http://machinadynamica.com/machina44.htm
― J0hn D., Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:05 (nine years ago) Permalink
lololololol
― J0hn D., Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:06 (nine years ago) Permalink
"The very best sound was obtained when I slightly loosened the screws on the Duplex Covers. And they sound great!!.
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― morris pavilion, Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
lolololol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:15 (nine years ago) Permalink
every product on the site is like New Hope for the Ape-Eared
― J0hn D., Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:20 (nine years ago) Permalink
i love that website! check out this fancy table: http://machinadynamica.com/machina25.htm
it's supposed to isolate your amplifier from vibrations, "especially the 0 -10 Hz variety produced by Earth's crust movement, traffic, subways, tides, etc. "
how a spring could cancel out waves slower than 1 Hz?
― elan, Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:38 (nine years ago) Permalink
but the best is this "teleportation tweak" http://machinadynamica.com/machina60.htm
― elan, Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:44 (nine years ago) Permalink
everything on there is great but I'm still standing by the Tru-Tone Duplex cover as the most balls-out
― J0hn D., Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:50 (nine years ago) Permalink
http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_12_3/marigo-labs-signature-3d-mat-7-2005.html
― ciderpress, Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:59 (nine years ago) Permalink
oh wait though codename turquoise is pretty fucking rad
― J0hn D., Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:00 (nine years ago) Permalink
Brilliant Pebbles is my favorite one on that site i think
― ciderpress, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:13 (nine years ago) Permalink
From cidepress' link, this was amusing:
"Where most audiophiles would agree, however, is that tweaks are a minor aspect of system building. Defined by the dictionary in Microsoft Word® as "a slight adjustment or change in..."
italics mine.
― Clay, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:20 (nine years ago) Permalink
http://machinadynamica.com/water.gif for brains
― scott seward, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:38 (nine years ago) Permalink
Somewhere, audiophile dude pushes the leather sofa away from the wall, sees four-socket outlet, shrieks.
― bendy, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:44 (nine years ago) Permalink
Well, these are great, but you don't have to spend a lot of money to improve sound:
http://www.belt.demon.co.uk/Free_Techniques/Free_Techniques.html
― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 18 November 2007 04:34 (nine years ago) Permalink
Holy shit the Teleportation Tweak! We are dealing with <i>balls</i> here, gentlemen. Big, round, shiny balls, of finest brass, lovingly hand-polished to a mirror shine by a taskforce of brilliant Sound Artisans. These balls can be yours for the astonishingly low price of $680 (Big Shiny Brass Balls are not subject to our 30-day money-back guarantee)
― Telephone thing, Sunday, 18 November 2007 10:23 (nine years ago) Permalink
it doesn't actually take any courage to be a con man, is the thing. you just have to really, really hate everybody.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 18 November 2007 19:55 (nine years ago) Permalink
The interesting thing about these tweaks is that they abandon the pretense of scientific support. Whereas w/ feet for speaker stands in Stereophile or whatever they'll be some physicist explaining how the damping works, here's it's just like, Hey, put this magic clock in the room and it'll improve the sound. I love it.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 18 November 2007 20:36 (nine years ago) Permalink
Sorry, maybe I'm Billy-doesn't-get-it, but is this site real or an elaborate spoof?
― Matt #2, Sunday, 18 November 2007 20:40 (nine years ago) Permalink
I had initially assumed spoof, but I followed some links and poked around and it appears to be real, or at least elaborate enough a spoof to include three or four different sites. Stereophile had an article on some of these tweaks a few years ago anyway:
http://www.stereophile.com/news/10415/
― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 18 November 2007 20:49 (nine years ago) Permalink
even if it is a spoof there's certainly enough real snake-oil products with extremely similar purposes/explanations
here's a collection of some more: http://www.ilikejam.dsl.pipex.com/audiophile.htm
― ciderpress, Sunday, 18 November 2007 21:36 (nine years ago) Permalink
i know someone who swears by this .... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=280182123367&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=018
― zappi, Thursday, 13 December 2007 15:59 (nine years ago) Permalink
"extremely flat"
― nabisco, Thursday, 13 December 2007 16:10 (nine years ago) Permalink
I don't even know what "a richer, fuller sound, with less emphasis of detail" means. it's supposed to be a good thing?
