GoodEnoughGear

Haha two hours was my goal for the one half marathon I ever ran and I just barely squeaked in under it. Good luck man! I certainly didn’t do it barefoot

The race was absolutely packed all the way to the finish, dodging people all the way, managed a 2:02:05. I'm very happy with that! I spent an extra 380m weaving through the crowd.

Next year at least I'll be seeded and won't start in the last batch. I started in batch F and caught batch C by the end.

There's a nice Victron AIO that does this. It'll cope with 240 Ah. But no solar. I must check if it can coexist with a simultaneously connected Victron MPPT charger.

We will see when I build my own system. ;-) I bet there are a lot of different options out there. Just checked, 14.4 kWh of solar batteries would cost 2200€ for a company (2763€ norma price). When you have off-grid capable system then they say you need at least 3 days battery power available. That would be at least 3x that.

It's a bit like turntables and speakers! The bits at each end of the chain can get very, very expensive. Solar panels... ... ...batteries!

And the bits in the middle are not cheap.

I'm not even looking to go off grid. Just need to support essentials through regular short power cuts and would *like* to reduce the power bills during the day. Anyway, for supporting the essentials I am sorted, at reasonable cost.

Yeah I confess I'm avoiding them more than embracing them. Hunting for the 'sweet spot' is still very mechanical and error-prone.

What they tell me is that you have to commit. If you keep using the old stuff, you'll never adapt. That's what they tell me: obviously I never did.
I looked into it again recently (no pun intended), and they seem to have evolved since I tried them, especially if you spend really a lot. But people say there is stuff like PC screens that single-vision suits a heap better. I spend a lot of time in front of a screen.

Did you get a money-back-if-not-happy deal? how long before you have to swallow it? I guess... you should give them a proper chance

No, man, he's OK. He's an institution. I'd just block him otherwise. This is just lighthearted.

I also didn’t realize the context until I saw his post-a-thon which is informative and entertaining ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs

Never seen Alerts in chrome on my ancient five-incher.

Sometimes it's a matter of going landscape....not enough room at the top.

It wasn't working either way - I don't see Alerts in portrait but in landscape I did/do. My screen scaling must have somehow wonked out.

One of the few listenable ESS Sabre units too!

Through my Genelecs I preferred my Geek Pulse over a NAD C510, I thought it was going to be the otherway around, but nope :)

Yup this was through the Gennies too.

I can’t think of a better way to start the year.

That's something I started doing at like, 22 when I'm in the mountains at New years. No better skiing than 8am on jan1, just you and the snow.

I guess I aged fast? xD

Took me a while to learn :).

https://youtu.be/Jzoz2FgAOxE

Time to write up specifics on what constitutes a Golden Asshole Award. (Actually I'd call it the Purple Starfish, but I'm getting ahead of myself.)

Whoever that person was, I am surprised they lasted that long.

I don't like reverb and room noise when I am on VOIP calls.

I would buy that; nobody making laptops with line input jacks anymore. Where are we supposed to stick our plugs?

@westermac Schiit used to make an ADC, but it did not sell well.

Why oh why did I look that up :)))

Maybe that's why Irene was here...

OK these sound way better than they should. That bass is solid. Big thumbs up. <edit>And Sonarworks has a profile! Which works great. What a little gem.</edit>

Wonder if there have been running changes of any significance since I bought my pair ~1993 ?!!

I loved my Portas until my roommate in university ripped the cables out of one side :’(

Good idea! The treatment discussion currently lives in some general two channel thread or just spread around the forum? Go for it man.

I’m all for it. I see a lot of people who have their equipment rack or TV between their speakers. I’ve found that removing the rack and or TV improves imaging. I love to see what people are doing.

Right now the structure is "Two Channel Gear Discussion" with subcategories "Preamps", "Power Amps" and "Speakers". Acoustics fit into none of these, so I propose adding "Acoustics". Subcategories could be "Home Theatre", "Listening Rooms" "outdoors" "Professional" ...you get the picture. Need an admin to create this. Maybe it deserves a proper thread for input?

not good, the space just isn't going to be viable without spending over 70k aud to waterproof and modify hallways and won't be perfect anyway. I've taken the biggest room in the house 3.4x4 metres and slowly turning it into a bit of what I dreamt of. Saving for the next house. I'll make sure I have room for a 10x6 metre room ;)

Crap. Tough break :(. I;m looking into all this because we're getting ready to buy something bigger so I need to know what I'm looking for - Mrs GEG has all her ducks in a row (of course) ;).

5 x 6 metre room would be ideal, or acreage so you can just plonk that wherever you want. Depends what you are trying to do and how close the neighbours are!

P.s. I basically bought this house so she could get a dog. They always get what they want! Haha

The M500's retain their crown, but the PortaPros did much better than their price would suggest. They do need EQ to bring out the best in them though. They are a bit too dark, bassy and a bit woolly sounding on their own. Sonarworks works well, carving out about 4dB around 120hz with wide Q and then lifting to +3dB starting at 500hz with some specific peaks and troughs but generally ramping up to +12dB at 20khz.

I'd need more careful listening to evaluate other aspects but I'm not sure it matters - they beat the crap out of my work Jabras which was the goal. Work listening isn't critical in my context at all, so I'm quite pleased with PortaPros + GO2A as a summer and travel work setup.

I agree - it's easy to see when it's obvious noise, those dislikes need no explanation.

Noise, piss poor quality posts, ass hattery, etc, all are defined differently by our members.

JK47 has spoken. Sometimes justice is random. Sometime justice has a reason. The dislike is the bitterness in a beautiful espresso. Accept it and you accept what makes coffee coffee.

Depending on what you are looking for there is a ton of beautiful stuff posted by @earnmyturns and @Changeling
Also another great source is the jazztrail.net blog that earnmyturns menioned.

@Gaspasser Thanks! The thread is becoming a better one than the trusted Jazz Beat thread over at Steve Hoffmans forum in my opinion. Hope to see more contributors moving forward.

Well of course now it's back.