luckybaer

FWIW, I use a Rapsodo MLM2Pro for a launch monitor. Launch monitors can be ridiculously priced, but the MLM2Pro was “reasonable.”

I enjoy golfing for the fresh air, nice surroundings, and camaraderie. If you take the game itself too seriously it will have nervosa to rival any in audio.

@Kernel Kurtz I only go golfing with my sons. We enjoy our time together every weekend. We pitch and putt, par 3, or play a full-sized course. Golf actually gives me a good workout. :-)

@luckybaer my dad took me golfing as a kid and I golfed with him until he was 92. We both always complained about our games but it was never really about that. Sounds like you have the right idea. Cheers!

Hope the budget passes too

@joch Budgets start with the best intentions, and then degenerate into “getting the numbers where they need to be.” Such is the way…

You can on an iPad. Should be fine on the iPhone if it happens in the states. Hopefully they give enough juice for them on the phones.

The only thing I’ve had issues with on iPad Pro is that *some* charging cables have issues. I’ve settled on these particular cheap ones at Walmart that are built decently and I’ve never had issues with but I have had issues with various name brands. Aside from the odd charging issue every other device I have plugged in has worked. Various DAC dongles, media connections, etc..

Sold my previous car to Carvana last year. Got as much for it as I paid for back in 2018. Was a super easy process.

@DigMe There seems to be a good selection. I'll investigate further, and if I have questions, I'll ping you.

The selection is one of the best aspects for me. Free delivery within 100 miles I believe.

I don't feel bad for Fitbit after buying Pebble Watch assets and killed them off.

@YMO Didn't Pebble go BK?

No they shut down with FitBit buying their I.P. Pebble users, like me were hoping for a continuation of an e-ink watch. However, we were so wrong.

I'll send you a PM with a long-winded explanation that won't fit in this space.

If you don't play mono records, you don't need it. If you do play mono records, a mono switch cancels sound that a stereo cart can make when playing on a mono record.

How many people have mp7 here ? I was really delighted with the low noise floor of my original unit. I sent it in for latest update and I feel the noise floor is higher now. Might have to ask Keith and send it back in.

@shotgunshane Very curious about Pyxi. At that price, I can buy and experiment. Will contact them.

@schiit "Hold." As in "Hold my beer..." (Schiit goes and does something wild and better)?

Did you try the Pyxi? Early impressions seem favorable.

And to my ears anyway, with my symphonic metal stuff (specifically Epica - The Phantom Agony): it's much harder to follow individual sonic elements e.g. vocals/instruments in more compressed releases, like they're buried deeper in Miscellaneous Noise^TM.

Compression artifacts and clipping are pretty obvious to me and unfortunately in 99% of new releases on popular music. Even a lot of reissues/remasters of great sounding old shit that was good when it was first issued. One of the major reasons I'll never stream. 75% at least of my listening is old shit pre 99

@HotRatSalad Yes. I am a control freak, so I can’t stream for fear of some ungodly loud shit making it to my ears.

SHMF? Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival?

Steve Hoffman Music Forums

That place is gross now it's a bunch of old people that use it as their personal Facebook page. Say anything they don't agree with and they get like 6 of their friends together and complain to the mods. I'm still banned from the Amazon vinyl deals thread cuz I kept saying how everything they shipped me was trashed during shipping and that Amazon sucks.

Usually the center of the stump decays first and I like to plant something in it and treat like a big flower pot

Something else that works well is if you have a compost bin you put the bin right over the stump. For one it covers the stump but it also accelerates the decomposition and results in the best compost ever

@Cspirou I'm hoping we can do something similar. Let the inside of the stump decay and plant something. Eventually, we'd like the whole area to be a small garden.

So better shielding might actually be audible in the DAC case. I severely doubt that materials of the cable itself and other audiophile shenanigans will really make a difference, though.

Just to add that: Note that the above with the 1 and 0 is grossly oversimplified. In reality, the clock for the DAC is regenerated from the signal at larger intervals than 1 bit, and I'm not sure myself how much impact cable noise can even have on the precision of that clock. But at least, there is an imaginable impact.

Personally, I can't imagine how an impact that a cable from PC to DDC would have should work, so my guess is that there can't be an impact unless you compare a cable that is utter crap or faulty to a better cable, or the cable is very long. There shouldn't be any audible difference above, say, 10$ if the cable isn't longer than 1.5m or so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmH0OeDLGEE

@Biodegraded I love it. Thanks for posting!