I don’t think you’ve ever really had to deal with a “proper” standards body like the Bluetooth consortium. Good luck telling them that you’ll only comply with parts of their standard.

Standards are nice for the consumer, if those standards are any good. Standards also have their problems. One of them is that they tend to inhibit progress, as they're usually designed around a lowest common denominator without leaving too much wiggle room to innovate without breaking something...

Neither. I see Mike every once in a while. He's just doing his thing.

Oh dear, please don't. Although, if anyone could figure out how to make a streamer that doesn't suck, it might as well be them…

That is not entirely correct. Muzo and WiiM are both LinkPlay brands. Their products are essentially made by the same folks, often with shared components and software libraries. (For legal reasons, I'm not implying that there'd be anything wrong with that.)

No tester, or inoperable tester? That is the question — whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of perpetual inoperability, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and, by fixing the damned thing, end them?

Don't know, actually. He doesn't readily divulge this kind of information to people without tube testers… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Part of Mark's stash of JAN 5670s, I assume?

The technical term is "thiccc."

Careful, I have it on good authority that Schiit will shut down operations once the 10k page count has been met.

Bought 40 double-walled cardboard boxes today. Mojito's on cloud number 9. When I lugged them up the stairs to my apartment, a neighbor cheerfully hollered across the road: "Ya movin'?" Where's Bill Engvall when you need him… 🙄

Professional help? To listen to them, you mean? Where do I sign up… 😁

Structural support? Empty Tidy Cat containers? Nah, I'm not that fancy. It'd just be dangling in the hill country wind, jungle gym style.

Abs in the Original. (Just kidding, love the style of the label.)

The new place is a second floor apartment. Now that you posted this I'm contemplating if I should get one of these and have it dangle out one of my windows. I'm sure the downstairs neighbors will appreciate just how blessed they are to be in such a privileged position to watch Mojito lounge in...

True, but other than the additional real estate and the fact that it's a Schiit box (No, not a litter box! 🙄 A Schiit-provided shipping box.), I feel like he downgraded compared to his usual digs. And speaking of cats with questionable relationships to high-end cardboard: You should ask...

Let’s face it: massively oversized, double-walled, Schiit-sourced cardboard boxes are the most comfortable of cardboard boxes. Could also just be him boycotting my packing efforts for the upcoming move. Who’s to say, really.

I call BS, that only works with heat-treated racks. Yours is obviously cryo-treated. 🙄 PS: I am tempted to photoshop all name plates to read "nuisance" instead of the actual brand… 😁

Gee, @Jason Stoddard, you really need to release a new DAC or headphone amp or something, @Currawong is so bored that he started posting videos about converting electric razor chargers for car use… 🤣

God-damned ear worm… 😒 …which just reminded me that this is a thing that exists:

Yes, I'm 12. 😁

That's par for the course for Kester.

I’m not aware of a single streaming or audio protocol that uses UDP. If you know a few, please let me know. I’m curious. Edit: Ok, there are apparently quite a lot of them. You learn something new every day.

Nothing? Still available, for the most part…