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Pahk the Cah in Hahvud Yahd

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It's been several years since we have posted anything to this blog.  There were a couple of false starts and we can't guarantee this won't be another one of them. But we can say that Life throws a few curve-balls once in awhile that sometimes has you placing things on a shelf for awhile.  Like this blog.  We are hopeful we can pull this back down, dust it off, and put a little more out there as time permits. New England-i-est part An Update on the Mancave! First thing, we are no longer located in Western NY, but on the North Shore in the Greater Boston Area.  An unlikely series of events, involving joining a startup, successful acquisition of said startup a few years later (in startup speak ... the "exit"), serious soul searching about what sort of career one can do after working at a startup, various family things all lining up (nest definitively emptying, loss of one of our mothers), and a very blurry confusing time, now marveling that we now are livi...

Mancave Update ... [mid october 2014]

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Crimson at night! We sent back the Crimson Audio gear ... The guys at Austin Hifi were generous to let us borrow the Crimson Amps and Preamps with a set of their crazy Good cabling . We made the trek to send back the giant Pelican cases happy that we heard it and with a tear in our eye.  While we're gathering our thoughts for a review, we'll say that this is a truly magnificent, transparent, fast and realistic sounding set of gear and we were happy to have tried it out.  We sent it back with a sad farewell, but hope we'd be able to make it a permanent part of the mancave at some point.  Stay tuned for a review ... We had a network filled weekend ... Cat7 ... shields and shields ... kill that RFI dead! We spent a good chunk of the weekend upgrading the wired side of our home network (going from a mixture of Cat5, 5e and 6, and 10/100 switches) to Gigabit and Cat7 where possible.  We noticed that even when not using streaming services, it seemed like...