Lyander

To quote Bill Hicks: "did I miss a meeting?"

@Deep Funk some zombified accounts engaged in trades and now @rhythmdevils has to deal with PayPal refunds. Hopefully that gets sorted and is the full extent of the damage

I missed quite some meetings indeed.

@Cspirou this is why I'm wondering if the wall-warts are still good to use. But per @atomicbob earlier LPS seem to be less apt than SMPS at suppressing over-voltage events so maybe the bricks are still good to use, just that it was too much for the board.

Also, I tracked voltage over the day and it ranges from ~226V to 250V, latter isn't typical per se but it is something that my mains seems to drift to just out of hand. I'm sitting at around 243V atm. Never realised how weird my wall power was, but it'd explain the appliances sometimes randomly dying or power strips melting

Most schiit wall bricks are just transformers. So if it didn't burn, explode, melt or otherwise appear damaged simply measure the AC output with a DMM. If that is an appropriate voltage then it will be ok.

226 to 250 Vac is quite a range. A small variac to protect your audio equipment by lowering the range to 216 to 240 might be prudent.

Freaky ghost bed! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdyU_gW6WE

I don't believe MMB2 USB-C connector uses USB power and probably has no connections to those USB pins.

@atomicbob That's what I was thinking too else the MMB2 wouldn't NEED the barrel plug, but given I concede a lot of ignorance I was wondering whether or not I could be overlooking something. Thanks for taking the time to allay a silly fear

Thanks for the heads up! I was able to switch it to the classic before I got charge the extra for stupid AI crap that I was forced to sign up!

@theveterans glad it helped. Someone needs to have a baseball bat shoved up their butt for forcing people into this, like even if they CAN afford the 30% bump at least be upfront about having the option to NOT use the AI tier.

But what should we have expected? The new tier system was probably designed by the AI ;)

I was about to say that yeah the prices were out for everything. These could be worth keeping in mind as an alternative to the 6xx depending on their characters

Just noticed that the maximum input power is highest on the R50x (1.6W) as opposed to 1W on both the R70xa and the R30x. Curious about the difference in power handling. 470R impedance for the 70xa, 50R on the 50x, and 47R on the 30x besides gradually increasing sensitivity. Looks fun.

I've got the refine loaner. It wants so much power. Didn't try it on an OTL but for low Z amps it wants the juice. On MJ3 it needs an additional 15-20 degrees of turn vs 300 ohm senns

Inland Empire is the only movie I’ve ever walked out of crying.

His family statement in part: “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not the hole’”

This news got me, we lost a really good one.

RIP. I’m thinking back at his version of Dune…I still enjoy this more visually than the recent two-parters with CGI.

Don’t worry about neatness. If there’s electrical contact, I would say that’s a triumph

LMAO I actually still need to replace the gain toggle on the Magni 3+! Dragging my feet cuz worried so you were spot on about the confidence. Might end up giving it to friends or family afterwards cuz I'd feel weird selling it

Yesterday I destroyed a PCB pad while de-soldering a busted power jack. The fix will be ugly, but inside the case so I don't have to see it. >:(

And may you enjoy more music

And no blowing up the toilet tomorrow.

Disassembled earlier to do that visual inspection, reassembled, and now it SEEMS to be working as normal? Guess something got jostled loose is all.

Taking something apart and putting it back together again often works! But only if one doesn't expect it to.

@Thad E Ginathom Agreed, if I had even an inkling that this could have fixed it the right channel might have completely died, LMAO!

https://x.com/lamienthana/status/1869321722056552543

I feel compelled to apologise for talking about vtubers on SBAF lmao.

Stream link is twitch.tv/lamienthana !

The issue isn't even with surround sound or artificial stage shenanigans, this is just 2ch 44.1kHz 24 bit being shoved into whatever DAC I happen to be using, be it Modi MB2, Magni Unity ESS card, or FiiO BTR7. Move to android and boom things are okay

When I used windoze, I always used wasapi for bit perfect digital out so windoze is taken out of the path entirely with jriver/foobar2k or similar. There is no audio settings in windoze...

