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GFS would imply a period with a decent chance of showers and storms late week as the trough moves east with some ridging over the WA. Verbatim it would be more of a threat for the immediate coast.

Holy crap is it nice out there. Feels more like early October. 74 here and full sun.

Good equipment is completely unforgiving of a compressed or otherwise crap source. It reveals all the flaws, as it should. I can't enjoy a good amount of rock music on my system.

I've had a couple Denon CD players over the years. Pretty decent equipment for the money. My Monarchy DAC has piggy backed 20-bit Burr Brown chips. Really clean sound. Supposedly more analog-ish sounding.

I have 2 high quality DACs I held onto and still use. They make a big difference compared to a typical CD player DAC. My primary front end(still) for listening to high quality digital source material is an IPOD Classic, connected to a Wadia "dock"(it has its own DAC or you can bypass it which I am doing)- but the Wadia extracts the PCM bitstream before it gets input into the 10 cent ipod DAC- then gets re-clocked, then into my Monarchy Audio DAC. No compressed files so CD quality but better sound than any CD player costing under a grand.

Not sure I would characterize 16/44.1 source material as lowly. I was an audiophile until I found better things to spend money on, but still have a pretty high end system. I was all into the 24/192 capable formats when it came out, and spent big bucks on a first generation DVD audio player. There wasn't a whole lot to pick from to listen too, but I made myself believe it sounded far superior. It didn't. "Good" sound is very subjective, and the reality is that frequencies above 14-16 khz are of minimal to no importance to anyone over the age of about 20, especially if you have attended more than a few rock concerts. 44khz sampling allows for a reasonably good representation of frequencies up to 22khz according to Nyquist.

I get so annoyed with the amount of compression so many bands apply when they mix and record tracks. I love The Killers, but most of their songs sound awful on a high end system. Loud and fatiguing. It's not as noticeable listening to it in the car on SiriusXM, where everything is compressed and sounds like crap.

Looks outstanding. Also a decent chance of some showers Sunday associated with the upper energy rotating down and passing to our north. Looks like something might pop along the trailing cold front.

Picked up a total of 0.16" of rain from this 'event'. One quick downpour early afternoon yesterday and another one early this morning.

But hey, tornado watch for another 45 mins.

It's all about yard. No one ever cares what happens in Philly or SW of DC when in-between there is nada.

Not here. Those creepy things don't do loamy soil.

We are highly proficient at failing at anything that is remotely interesting.

Another exciting severe weather day in the MA. Looking forward to the next super dry multi-day wind event. One thing we are decent at outside of heat and humidity.

12 drops here followed by some broken high clouds and sun.

Good thing I picked up a tenth of an inch with the early afternoon shower. Looks like I might see some leftover drizzle with this line.

Some of the CAMs and the ICON did well, with the best action over eastern PA into NJ with the remnant MCV, and a broken line SW of there.

This line has disintegrated to weak sauce, not that it was ever that impressive. Not sure I will see more than a sprinkle lol.

Looks like a pretty pedestrian broken line moving SE. I might be surprised, but I doubt it.

Thunder in the distance sounds serious. Extrapolating radar, with no additional expansion/development, I see the split for my yard.

What did you do?

Love me some original WWS. The bourbon barrel aged version is top notch too. Looking forward to the release of Utopias Barrel aged WWS in October. Probably won't be much around, so might have to take a trip to Milton.

I only had this once a couple years ago when I was in PA. Incredible. Was pricey, similar to WWS if not more. Not sure they are brewing this anymore. https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/28091/100566/

He seems to enjoy the dessert stouts.