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If you feel lucky and aren't looking for specific titles, go to the Bay and buy a bulk bundle of 100 random CDs. My personal keep rate is about 10% and I still feel like I come out ahead.

Discogs has lots of cheap stuff (less than the cost of even slow shipping). A lot of vendors have a single shipping fee if you buy multiple CDs from them.

Goodwill stores can be hit or miss and usually don't have much but they're cheap. Thrift stores. Local independent record stores usually have a decent cd collection.

@yotacowboy - both

Pregnant? I think an erection would be an achievement. 'Conform...or...be...cast OUT!'

I never got pregnant anyway.

Foobar was lovely. I used to use it at it's most simple and wanted no more from an audio player. Nearest Linux equivalent is Deadbeef

Deadbeef is what a friend who mainly uses Arch recommended as well, seems fine yeah

I have not yet looked at Pipewire. I use JACK. Actually I am having some problems just now --- but I don't feel like having a huge Linux audio rejig!

Still, just take the song, make some tweaks, and re-record it. Scary.

The whole thing is pretty good, but the glissando theme in the horns is really cool to me.

That mixture is actually pretty creative. Early 90s boy band pop with its rap influence plus big band sounds (not great, but as purr1n said, just re-record) plus some Latin music elements. And it works.

Even big boy tooby amps can only do so much with Focal stage, though like @ColdsnapBry says Utopia gives something workable. Thing is, it’s not different than hd6xx, but those are cheaper…

While it's a small stage compared to hifi headphones, it got perfect imaging.

Thanks for all the replies, at least I know my Elex isn't unusual!

It's my longest owned piece of equipment as well, or perhaps just behind the Utopias. I purposely have stayed away from it for the last couple of weeks since I've had the cyan, it's going to be interesting we're going back here in a few days comparing...

The A1 is still very relevant in the Yggdrasil line up. @Bowmoreman does yours have the upgraded firmware? I believe Schiit introduced an upgrade long ago to improve on the original original. See first several posts: https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/schiit-yggdrasil-gs.8560/

I don’t know if it does or not. If it doesn’t, it still sounds amazing. But will have to check - thanks @joch

My longest owned equipment is most of the gear in my sig: Turntable, tonearm, amp and speakers all date back to OG purchase in 1990. The only “new” gear over that time have been a succession in/out of CD players… last change there 10 years ago now, or.. the recent replacement of my Preamp with a Kara/Skoll…

There’s a similar google application I read about. I’ll post when I find it

Sometimes it’s not a choice. Sometimes you get pushed and have to deal with it :(

I will admit that I had my doubts when I saw it used the old Sabre chips, but I have to say that Weiss did a good job

Offering rentals for this is really cool.

Yeah, now i'm wondering how we could make something like this work for something like Gambler.

I tested an echo dot 5 in the passenger seat today and it was way worse than the built in. Come to think, I may have tossed the iroar go in the back at one point but it must not have been better either. And yea, don't need no smashed windows

https://soundboks.com/products/speakers/soundboks-4 Oh, I thought you wrote <$1000

I’ve got an IKEA Eneby that I’ve used in the car with decent results. Looks like the Vappeby is the new version, and if you get two, you can do stereo.

As (ex-)audiophiles go, I count myself as fairly objective, and yes, I absolutely believe that, unless something changes them, bits are bits. But, right from the off, it seemed absurd to claim that this makes all dacs sound the same. Let's take the blindingly-bloody-obvious: the second letter, dAc. Didn't those idiots ever notice that they have analogue circuitry and output? That's only what the things are *for!*

This dude has talent. Not just trolling SBAF/ASR but he's gone with the hat-trick with Head-Fi as well. This guy has covered the entire multi-verse of trying to find the exact combination to defeat Thanos and find auditory bliss.

Vali3 does seem pretty good.

All of this hype is really making me want to hear these

Wait for v3.1.2.1.111 it will be even better, trust me

Is that the Golden Great Ape edition?