― bernard snowy, Thursday, 13 December 2007 16:18 (nine years ago) Permalink
My latest tweak = this chair;
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/Photo624.jpg
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 13 December 2007 16:21 (nine years ago) Permalink
i'm actually buying a glass platter for my turntable. i might even buy that mat for it. i'm a sucka 4 luv.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 13 December 2007 23:24 (nine years ago) Permalink
actually the chair i'm assuming was a joke, but honestly i was suprised how much getting speaker stands and "correctly" positioning my chair i listen in and the speakers in the room made a HUGE difference in how good things sounded.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 13 December 2007 23:39 (nine years ago) Permalink
The chair's totally not a joke; it's expensive and comfortable and easily moved but it's not likely to make me fall asleep in it (no headrest); if I'm comfortable and awake, I can concentrate on listening more. I bought it (almost) with the sole intention of it being a 'headphones' chair.
But yeah, basic physics says position your speakers correctly and sit in the right spot; you simply don't get stereo-imaging without it.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 14 December 2007 07:52 (nine years ago) Permalink
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/audiophiles-cant-tell-the-difference-between-monster-cable-and/
...a coat hanger.
― bendy, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 14:56 (nine years ago) Permalink
that's AMAZING. audiophiles are some weird people, man.
― ian, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 19:57 (nine years ago) Permalink
-- M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:39 PM
totally true
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 19:58 (nine years ago) Permalink
actually properly treating one's room acoustically would probably do a better job than moving your chair and speakers about
― electricsound, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 22:29 (nine years ago) Permalink
is there already a company selling audiophile interior house paint?
because if there is, I should start selling audiophile EXTERIOR house paint.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 22:30 (nine years ago) Permalink
(xpost) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/Dbsts2.jpg
― snoball, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 23:36 (nine years ago) Permalink
I was much, much less impressed with this enormous fucking Naim set-up than I should have been given how much it ought to have cost. Sure it went LOUD, but sound-wise I wouldn't swap it for my own system, I don't think.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/IMG_0126.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/IMG_0128.jpg
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:18 (nine years ago) Permalink
Is it just perspective on that first photo, or are your speakers nearly at shoulder height?
― Rob M v2, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:26 (nine years ago) Permalink
Oh, no - is that a Cyrus CD player? Or tuner? And why isn't everything on Mana shelves? That's why it doesn't sound that good. And has it been on continuously for five years? Another biggie with Naimists. (Seriously, that doesn't look like a great room for those huge - and amazingly ugly - speakers).
What's the turntable - Nottingham Spacedek or something? Oracle Delphi?
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:27 (nine years ago) Permalink
mp3s out a old marantz amp someone gave me and 15 y/o bottom of the line cambridge soundworks speakers all day babay
although i did love to read sudiophile magazines when i worked at a bookstore just for the lulz
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:30 (nine years ago) Permalink
The speakers are nearly to chest height - I'm 5'8".
The Cyrus is just a DAC for his wireless streaming thing. Dunno what the turntable is. The room is big but odd; it's a loft that used to be three bedrooms. There's a (low) double bed behind the speakers, plus a desk, which is where I slept (not the desk) (although that picture was taken at 6am so sleeping wasn't exactly urgent and key that weekend).
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:31 (nine years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I really wish someone had just given me a peek into my co-habiting/flat in communal block/married-with-kids future when I was handing over the moolah for all my gear in 1996-97. I wish I'd just got something good/2nd-hand with a small footprint (Cyrus CD/integrated, ProAc speakers, something like that; maybe a Pro-Ject record deck, old Marantz cassette deck, NAD tuner, cables from Maplin) and STOPPED there. Think of all the photographic gear I could've bought with the money saved if I'd just contracted that particular hobbyist bug a decade earlier!
(Ah, DAC for wireless streaming; the Naim box-stacking is kinda insane - external power supplies for everything. Makes my Audiolab pre/mono arrangement look positively understated).
