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5lbs of home made bacon. 10 days to make. 5 days cure. 5 days rest. Cooked up first test slices.. it is nice, with no bad stuff in it. It is a touch salty, but can refine the cure in the future. Followed this guy, we use to watch the show. And we have his books. Cheers And bacon on...

Moving away from the SF Bay Area was a mostly about cost/income but I sorely miss the cultural groups there. Among them are Other Minds music family. I'm happy to say I was able to do some audio work with some of them and I still keep up with their activities online.

Isn't that Stretch's bedroom minibar?

Correcting myself: No he’s not, he just got the Chord combo, I doubt that’s going anywhere. I was reminded because I’m in a similar boat—I have great everything else except the USB/DAC portion of the chain. I’ve been listening with the Pico Power connected directly to the iPad or Walkman. Now that I’m home I wanna start using the computer into something into the Earmax Pro. I asked my imaginary friend who’s really into KEF and Dynaudio and room treatments, and he said Chord or Simaudio Moon.

I wonder what's anchoring that Tower of Scotch.

This. I loved listening to that thing at meets when one would show up. If I owned one I wouldn't be looking to upgrade.

For me its not about the bit rates or sample depth but the care and attention put into the recording/remastering process. Very few companies make dedicated recordings in each format, an exception is the label 2xHD which document the recording chain and use separate brand adc for the different formats, DSD vs PCM, and so you can expect to hear differences due to the different ADC as much as the different digital formats. I suspect most multi format releases are recorded and mastered in a single format at a single sample rate and then converted to the other formats. The conversion is not perfect and this is easy to demonstrate. If you take a very low frequency square wave and convert from 44K to 88K or go the other way the square wave is not preserved... conceptually you just remove half the samples or double each sample but in reality its a fast Fourier transform and digital filters (c.f. Izotope RX)... and FFT does not work well at low frequencies and neither do the digital filters.. I hear less differences between modern dacs than I do other components like speakers, cartridges etc. I will say the early dacs were terrible. I have spoken with one hifi designer who admitted that of all the audio technology dacs have probably improved the most in the last over the period late 80s-2010s. certainly I could not find a dac I could live with until the late 2000s and then it was super expensive, now I am happy with a V90 with a golden reference LV psu... A very cost effective combo which performs as least as well as my crazy expensive (even second hand) DCS elgar plus, even if the v90 does not have DSD support, input options etc. MQA is loss-full compression (it was original advertised as lossless but analysis has shown it is lossy) and has not really gained much traction, its potentially full of digital rights management and designed for surround sound. (https://audiophilereview.com/cd-dac-digital/mqa-the-facts-versus-the-fiction.html)... now its advertised as less lossy than mp3 and the DRM is not currently switched on... MQA playback requires licenses and so its unlikely to appear in open source playback software and even Jriver media centre has no plans to add it... I guess the license costs are too high. Software like Jriver media centre can convert DSD to standard PCM and this is how I listen to DSD. The advantage of DSD is that the ADC converter is simpler and has less filtering. The disadvantage is that the playback requires more filtering (DSD generates a lot of high frequency noise) and its not easy to edit DSD... almost all editing is done by converting DXD 384K PCM and then converting back to DSD this process is supposed to incur no losses... There is very little music available in DSD format and even less thats only available in DSD... My philosophy is get a modern dac, make the psu good and use the saved money on a better amplifier/speaker/headphone where there are still large performance differences... and don't forget to clean the connectors with deoxit or similar periodically. My mii T2 was recently sounding off colour, a bit lifeless and lacking detail in the mids and just sort of tried. I cleaned up the rcas and its back to singing again...The connectors on my van den hul first seem to love to oxidise a lot and rather quickly too... the cotton bud came out almost black from a single rca connector... regards and happy listening James

I still like my M51. It is still the DAC I use in my Big-Boy headphone system. The only potential problem is it is not a streamer. But that can be rectified pretty easily if you need it. That is S'Truth above. I always liked the sound of the Opus 21.

The Opus 21 has a pretty special sound. Sometimes, newer, better?, Can't replicate what the Opus does. Just a word of caution.

^ Love Other Minds. I didn’t know you worked with them! https://www.otherminds.org/mfom/

DSI Mopho Or for a few Benjamins more, DSI Tetra Or for a few more Benjamins than that, Moog Mother-32

Listening really.. but if you have 10.5 hours...

Paradise must be something like this !!!!

What Mike Schultz looked like after battling COVID-19 for 6 weeks in the hospital. 1937 Western Clipper Motorhome. Political Compass, but it's Rammstein lyrics. 1976 Ferrari 308GT Rainbow. 1965 DKW Hummel 155.

Nah, but that's a photo of hardly any parallel lines. Hope the frig doesn't fall over.

The extra M51 is here if you are interested! The Brooklyn Dac+ is pretty awesome (don’t have or need the bridge) but I can’t say which I like better.

... My love she's like some raven At my window with a broken wing

An amazing guitar player. His historically good solos can stand against anyone's.

Old man music. David Gilmour can play a guitar. Apparently he and Roger Waters are still squabbling to this day. Some things are eternal. https://pitchfork.com/news/roger-waters-feuds-with-david-gilmour-over-pink-floyd-website/

Reunions by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

If the plug isn't polarized, try flipping the plug.

Hi everyone, I'm a newbie here Thank you all for this great project, I just finish my first KSA5 amp, The sound is absolutely crazy good. I use a small chassis for my ksa5 mainboard. 10k pot. To reduce power chassis depth, I raise the power board and let the transformer under the power board.

The subcontracting is everywhere. For example the courier dpd in the uk, deliveries are by DPD and if you have a company account with them you can send things. If you don't have a company account you can use DPD online or DPD local... all three are separate companies plus DPD online has no telephone support, not even an support email address. DPD local has telephone support as does DPD. None of the support of any of the three companies has access to the records or support of any of the others and you effectively have separate accounts with each one... what a mess. The DPD website does not mention this but as soon as things go wrong you find out the hard way... especially if you sent something using DPD online and expect to talk to someone on the phone rather than by web text chat to someone in India who has no clue.... Many Amazon deliveries in the uk done by "amazon logistics" AKA yodel. Judging by the internet and my personal experience Yodel is probably the worst delivery company in the uk... I ordered something before corona virus lock down, delivery to my university address. By the time it arrived the university was closed due to lockdown. Yodel did not contact me to ask for a new delivery address or inform me of any problem. Fortunately I was pro active, when I looked at the tracking it said to go to a web page to change the delivery address... when I tried the page said you don't have permission to change the delivery address!. So I tried to contact customer support... Telephone support... closed because of corona virus. online support.. busy waiting time 5 days.... when I finally got through the support person 5 days later they where not sure if they could change a delivery address... 10 minutes waiting their line manager approved the change. I said my home address and they said no that address is wrong and for that postcode Yodels system says "N 40 london" I said thats an impossible address its not even in the correct format. I was informed it was the only address change they could make or send it back to the sender. I asked if they could hold it and I get the sender to change the address? NO the sender can only change the address once its sent back to them.... long story short 2 months later I am still waiting for delivery...

The latest FedEx tracking shows our boards are "in transit" in Japan I don't know if to laugh or cry!