What album do I use for testing and how do I do the listening test? These questions come along almost every week, so it's about time I gave a proper answer. But before I give you the titles, we must first discuss how you evaluate the sound quality of a stereo setup. Let's start with the environment where you do the listening test. If that's a dealer's showroom, make sure he connects all components of the setup directly to each other. Consumers that use a switching panel should be avoided, certainly when you spend more than 1000 euros. Lower price setups also work better when the components are connected directly but the question is whether it's fair to demand that much effort from a dealer, especially if you go shopping at busy hours.  You could consult the dealer and even make an appointment. Then ask the dealer if he could suggest a stereo setup just below the money you intend to spend. Listen to that setup for a longer time, half an hour would be great. Then go listen to a possible combination that does fit your budget, using the tactics I will describe later on. Unfortunately not everyone is able to visit the dealer. Judging equipment in your own environment is of course better provided you place the loudspeakers properly. Watch my video loudspeaker placement for my two step approach. This is enormously important for proper adjustment. When all is set up, start listening to music you normally play, do not use so called test records or those tracks you hear on shows. Those are chosen for they easily sound convincing on shows, not because they are a good testing material. Just play your usual music. Don't start evaluating the setup, just enjoy the music. It's good practice to read a book while the music is playing or, that's what I do, play a game of solitaire on your tablets. The thought behind that is simple. When your brain is busy reading a book or playing a game, it will hear the music as background function. Like a Google speaker it listens but it doesn't analyze. Only when something unexpected happens, or in case of a Google speaker their magic phrase, the audio information is analyzed. This is a good way of discovering nasties. If you want to know if a component is better than another, let's say two network players, don't switch from one to the other and back too quickly. Start a track, listen to it for at least some minutes on the first player, then do the same on the second player, using the same track from the start. When judging amplifiers or loudspeakers you can't switch back and forth easily so here it's obvious to listen for a longer period to the first, switch over to the second and listen to the same music for about the same period. It might help to take a notebook, analog or digital, that doesn't matter, and write down your observations. Never use the same limited set of albums for judgement. If you do, you might end up with equipment that does that set of albums very well but sounds far less on other albums. I've said it already earlier, don't use the tracks you hear in every shop and on every Hi-Fi show. Take 5 by Dave Bruberg Quartet, Tin Pan Alley by Stevie Ray Vaughan, famous Blue Raincoat by Jennifer Warnes and so on. And tracks that have only a few instruments are rather simple to reproduce and will sound very open. A popular example never let me go by Keith Jarrett on standards volume 2. Very fine music, very good recording but not too difficult to reproduce. Want a track that really is difficult to reproduce? Take El Tango de Roxanne from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. That is a very complex mix that most likely sounds horrible on your stereo, so you are warned. Do you know the expression can't see the trees from the wood? That's what this track might do to your stereo. But believe me, if all goes well, it's an impressive piece of music. Recordings are made using loudspeakers, called monitors or monitor speakers. Floyd E. Tool has done extensive research on the sound characteristics of studio monitors to conclude that their tonal balance varied considerably. As a result, the tonal balance of recordings, that will be the inverse of the tonal balance of the studio monitors, also very considerable. Since loudspeaker manufacturers use records to voice their consumer speakers, they also will have the inverse tonal balance of the record. Tool even wrote that he can guesstimate the period of the album was recorded by tonal balance. Although there are people that still believe the sound quality can be judged for measurements, this example makes clear that things are a lot more complex. But it is less dramatic than it seems. Remember that each and every concert hall has its own tonal balance in the concert hall and a separate one on stage. Rock concerts use amplification that influences the tonal balance as does the sound engineer that does the mix. Still, you can enjoy music in all those venues. To explain why, I must explain to you how we consume music using the 3 H's. Hips, Heart and Head. Hips stand for a music that makes you move automatically. That can be for instance dance music, Vienna Waltz's or mariachi music, depending on who you are and where you come from. Strong rhythmic clues and heavy bass help here, but so does good pace and rhythm properties of your stereo. There are audio components that, due to time smearing and group delay, distort time information. A good track to test this is Diamonds on the Souls of a Shoes by Paul Simon on Graceland. On some stereos it sounds like if musicians consumed considerable amounts of illegal tranquilizers, while on other equipment they sound almost if they were on speed. The heart stands for emotion. That can be a sad tune or a happy one, but it can also be a trigger to prior experiences. Like Ravel's Bolero might make you think of Bo Derek, if you're old enough.  Audio quality is less important here. Even played over your smartphone's small speaker will bring back memories. This would have been more precise but then you would have gotten HHB or H2B. So head stands for the cognitive process that analyzes and determines what's happening in the music and lyrics.  