crenca

Email ZMF directly. I have a Lektrik terminated in the lemo connectors.

http://www.norneaudio.com/litzheim/index.php?route=product/category&path=17

I have a Norne Volsund for my Clears and love it. The stock cables were terrible and cripplingly stiff. He will terminate any of his cables with whatever you want.

I think it was you @Lyander who pointed to it on the deals thread. Thanks! I have reaced a crossroads with my TOTL closed back search. The VC is so close...yet the cup reverb sometimes, on some tracks, make me want to rip them off my head

I will end up selling the VC and keeping the Eikon and Elegia for when I need closed back because of my domestic situation. I have demoed the Utopia before, so I don't expect any surprises - I think I know what I am getting over and above my Clear...of course only on my equipment for a length of time will I know fur sur...

As much as I'd be happy to take credit for it I don't recall pointing anyone in the direction of a Utopia, haha. Regardless, I'm happy you found one for a good price given it's a proper TOTL can. Do share impressions! :)

Maybe it's just my own propensity for purple prose but I don't find lengthy walls of text offensive unless they end up ultimately saying nothing; YMO's was fine, I got the gist of the amp :P

I also just skimmed the whole thing cuz and properly read interesting bits. I definitely don't expect anyone to slow-read stuff like that unless they hate having time.

No doubt that's a very dense and useful data point. Nevertheless I also skimmed as I am not ready to spend $2k (a little less if buy used) now. But may go through word to word deeply when I get to seriously consider DNA for myself. Don't hope it to come in the foreseeable future though lol

@Vtory gets it.

What should I be looking for? 10, 1000? 10 raised to the 15th?

Too low and you exfoliate every night. To high and you will slide off. 400 Egyptian cotton is nice. Sateen is trash.

Well, with the Verite Closed, I don't miss eq'ing that BBC dip - that, and the bass not hitting as hard as the Asgard 3 suddenly the VC feals like a much more tonally even HP.

Also, voices don't seem quite as recessed on the VC - that and better seperation...I am liking this.

There is some leveling going on here through the VC (will have to return to Clear later). Bad recordings sound better, but the best recordings are losing a bit of their crystal clarity. Dare I say a slight "veil" is going on...not yet...

I'd almost given up and was going to purchase again. Should get to my humble abode Monday or Tuesday.

Uhg! Sounds like my sort of luck... Have an SW51+ incoming in the next month or two.... or not haha!

https://www.dailyaudiophile.com/contact-us/

A step beyond @rlow - Would we even want to be mentioned there?

I think there are one or two decent sources listed there among the ringleaders of audiophoolery. 6moons? For the photography. I think they revolutionised audio photography. Good thing in that people started to take great pics, bad thing in that a simple snap wouldn't do any longer.

much more practical: https://phys.org/news/2020-07-true-pressure-required-propel-penguin.html

P=Po+Pt...Poopt.

Well thanks alot @skem If a penguin shits on the other side of the world, does it effect my system? Hell yes. Who makes the audio rack that fixes penguin shit jitter problem, anyone know?

I hate that after a decade and more has passed since I last saw that godforsaken video I STILL have that song stuck in my head.

Suffer: https://youtu.be/QFCSXr6qnv4

I am blissfully unaware of most of this stuff,. I had to look up "Charlie the unicorn"...I do remember the "Annoying Orange" however.

@crenca you are not missing very much at all, and I'd argue it actually helps quality of life not knowing these :))

Poe's Law states that an extreme viewpoint can be indistinguishable from a parody.

The Stereophile author should read the well-known interview with J Gordon Holt about honesty.

What amounts to "weighted blankets" for your components is really some next-level anxiety projection.

What kind of crazy upside down world is this when how a man orders his pizza changes for no good reason!

Sounds like the influence of online ordering... When you order online, don't you have to choose for each topping, whether you'd like it on the whole pizza or on half? So first you mark the whole ingredients, and then the ones on half the pizza?

I've asked for a pizza with /one/ olive. That is more than enough for me for a whole pizza.

I explained to my 5 year old that Pluto was always a planet and always will be, and that "Big Astronomy" has motivations of its own...

Reading your first status I thought of the Disney character and then I thought of a character from two Neal Stephenson novels but oddly I didn’t think of the celestial body at all! Another win for Big Astronomy

The movie with strong men?

Oh it’s easy - you just cradle the other guy’s balls in your hand and say “This is your piece, your sound system is not.”

We should put that on the front page. You have me laughing my ass off. :)

Sept/Oct is where I landed in line.

The Starlett doesn't have endlessly rollable tubes, nor does it really need it. Just listen to music

I'm planning an upgrade to my tube amp as well...those two (and a Glenn OTL) are the top of the list. Looking forward to your impressions (In the fall I guess)

The hoarder in me wants to :P

@Lyander shoot me PM if you want to pick up an OG Liquid Carbon (120V) given the (preposed) similarities to BW2. I Canz Make Dealz!

I've been lusting over a BW2 for years now, just no funds :( Good luck with the sale!

I'm from German heritage and wife is from British/Polish. Not much motivation to embrace the cuisine of our ancestors. We already cook most meals from scratch but mostly go to the other end of the flavor spectrum with a lot of Mexican, Thai, Spicy Chinese dishes. Last night was Hunan Beef with Naga King chiles to break a good sweat.

@Biodegraded, I have heard that song before! @crazychile, I am envious. If I had the patience/interest I would do more in the kitchen, but the truth is I don't like the kitchen.

A girlfriend said, "Why do you put salt in your cooking?"
Me, "Because it makes it taste better."
Her, "No. It makes it tastes of salt."

I stopped. For a while, I overcompensated with garlic.

Now, I don't add any salt when cooking (a few micrograms in omelete or scrambled) or on the plate. Over thirty years later, I can say, for sure, she was right.

My children are "ad free" - I don't want them to grow up as mindless consumers who think its OK to obtain thirty year mortgages ;)

Wutang Financial!

I'm on a free trial of Premium and plan to continue the subscription when trial lapses May 14. It's less than $3 per month my end so makes sense, and is greatly convenient too since I spend an unhealthy amount of time on the platform :))