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    Juno fly-by: Ganymede and Jupiter

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    Here comes the Sound Screw

    and screw your sound The Sound Screw, developed by Håkan Wernersson of the Department of Materials Science and Applied Mathematics at Sweden’s Malmö University, is a more streamlined solution that requires no custom installation tools. Whereas a traditional drywall screw holds a panel of...
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    The glass octopus

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    Best Sounding FM Tuner?

    My new MD90SE with the 105 audio upgrade; already received my touch of Vishay bypass caps and Mundorf electrolytics (higher voltage rating, 10x the lifetime; not a fan of those Daewoo FHS it comes with), which were very hard to replace but worth paying someone 2-3 hours to do it if you are not...
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    Blood sugar testing for diabetics using the saliva

    Done https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/australian-scientists-develop-pain-free-blood-sugar-test-diabetics-2021-07-13/
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    New Pilium Gear!!!!

    You keep raising the bar... I am fine with it, as long as Pillium can deliver
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    New Pilium Gear!!!!

    A "bargain"... a rather high bar... OK
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    New Pilium Gear!!!!

    You/they can do whatever you want. Like everything else, though, it attracts scrutiny. If you think the product and pricing is competitive, so be it.
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    New Pilium Gear!!!!

    In 40 years, my observation has been that it takes 10-15 years for a new brand to establish a great, mature design, any which way I look at it. They may be that old, but the design is not proven enough in the field
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    New Pilium Gear!!!!

    Example: How long did it take Pass to have a two-chassis preamp stratospherically priced; compare with: ALEXANDER PREAMP Double Chassis $49,900usd
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    New Pilium Gear!!!!

    Feels way too expensive for a newcomer with no established reputation
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    The magneto-rotational hypernova - a much more intense supernova

    https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-detected-a-new-type-of-explosion-in-space-a-magneto-rotational-hypernova The discovery of an ancient star SMSS J2003-1142 in the Milky Way's halo — which is the roughly spherical region that surrounds the galaxy — is providing the first evidence for...
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    Pass XP-20 DB-25 Umbilical upgrade: Has anyone any suggestions on how much of a difference and what brand?

    And thank you for mentioning it to me Marc
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    To the cadavers: Kidney stones

    @Steve Williams Is pain during urination a sign of passing small stones, or an infection
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    Pass XP-20 DB-25 Umbilical upgrade: Has anyone any suggestions on how much of a difference and what brand?

    Using it on my phono as well, replacing that Pass junk printer cable - wow, indeed
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    To the cadavers: The anatomy of a heart attack

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    To the cadavers: Kidney stones

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    Measuring power line capacity with the IDEAL SureTest, and the effect of Shunyata power products

    I just reread the QR/BB patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US10031536B2/en more carefully. As I mentioned earlier, it appears the SureTest device does not appear to be able to properly measure how my Denali v2 (and other products of yours) behaves in reality with respect to instantaneous...
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    Measuring power line capacity with the IDEAL SureTest, and the effect of Shunyata power products

    Thanks Grant
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    Over 100 black holes in the Palomar 5 star cluster

    https://phys.org/news/2021-07-astronomers-oversized-black-hole-population.html Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster. In a paper published today in Nature Astronomy, an international team of astrophysicists led by the University of Barcelona show that distinguishing features of Palomar 5 are...
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    Measuring power line capacity with the IDEAL SureTest, and the effect of Shunyata power products

    +1 In here, it's characteristic how quiet my phono has become, to the point I have raised the gain to an astonishing 76dB. And that's due to the lack of radiated 60Hz hum from the plethora of cords I have in close proximity. Night and day from a year ago. This electromagnetic tranquility is also...
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    Measuring power line capacity with the IDEAL SureTest, and the effect of Shunyata power products

    Yes there are significant differences as I measured them in here. For example the Ching Cheng 10awg that came with my Pass XP-25 drops about 30A of peak current, compared to the Venom V10 NR's 5 (as shown earlier); and the non-NR V10 XC drops nothing. I also care about the fact the Shunyata are...
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    Measuring power line capacity with the IDEAL SureTest, and the effect of Shunyata power products

    Well, true on the lack of emphasis, but there are those of us who have at least replaced some C14 receptacles in components, like my Pass phono
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    First 4.5-billion-pixel of Mars by NASA’s Perseverance Rover (360 video 8K)

    Interactive 8K video - switch to 8K if on such a display
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    Measuring power line capacity with the IDEAL SureTest, and the effect of Shunyata power products

    @wil impressive results. I am still trying to figure out why a nearby Leviton gives me that 1kA reading but I will take it. I think this is the target I am shooting for in my audio outlets I am seriously thinking the Furutech was designed to soften the sound.
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    Measuring power line capacity with the IDEAL SureTest, and the effect of Shunyata power products

    Yes, and the Furutech never came even close, as shown. More importantly, all outlets in the area are now performing virtually the same, save for one which consistently gives me 1kA peaks; I suspect that one has no splices; not sure. Yes I addressed this later on. The reading on this outlet...
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    Measuring power line capacity with the IDEAL SureTest, and the effect of Shunyata power products

    Porter Port??? You mean Power Port by PS Audio? I have a couple of Hubbell HBL-8300ILR incoming the next couple of days...
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    Alsyvox planars...prepare to sell your Magico's, YG's, Wilson's, Cessaro's. Maggie's, and all others!!

    You may have missed the finer point: no video poster should claim directly or indirectly these videos do justice to an audio system... or else someone's being delusional. The videos are merely a low-tech, low-end, limited-bandwidth, compressed monophonic representation of something, for...
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    Alsyvox planars...prepare to sell your Magico's, YG's, Wilson's, Cessaro's. Maggie's, and all others!!

    If these videos suck and their owners think they are a good representation of the systems in them, do those systems also suck, or are the posters/owners perhaps delusional?
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    A scientifically mysterious, isolated cloud bigger than the Milky Way has been found

    Cosmic weather forecast - or another avant-garde product by Synergistic? A scientifically mysterious, isolated cloud bigger than the Milky Way has been found by a research team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) in a "no-man's land" for galaxies...

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