GoodEnoughGear

If it were me I'd send it in, too. I've had great luck with ZMF customer service

Just some context, "Send it in" is from South Africa. I'd probably bite off the Auteur upgrade and service then :).

Email ZMF on what you can do. Maybe they can suggest something for DIY repairs.

As will my three Holo DACs, Spring 3 KTE included.

Shoutout to Tim at Kitsune for helping figure out how best to get this fixed, even though it's not his problem (being on the ass-end of Africa). Top class customer service.

Dac is fixed, Magna neglected to remove two resistors that need to be desoldered when installing the preamp board. I should have it back on Sunday.

I have one on order but don’t expect it till mid April. I will report on it sometime after…

I want one. Mid May to June likely delivery. Maybe I'll have the Spring 3 Technical Measurements posted before it arrives.

I have one. Sounds great. Very natural, detailed, and neutral.

Commiserations and congratulations.

Quitting a long-term employment is always tough, even when it is voluntary. I was surprised to find that leaving a company after 16 year and various roles turned out to be much like leaving home had been! Except that didn't make any of my hair fall out.

It sounds like a great moment to pause to reflect.

You too, wow!

My last day was Mar 31. No thoughts of another corporate position as I think 50 yrs has been enough. Best wishes on your future endeavors. I hope they are a good fit for you.

So... No more flowers, then?

LOL no indeed. In true irony they are both passed, cremated and sitting quietly together (in a drawer) for the first time in 50 odd years. My bothers are coming down next month for us to finally send them on their way.

That's sad. Do play Neil on an annual memorial day for them.

I think I saw him on TV once, long ago. Not exactly my kind of music, but I enjoyed it because the concert was done with such flare. Very professional entertainer.

Like Tom Jones.

Damn! It really does seem to have largely gone away here: I spent this evening with a mask hanging round my neck.

Fingers crossed, garlic hung up, horseshoe over the door...

(Oh, and three vaccination shots)

Sorry to hear. Since everyone got test kits free, the infection numbers are probably a fraction of what is going on, there is no required reporting. Wear a mask, it ain't over. The media did report this wave, but most people just do not care, they think it is over. Going for second booster tomorrow.

Very sorry to hear you are experiencing another bout. Get well soon!

Sounds like a good idea to me. Notable new releases, regardless of genre.

I've now had the sensation of headphones disappearing and being left in an open space of sound instead of in a 'head bowl' for lack of a better term.

i do a full dust like that every sunday, i hate dust, getting rid of it makes me happy

Thanks, Bob, I appreciate it.

I love Aldous Hading, another phenomenal album.

I remember that you were interested in the LIM. I sold my 2541 to buy the LIM but am now looking to go back to the 2541 for my office which is small 8020s+7040 and Focal Clears with the JOT2. I think it'll be a better fit.

Some nice validation :). We don't have much chance to hear a lot of gear down here, and I find it hard to conceive of springing for 3-5x the cost to get into theoretically 'significantly better' territory or risk a sidegrade. Care to share your experience?

Sorry - I was unclear in my comment. I have been making a number of changes and got this out of order. I do LOVE the LIM and have it in my home system now (though i also love it at work when it has been here). In my office, I have just tried a BF2 chasing the sound of the LIM, but it was not an ideal combination. I am returning the BF2 and have another 2541 on order. I remember it sitting very well here.

I was replying to ti_leo

@SoupRKnowva Sorry. I must be blind!

I suspect it must be my bad installation or something. But since the full load temp can hardly reach 80, I think it's fine? So I just leave it there...

Nice how all the parts are available. I got a used aeron cheap a while ago, just replaced the seat a bit ago as it was torn

I picked up a used one this year and will never look back. My back has never been better.

There is a plug-in which provides UPnP and DLNA server capabilities, an easy way to try it would be Daphile (x86 only no ARM)

Despite my prior prejudice, Roon has come out ahead. Integration with HQPlayer is excellent and fast, and it does the better job of managing Qobuz' API vs Audirvana. It doesn't hold a candle to JRiver for local library management, but in terms of the two main shifts in my playback experience (Streaming + HQPlayer) it's a clear win. f**k.

What do you like the most about JRiver for local library mngmt? Would you suggest running Roon and JRiver?

@Cryptowolf I have been looking at this and I'm going to go Foobar2000 and MP3Tag for tag management. I use a fair number of views in FB2K and JRMC to ensure tagging is consistent, but FB2K can do everything I need for free.

All the best! With omicron I think it is not a question of if but when for most of us, got my third jab 2 weeks ago

Damn! Sorry to hear @GoodEnoughGear and @Koth Ganesh have become infected. Please take care, get well soon and hopefully neither of you suffer any long term issues.

May you recover quickly.

@dematted It's not an attack: it's a fact, borne out every decade in every survey. I care about all of the Jewish people! I care about you. And I wish the facts were different, or that the surveys would come back with different results. So please don't shoot the messenger (especially when I am the messenger).

Related to the situation in Judaism (not that it is a 100% correlation) Archbishop Tutu himself was part of the rapidly dying liberal wing of the Anglican church. What the children of these kind of believers have firgured out is that if your Christianity is just the conventional social mores "at prayer", well Christianity is superfluous. You don't need the Cross to be "a good person".

The only part of Anglican church that is actually passing the faith on to their children is the "continuing Anglican movement", somewhat ironically led mostly by African bishops who have themselves resisted the colonization of theological liberalism and "wet finger in the air moralism" from their Euro/North American peers.