Azimuth

The Crown D-75 is not a differential output, so the grounds are connected. The headphone jack in the front is directly connected to the speaker outs, although it does not disconnect the rear speaker connections. It's rated at 35w into 8Ω 20-20kHz, or 40w at 1K and 26db of gain, damping factor is 400.

I am listening now to LCD-2's and wow...very open and clear. Still of that LCD-warmth, but not quite as overpowering of the highs. Even at full volume, no hiss. I have not had the LCD-2's sound this spacious. I mean...amazing for orthodynamics. Even with HD600/650, is not bad.

I've only auditioned them back in the day when I was on the quest for Powah when I had the HE6SEv2. I agree - it was also very very effortless and spacious sounding. The best part was the price - the D-75 was/is still very affordable today and a straightforward solution if you don't want to have to deal with banana plugs, speaker taps, etc. of a full speaker amp, with the D75 front HP jack directly wired.

Another machine-specific one: https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/humminguru-the-budget-ultrasonic-with-the-funny-name.11983/

I have not tried wood glue, but I am still up to trying this one day. I wonder how deep that glue gets in the grooves?

Wood Glue method works great on top of using a record cleaner. Back when I had LPs I used Wood Glue for super dirty records and then record cleaner to get rid of the remaining junk. Surface noise went super down with this method.

Dang I don’t need to know.

Linn... it's even better!!!

I never wanted to believe that streamers can make so much of a difference (although I had a Zen Stream myself). Now I’d like to test DSD512 upsampling which is more than the Zen Stream can handle and find that I can’t, because the Pi 4 as source by itself makes more difference towards worse than the difference between DSD256 and DSD512, even with a power bank. I fear I’ll have to buy a Holo Red, too, once …

You might find this interesting.
Levin does not impress me as a musician. But he seems to be a good musicologist.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XA44wda3prE&pp

Certain instruments do demand a certain way of playing them.

Especially the ones that are 3 chords.

The Holo build time @crenca. I kind of wished they would take half up front and half on delivery. 6 - 8 weeks is quite a long ways to wait.

Get @famish99 to write a guide on the holo red with all the good tweak stuff. Get a headache even thinking about it.

@famish99 is using Gentoo Player and Diretta, a whole package that will cost you 169€, on top of the Red + shipping. Not quite sure I want to go that route.

@internethandle No, this Friend was not willing to open.

Fun aside that demonstrates I'm a crazy person: once, with the chassis off and the front board resting on some cardboard, I was playing music with Yggdrasil LIM and decided to see what would happen if you disconnected the ribbon cable after signal lock. The answer: no sound, but if I re-connected the cable even without resetting the Yggdrasil, it would re-establish signal lock and play music again.

The front panel definitely has something to do with telling the DSP board what input to “listen” to.

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.

Yeah, I dunno what happened then. Mysterious failure. Thanks for the clarification.

@Arun Kumar Did the same on his A1. Replaced the A1 boards with LIM but not the ROM. It made distorted sound. It did not brick the A1.

For me, I think the ribbon cable for the front panel must have messed with the regulators that are kind of in the way there and caused some voltage failure. That is my best guess - so be careful out there.

@RestoredSparda , damn that's not too encouraging. My Yggdrasil is OG (not +). Interesting theory about possibility of the MIB cards not working with the old chassis. I still find it hard to believe that I so easily "damaged" something during the swap attempt.
@Azimuth , your Yggdrasil is totally dead in the water then? No boards/chips make sound?

Correct @dirtyunderwear. Both the A1 and LIM cards will "lock" to the incoming signal, but no analog output whatsoever. That goes for the upgraded firmware chip and the original firmware chip. My guess is that something is wrong with the muting relay circuit. I bet if I measured output from the card, it would be there. But it is boxed up and I am sending it back to Schiit.

I would email Schiit @dirtyunderwear. They got back to me and finally stated the non-plus chassis needs a slightly different chip for the MIB cards as the firware is different on the front panel. They are sending that now to me.

Strange flex

there's a local classified with a guy selling a 179 which seems like a step up from the 117, but I'm having trouble seeing what all the extra money gets me?

@Armaegis Accuracy, speed, and TrueRMS. True RMS is more accurate voltage for AC voltages. As well as durability and longevity. My 117 is also smaller and lighter weight than my old 77.

I was talking to my uncle who was an electrician at a factory that made UL listed products (water pumps). And he had to send his meter every so often to get calibrated so when the UL inspectors showed up they asked to see his calibration sticker on his meter.

For UPS Shure Post, times I have gotten shipments with that option, its like I can guarantee whatever my package was, its going to take like an extra week to arrive. Feel like that option is, "Whenever your post office feels like delivery"

USPS has always been near flawless for me. For larger packages though, UPS is usually better, but Ground is slow AF, but not nearly as slow as FedEx Ground.

I have a package from the UK which was lost by USPS in Mid-May, still can't even make a claim because it's international, and whenever the undefined waiting period ends, I have to go argue with my local branch manager. No phone service allowed.

TBH - it fits what I was looking for more than (>) what MJ3 is.

@Azimuth Tubes or LISST?

@Claritas Tubes. Did not read reports of much fondness with LISST, and those are actually hard to find now.

@Armaegis If they tried to block it then it would just turn up no searches. It wouldn’t turn up 404 errors. It seems the whole domain is down and he had more than just that on his site.

Most likely... but possible that HF sent an angry letter saying "shut it down"?

Anyways, don't care to speculate too much more... but ya, this sucks. Used it every time I bought used gear.

I'm not so sure. Devbrada is mainly a "catalog of game studio jobs around the world," and the head-fi classifieds is separate to that, but the entire site is down.

I'm always here @Claritas, just more of a lurker these days. And yes @Vansen, it was for non-users. Once you logged it it would go away.

Logged in I still get tons of ads.

Yes @gixxerwimp, they used to go away, now they are all over the place.

line-level or active analog crossover, or digital?

I am just using passive vertical bi-amping. One stereo amp for L, one for R. One channel for woofer, other channel for mids and highs.

Some things that might help: TENS machine with the large pads, menthol patches (Walmart's are very strong; I like the weak Salonpas ones), lidocaine patches. Hope you feel better.

I feel your pain @Azimuth I'm having issues with my lower back, hip and leg on my right side. Goes slightly painful where I can get by on some ibuprofen and muscle relaxers, to the worse pain I've ever felt in my life and can't even get around. Had x-rays looked normal. Next step Friday MRI with orthopaedist. Hopefully nothing bad or long term.

That is not goo @HotRatSalad. But I take it that they would be able to tell a bulging disc on an X-Ray. I hope you get some relief soon. For me, I am finally back to 90-95%. Still just the littest bit of pain down low, but nothing serious. I have finally put away the heating pads for now thankfully.

Eat some hot chicken

Guess we're sick buddies together man. Let's both eat good food and get better soon!