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minidisc was wonderful. Recordings without tape hiss!

Minidisc historically used a lossy compression scheme called ATRAC similar to mp3 but did not attempt to reduce more than 5:1 whereas default mp3 compression was 11:1. It sounded much better than mp3 at that time.

My recorder is "Type R" which I believe is the last ATRAC encoder improvement (the later Type S was an ATRAC3 decoder improvement IIRC). I can tell it isn't perfect but it's extremely good. Using MD as it was intended (a replacement for compact cassette), the quality is astounding.

Roon clients only go on my iOS devices, not letting it on other PCs. I still want to ditch Roon though for all the reasons you mentioned, but it’s been 100% reliable for me while sounding good so far.

I ran roon on my Fedora desktop 12c/24t/32gb and one update it was fine and then the other one it was fucked again. Don't get wrong i didn't have performance or usability problems except for the one time where i could only play one album before the memory leak got too bad. Roon remote on my ipad was funky sometimes as well.

Now i just use tidal connect most of the times, my pc is connected to my stereo as well with aes so i can just play files from there. Volumio was a bit shit in the past for network playback so i haven't looked back since, it's fine for roon endpoints and tidal though since i don't have to touch that horrible interface.

Thanks for the reminder - I keep forgetting it’s out. I read a prerelease review of the album and it made me very grateful while incredibly sad at the same time.

I can’t imagine loosing the closet person in my life and then having to go through a disease like that without my partner.

I’ve been listening to Javelin but I was unaware of what he’s been through.

Rick Astley already wrote the greatest musical short story ever told with one song. Hard to top.

Tried this once with a two song playlist...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenWdylTtzs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDWWzUv44nw

I've been having fun dropping things like Valhalla 2 and Mjolnir 2 in front of it with the ELACs on the desk. I tried Folkvangr for a bit too, but it kept tripping the protection on the speaker amp too often.

So what? Is the Roon solution trumped (I hate that word) by the new one?

It's more that my Roon core keeps eating 8+ gigs of ram and I'm sick of how much it costs. Trying alternatives.

I just bought an Intel NUC to install Roon Rock on. Hoping it's more trouble-free than running roon Core on my PC. Been having constant hangups and crashes the last few months after a year of no issues.

I've got no way to prove this, all tinfoil hat. But there's something to the headphone cable being soldered to the voice coil that gives Grado their clarity. 3.5mm ruins that.

Then the cable, solid core non litz also gives their Grado sound. In short, Grado knows what they are doing actually.

If you did want to leave the grado wiring intact, you might be able to strip the sleeving/insulation and replace it with something lighter and more pliable, but it would be a huge pain and I imagine the solid core wire has a lot to do with the memory aspect.

Seems like that x series is solid. I love my 80x. Shit SLAPS right off an iphone dongle. Makes all my Sennheisers sound super sleepy.

Never been much for camping, but I love the quiet isolation of evenings in the desert. I need to get back there.

It was super quiet way out 20 miles from any civilization when we had the equipment off. And so many stars. I saw a Starlink train last night.

Hope you didn’t have the iem’s in while riding

I have trouble standing on one leg these days.

Iron Maiden is still touring. Imagine that. You can still jump in to headbang to "Die With Your Boots On."

Hawkwind? I think they were the first live band I saw. Maybe I could arrange for them to be the last. (edit: Google says yes, they are still playing)

That honour, as far as rock bands go, is probably going to remain with The Grateful Dead. And that was, iirc, 1991. Oh wait, I saw Osibisa, here in Chennai, a decade or so ago.

Must be your "f**k you I won't do what you tell me" attitude

https://www.tiktok.com/@thejacobgivens/video/6961397521641999622?lang=en

Yep, specifics vary by model but it’s not too hard. See www.iflash.xyz

As long as the config is supported iTunes will format and use it like it was factory.

Fascinating!

Forgot the earplugs when I got back on the motorcycle though. By the time I made it to Denver my ears hurt and everything sounded muffled. Stupid move. Watch recorded sustained sound levels over 100 dB under the cuff of my glove.

Someday, I should like to visit Colorado Springs during the lightning season (April–May?). "The lightning lives here." — Tesla's assistant, Alley, in "The Prestige." I love lightning. It is an awesome case of God's performing the work of the creation.

Now I can make CD masters for minidisc recording when I need to.

Update: solved this. The issue wasn't Ropieee itself, my pi-hole had nuked its database and was returning no DNS results. Every other machine kept working because I had a fallback DNS server, but Ropieee wasn't using it. Once I fixed the pi-hole Ropieee was also fixed.

Nice, that makes sense! I'm running Unbound DNS with the same filtering lists as pi-hole and am forwarding it to Quad9. No fallback server, but I have had some stuff stop working like that until I go through a similar troubleshooting rabbit hole.

I.e., the Stpehen Black List blocks Hulu's ads. Hulu's service completely hangs up when you hit an ad in a video until you whitelist their ad endpoints.