yotacowboy

ROHM done right baby !!

I've only got a few hours on this seemingly not borked version and it cuts right up the middle between AKM M6U and RU7, tonally. But it is very open, very clear and clean with no treble fuckery. Bass is also kinda neat in that on certain recordings it sounds quite cavernous and extended with little bleed into the midrange. (all impresions via Solaris OG)

told ya. :)

thanks for reminding me about it!

Damn never heard Max before...hauntingly beautiful.

@Jinxy245 plenty of back catalog to go through! I really like tracks like Remnants, Leaving This Place, Resynthesis, Waves

@Ksaurav402 The digital out allows you to use your dongle as a USB to spdif converter to feed a nicer desktop DAC. It’s a function most people will never use but I actually think it’s a nice feature. Anything that helps people to bypass USB is a plus in my book.

Looking forward to your impressions but I agree, the volume pot noise is crap! I sometimes have to click back/forth to get the channels to match. And as another data point, I haven't run into the default digital out issue (or even attempted to use the feature). Been pretty much plug-n-play so far, using primarily with my iphone.

One more downside is how much power it appears to draw as long as it's plugged in, whether or not it's playing audio. But the pros outweight the cons enough that I just ordered a cable that will help it draw from an external battery. Just standard audiophool behavior I guess, making this less 'portable' and more cumbersome.

I saw that! now I'm wondering if ethnic origin flips this all on its head!

the torta exists through

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/ruth-bader-ginsburg-hot-dog-sandwich

Deleted cause replied to wrong thread.

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@yotacowboy you’re all killer, no filler man. Lmfao

This is so......

Meta

If you need another one, then I've got one that I don't use anymore...

Glad your household is ok and nothing serious happened

Yoikes. I guess maybe that’s one additional argument for turning off your gear when you’re not using it. Glad everything is ok.

My own personal bias: I interned for USM in Münsingen for a summer and had the honor of attending the grand opening of the showroom in SoHo.

kind of excited to see how much can be improved. oh, and definitely listen on headphones since it's recorded with a binaural mic setup!

He probably wasn't the best dad. He might not even have been a particularly nice guy.

That's another story.

Well Thad, I mean, that was part of the WaPo story. Estranged family, divorce, etc.

True, very much --- otherwise I guess it wouldn't have had a place outside a manic hifi mag.

If i were to go first: Mj3 vs Holo Bliss. Do any Pyrates own Bliss? Could they pretty please jump on the Mj3 loaner tour?

Not sure many Bliss owners are on SBAF. I had one for 3 months earlier this year. @Vtory had one, maybe? I'm on MJ3 loaner tour so will offer some vague, general comparative impressions that will likely be next to useless.

But to your wider point, maybe some requests for comparisons could go in the first post of loaner tour threads? It's a great idea.

Bliss owner here and I’m in MJ3 loaner group

That's what the alcohol is for.

"But still, there are thoughts. And for thoughts, there is gin."

...It comes from one of those British war movies: Compass Rose. Which is remarkably true to the novel on which it based.

Grief sadly knows no timeline. There are days I'm fine and others I'm not. May her memory always be a blessing.

Yeah I'm already using the v3 in my living room so I guess the real cost to upgrade would be the full price of the unit, but it might be worth it a shot if it can fit the Sparkos without needing socket extenders.

I had to use dip-8 extenders for the sparkos boards in mine.

also, i wouldn't bother running balanced in. from looking at the board, it's got some kind of summing circuit with a separate IC in the balanced ciruit that dumps into the SE circuit.

They should use Orthos at show. In Canjam NY they were on display with ZMF headphones plugged in on most tables.

I'm screenshotting this and adding it to the thread.

There buried in post #2.

My speakers have about a 4dB shelf-drop above 16kHz and then down about 8dB at 20kHz; I figured I wouldn't notice it much, and played with eq-ing it up, but that didn't change much. I've got the x-over on the supertweeters set at 16kHz at -2dB, but I'm still playing with levels. So far, the more subtle the effect the better, imo.

Also, I'm toying with putting these on a personal loaner since there was some chatter a little while ago expressing interest.

I'm getting older and spent my early 20's-30's playing in noise bands and going to noise & metal shows, all with no hearing protection, so I can't hear anything above 15ish khz - probably irrelevant for me at this point.

Which one ya drinking now?

oh! i didn't drink it, I accidentally spilled a quaff of ardbeg ten on my new speakers. but now i'm drinking it to make sure it's not placebo. science, bitch!

Galvanic isolation and reduced RF induced noise, absolutely. Not digital voodoo though, the ones and zeroes remain the same.

I do think it’s weird that optical SPDIF is considered the worst when fiber is at the center of large networks. I don’t think it’s the medium itself and they just stopped improving optical SPDIF whereas network fiber kept improving

I’ve had it for almost a year, it’s very neat. Some peace of mind. Wish we could get a little streamer with a sfp cage.

Oh well one day. Ps audio has a new streaming with no Ethernet, wifi only. So maybe there is something to it.