Recent content by monkeyboy

I have a flair 58 and it's awesome....so simple...no more descaling mixes or tablets...it's just an open tube with a plunger...really how complicated should pushing hot water through coffee grounds be?

I prefer a DAP, the iBasso DX180 looks pretty interesting, I'd love to see it tested. But I won't buy it until I know the performance...so a bit of a chicken egg thing with regard to sending it in for testing. An LG phone was a good choice at the time, but now phones don't have headphone...

the response to the Flair is confusing...there is no maintenance, it's an open tube that the basket mounts to...with regard to temp consistency, it has a PID to control the wall temp of the chamber...overall it's the simplest thing out there....I bought it because I cracked open the dual boiler...

I'll throw in a recommendation for a Flair58...pushing hot water through coffee grounds shouldn't be that complicated

I had an old iPod in drawer with a dead battery, I looked up some of the audio measurements, and it's not too bad, even compared to modern devices. A new battery and an install of Rockbox has brought it back to life. Using the Rockbox firmware it's a USB device so you no longer need iTunes to...

I'd like to find a reasonably priced DAP that has good measurements, as it's hard to find an option other than a phone with a dongle...maybe the IBasso DX180 As for speakers I'd love to see more PA type speakers, they seem like good options for home theater

I'm curious about this unit as well...I'm currently using an LG phone, but the battery is going and it's 50:50 that you break it changing the battery...I'm thinking about a Pixel with GrapheneOS, but you'd need a dongle, which I think would end up destroying the USB port...and I don't use any of...

How does something like the AKG 371 compare...is it 90% of the performance for 15% of the price?...does a bit of EQ make it 99% of the performance...$1000 for a pair of headphones seems ridiculous....

I have never tried a dongle, it seems like they would stress the USB-C port if you were walking around while using it...has anyone had issues with the port due to using one?

aren't most people going to use dsp once you stick it in a room?...seems like the days of passive crossovers are done, for cost, convenience, and quality...

Terrapower..the bill gates fiasco..is a dual loop molten salt cycle with what is mostly a conventional reactor design...it's on the order of 2 billion for about 350 MW...beyond a stupid waste of money...but not as bad as Southern Companies carbon capture epic a few years ago...someone is making...

the climate scare is based on models, and the model predictions are all over the place...just the idea that you can adequately model climate is stupid...it's described by a coupled set of non-linear partial differential equations that exhibit chaotic behavior...the sheer number of unknowables...

there is no intelligence in AI, it's just statistical inference...so it's OK for stuff that doesn't have to work and you don't have to be able to figure out why...once a majority of the content it's training on becomes AI generated the models collapse...if you want to make it useful you'd need...

the AI bubble is absurd...a technology looking for an application...if you need to build a nuke to power it good luck...we started the AP1000 in 2004 and it just came online....oh and it was originally an AP600, but the utilities couldn't make the economics work at that scale so they had to...

renewables provide energy but not capacity, you still need to build the conventional plant for days when the sun doesn't shine and there is no wind...there is no more hydro available, so that's not really on the table to increase generation meaningfully...the renewable contribution to the grid...