Dusty Chalk

I wonder if they still make anything like my Sony DVP-PQ1. It has a digital coaxial out (the main reason I got it, as most of them were optical): There aren't too many half-rack (that's what you're looking for, essentially) CD players. If you Google "half rack cd player", you get a bunch of Teacs, and a Rolls HR72, whatever that is. Tascam appears to have a couple of tall somethings, but they appear to be overkill, I'd stick with either the Rega or -- what I use to play all my silver disks -- the Oppo BDP-whatever-the-current-model-is. It's full-size, but I use the built-in DAC.

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The only reason I can think is that it only plays CDs (I.E. not DVDs, SACDs, nor Blu-Rays), and I'm not sure it even plays CD-Rs (earlier Rega models had problems). But yes, it is an excellent transport, if all you're going to play are CDs. I've gotten to the point where I either rip the CD right away, or use the download (if it's Bandcamp/lossless). Then any old computer will do. Or my little portable Sony. There's probably one with a digital out that you can link up to a DAC or the Oppo DAC/amp. I understand that's not what you're asking, so feel free to ignore.

No worries, I have to admit, I never researched Blu-Tack, so was willing to be corrected, but it appears according to Stereophile that it dampens somewhat (Wikipedia cited this as a source, Blu-Tack is introduced on page 3): link. (I'll have to read the whole article later, seems interesting.) I was just going on intuition -- the best vibration conductor is going to be solid (resonances may actually amplify vibrations at certain frequencies) -- anything that "gives" is going to dampen somewhat, and ... I can just imagine trying to listen "through" Blu-Tack -- it would probably be extremely muffled. Hence I just assumed it was a dampener. Now, you may still be right -- maybe a thin enough amount would act as a conductor by keeping the two surfaces "glued" together -- I.E. coupled, but then the answer would be to use more. Or maybe at low frequencies it stops absorbing/dampening and starts acting like a conductor (all insulators would be frequency dependent, based on my research into soundproofing and sound insulation). I think more research is warranted.

That wasn't my understanding -- a spike would couple the speaker to whatever the speaker was on (speaker stand, floor, or, in your case, granite slabs). In your case, the decoupling occurs at the sorbothane pads. Think of it as insulation.

Exactly, I think it's environment-specific.

Isn't that coupling? Decoupling is blu-tak, cork, foam, or the like. The idea being if there are any floor-borne vibrations, they stop at the decoupling. Coupling is an entirely different school of thought, where you assume the earth is the most inert and try to keep as strong a coupling from there to the speakers to feed off that inertness. Supposedly the best decoupling method (conducts the least vibration) is sand, but that would still require other parts (a rigid stand on top of the sand or something).

They still have those. Some interfaces just never get old.

Damn, son, those are both beautiful, the speakers and the stands. I'm fully a believe in speaker stands, but not sure where I stand, in the 'decouple' camp, where the speakers are intended to be decoupled from the floor so that floor-borne vibrations don't transmit back to the speaker through conduction, or the other camp, where you start with the assumption the floor is the most inert thing, and ...couple? Whatever the opposite of decouple is...the speakers to the floor. It sounds like from what you say that the speaker stands are inert enough that you coupled your speakers to the stands. Honestly, I would have them as forward on the stands as possible. You know, edge effect. It's less noticeable near the bass driver, so you may be fine, but I always want my drivers to be the most forward thing in the vicinity.

Winter Kills/All Cried Out/This House -- one of these days, I'm covering all 3 of those. Maybe a fourth, and make it an EP. I never get tired of watching people who know how to move:

It shore is purty.

Oh, interesting, hadn't of that latter. Thought of ham radio, but that would be missing a 'M' or at least a 'k'. Might it be the lowest frequency for a carrier frequency for voice quality? Maybe this is his favourite frequency region to cut or boost? Not sure what any of those have to do with Hz, Mikey, but thanks for the larph.

I saw this on a license plate: "3958 HZ", and since it's within the audible spectrum, I thought I'd ask here. Anyone know the significance?

You lost me.

Yeezh. I blame global warming.

Hurray for Mama! You go, Steve.

Peed. A lot. Doctors warned me that Furosemide would make me pee. A lot. Although this was weeks ago, I think it finally kicked in. No really I mean it.

I was just listening to that the other day. I have no context as to why I was listening to it, other than a friend strongly recommended it. I enjoyed it well enough, but if there's a story, I wouldn't mind hearing it. Re: shoegaze -- no real surprises towards the top of that list, if I had to predict it based on safe predictions, but I have my own tastes, and Just for a Day ranks head and shoulders above the rest. My Bloody Valentine are on another planet, almost a genre unto themselves, but Just for a Day is such a perfect slab of fuzzed out melodic melancholy happiness that I can actually feel my blood pressure dropping, from before I start listening to it to after it's finished. Chrome is probably my most listened to album across the whole thing, but with rockers like "Crank" and "Show Me Mary", I hardly consider it "just" shoegaze. But like all my favourite bands, Catherine Wheel never felt like they needed to stay within their chosen genre, so I love them all the more for it. Nice to see some lesser known acts like Xinlisupreme and lovesliescrushing. And of course Curve are great. Goddamn, I love Curve. I may have to go back and listen to all my Curve.

Wait, tuxedo cats can do integrals? Goddammit, mine can barely define the empty set. ...Goddammit, mine can barely tell day from night. ...Well, at least mine can defend me from the square root of -1 creatures.

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