Still Running

Sage scrub hillside with orange dodder and deep green scrub oaks, Blue Sky Ecological Reserve, Poway, California; late June 2023.

Another July 1st has passed, and I missed to add the “runniversary” post! This year, it’s the 6th one. Even though I haven’t kept up the routine of running every other day that I initially pursued when I began running, on July 1st, 2017: I’m still running, and more or less regularly. πŸ™‚

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Merciless Revelations & Bass

It’s been a week or so with my new speaker setup and I can honestly say that I’m very pleased. I added ferrite cores to the cables and they did in fact reduce the slight humming (which was not very audible to begin with) to a point where it doesn’t bother me. I’m not standing there with one ear two inches away from the speakers. πŸ˜… It’s a non issue at this point.

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Back & Forth

Yesterday, the subwoofer arrived and 😱 that is really, really a lot of bass! Way more than what is necessary, when at its default settings! I went back & forth with the various settings and switches on both the subwoofer and the monitors and I think I’ve found a useful combination now.

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So Far, So Good

My replacement speaker has arrived two days ago and luckily, it passed the sine wave test tone challenge. The speakers also do not make any sounds that they should not make. Almost!

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Buick & Beethoven

Most of the time, I use YouTube and “the internet” as a whole on my desktop computer, with Firefox and uBlock Origin. Without an ad-blocker, so much of “the net” is completely intolerable and I had forgotten just HOW crappy it is when I recently tried the YouTube app, on our Apple TV.

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srslyWTF?!?

The good news: I am actually able to hear when a speaker makes a sound that it is not supposed to make. And with this, you may already have guessed the bad news: the speaker drama continues. I’m hearing something that I should not hear. In one of my new speakers, of course. It’s I can’t believe this is happening reloaded.” πŸ˜–

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