Enjoying music is of course a mix of the three H's. Even audio equipment is like a helicopter view of these processes. It mustn't get carried away by the three H's but at the same time have to see to what degree they are excited, especially the first and third one, hips and head. Heart is the dangerous one. That song that reminds you of your first love might fork the objective perception. The same goes for that track you played again and again in your room trying to get to grips with your puberty. If brain works in mysterious ways, be warned. Time for some tracks. Since I regularly changed the music I use for listening tests, I checked the play history in Rune to see what I played recently. Let's start with classical music. Rimsky Kossagov's Scheher Razzade track 1, The Sea and Simba's Ship, performed by the Kiev Orchestra directed by Valery Gergiev. It is based on the tales of 1001 night, is very melodic, dynamic and has a very nice acoustic image of the famous concert hall. Taras Bulba by Leosjana Cek, played by the Cek Philharmonic, conducted by Jerzy Bialohavek. It's dynamic with lots of percussive sounds and pizzicatos. One track I have been using intermittently for over three decades is song about Alexander Nevsky by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Choral, directed by André Previn. Each and every voice in the choir is clearly drawn on stage, as if you would immediately miss a person if he went to the bathroom to power his nose. And it's great music too, as are the solo piano works by Chopin and Beethoven. I like to recordings by Fazel Saj very much, like on Beethoven Appassionata, Wallstein the Tempest, track 1, Allegro Assai. It is very dynamic and thus needs sufficient power from the amplifier. Less dynamic but equally beautiful are all nocturnes on Saj's album Chopin Nocturnes. Both albums have a very natural piano sound. It sounds like it's played in a large room rather than in a concert hall. Since I heard quite some piano music from close by over the years, I love that. The lovely Janine Janssen, violinist and compatriot released an album in 2003, that is simply called Janine Janssen. And whether you play track 1, Dans Russ from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake or track 8, Ravel's Tzigan, the beautiful tone of a Stradivarius violin is enchanting. It is the Rivas Baron Gutmann Stradivarius, built in 1707, and Janssen plays the instrument Paraxelons. I'm not much of a jazz fan, let alone specialist. But nevertheless I play some jazz to see what that does to the device on the test. Like for instance Isfahan on Duke Ellington's Far East Suite. There also is a very nice version of Isfahan by Joe Jackson on the album The Duke. Instead of a big band he uses a rock band. Quite different but certainly not less. Another nice track is Memories from Ulrike Haages Selavi. Agreed, it's a bit of ear candy with low lows and high highs but I still enjoy it and it's a good test to see if the rhythm catches you. And now for something completely different. Parolito from the album Travieso Carmeci by Alondra de la Para. Difficult to play genre wise. It's called a Mexican American classical crossover. But that doesn't cover it for me. The La Para conducts her orchestra in a popular music style from the 60s while three well-known Mexican female singers match their voices to it. Let me name one more. The Phantom of the Opera, the original 1987 release with Sara Breitman and Michael Crawford. Track 1 opens with the auction of memorabilia of the Paris Opera. The acoustics is very nice, wide and deep with the auctioneers hammer in the foreground hammering of each cell. It changed over into the Overture, played on synths that mimic a church organ. The deep pedal notes should sound open and have clear texture. If not, you either have an amp that has too little control over the loudspeakers, loudspeakers that have poor low reproduction, poor loudspeaker placement, poor acoustics or any combination of these shortcomings. My most popular rock and pop albums at the moment are by Dutch artists, Dijkers and Strikers by The Dijk and Urk by Knitz. Both are live albums. Amsterdam's Sinfonietta accompanies The Dijk on the first album. Only Dutch lyrics I'm afraid. Knitz are more internationally acclaimed and sing in English. Apart from poetic lyrics and surprisingly unconventional music, Urk is also recorded rather well. See my video Music Tips, the Knitz Urk. A third album by a Dutch artist I like to mention is said sing-along songs by Anouk. From the Anglo-Saxon culture I like to mention Dune Tunes from the 2019 album Level 42 by the group with the same name. In fact any track on the album sounds great and is a good test for bass response and texture. Belfast Charles on the Balance of the Streets EP by The Simple Minds has an amazing atmosphere. On my setup one it's like sitting amongst the audience, very emerging experience. Don't get caught in the poignant lyrics, save that for another day. We're judging audio now, not poetic lyrics. Riders on the Storm by the Doors on LA Woman can also sound great if your stereo is well chosen and if you have the right album version. The finest I could find was the MQA version from Tidal. Also when you don't have an MQA capable playback system. For testing specific parameters I do use tracks repeatedly. For Siblin's judgement I use sketches of Spain from the aforementioned Knitz album Urk. Somewhere, somebody by Jennifer Worms from the album The Hunter or famous Blue Raincoat by the same singer and from the equally named album. But do use the 1987 version only. To see if your stereo is producing a good stereo image you could use the solo albums by Roger Waters, the pros and cons of hitchhiking, radio chaos or a muse to death. The latter being my favourite. Especially track one of the latter can produce a surround soundstage from a stereo setup due to special sound processing by Roland Soundspace. You make sure your speakers are placed correctly and that the early refractions are well taken care of. Again see my loudspeaker placement video. As you have seen I used only a limited number of tracks that are popular by audiophiles. I'm long past the neurotic comparing of small details in sound quality. Playing music over my stereo should give me a musical experience as a result of a total sound image. I've been asked frequently what's better. The RS2 DAC by Denofrips or the D28 by AudioGD. Well they will offer comparable sound quality. That doesn't mean they sound alike. There are differences. But these differences will manifest their cells differently when used on different gear. What remains is they both reproduce music in a way that is