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yotacowboy

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bang! bang! bang! (on the door honey) Aug 21, 2019 at 4:27 PM

1. yotacowboy
  bang! bang! bang! (on the door honey)
  
  Aug 21, 2019 at 4:27 PM
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  2. dubharmonic
    When feathers fly, you can deny everything
    
    Aug 21, 2019 at 4:32 PM
    
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  3. Jinxy245
    It sure wasn't a love shack...
    
    Aug 21, 2019 at 9:01 PM
    
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2. yotacowboy
  back from vaca. still feeling 55-ish mile gravel ride in MT, West Glacier. too much bear scat. .223>Bear spray for ease of mind.
  
  Aug 17, 2019 at 4:56 PM
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3. yotacowboy
  Finally sitting down to new Bon Iver on vacation in nowhere MT. Fawk this is good.
  
  Aug 12, 2019
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4. yotacowboy
  ok, this is gonna sound like nitpicking, but difference b/w Yggdrasil and Airist: vocal layering. Yggdrasil presents (to me) better integration.
  
  Jul 24, 2019
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  2. yotacowboy
    E.g., new Tycho track "For How Long": Yggdrasil seems to present more how i'd expect the original mastering engineer wanted the multitracked vocals to sound, Airist presents more disjointed but one may see it as "increased delineation" between the independent vocal tracks. One could guess which presentation I prefer.
    
    Jul 24, 2019
5. yotacowboy
  haven't owned HD600 for almost 20 years now; thanks to @winterfog, some old friends have returned!
  
  Jul 23, 2019
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  3. Lyer25
    Oddly enough for me the DT880s remain among the most comfortable headphones ever, barring the clunky and occasionally noisy adjustment mechanism— their pads are remarkably plush even though my ears touch the grilles a bit. Not a fan of AT wings, but at the same time I've not had the pleasure of taking any home for extended use. Not a fan of leather pads because though they do conform, I live in a humid climate and...
    
    Jul 24, 2019
  4. Thad E Ginathom
    " I live in a humid climate and..."
    
    I hope you didn't drown in mid comment!
    
    Jul 24, 2019
    
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  5. Lyer25
    ... DAIRY!!
    
    Oh wait wrong punchline. Hah.
    
    Jul 24, 2019
    
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6. yotacowboy
  why do people on r/audiophile suck so bad at speaker placement?
  
  Jul 19, 2019
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  2. Vtory
    Not having good speakers and/or not affording large (volume-wise) rooms typically make people hysteric about placements.. from my experience lol.
    
    Jul 19, 2019
    
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  3. Kunlun
    "Why do people on r/audiophile suck?"
    There, edited your question for clarity and brevity.
    
    Jul 19, 2019
    
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  4. yotacowboy
    It's the constant dribble of B&W floorstanders at unequal listening distances and unequal toe-in... "BEST SOUND I'VE EVUR HERD."
    
    Sure thing, Bro!
    
    Jul 19, 2019
7. yotacowboy
  i used to think Yggdrasil warmup was kinda silly. now having gone thru it (partially??) it is kinda like "CAN YOU STOP CHANGING, SHEESH"
  
  Jul 16, 2019
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  3. JK47
    It's like the new generation that can't figure out or identify their gender.
    
    Jul 16, 2019
    
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  4. Gaspasser
    Hey I thought DACs don't really make that big of a difference anyway ;)
    
    Jul 16, 2019
    
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  5. Thad E Ginathom
    Once upon a time everything needed to warm up. You could forget you'd turned stuff on by the time noise came out of it.
    
    Maybe this is why people think that warm-up is cute. Old fashioned.
    
    Jul 17, 2019
    
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8. yotacowboy
  Yggdrasil. done. elated! thanks for all the great content and frenz here, SBAF, it's really been helpful!
  
  Jul 14, 2019
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  2. ChaChaRealSmooth
    You mean you'll be elated after it's finally done warming up right?
    
    Jul 14, 2019
  3. yotacowboy
    I'll let you know in 17 weeks.
    
    Jul 15, 2019
    
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9. yotacowboy
  incoming YggyA2 must be destiny; seller lives less than .5mi from me! Who-da-thunk-it‽
  
  Jul 10, 2019
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  3. yotacowboy
    sooooo stoked.
    
    Jul 10, 2019
    
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  4. DigMe
    Crazy! Congrats
    
    Jul 10, 2019
  5. bluebyte60
    It's the calling of your destiny!
    
    Jul 10, 2019
10. yotacowboy
  waiting for the correlation between the ojneg scale and the autism spectrum...
  
