LH Labs Geek Out v2 Discussion Thread

[tfischer]

Ok, I'm #5 who hasn't received a shipping notice yet. There are apparently 75 others of us out there, somewhere?

 

[rmullins08]

 
Ok, I'm #5 who hasn't received yet a shipping notice. There are apparently 75 others of us out there, somewhere?

 
I'm not one of the people in that group, but I can't resist a good AD gif
 

 

[sheldaze]

What I was trying to understand is the transition from the people who pre-ordered to the people, like myself, who simply ordered. I was wondering if anyone on the pre-order is still waiting for their shipment notification.

 

[tfischer]

I pre-ordered with the $1 down thing, and then completed the pre-order by contributing the balance on Indiegogo, and I haven't received any shipping notice yet...

tom

 

[JK-47]

I got mine last week. I was in the 4th group of Indiegogo pre-purchases, 2nd last day of campaign.

 

[pearljam50000]

Has anyone compared the V2 to apogee groove?

 

[cat6man]

I found a way to get my GeekOut V2 sent quickly.................I went on vacation, so of course I got the shipping email as soon as I got to the other coast.
 
The V2 is now part of my car's music server system that uses an Odroid U3 running Ubuntu, the Squeezeplug app to provide a Squeezebox server, USB out to the V2 with single ended output to AUX of car stereo system.
Odroid also runs a wifi access point and DHCP server and a 2TB portable hard drive. This all fits in my glovebox (with a fan) so is totally concealed.
Music selection is via Squeezer app on my android phone.
 
For those running squeezeplug or some other unix computer server, the squeezelite option line change (i.e. "SLOPTIONS") is
 
front:CARD=G10,DEV=0   <==== note this is not the same as for geekout v1 or v1.5 firmware.
 
which you can discover by runniing the command 
 
squeezelite -l
 
after telnet into the ubuntu (or other) linux system.
 
As for sound, TBD as I just installed it this afternoon, replacing a V1 that moves down the food chain to my outdoor/patio system.
In a quick 5 minute check, I greatly preferred the 'time' mode vs. the 'frequency' mode and the soudstage difference was huge.
 
Have to do some driving to/from work this week and get a handle on the V2.
 
I'll do a comparison to the V1 when I get my V2+ (which I'll use in my travel system), hopefully soon (or maybe I should schedule another vacation so it will be shipped sooner)

 

[cat6man]

how sensitive do you folks find the GO v2 with respect to input jitter of the usb source?
i'm wondering if the performance might be improved with something like the AQ jitterbug.
 
Since I'm using what is probably a pretty noisy usb source (Odroid U3 running ubuntu, cost ~70 dollars), I plan to order a jitterbug.
 
Just wondering if anyone has has played around with this combination?

 

[SearchOfSub]

I have the Jitterbug and tried it with/without Dragonfly V1.2 and liked it better without. It's kinda strange because at first you put it in your chain and soundstage gets a bit wide and deeper so you think it's worth it - but after a day or so you go back to being without it, you realize how much it takes away from intimacy. Like everything aren't as present, and it takes out emotion of music. It rather adds a veil to the sound. But it does give deeper and wider soundstage. Kinda strange but this is going back tommorow. I liked it better without. As far as cleaning up signal, it does slightly, but I'd rather have more distortion than what it does. Not worth it imo.

 

[sheldaze]

For those of you still waiting for shipment, I can only comment from my perspective. I placed my order on August 2, after the pre-order option was closed. I have an estimated delivery date of September 2.
 
I would like to compare three different DAC/AMP options, but I am still waiting for CEntrance DACportHD to become available. The other two are the Geek Out v2 and the Apogee Groove.

 

[uncola]

What I was in preorder batch 21. A guy in batch 22 got his shipped and some people who didn't preorder are getting theirs shipped? I'm going to give lh labs the benefit of the doubt and hope they are shipping them so fast that they are being shipped in random order. Do you guys think I should open a ticket?

 

[sheldaze]

What I was in preorder batch 21. A guy in batch 22 got his shipped and some people who didn't preorder are getting theirs shipped? I'm going to give lh labs the benefit of the doubt and hope they are shipping them so fast that they are being shipped in random order. Do you guys think I should open a ticket?

I'm going to guess the shipments are happening "so fast" part. I've been following this thread, but had no clue where things were regarding the pre-orders. I still think you'll need to give them a week to catch up.

 

[tfischer]

Just to add my data point: I put my $1 down for a standard Geek Out V2 in batch 25, and then paid up the rest via Indiegogo on May 21st.
 
I'm not sure that there is any real rhyme or reason to LHLabs' shipping schedules, if Sheldaze placed an order after the Indiegogo "pre-order" campaign finished, but is getting the v2 delivered tomorrow...

 

[Khragon]

What I was in preorder batch 21. A guy in batch 22 got his shipped and some people who didn't preorder are getting theirs shipped? I'm going to give lh labs the benefit of the doubt and hope they are shipping them so fast that they are being shipped in random order. Do you guys think I should open a ticket?

Open the ticket, let see what they have to say.  If they can't do the simple task of sending the units out the those that got inline first, they shouldn't be doing business.

 

[Za Warudo]

  Open the ticket, let see what they have to say.  If they can't do the simple task of sending the units out the those that got inline first, they shouldn't be doing business.

Well, I was one of the original backers in their 2013 Pulse campaign, and have still not received my Pulse yet, despite seeing plenty of other people who backed them get theirs already.  They have repeated pushed back their estimated delivery date by several months each time.  The 15% of the undelivered Pulse on their project status document should be delivered by August, unsurprisingly it has not been updated since July 4th (I was originally told I would get it by March).  This kind of stuff (awful communication, constant failure to deliver on their commitments while constantly rolling out new crowdfunding campaigns and projects, quality control and design issues, bait and switch marketing tactics) has been happening to most of their products.  I have no idea why people keep giving them money, except to show you the kind of stuff you can get away with running a business.