very enjoyable given the price category. Dogmas limit you and rules are there to break. So anything I mentioned here is not holy. It is far more important that you find your own ways and certainties. In answers to questions I frequently say, feel the force young audio Jedi, force you feel. Admittedly a poor imitation but that's not the point. The Star Wars Jedi thing is about finding trust in your own power and judgement. That can of course only be achieved by learning and learning is doing. Put aside your prejudices. No using a linear power supply does not automatically make the device sound great. No using an R2R network or an ESS chip doesn't either. Do your homework and then trust your ears. Feel the force. Do not seek truth in marketing facts or measurements. I know there are those that base their entire meaning on measurements and if you are from the same faith, go find your luck there and know you are always welcome back. And on that bombshell I end this video, hoping I have inspired you. There will be another video next Friday at 5pm CET. If you don't want to miss that, subscribe to this channel or follow me on the social media so you will be informed when new videos are out. You can help me reach even more people by clicking the thumbs up icon and mentioning my work on the socials. Many thanks to those viewers that support this channel financially, it keeps me independent and thus trustworthy. If that makes you feel like supporting my work too, the links are in the comments below this video on YouTube. I am Hans Beekhuyzen, thank you for watching and see you in the next show or on theHBproject.com. 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There's Cesar Prieto 100 out of 125 that is for Chris and the Orioles There's a wander Franco rookie card and a Yankel Fernandez. It's a nice one for The Rockies, it's a shimmer parallel not numbered but that'll go to Dylan Ronald Franco rookie card will go to Ryan Harold. Hopefully Maybe we can find a Parallel of this. I'll be pretty cool Maybe some ink for Roderick Arias. That's gonna be for the Yankees Chris Butler. All right next mini box and a redemption it's Carlos Coleman ours for the raise That's the Bowman Invicta autograph variation orange to 25 Nice one Ryan Ryan Harold with the raise got that randomized him in the team random and that the Invicta are These ones they're on a thicker card sock, too. You can see that And orange is usually to 25 and there's Yendri Rojas one out of 50 Padres offered Trey Turner 320 330 million dollars or something like that a lot more than a Then the Phillies deal he turned that down so It's interesting because Kind of lets you know Padres have 300 million plus dollars laying around for somebody Just willing to spend that money On a shortstop too. What were their plans? Are they planning to move? Well, they got to cover for Tetease during his while he serves as suspension But what happens when he comes back where they think in maybe Maybe Maybe move to Tetease Junior to the outfield or something like that first base somewhere else Yeah, oh boy. Yeah, Ryan's like Jacob de Grom is hurt more Than most family deaths and breakups Yeah, the Texas was I mean I Guess the the Texas part doesn't surprise me. They're looking for pitching. I guess the years Surprised me. They gave him like what five or six years. He's following the Nolan Ryan path. There are some Injury question marks which makes me think that That most that I thought he was gonna get three years from somebody or two plus one or something like that You know so Jacob de Grom hated ownership. Rhino. What's up thinking thinking that de Grom deal Might be the next a rod deal. Yeah That's why the years the number of years. He got surprised me a little bit There's a done a ruffella For Boston, that's gonna be for Matthew Shara But I think the Rangers have a beautiful new ballpark You want to keep putting butts in seats?  There's Asia and Placencia 88 out of three out of 499 that is refractors are out of 499 Got a wander shades of greatness insert The refractor goes to Wade and the angels There's the ace in the Morabelle speaking of the Rangers 219 out of 250 There's Jeremy Pena and his maybe future teammate Quincy Hamilton 247 out of 299 speckle autograph for Mark and the Astros Astros they're they're big signing in the off-season Jose O'bray you and they might not be done yet Yeah, I'm kill Fernandez, Colorado That's gonna be for Dylan other shades of greatness wander Franco Yasser Mercedes Edgar and the twins and the buzz for Tampa Bay 22 out of 250 it'll also be for Ryan H. All right next It's a couple memes Rex is saying one with Kate Upton New York fans favorite new met Let's see how Kate Upton Let's see how the Uptons Kate and Justin Upton how they how they handle The New York press Others met spending $89 million 2023 Verlander Scherzer and Bonilla See how that works out. How do you feel about the Verlander deal? We'd like that Verlander deal Dodgers were apparently looking Dodgers want to do that short Short contract thing high average annual value Short contract Ryan Harold loves he's a Mets guy. He loves it. I think that third year kind of tip the scales for Verlander, I think the Dodger are probably pretty firm on two and J car collector as a Mets fan. I love it There's Colin Burns. Mr. Burns going to Chris Butler and the O's Nice Ryan you played golf with him in Florida like seven years ago. He's a good dude coming off of Cy Young This is cool. It came to the league Jay Allen To 25 nice. These look these are really cool reds. That's gonna be for Mark Work of this. What were the circumstances there? How'd that come about? It's just random or We've got another Mets fan a lot of Mets fans here. That's right. Rhino 29 Mets fan glad we didn't pay to grumb Got over a hundred wins pretty much without him. Why waste that money? Nice lived across from your uncle for spring training floor. Nice and Yellow parallel 43 75 Cooper Bowman in Bowman Chrome The perfect product for him to be in that's for Chris Butler and the Yankees There's Colton Couser 108 out of 299 for the O's Verlander showed up with a fleet of cars every winter eight to ten cars were What do you need eight to ten cars? Yeah, the NJ doesn't want to Want to lose Brandon Nemo. Yeah apparently For the for the most teams are not in on there Aaron Aaron judge But I think most teams can afford Brandon Nemo Dodger. I