Plenty of life left in that old guy! Plus I have a pcie to nvme adaptor on the way 🙂 Barely putting a dent in the cpu so far, with lots of plugins. No buffer underruns, no crashes. Loving it!

Ok not really a head-fi station but I'm having lots of fun with the holo spring2 and ubuntu studio. Looking forward to cancelling my subscription for the DAW that shall not be named 🙂 Got a fanless gpu and a very quiet cpu cooler and psu.

Beautiful! But I want a clear shot of your gear now! 🙂

It's been a while but I remember liking the Sylvania 6SN7GTA tubes from the 50s. I believe they can still he had for ~$50 each testing NOS. There are a lot of them that were rebranded but still sounded great to me. Some say "Delco" on the base. I believe they all have the stop sign logo on top.

I'll never forget the look on the face of a man in Cabela's when as a young pup I dry fired one of the bows in front of him.

Make sure to dry fire them every so often to keep them in good condition 😜

I mean, none of us appreciate sticky-fingered visitors or staff, but "taking them out" seems a bit extreme! 😜

Sure thing! I think there are others like it on there too. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805793547523.html

@bcowen Found it if you want the link. I've been tempted myself. I will say that there was something about the hana el that didn't quite do it for me in the long run. Maybe a tad clinical to my ears.

Nah, it's just an old school-style p2p network/app. Kind of like Limewire but specifically for music (and without the malware).

Aw bummer, I don't have that one. Back in my DJing days when I would get a request it was usually to turn it down 😄 If you already own the album and are just looking for a rip of it, you could try Soulseek. Lots of vinyl rips on there.

What kind of requests are we talking about? 😄

Over on the "Post a photo of your turntable" thread there's a regular who's been gushing about some really affordable but supposedly well made Chinese MC carts. I think he got them off Alibaba 😄

Could be yours for the low price of $0! 🤪

Back on my bullschiit. Another vinyl mix for Mother's Day. This time straight from the Skoll/Lokius stack into a Korg master recorder at double rate DSD (dsd128), then converted to 24 bit, 176.4K PCM using my own conversion software and filters (soon to be released free & open source). For all...

Thanks. Yeah and it's totally fine if some people enjoy listening to that dialect. For me, growing up in the 80s, Steely Dan was part of my culture. FM radio was on all the time and they were ever present, including a lot of their stuff from the 70's. Those earlier tracks felt more like an...

I'm particularly fond of this story. They spent 6 hours working on the words "Well the" for "Home at Last" during the Aja sessions 😂 "We’d be remiss if we didn’t include this anecdote about seasoned studio engineer Lenise Bent, who worked with the band during their Aja sessions. It was the...

Nice! Been really enjoying the two tracks released from this album previously.

Yeah I have another of those headshells and the azimuth on it is way off. I may be throwing it away it's so bad. It may be a bit off on the one pictured w the DL-103, but it sounds reeallly good. I think maybe the 103 is pretty forgiving in terms of vertical alignment and azimuth. Also a lot of...

...free and open source software. Learned how to design FIR filters in the process. After extensive listening tests I'm finding it to be on par with a *very expensive alternative software offering. The language I'm probably most excited about going forward is Rust. When it comes time to create...

I don't doubt that could be a major headache. What kind of product was it? Was this your own company?

You poor soul!

Rack mounted the Korg! Pretty happy with the 2U enclosure I got off etsy. Taking the Spring 1 KTE for possibly one last test drive before selling it.

The difference is, if a *nix system behaves as expected, nobody really cares if it's 100% posix compliant. Now if you want to sell a product and claim it is bluetooth compliant that's another story. But that's not really a question of benefit to the consumer so much as to the producer. Just...

It conforms to posix to a very large degree, as I understand it. That brings up another good point. Standards compliance doesn't have to be an all or nothing affair. Companies are free to comply to whatever extent they wish, without necessarily completely negating the benefits of those standards...