers throwing down money for the children. And here we are, at 10:30PM PDT, and there's no question now - they're breaking a record once again. LOOK AT THIS. (dark blue line is this year, the crazy vertical line at the end)
Also, @Canti asleep. Dat malt liquor life.
UPSLynx
Re: Desert Bus for Hope TEN. SMOOK BUS ERRY DAY
@UPSKingpin with dat ultimate desert bus mack!
UPSLynx
Re: Desert Bus for Hope TEN. SMOOK BUS ERRY DAY
Penn Jillette call-in, during which he angrily disagrees that offering his own daughter as an auction prize isn't generous enough.
Canti
Re: Desert Bus for Hope TEN. SMOOK BUS ERRY DAY
They just hit 420K and had the dankest celebration party of all time.
UPSLynx
Re: The Runwell Turntable from Shinola Audio. AMA
@Kwitko: No
@BuddyJ: No lid or dust cover
@_k:
1: Much higher quality across the board than either of the two tables you mentioned. The main plate and platter alone on the Runwell is worth more than either of those two. When we have the video ready, I can share it with you; explains how much effort MDI put into machining the solid aluminum parts; it's pretty cool. Our pre-amp is custom-designed from the ground up by industry-lauded audio experts and made in the USA. One of the most compelling features which we haven't talked about yet is that our pre-amp and guts are modular; we have a system we're calling the SLED that allows the electronics to be upgraded/swapped with different features.
2: Give me a good reason why a direct drive is better than belt and don't you dare say "vibration" because you don't know.
3: If you snag wussy wires, you're not treating your audio equipment with the careful consideration and delicacy they deserve.
4: Not sure; haven't actually turned it yet. Why would this matter?
5: The lightning bolt has been our mark since day one. Nothing to do with wizards.
@Cliff_Forster: We have our own speakers designed and built by our audio team. They'll be available for sale in 2017 and right now we have enough to have in-store demos in three stores (Detroit, NY, LA). We're building factory space for our speaker division 
Re: The Runwell Turntable from Shinola Audio. AMA
@GHoosdum said:
This branding is exactly why I've always puzzled over the fact that they use quartz movements in the watches instead of automatic.
You could have just asked me 
We use quartz because Ronda AG is a financial partner and they did not have a viable way to set up a factory for non-quartz movements in the US, and as job creation was a primary goal of our company, we needed to scale quickly; the niche market for automatic watches is not our customer. Quartz allowed us to come in at a reasonable enough price point to sell the number of watches we needed in order to stay afloat, much less grow. An automatic movement would have put us into the airy niche of watch nerds (the only people who care about movements), which is not a big enough market to accomplish our goals. The quartz watch business has been extremely successful for us; enough so that we were able to grow from 50-600 people in three years. That would have been impossible with automatic. On paper, quartz is better to most people: more accurate, less maintenance. These are the things our customers care about. We're in the market to sell watches, not movements.
Re: My vinyl collection
If you haven't setup an account on Discogs, I'd recommend it. It's a great tool for managing your collection and wantlist, and if you're looking for hard-to-find stuff it can help you with purchasing it from other members. Here's my link:
https://www.discogs.com/user/NegativeOffset
I'm a huge fan of the following record labels:
https://soundcloud.com/45seven
https://soundcloud.com/zamzam-sounds
Pretty much if they press something, it's on my list.
I'm also looking for the following on vinyl:
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Bedhead - Transaction de Novo
Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X (omg so expensive)
Sneaker Pimps - Bloodsport
Sneaker Pimps - Splinter
I love buying from http://www.ebreggae.com/ when there's not a local store around that has what I want.
BuddyJ
My vinyl collection
I will be getting into the world of turntables and vinyl very soon and so I wanted to make a discussion to collect my thoughts and make a list of records I want to add to my collection. I'll be keeping this post updated with my wishlist and my current collection as time goes on. Feel free to do the same so we can share!
WANT:
Fischerspooner: Odyssey
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magick
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Mother's Milk
Bill Withers: Greatest Hits
The Mars Volta: Deloused in the Comatorium
Alice in Chains: Dirt
Stevie Wonder: not sure yet, probably several
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Justice: Audio, Video, Disco
Anamanaguchi: Endless Fantasy
Daft Punk: Discovery
Daft Punk: Random Access Memories
Denali: The Instinct
Metric: Synthetica
Mumford & Sons: Sigh No More
OWN:
Pearl Jam: Jeremy (clear vinyl, fan club exclusive limited)
Re: My vinyl collection
If you're going to get The Wall, you also need to get Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, and Wish You Were Here. As for Mars Volta, get Frances the Mute and Amputechture. Might I also suggest Old Money by Omar Rodríguez-López?
Kwitko