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Now I know how your supposed to dance to "extreme metal"...sort of "walk like an Egyptian" inspired

To my mind, unless you have a huge collection of used LPs that need cleaning, something like the Degritter is proportionally too pricy. The Humminguru or similar generic tank and spinner will achieve similar results for much less $$.

I've not messed with the Degritter personally, however.

The Degritter is a huge and heavy box (like 50lbs), it'll be roughly $200 to ship it halfway across the country, let alone insured and coast to coast.

If you don't like others recommendations, better to start with a hqfilter that replicates the one built into Yggdrasil, and tweak from there.

With HQ Player, I've found that filter and modulator/dither combinations are really rate, system, interface, taste dependent and there's tradeoffs (stage depth vs treble behavior vs timbre etc). Schiit MB stuff sounds better on its own - occasionally working with MSYNC or XTR LP with NS9 for AES at 192 is good. The 2541, Denafrips Ares, RME, Holo Audio are often better with HQ player upresing.

All my upsampling right now is hardware-forced (CXN), but now I’m curious what Roon would do to that data before sending it along. Sounds like an experiment for me this week.

move it around on the headshell and tonality goes from good and adding some detail to muddy and incomprehensible. we're talking like 1mm fore or aft; too fussy.

If i might add, a habit I need to make more of a habit: jump on loaners even if you have no need for that particular piece of gear in your chain. hear gear and provide feedback, not audition gear is the spirit of the loaner program.

This stuff? https://www.guitarcenter.com/MEINL/Drum-Honey.gc

I been bitching about new vinyl releases for over ten years. Somethings never changed.

I got a reissue of Horace Silver - Song for My Father with a literal fly carcass pressed into the record.

@E_Schaaf That’s the limited edition “Fly in the ointment” pressing!

I've demoed them plenty at a local dealer. I passed on the used ones. Older 4-screw AN-E/LX's.

alright nvm 4 screws you gotta buy it

Seller was acting kind of dickish. Either way, i'd have to hear them in my room to tell if they're a 4x improvement over my current AN's (which use the same woofer and tweeter, just not as tightly matched and in a different cabinet with cheapo x-over) to excuse the price. At some point i suppose I could just build some AN-E cabs or try to track down some Snells as donors and build a balls out AN-E x-over.

Instead, I'm probably blowing cash on APR Stage 3 turbo, IE intercooler, and upgraded clutch. 400WHP (with no fueling upgrades!) in a 3100lb car is going to be a riot. A low 11s 60-130 would be nuts.

roast 'em in 3rd is a solid life goal, imho.

All the price hikes got me off the gear treadmill really quick. I'm probably buying a Mani-2, but otherwise I'm pretty comfortable with my mid-fi life. Putting that money into buying music and movies instead.

Hope for some data points on the $2 fuse fixer

I'm definitely going to swap back to stock in a week or so.

@crazychile I wouldn't say I'm sane, I just like to try things from the nut job fringe in the cheapest way possible. This was not one of those things, so I really can't recommend it. Too many confounding variables to suggest anything. I'm more just shocked that a fucking fuse that I expected to do almost nothing (bias!) did as much as it did. So far It ain't "good" it's just a lot. Heavy commissions of something.

New to me. What other albums would you recommend?

ALL OF THEM. but seriously, Human, Emergence, and One Hundred Billion Sparks are essentially cannon. BUT!!! definitely check out his 3D Reworks EP, it's not exactly binaural since it's not recorded using a binaural mic head, it's binaural output from a piece of software he's been playing with for many years now. From what I understand, the 3D EP was proof of concept.

I love that he's seriously invested in the technical aspect of music making, but more importantly, he's using music to explore concepts where science lacks meaning. He's not "hand waving about" and using fancy scientific terms like word salad, he knows where scientific concepts are not well understood, and tries to use music to provide a toe-hold.

I am all for it. I just know there are way better noval tubes than just 12AX7’s.

It's happening!

Speculated they would eventually expand beyond 300b when I first heard about the "new WE 300b" if they managed to stay open for more than a year or two.

@Azimuth - probably because it equates to more sales, but yeah, I'm not exactly thrilled about this either.

Double pane windows are awesome. Not only for insulation but they decrease outside noise substantially

I was listening with windows open. like, YMO shirtless house.

Great album, one of my favourites.

The impression I'm getting is that its close to the performance of the A2 with the nice engaging timbre of those old PCM chips. If that's the case, count me in.

LIM is supremely great but wasn't for me. Fabulously happy with A2. It does what I want music to do, tho at times I think about putting the A1 cards back in for a little because they are devilishly incisive and I enjoyed that for video games and movies because it was so visceral.

yeah, after one song it's obvious enough.

Choosing Yggdrasil flavors is hard. I might end up with all 3 cards some day lol. A1 has incisiveness and nice air, A2 is rich and grand, LIM is clear and consistent.

Thinking of changing my Lim upgrade order to A2. Waiting for 3 months now and likely gonna be a lot longer still. I like chocolate cake.

All we can say is that we have beetles in boxes.

I started this and was enjoying it until priorities shifted. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/wolfram-eilenberger/time-of-the-magicians/

reminds me I always wanted to play fretless bass.

also, in hindsight, these guys kind of rocked the fuck out.

I have been a Big Thief fan since their debut so I am a bit biased, but I cannot stop listening to the new album. For sure occasionally a bit listless and raw, but just draws me in.

i really like how disjointed it seems. I mean the course of musical styles they touch is just amazing. it reminds me of why i fell in love with Broken Social Scene.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/18/1081824786/big-thief-spreads-its-bets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C_ax0XYn1E

Thank you!!!

At first I though 'uh ohh, double album - risk it's either filler-heavy or self-indulgent', then remembered that UFO-F and Two Hands were essentially also a double album and were great, so cut them some slack