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remembered a bitcoin brainwallet i've been trying to retrieve for weeks. its kind of like finding $800 in your jeans pocket.

Glad you figured this out. Yes, it's possible for something more expensive to actually merit the additional cost. Best of luck finding the Schiit Whiskey of your dreams!

So it begins (again)

So I've downloaded Roon and got a trial subscription to Tidal. So far, I'm impressed. The interface on my PC and iPhone are great. I don't feel constrained using the iPhone. I really am playing music I haven't listened to in for ever The synchronization across devices is excellent. I can see the zone support really working out nice for me as well. For now I have the server installed on my desktop, but this will change in the future. This is pretty much what I've been looking for so thanks for highlighting this here The sound quality seems great, but I haven't done any comparisons to JRiver yet. I've got a bit of a cold still so I'll wait on that. going into geek mode now... It's got some nice integration features as well. I'm going to have to build a Raspberry PI 3 bridge to AMB's γ24. I think I can take the I2S stream straight from the PI into the DAC through some galvanic isolators or put it through an ASRC first (not sure if this would help yet). I want to look at integrating the volume into the DAC as well.

Stay away from biscuits Brent. Give the kid a fighting chance.

We could start a thread with that motto: "the Schiit Whiskey of your dreams (under 150 bucks)" then we tell ours. Not sure what would be mine, no experience with that many whiskeys, maybe Lagavulin.

Got web sockets working so now temperature or any other sensor data can be shown in real time without having to make any client server requests. I have the i2c ADCs and temperature sensors low level code, just need to incorporate them as right now the data array is generated from integer random generator. The latency is pretty variable while on my phone, though, it's more stable on my laptop for some reason. Potentially can make a crude WiFi oscilloscope! Edit: anyone have experience with bit banging spi for writing to SD card?

This week's recording from the All of Bach project: No. 2 from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-847/

Did a short run of isolations tests on the pcbs I have at hand (Carbon v5,v6, circlotron driver board) , they all seems to do +1kV fine (including one from Spritzer, in all fairness)

Pancakes with a side of Eggs Benedict at Cindy's. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As Soren states, my boards are very different as I never route this close to the connectors. The ground plane has a set clearance so that is never an issue once that is set correctly. One thing does spring to mind and that is the quality of the boards. PCB's are not created equal and what is fine for LV stuff can fail at HV. Just look at the lil'knight boards from back in the day. Utter garbage and a source of a lot of headaches.

As I respect the findings of Insanity, I took my Carbon apart. It is different from most here, as I have used boards from Spritzer that features a ground plane (like the board from the GB Carbon V7). The ground plane should just make things even worse. Anyways, good news is that I found NOTHING, nothing at all ...I have had this amp running almost 24x7 for about a year so I guess any error should have occured anyways.. What I noticed is that Insanity hasn't really been shy with solder, I on the other hand tend to be somewhat cheap (in general). I suppose that a really heated leg of a terminal block and generous on the solder would 'grow' the leg on the opposite side and thus might damage the isolation ...as this is what I suspect has happen from seeing the latest picture As more isolated terminal blocks might be a good idea, it might not have prevented this in the first place ...

Finished, Stranger Things. 'Twas excellent, but then again every Netflix original I have watched has been excellent.

I can fix it for you.

Spent a couple hours with Roon and I'm impressed. I cruised around my collection more or less like I would with real vinyl records. That's a pretty giant leap forward for me. Being able to seamlessly go between my files and Tidal's is great. I really like what they're doing with metadata. The suggestions, the radio feature, all cool. And who knew I had six performances of Leonard 'hallelujah!' I'm not in love with the UI. It feels like an of the shelf WordPress theme to me. But it's getting the job done. There are some technical issues for me. I don't think it will run on my current VortexBox. So, the plan at the moment is to run RoonServer on my file server and keep the data store and the other servers on the music server. If I can work that out, Roon gets my $120 a year.

So you heard this on a computer based Tidal client. Interesting. That pretty well absolves the Android USB driver. I compared Tidal via USBAP (which has its own driver), Tidal via its own client, and the same songs, although different files, though Squeezeplayer from my own server (uses the native Android driver) and couldn't hear any difference between USBAP and Squeezeplayer. But I did between the Tidal client and the other two. What the heck could they be doing to the signal in their client, I wonder? Level normalizing, badly done, maybe? Hmmm Meanwhile, I looked at Roon. It looks brilliant. It looks like they've overlayed a an engaging interface on DLNA, Sqeezebox, and whatever other protocols they feel like, so people can use their existing audiophile gear. It's like Vortexbox all grown up. With a sustainable business model. I looked on their Linux page and it looked competent and straightforwardly documented. I think I'll whip up a virtual machine and give it a go.

Yes! I've found both Amarra for Tidal and Roon to sound much better! But the Amarra interface was a bit slower and more awkward to use, while Roon was fantastic all the way around.

Poor man front panel.

First 4 relays are opposite polarity from the second 4 on the max4820 boards. Yes all 4 of them in series, so 32 bits to write all relays.

Easy, just multiply by 8.

The English use Imperial units. Because; Empire. Presumably the colonials use "rebel scum" units - hence the ability to make the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs.