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  1. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Mr. Fremer reviews the Skoll phono pre at trackingangle.com.
  2. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Not without immediate and dramatic consequences, at least...
  3. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Hey, Jason, how about coming up with a SchiiTuner, in all your spare time... Here's some vinspiration... (Like that? It's my contraction of vintage inspiration) And this one even had an oscilloscope, even cooler than VU meters.
  4. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Another booster of gaffing tape...
  5. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    One of my fav musical exports from the Great White North... ...Martha and the Muffins. Not just this 45, but all their albums.
  6. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    I know, we're supposed to avoid politics on this thread, but... ...I think I've found my candidate! Unless, of course, Jason throws his hat into the ring. He could found his own third party. (Or should that be turd party?) Imagine the slogans, not to mention the posters! I'd even prefer...
  7. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    I like big transformers and I cannot lie...
  8. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Definitely keep paper manuals. I far prefer a page that exists in real space, as opposed to a phone or a tablet that turns itself off to save power. And Schiit's manuals aren't exactly extravagent wastes of paper. In fact, I wish they were more comprehensive. And if - Odin forbid - Schiit ever...
  9. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    I've always reacted to "opamps" the same way I view "polyester" or "diet soda." Gimme the real thing, in other words. So I was chagrined to learn that the MIB includes the dreaded opamps. But given how much I've enjoyed having the beast in my system, I guess this is one more preconception...
  10. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Or having films you saw when they came out show up on the classic movie channel...
  11. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Oh, man, sad news. Roger Waters' album Radio KAOS had cameos by a bunch of those jocks. I think that was the last Waters disc I actually enjoyed, rather than endured out of a sense of duty.
  12. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Not completely off topic, a music group is mentioned...
  13. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Three buttons? It requires throwing a dozen switches to get my main system going. Not to mention the eight remotes. I need help, I know...
  14. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Looks like Odin has fallen on hard times...
  15. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Jason's latest chapter reminds me of what's been called The Admiral's Law, which states: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. In other words, how often do we take the complex and difficult for granted, because we don't see all the steps involved. (I confess, I'm...
  16. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Gratuitous nostalgia for a Monday morning... I was particularly fascinated by the trellis complete with fake vines, and the section of picket fence... ...either they wanted their interior to look like the exterior (strange,) or someone actually did move that giant assemblage outdoors (respect...
  17. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Sad to note the passing of Melanie, who is remembered for Lay Down (Candles in the Rain.) Melanie Safka, 1947-2024.
  18. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    I like the term plankton. I immediately identify it as referring to small details, the kind mediocre gear will tend to obscure. Of course equipment cannot create detail, it can only reveal (or not) what is on the recording. I've long enjoyed the way Schiit gear presents musical details, without...
  19. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Not sure why I felt the need to share this...
  20. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    A bit of science for the non-scientifically-inclined... While contemplating the above, it struck me that if one does not thoroughly understand something - be that chemistry, economics, your phone, whatever - yet uses it every day and actually relies on it, then one is demonstrating that one...
  21. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Yeah, science, but the farther out you get in physics, the more it resembles metaphysics...
  22. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    But people are rational. They do what they want, then they rationalize it.
  23. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Someone was asking for cat pics...
  24. 45longcolt

    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Surely, everyone here is on the Nice List...right? Merry Christmas to all, and to all Good Schiit!
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