rhythmdevils

100% agree about Astral Weeks!

Astral Weeks comes to mind if you ask which of Van Morrison’s works to recommend.

"have you listened to the album "Astral Weeks"?"

Yes, but waaaaay back in the 70s. And my opinions are of the same date, so they might be different now, 50 years later.

Something like this?
https://www.cocoacrumbs.com/blog/2020-04-20-rotary-volume-control/

that would be great... if someone made it commercially and made it a learning IR instead of having to program for a specific product. IOW, take a cheap $15 learning remote, put it in a box, and put a big knob on it to control the volume, rather than a couple of up/down buttons.

I'm with you @daman66! would be so nice to use a knob instead of fiddling for the right button. And so easy to make.

Happens all too often in tech. Fingers crossed on Audeze...

NOS tube market is a dumpster fire right now, Brent Jesse and Vintage Tube Services notwithstanding. Have had good experiences on fleaBay and bad.

Best fleaBay seller I’ve dealt with is “ap1278”. Tubes are legit, great packaging, and he has a 30 day no questions return policy. Just auditioned a 700 dollar metal base GZ34 that way, was great. Decided to stick with my 5R4GY after a week, full refund.

@internethandle Which 5R4GY are you using? I really like my RCA JAN 5R4GY with double D getters in my Aegis, but I’ve always wondered about those metal base GZ34’s. It’s encouraging to hear you like your 5R4GY more than the much more expensive GZ34.

you mean lets get rid of the dead garbage inventory day?

I bought some (hopefully) nice pens from Target today.

@bixby thats fun. The little things :) I've got nothing against buying things but national holidays devoted to it is a bit much.

Not a big eBay buyer, but isn't paypal owned by eBay, or otherwise related corporately?

Weird

Happened to my dad on his phone recently. Tried another device (laptop) when we got home and worked first try. Something is up on your device causing a loop or failure to load. Might be time to clear your cache.

There’s also this cable splitter

https://a.co/d/0gIrkDc9

@atomicbob

No on the first xlr switchers . Good way to degrade the digital stream.
Maybe on the cable splitter.
Yes on the whirlwind.
Here is what I use:
https://www.markertek.com/product/ets-pa830/ets-pa830-aes-ebu-110-ohm-digital-audio-splitter-xlrf-to-2-xlrm
proven to work and tested with dScope jitter analysis.

Thank you @atomicbob ! I bought the one you use and have tested. :)

I had planned to buy earpads from this place as its in the US: https://hifiheaven.net/product/sennheiser-534411-earpads-for-hd800-headphones/

Yeah I used Hifi Heaven.

Thank you!

@rhythmdevils I'm sure plenty of us would be interested in a RD800... I know I would!

Cool I'll send something out tomorrow!

Thanks Clay!

But every tube company seemingly except Mullard has their good models and some models they don't do as well at. Mullard somehow seemed to do every single tube model one of the best in the industry. Anyways, maybe I've just missed the good Fivre tubes? Their 2a3's go for like 2k. :-0

Mullard was purchased by Philips in the late 1920s. Dutch engineers at Philips invented the pentode tube and from there would go on to introduce many new vacuum tube types as audio amplification technology progressed. Mullard would become the principal manufacturing house and brand for the export of Philips tube designs to the rest of the western world.

It all depends on the tube. Are those fivre 2a3s very early models or single plates or have something unique to their build? I persondlly am not the biggest mullard fan outside the ole' GZ34 rectifiers. The more balanced holland and US tubes do it for me. Just like some say GEC is the top of all, well yeah if you like the british heavy mid focus sound, but there are tons of other wonderful things out there i prefer.

Hi Nicholas! :)

I can’t buy it myself because registration requires an EU phone number. Thanks!

Sure i can help i have an account there, dm me

@Riotvan bought the amp for me! Thanks so much! <3

I picked some KLEI banana connectors from PartsConnexion. I like them better than the gold plated brass or copper plugs.

Connectors are always a weak point. Bananas are even worse if they are the screw down type because that's such a weak point of contact. Anything with a welded spade would have the best surface contact by a longshot.

I really like the KLE rca connectors.

Or maybe don't do t00bs.

I’d rather die than listen to SS shite @YMO

You got cursed with t00bs. I like b00bs over t00bs.

Maybe it is like cars. Supply chain issues pushed up the price of new, and so made used command a premium. Now the supply chain is fixed and used cars no longer have that premium anymore.

@rhythmdevils - Not saying you are chasing new toys, rather that those now buying are, hence the lack of demand price for your really good slightly older stuff. Peeps often chase new even when new is not better.

@bixby oh cheers! Yeah I'm buying some new amps but a lot of older or obscure stuff that's definitely not FOTM! haha. I wish I could go to meets, it would free me from most of these purchases and the loss from resale. And then I could buy more orthos to modify! :D

@rhythmdevils were you running the stock tube?

Stock tube is serviceable, but a bit flat. granted, i didn't put more than 8-10 hours on the stock tube, but unless there are more than the normal sonic gains associated with a tube burning in, the stock Russian tube is safe, if a bit boring.

@joch no the WE369a in the Vali 3 I haven’t tried the stock tube because I have a big bag of NOS 2C51 tubes. :)
The Drop TA-84 is such a great amp for the price I’m going to get a review sample for SBAF as soon as possible.

@Thad E Ginathom , sorry to hear about your gods missing hands...I can pray about that.

@rhythmdevils as soon as I saw the note, I was 99% sure it was him, that tone is so him, unmistakable! I’ve been buying tubes from him for years. A great seller. He’s funny, but with an old school feel to his character.

I didn't know if he was being serious or not but either way it gave me a good laugh :D

Depending on the volume of work you could get away finding someone to record audio for cheaper than the cost of one of those TTS services. That's ignoring the whole "using robots when you can pay a (voice) artist" debacle, but I will readily point out that a lot of folks' audio is just outright bad.

@Lyander id love to have a human record my writing but I don’t have time. I’m tweaking my writing right up to when I post it. It would take a few days to organize someone recording a voice recording for me. Unfortunately

The irony being that although audio makes things seemingly more accessible in terms of initial cognitive demand, as it is a passive vs active activity, I find it more demanding on limited energy reserves vs reading.

They are egg-shaped headphones!

A hidden city is the last thing I want in my bushes.

Hmmm... Wait... OK, maybe!

^ hence why I think this is yet another way for IRS / gov to try to control us.

OTOH we also cannot underestimate some of the stupid things that companies will do to "make money" ... even if they do not actually make money from it.

@penguins well PayPal makes money off this because they don’t pay sellers until the item is confirmed to have arrived. So if there is a problem they just don’t give the seller the money. Rather than paying the seller upfront in a possible scam where the seller makes out with it and PayPal has to pay themselves to make it right with the buyer.

But that’s soooo unlikely with a user who has zero questionable incidents over 25 years.