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:38 (nine years ago) Permalink
The speakers are Naim DBLs. They weigh about 15st each. Retail these days at £15k. When he got them, in 2000, they should have been £12k. He got them for £4k cos they were "shop-soiled" - the band he's in had an arrangement with Naim and they'd been using them as a playback set-up when they recorded an album in a country house, and the guitarist's dog had taken a bite out of the bottom corner of one, or something.
I'm kind of glad I've had a brush with stuff that's seriously high-end because it's warned me off a bit. Our flat's not that small, but it's a flat nonetheless, and, you know, I want stuff on the walls and holidays and a new camera and stuff maybe too.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:42 (nine years ago) Permalink
I think my main response to audiophilia these days is that the best way to make your hi-fi sound great is to play better records on it.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
How so?
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 15:50 (nine years ago) Permalink
the best way to make your hi-fi sound great is to play better records on it.
b i n g o
― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 16:28 (nine years ago) Permalink
if anyone is looking for really great speakers that won't break your bank....i bought these about a year ago and couldn't be more pleased with them...they are really surprising given the price and size:
Epos ELS 3 mini monitors:
http://www.musicdirect.com/product/73457
i run them with a Cambridge Audio integrated amp w/Cambridge phono pre-amp.....
My turntable is a Rega P1 -- one thing on that i would recommend is buying a glass platter and also i replaced the original ortofon cartridge with a Denon DL 160 cartridge which is a fucking amazing cartridge for the price...
For CD player I run a really really old NAD one that I got off craigslist for $35...it works pretty well, has a hard time tracking CD-Rs but will play them after awhile (it's from 87 though so I guess there weren't even CD-Rs then)
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 16:38 (nine years ago) Permalink
Post more pics of slobs in garrets seasoned with with ridiculous sound systems and ugly furniture.
― Gorge, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:18 (nine years ago) Permalink
I really like the coffee table.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:38 (nine years ago) Permalink
I think my favourite way / place to listen to music these days, rather than the big sofa and NAD / Cambridge Audio / Tannoy / proper rack & stands set-up in the living room, with everything anchored in a nice triangle, blah blah, equidistant from rear walls, speakers toed in, is the hotch-potch system in the back room, with the knackered Marantz CD, 20-year-old Marantz amp, DAC, and diddy Q Acoustics speakers. Cos I have space, peace, my comfy chair, books, headphones, no TV or console to distract.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 8 May 2008 17:24 (nine years ago) Permalink
Those are the kind of speakers you buy to justify having previously bought Monster Cable.
― kenan, Thursday, 8 May 2008 18:31 (nine years ago) Permalink
What's the sensitivity rating on those things? It might be all show, but they certainly look like they could bring on an involuntary bowel movement.
― kenan, Thursday, 8 May 2008 18:36 (nine years ago) Permalink
i guess i feel like their TVs are still good and the baby monitors we bought were the first ones that worked after 2 tries and their headphones still seem goodbut i don't have like an amp of theirs, old CD player of theirs i had was a champ
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 August 2016 19:57 (eleven months ago) Permalink
depends what i'm doing tho
the only thing that is still tricky for me is monitoring vocals when i'm the one singing
tried a few and couldn't even use the studio's standard headphones they use for monitoring vocals -- forget which ones we were using, but it was a nightmare that basically ruined the entire ep
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 29 August 2016 19:59 (eleven months ago) Permalink
I am in possession of samples of both the foil & the cream
update to follow
― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 29 August 2016 20:27 (eleven months ago) Permalink
Also, his speaker-placement renders the concept of stereo separation mute.
I see what you did there
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Monday, 29 August 2016 20:34 (eleven months ago) Permalink
But, nevertheless, subconsciously, we are still attempting to resolve these energy patterns and anything we cannot resolve causes us to remain under tension. Or, we are actually interpreting these (new, strange) energy patterns to mean, ‘danger’, ‘predator’, ‘intruder’ and we therefore remain under tension because we can never resolve them.
the next stage in extreme audiophila is going to be self-help, that is, you can't really expect all your expensive audio components to function well unless you have harmony within yourself. so first you need to start paying for this expensive new-age therapy, and once all of your inner anxieties and neuroses are resolved, we can get to work on your stereo system.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 29 August 2016 20:59 (eleven months ago) Permalink
i mean, your brain (and ears) are really the most essential part of any audio set-up, so why would you spend $30,000 on a turntable but any less than that on inner harmony? doesn't make sense, does it?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 29 August 2016 21:00 (eleven months ago) Permalink
gotta lube up your brain with the audiophile cream
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 August 2016 21:08 (eleven months ago) Permalink
...or, some good reefer.
