Dusty Chalk

...OR DID HE?!?!?...

Wire, The Ideal Copy -- easily my favourite album by them, mostly because it's the first one I heard, and this is one case that familiar breeds ...well...more listening, and therefore more familiarity ackshully. It's damn near perfect, other than "Still Shows", which really isn't that bad, it's just not as great as the rest of the album.

Oooh, we should call it the Mac Pro Keg. Also, it won't cool as well sideways. Unless you're in a wind tunnel. Okay, now that I would be on board with.

Okay, backwards -- okay yes, by comparing to a ladder DAC, I see that you get it. I just wanted to make sure you weren't in your mind still putting a DAC in there somewhere, but the point is, a DSD point-to-point DAC is a lot simpler than a point-to-point ladder PCM DAC. So keyword in your sentence there is "roughly". You don't have to implement 2^n "addition" with the DSD DAC, so it's one less step, and to many, one particularly key less step. A digital filter ... in DSD? Someone (disassociated from Sony) needs to work up the maths for that. And I'm perfectly alright with some mild signal attenuation at 26kHz. I mean really, who cares? Alright, the dog might care. I am of the school that ultrasonic frequency matters, but I am definitely not of the school that ultrasonic frequencies matter much. You can have attenuation at 26kHz with a 2nd order filter and I'd be perfectly happy. Hey, let's go wild and make it with a tunable cutoff frequency.

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Filb -- But see, just because you're talking so much about it tells me you're thinking about it and the next thing you know you're going to try it because being an engineer that's what you do. Don't. Okay that said, but if you do, why does the analog filter need to be high order? All it needs to do is match the increase in noise with the equivalent attenuation. And I think 90% of the appeal to go DACless is the mental exercise/thought experiment/realization that DSD, once filtered, corresponds to the actual signal in the same way that digital amps drive speakers. Yes there's more to it than that, but that's probably why he won't ever put it to market. Sent from mah phone-blet via Tapatalk

Tobias: "...perhaps I should call the Hot Cops and tell them to come up with something more nautically themed..." Michael: "..." Tobias: "Hot Sailors." Michael: "..." Tobias: "Better yet, Hot Sea..." Michael: (snaps fingers) "I...like 'Hot Sailors'." Tobias: (dreamily) "Me too." This show just stays so brilliant. Why on earth was it cancelled! Yes, yes, I know it was uncancelled, but why was it cancelled in the first place!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHbxJtQjORg

Can't you use your powers of insight to convince someone else to want to change the lightbulb or adjust the spot heater...?

Wait, what? He took out all of Trent Reznor's highly stylized production...er...thingies, he took out that little discordancy or dissonance or whatever you want to call it in the opening riff, he played it straight, but most importantly, he lent his voice to it. He made it a Johnny Cash song -- even people that had heard of Nine Inch Nails didn't realize it was a Nine Inch Nails song. Oh, and he took out that huge metal climax like a sucker punch and that insanely long trailing drone. I mean, just play the first couple seconds of both versions.

This one: From the interview with John Siau from Benchmark on the previous page, in which he claims it's impossible to filter out without destroying the purity of the signal (my paraphrase).

Unholy carp!

Obviously. They make little children cry. I suspect the clamping pressure. "...wearing these is like having your head run over..."

Yeah, that's probably what's going to replace (in my mind) the Mac mini that I've been meaning to get since 2007. On the other hand, the iMac's now have 1080p and 1440p screens, so I might just go iMac.

DSD can be converted to analog directly, without a DAC. That's probably what he's doing. And according to the graph, there's plenty of room between the signal proper and the ultrasonic noise to filter it out. I'd be interested in hearing the result. The hard part is actually filtering out the DSD signal alone, without the metadata surrounding it as would probably exist in any digital transfer protocol, especially right off the disk or out of the file, and making sure it's decrypted, although there's probably a point where one can tap the signal somewhere along the chain. I bet it's right there at the DAC, though, lollers.

What? This is the first I heard of this. I thought they had desktop CPU's...(wanders off to confirm)...oh my, you're right. Well that's disappointing.

Cash's version of Hurt totally redefined it and made it his own in a way that the original will never be, but I'm also a huge Nine Inch Nails fanboy, and always loved the song and the way it concluded the intense The Downward Spiral, so I'm glad I live in a world where I don't have to choose one at the expense of the other. Other than at the same time.

no salt added tuna fish with Safflower mayonnaise and freshly crushed black pepper

link Disappointed in the lack of 1x, but I have to admit, I like the price point. It's within what I can recommend to muggles, I would just like to know if it's any good, first.

Also, why is this in headphone amplification?

When taking a break from what I'm doing, I'll be listening to Alpinestars' "White Noise" -- too bad they never followed that up, methinks. RIYL Zoot Woman, et al.

I've been using WhoSampled lately. By the way, Dan, that link leads directly to Venetian Snares' dubstep cover (cover? remix? those are Ozzy's vocals) of "Black Sabbath", which is almost exactly what I heard in my head when we talked about me doing a dubstep remix of "Iron Man", rendering that thought moot. I only wish he had done "Iron Man".

Proving myself prescient yet again, it appears the Light Designs Da Vinci can play DXD files as per the Google syndication ad, but not per the product page proper. WTF? Alright, maybe not so prescient, but honestly, I missed this post before. PS Emphasis mine.

Oh, and how the fuck can we leave Tori out of this. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is what caught my attention of her, but her cover of Slayer is just plain epiphanical: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpOAXIgF9U

Oh, and congrats on the non-fever. Jesus, you had us worried. Hope there isn't any permanent brain damage. Not that we'd be able to tell.