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Don't take me wrong, very frustrated. I wish they just updated it. Seems like expensive abandonware at this point.

This is the fate of any Android based player. I bought more than one. Seemed great at first and now I wish I hadn't.

rip, and my condolences, your mother in law im sure will be missed.

Long live the MIL-F god damn we really are a bunch of 7 year olds.

lol @caute

Quite likely. He's hinted as much in previous interviews. It's the one the critics will eat up, but I secretly hope he gets Magical Mystery Tour done at some point soon.

Well, the week came and went… so maybe no Beatles record this holiday season.

What the hell drug are you on? It’s sarcasm. f**k off.

it's a speech from good will hunting lol, chill, my man, it was supposed to be funny...

How do YOU like ‘em apples?

I do not, but that is just nervosa. It can be handy and seems Roon handles it well. I have put it on during parties when playing playlists for background music. I do know of some folks I have chatted with that used it religiously though, but when they actually sat down to compare they heard the difference and ditched it. That being said, if it sounds good to you and it is handy, rock on and keep using it.

“Death Magnetic” CD and the current streaming master sound the same to me with VL, which surprised me. I thought the CD was beyond salvation.

Will keep listening…

It's important when recording mixtapes so your mix volume doesn't jump around. Similar when letting a system play or shuffle tracks automatically. I don't use it when listening to single albums. -14 LUFS is a reasonable compromise.

We also hear different things - I can’t say I like LCD-X with the Kann Cube (the ESS brightness kills me!) but 325x and 6xx overcompensate just enough.

Amps, same thing. Eddie Current Studio B (I think) was so surgical and sterile and super black… and I loved it with DCA Stealth. But Focal Utopia nope, I got to the pain threshold very quickly…

Thank you for telling me your experiences. I'd guess that's synergy. I know from experience that synergy can improve the sound of a set of equipment. But I've also seen synergy used to supplement the defects of the equipment. I think every piece of equipment should sound accurate on its own. And synergy should be sought only to augment that, if possible—to "tie the room together," like the Dude's rug.

I’ve come to terms with the fact nothing sounds accurate. Everything (DAC, amp, speakers, etc.) has an opinion on the sound (distortion).

To me the hobby is about putting together the things that reproduce sound the way I like it (and instruments I know in a “realistic way”).

Alas, like The Beatles sang… nothing is real and nothing to get hung about :D

(Unless it sounds like ass)

Those 8010As are beauty and image like a laser. If you add the little 7040 sub it makes a big big picture.

@Justin S : I’ve never owned a sub for music! Maybe it’s my choice of genres? But I will keep the 7040 in mind.

The 7040 is a nice small sub. It really changes the staging (deeper) and reenforces the bottom end.

Try to make posts now and reply back here with results.

ۜ\(סּںסּَ` )/ۜ. woohoo

Works now. Thanks for your assistance!

But dying to know what people think about its sound - extravagant choices made, to say the least!

I placed my order this AM. My interest was piqued ever since it was first teased months ago.

It's surprising how well this thing drives a lot of headphones. I thought it would struggle a bit with the Stealth, but at high gain it proved to be a lot of fun.

Peak Folkvangr is achieved with the PS500e :D

I love the amp with almost everything except Focal Clear. I just don't like tubes with Focals in general, and even the mighty Folkvangr can't seem to help that.

@Qildail : The Utopia, on the other hand, eats it up with gusto

@Michael Kelly : I did notice that simultaneously testing Pi USB output and the AES Hat SPDIF output proved hard due to volume matching (USB is louder). Not a problem, but curious as to why. (Or if it could be tamed without losing bits)

Most likely due to the DAC. I am not sure how USB output handles the volume, but I do know that AES is bit for bit what comes out of the Pi I2S port. Perhaps MPD (the underlying audio handler in Linux) does some changes. You should ask this on the PI2AES thread.

Will do! I can rule out the dac, because I also tried Urd spdif output into the dac, and the volume was the same as Urd usb into the same dac.

I'm not a huge U2 fan, they're OK, but I've seen them in concert twice. Once at the old Houston Rockets arena because the Pixies opened and once at Cowboys stadium because wife and friends wanted to go. Cowboys stadium audio was beyond bad. Insanely bad. Arena was OK but hard to remember since it was like 1992 or '93.

Capacity of Cowboys stadium is ~100,000 if fully utilized but it was not sold out.

Best sound quality I remember was the national auditorium in Mexico City, when Peter Gabriel was promoting “Up”. Yeah, that was 21 years ago and “i/o” was almost ready. 21 years waiting for a studio album. #letmetellyouhowifeelrightnow

wdym "of course"? i would try the HELL out of that shit lmao

Folkvangr is why “of course” :-) (for me)

Meaning that Yggdrasil’s clock is more precise than Urd’s? (Modern USB is asynchronous and will be played from a buffer using the DAC’s clock. Unless Yggdrasil reclocks SPDIF, too, this input will be fed to the DAC chip using the source’s clock.)
That would be an explanation that makes sense to me. Which doesn’t mean that things that can be heard will always make sense. :)

Hmmm. Hope the rest of it doesn’t sound like that low grumbly version of money…

I think that’s exactly where he’s going.

Is this another boom blaster setup?

Dan Clark and Schiit are now selling a combo at a discount price - so I’m speculating folks looking for a deal will be well served, because it’s a reasonable endgame set for most people (it was for me in my office, delta being a Bifrost instead of a built-in multibit card).

Alas, I also think people who listen to music by staring at charts will not try it and instead poo-poo it.

Finally a new standard!