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In our last episode, we were eating Korean BBQ. The meats are usually cut thinly, so pay attention, and do not leave them on the grill too long.
Which brings us to the AudioQuest Hawk Eye digital cable. After a mere two days on the audiodharma Cable Cooker, it exhibited signs of being over-Cooked. So we put it back on overnight, and sure enough, it was indeed over-Cooked. So, the Hawk Eye is among the those requiring the least amount of Cook time.
When we were in high school during the Spring 1988 semester, Johnny Hates Jazz made their American debut. My friends, including ACS, loved their album, Turn Back The Clock. But at the end of the year, songwriter and lead singer Clark Datchler left, and JHJ were set adrift.
Without much fanfare, Datchler returned around 2010. This led to a new album, 2013's critically-acclaimed Magnetized. ACS and I liked and appreciated "Release Me," which was about letting go.
At the time, ACS and I both worked on the Mid-Peninsula. We'd occasionally get together. She and her family did not have a stereo, and usually got their music via streaming and satellite radio. Who knows? Maybe internet and Sirius were the best ways to find the songs from JHJ's Magnetized.
Stanford ran the nonprofit I was working for. So ACS and I would go there, to explore and work out. Understand that ACS graduated from Cal, which always lost to Stanford. But the irreverent and nonchalant ACS didn't give a f---. She said, "Who cares if I'm a 40-year-old MILF from Cal? Who cares how bad I reek? Who cares if there aren't any exercises to shrink my rump? Who cares if I'm a creeper, staring at guys half my age?"
And in the women's locker room, ACS bypassed the "tiny and restrictive" individual stalls, and instead used the open communal showers. She didn't care if anyone from coeds to sports teams to old professors stared at her.
The over-Cooked AQ Hawk Eye needs regular playing time, so let us use the Simaudio Mind 180 as a source.
If MP3 from internet radio sounds big and full-bodied, that means the Hawk Eye is over-Cooked. When ACS and I were girlfriend/boyfriend in the mid-90s, we had the Hawk Eye's older sister, the Digital Pro. ACS always busied herself, and often let foods cook for too long.
And let us use the matching Simaudio Moon 100D DAC. Eh, might as well keep it in the family, and bring out the AQ Diamond line-level interconnects, which ACS and I had, in the mid-90s.
-Lummy The Loch Monster.
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Topic - AudioQuest Hawk Eye, Part 4 - Luminator 17:51:07 10/07/20 (0)
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