― bodacious ignoramus, Monday, 29 August 2016 21:10 (eleven months ago) Permalink
you should probably just ram an electrical pole right through your brain, that should do it
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 29 August 2016 21:11 (eleven months ago) Permalink
i can totally see audiophiles getting fancy ear cleanses just so they can hear sound in its more 'purer form'
this discussion has to have already been brought up on one of the hifi message boards
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 29 August 2016 21:12 (eleven months ago) Permalink
i mean the biggest impediment to enjoying listening to music is inner distraction... that should really be every audiophile's priority.
perhaps they are being distracted by obsessing over their audio systems, and that is keeping them from hearing the music to its fullest. what then?
http://rob.conery.io/img/2015/09/recursion_title.jpg
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 29 August 2016 21:14 (eleven months ago) Permalink
imo a lot of this is self-help through retail therapy or externalizing mental anxiety in external phenomena that you then spend time controlling through tweaking
― mh 😏, Monday, 29 August 2016 21:31 (eleven months ago) Permalink
that was my implicit point...
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 29 August 2016 21:35 (eleven months ago) Permalink
but if you just fix your brain you don't end up with cool speakers
― mh 😏, Monday, 29 August 2016 21:36 (eleven months ago) Permalink
Non believers get slathered in cream and covered with stickers
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 August 2016 21:36 (eleven months ago) Permalink
sign me up
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Monday, 29 August 2016 21:44 (eleven months ago) Permalink
― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, August 29, 2016 1:27 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hyped for this
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Monday, 29 August 2016 21:50 (eleven months ago) Permalink
no doubt
― goole, Monday, 29 August 2016 22:05 (eleven months ago) Permalink
Sony, really? I had such poor experiences with their gear from the 90s and oughts that i swore off their nameplate completely. Glad you have luck with them, tho.
― bodacious ignoramus, Monday, August 29, 2016 8:45 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Had a terrible midi system from them in the early 90s, and have stayed away from most of their stuff ever since, but they were the only make of walkman-related stuff I'd ever have considered, and I swore by their earphones for years as well.
But yeah. That midi-system, with the shitty turntable and the tape deck that ran too slow. Fuck Sony.
― beer say hi to me (stevie), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 07:39 (eleven months ago) Permalink
Was in the market for a new set of headphones for in the house so ordered a pair of those Sony 7506's.
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 10:22 (eleven months ago) Permalink
The internal grille is in the shape of the Fibonacci pattern, supposedly to ensure minimal sound colouration
http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/sony-celebrates-70th-anniversary-by-releasing-high-end-signature-series#y2xHBH0p0qfFIUvD.99
― just sayin, Sunday, 4 September 2016 10:04 (eleven months ago) Permalink
supposedly
― Austin, Sunday, 4 September 2016 19:50 (eleven months ago) Permalink
who really knows
― ǂbait (seandalai), Sunday, 4 September 2016 22:05 (eleven months ago) Permalink
We don't know that's exactly why it would be irresponsible NOT to make internal grilles in the shape of the Fibonacci pattern
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 4 September 2016 22:32 (eleven months ago) Permalink
i prefer true fractals to the fibonacci sequence. fibonacci is a little muddy in the midrange
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Sunday, 4 September 2016 23:23 (eleven months ago) Permalink
http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/28/13088070/mrspeakers-ether-flow-review-planar-magnetic-headphones
If the recording is perfect, like my copy of Renaud Garcia-Fons’ Mediterranees, you can just sit back and relax, but most modern music isn’t purely acoustic and has a bunch of imperfections and little pieces of aural grit — and the Ether Flows expose every last one of them.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 17:55 (ten months ago) Permalink
A friend of mine is DJing at this place in a couple of weeks...
http://spiritland.com/
Kuzma turntable, Atelier du Triode monoblocs, Living Voice horn speakers. I hope she doesn't mash the stylus.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:01 (ten months ago) Permalink
I hope she just plugs her iPod shuffle in with an aux cord
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:02 (ten months ago) Permalink
stand behind the mixing desk playing through her iphone speaker imo
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:13 (ten months ago) Permalink
Ha ha. "I'm off for a piss, just keep skipping the ads on Spotify, yeah?"
