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I’m sitting in front of our living room hi-fi system, listening to a used vinyl copy of Aja by Steely Dan on the turntable I brought back from the dead. The turntable itself is a Technics SL-0033, a really nice midrange deck with automatic start and stop. It’s playing through a Denon head unit I saved from the side of the road (really, no kidding), a pair of Mission bookshelf speakers—also saved from the side of a different road, on a different day—and a KLH subwoofer saved from my parents’ basement. I’d like a little more treble response out of the high-end; Aja is an excellent reference record to test out sound, and the high frequencies are too muddy for my taste. I turned the Loudness feature on and jacked the treble up, and that made a little bit of a difference, but still not quite where I want it. But it’s a good start. Following up on the thinking I was doing about my old iPhone the other day, I used the email address assigned to the basement server to create a new Apple…

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