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Man will occasionally stumble across the truth. Usually he will get up, dust off, step over and continue on his ignorant way.

Diversionary tactic... The Truth is Out There.

Government -kept secrets imply a level of competence and coordination on the part of the government that they have just never shown.

Best money I ever spent on this hobby. May also lead to various room treatments, which can give really good bang for the buck also.

went down that rabbit hole and eventually pulled myself back out. try going pure flat, then appropriate harman, then no convolution.

I'll take mediocre speakers in a well treated room over better speakers in an acoustic nightmare room any day.

Are they as beautiful as they look in pictures?

They’re a pretty nice looking small speaker yeah. I love the look of the woofer and the waveguide for the tweeter - pretty cool. The finish on the cabinet however I would call ok, but nothing special. Just a flat smooth white finish. I generally prefer wood grain finishes, but the extra cost wasn’t worth it. And the flat black is apparently a fingerprint magnet.

interested to hear impressions!

Love it. Although I think this is more of an indication that CD's are on a steep decline.

I have bought some vinyl this year, along with some cds. I don't have a turntable just yet though. If I had a turntable, I imagine just how much vinyl I would get.

I wish industry would read this as a cue to stop screwing up CD mastering. Instead, they’ll more properly interpret this as a hipster trend.

@rtaylor76, good point there. A well-mastered LP is likely to satisfy more than a compressed digital copy. Regardless of digital/analogue dogma.

One advantage of being based in a former age is that most of my digital music looks (wave-form) and sounds pretty much like my analogue music.

I don't believe in "high-resolution" digital audio. But when remastering to proper standards comes as part of the deal, it is probably worth buying, regardless of the sample rate. Or belief in it,

Right @Thad E Ginathom, it is not the format, but the mastering/production.

Yeah, it is time for me to hit the gym again. Time to pick up some decent gym-friendly IEMs.

What's a gym?

I felt your pain bro.

Those are the Vorpal Bunnies from Holy Grail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnOdAT6H94s

Petition to keep the bunny on the front page cuz cute.

It might be the cousin of the Killer Rabbit once defeated by the Holy Hand-grenade of Antioch when King Arthur was on a quest. It might look fluffy and cute, but it can jump and bite.

We absolutely do batch cooking and freezing. It’s a must do for sure. @BillOhio what do you freeze for breakfasts?

I scramble egg whites (keeping one yolk out of four) with mushroom, dry diced onion, green pepper and deli ham. Put it on to whole wheat burrito wraps and top with a little shredded cheese, wrap and freeze.

36 eggs minus 27 yolks works out well for the 8 burrito wrappers that come in one pack. Takes me roughly an hour of actual work to make 8 days of breakfasts than can be microwaved in the time it takes to make a cup of coffee.

Never heard that from my sub before. The amount of woofer excursion from both the sub and my speakers is extreme.

YES. On the HE6 it causes dizziness. One of my favorite OSTs!

Wow, holy hell that's awesome!

'Vinyl resurgence'? You're 20 years out of date. CDs now!

Save your money. Don't be dumb.

There's nothing like those red-painted needles with bright shiny tips. Nothing. Forget vinyl, shellac is the way to go.

But seriously, I cannot see the point of getting into vinyl. If already into it, fine. But...

Well, if you really want another way to spend, spend spend, then it might be a good idea.

Arcam CD73 - might be just the newness, but the immediacy and pace and slam/dynamics I’m hearing initially is awesome! Might be some noise issues though - I may be hearing a bit of etch possibly, but will see. Need to do some detailed comparing at some point soon.

I wonder if it is more a change in digital inputs and the sound difference between them. I doubt that the Arcam really is better than your SMS-200 ultra especially with recent clubhouse additions. Weird. I was using a Emotiva ERC3 and sold it after how bad the streamer spanked it.

Could be partially the SPDIF vs USB thing, but I can say for certain that the Sotm going through Eitr into SPDIF on Yggdrasil doesn’t sound anything like this.

never used as pure DACs, but iFi nano BL iDSD and xDSD are great sounding with IEMs primarily.

I get space (atmosphere), bass and smoothness from this thing. Bass is strong, but not offensive, and no hint of digititius anywhere. And a big soundstage too. Really fun to listen to. It’s not a resolution champ or crazy on transients/dynamics for sure, but flows really well and sounds pretty natural.

Competent Burr-Brown implementations are about as good as it gets for delta-sigma.

Remember to model the deteriorating hearing.

I’m going to create an inverse model for that, so the remasters stop being so bright they strip the paint off your walls.

And the standard reply is, of course, because I don't need it anymore.

Maybe trying to weed out problems but if they didn’t list any problems they are unlikely to say so later. Many times the answer should be “Because I have new toy obsession and I can’t stop buying shit.”