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best way i know to make my gear sound better — take periodic breaks Sep 8, 2022

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1. pavi
  best way i know to make my gear sound better — take periodic breaks
  
  Sep 8, 2022
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2. pavi
  you ever have the urge to redo the entire documentation for someone else's product?
  
  Dec 21, 2021
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  2. Armaegis
    Consider yourself lucky that you had documentation to start with.
    
    Dec 21, 2021
    
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  3. pavi
    there is that, of course. but all too often i wonder if i'd've been better off being presented with a black box to experiment on and document.
    
    Dec 21, 2021
3. pavi
  hqplayer... is great fun if you're into that sort of thing.
  
  Dec 20, 2021
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  2. Ksaurav402
    I want to experiment with it during the break next week. But have Roon ROCK OS installed in my NUC so have to install it in my old macbook. Not sure how well it perform out of late 2013 macbook pro
    
    Dec 21, 2021
    
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  3. pavi
    the NAA is super lightweight, and should run just fine most anywhere. jussi recommends the $250 UP Gateway, which is solid. the real bite is where you run HQPlayer desktop itself, which is where the upsampling/dithering/noise-shaping occurs. the $699 m1 mac mini is probably the best cost/benefit option.
    
    Dec 21, 2021
4. pavi
  HQPlayer (from an iMac; sinc-m, 1.536M) feeding the Holo May KTE is astonishingly good
  
  Nov 12, 2021
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  3. pavi
    yes, that's right of course. sinc-mx sounds slightly warmer, deeper with less of the harshness that jussi believes pcm retains — he prefers dsd. i don't hear much harsh myself with sinc-m, but sinc-mx is certainly a fuller sound, and i prefer it.
    
    Nov 13, 2021
  4. Woland
    @GoldenOne Whoops. Thanks for clarifying on Sinc-L. @pavi I also use Sinc-Mx but for different reasons. The scaling makes it an intermediate-tap Sinc filter for <200kHz PCM (SPDIF limit on Schiit), and it is the highest tap Sinc filter I can do reliably on the Pi 4.
    
    Nov 13, 2021
    
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  5. pavi
    poly-sinc-gauss and asdm7ec over sdm works just fine off the iMac, and sounds superb
    
    Nov 14, 2021
5. pavi
  cleaning out half my gear. lessons learned, preferences sorted out.
  
  Oct 5, 2021
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  2. Soups
    What is surviving the purge? I'm about to clean some house as well, good feeling actually.
    
    Oct 5, 2021
    
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  3. Thad E Ginathom
    "cleaning out half my gear"
    
    What... you've gone mono?
    
    ;)
    
    Oct 5, 2021
    
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6. pavi
  chick corea + brian blade + christian mcbride = bliss
  
  Mar 15, 2021
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7. pavi
  reflecting on how much i've gained from sbaf... what you all have created, developed, and protected(!) here is priceless
  
  Mar 3, 2021
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8. pavi
  a day or two away from my system makes all the components remarkably better when i return to it
  
  Jan 16, 2021
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9. pavi
  happy new year!
  
  Jan 1, 2021
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10. pavi
  rockna wavelight: wow!
  
  Oct 8, 2020
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11. pavi
  merry christmas, SBAF!
  
  Dec 25, 2019
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12. pavi
  the raal sr1a has pretty much brought all my audio explorations to a halt, these past 6 months
  
  Dec 20, 2019
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  2. skem
    Real and Susvara remain the two headphones I’m keen to hear—but I’m not going to buy either. I’ve learned my lesson.
    
    Dec 20, 2019
13. pavi
  happy thanksgiving, SBAF!
  
  Nov 28, 2019
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14. pavi
  yggdrasil a2 -> aficionado 300b -> vérité is still beyond compare
  
  May 11, 2019
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  2. zerodeefex
    I can compare it to whatever I damn well please.
    
    May 11, 2019
    
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  3. drgumbybrain
    Why did you prefer 300b that 2a3 for aficionado? Thanks
    
    Nov 27, 2019
15. pavi
  convert-2 + aficionado + vèritè = delight
  
  Feb 2, 2019
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16. pavi
  merry christmas, SBAF!
  
  Dec 24, 2018
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17. pavi
  happy thanksgiving, SBAF!
  
  Nov 22, 2018
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18. pavi
  ec af sounds delicious!
  
  Aug 13, 2018
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  3. JK47
    Are you in SoCal? If so a mini meet with a 2A3 AF is in the cards. Did you upgrade the caps too?
    
    Aug 13, 2018
  4. pavi
    i’m in the midwest, unfortunately. didn’t upgrade the caps
    
    Aug 13, 2018
  5. pavi
    @BillOhio it really does!
    
    Aug 13, 2018
    
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19. pavi
  300B Aficionado on the way - very much looking forward to it!
  
  Jul 25, 2018
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  2. jowls
    Holy balls, it’s alive! Awesome.
    
    Jul 25, 2018
    
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20. pavi
  grateful
  
  Jun 21, 2018
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Gear List:

HQPe on i9-12900k/3080 → Fitlet2/HYPSOS → Holo May KTE → Pass XP-22
Enleum AMP-23R → Susvara / Salk Song3 BeAT
Pass XA25 → RAAL SR1a
Ferrum OOR/HYPSOS → ZMF Atrium / Abyss AB1266 Phi

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