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Mar 5, 2017 at 6:40 PM Post #2,221 of 14,566
winders said:
  Hola Mike,
 
Soy la esposa de Scott. La comida Peruana es una de las mas ricas del mundo. Me alegro que te guste. 
 
Si alguna vez estas en Covina, CA, no te olvides de buscar un restaurante Peruano que se llama, Mr. Pollo. Es un restaurante chiquito pero la comida es requisima!
 
Scott le encanta tus productos. A mi me gusta el nombre, Schiit. En Marketing, es importante resaltar. La otra cosa que me gusta es que no sean tan caros.
 
Saludos,
 
Monica
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I can already picture Baldr waiting for Mr Pollo

and in the background a radio playing "cholito toca y retoca, toca el tambor y la quena..."
 
 
oh wait something's wrong, there is only one Pollo and Heisenberg isn't on the Manhattan Project, he works for the competition. damn I crossed dimensions again.
 
Mar 5, 2017 at 6:48 PM Post #2,222 of 14,566
baldr said:
 
OK -- Me voy --  tendra que ser fin de semana - 160 millas ida y vuelta.  Les voy a avisar! 
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Monica wants to come by Schiit and meet you...and get a tour! Of course, I will want to tag along!
 
Mar 5, 2017 at 6:52 PM Post #2,223 of 14,566
castleofargh said:
  I can already picture Baldr waiting at Mr Pollo

and in the background a radio playing "cholito toca y retoca, toca el tambor y la quena..."
 
 
oh wait something's wrong, there is only one Pollo and Heisenberg isn't on the Manhattan Project, he works for the competition. damn I crossed dimensions again.
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Too funny! And close to what it looks like inside!! It's a hole in the wall but it is really good. I really love the lomo saltado.
 
Mar 5, 2017 at 8:09 PM Post #2,224 of 14,566
rkw said:
   
What would it do to Bollywood? 
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 They often mix western and non-western tonalities.
 
 
 
But seriously, might Manhattan degrade the sound if something starts playing that it wasn't intended for? What about a live concert recording that has lots of ambient audience sounds?
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I grew up watching these from time to time with my family. I always thought the synchronized dancing was ludacris. Little did I know they were way ahead of their times. That My friend is the roots of the Modern day Flash Mob
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DiQUX11YaY
 
Mar 5, 2017 at 9:01 PM Post #2,225 of 14,566
Please understand anything I write about MP is based upon very little listening experience. The more I listen, the more I realize it is a very different kind of Audio drug. It changes listening "to" to listening "in" and is a very different experience. My original notion was to offer an adjustable version. Since it is possible to adjust the MP to bounce you out of the music and make the music absolutely like ass, the notion is more to make it fixed. Better, totally autoseeking versions could have BBM lights (Buy Better Music) similar to the Buy Better Gear lights on Gumby and Yggy. All early stuff.

I would think it would be fine with Bollywood, but have never tried it. Also, it is a single purpose device which has nothing to do with any other hardware functions.
 
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Mar 5, 2017 at 9:27 PM Post #2,226 of 14,566
Not sure if you can say at this point in time but: Previously you mentioned that you'll have to make the MP available in two forms, something like the Mimby and Yggy so that everyone can enjoy the MP, at least in some small measure too. For peasants like me (who is currently loving the mimby!), is this still the case?
 
Mar 5, 2017 at 9:36 PM Post #2,227 of 14,566
Will we ever know what the Manhattan does?  I mean, along the lines of time and frequency domain optimized preserving all original samples, not anything proprietary or such.
 
Maybe a digital enhancement of music using the 415Hz and 420 conventions.
 
Mar 6, 2017 at 1:21 AM Post #2,228 of 14,566
 
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Better, totally autoseeking versions could have BBM lights (Buy Better Music) similar to the Buy Better Gear lights on Gumby and Yggy. 
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Called this one months ago 
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bosiemoncrieff said:
 
Mike already added a "buy better gear" light to Yggy. Seems like a "listen to better music" light is the natural evolution.
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Mar 6, 2017 at 1:51 AM Post #2,229 of 14,566
artur9 said:
  Will we ever know what the Manhattan does?  I mean, along the lines of time and frequency domain optimized preserving all original samples, not anything proprietary or such.
 
Maybe a digital enhancement of music using the 415Hz and 420 conventions.
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Not sure what digital enhancement of music using the 420 convention means exactly, but I believe that enhancement has been pretty popular in DIY circles for years, and only just recently became legally sanctioned where Schiit is located.
 
I'm a proponent of the Scotch mod for DIY audio enhancement, personally.
 
Mar 6, 2017 at 2:19 AM Post #2,230 of 14,566
I can't tell if you're serious about not knowing.  I don't mean to offend if you were just teasing.  The reference is to tuning to A4=415 Hz or 420Hz instead of the widely used 440Hz.  The most likely tuning frequency would be 432Hz since there are many who believe it has mystical properties that are linked to our internal biology, our DNA, and the stars.  A great deal of numerology fits A=432Hz as well.  There are many who claim to hear that music tuned to A=432Hz comes alive with new meaning, grips them emotionally, and brings rapture to the listening experience.
 
Pardon me if I am a skeptic until I hear what Mike has built for us.  It's bound to be great or he wouldn't be wasting his time.  Right now I find it hard to believe that it's as simple as re-tuning the music to a reference A4 being 432 Hz.  Just for the fun of it I re-tuned my cello to A432 and didn't notice a difference in emotion or feeling.  I tried it with my guitar. Same result.  I just think what MIke is cooking up will be a more than a simple retuning algorithm.  
 
Mar 6, 2017 at 4:39 AM Post #2,231 of 14,566
baldr said:
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It changes listening "to" to listening "in" and is a very different experience.
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Another clue, right along with the initial leading edge Dynamic Impact as mentioned earlier.
 
One of the ways I recognize that a CNS Tap is in play is, you are IN the music, as in it is all around you and you are immersed within it.
 
This can also yield a sense that a 'real' soundstage is spread out before and around you.
Like she is right in front of you and is singing just to you.
 
And the perception of 3d can take on a whole nuther level of palpability.
 
Interesting Times In Audio Indeed.
 
JJ
 
Mar 6, 2017 at 8:25 AM Post #2,232 of 14,566
audiobear said:
  I can't tell if you're serious about not knowing.  I don't mean to offend if you were just teasing.  The reference is to tuning to A4=415 Hz or 420Hz instead of the widely used 440Hz.  The most likely tuning frequency would be 432Hz since there are many who believe it has mystical properties that are linked to our internal biology, our DNA, and the stars.  A great deal of numerology fits A=432Hz as well.  There are many who claim to hear that music tuned to A=432Hz comes alive with new meaning, grips them emotionally, and brings rapture to the listening experience.
 
Pardon me if I am a skeptic until I hear what Mike has built for us.  It's bound to be great or he wouldn't be wasting his time.  Right now I find it hard to believe that it's as simple as re-tuning the music to a reference A4 being 432 Hz.  Just for the fun of it I re-tuned my cello to A432 and didn't notice a difference in emotion or feeling.  I tried it with my guitar. Same result.  I just think what MIke is cooking up will be a more than a simple retuning algorithm.  
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I think that, in addition to a different tuning of A4 (which I think was the first of the 13 parameters that Mike had working hidden in a prototype at a past show), the Manhattan is also about changing the intervals between the notes in a musical scale, and, in particular, restore the well temperament as THE system which western music was arguably based upon for the construction of the musical scales until fairly recently: and this is what the other 12 parameters might adjust.  I said that some time ago, but please keep in mind this is all pure speculation on my part.
That's why I said it would be a truly revolutionary milestone in audio playback, even legendary, if it indeed were so.
But let's wait and see! 
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Mar 6, 2017 at 12:43 PM Post #2,233 of 14,566
Well we all have to wait and see.  Shifting music to well temperament as you suggest would be a more significant and audible change. And it would be quite a processing challenge. I have also been wondering whether the shape of the leading waveform and arrival time of different elements of the music are being tweaked.  We sense space and location by differences in arrival times between the two ears.  Could this be a magic box that restores the signal to that which would have been heard in a live venue? There is talk throughout the forums about temporal displacements and skewing of the signal. Is this the fix? 
 
Mar 6, 2017 at 3:19 PM Post #2,234 of 14,566
A suggestion to Mike about The Manhattan as a product.

Since is to be a processor placed between the computer and DAC, can we have other than only a USB output? Maybe an AES/EBU, SPDIF coax, and optical?

Thx
 
Mar 6, 2017 at 3:22 PM Post #2,235 of 14,566
I bet it's a back-masking device to subliminally influence our opinions. It's Mike and Jason's retirement scheme. "Buy more Schiit, buy more Schiit" until they have their $100M and then it's "hasta luego MFers!"
 
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