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Earlier - poutine and duck confit - french fries, fresh curd, duck gravy.

They bumped me to a new “B” serial number label on the back of the case, and attached the original S/N label on the work invoice. The back case had some scratches that I had put there so I knew that was original. When I was inside looking for the upgraded boards, I also saw where I had done some mods and had removed before sending back in. So the main body of the Yggy was my original. Just not the cover. I have a high regard for Mike Moffat’s designs, having owned a few over the years including one of his custom Citation IIs in the early 1990s. I figure he is pretty much well away from the day to day business operations at Schiit these days. His experience with digital with Theta is the only reason I bought into Schitt. Listening to the upgrade as I type, I feel it was worthwhile. The dinged up case and runaround, not so much . Since this Analog 2 upgrade clears up a lot of measured issues that came up from the Stereophile article, maybe Schitt should have named it “The John Atkinson Signature Upgrade”.

It turns out that the DOTU makes a pretty bad-ass Texas-style chili.

Two months have elapsed. The modifications work alright. Almost forgot what I’ve done. Schematic below shows the difference between the servos.

Too Much Music: A Failed Experiment In Dedicated Listening - A fun read that brings up some interesting questions & thoughts for today. https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/01/16/578216674/too-much-music-a-failed-experiment-in-dedicated-listening

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From today's Times. Back when hacks were hacks!

Great article... I think I'm at the opposite end of the writer's spectrum, though, despite the amount of time I spend listening to music. Since I buy music in CD/SACD form, my library is strongly constrained by budget, so I don't listen to as much new music as I should (my collection is also strongly-weighted toward audiophile recordings, which generally means that it is extraordinarily conservative). Instinctively, I know this is wrong because many of my favorite albums have been somewhat random, rather than planned purchases. Still, that Mobile Fidelity SACD of Santana III has my name on it. Even with those caveats, I have no excuses with access to free Spotify, internet radio, YouTube, etc. We are living in an unprecedented age of musical accessibility, and I am not one to complain.

No such luck, it's about 4pm so yeah... all hail the darkness!!!

The other possibility, if it's one of the huge number of labels owned by UMG, is that you're hearing watermarks, which they insert into content for streaming services: https://www.mattmontag.com/music/universals-audible-watermark (Do not click this if you hate not being able to unhear bad things, it can drive you nuts.)

I was going to suggest the Gilmore CFP2. If going balanced I would front it with a ubal-bal board for flexibility in input choices. Cheap, easy to build, and very good compared to the other suggestions. Use the golden reference PSU and you’ll be, well, golden. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk