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Probably getting deeper blacks now? Oh wait... he isn't talking about laser printers!

I used to say, "A house without a turntable is not a home." Now... I don't.

Might be the number one reason I don't roll different cartridges. I would gladly ship and pay to have someone else do that nonsense.

Rechecked everything this afternoon with fresh eyes and it all looks good. Then I did it all over again, putting the old cartridge on the original (beta) Sol tonearm I had sitting in a box.

I never have a bad time listening to the modi multibit

To remind you to never take the mountains for granted. I know the feeling, I used to drive from south of Denver to Minneapolis on numerous occasions. Good listening time.

Ha ha. Today gym bud mentioned he’s driving to Denver to see family. We made jokes about i80 through Nebraska. Man that drive sucks.

Did the opposite for the same reason. Made it ok, dismal as ever, especially 76 through eastern Colorado which I always seem to block out from my memory.

I likewise ordered mine right after it came out. I've used it with my Andros, too! That's too funny. I used it to burn in a pair of Vérité the other week. I gave it a quick lesson, to make sure the volume was not too loud, and the sound was much better than I'd expected.

until it died, my headroom amp from ‘99 sounded bettter than most laptop outs.

Still have my Fulla 2 as well. It was my work desk volume control for the longest time.

Can't find any proper archive links for that site unfortunately, they had some cool Lego scans a little while back.

bwahaha. I thought it said "scam of the month." Which would be an interesting website as well. Anyways, I kept scrolling, skimming the description, waiting for the revelation of the scam. I'm a dork.

Realistically I think it maybe should just be a blog post at this point.

Both are necessary while recording the tape to avoid drop outs during sample rate switching on the DAC and wild volume swings between tracks.

Same regrets over a handful of albums; lost my entire CD collection to a house flood in 2014 and have been painfully rebuilding it since. Some of those out-of-print or foreign-press albums are painful to replace.

@Qildail another good push to continue to rip my rare CDs to my Roon Core. That loss must be frustrating.

Ew.

Bandcamp just send me the email saying this shipped about an hour ago. USPS is faster than email?

I know if something will be wrong for me on a known chain within the first couple of minutes tops. I think the longer you're in the hobby and the more set in your ways you are, you can reject headphones much faster. I know @purr1n will pull shit off almost immediately if he doesn't like it.

Depends on the gear and type of review you’re writing. It sometimes only takes me a few minutes with a pair of problematic headphones. But to write a full review I force myself to listen for other things other than those problems and spend more time with it. I didn’t need anymore than a minute with the HD8XX to write the brief review I wrote.

I agree that on a chain you know intimately, bad gear or poorly synergizing gear in particular is easier to rule out. Good gear I generally need more time with to evaluate WHY it's good, even if I've already had the emotional reaction and can tell it's good.

Issue has been open for 6 years, there is a simple fix linked in the discussion, but it's still not actually fixed in the software. https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/issues/1179

that seems like a super weird hill to die on

Some Nora Jones tracks..cough..cough.

lots and lots of current recordings are full of distorted crap

Listen on tape, embrace the fuzz

Excellent timing

I never like hard pushing amps, because they tired me out. I never had that problem when I had my cat-haired SW51+.

Agreed. Clarity is best at mid to low volume. It is not a gain pusher.

Basics: turntable should always be earthed to pre-amp, and both should be earthed to amp. I expect you got that covered already, but, just in case.

... and make sure that at least one of those things /has/ a three-pin mains connection with earth connected!

Oh, and I used to have to separately earth my system to house piping, which got rid of the remaining hum.

2 prong in a 3 prong world