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  1. quimbo

    iBasso DX180

    Ordered. This will replace a Cowon Plenue MKII. A great device but the battery is starting to display issues. Looking forward to installing UAPP which will give me access to 17TB of flac on my NAS. Easy decision tho I have had the DX260 on my list to get next
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    iBasso DX180

    Will there be a case available?
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    I play in a bocce league on Tuesdays. The first game starts with a coin flip, "who has a coin?".."only old people have coins"
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    I catalog live shows here - https://etreedb.org/quimbo current counts: Dead - 3,816 Jazz - 1,173 Garcia - 2,166 Raw - 150 Rest - 4,227
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    I have 4 of these drawers - https://can-am.ca/CD-storage-DVD-storage.htm - They are now in the garage as storage. Each drawer holds 270 CDs, (3,240 total), and they were completely filled. Many of my CDs were live concerts and I would put 2 or 3 discs in a normal CD case. Single disc shows...
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    big fan of 'streaming' my own music from my NAS and downsizing. I have 2 different backups of my NAS contents, one off-site, so i feel confident that i won't 'lose' any music my vinyl was given to one of my sons years ago. Just 2 days ago I gifted well over 150 Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia...
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    My wife lived in Germany for a few years, was there when the wall came down, and got her love of Reisling there. Very familiar with Mosel. Our grafted vines are from the Finger Lakes region
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Bringing it back to wine. Me and Ms q just finished planting 2 rows of reisling vines, 9 to a row. 3rd row will be done tomorrow. Steep hill between our house and the road that the state actually owns. Got permission since the posts that will go in over the next few weeks are not permanent...
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    I did not, considered it but not needed in my use case
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    I was able to back order an RSL today
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    And just like that i got an email from RSL and was able to backorder a 10S MKII
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    I missed the last offering of the RSL as I was on vacation. Considering Cambridge Audio Minx X201 since it also has a line out and that is my use case. (Lyr 3 to sub, sub to Gjallarhorn) Do the Starkes have a line out? hard to tell on the website
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    i have played many more games than just the league games and never seen a 29. No one in any of the leagues has ever hit a 29 Which is somewhat surprising as the odds are 1 in 216,580 for a 29 and I'm sure between all the hands I have played and all the hands that I 'witnessed' in the leagues...
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    My buddy and I have been playing between 80 and 100 games a year in our setback leagues since 1981. This year he had a 28 hand and we still lost the game Cribbage can be a brutal game when evenly matched players / teams play against each other as a lot of times it comes to the luck of a good...
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Here is a cribbage game from 2000 that can be used to learn - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/c27byh51rf5o7q5dv7ocz/Cribbage.zip?rlkey=c75xfaojsrk8nm76jvm0icgvj&dl=0 A writeup can be found here - http://www.cribbageforum.com/RoyalCribbage31.htm The help within the application does not work but...
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    I futzed around between 18 and 22 working in a frozen foods warehouse, taking a few accounting courses. I was making $10 an hour in 1976, at least 4 times more than minimum wage, and doing OK. One day I walked into work and saw peers that were 30, 40, 50, etc and decided it was time to do...
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    We had 100s of IBM 3390 DASD devices, I think they held about 2.3 GB of data, size of a fridge. I have multiple 1 TB micro SD cards the size of a finger nail
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    My first 'portable' was the size of a sewing machine and had a 300 baud modem. Pager goes off in the middle of the night, set up the portable, phone in coupler, dial up. Enter user id and password, watch 80 x24 paint, watch the next screen paint, log out, phone back on wall, drive 30 minutes...
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Posted before, still get a chuckle, it took a few seconds for everyone else in the meeting to realize we were joking
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    18 on the first. This will be the last
  21. quimbo

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

    Streamers I currently have an Allo USBridge running Moode. Happy with it however my NAS has 17 TB of flac and growing. MPD is starting to cause issues whenever rebooting due to the size. Looking to replace, probably with an ifi Zen as I want to feed my BiFrost via USB. What software is used...
  22. quimbo

    Cayin N3Ultra: an Entry-level Portable DAP that Delivers a Complete Vacuum Tube Audio Experience

    Thanks for the reply. The V6 is good for it's price
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    Cayin N3Ultra: an Entry-level Portable DAP that Delivers a Complete Vacuum Tube Audio Experience

    Has anyone had a chance to compare this to a Cowan Plenue MKII or a TempoTec V6? On the fence (almost over the fence) and will continue to ponder purchasing while on vacation next week. Thanks
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    Here is how Pandora did it https://community.pandora.com/t5/Community-Blog/What-is-the-Music-Genome-Project/ba-p/116426
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    We remodeled our entire house (second marriage for both, either move or improve) in 2009. our kitchen cabinets are raised on the bottom about 4 inches off the floor, We purchased a Fisher-Paykel https://www.fisherpaykel.com/us/dishwashing/ and there have been zero issues. Probably will start...
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