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words and something in between may 1 2026 browntr ai audio blog a while back i saw rick beato in a youtube video where he was part of a cbs saturday morning story on ai in music the prompt he gave suno was minimal and the song it produced was actually quite good good enough that listeners were asking who the artist was and how they could follow them that stuck with me since then i set up a suno account and started playing around i published a few songs that have had zero listens other than me which is perfectly fine it was more about experimenting than anything else fast forward to read more reviving a classic hifiman he 400 custom cable adapter project march 28 2026 march 28 2026 browntr audio blog in july 2025 i picked up a pair of hifiman he 400 planar magnetic headphones at a flea market for 20 at that price it was worth the gamble but what i didn t expect was just how good they sounded the he 400 delivers that classic early planar sound solid bass smooth presentation and an overall musical signature that still holds up today but like most older hifiman gear it came with a couple of issues that needed attention the challenges 1 aging ear pads the ear pad mounting rings were dry rotted and falling apart pretty typical for headphones of this age that was an easy read more scratching the audio gear itch at cause for paws march 17 2026 browntr audio blog it seems like friday afternoons might be the sweet spot for thrift store hunting this past friday i stopped into the cause for paws store and came across two items that at their price i simply couldn t pass up one of them i didn t even fully understand at first glance it looked like a black geodesic dome with a bang olufsen b o logo on top price 7 99 into the cart it went the second find i recognized immediately a sony bdp s570 blu ray player for 11 99 that one i knew was worth grabbing because it s one of the sony read more thrift store find refurbishing a pioneer pd f507 25 disc cd changer march 8 2026 browntr audio blog every once in a while a thrift store run turns into a small audio adventure that happened recently when i spotted a pioneer pd f507 sitting on the shelf for 16 99 for someone who enjoys vintage audio gear and still spins plenty of cds a working multi disc player at that price was hard to pass up what followed was a fun little project part thrift store gamble part light refurbishment that turned out better than expected the thrift store test when buying used cd players especially changers there s always a bit of risk mechanical complexity is usually the downfall of older units before committing to read more sony cdp 209es a 16 es gamble that paid off february 25 2026 february 25 2026 browntr audio blog the pawn shop find several months ago i bought this cd player at my local national pawn shop it was listed for 19 and i think i paid 16 out the door i verified the tray opened and closed before i bought it but i didn t have a cd with me to test playback for 16 i felt it was worth the risk once home i loaded a disc and waited for the familiar whirring spin up and nothing nada zilch we were heading to my in laws for dinner so i didn t have time to dig into it i took read more kz axas iem with m2 usb dsp cable february 24 2026 february 26 2026 browntr audio blog i recently purchased the kz axas iems i originally opted for the 3 5mm cable but i ran into some mic issues during microsoft teams calls for work i ended up ordering the usb c dac dsp version and the difference is noticeable the usb c cable features a built in dac with four eq modes indicated by an led backlit kz logo on the plug switching modes is easy via a small gray button green slight bass roll off but fuller than the red mode blue the bass head setting maximum bass boost with a slight treble reduction red leanest bass response with a slight boost to read more pioneer se 305 driver update january 29 2026 browntr blog i picked up a pair of pioneer se 305 headphones at a flea market for 5 a while back other than replacing the cable getting both channels working again and installing new ear pads they were in decent shape i listened to them for a while and found that the music that suited them best came from the era they were manufactured most of the 1970s which for me meant classic rock always looking for a small project i started watching some youtube content on swapping drivers in vintage headphones after poking around on amazon i decided to try an inexpensive option that read more music experimentation january 8 2026 january 8 2026 browntr ai audio blog over the holidays i created several songs using suno to mark birthdays meaningful people and personal milestones while some may argue that these are not true musical creations the reality is that many drafts were discarded before the music finally captured what i was trying to express the collection begins with chamber leaning instrumentals rooted in classical textures and gradually moves toward more modern neo ambient interpretations to close the set none of the pieces were titled during the process it was only after listening back following a couple of long twelve hour workdays that i realized what i had thought were darker prompts had read more growing headphone collection april 28 2025 may 7 2025 browntr audio blog it s been a couple of good months for adding to my headphone collection the most recent acquisition is a pair of meze 99 classics from picasso pawn the markdown wasn t quite in my normal range but it was fair with all sales final these sound great and have a very balanced output with boosts where i like them and they are very clear with good separation the only problem noted is that one ear cup has a short that i can ignore for the most part unless something bumps the connector on that cup and the sound momentarily drops from read more sony mdr z7m2 headphones pawn find december 2 2024 browntr audio blog i am a discount audio shopper finding much of my budget audiophile gear at local pawn shops and on marketplace these sony headphones are my latest find from a local national pawn shop and purchased for 125 after a little haggling i probably had seen these in the case and they didn t pique my interest based on them being from sony but when they showed up in the clearance case i gave them a second look i got out my cheap lightning to 3 5mm dongle and pulled up subsonic and replayed my last song which turned out to be easy read more google fiber triangle a tale of two experiences november 21 2023 browntr blog consumer first i have to say my personal experience with google fiber gf since getting it a few years ago has been great the speed is consistent and if there is a problem i may not have noticed it will be reflected as a discount on my monthly bill my install process was uneventful in part due to my prep work to run a pull string from the back of my home through the crawl space up the corner of the garage to my office where i needed the connection the install team was super appreciative of the pull string and read more updated photography favorites webinar and motivation november 8 2023 november 8 2023 browntr blog photography over the past couple of years and recent shooting for family has resulted in a few additions my favorites category on my performancepixel web gallery this is a portrait made of my niece raven a couple of weeks before her wedding today i am in a photography webinar with some great talks from joe mcnally harold davis chris knight david