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Can I post this here? A little project we've been tinkering with.

Well someone needs to respond to Colin- 1999 Billecart-Salmon Champagne 2002 Andy Warhol Edition Dom Perignon 1988 Sonoma Chardonnay crafted to taste just like a aged Chablis...yeah and a C Moy sounds just like a Blue Hawaii when you play Diana Krall through it. We were lucky that it was a slow night so the chef created an off menue flight to pair with the wines. Crab cake, the best evah! prosciutto wrapped asparagus kicked up gnocchi Steak and lobster

Taco truck lunch!

Welcome back Ari! I was about to put your picture on the side of a Head-Case milk carton.

JH13

You chide your welcome ambassador on proper sentence structure in your own run-on sentence of epic proportions. Not to mention the lack of capitalization and proper punctuation. Poor form, in every sense of the term.

I'm going to use this thread to welcome new members and provide inspiring messages to them. Welcome gwrskien! hope you are having a phenomenal day and you find what you are looking for at headcase. remember the best part of screwing up dinner is you can always order a pizza. and pizza is awesome, no matter who you are, unless you can't eat cheese. some places have that vegan cheese though which is pretty good. oily but good.

^ Brent is all excited because there's a Tecate in the photo. (Well that and that the amp is beautiful)

So I started using the External Apple Trackpad instead of a traditional mouse at work... and its awesome! Getting stuff done on a Mac is SO MUCH BETTER when you can use the trackpad gestures built in to the OS.

Nice. Boss has some special reissue versions of a few of their famous pedals "Waza Craft". I also just recently learned about Friedman amps. omg.

Can't get this one out of my head.

lousy excuse.

Blacklist season two -- goddamn, I love this show. James Spader fucking rules. He fucking carries this show. Watching the first episode of Zoo -- love the premise, plus any show whose opening sequence starts with a close-up of a black cat's eyes...

ES1 - specifically mine - as long as you don't mind rebuilding it from scratch...

Calzone!

Nothing like this would ever happen on postjack's forum. PS: thread of the year.

These days it's not easy to persuade me on any purchase that isn't whiskey but I'm thinking a Gugnir multi-bit sounds quite nice sometime soon. I see they have black ones right now....

via: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11901890/Man-uses-raccoon-to-get-around-a-breathalyser-and-is-then-attacked-by-it.html

RIP Log Lady! That's sad and makes me want to watch all of Twin Peaks again.

For the last six months, I've been trying to get myself to like fish/seafood. Up to this point, I've shared seafood appetizers with others and tried someone's fish or seafood dish if they were willing to share. I decided that it was time for me to try sushi (I've always liked the idea of sushi and have wanted to eat it or years). I went to Uchi hour with a friend of mine and I had the following: 1 akami (tuna loin) nigiri 1 sake (fresh atlantic salmon) nigiri 1 hamachi (baby yellowtail) nigiri 2 madai (japanese sea bream) nigiri crispy brussel sprouts with lemon chili katsu pork belly, yolk custard, espelette smoked baby yellowtail with yucca crisp and marcona almond It was all really excellent (much better than cooked fish) and I should have tried this years ago! http://uchirestaurants.com/houston/ (I forgot to take a picture of a lot of the food before eating it).

