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Had something special with my Gungnir A1 and Sonett 2 setup a couple years ago. Using a Sonett 2 now along with a Bifrost 2. Going to see where this leads me.

Honestly, I'd say the Bifrost 2 is closer in tonality to Gungnir A1 but unison + the improvements are tangible. I suspect if I had them side by side I'd pick the Bifrost 2.

Congrats on sourcing a Sonnett 2. That is a nice combo with HD800!

Knowing Focal, probably the most expensive rope in the history of mankind.

It would make a good storey!


(My hobby: catching everybody else's spelling mistakes!)

@JustAnotherRando The stock Utopia cable costs $1000 if I remember correctly?

Was looking at the Phillharmonic BMR but all this big speaker talk has me looking for other options.

Klipsch, JBL

The JVCs are excellent with the mods. I actually use them every day now.

I forgot about those. Read that thread awhile back, will have to check it out again.

Ya I appreciate the technicalities ba can get, but that timbre is just ugh. Hardly every use them though so I'm happy with my james micropore'd A&D D6, more than good enough for hotel rooms.

A precious new beginning ... and ending. Say goodbye to sleep (and many other things) for the duration. But well worth it in the long run.

I was never more afraid, then when those evil people made us leave the maternity ward, and go home. At least that was the feeling with our first...

I hear you @ButtUglyJeff. We were finally resting in the hospital right after, and we were sound asleep at 2am....then they wheel in this loud wailing crying baby we have to now take care of. It was a rude awakening for sure.

Oh this one was royally fucked. I had the pleasure of opening the cassette up and having to painstakingly sort out the tape by hand.

I remember doing that... I don't envy you.

Oh god, there were good reasons for leaving those days behind!

But... Bic pen was the perfect tool.

Sometimes small bead of glass breaks off inside and can float around like a bean in a maracha

I've seen it before. Doesn't seem to affect anything. Just keep an ear out for sonic anomalies or excess microphonics and EMI sensitivity. But also don't come back to me if I'm wrong and something blows up. :)

Inspected the tube this morning again. Nothing is loose pinging around inside that I can see. It almost sounds like an excessive "tingggg" sound when shaking or tapping the tube. Rattle may of been the wrong descriptor. Lightly tapping the tube when music is playing doesn't bring about any microphonics or other anomalies. Probably still safe not to use the tube though. Don't want it destroying my ZDS.

Focus ST is not a bad car. GTI is nicer IMO, but if you want to stay in Ford family...
Fiesta ST is a much better car for hooning, but it's pretty damned small

Ended up buying a Buick Regal Premium II. I did take the Mustang out on some back roads for a couple hours though, that was fun.

Cool, I've been getting a bit of a boner for the Regal Wagon, so I know I'm getting really old...

Bruddah you got a gem.

I have my fingers crossed that Mike is going to come out with a new phono stage when they release the Sol, and refresh the Mani too

I'm going to be buying a Tavish Vintage 6sl7 pre from another member here soon, so MC is covered. I've been leaning towards the Denon or the Hana SL if I go big. I was planning to get the regular (original?) 103, should I instead get the 103r? I was thinking about eventually sending the 103 in to get the Paradox or Zu treatment.

May as well get the latest and greatest 103R, and never look back, but get that body upgrade whether it be Zu or Paradox.

Just when I think I’m happy you go and say this. Seriously though, congrats!

Congrats Dan! Waiting on mine to arrive & compare to Gungnir Multibit

I wouldn't worry about it melting the base off or anything, but depending on the material it might crawl its way up the gaps between pins and base, if you get those wet.

Not an issue for alcohol, not sure I'd want deoxit hanging round in there indefinitely! :)

If you have busted tubes you can test that first

@Taverius "not sure I'd want deoxit hanging round in there indefinitely"

I thought that Deoxit made /everything/ better. The only stuff in the world that actually does contain unicorn urine! No, I'm not saying anything sounds better, but a heap of things work better.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/03/18/stephen-hawking-leaves-behind-breathtaking-final-multiverse/

This is fucking awesome! Thanks Dr. Hawking for leaving us one last great idea. Multiverse communication next??? Makes you wonder what other more advanced civilizations have discovered. We just have to get past this pre-school phase we are in. Without self-extinction.

https://curiositystream.com/hawking/

May just move my computer and use my short PYST usb cable I got from Schiit a few years back. I think it's 3ish feet.

XLR is for long cable runs so what would make the most sense would be the keep the DAC close and then have extra long XLR cables. Of course then you need 2 x 10ft cables over using one digital cable of the same length.

I use a 10ft Audioquest Forest USB cable. Works fine.

Next, most of the jokes were not really funny. And that one car chase when the girl driving the car that gets blown up just slides down the road still in the seat, still holding the steering wheel? Not funny, and just seems like a poor excuse for a way she survived that. It was too long too. I could never feel emotionally for any character, except possible the antagonist. I thought it was OK, but not great. 6/10.

holy shit those comments here

Yeah I kinda made a lot of them...

Wrap tube in bubble wrap. Put wrapped tube in box. Fill box with wrapped tubes. Hide box so you can pretend you didn't buy so many tubes.

After boxing/wrapping, store in Pelican/Monoprice case.

Not sure how many you have and what kinds, but pill boxes work well for me:

https://imgur.com/a/fFIhk

Pretty cool huh. We’ve moved 19 miles in just one second. Or 124 miles around the center of the galaxy. I love relative motion!

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

Not sure what a good price is. It’s one of those things where you wait to get lucky on eBay

If it’s the one I sent you with the ZDS, I got it for ~$140 on eBay about a year ago so $99ish seems solid.

Yes it is, thanks!