Recent content by cpurdy

I'm still on the original Ether CX pads and still loving them. Nonetheless, I'll keep this in mind for when mine wear out :)

I'm not retired, but I also use an old Ares II (to a tube amp, just for headphones) and I love it. I don't need better, even if there is better.

No. No. And no.

First, they're comfortable. Not actually a perfect fit, although the original pads are pretty good. And they're not light enough to my taste. But they're still pretty comfortable. The headband does a good job spreading the weight out, and the materials are good quality. I generally don't even...

I think so. They're still my favorite headphones.

Oh. I guess that makes sense. I suppose it would be helpful if these devices were somewhat upgradeable ... Nonetheless, we're never buying perfection -- we're just making point-in-time choices about what fills a need/desire given what's available at the moment (and at what cost). I suppose...

Not sure what everyone is flipping out about, other than the fact that the version number changed. Healthy companies do update products from time to time. I'm still on an Aries ][ and haven't had any issues with it in years (since I downgraded the firmware to get it to work with a Mac).

What issues (if any) are you having with the network? My understanding of ARP (which I've never worked with directly myself) is that it uses almost no network bandwidth at all. There's obviously some low level of background traffic with multicast and broadcast from various things like UPNP...

Do you have network issues? That's the first and most important question. And if you do, how do they appear, i.e. what symptoms show up? I haven't worked directly with (i.e. implemented / consumed) ARP traffic, so I have to take a pass on that one. (ARP no relationship to ARPA i.e. ARPAnet...

You're taking this a bit too personally, but simultaneously you are assuming that a company that is trying to make money selling ridiculously over-priced antique electronic equipment using (literally) unbelievable claims and imaginary technical words is somehow completely objective 🤣 However...

It's always hard to know what people are discussing on this thread. But if you're just trying to use a bunch of switches and routers in a row (no idea why, but 🤷‍♂️) then an unmanaged switch outside of the firewall is fine. Obviously, do not plug your mom's PC into a switch outside of the...

I thought if that lasted for over two hours, you were supposed to call your doctor? That is an interesting opinion. Other things that don't include firewalls: Power cords. Potato mashers. Network cables. Salamanders. A switch isn't Fort Knox; it's a busy intersection with traffic going...

To me, this is the only one that could impact sound. Allowing electrical noise through from one point on the network to the DAC would allow for theoretical degradation of the output from the DAC. This is supposed to be impossible ("galvanic isolation" is supposed to preclude this), and even if...

I'm open minded, and I actually enjoy learning from being proved wrong. I'm not religious about my technical understanding and beliefs. (I'm just religious about my religious beliefs. God bless you.) So if you have an explanation or even a theory about how an Ethernet cable can impact the...

I was thinking this morning about how to explain the difference between digital processing and analog. Imagine that digital processing is like watching for a certain light to be on. The light needs to be either on, or off. You can imagine someone worrying about the wattage of the light. Someone...