Lyander

@Justin S that's the feeling I'm getting off of this amp to be honest. It's surprising because I knew that it wasn't an immediately impressive amp to grab your arm and make you sing about how much fun it is to listen to, but I'm just amazed by how hard it is to stop listening. What did you end up replacing the lyr with?

@Lyander I picked up a TA-66. I used it with my 600s and ZMF AuCs and then picked up a pair of used HD800Ss. It's my personal best-yet so i decided to dig in. I'm working my way through tube rolling with it now. I know it is not as flexible as the Lyr+, and it's coloured, but it really keeps me listening. I'm actually selling my Auteur Cs now, too.

@Justin S If I werent keen on the versatility (... and the SS fallback should tubes become unfeasible) I would have ended up with a TA-66 too I feel; it's not very often that a piece of gear generates quite that much excitement, and it's always good fun when something interesting comes along. Looking forward to hearing how you key yours in!

@Thad E Ginathom - I remember reading somewhere that UK plugs are designed the way they wire everything is atrocious. So they over-engineer the plugs to compensate

I don't *think* that's true: British wiring is usually, in my opinion, done to a high standard and is subject to inspection with regulations that are enforce. A far cry from my adopted country.

India, by the way, follows Britain. But the *old* British round-pin plugs.

I think that, at the time Britain introduced the new system, it also introduced the *ring main*. The reason for this was a post-war shortage of copper. A ring main uses far less than lots of spurs. It also fetches current from both sides so it can be smaller guage.

Also check out Mad Season. Like a grunge supergroup but stepping outside of just grunge in style. I like the live performance of 'Long Gone Day'. And if you haven't found them already, Mother Love Bone is a must.

I read this wrong and thought you were referring to Hair of a Dog (the Nazareth album). Was going to to say, I didn't remember highs being that bad on there, lol

Don't forget the Singles soundtrack as well.

May your kitty get well soon. That kitty won the kitty lotto in the cat distribution system with you as a pet parent.

Wishing your cat a full recovery. Visit her regularly in the hospital. It will be good for both of you.

Yes, do regular visits: she needs you.

And if you do happen to find your *car* sneaking off to hide at the back of building, it means it needs some TLC too.

Love to Puss. Hope she's doing well.

I did think that the body horror aspect was over the top towards the end, but not enough so that it really detracted much from the intended effect I think. But yeah it really was just mainly the way it presented the societal pressures and how folks TRY to navigate them that really got under my skin. Sometimes a lack of subtlety can work wonders.

The scenes toward the end were magnificent. Came away from it thinking I'd watched 2 movies, a good serious one *and* a great vintage splatter!

@Biodegraded GREAT analogy, it was a 2.5 hour runtime thing and I do think that there was a definite gearshift in the back half. Even the vintage splatter had some genuinely emotional moments for me. I was hesitant to watch the film cuz it was being hyped to hell, turns out I actually liked it a lot too.

@Kernel Kurtz lmao agreed! Had a celeb crush on her since Death Stranding!

If it's easy enough to open up i'd replace the battery. Found this post with some info to look out for: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics/comments/16e59xd/fiio_btr5_how_to_replace_a_battery_and_where_do_i/

Nice! I think the unit in the BTR7 is an 800mAh one so I'll be trying to find a compatible part number. Won't be trying to dismantle it quite yet, hah. Thanks @Riotvan !

No worries dude, hope you get it fixed!

I use a Dayton Audio DATS

Measurement procedure & circuit:

https://www.roomeqwizard.com/help/help_en-GB/html/impedancemeasurement.html#top

Pic of actual wiring for resistor circuit (pretty scruffy!):

https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/measurement-setups-post-your-rig.141/page-14#post-336645

And if you want to use the measurements to see how amp output Z will distort the FR of a particular headphone:

https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/frequency-response-vs-amplifier-output-impedance-calculator-for-rew.7008/

Give me a shout if you have questions :)

I normally order one "meh" bag of coffee along with something nicer and more interesting like a G1 Masha or Yirgacheffe to let it rest, opened the nice bag too early by mistake and yeah was too vegetal right at the beginning and only started really turning *nice* right as I was running out today.

Buy more for sharing!

