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I’m opening mail as slooowwww as you have ever seen ;)

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That's what I have been saying, but no one believes me.

The truth is, you probably have a $2K dac at least! (probably more ;) )

I think so, too. I wish there was a simple D/S DAC with a chip that supports not getting in the way, together with a great “rest”, i.e. clock, USB interface, output stage, PSU, and whatever else I might have forgotten.

Holo could make such a DAC - a "Cyan" (i.e. decent USB, decent discreet output stage, decent power suply, etc.) with a good modern AKM for $1300, maybe less...too bad they probably won't

What would constitute "truly unadulterated" recording equipment that fully captures what the human hearing system does?

Dolby CP350 or more expensive variants for Dolby Cinema sound. Cinema generally doesn't give a shit about DACs other than "uncolored", but then everything has its own color.

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Horrible but perhaps this should go in the dedicated thread. Don't think a profile post is the place for something that easily ignites a political discussion.

I don't look at it as a political issue. Just a sad chronology of bonehead events by people leading to this sort of mess.

The statistical fact is that uber driver is much more likely (several orders of magnitude) to die from a crazy driver wielding his deadly multi-ton weapon than any crazed over protective father. The father is likely to serve a small amount of time and lose his right to posses firearms...

It’s not as bad as Fall Out Boy.

Oh wait, it is

I only scan and read a few threads nowadays, is there some drama going on? I saw Marv's profile posts but didn't know where to look.

just the usual, my DAC is bigger than your DAC

Glad you are loving them! What are you running them with? Good news for you is if you like them after 250 hours, you are going to love them in like 6 months. I found that they just kept breaking in for a very very long time, finally felt settled after like a year.

@Inoculator On the digital side, I run the Rockna WD (Signature Balanced) to the Accuphase E 650 to the Fortes. Or, my TT through a NAIM phonostage to the Accuphase. Played around with the Elekit TU 8900 and decided I liked the Accuphase presentation better.

Hell yeah @Koth Ganesh , sounds like a great setup. I have always lusted after the accuphase stuff.

@Riotvan : for me they are absolute junk
@Jinxy245 : I did not acclimate as doctors hoped. Will be trying some alternative methods to achieve the desired effect without life altering side effects.

Glad your wife seems healthier these days and I wish the same for you as well. You are a treasure.

Glad you identified a cause for how you were feeling, bob. At the ripe age of 40 I was put on Rosuvastatin (generic Crestor) about a month ago and was fearful of side-effects, but have been thankfully free of any obvious ones, at least.

I do enjoy Freya+ in my setup a lot.

My Freya S's active mode is on the Fritz so I thought I could substitute it temporarily with the jot2. It sucked the life out of everything - too warm, weird bass, a complete loss of transparency

Another data point: when I bought Mjolnir 3, I hoped it could also serve as a preamp. It was OK, but Freya+ was noticeably better.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

They don’t care. All they see is dollar signs now.

Saw them at The Met in Philly last evening. Really good mix of their classics and 4 (?) tracks from the new album, 2 of which I think are as good as anything they've done

And the miracle - the sound was, mmmm, like music. The drums'n'bass didn't overwhelm; vocals, guitars and keyboard were pretty clean. I honestly don't think I've heard a rock concert sound this good for the last 15 years or so

The band was really on; play the song, move to the next. Tight. Very highly recommended if they are coming anywhere near you and you're into that kinda southern rock style.

Agree but not sure I follow. Prevent which occurrences?

prevent such occurrences = sudden death from cardiac arrest
I spent half a century in medical device R&D including AEDs for use in the chain of survival when someone has a deadly cardiac event.
Steve Albini died of a heart attack.

Wow. Gotcha. Important job

So even in this hobby I've had a Holo May at the bottom of my wants list for more than a year or two. Still can't bring myself to buy it even used at a good price knowing it will retain at least 50% value.

At the same time, I REALLY needed to refresh my wardrobe and have already spent more on clothes and shoes, which I don't like buying, than a used May would have cost.

Also read something (unverified) that the average American buys new underwear once every 5 or so years. Yet a lot of people have no problem spending $100 drinking on a night out or $1000 on new audio gear, car stuff, vacation (probably with said old underwear), etc.

So size up your undies @penguins after getting KBBQ.

That time of year in the South again. Hopefully won't last long like last year.

It's the humidity that kills me......

I'm good on advice. Again, I'm fine.

Dawg I love you and this is a terrible take.
We have all learned so much from here and it has advanced us in our journey in one way or another. Be well and continue to contribute. Love is the answer.

Love is all you need.