@HotRatSalad oh I use f2k WASAPI out for music I have on my drive too, but a lot of my audio consumption is stuff I stream or just YouTube videos in the background so that's not an option.

Step 1: put a hole in the box...

And a face.

@Lyander how is the Parterre? I tried them years ago at a store but couldn’t get a good impression. I think they’re “airier” than the TG334.

@joch comparing just from memory (I've been using the parterre more lately while I still have both on loan) it definitely extends further up than the TG334 and has less of a subterranean grumble, faster bass. Both have pretty bad sibilance on e.g. Hayley Williams - Simmer, but it's more tolerable on Parterre. Stage is more thrown out on TG I think, Parterre bit more vague in a pleasant way.

I'm using the Spiral Dot++ for both, Campfire Smoky Litz cable via an adapter out of either the desktop rig (MMB2 > Unity cuz Piety is way too hot) or the FiiO BTR7.

Been back on the Andros, will revisit the Fitears soonish for more useful impressions!

This is weird, I thought eating shrimp is like tossing salad.

@Lyander Don't get me wrong, I love shrimp cooked in the shell, I just remove the meat like I would a lobster tail or crab leg. I know people eat whole shrimp, I'd just never really thought about it before. Probably what sucks most about living here in the middle of the continent is the lack of fresh seafood.

Size-dependent: shrimp tails yes (but I cut the little fins off the back), they're not worth the effort of flaying; prawns and anything bigger, extraction; and with crabs & lobsters, sucking the meat out of each leg segment is fun.

Also got a FiiO BR13 to plug into the TV. Tried it out for a bit as a desktop DAC, no real reason why I'd want to use it there since the same chip in the Magni Unity (ES9018) sounded less painful and more cohesive, but hey it takes LDAC. Can just link phone to play random music.

Corporate religion is fun. I interviewed at Amazon once and quizzed the manager on how they personally applied Bezos' Leadership Principles and it was as if I asked a priest "How do you apply the Bible and which Commandment is important?"

The interviewer's reaction was complete fluster and annoyed offense at my outsider-ness, as well as seeming to fear being exposed as non-conformant. "ALL RULES ARE EQUAL IMPORTANTANCE. ALL ARE USED EVERY DAY!"

@SoupRKnowva I love using Bandcamp too, and Boomkat or Presto for when something I want isn't on Bandcamp. The issue besides me going down a rabbit hole earlier this year (see: https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/what-is-your-preferred-music-file-format-and-why.14126/)

... is that Steam's recent clarification re game ownership had me rethinking things. I've had games I'd BOUGHT on Google Play just vanish from my library, and while these are pretty cheaply priced things I still hold grudges over things like that. Then again I don't buy nearly enough albums that something like ripping CDs might be a chore to me, it's still fun and novel is all.

I don’t think buying music is similar to games though. You’re buying files that are drm free, you own them.

I never met dr sbaiso. But a "therapy" application used to be part of Unix. It was actually quite clever. And that was in the last century!

@joch yep that's the story I came across. Was morbidly curious and looked into that AI chat thing cuz it was apparently amazingly popular, turns out something like that'd happened recently.

I heard about this news on a podcast and the professor in the podcast was demanding age gate on this AI stuff. As a Chinese guy, I've seen how iron fists force age gate but how do free world does it? I don't really think it's possible when taking privacy into consideration...

@Vansen I have no clue about what they do outside of their music (I really don't pay much attention to a lot of what musicians I like do in their off time cuz that seldom goes very well), but I'm mainly familiar with their debut LP which I got into back in college. Forgot they existed for a long while until recently.

Checked their recent album Death by Rock and Roll out and enjoyed a few songs, missed any hints of misogyny or abuse. Haven't heard Hit Me Like a Man but glancing the lyrics it reads more to me as a masochism thing, which precludes consent? It's definitely too much nuance to hold a conversation about over text and I do have friends that are into less vanilla things so my perception is skewed.

Didn't notice I ran into a character limit. Domestic abuse is something purely evil and ought never be condoned, so I can see why those lyrics hurt in that situation and why it could have done harm. I hope that your friend's long moved on and at peace. Hope the guy grew a heart and half a brain too.