ChaChaRealSmooth

I still prefer boobs.

@Thad E Ginathom but do the boobs make music?...

***Of Course They Make Music!***

:)

I've been really interested in hearing these. Gen G and Mini-S are two different styles of enjoyable 'phones

Hmm, guess I'll see! It is an NVMe

I have a SATA SSD. Brilliantly faster than HDD :)

I bought it a few days before my previous motherboard died. Yep: the new MB has NVMe,but hey, I already had the SATA.

I'll add NVMe... one day...

NVMe blazes. Drops all the spinning-rust hard drive overhead that SATA had to support. Most can do 32 concurrent reads/writes, so it acts more like RAM than a hard drive in that regard.

I actually hate signature releases, unless I specifically request it or it's a loaner (which gearmasters/the personal loaner themselves should set the rules) from SBAF, since it means I usually have to go to the store to go pick it up bc they never try to redeliver or I can't trust them to. I'm lazy ChaCha. Throw my personally-bought $1K DAC on my doorstep and let it sit there for hours. I ain't scuured.

Sometimes I get signature release packages sent to the nearest Fed/UPS Walgreens/CVS pick up point. They are usually open quite late if not 24hrs here in SoCal

Nothing like that ever happens here. Int'l couriers usually call in advance to make sure you're there before coming, or call to tell me they've left it with the doorman. Domestic stuff just arrives and gets signed for.

Dude yes. Been digging my kamado joe (same same). Can go low and slow and actually have it be stable or go ripping hot and go nuts.

@M3NTAL I'm a skeptic no more about this baby at least. It's fucking fantastic and it certainly doesn't hurt that food comes out of messing around with it

Let me know how pizza works with it. Temps can get super high

It’s even worse because it took the top spot on the homepage from the Bay Area meet which could use the awareness. That and ETA doesn’t deserve it. Leave the BS for shit companies.

Points to whomever added @64616e ’s new title.

I am negative points for not understanding @YMO . He eventually spelled it out for me. I regret pushing him to explain further. I did not catch “subtle” cues. YMO: +1, Philimon: -11

With the ifi Zen DAC?

Not today; I'm waiting for the XLR cable to arrive so I can experiment and then start the tour (I bought this to include with the loaner). Genuinely curious if it sounds better with balanced out.

But to answer your question: Yggdrasil GS -> EC Ultralinear -> ZMF Atrium

So will you get one on top of your 10+ other DACs?

I ordered a zen one sig earlier this week to see how I like it as well. Seemed like a pairing worth trying after reading the zen dac thread.

@lagadu very synergistic pairing. The pairing can be accused of being a little too laid-back or limp dick but somehow they correct each other's sins a lot.

You can really dial in and finely control temps. On my large egg, I can get 30 hours at 110C or two hours at 370C. The ceramic really retains heat well and burns a lot less fuel than many other methods.

I use a Thermoworks Signals to manage my cooking and cook everything to temp with an internal thermometer and can monitor the grill temp with it, too. It'll even wake me up at 1am if the temps start to deviate.

Easiest thing to start out smoking to get a feel for the egg is a pork shoulder. Maybe burgers to start out with the grilling side (costco frozen patties for lazy mode), but graduate to a steak ASAP. The high temps are incredible for steaks (~350C).

I just picked one up for office listening and I totally agree. It is quite enjoyable. It's not the the last word on definition or separation, but it renders a solid, entertaining, convincing picture. I had been using a Topping DX4 for office/portable up until this point and the Fulla easily smokes it in bass, depth and midrange tone.

When my wife got COVID and I had to isolate in the spare bedroom, I had to dust off my old Fulla 2 (the first non-dongle version) for the first time in years for a makeshift setup and was surprised at how enjoyable the LCD-X was out of them. I was not at all feeling like I was missing anything, and got through so much new music. It was a life saver.

@DigMe compared to Yggdrasil GS and Starlett, obviously it's much worse; stage is flat, isn't as resolving, I could go on. But as a whole package, it's not bad and is cohesive.

Timeless 7hz + Fiio UTWS5 Bluetooth is my running / gym companion.

HE6seV2 out of the Xbox Controller 3.5mm jack is end game for me.

Haha, I liked Empire Ears 14-driver Zeus for PS4. Super sensitive and tons of spatial information and detail. :)

God, I'd love to hear either JAR600 on your setup...

I'm strongly biased toward the B mod bc it sounds 800ish (or what I wished the 800 sounded like, when I had them years ago) while retaining the tone, timbre and realness of the 6X0 series.

@caute if you visit LA or Orange County area in CA I'll be happy to let you audition my system

Smoker

I love torturing my neighbors with my smoker.

@Vansen you're an evil bastard. So am I!

Drove through the beginning of it earlier this week and saw the same late 90’s mustang driving like an idiot in the rain as I did on my way north just before Xmas. What are the chances…

Of course it's a Mustang driver /s

Actually, I don't think it would take /much/ figuring. But it would take a deeper knowledge of hardware interaction, operating system priorities, interrupts... all that stuff and more. I don't want to take up all that stuff now. All I can say is that I'm sure it isn't actually weird, but I can't explain why.

@Thad E Ginathom I actually agree - I have a long history with Windows audio “tweaking” and USB audio in general is very weird. Controversial topic though, and even with what I know I also can’t explain why, either. But yeah, interrupts, CPU threads and handles/overhead, resource allocation/affinity, something like that.

Yep, I tweaked some in early days of Windows audio, and later (to present) in Linux audio.

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