To quote Bill Hicks: "did I miss a meeting?"

@Deep Funk some zombified accounts engaged in trades and now @rhythmdevils has to deal with PayPal refunds. Hopefully that gets sorted and is the full extent of the damage

I missed quite some meetings indeed.

@Cspirou this is why I'm wondering if the wall-warts are still good to use. But per @atomicbob earlier LPS seem to be less apt than SMPS at suppressing over-voltage events so maybe the bricks are still good to use, just that it was too much for the board.

Also, I tracked voltage over the day and it ranges from ~226V to 250V, latter isn't typical per se but it is something that my mains seems to drift to just out of hand. I'm sitting at around 243V atm. Never realised how weird my wall power was, but it'd explain the appliances sometimes randomly dying or power strips melting

Most schiit wall bricks are just transformers. So if it didn't burn, explode, melt or otherwise appear damaged simply measure the AC output with a DMM. If that is an appropriate voltage then it will be ok.

226 to 250 Vac is quite a range. A small variac to protect your audio equipment by lowering the range to 216 to 240 might be prudent.

Freaky ghost bed! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdyU_gW6WE

I don't believe MMB2 USB-C connector uses USB power and probably has no connections to those USB pins.

@atomicbob That's what I was thinking too else the MMB2 wouldn't NEED the barrel plug, but given I concede a lot of ignorance I was wondering whether or not I could be overlooking something. Thanks for taking the time to allay a silly fear

Thanks for the heads up! I was able to switch it to the classic before I got charge the extra for stupid AI crap that I was forced to sign up!

@theveterans glad it helped. Someone needs to have a baseball bat shoved up their butt for forcing people into this, like even if they CAN afford the 30% bump at least be upfront about having the option to NOT use the AI tier.

But what should we have expected? The new tier system was probably designed by the AI ;)

I was about to say that yeah the prices were out for everything. These could be worth keeping in mind as an alternative to the 6xx depending on their characters

Just noticed that the maximum input power is highest on the R50x (1.6W) as opposed to 1W on both the R70xa and the R30x. Curious about the difference in power handling. 470R impedance for the 70xa, 50R on the 50x, and 47R on the 30x besides gradually increasing sensitivity. Looks fun.

I've got the refine loaner. It wants so much power. Didn't try it on an OTL but for low Z amps it wants the juice. On MJ3 it needs an additional 15-20 degrees of turn vs 300 ohm senns

Inland Empire is the only movie I’ve ever walked out of crying.

His family statement in part: “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not the hole’”

This news got me, we lost a really good one.

RIP. I’m thinking back at his version of Dune…I still enjoy this more visually than the recent two-parters with CGI.

Don’t worry about neatness. If there’s electrical contact, I would say that’s a triumph

LMAO I actually still need to replace the gain toggle on the Magni 3+! Dragging my feet cuz worried so you were spot on about the confidence. Might end up giving it to friends or family afterwards cuz I'd feel weird selling it

Yesterday I destroyed a PCB pad while de-soldering a busted power jack. The fix will be ugly, but inside the case so I don't have to see it. >:(

And may you enjoy more music

And no blowing up the toilet tomorrow.

Disassembled earlier to do that visual inspection, reassembled, and now it SEEMS to be working as normal? Guess something got jostled loose is all.

Taking something apart and putting it back together again often works! But only if one doesn't expect it to.

@Thad E Ginathom Agreed, if I had even an inkling that this could have fixed it the right channel might have completely died, LMAO!

https://x.com/lamienthana/status/1869321722056552543

I feel compelled to apologise for talking about vtubers on SBAF lmao.

Stream link is twitch.tv/lamienthana !

The issue isn't even with surround sound or artificial stage shenanigans, this is just 2ch 44.1kHz 24 bit being shoved into whatever DAC I happen to be using, be it Modi MB2, Magni Unity ESS card, or FiiO BTR7. Move to android and boom things are okay

When I used windoze, I always used wasapi for bit perfect digital out so windoze is taken out of the path entirely with jriver/foobar2k or similar. There is no audio settings in windoze...

@HotRatSalad oh I use f2k WASAPI out for music I have on my drive too, but a lot of my audio consumption is stuff I stream or just YouTube videos in the background so that's not an option.