hYdrociTy
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scratch that opus...
b22 had an accident.. shoulda cased it T___T
ill make a millet max that will have to replace it for awhile.. a long while..
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Standalone HDCD decoder? digital in and out, nothing fancy. PMD100 chip inside. Any thoughts?
Maybe even an upsampler too as another function...
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That dual mono opus dac is looking tasty..
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Oh really? I think Ill leave my stuff unmodded then
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Some ultrapriced headphones are like... luxury/lifestylish items. Wood and shiny metal added doesn't sound good. It satisfies the target audience (adult well off, mostly men's) appetite for pretty wood and shiny metal and big price tags.
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But they is loud
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Essentially that's correct. There are ways to do it but none that really should be implemented on an amp of this caliber. Depending on the gain setting the beta uses different compensation caps so not only would you have to be switching resistors but also caps. The amount of wiring that this would take would surly degrade the signal and invite noise (the bad kind).
What about pin-sockets for the resistors and (dont know if they make sockets that small) for the caps? I think its just the tiny caps that would prevent this. If there were ones that small, changing gain would take 5 minutes, swapping parts, and the leads could be clipped to like 1 cm and it would still be fine..
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pasta and sauce. preparing for the cycling marathon to the distant post office.
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lol he said herb.
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FAMILY HUG
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Yea those are called active speakers.
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Too bad there are no iec inlets on an ipod. Ers paper could be stuffed inside tho
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Maybe it will give the wood more warmth and dimension. Not to mention make it look even more luxury.
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My ipod photo broke one week before the applecare expired. But they still shafted me. Dhl didn't bother to leave a note every time they delivered the empty cardboard box, and called me the day before they returned the empty paper box to apple. Of course one day's notice is just stupid so I missed it, and by the time apple apologized it was over. They offered to try to fix it, but just sending me the stupid cardboard box again to ship i to them would cost like 36 dollars.
Apple was primo and a lifestyle product once. With superb support to match back in the day. It all changed in an instant. My ipod photo box was a big cube with both usb and firewire cables, a dock, a wall charging cube, a mini to rca audio/video cable, and the nice documentation and cds. Seemingly months later, it was changed to a thin box that barely holds just the ipod and the foam. Nothing included but one usb cable, no charger, nothing. Everything cost 30 dollars apiece as an accessory. It was atrocious on the desktop front too. Software updates started becoming frequent, etc.
In my hand was the pinnacle of apple's golden days, when the ipod was still luxury. Sadly it was also the last example of those days. *sheds a tear*
This is why I will one day imod my 4g or get a refurb modded one again. Purely sentimental reasons.
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I owned a 4g imod for maybe a couple of weeks and can say that fwiw, the bass kind of improved. the 4g is my fav ipod, I believe it still looks like an ipod while the 5g is just ugly imo. It's very compatible with rockbox, everything inside is easy to replace and parts are abundant. The fact that rwa will also service it and back it up is worth it, since apple seems to have gone into the dark ages lately in terms of support.
If you have money to burn, that 200 doesnt look too ugly considering what junk there is out there. People without the mod spend that much on cables and docks so...
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LOL
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Lightly Scrambled eggs with cucumbers I picked from my garden.
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according to many, yes
Its That Good!
With optimum setup, my 4g iMod can achieve stellar performance, well beyond its price point. Using the same treatment as I would a $10,000 piece in my system, it sounds like a $10,000 piece! I pamper it with the best ($350+ amplifiers, $100+ cables, and $500+ headphones) and it scales as the best!
Right now I am listening to my imod with cotton dock out to sr71 driving my e500's and I tell ya its WORTH the almost grand I dropped on the setup!
One day ill upgrade to this and this and Ill be able to sell my "soo called home reference quality setup" and just have musical bliss in my bag via portable ultra high end sound just like the big man!
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From my experience itunes always runs more stable on my mac (much older than my pc too).
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roasted salt peanuts
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But what if the CD was burned with lossless files or .wav files?
Then the only one who gets shafted is the artist.
You'd think the price itself would steer people away.
What is your current project, or what will be your next project?
in Do It Yourself
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R32 is charred in half on one board, R34 is black on another, sigma22 is basically passing thorough the power without doing anything. I had guests over, little niece and her friend etc. No idea exactly what happened as I was really tired, but i think the headphone jack or something got shorted when unplugged or half plugged in or whatever. All i know was i was next to them, the transformer vibrated and got hot, and it read like 340 watts intake and rising on the power meter and I unplugged it, saw smoke and just left the room in disgust..
Pics to come in the morning if i even care not to trash it.
Actually I think the millet max will be my last amp. Recently one of the magnet wires inside my K501's left driver snapped so I had to cut a slit in the diaphragm to fish the rest of the wire out and solder it onto to the post and reassemble it. The lm4562 i got for my dac oscilllated or flat out broke the moment i put it in, the battery pack i made for my portable amps has a cheap dc plug that barely works.. all the stuff i have for sale no one buys.... what else?? nothing really...
I think it is time for me to leave this hobby before anything I have left breaks. I think it is a sign to move on..
If I don't sell enough stuff by the end of the week to fund the millet max then i think ill just stick with ksc35s out of my ipod...