think Dodgers are kicking the tires on him, but I Think again, I think the Dodgers will probably go with just fewer years What would you do with eight to ten cars over the winter? You need eight to ten cars. I Guess I could I take that back. I guess I could I could be I Could be I could easily have eight to ten cars. I had the means But moving them around I I probably lose keys How do you keep track of the keys? Are these rich people problems? Do you have an assistant maybe that keeps track of it? Hey, where are the keys to the Corvette? Where's the keys to the Aston Martin? Where's the keys to the vintage Mustang? Where is the team? Where's the little team paid for it? Oh, that's nice. Then I'd move cars around all the time, but I'd just be like, well, I feel like I'd lose the keys Here's Alexander Suarez 167 out of 250 That's for the Giants. That's for Eric Benny Montgomery Benny and the Jets 184 out of 299 should have been a football player Colorado that's gonna go to Dylan Dylan got that in the the team random There's Cleol Watson Purple shimmer to 250 That's gonna be for Randy in the Marlins, but Verlander said that's good to hear em easy Seems like a nice guy hit the ball a freaking mile on the course. I can imagine I'm trying to work my work my way up to the level of Hitting the ball a mile Ryan Ryan would like to see some senior Senga on the on the Mets Matthew with the Red Sox And speaking to show a Ohtani Rhino 29 was saying 2024 Scherzer Verlander Ohtani Don't need to grom. I Don't know. I Unless Ohtani changes his mind Much like how Trey Turner is always wanted to be on the east coast seems like Ohtani's wants to stay on the on the west coast But I suppose things could change When he hit if he when or if When and if he hits free agency when or if he hits free agency. There's Jason Kurio Cleveland. I Mean that's gonna be What a bidding war for that for that player for show a Ohtani. It's gonna be crazy, right? The old lure theory that's that sounds like Rex's theory that say a Suzuki is going to lure Senga to the Cubs He's probably linked to a lot of teams to be honest with you. That's right. That's what I try to keep telling him Ryan Herald It's over pay for Cody Bellinger. Yeah, my my Cubs friends. I got a lot of friends who are actually from Chicago Cubs fans most of them one of them is a White Sox fan, but The Cubs ownership something that that really Really don't like that ownership and that gets around the league believe it or not, you know players talk Players who are on different teams. So hey, what's that? What's that really like? You know, so It's not a huge factor. You know money always always talks, but but Guys will players will talk to other players. Hey got a nice hot got a nice offer from Chicago Cubs You were there for a few years. What's what's it really like over there? You know, what are their training facilities like how much do they invest in? you know The facilities the the medical staff the training staff the the amenities, you know, do they have a coke machine in the locker room? Is it free? 296 out of 499 Edison Paulinho That will be for Boston Matthew Schrock. No, I don't know the feeling you get it's like the Cubs ownership Tends to cheap out here and there There's Michael Hernandez 233 out of 250 Yes, sir Mercedes. Yes going to Edgar Michael Hernandez for Chris Butler and the O's and your a L rookie of the year. No doubt about it Julio Rodriguez rookie card that will be for Matthew Schirra and the Mariners Nolan Aronato, maybe a future MVP here 84 out of 150 for the Redbirds That's gonna be for Matt Wood interesting Epler is tied to Ohtani. He'll get him to the Mets Those Roansey Contreras is mellow with the Epler with the Mets now 50 out of 499 and Speaking of the Mets JT Schwartz. May the Schwartz be with you That will be for Tim and the Metropolitan's a lot of Mets talk here from Newport Beach Not too not too far from Jasper's me about 40 45 minutes south of us Robert Hassel 91 out of 499 Padres Alexander with the Friars That's where the winter meetings are I think winter meetings and tomorrow or today was today the last day of the winter means Dustin Harris dust in the wind 39 out of 199 Texas That will be for Kevin. I closed my eyes Only for something better something something dust in the wind Next box Thanks, Ryan Rex look at this How was some cubs talk for Rex cubs and James and tie-on? nearing a deal this Just the cubs just going bananas in free agency locking up Cody Bellinger Agreeing to a four-year deal with James and tie-on Four years 68 million dollars according to Jesse Rogers of ESPN Let's lock up that world series tie-on's pretty solid Taiwan Walker is who you're thinking of another picture a different picture went to the Phillies Taiwan Walker went to the Phillies and That was also a four-year deal 72 million dollars and Phillies trying to get Matt Stramm left-handed reliever. Are they're pretty close to getting they did get him maybe They could use that that pitching help there Andrew Heaney went to the Rangers Actually, that's that's not bad if they they have They're hoping Jacob DeGrom will be if they want from Jacob DeGrom, but if they get Jacob DeGrom Jonathan Gray Martin Perez and you put Andrew Heaney in the back of that rotation not too shabby if Andrew Heaney can do What he did with the Dodgers? Red shimmer Autograph Michael Hernandez three out of five Chris Butler with the Orioles Chris bought the Orioles straight up Patiently waited for the break to fill and then bang three out of five Red shimmer autograph your number eleven Orioles prospect There you go and more importantly All aboard the Big Hit Express Looks nice real nice Raphael Devers 202 out of 250 going to Matthew Memories Taiwan Walker was your first one-of-one ever from 2015 national treasures Adidas patch auto that I pulled for you back in the day nice Still have it Or did you get a good price for it? There's Rodolfo Castro for the Pirates 168 out of 299 and Jake Rucker Bring in the Rucker That's for Edgar and the twins All right. We've got Christian Vecchero for Ryan and the Nationals Francisco Alvarez for the Mets Tim 268 out of 499 refractor And Jason Curio looking for his brother to Jackson was on the Brewers And there's Max Muncie A's edition 123 out of 250 They had a different max Muncie the ones on the ones who's on the Dodgers and I guess they were like, you know what? We made a mistake letting max Muncie go Also Someone was saying that this max Muncie from Camarillo, California has the same birthday As Dodgers max Muncie From from Texas How about that?  