Melvillian

Not a volt or sine wave in sight, all marketing and auidophoolery, yet somehow I was entertained and not offended.

I've had one friend lose their kid to leukemia, and another beat it, and live a healthy life...

A sick child deserves all of our best efforts.

Working on the IT side of the cancer domain, shit I complain about ultimately is so trivial compared to what the patients undergoing treatment so commonly go through. Perspective, right, but so easily forgotten.

“Loudness” to me is that button on the golden age amps. Am I out of touch? https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/80/37/d58037e24a1fcebd1ee909d5160731dd.jpg

The bonus discs on the remasters are great, I just use the original releases for the main albums.

I’ll see if they have the bonus content on Qobuz.

@dubharmonic you’re right, poor choice of word on my part. I was referring to the “loudness wars”

Deep in the valley
In the trunk of an old car
In the back of a Chevy
I got sand in my mouth you got sand in your mouth

I'll be sending this on a loaner tour when I'm done. If you're interested let me know. Would like to get an idea for how many people will be on the tour. Will include a Jensen 4:1 for comparison

All of Beatos stuff is fascinating, I didnt know anything about music before watching his videos. His top lists are great too, found so many artists and songs I didnt know before because of them.

It is interesting. It’s great YouTube content. He reminds me of my music nerd friends in high school I was in bands with. I could never listen to music without them constantly playing air drums and telling me to listen to this and that detail in a song.

Couple weeks ago UPS delivered my package (a firearm no less) to a home a couple blocks away. Even put that (wrong) address in the delivery notification.

Got a UPS delivery from Poland that was beat to hell and FedEx sent my GSX-Mini to Arizona by mistake. Ya, quality is down for sure. At least FedEx found it and it made it to my door in one piece.

Biggest issue I've noticed over the past few months is that when I order something it can sit in the sellers warehouse for 2-3 days after the shipping label is created.

Why not. I did it in comparing different dacs together!

Just want to be safe since I know nothing about how this stuff works

I want an SW51+, just don’t know how to get one. Contacted him but no response.

@Mithrandir41 i love my crack, but one channel isn’t working.

@Melvillian I had the same problem. It was a capacitor.

Really, he's usually very quick to respond to PM.

@Skyline what do you think of the 2018 remix?

I'm a fan of all the remixes, really. If I had a complaint, I'd say they boosted the bass a hair too much on some of the tracks, but my preferences lean towards being a bit bass shy anyway.

I don't listen to the Beatles much but love abbey road lots

This has been fun discussion thanks very much @Melvillian for kicking it off.

isn't the short, simple answer that... balanced and unbalanced audio run at different voltages. Hence: transformer.

Balanced is higher voltage because you have two 2V signals. Add them up and you have 4V. You want to ground the inverted signal safely so you need a transformer to isolate from your source. That’s the simplest way I can explain it.

No, what speakers will you use?

Harbeth P3ESR. I’ll probably be wfh for the rest of the year so I figured I should have a desktop speaker setup

Marv was right about how resolving the DAC is. Separates everything really well. I’m coming from an SDAC and this thing is better in every way.

I wouldn't call it laid back. It's more that everything sounds very effortless. I've been very annoyed with my Gungnir Multibit lately because after spending some time with vinyl at friend's house, the Gungnir Multibit is just way too in your face and "boosted". That's why these qualities in the Yggdrasil were immediately noticeable

This is the same DAC they integrated into the Massdrop x Cavalli amps, yes? Hm. Makes me wonder if their primary demographic also happens to be fun of the AIO device, haha.

I bet that Cavalli hybrid sounds pretty good for the money

Ive seen one for sale and it sold in minutes, Ive been looking for one to try as well.

Wait on it. The screen upgrade on the Samsung Odyssey and Vive pro is pretty amazing. The best system for games is PSVR right now, though.

Camera based tracking headsets that are better than windows MR are coming, though.

Yeah I’m most definitely going to wait even though it’s very tempting to get one for cheap. Is PSVR the best for games because of their games catalog?

I would order more than one. They work great, but they don’t always last long before they don’t hold the KCS-75 very tightly. At least mine. YRMV. But really comfortable and sound good.

Another headband solution (and another comparison with the PortaPro) here: http://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/3-portable-on-ears-koss-portapro-senn-px100-ii-akg-k403.5303/#post-173197

More bass.

Was just watching season 2 of BB and Walter said “Jesse” in an angry tone haha
I appreciate how BCS is entertaining without as much “drama”. The writing and acting are excellent. Watching Mike do his thing is a lot of fun. So clever

Definitely prefer BCS!

@murphythecat Been watching Breaking Bad again and I feel the same. Walt under the influence of anything is a self destructive moron. He’s so annoying