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My attempt at being a music student was fun, but success very limited. And with the moody clubs, it's when /they/ want, not when you want. Except, of course, the club called home :)

One upon a time I played jazz trumpet. Wasn't great but serviceable. My calling was on a different path but it gives me great appreciation for musicians with stellar abilities. Learning even a little is worthwhile.

Strongly agree! And learning just for fun is worthwhile.

Honestly, there was never any possibility of it being another way. Despite the media hyperbole.

@Syzygy perhaps this time. However peace and democracy are not guaranteed. I think a lot of people forget this or take it for granted. So when it happens, it’s important to celebrate and to remind people so they continue to be vigilant.

What might have happened if the rally had been held today and not on Jan 6?

There would've been no point in a rally today, since the counting and acceptance of the electoral college votes is the final step in the election.

There's always tight security during an inauguration, so I expect nothing would've happened had one been assembled.

It came to Qobuz few months back so coming to Tidal was Imminent

What's this? Hell has frozen over? Who knew! haha Maybe lars died...

Sounds more like a game soundtrack to me though - like a fun jungle adventure romp. I can’t stop bobbing my head to this thing!

I've been looking for the documentary for 2 years. Can't find it anywhere.

I read the book (just "Lost City of the Monkey God") which was pretty good, maybe inspired by that?

sweet. Hope you enjoy dude

Lyr3 in low gain is my favorite of all schiit amps. I’m curious to see what you think of it.

Not sure about the Lyr->Jot card swap, the product pics show the Lyr card mounts sideways & the Jot vertically. Likely just a different mount plate though - might be able to get one from @schiit .

In general I feel like there aren't enough high-ish sensitivity designs on the market, especially that aren't physically huge. It's basically Tekton, Zu, some Klipsch, and DIY. Would love to see more offerings that are happy with <25 wpc amps.

Oh I totally agree. Honestly, I would definitely give up some bass extension for higher sensitivity in many cases. Subs can do the rest.

@monacelli Correct. Unless you go DIY with some diysoundgroup.com speakers, but I think they are all clearance stuff only now and/or paired down to the most poplar stuff. HTM-12's look nice, but I still wished they had the Jeff Bagby Fusion-12's.

hawt

nawt

I shaved my legs once, it was overrated.

Jot (bal out) is clearer, more precise, but less smooth and more 1-dimensional compared to Vali. Vali is a bit softer and more rounded, esp in the bass, but overall it’s just way more engaging and expressive and emotionally involving, at least for the types of music I generally listen to. There’s just more dimension and atmospherics and natural tone. Tubes FTW.

Is this the new + or the regular one?

Regular Vali 2. Been considering the + and whether it would be worth it, or try Lyr 3 (which is a big leap in price obviously).

There’s just a lot more of the band’s performance on display - they sound pretty tight.

she won me over for life after attending a small workshop she gave to a bunch of snot nosed high-school kids at a local jazz festival. i had no idea then she was 'famous' - she was just really kind, cool - obviously super talented - but zero pretense.

the sentiment behind them is also bogus, websites should just not be so shit so they load fast by default

They try to fix one thing (speed) but then they are glitchy as hell and you can’t navigate around. And when you share the page, it shares the damn AMP URL, etc. Half the time when I use one, part of it doesn’t load, or it scrolls weird or some part of it doesn’t work. Companies have a hard enough time with one damn website and managing its mobile design, let alone two.

The real motivation behind this is more data and more knowledge about you to sell more ads or other shit you don’t need. That’s all Google and Facebook and Amazon are motivated by. Everything they do is to this end.

You're right man. I took that one a bit too seriously.

No worries. The concept of Biden lifting Mjolnir is hilarious though you’re right.

I watched that twice :)

In my experience the perception of tightness in the bass is also tied to how the energy 10khz and above is rendered. The opposite is also true. Bass waves modulate high frequency waves after all. More D2 in the bass can also give a thicker texture too. Modded Super 7 kills my First Watt F7 in low end slam though.

more grain, presence, and complex distortion in the highs indicative of many SS designs give bass more 'crunch' with transients. I bet if you ran a low pass filter, perception of tightness and bass quality would change quite a bit.

"I bet if you ran a low pass filter, perception of tightness and bass quality would change quite a bit." I will have to try this soon - Starlett vs Asgard 3 nad/or Jot. Right now however I am enjoying the music too much to bother ;)

Oh man. Why we all born to die in this world

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I love Medicine Man. Wow I haven’t watched that in a very long time. Red October is another great. And you know what, I actually love him in The Rock.

Unless you try to do it on Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist...

Audiomart FTW. General FS sites suck.

I swapped LR comparing cables once and at first thought, "Holy shit! What a difference!" ... Then the realization >__<

Disgraceful! Y'all are disqualified from being audiophiles.

Disqualified! Ya hear?

Or you would be if any of us could throw the first stone :)

I did this when I swapped cables from my preamp to my amp.

The AllMusic rating system is a little different than may be expected. Their FAQ entry explains how they do ratings
https://www.allmusic.com/faq/topic/allmusicrating
The star ratings are ratings within the artist's own discography. Except for 5 star ratings which highlight how it compares against other artists.

Here's a Vice article that covers the history of AllMusic and part of it explains their rating philosophy
https://www.vice.com/en/article/53djj8/the-story-of-allmusic-the-internets-largest-most-influential-music-database

I love both of them in almost their entirety, so I can't really pick between the two. I hope we get another one at some point.

It is pretty common. I think orignally because most of the input transformers were 110V and somehow US made the jump to 120V (123V at my house my meter shows). Jeff Baxter and Duane Allman did this as well. Anyhow, things get weird around 100V.

Great tips, thanks @E_Schaaf. What tubes do you recco for the Vali? TBH, I’m more thinking about Lyr 3 than Valhalla 2 - more versatile. Plus I have a bunch of 6SN7s from Freya.

I really like the Ultron PCC88s, also have Siemens CCa but that's $$$$. And of course the guilty pleasure Amperex 7308 - thick.

https://www.canuckaudiomart.com/details/649665596-schiit-valhalla-2/