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Garth wrote: Tue Dec 14, 2021 3:37 pm

tommy wrote: Tue Dec 14, 2021 1:48 pm

Garth wrote: Tue Dec 14, 2021 7:46 amSunn 2000S

Is it Tony's?!

Tony who? I don't think so? I mean there's a chance this dude's name happens to be Tony but

tommy wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 8:55 am

Garth wrote: Tue Dec 14, 2021 3:37 pm

tommy wrote: Tue Dec 14, 2021 1:48 pm

Is it Tony's?!

Tony who? I don't think so? I mean there's a chance this dude's name happens to be Tony but

Sorry, I think that's the model Tony Aimone has that he recently dug out to play that EGC he won on.

Garth wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 9:32 am

tommy wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 8:55 am

Garth wrote: Tue Dec 14, 2021 3:37 pm

Tony who? I don't think so? I mean there's a chance this dude's name happens to be Tony but

Sorry, I think that's the model Tony Aimone has that he recently dug out to play that EGC he won on.

I see, hadn't heard that - so yeah it's definitely not his, but happy to start a club.

UPDATE: so Tony's is a 200s.

tallchris wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 12:43 pm

Garth wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 9:32 am

tommy wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 8:55 am

Sorry, I think that's the model Tony Aimone has that he recently dug out to play that EGC he won on.

I see, hadn't heard that - so yeah it's definitely not his, but happy to start a club.

UPDATE: so Tony's is a 200s.

Is that the one that Robert used to play through w/ his old massive 1x15 cab (before him and John got those Emperors)? If so, that amp is awesome and WAY louder than I expected when we did Heather Loves SKWM practice using it.

Garth wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 1:10 pm

tallchris wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 12:43 pm

Garth wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 9:32 am

I see, hadn't heard that - so yeah it's definitely not his, but happy to start a club.

UPDATE: so Tony's is a 200s.

Is that the one that Robert used to play through w/ his old massive 1x15 cab (before him and John got those Emperors)? If so, that amp is awesome and WAY louder than I expected when we did Heather Loves SKWM practice using it.

can confirm

tallchris wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 1:34 pm

Garth wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 1:10 pm

tallchris wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 12:43 pm

Is that the one that Robert used to play through w/ his old massive 1x15 cab (before him and John got those Emperors)? If so, that amp is awesome and WAY louder than I expected when we did Heather Loves SKWM practice using it.

can confirm

Can barely imagine how much louder a 2000s much be compared to the 200s!

Garth wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 2:03 pm

tallchris wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 1:34 pm

Garth wrote: Wed Dec 15, 2021 1:10 pm

can confirm

Can barely imagine how much louder a 2000s much be compared to the 200s!

I mean do the math, it's obviously ten times louder. I mean it's not like model numbers are just these arbitrary things.

I have to suspect that much of the volume would have been due to both the rehearsal space you were in as well as the speaker that was in that cabinet being more sensitive. Pretty sure older speakers were more sensitive if less robust (especially reproducing low frequencies).

bishopdante wrote: Sat Dec 18, 2021 8:18 am It's pretty funny how Apple have just gaslit the f*** out of everybody on specs, and then pulled a "bait-and-switch" tactic on the cheesegrater Mac Pro.

Hey people, check out this £3000 mobile phone...

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Only two years ago I was standing in an airport, marvelling at the insane price of the macbook air, £1699 excluding VAT... running some mystery "so shit we didn't brand it" CPU called the MR782-QRT or whatever, clocked at 1.4Ghz... for quite a bit more than I paid for my i7 2012 macbook air, which scores better on geekbench. Scary stuff...

Now there's some sort of ripoff drag race between Apple's new cheese grater, and the new mobile phone, which actually has a pedigree Acorn RISC Machine low-power consumer hardware design derived from the BBC / Acorn Archimedes.

Where Apple will be rubbing their hands together in glee is that the actual savings in production cost, increased efficiency and real-world performance gains are very real. By making everything smaller, you make it clock faster. By making everything on one die, there's less to go wrong, the whole thing is a sealed package, and it's both mechanically indestructable and cheap as anything. The whole computer as an IC. This makes it small, cheap, and great.

This means that Apple has begun its process of killing off the desktop computer, and replacing everything with App Store iLockedOut TPM / Apple Tax, and the rental / bricking can commence. Don't worry, the hackers are good, but the days of jailbroken iPhones are *long* gone, right.

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In the meantime, I'm looking at five year old servers with quad-socket motherboards on eBay for £250... fresh out of the datacenter... and thinking...

The current Mac Pro specs aren't really all that. You can get something with more industrial specifications for the server market, and those things are basically sent to recycling within a year or two in commercial use.

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All the older apple stuff is going to be *worthless* compared to the M1 mac mini. Hence, I'm looking forwards to using i7 mac minis as a general purpose appliance computer.