I’ve been loving my bib rye, in spite of your recommendation I’ve had mine with ice which gives it a flavor that reminds me of Mary Jane’s……which then reminds me of the tens of thousands I’ve paid to dentists over the years. I love it still.

Yes, really been enjoying this. A purchase may be in order.

Awesome Coneholio news! Shout out to the Modi 2 Uber. Spent a couple hours out on the porch with it and the Polks and after about ten years I still have no desire to upgrade any of it. Second shout out to my favorite blanco Tequila Ocho. I may rue the day I discovered this stuff as the two...

Winding up a week at the beach with the grandkids and the winning libations are…. My last 2000 Les Forts, bricking, tertiary notes but easily another ten years or more in it. The pencil, cigar box and cedar that were so laser focused and separate in its youth are still there but softened and...

Someone had to.

The rules boys literally have every other thread on every forum, one outlier drives them nuts. Freedom! Let the Schiit flow! Of course I should add a big thank you Jason!

Old school. http://open.qobuz.com/album/0002894343602

Checked out the stock tube that came with Vali 3 tonight and damned if I can find any fault with it. Very clean, not as warm and open as the Jan 5670W but definitely Schiit worthy.

I made a bit of a road trip today to verify rumors of a Total Wine in Maryland and by golly it’s true. Found this bottle on the shelves and will give it a go this evening. I did take a few sniffs and found fruit cake drenched in B&B on the nose which works for me.

Just digging the bass of the 5670 with the Vali 3 tonight. I’ll get to others later. Don’t know yet if it’s the amp or the tube but the bass is a trip (I’m still in Wow stage). Yes’ Chris Squire sounds amazing on songs I’ve heard too many times to count. Any normal person would listen to this...

I’m totally with you on the 1920 but I find the 1910 a fun and silly indulgence (2 overly charred barrels). It’s one of those wow factor things that tires quickly. I am totally susceptible to the wow factor in drink and audio however fleeting.

I think you’re right.

Just a quick listen to the Vali 3 that arrived this morning. With a Jan 5670W, listen to some of the Travesia recommendation posted earlier on Quobuz. Clear as a bell and an authoritative smoothness. Simply incredible. More tubes later but dang, right out of the box it’s quite impressive.

So sorry to hear that. As an ex-nurse I’d claim second place as worst patient group. Stay away from the poke salad.

Bless your heart.

Somehow you read about failing repeatedly and also never read about a stepped attenuator? I think you’re full of Schiit. YMMV I have an 8k generator that fails all the time and never starts during an emergency, contact me for pricing.

Beat me to it. I have Roon but don’t use it much but this may change that. That’s a Harman price so maybe things are looking up.

If you like Hurley I think you’d like Seasick Steve. I do.

If you’d like another obsession keep your eyes open and stuff does turn up now and again. I got this one for $80. Not cheap but not $150.

Vali 3 shipped. A new friend for a lonely tube. Yes, this is my third Vali.

We’ll shut my mouth, MD has two now. Towson and Laurel. Thanks!

I’ve emailed them all (Trone has no say in state politics). It’s the old three tier schnook system that wine importer Joe Dressner (RIP) wrote a treatise on about three decades ago. People pay good bribes, I mean money, to enforce a system (limited distributorship) of monopoly that imposes...

David Trone who friggin owns Total Wine is my congressman and there are no total wines in Maryland.

No Oregon Spirit in Maryland, DC, Virginia, Pennsylvania or West Virginia which covers my neighborhood and in MD we can’t get liquor shipped in. I’m 43 years with the same girl from Boring. I will work on this.