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Something to note - When you downsample (high sample rate) to 1644, you *must* apply a ~20Khz brickwall filter or you will get aliasing problems. Inaudible ultrasonic crap turns into even worse audible crap when you have aliasing issues. I have no idea how Foobar does this, but it may be worth looking into. You may also like the results from setting the filter a bit lower than 20Khz, if you have the option.

Based on your return habits, at least 90% of the "upgrade" lenses you have bought suck too. Its a kit lens, it is what it is. It will take non-gear-centric* photos just about as well** as any other lens. They are GREAT for starting out, and offer a great feel for upgrades the user may want to make in the future. *As much as its the tool holding the tool, there are some things a tool cant do unless he has the right tools. Nobody likes to say it, but there are some photos you just cant take unless you have a *magic* lens. 95% of these photos are just not worth taking, but how would anyone know you had a Noctilux if you shot it at F2.8? I hesitate to call non-gear-centric photos average or common, because they can be insanely far from it. Indeed! When you look at the overwhelming trend towards "I shoot it at F0.95 because I bought an F0.95 lens" in photography the terms average and common take on a totally different definition. A photo with 3 or more elements working together, that is far from average, and as easy to take with something as simple as a Pinhole camera as something costing OMFGWTFBBQ(USD). I'm happy when I get 2 things to work. **Ignoring distortion, enough light to shoot at F8.

Unless Sony really screwed up, the low-light performance from this camera should be amazeballs. The AF seems kind of sloooooow though I hope that is correct. The part of me that wants to take everything apart wonders if it uses the 24 or 36mp sensor? If its 36mp, I will be crazy-mega-uber-impressed.

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[hqiku] I took some photos Red hook Crit was last weekend It rained quite a lot [/haiku] It was a great time, ignoring the rain. The races got moved forwards a few hours - last year it was almost too dark to shoot. It was also too crowded last year.... This year was good for the crowd level. https://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_nikon_12/sets/72157643384442023/ ^^ Should take you to the set.

Is now the right time to voice my strong opinion against the vast majority of tube phono stages? The effect of various tube parameters (Rp) on the RIAA accuracy totally trumps any advantage. A few stoopid-expensive phono stages take it into account and have neat solutions, but most do not

Those people are too mainstream to be hipsters.

1: The beyerdynamic T1 comes with a shielded cable. This seems like a good reason to sidegrade. 2: You could try putting Ferite beads on the headphone cable. I suspect that the noise is getting in to the system through allllll sorts of methods though. Do you have shielded interconnects? 3: Briliant pebbles. Those fuckers work good! Try em. (April fools!) Almost no "audiophile approved" gear or mods do anything to protect the system from RF - in fact many "audiophile approved solutions" seek to remove what little was there! 4: Occams Razor? Costs nothing. Quite effective. More effective would be to just turn the phone off and enjoy the music. 5: I'd rather just listen to the GSM noise, but to each his own. 6: Why does high output impedance matter? Do you mean you want higher? I could get behind that. The HD650 respond nicely to an amp with highish to freakishly high (60ohms or up) output impedance. The OTL tube amps so many people lalalove with the HD650 start at 60ohms output impedance and go up from there quickly. Balanced cables do not block *high frequency* RF! In a balanced system, the balanced cable rejects low-frequency EMF (60hz hum) but the individual strands of the cable are physically too far apart to reject high frequency noise. For high frequency you need a shield. The shield works great at high frequency, but does nothing at 60hz - so we combine them to kill allllll sorts of noise. You have not mentioned what sort of interconnects you have - you may find some improvement by switching to shielded interconnects, if you don't already have them. In the case of a headphone or speaker power-amplifier output, where the pickup of 60hz is not a problem (there is no amplification stage after this...) balanced "works" for completely different reasons which have basically nothing to do with noise rejection/pickup.

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I like the idea. It is very interesting to see the methods for selling art in one medium applied to another. My question is really one for the buyer. Does (s)he buy it and give it away, or does (s)he buy it for exclusivity. I fear it will be the later, but who knows! Watching people interact with art can sometimes be more interesting than the art its self. I guess its going to suck to be under the magnifying glass like that.

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Could you post a schematic of the "filter" function?

Flickr preserves exif.

Although it requires a LOT more searching, and luck, other technics tables from the 70's-80s do pop up on Craigslist from time to time... Since nobody knows what they are the deals can be AMAZING.

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Technics 1200mk2 or 3. The price went up a bit (lot) since Technics stopped making them, but they are still quite reasonable. After that, they are insanely reliable and well documented. There is a 78rpm upgrade available (well, there was when they were more readily available - I have not looked in a while) and they come with a very nice arm as long as you don't drop the TT upside-down on it DJ style. So, yea, 1200. I would avoid knock offs because they suck. After that, cheap cartridges are pick your poison. I am partial to the DL103 as the next step up. Very linear and generally well documented. For the phono stage, I don't know of anything off the shelf that would work with the budget, but if your friend is DIY handy (like at all) the Hagerman bugle is well regarded for very little money. Look into the "bugle pro" for ideas on how to make the bugle work for 78's http://www.hagtech.com/bugpro.html Or just do the de-emphasis digitally. 16RPM is really hard. How many 16RPM discs does he have? Would they be interesting enough to someone else (with a dedicated 16rpm rig) to get them to rip them?

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Over the weekend I took a bunch of photos at the Grants Tomb Criterium bike race. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_nikon_12/sets/72157642181054923/ ^^Click HERE^^ to go directly to the big set Grants Tomb Crit 2014 by Lord Nikon 12, on Flickr Grants Tomb Crit 2014 by Lord Nikon 12, on Flickr

The outside of an XLR plug is called the shell. I'm terrible with wire colors. This thread: http://www.head-fi.org/t/477461/hd-650-stock-cable-to-4-pin-xlr-howto bases it off of the thicker and thinner pins on the headphone connector. MUCH more reliable than wire colors.