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Also finally setup google drive backup for the important bits on the NAS. I'd been meaning to do that for quite a while

Did you have the old one in a RAID? Because if you did that’s really damn slick you were able to do it without a full reset.

I use the synology hybrid raid, which is software raid, with one drive redundancy

That sucks. My Synology NAS died trying to rebuild itself during successive blackouts. I have the replacement connected to a UPS and set to hibernate if power cuts out.

Hope you got everything backed up.

Sad. But a good reminder to those folk who think these things are immortal that --- they are not!

damn you @rlow, you stole my joke

was gonna foolishly post all impressions here as comments, but corrected myself, overly wordy post about the Qutest here https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/chord-dave-revisited-in-2022-vs-wavedream-signature.12197/page-3#post-390778

Freya S was one of my best purchase decisions. Makes all these connections better and for the most part stays out of the way sonically.

I’m kinda wishing I’d waited on a plus now, so that I coulda had the jfet buffer in addition to the passive I intend to use

Man, maybe it's the gear I was using, but the passive in the Freya S is leagues better than I remember the goldpoint I had being. and it has a remote and more steps

I suspect the Dave might be better :)

I like the look tbh. So they no longer use berilium? Maybe that’s for the Grand Utopia? Being slightly facetious.

Lame new look and 5k USD zzzzzzz

Here’s to hoping it “actually sounds better” and it’s not just a side grade

May the force be with you. But not too much force. Don’t rip anything!

I would rent if possible, after ten years I gotten fatter from going into a 34 > 38.

Hopefully it doesn't fit because you've packed on muscle since then. :)

haha it is indeed!

Edited more in above

the designer did a podcast that's not a bad listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tgi7njiRSM if you want a nice overview of all the info

Ultrakill best single player fps gameplay ever IMO

@E_Schaaf I dunno if you've checked it out, but I would highly recommend Prodeus, its more Doom 2016 than Doom Eternal(which is what I hear Ultrakill is more like), but its incredible nonetheless.

Buying some of the old Final Fantasy games. Picked up the VII remake recently and it has reignited my love for the series. Easily best game I have played in some time. Now gonna go back and play the ones I missed.

I would love to wall mount, but I have a sit/stand desk. someone needs to make a wall mount that is on a track that can sync with ur desk going up and down, I would love that, added bonus of the monitor never moving from you doing things on the desk

I started playing Prodeus though, what a killer boomer shooter. Its basically Doom 2016 but with chunky graphics. Ost is even great, though not Mick Gordon tier

That's an interesting idea. Basically do a motorized wall mount on a rail. Probably a market for it.

That's only because it is currently featuring the possibility of people doing stuff to their speakers instead of just listening.

Oh... Tell me again? The difference between passive and active speakers?

A whole new world of possibility just opened up.

I really wish the Alienware qd-oled monitor wasn't so compromised. always on audible fan, no polarizer, unreasonable processing delay, etc

but I could easily put the 42" oled a foot or foot and a half further away from me than my current 34" ultra wide...I think it would work

I'm with you there - I've had an HDR-capable gpu for a couple of years now but there's no HDR screen worth buying.

Although the delay on it is fine, it's >1 frame at 120hz and I'm too old to need more than that.

Whereas with the speakers it’s like a slight increase to bass definition, sound stage, and refinement across the board, which mostly disappears once’s engrossed in the music anyways

This is another episode of “soup struggles with audiophiledom”, that just happened to occur after I _finished_ my rig

Wisdom advises to avoid being impulsive. Put the big rig away for a few months. Live with the minimalist system. Then get it back out and re-evaluate.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/black-dahlia-murder-vocalist-trevor-strnad-dead-obit-1351970/

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.