Thad E Ginathom

So, in the hope of making your digital sound like your vinyl, you RIAA it so that your favourite phono preamp can un-RIAA it.

About as far from bit perfect as... Well, nothing close.

Is this completely daft? Or am I?

Well if it’s analog, it’s has no more bits?

I remember a Sony DAP having a vinyl mode. Didn’t care for it. For that analog feel, Sony should just bring back the cassette Walkman.

Well, doggonit, it feels new to me, but yes, I must have watched those old Westerns, in my childhood, when they weren't that old.

I've never really liked the euphemisms like that. I feel more comfortable with calling a spade a spade etc. But I can't deny the poetic beauty of some of these

So basically... Yosemite Sam?

I believe they’re called “minced oaths”, originally created to avoid blasphemy. E.g. dang, heck, jeepers.

I may be sore at you over politics, but happy birthday anyway! And many more in decent or better health. You’re a pal. And that’s what counts.

Just a bit late but happy B-day man. All the best and many more.

Hope you had a great day celebrating completion of another orbit around the sun!

I said a dot. Not a spot.

Ohhh... OK... In fact it /was/ a vast, puss-filled boil. A true abscess. Pustulence personified.

Let us ponder the dot.

OK, here it is, ponder as much as you wish...

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@Thad E Ginathom But can you use pasta in a neutral manner?

You can. You can simply eat it.

But this is all about violence, not neutrality.

@Jinxy245 "Pointed stick."

In that case, you'd need extra cheese.

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...Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages and will lie
Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

Wow, amazing. I liked it when I was a kid, haven't even thought about it for decades.

Thanks, @schiit

Tennyson called. Asking for his shoutout.

Thanks Alf :)

Sometimes it’s not a choice. Sometimes you get pushed and have to deal with it :(

@joch - took the words right out of my mouth!

Oh, wait...

<removes bits of masonry from teeth and tries the Pakoda>

Can never remember which of those words is which!

Onion pakoda again. It's on it's way. Oh *K* !

@Lyander It's been here some time. I hope it isn't ageing like me!

Have done a kernel upgrade today. Just a chance something might have been changed in the previous one.

otherwise it may just be a case of faecal matter.

@crenca "maybe the hub is not giving it enough amps"

I think that power supply might be part of the problem (in which case, the PC port which was powering it fine for a couple of years must have changed). I also think that one of my plugins might be.

Still hoping that it is not the Motu hardware.

"I'd like to try whatever it is you're having."

@Jinxy245: you have to mine it out of my brain cells!

I thought you were being figurative

I'm useless with figures!

Thanks.

I think one should say it from time to time.

static ssize_t write_null(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
return count;
}

I've always wanted to learn C, but it is probably never going to happen. Will have to settle for hobby level Python and shell scripts.

@Kernel Kurtz : this is both simple but also very useful. I've written some complex c programs with it. But it is one of the easiest to learn that I've found:
https://quincy.codecutter.org/

Purely self-congratulatory status post!

It seems that I wrote this about Amir, a couple of years ago. I'm proud of it!

LOL.

I guess Amir really is yanking our chains

Pulling his own bell ropes. He doesn't care: He is one of those people who thinks that if he says the same thing often enough, people will believe it.

Unfortunately, he's right.

Enjoy the brand new world!

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Joni, I love you!

I don't recall thinking much about that line fifty years ago. Music that keeps on giving!

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Papa said "Son, you'll never get far. I'll tell you the reason, if you want to know 'Cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go"

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Nicky my child he stands there with the wind in his hair
Wondering whether the water the wind of the where
I fear that someday he might ask me if mine is the blame
And I've got no reply save to tell him it's all just a game...

Whether the non-photographic public know about depth of field or not, it does it's thing, and it does make the sharply-focused subject stand out. It works!

@Thad E Ginathom, talking image equivalents, to me treble peak-iness would be highlight roll-off, the shape of higher values as they approach the clipping point. Diffraction stars are a common artifact inherent to a capture instrument that differ between manufacturers, so I'd say microphone pickup pattern is your aperture and the timbre of the mic is like your number of blades/onion rings/flares/whathaveyou

Super analysis, @roshambo123 !

This conversation is in severe danger of becoming sensible :D !lol!

:)

Yes, thanks: nothing to panic about except the bill.

It is back home, and now under test. But they found that they had to replace both the graphics card and the ram. Being a very decent company, they have said, test it first, then we'll bill you.

It's not a fancy graphics card, quiet low-end as they go, and only 32Gb ram, but still, it adds up to a significant amount. Or will, judging by the build-time component costs.

Bottom line: I'm just happy to have it back. I hate doing internet for multiple hours and days on mobile devices.

I got a better update today. The ram/video-card are not final: I have the PC to test-use for a few days, to establish that it isn't an MB issue. *Then* we will discuss the replacement parts.

Push. Click! Yay!

Funny thing is is that it worked at all. Or that one channel wasn't dead. And I'd listened to some speech and it seemed ok. But music was awful: distorted.

Panic over.

Your experience is like mine recently with Pi2AES. I updated it, pressed play and.....no sound. Figured it out after mucking around for some hours but was pulling my hair out the whole time.

Very often, with computers, hifi, etc etc, the answer is simple.
And people say, why didn't you try that first! Well, I didn't. I tried it last.

But hey, basics like *all connections* /should/ come first.

Maybe it took half an hour. True, it could have taken one minute, but that was the way it went.

Just glad I could get music again :)