This post is going to be something of an information dump as I try and summarize my notes from a full day of testing. I'll do another post with some concluding thoughts in a day or two when I've had some more time to think everything over. Apologies in advance for the length. -- Larry (jazzfan) had come up with the idea of doing a mini-meet when Andrew (particleman14) and I bumped in to him at the California Audio show a few months ago. Larry and I had each purchased Yggdrasil DACs and we were interested in both putting them through their paces and testing to see whether the Uptone USB Regen device made a difference. We later found out that that Adam (drfindley) had purchased the Gungnir Multi-bit and we were interested in pitting the two Schiit top-dogs against each other in a blind test. Fast forward to Saturday. We ended up getting four people (including me) together for some testing at Larry’s house. The primary setup we used for our testing was Larry’s B&W 804S speakers powered by a Parasound Zamp. We used a Placette Audio Passive Line Stage as a volume control and input switcher. We tested by playing minute-long snippets of our favorite testing tracks on each set of gear to be tested. We used a Radio Shack SPL meter to ensure that differing volumes would not be a factor. I’ll describe the most interesting tests we performed, what the group conclusions were, and my thoughts, if any. -- Test #1 - Does a warmed-up Yggdrasil sound better than one that had been sitting cold for a few weeks. Background: Larry’s Yggy had been plugged in and powered on continuously for weeks. My Yggy has been unplugged and powered off for a few weeks since I currently don’t have a rig to run it with. Would Larry’s “Warm” Yggy sound better than my “Cold” one? The Yggy manual mentions that you should always leave it on. Is there any truth to this? Conclusion: Yes! All four of us preferred the sound of the “warm” Yggy to my “cold” Yggy. My thoughts: The Schiit advice about leaving the Yggy on is real. There was a noticeable difference between the two. The “cold” Yggy sounded congested and slightly veiled compared to the “warm” Yggy. The “warm” Yggy had more definition and a crisper sound to my ears. We didn’t blind test this, but I’m sure we would have all be able to tell which Yggy was which. -- Test #2 - Did the “cold” Yggy warm up after a few hours and sound the same as the “warm” one? Conclusion: No. All four of us still preferred the sound of the “warm” Yggy to the “cold” Yggy even after the “cold” Yggy had been powered on for a few hours. -- Test #3 - Did the Schiit Wyrd USB device make much of a difference with the Yggdrasil or the Gungnir Multi-bit? Background: I was extremely skeptical that either the Wyrd device would make any difference. If they had better USB technology why wouldn’t Schiit offer it as an option to include it internally on all their DACs? Conclusion: Not really. I think only Adam (the owner of the Wyrd) was even certain he heard much of a difference between using the two big $ Schiit DACs with or without the Wyrd. If there was a difference, it was very small. My thoughts: I highly doubt that any of us would have been able to determine whether or not a Wyrd was being used in a blind test. I will not be purchasing a Wyrd primarily for this reason. -- Test #4 -Did the Uptone Audio USB REGEN device make a difference with the Yggdrasil and Gungnir Multi-bit? Background: The Wyrd didn’t make much of a difference, so I had low expectations for the Regen. Conclusion: Yes! The Regen makes a noticeable difference in the sound with both the Yggdrasil and Gungnir Multi-Bit. All of us heard the same differences on every track. The interesting thing was that on some tracks we preferred the sound of the stock DACs while on other tracks we preferred the sound of the DACs being fed by the Regen. My thoughts: I heard the sound of the DACs with the Regen as being slightly warmer and punchier than the sound of the DACs running stock. Without the Regen I heard slightly more top end energy and definition. The difference between using the Regen and not wasn’t huge, but it was there and it was noticeable. What was more curious is that some tracks sounded better with the Regen and some tracks sounded better without it. For that reason, I can’t really say it defiantly improved the sound as much as it changed its “flavor.” -- Test #5 - Which sounded better, the Gungnir Multi-bit or the Yggdrasil? Background: Larry conducted this test in a way that allowed the other three of us to test blind. We sat on the couch while Larry switched DACs behind us. He used a coin flip to randomize the play order. We conducted this test with speakers and with headphones. Conclusion: First and foremost, they both sound great. Second, what we initially all were sure we knew which DAC was which, but we ended up being wrong. We all thought that what was actually the Gungnir was the Yggy. We also generally preferred the sound of the Gungnir! We performed three sets of trials and the Gungnir won two of them and the Yggy won the other. The two DACs sound close, but there are definite differences between them. My thoughts: Wow… if $ is no object then you really have to hear both of these DACs before making a purchasing decision. If $ is a factor, get the Gungnir! The primary difference I heard between Yggy and Gungnir was that I thought Gungnir tended to feel a bit more laid back with a bit wider soundstage. In contrast, Yggy sounded more defined and perhaps more detailed with a strong center image. This was a very interesting test. I’m not tempted to sell my Yggy, but if I didn’t already have one I would probably buy a Gungnir and pocket the difference. The Gungnir is one heck of a DAC that some may even prefer to Yggy. -- Test #6 - How did the Oppo BDP-105 compare to Yggy? Background: Prior to owning the Yggy I had used the Oppo as my primary DAC for many years. I like the sound of the Oppo, but a lot of people online have claimed that it is essentially crap compared to the Yggy. Conclusion: All of us liked the Yggy more. The Yggy sounded more "organic" and slightly more three-dimensional than the "flatter" sounding Oppo. My thoughts: I still think the Oppo is a pretty good DAC, but between the two of them, I prefer the Yggy. I may just be partial to the Oppo's sound after using it for so long, as Adam claimed he didn't just prefer the Yggy but actually disliked the sound of the Oppo. I thought he was being a bit harsh, but again, my ears may be biased to hearing the Oppo for so long.

I applaud your use of this word.

salutations dear friend i had not noticed this topic or i would have posted sooner. a good note on spiritual experiences, although your post is missing a few key verbs to maintain proper structure of a sentence, that said i will assume you meant one can't expect their serenity to be contingent on anything in this world due to impermanence, yet if you determine the value of your spiritual experience by what you gain from it, wouldn't that cut a hole in your argument as both the value and experience are even further abstracted from reality or permanence as they are a product of subjective analysis, thus the journey is nothing but the appraisal of the overall experience... thus we find ourselves stuck between an endless loop of sorting every experience to sort them neatly into 2 bins...

Thank you for the warm welcome. I guess. I'm not 100 % certain, something smells fishy here.

Welcome to Sepinho! I met sepinho earlier this week, passed out in a hammock with a fishing line tied around his big toe. I was minding my own business, but I noticed that he had a bite on the line, and I felt it my duty to assist the man. I grasped the line, naturally, and attempted to reel the monster in, as any decent neighbor would. I was trying hard to pull the line without disturbing sepinho, and I was succeeding. Five minutes in, I was dedicated to nothing in the world, save my task. I'd made nary a sound, and to be frank I'd lost track of time. Bystanders were wending their way around me, perplexed, but I was unbothered. When I was confident I had the beast well in hand, I risked a glance toward sepinho, only to find that the other end of the line had slipped his toe, and he was nowhere to be found! Peeved, I pulled my last with a huff and felt the quarry loose itself from the deep. What should I have expected? After my effort, I expected a significant reward -- perhaps an octopus, many-legged and delicious? It was not to be, though I was yet in for one more surprise. Rather than a fish, the line had looped around a bottle, and in that bottle a letter! I could scarce wait to loose the cork and read its contents, the lean fruit of my endeavours. What did the letter say, you ask? "See you on Head-Case!" The pique! I think this sepinho has a lot to account for here, gentlemen!

Then I would have two skillets of curly bacon... I fail to see how this would help

H2Omophobe!

I'm going to create a dup account so you can welcome me.