  Jul 9, 2019
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  2. Kunlun
    Option C is at least a standard deviation away from neurotypical.
    
    Jul 9, 2019
    
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  3. yotacowboy
    "I'm an excellent measurer"
    "SINAD BURN BABY!"
    
    Jul 9, 2019
  4. OJneg
    If you browse audio forums you're already 2 standard deviations past the median.
    
    Jul 9, 2019
    
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11. yotacowboy
  Happy birthday, America!!!!
  
  Jul 4, 2019
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12. yotacowboy
  Thanks for an awesome micro-meet @sheldaze - good to meet peeps and put ears on gears!!! Huge thanks to Ken for hosting!
  
  Jun 29, 2019
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  2. Gaspasser
    Nice to meet you and thanks to @sheldaze and Ken!
    
    Jun 29, 2019
  3. sheldaze
    Glad to meet you too! Hope it wasn't too far. We'll have to mix up and do VA side.
    
    Jun 30, 2019
13. yotacowboy
  whoda thought dragging a pointy piece of carbon across plastic would be a good idea for high fidelity?
  
  Jun 27, 2019
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  2. jexby
    A: it’s not. except for cave men.
    
    Jun 27, 2019
    
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14. yotacowboy
  moar cheap shit from amazon: reisong MC SUT. Nothing stands out as "bad", quieter backgound than using MC input on preamp.
  
  Jun 27, 2019
  2. Biodegraded
    Looks cool, too :-} Into Cambridge 640P?
    
    Jun 28, 2019
  3. yotacowboy
    correct
    
    Jun 28, 2019
    
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15. yotacowboy
  didn't realize how spoilt I am w/Gunginir. Piano sounds SO RIGHT. Airist? like a bedsheet over the soundboard. Needs more burn in, i think.
  
  Jun 21, 2019
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  2. yotacowboy
    just a day's worth of running in, this thing is legit.
    
    Jun 22, 2019
    
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16. yotacowboy
  Initial impressions w/MDxAirist, slightly soft transients, lacks macrodynamics, bit rolled off on top. Very good body. Comparing to Gungnir Multibit A2
  
  Jun 21, 2019
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17. yotacowboy
  Kinda forgot how much I like mid-career Incubus... ACLotM is so freaking tight
  
  Jun 20, 2019
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  3. zonto
    OK, ACLotM is pretty great. Touche.
    
    Jun 21, 2019
    
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  4. yotacowboy
    Science was what got me in the door with them. Make Yourself is even better, Morning View was surprising how well they could make radio friendly pop-ish bland stuff, but ACLotM is awesome - they move in and out of tight, almost Prog rock overanalyzed smartypants riffs to more playful, almost throw-away riffs, sort of humor-infused/poking fun at other alt-metal rap/rock.
    
    Jun 21, 2019
    
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  5. Erikdayo
    Thanks for the reminder. Now I'm listening to Incubus again.
    
    Jun 22, 2019
    
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18. yotacowboy
  i guess i missed this, but hodor is a for realz DJ. https://youtu.be/9Piaa7mgzjc
  
  Jun 11, 2019
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19. yotacowboy
  quotable quote: Some people don't like things based on experience; some people just don't like the idea of things, but have no experience
  
  Jun 5, 2019
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  3. schiit
    Another: "I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage." John Stuart Mill
    
    Jun 5, 2019
    
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  4. GoodEnoughGear
    And a lot of people like the idea of things based on no experience and are soon disappointed.
    
    Jun 5, 2019
    
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  5. Thad E Ginathom
    This is all very disappointing.
    
    Jun 6, 2019
20. yotacowboy
  derp
  
  Jun 5, 2019
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  2. GoodEnoughGear
    Causality is a bitch.
    
    Jun 5, 2019
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Home Page:

http://davidhasselhoffonline.com/

Location:

NOVA

Occupation:

Designer of Graphics

Gear List:

Main rig:
Sources—Roon/Tidal to RPi+ALLO DigiOne Sig, Technics SL-1200 w/ DL-103r to Reisong SUT to Cambridge Audio 640P (modded), Sangean HDT-20
DAC—Yggdrasil A2 (BNC RPi, Coax Sangean)
Preamp—Freya
Amps—AegirX2, MD x ZDT Jr.
Speakers—Audio Note AZ-3 (Hemp drivers, silver VC tweeters, upgraded x-over)
Headphones—HD800SDR, HD600

Work:
Sony XDR-F1HD/iPhone 8 --> MDxAirist R-2R --> Sys --> OG Cavalli LC --> HD650K
Sony NW-ZX2 --> Andro/MDxNF EDC3
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