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:39 (ten months ago) Permalink
I started a related thread:The musical taste of tech reviewers S/D
― schwantz, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 01:15 (eight months ago) Permalink
https://audiobacon.net/2017/03/16/sotm-dcbl-cat7-review/
This review of a $600 "audiophile Ethernet cable" is fucking incredible. "If you aren’t a complete neophyte to high-end audio, you’ll know that quantitative measurements could only go so far."
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 1 June 2017 18:00 (two months ago) Permalink
Being so impressed with these cables, I brought them over to my friend’s place with a $60,000 speaker system. He was using generic CAT7 this entire time (He wasn’t embarrassed until after this demo).
who knew the internet could sound so warm?
― Moodles, Thursday, 1 June 2017 18:03 (two months ago) Permalink
Everyone’s setup is different and I would suggest you try cables in various locations and see what you like. Generally, the acoustic traits of the cable closest to the source takes precedence.
lol this is low key amazing, the idea that one part of the signal chain would have a greater influence over the overall output than another, golf clap for that one
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 June 2017 18:06 (two months ago) Permalink
Beck – Lost Cause (96/24)The CAT6 is still very music but not as atmospheric.CAT6 is much flatter and the bass lacks weight and slam.The CAT7 made a huge difference in the melody and construction of this song. The intro comes to life with all its intricate sounds.Very holographic. The CAT6…all of it is smeared together. You really don’t know what you’re missing.
you honestly don't what you're missing until you've heard Beck smeared together into a big hologram
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 June 2017 18:07 (two months ago) Permalink
THAT'S NOT HOW DIGITAL WORKS GODDAMNIT
― the evening redness at the injection site (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 1 June 2017 18:40 (two months ago) Permalink
I probably missed a Beck "resulting paste" joke there
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 June 2017 18:49 (two months ago) Permalink
it's really not how it works
― softie (silby), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:07 (two months ago) Permalink
it's not even in the same ballpark with reality
― mh, Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:09 (two months ago) Permalink
I'm not sure if I want to listen to "Lost Cause" with the bass "slamming," tbqh.
(please no jokes here about not wanting to listen to "Lost Cause" at all, tyvm)
― Guy Pidgeotto (Tom Violence), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:36 (two months ago) Permalink
CAT7 made a huge difference in the melody and construction of this song
this is literally true
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:40 (two months ago) Permalink
at least they're appropriately soundtracking the performance of their own disease with that test source
― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:58 (two months ago) Permalink
this has to be a parody
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 1 June 2017 21:43 (two months ago) Permalink
Parity is the least of their problems.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 2 June 2017 01:27 (two months ago) Permalink
- But what about CAT5. what if we made CAT5 carry the same bits at the same time?- But these are CAT7. </Tufnel>
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Friday, 2 June 2017 04:45 (two months ago) Permalink
Am looking to buy an old 1970s amp off eBay, but have read on forums and the like a lot of chatter about pairing certain turntables with certain amps. Is this snake-oil-esque nonsense, or do I really have to tread carefully here?
― Senator Luther Strange (stevie), Friday, 11 August 2017 15:22 (one week ago) Permalink
sounds kind of dumb, unless they're talking about newer turntables that have the phono preamp in the turntable rather than relying on that in the amp, as most older ones had
― mh, Friday, 11 August 2017 15:27 (one week ago) Permalink
Yeah, I think it's kind of people who are "hi-fi experts" indulging their hi-fi expertism. My hearing's pole-axed by two decades of gigs so I just want one that sounds good and has VU meters why because they are KOOL
― Senator Luther Strange (stevie), Friday, 11 August 2017 15:29 (one week ago) Permalink
I mean... different things can sound different together but I you gotta remember forum posters are all the type who have loud, violent opinions about what are, to most people, minor differences. I wouldn't sweat it too much.
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 12 August 2017 03:25 (one week ago) Permalink