Someone on the main Schiit thread (you know, the noisy one) said that the MJ3 is one of the better preamps he's heard. So, maybe get another pure-amp/speaker-amp for a difficult to drive headphone and the MJ3 as pre. Assuming space and funds are available for such extravagance....

If I didn't know you I'd think that was photoshopped! So cool. You see this from your street?

Sort of curious about the cost of production of a new tube? I'm sure QC would drive the cost up a bit (a lot?) The cost of most of the tubes discussed here is less about the cost of production and more about rarity etc?

This is Mike Moffat's recommendation for Rodrigo: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/what-a-long-strange-trip-its-been-robert-hunter.784471/page-130#post-13255676

What does that circular/polar plot supposed to convey?

Yeah, brightness seems to be a pejorative that people throw around when something isn't to their taste yet they can't really express why - don't mean when used to explain the sensitivity issue. Muddy bass, everyone gets. Poor imaging, ditto. Well, don't like it, must be because it's "bright."...

IIRC, in the book it is stated that the "little makers" are drowned. One can hope that the Fremen practice sustainable harvesting practices :-)

IIRC, it was said that the source of the song on the CD was an MP3. Just that it had to be converted to Redbook to be turned into a CD.

Having never heard any treble my entire life, y'all make me curious about the treble sensitivity. Is it sensitivity to frequencies above XKhz, where X could be 5, 7, 10, etc? Is it not just a frequency sensitivity but rather a volume & frequency sensitivity. Something like loud 5Khz hurts...

You know how there's Grendel, telling the story of Beowulf from the "monster's" POV? Where's Dune told from the Sandworms PoV? I mean, the horror of having one's offspring drowned so that some bipeds can harvest some psychoactive drug?

You make me wonder: what if the artist created it in MP3? There's no possible hi res version of it in that case. edit: ninja'd by @ArmchairPhilosopher ...

There's a video on youtube (duh) that shows/explains how vinyl and CD are "equivalent" quality. Very nicely done. There's another explanation that says if everything is "right" vinyl can deliver 14bits of dynamic range up to 70KHz; only on a first play, sadly. Would love digital that offered...

Yeah, it only took me about 30s. Now, if it was Jim Henson maybe I would have toughed it out.

What did you use to generate that? Using the spectrum analyzer in Audacity, my vinyl rips look better. Also, the "high res" standard sometimes allow for upsampling. I know Mark Waldrep has issues with that so called standard.

There was a long, similar conversation about this behavior either here or in another thread. Because the balanced->se behavior isn't the same in all modes of the Lokius (Nexus? Continuity?) the above observation was similarly described. The upshot being that it's working as designed, which...