There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
I have a small living room in a condo with neighbors on the other side of thin walls who I don't wish to provoke into a speaker-war. (He's a bachelor with a good job and isn't dating--he would win, hands down.) A pre-amp feeding two very good speakers is enough for me. No to mention the fact that speakers never look attractive enough to have more than two of them.
Now that I see that smart TVs seem to want to take on the job of being the home theater "switch" these days, I've been looking at pure audio devices to handle just the sound. That means DACs and Amps: lot of options, I know. But you have to spend a lot of money to get a remote. And let me be clear that I understand you can often lower the volume from the TV's remote, but in reality you are actually just choking the signal, and thus degrading the sound. I want to lower the sound, not degrade the sound clarity, and I want to do it from my couch.