slwiser Posted May 12, 2008 Report Posted May 12, 2008 Just sent off payment for another Stax headphone, the Gamma Pro.
n_maher Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 Stax SRD7 pro boxen Nice, looks like the loaner won't be required.
deepak Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 Nice, looks like the loaner won't be required. Yup. I can't wait to listen to the Omega 2
swt61 Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 Will there be anyone on this site besides myself listening to dynamic headphones in a year? Congrats deepak!
n_maher Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 Will there be anyone on this site besides myself listening to dynamic headphones in a year? Fear not Steve, my dynamic rig isn't going anywhere.
luvdunhill Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 yep, a tube socket. Just one, for looks Thrice: I may have some extra UX4 sockets laying around... Bakelite and gold machined pins, like the ones sold on Ebay. Interested?
grawk Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 I'd find it amusing to put some cheap tubes on the m3 just connected to a heater to make it have a pretty glow without it actually being in the circuit at all...
Duggeh Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 Will there be anyone on this site besides myself listening to dynamic headphones in a year? You can pry my Jecklins from my cold dead hands, and thats only if I don't go zombie on you to get them back.
thrice Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 I'd find it amusing to put some cheap tubes on the m3 just connected to a heater to make it have a pretty glow without it actually being in the circuit at all... DAMNIT, you found me out.
Dusty Chalk Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 Will there be anyone on this site besides myself listening to dynamic headphones in a year?"...listening to dynamic headphones...", or "...listening to just dynamic headphones..."? Because you can pry my L3000 from my cold dead hands.
aardvark baguette Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 "...listening to dynamic headphones...", or "...listening to just dynamic headphones..."? Because you can pry my L3000 from my cold dead hands. Same with me, except HD650s. I'll probably add some stats at some point, <Emperor Palpatine> It is inevitable... </Emperor Palpatine> but I'm never going to ditch all my dynamic stuff. I've spent too long building it up, and sounds great. I'm trying to convince myself NOT to get the new Millet/TTVJ beast. But I dont know if I can justify 3 amps
Duggeh Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 Its not all full yet. Its all for music. Depending on how much space is left over after **ahem** rounding up all my music in one place, I will use any spares for backups. Plus whenever possible, I like to make backups of my backups. Oh and if I do have duplicates, I can listen at home and at work I've got some 8-10 gigs left on a 250 gig music drive. Video (typically tv series downloads) live on the 200 gig drive until it fills up and I delete swathes of stuff I've watched. I don't see the point in archiving almost any of it, I'm never going to watch it all again. I think that only programme I've gone it with is Babylon 5. Porn Software (isos and such) nearly fills an older 80 gig drive and my now rather aged and noisy Raptor gets the windows install. I'm not sure what I'll do when the 250 gig drive fills up. I need to keep all of ym music in one directory so that iTunes can manage it and the squeezebox can see it all.
Fungi Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 I thought 250GB would be enough too, but lossless is a hog and I may need to upgrade to 500GB (or better yet, a NAS) in the future.
aardvark baguette Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 Yeah lossless grows like a fuckin Cha-cha-cha-Chia pet. Its misleading, because a few CDs here or there only feels like a gig or two gone, but before you know it you've added 50 gigs in 3-6 months time. I started out predominately Apple Lossless, but have switched to flac disc images most recently. For me, Foobar sometimes has difficulty retrieving a track or two of Apple Lossless, and insists it is corrupt or gone, despite working in iTunes. Once that started happening, I insisted on having my music on at least two drives. Its this step that makes everything so dang complicated, because any time you upgrade, to do it correctly you need to be able to make duplicate upgrades. Nothing like a little data corruption to make you dangerously paranoid :'(
Duggeh Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 I wouldnt back up my ALAC rips. If the hard drive crashes, then its the only possible reason why I'd take the time to re-rip everything with EAC to FLAC. I've ripped the bulk of my CD collection several times now, originally with Musicmatch Jukebox (back when my CD collection was considerably smaller admittedly) to 128k mp3. Then WMP to WMA, which didnt last long. Then with Audiograbber to MP3, then iTunes to AAC, then ALAC. Every time it gets slower and takes longer. At least I've not started trying to make 24/48 rips of my LPs yet. I am however utterly anal about tagging my music fully, and the stuff I download iss often piss poorly tagged filth. Since oink went to piggy heaven though my music piracy has nosedived. I seem to only be downloading terry pratchett audiobooks recently.
HDen Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 flac takes up a lot of space, when I started downloading and ripping flac, I quickly lost about 500GB of space within a few months.. Duggeh you can go to piratebay and look for 'tqmp', they are properly ripped and tagged albums, it is a shame that oink died was a very good site. There are 2 others but I don't remember them atm...
krrm Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 I wouldnt back up my ALAC rips. If the hard drive crashes, then its the only possible reason why I'd take the time to re-rip everything with EAC to FLAC. Wouldn't be possible to find or make a script or something that converts from ALAC to FLAC all by itself? (this is sort of the default Linux user response to that sort of problems).
luvdunhill Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 Holy DACs Batman! 32 x TDA1543 and 32 x TDA1543A and 8 x TDA1541A
spritzer Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 Holy DACs Batman! 32 x TDA1543 and 32 x TDA1543A and 8 x TDA1541A Nice!!! No 1541A S1's??
Duggeh Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 i have 1.75 TB of of FLAC, which i periodically back up up to 2 TB of drive i have in my closet. i just bought a couple drives a couple months ago, but i already need to get more drives. If I had that much there's no way I'd keep using my PC as storage, id have 2 NAS units, one for use, one as the backup. The very idea of having to rip that many CDs a second time makes my left eye twitch kick in, something that normally only happens on very stressful deadline all nighters. Wouldn't be possible to find or make a script or something that converts from ALAC to FLAC all by itself? (this is sort of the default Linux user response to that sort of problems). The point would be more about the certainty of bit perfect ripping and the correction of the multiple but minor niggles there are sonically with CDs I already have ripped. There's a few albums that'd have to be converted though, either because the discs are now damaged or lost or because I borrowed them off other people in the first place.
luvdunhill Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 Nice!!! No 1541A S1's?? blah, I am going to hand match and stamp my own crowns on 'em.
postjack Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 flac takes up a lot of space, when I started downloading and ripping flac, I quickly lost about 500GB of space within a few months.. Duggeh you can go to piratebay and look for 'tqmp', they are properly ripped and tagged albums, it is a shame that oink died was a very good site. There are 2 others but I don't remember them atm... Downloading shows from places like bt.etree.org is what screws me over. I simply don't have the time or energy to burn them all to audio CDs, although that's the dream. I now have two 500gb drives and one brand new 1tb drive in addition to my regular HD which I believe is 500gb.
Pars Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 Holy DACs Batman! 32 x TDA1543 and 32 x TDA1543A and 8 x TDA1541A It's getting to be challenging to come up with one TDA1541a, let alone 8 (non-fake) of them. All the world needs is DACs that use 8 or 16 of them at once
luvdunhill Posted May 13, 2008 Report Posted May 13, 2008 It's getting to be challenging to come up with one TDA1541a, let alone 8 (non-fake) of them. All the world needs is DACs that use 8 or 16 of them at once Chris, have a cool glass of the "direct interpolation using multiple NOS DACs" kool-aid, it's yummy!
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