No need. My wife works in the office Mon-Wed, so I just have to be careful about which days things are delivered. :)

IF it fails (and mine did, at around the 10k hour mark), it is most likely the power board, which is easy to remove. I sent mine to Coppell TV Repair in Carrollton, Texas, and they repaired it for a flat-rate fee of $90. A week later it was back up on the wall.

Sounds like you have your marching orders. :) My closeout Yggy OG (A2, old chassis) was a steal at $1999. The GS2 (A1, new chassis) is arguably an even better deal at $1699 ($1799 w/Unison). Hypothetically if we both one day upgraded to MIB+ w/Unison, I'd be in for $3,248, and your total...

This would be my choice also. Find another $175 in your couch cushions and stack a Magni Piety on top of the Yggy. You'll have a ridiculous-looking (in a not so good, but yet somehow still oddly charming, way) and sounding (in a VERY good way) Schiit stack.

My selfish vote is to continue, as I want one but can't commit the funds right now. :)

Listened to this today, and the production quality is outstanding--It positively shines on my Yggy OG/FV/Utopia chain. But I don't understand calling "Punisher" the heaviest track of 2023. Unless I happen to be on a Jazz kick, it's lighter than nearly everything I listen to on a daily basis...

The miracles of modern HVAC. It's 74/23 indoors, where I spend >99% of my time. :)

Not sure what you mean. It's 42 Freedom/5.5 Science degrees here today in the Midwestern US, and I'm in shorts and a short-sleeve shirt too.

Yeah, agree that piece of it doesn't make sense. An unpacked FLAC file will always be identical to the WAV file that it was created from. It's like zipping a document--you get back exactly what you put in.

As someone who has the non-plus OG, I agree completely. But I got it on closeout, and I figure I'll wait to upgrade it to the plus chassis until my warranty is almost over, since that'll give me a 2-year extension. :)

Yup, Mani 2 definitely looks way better than the Grado:

There was a series of IBM Thinkpads back in the late-90s that had a number of case screws that were Torx T1. The hex bits to remove them were $36 each (almost $70 in 2023 dollars), and were every bit as fragile as T1 sounds like it would be. Only certain techs were allowed to use them...

I've been pretty pleased with 900kbps LDAC to a FiiO BTR5 and driving Blessing 2s. Yes my home rig is still better, but it also costs 20x as much.

What's a few missing adjectives between friends? Most people don't even know what "mechanically separated" and "slurry" actually mean, so they're omitted solely to avoid confusion. Yeah, that's it.

You're thinking about it wrong. The Niro being so squared off has all that wonderful space in the back, so you should convert it to a MR layout, have the 427 behind you and the blower intake on the roof. :)

Indeed. Luckily only a very few of us in specific industries have any chance of exposure to the latter, and even then it is (thankfully) extremely unlikely. So while the danger is very high, the risk is low.

Cheese curds an intermediate step in the cheesemaking process, when really the first thing that is identifiable as cheese is separated from the whey (which is essentially water), but before it has been re-formed into a block. They squeak when they're fresh. Pretty much all curds I've seen...

That's a LOT of capers...... .....I approve :D

While absolutely true, if you think about it, it's kind of ridiculous. Quality high-res video requires a ton of bandwidth. High quality audio dramatically less so. Yet to shave bitrate, audio quality is always the first thing to go.

I don't know if it's changed, but in the early days of both HDMI and USB-C there were zero machines anywhere outside of China that were capable of terminating those cables.

Obviously this is single-sourced, but here was my experience: Ordered a Hel 2 for my son in May of 2021. It worked fine for 7-10 days and then started having the USB disconnection issues that you've undoubtedly read about. I returned it for repair/replacement, and there was going to be a...

Recent studies show 37% of statistics are made up on the spot anyway :p Only 19% of people know that. :)

Yep! My Yggy OG feeds a Folkvangr and a Piety. It's fun to switch back and forth between them. I'm finding I tend to prefer the FV more for things like Jazz and vocal-driven music, and the Piety more for Rock and Metal.

Very happy with the regular Noire on my 2020 Utopia, I'm sure you'll love the Hybrid Noire on your 2022!

I discovered a really badass drummer on YT about a year ago, who goes by tobines (not sure if that's his real name or not). Everything I've seen has really impressed me, but here's him doing Slipknot's Iowa (the entire album) in a single take: There is a single-camera version (from in front...