Merrick

@Merrick While I don't share solidarity with the student protestors, I cannot argue with your statements. Unfortunately I don't think senseless violence in the region will end while Israeli leadership retains settler-hardliners and Palestinian leadership continues to act as a proxy for regional powers hell-bent on Israel's destruction. Would this current cycle end if Hamas frees their Oct. 7th hostages?

Having trouble with the idea of someone catching a ban for a profile post. He didn’t de-rail a thread or even start trouble in Marv’s thread. Not much disrespectful in this back and forth, either. If you’re gonna tolerate the libertarian dude in Marv’s thread worried about a border “invasion,” maybe also tolerate the one vocally left wing dude here.

There are rules around politics in the forum. Marv's thread is the only place. Let's make this the last post on this. Merrick will be back soon.

Better than Cowboy Curtis? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usi4V9sbXAo

Now I can’t get the ridiculous song “Ich bin ein Pferd” (I Am a Horse) by the German children’s band Donikkl out of my head, as it is about Cowboy Kurt’s horse. Funny how the mind works. (EDIT: And I wrote that before I followed JK47’s link.)

That song contains the most absurd line I ever heard in lyrics: „Pferde essen gerne Pferdbeereis“, which translates to “horses like to eat horse berry ice”, but works better in German, where Pferd means horse and Erdbeereis means strawberry ice.

My headphone listening time is already quite low and I have a Ragnarok for big boy phones and a Liquid Carbon for IEMs, the Vali 3 would probably barely ever get used.

Clearly, the proper thing to do is use the Vali3 as preamp for the Ragnarok.

@Armaegis Can’t believe I missed such an obvious solution!

This is a bargain.

Mine will be back tomorrow from its California road trip; hopefully with the non-sticky-button upgrade...

It’s super great - wouldn’t blame you if you decided to not use LIM at all, tbh. Don’t need to fix what ain’t broken.

huh, ive never looked into aftermarket tips for AirPods Pro, but ill give them a shot

@SoupRKnowva The stock tips never stayed in my ears regardless of size, so I've tried many third party tips. These are the best I've found to date.

I’ve used Comply tips in the past as the stock ones never worked for me but these look interesting. Ordered. And thanks!

Oops, that should have been a post on my own profile. Sorry, Merrick! ;)

You're not sorry at all

I have a 2-bay unit at the office to serve music and am very happy with it. I currently have 14TB Seagate XOS drives in all my units and am very happy with them. I used to run WD red drives, but started to experience high temps and a couple premature failures so I slowly transitioned to the XOS (I replace one drive in the 4 bay units every ~1.5 years... so the oldest drive is never more than 5 yrs old)

The performance on the Synology wasn’t up to the need when I did this many years ago, so I ended up with a cheap tower stuffed with drives running TrueNAS. At some point I need to transition back to a 3.5-drive appliance - I’m not interested in managing my own systems anymore.

I’ve been considering the same thing @Qildail. My Synology is nine years old. Think I may stick with Synology for the simplicity. Considered Storaxa. But might just hang a two-bay NFS share off my Roon server since I have super light use requirements.

Not familiar with that tune...nice

@Jinxy245 One of my favorite Bowie songs!

Enjoy. It’s a fantastic DAC.

Once you go Yggdrasil, you never go back. I’ll be curious to see your impressions with LIM, but methinks you’re discovering what many of us love about GS.

@MellowVelo I probably won’t swap LIM in for a few weeks, I want to get used to the sound of GS first.

Feel better, just the worst. Had food poisoning a few weeks ago, didn’t feel 100% for a whole week.

@internethandle Food poisoning was truly the worst. I’ve only had it once and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. I’m glad you’re through it.

"wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy" - why are people so nice? There are lots of people I wish would die by pooping their guts out.

@insidious meme Well shit. Feels longer! ;)

@Merrick - That's what she said.

I was barely on Changstar before they opened SBAF. Basically been a member the whole time

Damn I gotta hear one, hope to get ears on it at hificon

I've been thinking that I'll eventually grab a MJ3, but all this hype around the Pietus has me reconsidering...

Sounds like you came

Like I said in the reply to him, I don't think the dipswitches on the LIM boards really do anything, but you can set the one for the right channel to "right" and left to left if you want just to be sure.

also, if you don't have a spudger/pry tool, try placing the DAC upside down on something soft but grippy, like cushioned shelf liner (a la SBAF shelf liner HD800 mods), and with the front facing you, grab the bottom casework and push away from yourself with downward pressure on the case.

This one: https://youtu.be/fO5ghpka7sc?si=-7YBI6YK_PJfWZo9

For what it's worth, I love my GS and don't see changing DACs anytime soon. Tried LIM, Wavelight, and other DACs and nothing else does it for me.

@ChaChaRealSmooth i feel the same about my A2. LIM, Soerkis, Holo Sptring, May, Wavelight, Wavedream even. I’d love to find a dac that I like that’s technically better but I can’t find one. Maybe the Berkeley Labs Alpha DACs. I’d like to hear one of those.

You just might fall in love with the GS boards. I’ve been enjoying mine for 7+ years. Congrats and have fun!

I know, it's my original Schiit stack he bought off me :) He probably won't upgrade. He has more important expenses.

I use an iFi Zen dac in my desktop rig. It is very good at its and above price point. Not sure of your other stuff, objective, price range, etc. but there are not many options that really smoke it until you get into the $600 and above range, application dependent. Lots of well known up to $400 dacs succumb to the Zen.

@bixby I agree it’s a good DAC and can hold up well to competition. My budget for this is $800 and up, an arena where I think I’d see notable improvements. But I don’t want to churn a bunch so I’m being careful about what I’m considering. This would get paired with a Ragnarok 1 for headphones and speakers.

I do have to agree with @YMO . Always just state the point you believe. Nobody wants to stop a conversation to read. For the sake of rhythm if nothing else

I stated it in multiple ways. Penguin admitted he hasn’t followed the news. Can’t have an informed conversation without information. And I included a link.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/21/donald-trump-recorded-pressuring-wayne-canvassers-not-to-certify-2020-vote-michigan/72004514007/

As an avid BBC World News listener via their broadcast through NPR, I have noticed their interviewers' anti-Israeli & pro-Palestinian bias shine through the past several years.

Let’s be clear though, the IDF is the ones who are saying they shot people waving signs of surrender. The BBC is reporting what the IDF is themselves saying.

Was just commenting on what I've noticed about BBC's coverage of the region in general, not disputing facts as related to what unfortunately happened with those hostages. Whole bloody situation is a damn shame.

Can't wait for columnists everywhere to twist themselves into a pretzel attempting to hagiographize the guy.

Was the Grim Reaper like "yessssssss!"

Respect Kissinger's ability and all, but ya, don't like him very much politically.