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I made this. It is a usb dac with a headphone driver built in. I made it as I was tired of having lots of boxes and cables all over my desk. Obviously it still needs a case.

Needs more work - a lot. Board size 4.5 in x 2.4 in. No trimmers, servos on bottom.

Agreed. I did take a picture of the first, though, on this one -- as it gave me a pang. Very comfortable daily driver!

Called insurance, waiting to hear back from safelite with quote Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This, because I was too sick too see her the other week, playing this, and it's one of my favourite violin concertos.

i think this is the best sounding hendrix i've heard. that, and he plays with the fist of an angry god.

Proper use of a selfie stick. Has science gone too far? Suicide's Drum Machine on top. Grand Canyon, AZ. Frozen Air Bubbles Trapped in Ice at Abraham Lake, AB, Canada. U.S. Virgin Islands. San Luis Reservoir CA. The Elevator Shaft, Oahu. Ainhoa, in the French Pays Basque. Pfeiffer Beach, Big Sur, CA. Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon. Eibsee, Germany. Stockholm. The first prototype and first Concorde to fly, caught the exact moment it clips past the corona of an annular eclipse of the sun. Geirangerfjord in Norway. Totengrund, Lüneburger Heide, Germany. Mount Mansfield, Stowe, Vermont. Milky Way from Rocky Mountain National Park. The Shadow of K2, projected into China. Island of Skye. Oceano Dunes SVRA, CA. Watlowes Dry Valley, Yorkshire Dales, England. Humantay Lake, Peru. West Matukituki River, Wanaka, New Zealand. The two Lebanon mountain ranges in winter. Lake Hawea, New Zealand. Gjende, Norway. Overlooking the Bow River Valley, Banff, Canada. Mobius Arch, CA at night with bonus Mt. Whitney. This is Geiranger, Norway. Epping Forest, UK. Bear Creek Falls, Oregon. Horseshoe Bend, AZ. Mountain lake, Stord, Norway. Salzburg, Austria. Star Trails, Clarkston UT. Hampton, CT Night Sky. Hida, Japan. Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park in Utah. Shiprock, NM. Michigan Upper Peninsula Paniri Volcano, Chile. Stars in the Sahara Desert. Click for ludicrously wider.

I saw a few posts saying this stuff was even more gentle. Worked great for me.

I would suggest getting a can of Cape Cod cloth, Chris. It works extremely well for polished surfaces. I use it on the sides of Rolex and on my Reverso. I don't mind "real" scratches, especially on brushed finishes, but the micro scratches on polished surfaces drive me crazy.

On that theme, I got this very interesting link from @mdr30 http://www.monoandstereo.com/2016/11/direct-to-disc-brahms-cycle-sir-simon.html?m=1 I guess in purist terms; one processing step only, no mastering involved... https://youtu.be/qBf3OBMjRAg

Caps has been shipped from the Über country ... I expect them to land first thing next week ... thanks for your patience

Meanwhile ...

Sounds to me a bit like like extreme ironing

That seems like a rather flip comment. Consider this. You've heard live unprocessed sound, right? So you think you know what a live piano sounds like? A few years ago I was shopping for a piano. Every piano I played sounded a little different, some dramatically so. And that is true of EVERY acoustical instrument. Every live venue sounds different - Chicago Symphony Hall does not sound like Boston Symphony Hall. Different locations in the same hall sound different. I'm very used to the sound of a live piano - I have an excellent 7' grand piano at home. But the sound of a piano at the player's bench is not the same as the sound of the piano for someone listening to it seated several feet away. The first Stereophile test CD had J. Gordon Holt reading an article he had written, recorded using several different microphones. His voice sounded different on every microphone. So when you're listening to an "unprocessed" piano recording which you THINK sounds like a piano - what microphones were they using to record it? What hall was it recorded in? Where did thy place the microphones? What did that specific piano sound like? If you think about it, there is a processing step in even the most purist recording, and that is what microphones are chosen to do the recording, and where those microphones are placed. Because every microphone sounds different, and every location for those microphones sounds different. Those are the choices of the recording engineer. And by and large, we as consumers have no fucking idea about either, because that information is rarely published, and even if it were, most of us wouldn't know how to interpret it anyway. At best, the most we can say is, "gee, that sounds like my memory of what A piano sounds like." Note I say "A" piano, as most of us have never heard THE piano that was actually recorded. A mastering engineer is at least several steps closer to the original sound than you or I will ever be, unless you record your own reference material. They at least might have heard the original sound, in the studio or hall, perhaps chosen the microphones, have some idea of what was laid down on the tape. And, Katz has said that although the majority of his masterings have required some "sweetening", some have not, so he has certainly heard and mastered unprocessed recordings. And even if he is using "processed" recordings, he at least should know better than most what the recording "should" sound like. Look, I'm not saying that Katz is the be all and end all. I am saying that he is a very successful and experienced sound engineer and his descriptions and opinions are well worth listening to. Specifically I take his evaluation of tonal balance seriously because that is something that mastering engineers tend to be very particular about. But for the rest of us, who are using recordings where we don't know what microphones were used, where they were placed, what the original instruments really sounded like in the acoustic space they were recorded in, well... And that's assuming we are using acoustic instruments recorded in a live space for reference, and not a processed studio recording that never had an independent existence to begin with. Sure, one can criticize what amp he has chosen to test the headphones with, etc. That's perfectly legit. Any subjective review is only a guide, anyway. My tastes and priorities may be different, my reproduction chain is almost certainly different, there is definitely room for honest disagreement. What a dull world it would be if everyone agreed with me!

