Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up
Jan 21, 2017 at 11:24 AM Post #16,606 of 144,027
  To get that over-priced stack of carved aluminum out of the "recent images" box, here's a tube shot:
 


New Production Tung Sol, playing David Gilmour's "Live in Gdansk."

Ha! Tonight I am going to spin my Harvest original pressing of DSTOM, and a freshly acquired mint OP of The Wall!
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Jan 21, 2017 at 12:56 PM Post #16,609 of 144,027
I can't even cancel my subscription.  My subscription lapsed and I never renewed or agreed to renew.  Yet the new issue keeps arriving in my mailbox...


That is obsolete record keeping by Stereophile.
 
Jan 21, 2017 at 1:40 PM Post #16,610 of 144,027
Why do manufacturers insist on wasting aluminum using CNC processes?  I mean, I understand the speaker makers who want as dead an enclosure as they can get but electronics?  The vibration control is best inside the box, no?
 
Jan 21, 2017 at 1:42 PM Post #16,611 of 144,027
  Why do manufacturers insist on wasting aluminum using CNC processes?  I mean, I understand the speaker makers who want as dead an enclosure as they can get but electronics?  The vibration control is best inside the box, no?

 
Because if you want that fancy billet aluminum case that turns your gear into audio jewelry, CNC is the way to go.
 
Jan 21, 2017 at 1:43 PM Post #16,612 of 144,027
  Why do manufacturers insist on wasting aluminum using CNC processes?  I mean, I understand the speaker makers who want as dead an enclosure as they can get but electronics?  The vibration control is best inside the box, no?

 
All the aluminum is recyclable.
 
Jan 21, 2017 at 3:30 PM Post #16,614 of 144,027
   
... aluminum case that turns your gear into audio jewelry..

I want silver, gold, platinum and diamonds and sapphires for my jewelry.  Better yet, only things that don't corrode so scratch the silver.
 
Jan 21, 2017 at 4:10 PM Post #16,616 of 144,027
I must agree that DSD and MQA is just a marketing gimmick. I own quite a few SACD's and players capable playing them. I do believe a SACD does sound better then a cd  through my oppo and sony's. The oppo has a ess sabre DAC chip and very good analog section. Now when i play the cd layer of a hybid SACD through a Schiit Multibit DAC it blows away the SACD layer through the Oppo and Sony's. Even with my 14 year old Toshiba DVD player it sounds way better. Some SACD's have better/different masterings. Mastering engineers seem to know that the SACD's have to sound better when played through a Delta Sigma DAC. My mimby and bimby are way better then a DS 24 bit dac. When I play a SACD (reduced bit rate/sampling/converted to pcm) by optical or coax into my schiit dacs it's stunning. It's all in the mastering.....it's all in the DAC. My Toshiba dvd player and mimby cost 1/4 of what my OPPO cost. The new buzz formats are stupid.....yes stupid. 16 bit cd's are just stunning through Schiit MB Dacs. 
 
Jan 21, 2017 at 4:28 PM Post #16,620 of 144,027
 
You're probably enrolled in auto-renew, where they charge your credit card for automatic renewals. Believe it or not, you have to manually unsubscribe from this scam.

Or, contact your bank. That's what I did.
 

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