Sony WF-1000XM5s. The ANC is better than anything I have tried in years. I got them because I tried loops and was disappointed with how little they did. The quality of music through them is a really positive secondary purpose for me.
I have XM4s and MDR-v6 headphones. Sony headphones are great.
Heat pump water heater, and fuck yeah, it’s neat!
I moved out to the middle of nowhere for work. The sky is amazing at night, so I don’t run visible lights outside. It’s dark as hell. I picked up a set of night vision. Pricey but worth it.
Never in my life did I expect to get excitement and antipation waiting on our very first manure spreader to arrive but here I am, cannot wait for it to get here.
Let me tell you, if you need a manure spreader and don’t have one…shit piles up quick.
Electronic Unicycle: it’s likely going to kill me, but it’s a ton of fun to ride. Mines capable of 60mph/95kmph. Took about a week to ride confidently but definitely worth it.Whhhaaattt?? 60mph?! What brand, I must know!
We redid the kids/guest/common bathroom recently. But I bought a pretty pricey toilet for the second bathroom that’s closer our our room. It has a seat warmer and a washlet seat. I build and remodel houses for work so a lot of my week is using a portable toilet. I figured weekends should be a little nicer and parts of me deserved some pampering. Man, I was right. 10/10 would recommend.
I’m not sure if it’s worth it yet because it has not been delivered yet, but it’s a new Synthesiser I’ve wanted for a number of years.
Looking forward to the wave of creativity that usually follows when I get new gear
As a tinkerer musician, even a mini MIDI keyboard with some drum pads and minor synth options was 🔥 I can’t imagine a full on synth! 🤘🏻
Whatcha getting?
I grabbed the OP-1 Field off the back of their (sorta) choose your own price thing they’re doing this month.
I’ve messed around with a friend’s original OP-1 a number of times and I just find it a really creative way to get some ideas down quickly. It’s also quite different from my usual workflow, so it means I don’t fall into the same comfortable techniques.
Oh that is interesting. I always think those little TE units sound great and I love what others do with them in live jams, but the price and workflow makes my brain wince. It’s cool to see them experimenting with pricing. Taking yourself into unfamiliar workflows sounds like a great way to steer yourself toward different results.
I’m relatively new in my journey with keyed instruments. I went into it originally wanting a synth of some sort, but the gf says her ears bleed from me watching gear video. I ended up with a Mark I Rhodes, and that lead me to taking piano lessons, so now I’m at the opposite end of where I started, though I hook my Roland piano to a laptop to play with VSTs and I have a Verselab to do electronic stuff when she’s out doing stuff.
It’s amazing how different the Rhodes, the piano, and a synth or organ are to use in a way that sounds correct, even though they all look like the same instrument. I feel I developed a lot musically from messing with all of them and I’ve learned to appreciate sounds and styles and genres I never would have pictured myself as interested in before.
I hope you have a lot of fun with it!
Had to get PC upgraded bcus old one don’t work any more . Has enough VRAM for local image generation , ftmp don’t hafta deal with limitations of online generation services anymore !
I bought a dehumidifier in January it was a couple of hundred. I fucking love it don’t know how I lived without it.
crazy, I was thinking of buying an humidifier!
I got a cheap ultrasonic-type humidifier recently and it was a huge mistake. The water particulates killed one of my houseplants and put two more on life support.
I definitely felt more comfortable with it around but I’m gonna have to get a different type next winter.
It’s 100% worth it! I got a delonghi Tbf I’ve only had it since December so I can’t comment on longevity, but clothes dry far faster and I don’t have manky black bits on the kitchen wall.
I got a new RC airplane. A SIG Kadet LT-40 ARF (Almost Ready to Fly). It’s a trainer with a 70" wingspan (~1.8 meters)
A lot of RC airplanes these days come ready to go… almost everything is pre-installed including the electric motor, ESC (electronic speed controller), servos, control surface hinges, you name it. The problem is they’re all made out of styrofoam, and while they work and fly well enough, they don’t appeal to me as much as a balsa and plywood model where you pick all of the components yourself.
To me it’s like the difference between buying a prebuilt computer that comes with Windows on it vs building my own computer.
This one is an ARF, which means the major components are pre-built, but there is some final gluing and assembly to do.
The Kadet LT-40 is a trainer, and I only got it so I can teach other people how to fly should the need arise. All in, I’ve spent about $950 on it. I bought good quality stuff which increases the cost, plus I even bought a 2nd transmitter to use as a buddy box during training. The student will use one transmitter, and I’ll have my transmitter in hand ready to take over before they crash.
With cheaper components I could have reduced the cost by $200 at least. To me it’s worth the extra in order to have stuff that I know is good quality.
Was it worth it? I think it will be, yes. I’ve been flying RC planes on and off for 20 years, and even if I don’t have any students, this will be fun for me to fly.
I went to engineering school in the US. Twice.
No. Lol.
Come to Europe. The Fraunhofer needs engineers.
new glasses for €1300. they had to be customised to fit my head. so far, they have fucked up my prescription twice. so no.
Sorry to hear
A laundry basket with legs that you can fold out.
I have to hang-dry my laundry (I live in Japan), so being able to raise the basket high enough so that I don’t have to bend to the ground every time to grab the next item is worth it.
Technically, it’s not that recent, nor that expensive, but it was like double the price of the laundry basket next to it at the store.
A decent camera, and yeah. I’ve had a fairly good camera for a while, but getting one that takes the photos I see has been a game changer - previously I always felt they needed editing, and I never really had the inclination to learn that very well. Now they mostly look like what I want straight out of camera, so I’m printing them more often, and enjoying the whole process a lot more
Not super expensive, but more than I would normally spend on a countertop appliance. But a small dishwasher. Pour in a gallon and half up top, put the evac hose in the sink, little bit of Cascade powder (the cheap stuff works best I have no clue why people buy the expensive tablets), and it gets them cleaner than I can by hand.
