Leaderboard

I got the board and parts in for the battery protection/balancer and was able to get one built. I’ll try to get some testing in tomorrow.

No pics but yesterday was a serious day of Traegering. Got up at 5:40 to put the ~5lb pork shoulder on at 200F to let it cook very low and slow while I took Lily to a basketball tournament. Came home before noon, checked, things were progressing nicely so helped the neighbor haul/chop wood for 2-1/2 hours (he's got two kids under 2...) at which point the shoulder had hit 165 so I wrapped with some apple juice and let it go again. At 5:30 I pulled the shoulder at just over 200F and put it in the cooler to rest while I used the seriously pre-heated Traeger to reverse sear some Fillet Mignon for Andrew's 10th birthday (let that set in...). That went for around 45min till it hit 125 and which point I wrapped and let it sit in the T on the "keep warm" setting to let me catch up with cooking steak fries in the skillet and to get the gas Webber good and hot. Seared the steaks for 2min each side flipping until internal temp reached 155F. Pulled and let rest for 10min while arranging the rest of dinner. Sliced and served and it was, by my estimation, the best job I've ever done cooking steak. It was moist and tender and needed nothing other than the salt/pepper that I rubbed it with prior to cooking.

The pin out is NOT the same... G3R450MT17D is G S D looking from front left to right C2M1000170D is G D S looking from front left to right. don't worry the C2M1000170D will be back in stock in a few months... maybe.... Update: well I though I had derped but it turns out there are at least two versions of the G3R450MT17D datasheet and they don't even agree on the printout or current handling...

A lot of good news in here. Particularly a new kickass M2 Mac Mini! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-18/apple-readies-macbook-pro-macbook-air-revamps-with-faster-chips?

I'd guess there just wasn't a need for it until recently now that every streaming service is jumping on the lossless/hi-rez train. Probably an upsell feature on AirPod Max 2?

Yes and it was dinner for tonight and tomorrow so that nights of sportball would be less stressful.

Andrew is 10? What happened to the Boston Butt?

Agreed. They are not cheap but they are really good at what they do. I'm yet to meet anyone who owns them and doesn't like them. With wireless headphones I care a lot more about having a good connection with good range than I do lossless over AAC. I imagine Apple's engineers felt the same way.

I can’t really imagine using the APM plugged in. The whole reason I bought them was to have an easy to use, comfortable, closed, and good sounding Bluetooth headphone to use when I’m not plugged I to a big rig. They play that role perfectly.

Happy belated birthday (party favour noise) 🥳

Didn't want to create a new thread, but... lossless coming to Apple Music. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/apple-music-announces-spatial-audio-and-lossless-audio/

Thanks all! I had a nice quiet day for the most part. No listening, but some imbibing did occur...

Styx – Paradise Theatre

Robert Palmer – Pressure Drop

Funny pic from FB today, keep chuckling when I see it.....

Reverse seared sirloin

Another candidate for C2M1000170D replacement could be G3R450MT17D.

I think the use case has always been there "As an Audiophile, I want to listen to lossless audio on wireless headphones, so I don't have to look like some kind of savage" The need is a classic chicken / egg for the apple ecosystem* - no lossless audio from Apple - so no requirement. *Other ecosystems exist outside the walled garden. https://darko.audio/2017/12/how-to-enable-aptx-hd-bluetooth-audio-on-your-iphone-ipad/ But the tension between a low energy local communication protocol ( bluetooth) - to improve battery life on wireless devices, and the need for the required bandwidth for lossless audio ( and the energy it would take to implement it ) have now come to a head. So probably a new version of bluetooth and an supported codec (aptX lossless?) is required to make it a reality , for a given bit depth / sampling rate definition of lossless. New hardware / software all round to get this tick box requirement met! Yay!

Oh well, The Verge: Apple’s $549 AirPods Max can’t play lossless Apple Music — even when plugged in. https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/17/22440788/apple-airpods-max-lossless-music-explainer-spatial-audio #AirPodsMaxPro?