Yeah, so what? All this tells me is that he is used to processed sound. They don't normally try to make a band or performer sound just like they do in the studio, but better. Hence auto tune and all sorts of gimmicks. His "beloved O2" also colors my view a bit though I do trust Tyll's reviews and would probably buy something based on his recs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Jesus, at the same time? I'd say that's more than close to danger. More like touching, through, and out the other side.

I saw the P5 in Minneapolis years ago. It was an odd and fun show - I feel like a remember there being a dancing bear with a snare drum. I have been listening to this. I don't really like anything else Fugazi did, but this EP is just about perfect.

Uh, no. Building/modifying electrostatic amps and skiing is the closest I want to get to danger.

(photo credit to Stereophile from Head-Fi meet in Queens circa 2005)

They cause you to sprout hair and wear a speedo?

I actually stopped playing between about age 18 and 60, so when I restarted it was a little like learning to walk again. Which is why I got such a big kick out of Jason Stratham's line in the movie "Spy," where he plays a hyper masculine James Bond type: "I make a habit of doing what other people say I can't do: Walk through fire, waterski blindfolded, take up piano at a late age."

Legion (FX network) - two eps in & it's fantastic. Hope they can keep it up.

Smash with a hammer and hand him some 007's...

Brent's tire guy...

Pizzicato Five – The Sound of Music

Chanel will not arrive for probably 3 weeks, they said 8-10 days to get to them before even shipping it from Switzerland/Italy. We'll get the pics when it arrives. Crappy phone picture: Got it sized no problem though I may have put a microscratch on the side of one or more of the spare links. Plan to wear it a lot so I'm not going to worry about it. Tried to post a video of it running with the second hand sweeping but Tapatalk wasn't cooperating. Lume shot:

We've been selling the full product line for years, plus extension cables. We didn't have access to parts except maybe ear pads...but dealer cost was still more expensive than buying the pads from Japan, so it made no sense. I believe repairs might get sent back to Japan now

We're getting set up as well. We were still sending in orders to Yamas and not receiving any response. Ended up visiting their office. Not sure if they knew or didn't know what was going on Birgir got an amp order due to this

Another two GRLV live! These are set up for 20VDC rails to power my dual-mono SS Dynalo. Thanks to Pars for his creation and generosity of sharing the Schottky bridges with a built-in AC snubber. Although I have to settle for the LM4040 VREF for now until I get the LT1021.

I simply can't hold my tongue any longer! I'm here to caution against Dyna Fett! I'm not yet calling for a Fett ban, but there are at least 7 galaxies that are very worrisome. As yet there is no absolute proof that Dyna shares his cousin Boba's views, but again, caution is in order!

Vince, John is a meticulous graphic artist and builder. Below is a Carbon designed and built by John, sitting on top of a KGSSHV off board designed and by John and assembled by me. The knobs are stainless steel on the Carbon and titanium on the KGSSHV...

While on the subject of crappy dac's... I was sent some internal pics of the R2R Lampazitor dac today (Golden Gate I believe but who gives a fuck). Well let's put it this way, Single Power was better built than this pile of fail but what makes this utterly glorious is the actual dac... So this is a multi thousand $ dac and what does the actual conversion... a Soekris DAM1021 diy module. Yup... output directly off the end of that, fed into a relay volume control (again a DIY off the shelf module) and into what ever the fuck those tubes do. I'm waiting for permission to post the pics but this is utterly retarded...

Ok, got a differential front end (balanced-balanced and balanced-SE) working today and zeroed DC offset on a whole lot more of these little modules. Seems to perform really well!