ulrich lindsay adler and chris orwig to name a few these are all authors for rocky nook publishing tomorrow it will be great to hear from scott kelby as well one thing i find with my photography hobby is self read more subjectivity of senses march 26 2023 april 7 2023 browntr audio blog this quote from carl jung conveys what i believe about the abilities of human senses especially when applied to human hearing which should be considered by reviewers before attempting to wax eloquently about audiophile equipment on an empty stomach or desiring of a soothing beverage it is not easy to grasp this point but the point must be grasped if we are to know more about the ways in which the human mind works man as we realize if we reflect for a moment never perceives anything fully or comprehends anything completely he can see hear touch and taste read more infragard what s missing is you what s missing is some modicum of membership support march 9 2023 march 9 2023 browntr blog politics many years ago i wrote a sans paper on community policing the internet give me a break on the grammar chatgpt wasn t a thing in 2003 in my paper i tout the the mission of infragard a local chapter based community outreach organization fostered by the fbi to the point the fbi provided background checks on persons wanting to join for its ability to engage the frontline personnel employed by critical infrastructure sectors it gave the fbi a means to get their agents in front of these members to start putting names with faces and hopefully trading contact information read more openai chatgpt an interview of sorts december 28 2022 march 23 2023 browntr blog consumer bard is out and i was able to ask and compare answers from chatgpt check out this pdf for details recent links for the topic https news google com search q artificial 20intelligence 20news hl en us gl us ceid us 3aenhttps www nytimes com 2023 01 20 technology chatbots turing test htmlhttps www nytimes com 2023 01 20 technology google chatgpt artificial intelligence html below you will find my initial post where i ask a series of questions using the openai chatgpt web interface i won t say the responses were alarming or revealing they are more of a politicians well rehearsed answers more recently i tried the openai python code generator while completing some exercises in the learn to code by solving problems a python programming primer by daniel zingaro book i am reading i had already completed read more free geoip lookups accuracy november 2 2022 browntr blog linux python my shell script i use to lookup geoip information recently started failing on the json tool jq portions and instead of trying to fix it i rewrote it in python the original shell script leveraged api ipgeolocation io which turned out to be fairly inaccurate on the information returned original shell script code api key is if you register with the site located in lahore pk bin shif ne 1 then echo usage geoip sh ip_address exit 1fiapi_key redactedcurl ss request get url api ipgeolocation io ipgeo apikey api_key ip 1 python3 m json tool jq ip ip isp isp city city state_province state_prov region_code region_code country_name country_name country_code read more western nc vacation 2022 august 8 2022 september 15 2022 browntr blog for a second time we leveraged vrbo to locate a vacation rental our first vrbo experience was with a rental in smith mountain lake in virginia a few years ago this time we were headed to the boone area in north carolina late in in trying to find a place we booked only a few days before our trip at a home about 20 minutes outside of boone toward tennessee in the cove creek vilas area this place was amazing with three bedrooms and a bath attached to each one the kitchen dinning and living room were open and read more strava activity august 4 2022 august 29 2023 browntr fitness not much riding for me in 2022 i have a left hip issue torn labrum that doesn t need surgery at this point but had a hernia repair surgery instead right now i am up in western nc on george s gap rd watching the occasional cyclist come down the road below our vrbo rental i have to wonder who has the strava record on this segment to locate the area on strava do explore then segment search and search for georges gap vilas nc linking to a strava map of the area is no go for some reason but here is read more amazon music listening on linux april 21 2022 may 8 2022 browntr audio blog from what i can tell the options to get an amazon music player running under linux is limited with the end of support announcement from nuvola player at the end of 2022 plus i have not been able to get nuvola working with ubuntu 20 04 one quick fix to try in linux is a user agent switcher if you are like me you visit the music amazon com site with firefox only to be told the version is not supported and you need to upgrade to the latest version the only problem is the latest ff for linux is installed working in read more thinking out loud on a global stage march 7 2022 december 29 2022 browntr blog politics i have recently read two op ed pieces concerning the lead up to the putin war to re assimilate ukraine one by thomas l friedman and another piece by robert gates expounding his thoughts on future of threats from china and russia and a return to military buildup by the u s and bringing back aid programs the first piece i read talked about how the north atlantic treaty organization nato probably helped to push putin into a corner from which he now fights to regain former soviet states in a new russian empire where america and nato could share the blame that read more topping dx3 pro dac february 25 2022 april 7 2023 browntr audio blog i was trying to locate something more than a headphone amp for listening to my cd player old cambridge audio dvd89 my laptop via usb for high res streams and other devices i might connect digitally to the inputs the topping dx3 pro has a good number of inputs the least used for me is the bluetooth but it s a nice convenience when i am not concerned about audio quality i finally figured out how to get sound from the unit when i make a bluetooth connection from my stereo receiver which is sending ldac the sony receiver s bluetooth tx works with read more audio snake oil ˈsnāk ˌoil january 21 2022 november 7 2022 browntr audio blog snake oil ˈsnāk ˌoil noun informal north american noun snake oil noun snakeoil a substance with no real medicinal value sold as a remedy for all diseases a product policy etc of little real worth or value that is promoted as the solution to a problem the new tax plan was denounced as snake oil over the past few years i have looked at updating and upgrading my headphones audio devices and getting back into to listening to music with a more critical ear as i started on this journey i found there were either cheap inexpensive budget conscious expensive or read more dell xps 8930 woes july 9 2021 november 7 2022 browntr consumer as much as i would like to say my experience with the new dell xps 8930 tower computer has been uneventful i can t say that and regret this purchase after my experience with dell support and their attempted repair the issue started at the end of may when the built in sd card reader quit working i had just used it the week before to inventory a bunch of cards i had lying around and better to know i can reformat them in the camera without worry i that had not yet imported them into lightroom the only updates 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