Maybe some of the numbering something Any word on the double header would you break tonight if it sells out? No I will not unfortunately we we usually look to shut things down around the top of the hour 11 o'clock pacific And so the deadline has already passed with that double header, which was at 8 30 pacific. It's a two hour break and We still have to do two fillers for it and we're sold 20 spots away from that. So But I was encouraging everybody to buy spots because If we if that filler fills tonight I can I could do the filler a I can do the filler b um That would be our first break of the day tomorrow. We'll probably have some help from the staff here Someone could rip packs for me And then That break won't be a two hour. We should might shave 30 minutes off that break That would be just a great way to start the day I like I like having a break to start the day because they kind of get the people going That sets a nice tone for the rest of the day, you know, ryan harrell. I read that as we will run at time warm And I thought that sounded pretty cool There's deagle valasquez.  Maybe a A marvel villain Maybe the name of a Of an early late 80s band or something like that Maybe a 70s prog rock band 112 out of 250 I kind of it's like time worm kind of feels like kind of feels like a I don't know maybe Like a like a metal pink floyd or something like that if pink floyd is a little more metal Maybe british for sure Good evening. Birmingham. We're time warm Andrew rohas Right. We're time warm. You ready to rock.  Yeah, time worm could sound like maybe a british animated series I could see that like a like a british rick and morty or something and they'd ride around a time worm they they go through go through time and Have adventures Noel v marté to 499 Dustin Harris to time warp is the rocky whore. Yeah, we'll do the time warp again Maybe that would be the theme song for this for this animated show Let's do the time worm again.  You'd be a man of the soil. That's right time worms What would fans of the time worm what time worm fans would be like wormies? Would you call yourself a war me?  Yeah, I'm a wormy you're a wormy I love time worm It's victoria costa to 150 There's louis chivalier 225 out of 299 speckle autograph For the mariners mathie schrott with the ems victoria costa will go to andrew and the padres drew baker 11 out of 99 the butcher the baker the candlestick maker speaking of bakers Baker mayfield in uh in los angeles. He's with the rams Part of their quarterback room now So drew breaker will go to ryan herald and the rays kyle tucker to 150 That will go to mark and the astros blue parallel right. Yeah Man of the soil man of flexible character It's joe adel 302 out of 499 for the halos.  You're in the time. There's brian akunya Ronald's a little brother Jimmy, what's going on man? Jimmy's glad you were wrong about baker mayfield. He was all about him Going to scat. Oh, yeah, I don't know I mean, maybe just the that maybe just the panthers were not the right fit I wonder if baker mayfield was in seattle If he'd had the if he would have the year that geno smith has been having Just feel like there's just good weapons Around geno smith a decent offensive line You know that that running game is pretty good with that That michigan state running back You know p carol still sharp Yeah, geno smith is a time worm for sure Just wriggling back in time just taking it back to the old school Because he's an old fool who's so cool He's definitely a geno smith a time worm He just he was just there being flexible A man of the soil the football soil And he just wriggled his way Into a starting job after rustle wilson left Won that job And now he might he might get mvp consideration definitely come back player of the year Whoever gives that award out, but definitely a comeback player of the year award is in store for him I mean If he has a second good, I don't know what the terms of his contract is how old he is but if he if he strings together a few good seasons if the if the If the seattle seahawks make like a super bowl run in the next two to three seasons And i'm sure they'll add more pieces in the off-season Can you imagine like how? 2013 product would have a resurgence Here's yasser mercedes. Yes Yes 249 out of 499 nice refractor autograph for the twins edgar Yes alec thomas 40 i75 32 no deal after this year Do you do you give geno smith a deal?  I might might give seattle a little hometown discount for uh For hey, thanks for sticking with me. Thanks for believing in me Here's hosey merandet 115 out of 299 And there's jonathan mahia matthew matwood and the redbirds You could probably re-sign Um, you could probably re-sign geno smith for pretty cheap cheaper Right, and that buys you a couple a few more seats. I think it's a great. I mean, what a what a great move There's cal raleigh speaking of seattle 84 out of 199 That's for matthew chara because geno smith being effective just bought you possibly two or three seasons of maybe being able to fix other parts of You know keep adding to other parts of the team And not have to worry about the quarterback until everything else is set into place Yeah, there you go. Edgar on the board. Diddy cat Is your case it These you these bowman ascensions usually fall one per case. I think this is a sharp looking insert here That will be for randy And the fish case it all right three boxes to go six autographs to go So you don't have an auto hang in there Play to the whistle. I mean now if you're if you're seattle And doesn't seattle have a million draft picks now because of the russell wilson deal Right So if the if the if the broncos keep playing horribly Wow, what a draft Right husky. You're right. I that just hit my that just hit me Also receiving denver's first round picks for like three years You can still draft a quarterback later on but like next year You can just be like i'll draft more offensive line more defense You know, maybe another running back another pass catcher Just keep adding to that team Wow Maybe uh, maybe pete carroll knocks out another super bowl before he hangs it all up. I mean NFC west is It could be got You know, the rams might be I mean, I don't know the rams seem like they spent all their bullets