Hopstretch

Shades of The Onion, one feels.

I believe the pluperfect subjunctive is "twats".

They actually took a bunch, but they will require three weeks to upload.

You deserve each other.

I'd fuggin' love to hear them! The Human League -- Travelogue

Yeah, I've never had any interest in Wavelength's DACs. Too much toobophilia and associated deviant beliefs. But as soon as I heard he'd licensed WaveLink (his code stack for the TAS1020B) to Ayre, it was pant-wetting time. Gordon used to be a programmer and that side of things he has locked down. In operation, it's been completely bulletproof and really seems to do what it says on the box. Dan, it'll be interesting to see what j4cbo comes up with. From what I understand, it's a shedload of work implementing anything along these lines.

We'll have to see, but if there is someone who can get this right it's probably Gordon Rankin, since he obsessively measures everything and apparently hates jitter like I hate running out of beer. PS: Nobody gives a shit about BNC. Sorry.

I agree $900 would be too much for me. I would have hoped to see the full version at around the $500 price point. Although, basically you are getting a device that converts any computer into a high-quality, jitter-free*, hi-res transport. So there is real value there if you already have a good DAC. * I know, I know.

Price unknown, but if it's sensible they should sell plenty. Since this is almost certainly using the exact same receiver board that's in the Wavelength and Ayre USB DACs, it'll probably also be upgradable to support 192kHz sample rates eventually.

It's just that a lot of your prodigious tube-, amp- and headphone-rolling efforts seem to be driven by a nagging perception of a slightly bright/dry/brittle sonic characteristic in your system -- which is pretty much the stereotypical fingerprint of your brand of source. Seems like it would make sense to try some comparable front ends that might give you a slightly different basic flavor to work into your recipe. Maybe an Ayre C-5xe? And just to emphasize, I'm not trying to be a Smart Alec or to ignore the fact there are legitimate differences of opinion about the primacy of sources/amps/phones in building a system. I'm probably source-biased myself, if anything, which may be why it strikes me as strange in the first place.

It'll be interesting to see how the upcoming Y315,000 D-07 compares to the Y410,000 SA-50's DAC section. They don't have any English-language product info up yet, but maybe one of our Japanese-speaking friends can give us a precis? Esoteric D-07

That's what your Mom said!

The Durutti Column -- The Guitar And Other Machines

Any ideas on how hard they might be to drive in the new form?

The Cure -- Staring At The Sea

I think Elephas had one and sold it. Please take one for the 'Case and get the Naim DAC!

Crowded House -- Woodface

Eww.

Love And Rockets -- "Kundalini Express"

I'm so stealing those. Have a few beers tonight and sleep tight!

Hothouse Flowers -- People

Hit three buckets of range balls. None straight. Ordered pizza. Started drinking. Have six four-year-olds coming over for a rainy-day playdate later -- and you don't wanna deal with that shit sober!

You fucking fucker!

Horslips -- The Tain