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Picnic in the park with the Ginger Avenger KFC catered with Diet Mtn Dew and a now-almost-empty Stanley flask pairing Sent from my LG-H932 using Tapatalk

It may be that the way I use mine, which is quite simple, suits the Ygg. I pipe in music via the Toslink (optical) and I have the output permanently hooked up to two amplifiers (one of my electrostatic amps...the beautiful carbon George built for me...feeds the lovely KGST Geoff built me). I don't change that setup to speak of. Zero drama. HS

I guess I get the allure of kits from ebay for the cheap prices, assuming the components are a) genuine, and b) decent quality. However, buying a kit and then coming on here without apparently doing a modicum of research first is very bad form. The links to Kevin's board files and schematics/other files are here, but might require a bit of digging. Since that vendor supplies both kits and built units (for a whopping $10 more), one might assume that they build with the same parts as they supply in the kit, and it might not matter whether you use a 1K or 10K resistor in the 2 spots. If you're worried about it, then use some 1K for those two positions. But otherwise, the appropriate head-case response is...

Spent a nice afternoon at my dad and stepmom's, good food & good people. Got a rare pic of me with my two brothers and sister (officially adopted step-sister, but...sister). I'm the one with the least hair. Oh, and the big smiles were not due to being together, but because of FLUFFY, which Alexa found for us (EDIT: I JUST found out, the backing band for Gloria was Psychotic Pineapple!)

years ago I designed a r2r/sacd dac which I would still like to do. But the fpga code was something I knew nothing about, and when I went searching for someone to do the code I ended up with absurd prices in the $350k range. Now given the amount of time that may have been put into this, that was probably not completely out of the range of reasonable. Over the years that price has dropped, a lot recently, someone is willing to sell me the code for $5k. So its clear that the code has been ripped, or reverse engineered and the source code is now readily available. Its also clear from those pictures that the massdrop board is a virtual identical copy of the hibiki board. There is evidently software out there that will take gerber files and turn them back into editable layout files. my guess is that the firmware in the 2 boards is at least marginally different. so they are not the same even though from a hardware standpoint they are completely identical. in the end its probably going to be shown that even the stupid high priced spreads (msb,totaldac…) will have a code base that started at the same root. another year or 2 and this will all be public domain. Then the math wizzes out there will be able to work on the FIR and IIR code for optimization.

Tony wasn’t the patron saint of head case, but he damn sure could’ve been. I am going to have some whiskey and a steak tonight in his honor.

This was introduced to me by my redheaded college girlfriend at the time and always brings back fond recollections of a couple of other things she showed me. But seriously, how can 1993 be a QUARTER OF A CENTURY ago? Some of it is now a bit close to the bone as an old guy.

I haven't spent any time with it recently as I constantly have new toys to play with but I'll get back to it at some point. For the price it walks all over the Massdrop and Monoprice garbage. It's also far more useful, a dac (with a variable output too), a preamp and a headphone amp.

While a lot depends on the specific implementation of both the D/S and R2R DAC (and the filters), each can give you a different flavour for sure. Some straight-off-the-spec-sheet D/S DACs in particular can be very harsh in the treble, for example. Of course, R2R dacs with inaccurate resistor ladders can sound pretty poo and indistinct in their turn. Main thing is to have a good implementation of whatever you like. I'm not sure that there's a type you "should" be using (D/S vs R2R, OS vs NOS etc.)- more that you probably should use a unit that sounds good. There's more than one way to skin a cat. Me, I'm quite happy with my modest Gumby (it's effectively R2R, just the resistors are in-package in the DAC chip), but I'm sure there are a good few decent D/S DACs that I'd enjoy too.

That Rolex is particularly versatile, you can wear it with a serious elegant suit and also in a T-shirt with jeans while washing the car and not looking out of place. Elegant thin watches aren't very versatile, specially if you're going to do some sporty activity.

Yes, the output is direct coupled, but is filtered. The filter effects the output signal.

I've been wearing my Pre-Moon Speedy on its 1171 a lot, lately. I had forgotten just how good the Oyster bracelet is (i.e. the 1171 isn't). Speedies are handsome on bracelets, though.

I think it needs some new kind of "like". Something that both appreciates the piss take on DT, despair at the weird shit the guy says, worry about what might happen under his administration, and anger. Kind of this, I guess https://media3.giphy.com/media/rE4Nl0NhfY9Qk/200w.webp

Blues guitarist Matt Guitar Murphy, Played with all the blues greats and was the guitar player in the Blues Brothers band