just to get that super bowl last year There might be some coaching firings kiffin might be might be done kiffin Might be done in uh, arizona Right Niners just seem to seem to never be able to I mean, I feel bad for the quarterback situation always seems to be an issue Whether it's just unlucky injuries or whatever so this might be This might be uh A nice little I could see a nice little two to five season window For seattle to really make some noise pete carroll. Maybe got another uh, super bowl before he hangs it up Wade with the angels bobby with junior blaze jordan green 96 out of 99 Boston that's going to be from matthew. Is jimmy g coming back? Oh No surgery, huh? This year it's bobby with jr For the royals that'll be for chris. That'll be interesting ronald da cunha jr 230 out of 299 And charlie welch welch welch Is uh, that's for seattle by the way. That's going to go to matthew chara welch. Uh, welch is grape jelly I like grape jelly from welch florins welch. I think is the lead singer for florins and the machine Another welch is can we get out here? There's willie faunas 26 out of 2 26 out of 199 for the metropolitan that'll be for tim Maybe for the last week of the playoffs Says ryan herald. Maybe no no chance. I don't know christian mccaffrey could just go off and just carry that team all the way to They don't believe in brock purdy brock dust off your brock purdy Cards mr. Irrelevant suddenly becoming relevant. Ah, there you go. Rex has a display of welch's sparkling juice It's always good to have some sparkling juice on hand at any party if you're hosting a party For maybe uh, those who don't drink maybe those who uh Or designated drivers during the holiday season at his store ryan he uh Rex works overnights On the uh, rex works overnights at a grocery store at a kroger in indiana. Yeah for the kiddos But you shouldn't be taking your kids to a holiday party Leave them at home with the babysitters. 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No, we appreciate we try to keep we try to Try to get Pass along whatever good deals we get we try to pass along those prices to everybody Let me try to try our best on that It's kalil watson pink shimmer to 199 It's warming burnabella to 499 Yeah, you know If it's one of the bigger operations, yeah, I mean, I don't know that's Probably shouldn't be that but you know sometimes sometimes People who are kind of newer to the industry or do not have established contacts with like Wholesale stuff oftentimes you're trying to buy Cases that I'd like retail and then trying to resell something that's a difficult game, but sometimes that happens out there, so 26 out of 50 gold auto dale and leal nationals ryan gamsby And I think that's that ladies and gentlemen. There's helio ramos to 250 Julio rodriguez rookie card and that my friends is that Yeah, we don't talk. Okay. Well, that's the rest adam We're the best. 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Welcome to ServiceMeshCon. Today, we're going to be seeing how to run Kuma in a multi-cloud and multi-cluster way. My name is Marco Paladino. I am the CTO and co-founder of Con. But before we look into Kuma, let's ask ourselves why ServiceMesh became such a popular pattern. We have learned many years ago that our monolithic applications, once they grow, they become very hard to scale, very hard to deploy in a reliable manner. They're hard to use, hard to deploy, hard to contribute to. Therefore, we're going to be decoupling our monolithic applications into separate services, microservices. Now, when we do that, we get speed, we get velocity, we get agility, we get a lower time to market because we can reuse some of these components when we create new applications. But on the other hand, we're also introducing more and more connectivity at the backbone of our modern systems. When connectivity is down, our applications are down. Connectivity really glues together all the services that we're creating, and the more services we create, the more connectivity we generate. Our application teams should not be in charge of managing that connectivity by themselves. When they do it, they do it in a fragmented way and it's not their job. They should be instead getting that connectivity from the infrastructure that we, the enterprise architect, are provisioning them across Kubernetes and virtual machines, across multiple clouds and multiple clusters. There is different connectivity types that our application teams are going to be asking us. They want connectivity at the edge when some of their applications must be consumed from outside of the organization by an ecosystem of partners and developers or mobile applications. There is going to be connectivity across our applications when different teams are exposing APIs that another team can consume. And then there is going to be more and more connectivity inside of our applications. Whenever our applications become microservice oriented, all of the services that make up the final applications, all of those services communicate with connections and those connections have to be secure, reliable and observable. And this is why at Kong, we originally created Kuma in order to simplify how this connectivity can be offered by the enterprise architecture team to the application teams, no matter if they run on Kubernetes or virtual machines, no matter if they run in a standalone or distributed way. We didn't stop there. We also donated Kuma to the CNCF Foundation. Therefore, Kuma is now available with the same neutrality and open governance as any other CNCF project in the foundation, like Amboy proxy, for example, which, by the way, Kuma uses. And today it is a sandbox project. Over the next few months, we're going to be obviously climbing the CNCF ladder into incubating and one day graduated. Because of the very unique set of features that Kuma provides and it's ease of use, yet it's very powerful, today Kuma is being used by over 900 organizations in very important and mission critical use cases. Kuma, from a very high level standpoint, it is a control plane for service mesh. It supports Amboy under the hood, but we don't require any Amboy expertise to use Kuma. Kuma is universal. It's a first class citizen for both Kubernetes and VMs, but really for any other containerized environment. As a matter of fact, you could be running Kuma entirely on VMs with no Kubernetes dependency whatsoever. We have created this universal support because we have a very clear understanding that we as enterprise architects, we must support the teams that are very far advanced in their Kubernetes journey and the ones that are behind that core. And so we want to support a service mesh that can run across the board on both VMs and Kubernetes. As a matter of fact, we want that to be hybrid as well sometimes. And we're going to be seeing this in the demo. We can run in a multi-zone or single zone capacity. We can run in a multi-cloud, multi-cluster capacity and we can easily scale, upgrade and operate this service mesh. Simplicity is a feature. It's not a nice to have. And we built Kuma with that in mind. Kuma comes with a lot out of the box. There is a GUI out of the box. There is an HTTP API out of the box. On Kubernetes, there are native Kubernetes resources on VMs. There is declarative config. There is an HTTP API and a CLI that allows us to effectively integrate Kuma with our CICD workflows. Kuma also comes with much more than that. It comes with observability charts and very easy to use integrations with gateways and existing API management solutions. It supports any containerized environment, not just Kubernetes, not just VMs, but also environments like AWS, Fargate or ECS. And enabling features like zero trust security, like fault injection, like traffic routing. It is one click away. We have native policies that allow us to do that. Kuma can be deployed in a multi-zone capacity. A zone can be a cloud, a cluster, can be VMs, can be containers. And we can create one deployment of Kuma that spans across all the environments that we want to support, including private data centers. And then on top of that one deployment of Kuma, we can create as many virtual meshes as we want to compartmentalize how our teams and applications are setting up their mesh policies. We all obviously want to give a degree of freedom to the application teams to change the behavior of their applications without us, the architects always being the bottleneck of every request. Yet we want the underlying infrastructure to be provisioned for them so they don't have to worry about it. We have automatic policy storage and propagation with the concept of global control plane, which is the primary control plane and remote control plane, which is the secondary control plane. All the policies we create can be created from the global and the global control plane will automatically reconcile and propagate these policies across all the zones that we want to support. Not only, we can also enable connectivity from one zone to another in a very automated way. Therefore, if there is a service wanting to consume another service, none of these services have to know what zone they're running and how they're being built. As a matter of fact, we can also mix and match hybrid and Kubernetes environments. It can be very, very complex the way we deploy it. Yet it is very easy to use and simple when we manage it. So in the demo, I want to show you how we can run Kuma in a multi-cloud and multi-cluster capacity on GCP and AWS on three different Kubernetes clusters on GCP. And we're gonna show this is a demo about containers and VMs, hybrid mixed together within the same mesh. So let me pull up my environment. I do have my AWS EC2 zone with the remote control plane and my demo application running in VMs. And I do have my Kubernetes clusters, the global and the East and the West that also have the demo application running. Every time I increment a counter in Redis from the demo app, depending on what Redis instance we're incrementing, depending on which zone we're hitting, we're going to be seeing different clusters. Now, if I connected to the global control plane, I can also expose the GUI of Kuma to understand what's the status of the current mesh and fetch all the status of my zones and my workloads. So I'm port forwarding the control plane in the Kuma system namespace. And once I do that, we can go ahead and explore. So first and foremost, there is an API, an API that we can use to automate everything that the GUI can do. But if you go on slash GUI, we can also see it. And we can see that this is running on three different zones, AWS EC2, GKE, the GKE West. And we do have a few services running inside of our systems as well as all the data plane proxies that are being connected to our service mesh, which is running in a distributed way. So right now I can load my, oops, I can load my demo application and that's probably the wrong address. This is the right one. There we go. I can load my demo application and increment my Redis counters. Now, because MutualKLS is being disabled right now in this current setup, we need to enable MutualKLS in order to allow for that cross zone connectivity. So right now the default mesh has MutualKLS disabled. So let's go ahead and implement MutualKLS and enable it in one click. Kuma will automatically generate the certificate authority for us, although we can provide our own and automatically it will rotate the certificates for us. So that the entire certificate management is being taken care of, no matter if you have one service or 10,000 services. So let's go ahead and create these zero trust security policy in the global control plane. As soon as I create it, the global will propagate this to my other clusters. The certificates will be generated. And as soon as they're being generated, we're going to be seeing crosses on connectivity from VMs to containers across multiple clouds, multiple regions, multiple environments, hybrid. This is how easy it is to enable zero trust security with service mesh. Of course there is much more to it that I want to show you but there is not enough time. So if you want to get in touch with Kuma, so first and foremost, you can install Kuma by going on kuma.io as well as you can get in touch with our community and please do not miss the talk today about a federal use case on how we can support 10K transactions per second with Kuma given by a user of Kuma itself. So thank you so much and enjoy the rest of your day.


