Melvillian

The "geniuses" in the MS UX group have to put their special stink on everything. I use Open Shell to make Win10 somewhat more bearable. Still keep several Win7 machines running in the lab. I don't even want to think about Win11. Just no.

@atomicbob Some of the changes are just inexplicable. They've added a new layer of menus over most things that were easily accessible. It's completely backwards

@Melvillian - you are a brave person. I appreciate your dive into the gauntlet of insanity called Win11 and reporting about it.

Nice find.

Unfortunately I want to start doing metalwork after watching that. Didn't know brass was so easy to work with.
The mic part is cool too :)

Yeah I feel like he makes it look deceptively simple.

Thank you both. I bought a pair of Russian tubes from Tubedepot for an old ECP amp in 2018 and when I sent the amp to Doug for service, he said one of the tubes was bad, so I’m a bit skeptical of some of these stores. I’ll reach out to nostubestore. Thanks for the recommendation.

@edd @yotacowboy thank you for the recommendation. Really happy with nostubestore.com

He's really a no-bullshit seller, and really knows tubes. He's kinda the kind of the Turkish Brent Jessee.

Pretty sure the ones for sale recently were the stock they had held on to to cover for the warranty period of the final run. If you can find a set of cups left over from someones Lawson mod you can fit them to an E-MU Teak.

I bought an Ebony version from sbaf that was in bad shape, but I fixed it up. I used to own the PH and I remember liking it more. I don’t mind the Ebony, just need to do a cable mod so I can comfortably use it with my phone with a short cable. Was hoping to buy a newer PH with detachable cable from Drop. I suppose I can try the Teak as well.

There are also the current Denons which use a newer (or bespoke?) version of the drivers. They have a dryer timbre vs. the older models. Less organic but still a biocellulose sound. Also a flatter tuning.

Yes. AD900 sounded fine unamped. But the AT headband doesn't work for everyone.

Thanks for the suggestions. I think the AD900 might be a good for him.

The AD900 was my first serious headphone. Liked it very much. Got on well with the wings too: very comfortable. Several times, forgot I was wearing it and got brought up sharp by the cable.

The cool thing about Fry’s were the electronics. It was a true electronics store. Not just computer parts.

Fry's had been in pretty rough shape for the last year and a half. Late 2019 they switched to a consignment model and their current distributor dropped them. They were able to find a much smaller distributor but they were on a death spiral since then.

Not like the pandemic helped, last time I went was in 2019 and I was super confused thinking I was in a store that just opened since there was no people and nothing on shelves.

If the PS5 supports UAC 2 standard output I would think it just about anything with a modern USB input would work. If it doesn’t, you could try a used Hegel DAC (HD11 or HD12 I think). Otherwise, get a converter that supports UAC1 and converted it to SPDIF and then you can use anything that has an SPDIF input.

I think the issue people are having with the PS5 is that it doesn’t support UAC 2. I’ll look into the Hegel dacs. Do you know of any converters that support UAC 1? The eitr doesn’t work.

I did a google search and JDS labs has optional UAC 1 firmware that works. Might go this route.

Pretty sure Hegel stuck to UAC 1 on their DACs for quite some time - for some reason the lead guy seems to think it sounds better. Should be easy to find out in their documentation. Also if they show a limit of 96k on their USB input, chances are it’s UAC1

I love my M-22 but I’m already thinking about summer time. Last summer it was in storage because of how hot it gets. Seems like the Aegir run significantly cooler

I do stop using mine during the summer months for daily-driving radio playing though. I picked up a cheapo class-d for background music.

I don’t get how people complain about the heat of Aegir. It’s not a cool running amp but I’ve ran amps from Bryston and Counterpoint that were waaay hotter. But maybe compared to Vidar it’s a toaster.

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