Pyruvate

If the tube implementation is like Saga or Valhalla, it could be fantastic.

Is that a CD player in the back?

@Vansen yes that’s the Urd CD transport… should be released in a month or so? It keeps getting delayed haha.

@caute OG! Figured that it’s the best choice for the music I listen to. Plus with the AD chips being in short supply, I had to jump on a deal that came up.

From my own experience with the Gungnir A1, that's the one to get! LIM does sound interesting tho... But if I had to blind buy: that's the one I'd cop, too! Congrats on an excellent DAC, hope it serves you well :)

It really has the wow factor! Works for me since I don’t listen as much as I would like due to other commitments, but I can see the value of LIM and how it could be better for longer less fatiguing sessions.

Why not put it in Piety thread?

@Ksaurav402 good point, but it stresses me out when I write in the threads, because I feel compelled to post full cohesive thoughts. I’ll consider it lol

There's almost no discussion on the Modi+, here or on Head-Fi, despite it being a pretty major change from the Modi 3.

What’s your amp?

Vincent 331 amp, my chain is on my info.

Hope you kept original boxes! :)

My stuff made it around the world in a suitcase without so much as a broken tube. You’re good. :P

@zonto wife and family always made fun of me for keeping boxes, but damn, having them around makes all the difference! Always dedicate a closet/small room for boxes :)

Hmm, the only thing I don't own from that (mystery owner's) audio-stack is a TT & a Raggy. But since a "Very Tubey" Raggy Upgrade is (hopefully) coming sometime in 2018... I shall await the inevitable: by getting that last piece of Schiit, one way or another!
(I'm sorry, Aficionado, you are & always will be, just "a bit" way out of my budget.)

Amir from Headfi?

@fraggler Yeah, when pigs fly!
Unless he:
1) Suddenly went through a midlife crisis.
2) Felt ashamed of his schiit-stirring demagoguery.
3) Sold all of his M$ stock.
4) Bankrupted his lucrative "Latest buzz-words" Chi-Fi DAC-peddling Business.
5) Got REALLY schiit-faced drunk.
6) Then, all of a sudden, came back to his subjective, logical senses...
7) By buying <enough> hot new Schiit, to easily burn his house down.

That is so tubular...

Sale still going on actually haha

Seriously?

It won't work for me, must have ended...

Those really helped me understand the "gadget"/"Manhattan project"

When I was a teenager the doctor rinsed my ears and all kinds of stuff came out lol afterwards I felt like I had Spider-Man hearing

Thanks guys. Finally got it out with one of those peroxide washes. Thank goodness! Thought I was done for and was about to start a firesale for all my gear.

@Melvillian, I need to get my ears cleared out once or twice a year, Sadly, it no longer has the really dramatic effect that it had just a few years back.
@Pyruvate. it would have *dried,* in time. But some ear canals are better (ie worse!) at the trapping-water thing than others.

http://i.imgur.com/23vAjYF.gif

Another appropriate gif

@Huxleigh glad to have you back brother. The randos are at full force. Winter is coming.

Winter is here, unfortunately.

I attend church with a ton of medical folks, and most are clueless about their finances.

Highly recommend reading this ASAP: https://www.amazon.com/White-Coat-Investor-Personal-Investing/dp/0991433106

You're awesome man! Will read, I'm not the most savvy, but am learning.

This book is fantastic especially when you are just starting out.

The thing made my relatively crappy speakers sing. Opened my eyes for venturing into two channel land.

I'm really hoping that Vidar compares with the Vincent. If Jason can bring this level of performance for $700, then game f'ing over for the 2 ch playing field.

Switching back and forth between the vintage Parasound and Vincent. Vincent is clearly superior, it is even more resolving when I'm listening to vinyl. This is ludicrous!

Atlas Shrugged, twenty times in different fonts

Have you every heard of Jimmy Kimmel's prank X-Mas card from his agent? Look it up...

You guys all f'ing kill me.

Details?

Completed my vintage Parasound trinity stack with r2rDAC/preamp/amp. With speakers and Orbit TT, everything came out to be $1500. Took about a year of patiently buying and selling gear to get to where I am, but it paid off. More details on my profile.

DAC or ?

Yup, DAC. I acquired a vintage Parasound R2R.

Impressions: HOLY f'ing SHIT.

Surely the ultimate end game...money only spent on the music. Well, until you have ALL the music, but that may take some time.

CD lots on eBay and online vinyl deals are totally eating me alive right now, halp!