Recent content by DougD

re: "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" ... I'll counter with this non-traditional version. Hint: things start to go a wee bit crazy around 2:30.

(DD asks, for the nteenth time: Where's the CAN'T LIKE THAT button?) After a limited amount of testing, I put a pair of (6SN7-configured) LISSTs in the "less impactful" side of my Freya+, and haven't been even a tiny bit tempted to swap them out for something else. And the best insurance...

You left out: - ... when we tried it, it didn't sound like A*S.

Thanks for this recommendation - new to me, and very good. Qobuz has 8 albums, so I have a lot to explore.

Assuming you are sincere, here's a very short & simplified description: Forkbeard is a Bluetooth-based technology invented by Schiit that allows your cellphone or tablet (*) to become an integrated universal remote controller for the (Forkbeard-enabled) Schiit components (**) in your audio...

When I was an Anthropology student many, many solar cycles ago ... one of my "makes great sense to me (possibly original)" theories was that it was the invention of beer & other alcoholic beverages that fueled the transition of (most) human societies from nomadic hunter/gatherer to settled...

Let us know how that turns out. I think there's a lot of interest in these here parts about that issue/question/lifestyle-option.

Well... one of my other hobbies for 40-odd years has been catching fish. As in: jump into rivers/streams/swamps with nets, wade around and catch fish. (Mostly for aquariums.) Obviously I have not been eaten yet. Or as Homer Simpson might say: "Not eaten ... so far." Was menaced once. A buddy and...

I must have missed that news. So many messages. Apologies. Sad for me, I guess. I lived in Oklahoma (Fort Sill) from approx 6 to 12 months of age, where per family lore I spent much time crawling unsuccessfully after tarantulas and scorpions. Don't have much reason to revisit. Even for The...

I thought the Barbies were a hobby. it's good to have hobbies one can continue into retirement. (See: Paladin79.) If you've been renting them out to customers for profit ... I'm sorry I misunderstood, and probably we should not discuss this further.

IIRC, it's Family Day - 50% off - at the Barbie Museum of Texas. You're issuing tickets and also guarding the collection?

Birgir now also has a CFA e-stats amp in his regular lineup. And he has re-acquired the one-off "reviewer special" model that was designed & built for Tyll Hertsens' use, x-years ago. I was intrigued by that, but it really ought to go to someone who has more need for its unique flexibility than...

This was posted on BluSky an hour ago ...

Would that be from "Live at the O2 Arena, Prague" (2016) ? Listening to that now on my Lambda 407/404 hybrid via Qobuz 24/48, and trying to imagine it sounding even better.

I always assumed that, but great to have confirmation. Yggy is THE flagship. If Gungnir catches up, Yggy will leapfrog ahead. Today is the best of times for audio stuff. But as the Simpsons remind us ... "yadda yadda yadda, SO FAR."