he says school districts across the state are severely underfunded now pennsylvania's new governor wants to change that yeah this morning governor tom wolf unveiled his plan to raise money for education by taxing natural gas drillers I witness news reporter erie dabel is live in our scratch the newsroom of the details for us Eric drew in monica the idea of a severance tax for the gas industry has been a hot topic in harrisburg for years former governor tom corbett was against it but now new governor tom wolf is in favor of it saying pennsylvania ranks 45th in the country in terms of the amount of money spent on public education governor wolf says something has to change there's no doubt the natural gas industry has changed parts of pennsylvania especially in the northern tier wednesday governor tom wolf who just took office last month followed through on a campaign promise to impose a five percent severance tax on gas drillers while touring a school west of philadelphia texas does it oklahoma does it north dakota does it alaska louisiana they do it governor wolf calls his proposal reasonable saying he expects it would raise more than one billion dollars in the fiscal year 2017 a majority of that would fund education the standards have dropped for our school's tests and i think that students are being pushed through and i think that a little bit of funding and backing from the government with new funds like this would help to stop that in sesquihana county where gas drilling has helped to create jobs but also caused contamination concerns people seemed in favor of the severance tax schools in this particular area really need to help right now natural gas companies pay what's called an impact fee for doing business in pennsylvania governor wolf says his proposal would not be on top of that but would include it and payments would continue to impacted communities we cannot continue to disinvest in our education system this is our future for all when asked if people think the severance tax would make drillers go elsewhere locals say no gas companies have made plenty of money on us without having to pay anything you know so you support this idea yeah i think it's a good idea governor wolf says his proposal is moderate modeled after one in west virginia he says it's already been field tested there the proposal must still be approved by the state legislature if it passes it would go into effect on january 1st 2016 with the first money being implemented in the fiscal year of 2017 reporting live in our scranton news or americ table eyewitness news all right


Item number SCP-429 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-429 is to be kept in a standard Type III hazardous object isolation vault. SCP-429 is not to be handled unless an attempt to operate it is to be made. Care must be taken to avoid inadvertently touching any of SCP-429's controls. Description SCP-429 is a complex device constructed of brass and leather designed to fit over an individual's right hand. There are a total of 7 controls on SCP-429. 1. A lever that fits into the palm of the left hand. This is the main activation control and is depressed when the subject has finished setting their destination. 2. A round dial near the location control 1 meets the main device. The exact function is unknown. 3. A six-sided dial at the front of the main device. This appears to be involved in broad location selection. 4. A round dial in the center of the main device. This appears to be involved in fine location selection. 5. A lever across the clock face. The exact function is unknown. 6. A dial on the side of the clock face. This alters the clock face, although the function in selecting destination is unknown. 7. A switch on the side of the main body, not visible in filed image. 8. A purpose unknown. Examination of SCP-429's inner construction reveals a clockwork mechanism, connected to the exterior controls, which drives the clock face. On the exact physical duplicates of SCP-429 constructed by the foundation, the controls are either not connected to the clockwork, controls 1, 5 and 7, or simply alter the displayed time at varying rates, 2, 3, 4 and 6. When a subject wears SCP-429, they gain an instinctive understanding of its operation, although they do not gain the ability to convey this information to others. If the subject visualizes a location and follows their instinctual understanding to adjust the controls, the wearer will disappear from their current location and simultaneously appear at the visualized location. Upon arrival, the controls save for 1 and 6 return to their original positions. Control 1 remains depressed until released, and Control 6 adjusts the clock face to local time. After activation, SCP-429 is inert until Control 1 is released. The subject does not perceive travel via SCP-429 as instantaneous. Each subject has reported a prolonged period of paralysis and blindness, equivalent to the time it would take to travel in a direct line between the activation location and destination, traveling at approximately 6 to 10 km an hour. The biological needs of the activating subject progress as normal during this time. Therefore, journeys of more than 510 km are not advised due to the risk of dehydration. Suffocation does not appear to be a hazard, however. The controls are highly sensitive and will move under the slightest pressure. If the controls are altered without the instinctive understanding granted by wearing SCP-429, it will disappear from its current location and reappear somewhere within 1.76 km, taking the individual who altered the controls with it. The time elapsed in such cases appears to be significantly higher than normal, with the activating subject typically arriving in a state of advanced decay. On date expunged, SCP-429 was activated remotely via a robotic arm, equipped with a video camera and a range of sensor equipment. No data of any kind was recorded by any of the equipment, save for the onboard timing mechanism, which recorded an 8-month, 5-day and 37-second time lapse. SCP-429 came to the attention of the Foundation after a series of seemingly impossible burglaries. The Foundation examined CCTV footage and noticed an individual, believed to be SCP-429's creator, disappearing from sight shortly before each burglary. The individual appeared to be using SCP-429 for short jumps to access inaccessible locations. The Foundation pursued this individual across three continents over a period of nine years, before the individual was finally found having died of old age due to extensive use of SCP-429 in... Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-428, The Crowd, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.