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bradgrier.com Home Archive .stuff. Mastodon RSS feed available Pickering vs Grado: Chapter two — Penny Lane This time we're looking at a Beatles classic for our cartridge comparison. Penny Lane from the Canadian pressing of 1967 - 1970. Which will sound better? April 3, 2024 Pickering vs Grado: Chapter one — introduction, review, and listening to an old favourite Two cartridges. One vintage, the other new. Which sounds 'better'? What is better? I get to play with charts and audio stuff, and play cool tunes to YouTube! What's not to like. And maybe we find out a bit more about these two cartridges. March 11, 2024 Akai AP-Q41 won’t quite fit the Pickering XV-15 625E cartridge with brush Five minutes with a wire and some creative bending... February 15, 2024 The Frankenstein Cartridge is Alive! Just a quick post to capture the first playback of the Frankenstein Cartridge. February 7, 2024 PLEX Privacy Problem. At the begin­ning of Novem­ber 2023, PLEX enabled some new fea­tures that have turned out to be a bit of a PR and Pri­vacy nightmare. Basic­ally, they’ve star­ted email­ing all mem­bers of a PLEX serv­er with the recent view­ing habits of oth­er mem­bers of that serv­er. Even if the mem­bers don’t know each oth­er, PLEX… November 28, 2023 Poirot discusses the movie Knives Out with his friends. A dinner party and a movie review. The famous Belgian detective and friends discuss Knives Out. October 19, 2023 Making progress Updating my slowly-evolving analog audio project wherein I undertake to rebuild/recover my enjoyment of observing the phenomonon created when a tiny diamond rides merrily through a vinyl groove, delightedly vibrating, producing a minuscule electrical current that eventually (through amplification magic) becomes the sweet sound that we call analog music. The project makes progress and it's… September 21, 2023 This pile of gear is starting to come to life… and a list of vinyl test albums An old turntable, a new cartridge, and a list of awesome albums to pick up. What's not to like! July 13, 2023 Using ChatGPT to create a flight simulator flight plan in Little NavMap format Short post to just doc­u­ment the prompt I use with Chat­G­PT. It works ok, for short flights. For some reas­on, Chat­G­PT seems to stall out if the flight­plan has more than five or six user way­po­ints, in addi­tion to the depar­ture and des­tin­a­tion waypoints. I should prob­ably look at optim­iz­ing this prompt, it’s a bit long ? May 13, 2023 Read More......