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I'd love to see those guys sometime. I only saw Genesis once live, around 1982 or so. I would still say probably the best live show sound and playing-wise I have seen. Awhile back, I had read about these guys... sounds fun, depending upon who they are doing: Tributosaurus: The future of rock 'n' roll? - Chicago Tribune

I wish I could find the two part epoxy I used to use occasionally as a tech. IIRC it was made by 3M. The stuff was quick set and got rather warm from what I recall. Worked great.

I had been hoping to listen to Absorbine_Sr's at Chiunifi last weekend, but his had done the same thing. He said he has super-glued them a couple of times. I wonder if a good two part epoxy might work better? I would agree with Nate that replacement parts would be what I would do as well. Surprised they made these out of plastic like that on a ~$250 phone

assfisting... nice

Happy Birthday!

My older cat was hit by a car tonight and killed. Glad my two sons weren't around. She was 15 and lived a good long life; we adopted her from the humane society after our previous cat passed away and had her for ~14 years. My wife is taking it pretty hard.

What Mastech? And did anyone get their VC99 yet? If so, how are they. I could use another decent meter.

Modded units such as? And who modded them and what did they do? Foo foo silver wire mods and blackgates galore, or did they actually do something to them like good output stage, good clocking, etc.

Mini^3 <> M^3

I think it is MG chemicals that makes Q-dope or Corona dope, both of which are HV insulators. Might be another option.

Can you send the PCB back as defective? Conformal coatings are usually solder thru for repairs, so yes, their thermal protection is low by design. I would think it would be enough unless you get stubborn with misapplication of your soldering iron

PMD100s haven't been made for what? A decade? And now someone is introducing a product built using them? I'm not sure what the projected volume of these things is, but 100? 200? I haven't seen any sellers touting having that many of them. Legit? Perhaps...

Colin (cetoole's) stage is zero feedback; jocko's (and all the variants I've seen including the rbroer one I have used) are also zero feedback. I like the sound based on what I've used heard, particularly compared to opamp stages (which by definition use a lot of feedback).

John Swenson posted a really nice overview if you will of async USB on audioasylum which might be of interest to many of you: Digital Drive - Some thoughts on async etc. - John Swenson - October 24, 2009 at 15:23:20

With the sensitivities of this crowd (SP extravaganza, the recent attenuator bust, etc.), shipping problems is not the thing to dredge up...

Alison Mosshart. Check out The Kills as well.

And the need on a practical level to have those holes plated thru, unless you take steps (vias, etc.) for double-sided boards. One would have to question the rework capabilities of this technology (as in none probably) as well. Also looks like this will only work on flexible media, so that would often be an issue as well. Would be great for quick prototypes, etc. within those constraints.

I would agree that the first seems the most natural to me.

Happy Birthday Beefy!

Happy Birthday Marc!

And glad you are OK duggeh! Sorry about the car.

My condolences Brent. Sorry about the drill accident Fitz, hope it gets better quickly.

Fail on the timing belt, or just time to do it? Alternator? I was happy to find out my 09 Accord has a timing chain... Belts have gone up to >$1K here (from $500 4 years ago, for the same car). Sucks.

Isn't the whole point of this device to take USB audio and convert to S/PDIF to a DAC? Wouldn't jitter measurements as well as ensuring that the data is preserved bit-perfect be the meaningful measurements? Of course you have no control of the quality of the S/PDIF interface on the DAC end , so I'm not sure how you would go about offering a meaningful measurement, particularly of jitter.