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The conversation is currently closed. I don't dispute such decisions.

But I still want to acknowledge that I feel better informed after reading the last few pages of conversation, even as to where people I may not agree with are coming from and why.

Cheers all!

One thing I am grateful to the forum for is that it's helped temper some long-held biases and been instrumental in developing a modicum of patience when dealing with less savoury types online. Own opinions aside, it was certainly educational if somewhat popcorn-munchy.

The nice part in computer audio is you can buy lots of little gadgets which audiophools will tell you are essential, like for instance this audiophile switch, choose the best available clock and you are in for just over 4000 US $:

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There is all that, but there is also basic, factual stuff, like how our operating systems are not real-time, but sound is. Gaps in the music don't sound good. It's not even audiophile, let alone audiophool: its like a bulb flickering.

True I got interrupts from time to time, increasing buffer did. not work, switched to real time kernel and the problem was gone. Funnily the cpu load increases due to irq but that is not a problem no more unwanted gaps

The time that I remember this album from would be about 1972, and I don't think I have ever lived with it since that house. Forgotten since then. Good god, that's almost fifty years!

And it's damned good. :)

Not frequent, but still a regular on my playlist. I remember seeing Traffic live many years ago and marvelling how Steve soloed every instrument in turn on the stage.

Great! I never saw them, but one of the guys in that house did get a job on one of their tours. ISTR that he returned with a free copy of the low-spark album: no idea if he got actual pay as well!

Look, we talked about this. Yes, I am overcompensating for my small penis by buying a tube amp and driving a jeep.

Seriously... there should be a special award for GoldenOne's work.

I suspect he will be recognized during the 21’ Golden Schlong awards.

Sorry, you only paid for half an hour.

... Well, there goes that customer. Thought he might buy another half-hour ticket.

Yes. Without going into reasons and blame, it is India's turn to suffer. Glad that there people, here and abroad, ready to help.

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Maybe I just shifted levels in the matrix. Using the site was horrible for some time yesterday. This evening it all seems ok.

But I'm keeping an eye out. Over my shoulder.

Our pressure pump is by Grundfoss.That, at least in this part of the world, is the Rolls Royce of pumps, and their service is pretty good. But this is covid lockdown.

My wife managed to get the number of someone who can help. He came this morning, and took away the parts that need replacing. Hopefully, within a day or two, we will have everything right again.

Plumber came yesterday, went to get parts. Returned today.

One part is wrong, so we are on dribble water still.

Covid lockdown: essential shops only, and that only for a few hours in the morning. So getting plumbing parts is like black-market shopping! Luckily these tradesmen know their suppliers and arrangements are made. But today, the supplier said there were police in his street, some tomorrow.

There was a brief opening up of shops before one week of strict lockdown (so everyone could spread the virus anyway I suppose) and we got our part. Pressurised water again. Yay. :)

Perhaps it is not so very surprising: she lost a sparring partner. But it's also clearly a difficult time, and any additional loss or hardship can make the whole state of affairs seem a lot worse. That's been my experience.

Yes indeed.

I'm waiting up, now, for the man of of the feline family. Normally, I wouldn't be bothered but...

Well, searched and searched for him, but he was nowhere to be found. Eventually, though, I heard his small meeow, and there he was.

Then, no water at all in the taps. Had to hoist up a couple of buckets from the underground sump

It's not a Crosley?

I have no idea what it isn't, which is why I asked! :)

I'll google that and look. Thanks

... ... ... Looks like that is what it is. Google says I could even get one from Amazon.in.

It also seems to say that it looks a heap better than it sounds.

But, as I said, just curious. No plans to return to playing LPs. Deck in cupboard if I ever do have.

I'd fly away and be a bat, across the air, I would rove.

Looks like I'm starting one of those Incredible String Band phases of my life.

Makes a change from the Dead, eh? The String Band are another group who got under my skin.

(Wearing black cherries for rings)

Gently tender falls the rain...

Can it be that I didn't listen to this album many times fifty years ago?

Anyway, we lost touch with each other, and I only recognised two of the songs.

What a wonderful album! :)

Still sounds fresh today.

Ouch. A MB failure is never good.

Quite the leap, but yeah 10 years seems a damned good run for a motherboard from what I can tell; it's usually the PSUs that last so long, no?

Either way hope the new machine works well!

I am on my second PSU. And the case and PSU have been kept, along with hard disks etc. Just the guts transplanted.

It's giving me some problems making everything work with Linux, especially setting up a new ssd as a boot device. Won't work. Fine... does everything so much faster, including booting, even from an hdd. So I'll just use the ssd for pics.

On the whole, it is *very* nice!

lol... and thanks :)

Things are getting easier with covid in my part of the world, but I still believe in being careful.

You take care too!

How old must one be to join the Super Best Old Farts Audio Club (SBOFAC)? Good health and cheer to you both.

Ask @Claud --- he's recruiting!

There has to be a higher-fi answer to this, but although I'm willing to pay more than $15, I'm not willing to pay actual-hifi prices.

There is an hdmi -> hdmi+audio-out box that is still fairly inexpensive, and might butcher sound less than cheap bluetooth. But would the firestick work if not plugged directly into the monitor?

I would expect so. It sounds like the box under consideration is just used to split audio off of the signal. As long as it's HDMI compliant, it'll provide power to the stick, and I'd expect the audio to be Y'd between the audio out and also sent upstream HDMI to the monitor.

Usually monitors have software choices to turn on/off the internal speakers.

My monitor does not have any speakers. Oh... it has an audio out, which seems to do what an hdmi splitter does. I stuck earbuds in the socket: it sounded awful. It would also be cumbersome cable-wise, but then, so would the hdmi splitter.

My monitor is on an Ergotron arm (wonderful) but the cable space is jam-packed.

SQ wise Sennheiser are very decent even surprising for a BT unit. Issues are with quite low volume and subpar pads stitching. While the volume wasn't a concern to me, the stitch threads came off within 2 months of use. But this was for a 4.40 and 450 looks almost the same

@Abhishek Chowdhary I'd describe the inexpensive RHA earbuds I'm using now for bedtime etc as being low-volume, but it is enough for me: maybe the volume would be ok.

Hardly high-end, but... these are still too expensive for lousy build (stitch) quality, though. Did you make a warranty claim?

Didn't bother with warranty claims, gave the 4.4 in family. Bought a philips taph850bk, horrible in every sense. Heavy, creaky , massive bass boost , torturing treble. Glowing reviews though :)

Sounds like a best-case scenario to me!

I think it was @Lyander who said that nobody wishes a cyclone on others, but we can't help hoping it will go somewhere else. Yes, all well here. And elsewhere: more damage to crops, I think, although the I understand it ripped the electricity supply out of the city it hit to the extent that they are going to rebuild it.

... Which is going to take a couple of weeks. But then they'll have underground cables. We had quite a few hours (but not days) of power cut, with our trusty generator running our powerful pump to keep the garden empty and the house safe.

There's more weather systems on the way

Glad I got that sorted out. Thanks, GD!

Haha, that one (I Ching) I want to read. Nice bender for the BWC locial brain.

"All the years combine
They melt into a dream"

Exactly. So many Dead snippets embedded in my consciousness.

And unlike some, they age well too. Every decade it becomes a longer, stranger trip, and I have /never/ thought "what a corny line."

And Wind. And water. And rivers...

Ripple :) Let there be songs to fill the air!

Out of an abundance of caution, everybody in the world should stop what they are doing, right now. Just in case.

Is it perhaps the collective noun, and nobody told me? Like a mumuration of starlings? An abundance of caution.