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Thad E Ginathom's Recent Activity

  1. Thad E Ginathom commented on darmok's profile post.

    Shocked. Hifi was pretty much born in the recording of classical music. Maybe they should dig up some of those old guys.

    Jul 1, 2025 at 4:46 AM

  2. Thad E Ginathom liked Rob the Comic's post in the thread The Funny/LOL Thread.

    [ATTACH] Tackiest post ever.

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  3. Thad E Ginathom liked Rob the Comic's post in the thread The Funny/LOL Thread.

    [ATTACH] Tackiest car ad ever.

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  4. Thad E Ginathom rated Kattefjaes's post heart in the thread New Rest in Peace Thread - Dedicated to Musicians who brought us Joy.

    I'm still not over this. I grew up giggling at him being warm and subversive on the radio. To hear him perform his own poetry (really...

    Jun 30, 2025 at 6:54 AM

  5. Thad E Ginathom liked atomicbob's post in the thread Wiim Pro Technical Investigation.

    Many of the data captures presented above were taken while the device output was sending a simple idle data stream. For convenience...

    spdif coding format.png 20250629 Schiit Eitr spdif 44K load 75R - output idle annotated.png 20250629 Schiit Eitr spdif 44K load 75R - output signal annotated.png Jun 30, 2025 at 2:58 AM

  6. Thad E Ginathom rated Armaegis's post Epic in the thread Wiim Pro Technical Investigation.

    Wow that's right up there with lemon party. Was not expecting atomicbob to drop that on us today. Link for those who must know:...

    Jun 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM

  7. Thad E Ginathom liked Watmough's post in the thread Kid got cancer but hes better now.

    we did almost lose our shit 2 weeks ago when he was sick with a fever with no other symptoms...turns out it was a stomach flu....thank...

    Jun 30, 2025 at 2:50 AM

  8. Thad E Ginathom liked atomicbob's post in the thread Wiim Pro Technical Investigation.

    Many of the screenshots were of component spdif output at idle with only an occasional change to the shortest Unit Interval. I'll post a...

    Jun 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM

  9. Thad E Ginathom liked Biodegraded's post in the thread Wiim Pro Technical Investigation.

    Please, people: S/PDIF (for Sony/Philips Digital InterFace).

    Jun 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM

  10. Thad E Ginathom liked Armaegis's post in the thread Wiim Pro Technical Investigation.

    And to muddy a teensy bit, I think AES is functionally very similar to spdif except it has a different impedance termination (110 vs 75...

    Jun 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM

  11. Thad E Ginathom replied to the thread Wiim Pro Technical Investigation.

    In the context of of SBAF conversations, I'd say I've never used SPDIF. But wait, a couple of decades back I used toslink a lot, and now...

    Jun 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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