Other What currently makes your life awesome?

The turntable I purchased on New Year's Eve, well, I've finished to repair it and the bloody thing is actually working.

 

Looks nice!

 

Thanks.
I've never repaired nor owned a turntable before so I had lowered expectations. Turns out, it sounds very good

 

Many people don't realise that vinyl & CD versions of the same recording can sound so different.

 

So, it turns out I like birds. Easy to do when you see a red kite and a kestrel sat in the same tree from your living room in the morning.

 

Me too mate, me too...

Oh, never mind.

 

Snap. We have a woodsy area directly behind the house, and also next door to a country park, and I often find myself still sitting at the kitchen table half an hour after finishing my breakfast because I've been watching birds.

I even have a poster of tits hanging on my office wall.

 

They're some fine looking tits

 

Digital music, CD rips to lossless FLAC for me, are so much more convenient and easier to look after. If you ever listen to CD quality music through a good DAC, having not done so before, you will be amazed how much detail can be revealed. I use an Audiolab M-DAC to drive Shure SRH1540 headphones, which add just a little warmth to the sound, so they don't sound to clinical.

 

Disappointed they are of the feathery variety.

 

We have a woodsy bit by us too, unusual I don't see at least a kite or two everyday.

The kestrels are less regular and the owls we only hear at night/early morning now it's a bit colder and darker.

Oh and woodpeckers like nut feeders it turns out and long tail tits swarm like they're under some sort of asbo order and their tags have been turned off.

 

The first house that my wife and I lived in was just around the corner from the house that I grew up in and between the two places is a small wooded area known as The Spinney and we would often hear some tawny owls in there. Came home one evening in late autumn and there was an owl perched on the gable end. We would also get the streams of crows and rooks flying over us as they went off to roost in Wollaton Park. We do get a bit of the crow flights where we are now, but I do miss the sounds of those and the owls.

 

Made my first parts in over a year. Felt really good. Hate polishing acrylic though lol.

 

took my new drone out for its (and mine) first flight, holy **** this is so much fun!

must buy more batteries.

 

It certainly is! It won't disappoint, the Mavic 2 Pro is an amazing bit of kit.
Yep, more batteries is pretty much compulsory.
Hoping to fly my Mavic Pro tomorrow, as the weather looks OK for a change.
I look forward to seeing you posting on the drone/quads page

 

Resin + UV powder test is pretty much what I wanted.

When I have space and access to my tools again I can get cracking on this desk.

 

today was steller weather here, got back from work around 3 and managed to race to a park outside the NFZ i live in to get some flying in whilst i still had the light. ive plans for the drone when I go trail riding next but I need a decent day tho

 

What kind of weather do german botanists like?

Yes, feel free to punch me. I deserve it.

 

Herr Steller loved a stellar Stella.