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Beast mode: Engaged

That must be heavy (great work out! lol) .. and hot. No 8 looks cute by comparison lol. Dave does preamping, no?

It is indeed heavy, 125 lbs, only managed it on my own cause of the giant handles on the back. Yep, the Dave is on preamp duty

I don't want to post impressions for the opposite reason. I don't really have the vocabulary for what I listen to so it's basically "sounds better than XXXX"

haha thanks guys! I guess the thing I worry about is that I always try to explain my motivations, I want the reader to understand why I did something, not just what I did. And I worry some people will find that superfluous. Like my D90SE "review" was mostly me rambling about sanity checks as an audiophile lol

https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/the-philosophy-hole.7031/#post-231254

start at the second paragraph. You're doing fine with your DAVE review.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/878505501053308928/962021861926010900/IMG_9761.jpg

I think he left headphone land for 2 Channel land

I did indeed leave headphone land for 2 channel land. @rlow ive got a Coda No 8, which I went out on a limb on, but love. As soon as I heard it I ordered the Coda 16.0, its bigger brother, but ive had that on order for almost 6 months now, hopefully it ships soon

Yep I was aware of the Coincident for your speakers, but didn’t know you had moved over to the Coda. I believe @zonto has one of the Coda as well. Seems like a beautiful beast.

@Woland more computing power will permit DSD conversion and higher sampling rate output. The Pi2AES is limited to 192.

He didn’t mention the pi2aes, just the pi4. A pi4 can probably do 16fs pcm oversampling with even harder filters over usb. Doesn’t have the grunt for dsd though

@Woland I have the Sonictransporter set up to do DSD64 with poly-sinc-xtr-mp, ASDM5ECv2 upconversion. I could not get this to work on a pi4.

I’m not the right person to answer that question.

Thanks. With that and, IIRC, your preference for the Gungnir AKM over the Multibit. It helps to triangulate your impressions.

another thing to keep in mind is my music preferences. I listen to metal and pop almost exclusively, and value separation above almost all else. this is also one of the reasons I actually liked the AHB2 amp from benchmark. after that I also value imaging and stage, as well as the ability to convey the energy of the track

Yep it's hard to imagine how this could be good. Probably the best we can hope for is benign neglect

Ugh. Bandcamp is how I absolve myself of the guilt I have about streaming. I hope they don’t fuck it up.

this is awful. it’s only leverage for epic

I only feel rushed when it sucks as I want to move on ;)

I'd be curious as to how it compares to your well liked (I assume you still have it) Gung AKM when it comes to tone, timbre, and "liquidity". As much as I like Schiit's Gung/Yggdrasil MB sound, I crave certain things about the AKM sound in a main rig, but currently only get it through bedside/travel DAP's

I do still have the gungnir DS, but I don’t really have a pre to use it with the speakers, I run the dacs direct to my amp

wow... I'm not doing $1200+ for a card. I guess that tells me which is more important to me, graphics card or audio equipment... LOL

my parts waiting for the case to show up
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/838878520892719154/943989465548996658/IMG_8202.jpg

I must admit I’m envious!

Will you be selling them at a crazy price?

hahaha im unsure if im going to sell them, but I got them for 1800, so ill probably sell for that or lower

They arrived this evening, @Erroneous came over to help me get them setup. They are gonna need more tweaking to get dialed in in my room, but already sounding pretty great

please no spoilers for anything not in the show, I will read the books at some point once its clear no more tv show will be coming lol but I agree, the whole laconia plot shouldn't have even been there, they didn't go anywhere with it

The Laconia plotline feels like setup for a next installment (series/movie) if they can find funding and distribution for it. At first I didn't like that plotline, but towards the end I like how they built up to the big reveal of... well, no spoilers here.

I think the showrunners did a good job with Season 6 given the constraints they had. I just watched the last episode and found it satisfying and a nice place to stop (hopefully just pause, but I'm not getting my hopes up) the series.

Wait, you use what essentially is a terminal client as a music player? :) Yep, Roon is not for you...it's defiantly not the 10 sided dice of the music player world ;)

if it doesn't crash on the ipad, I thought that was its true platform

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the world who has never even seen Roon! Whoa, I guess I've never even streamed!

Oh wait, yes I have. I used to have a Squeezebox. That wonderful project that was so far ahead of its time that Logitech killed it :(

I supposed burned is as bad as slashed.

Track day fodder...burn them up going sideways.

that's actually a great news. usually adding more unnecessary stuff in the chain is detrimental.

In fact, the album of the year could only be released on one day of the year ;-)

Unless of course it’s a double album and they somehow release it over multiple days?? :)

Getting replaced with Toshiba 16tb enterprise drives

Those things are workhorses. One of the SANs I manage still has the original 24 Reds we bought with it in 2017 - not a single failure, somehow.

Was expecting a great movie or a total flop... glad it's the former.

come context, ive never seen the original movie or read the book. I was just hyped for another Villeneuve Scifi movie since I enjoy Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 is one of my favorite movies ever. My hype was through the roof, and I won't say it blew me away, but it lived up to my hype

Ive got the balanced version. Fake as in the opposite of "real". Which isn't to say it sounds real, I guess it could be better, but in that its a step function increase in "realness", such that everything else I've heard sounds noticeably less real as a result

realness also isn't a first order effect, its 2nd or 3rd order, a combination of several other things. I would guess micro dynamics, detail, plankton and macro dynamics being the most crucial aspects to creating realness in this context

Out of all the crazy shit I've heard thanks to the locals, the Wavedream and the EC Af are the ones that captivated me from first listen. They made me believe in magic :)