Kattefjaes

One thing that baffles me a bit about both this and the LCX is that they both look (to my uneducated eye) to be wasting a lot of space. With some decent heat sinking, couldn't both be made a lot smaller without incurring significant noise penalties?

Speaking of which, the Voce will be at TSAV in the Bay Area for purchase this weekend

Oh, I thought the Pono stuff used FLAC- what did it use?

Soo, does it still blow up if you use both headphone sockets at once or not? On tenterhooks here

For a change of pace, here's the classic break-out hit "Sexy Roy Orbison" by ficticious Lappish punk band "The Fuckers":

The duck > Ziggy, too (which I suppose your post covers).

While a lot depends on the specific implementation of both the D/S and R2R DAC (and the filters), each can give you a different flavour for sure. Some straight-off-the-spec-sheet D/S DACs in particular can be very harsh in the treble, for example. Of course, R2R dacs with inaccurate resistor ladders can sound pretty poo and indistinct in their turn. Main thing is to have a good implementation of whatever you like. I'm not sure that there's a type you "should" be using (D/S vs R2R, OS vs NOS etc.)- more that you probably should use a unit that sounds good. There's more than one way to skin a cat. Me, I'm quite happy with my modest Gumby (it's effectively R2R, just the resistors are in-package in the DAC chip), but I'm sure there are a good few decent D/S DACs that I'd enjoy too.

RIP Roger Bannister, he of the first recorded four minute mile: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/43273249

Don't we know somewhere to get an absolute bargain on a set of Santorum 3? They're the best transducers, so sure to be perfect for the job.

I'd like to think that I'd run in there unarmed and sort that climate out myself.

It did knock me on my ass the first time that I heard it, too, I admit- I was quiet for a good while after. Yes, there's a lot of power there, worn very lightly. She doesn't mess around.

Ah Martin Carthy rings bells too. I know Frankie Armstrong's nephew, who has been suitably raised loving all sorts of suitable folk*. He has plenty of interesting tales to tell. Someone with a better memory might even have remembered them. My only "the famous playing in a small venue" encounter was seeing Mark Knopfler's Notting Hillbillies at Poole Arts Centre many years ago- oddly brilliant, lots of old blues numbers and spirituals. Seeing three National Steel guitars on the same (tiny) stage at once was quite something. Something of an uncool thing for a schoolboy to go and see, maybe, but the musicianship on display was well worth it. * As well as unsuitable noisecore industrial, and weirdly- Eat Static. He loves him some Eat Static along with his encyclopedic knowledge of folk. Go figure.

Some modern Irish folk - don't be put off by the "f" word, though. It's a cracking tune if a bit dark..

@Craig Sawyers I love that story- I heard him tell it on R4. It's one of those anecdotes that is pretty much impossible to top. It does sound like he made pretty good use out of those extra years, too. Bit of a one-off.

You're about four years and a couple of days late with that one. "Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously, and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."

I love how the big boys are also doing thermal load-balancing (both within DCs and between them) to save on cooling power, too. Is that DC getting warm? Reduce its load and let a cooler one take the strain while it cools down a bit! Obviously you need to get the hysteresis right when adjusting workload to avoid thrashing, but still- it's a very cool trick when you pull it off. Smartarses.

Hey, it lets spritzer's amp farm fly under the radar a bit more easily: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43030677

Thanks, I will try to be in less of a rush next time! Aye, early Autechre is good stuff. While often eerie and menacing, it's also oddly serene. It's also a good match for the slightly ethereal nature of some e-stats. I was just enjoying rediscovering that album, and wanted to inflict it on someone else. (That said, when I saw them in the 90s at Brixton Academy, they were anything but ethereal- the opening notes made quite a lot of people actually fall over and some of the MDMA burnouts in the crush area outside the main auditorium were curled in terrified foetal balls. Coming on in the small hours of the morning and doing that was a brilliantly mean trick.)

To my shame, still haven't worked out how youtube embeds work on this forum, but here's a lovely bit of Autechre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro31ZlDgayU

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Excellent, I look forward to it

I have been failing to get hold of a pair of these- would be interested to know how they stack up to the L500 soundwise (maybe from an Octave 2 ).