Light Harmonic Geek Wave
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w/ the 2Tb M.2 2280 now in the market, it will be just a while for M.2 1Tb 2242.
SanDisk have announced a 1Tb SD too (surely it will cost a small fortune).
SanDisk have announced a 1Tb SD too (surely it will cost a small fortune).
MikeyFresh
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Great advice and I need to remind myself of this when the Black Friday pricing deals start rolling in, we likely still face significant wait times on the Wave even with the recent progress reported.
In fact based on LH Labs' past track record, it would be unwise for me to buy anything for the Wave until I've actually got it in hand, and it works as advertised.
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Wave turning out to being a better stand-alone DAC for my desktop system (currently a DacMagic+) is just about the ONLY side benefit that would make this purchase worth the ridiculous wait.
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Curious as to why you are posting here and at the Indiegogo forums on the Wave that you know who the guidance is but won't tell anyone...are you involved with LHL somehow? Or are there legal ramifications if you did say something. If not, let everyone know...it would be in all backers' best interests. This product has been a nightmare for all involved, so be transparent to help everyone out, please.
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I am eagerly waiting for this 2tb storage capability. Also with easy access to worn-out battery replacement. This DAP is getting better and better.
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He's not associated with LHL. Nor am I. It just doesn't seem like our place to give away that person's identity without their permission. I'm sure they'll do it if they feel the need, but not likely on this particular website.
So why say anything at all?
Well, meeting said person was reassuring. It gave me hope that LH will deliver. That's not something I've felt for quite a while, and I thought it would be nice to share my new found hope with others. After speaking with Larry and said person, (in person), while holding the chasis in hand and listening to the similarly designed GO2A, I do feel significantly more hopeful.
I'm sure meme felt something similar.
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Hmmm, why do I feel like that young lady reaching out for the dollar bill hanging from the fishing line of the guy in that ridiculous fishing outfit in that insurance commercial? "I got a dollar for ya. Come on, you gotta try harder than that.", as he pulls the dollar away. Feels more like a tease than a confidence builder.
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Desperate for hope, I'll take anything!
There are many individuals who consult on a project or business that want to remain somewhat anonymous. No surprise there. Despite my curiosity I support the decision to keep the name of this "new guidance" private. If Larry wants us to know who is consulting he or someone on the team will make an official announcement. I'm sure Larry has learned a lot about where to seek feedback since the crowdfunding campaigns took off. We've seen signs of actual progress recently so it looks like things are getting back on track, albeit still in the slow lane.
Agreed. I will leave any decisions to say or not to say who to LH. This is one person’s opinion when meeting in person a couple of people who have a say in this product. You are obviously free to take this information with a grain or a mountain of salt.
All that matters now is that they finally deliver on the product they announced some time ago.
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Like recent poster I believe and trust LH Labs will deliver a good product. I researched their company background 3 or 4 years ago before taking the plunge on my first crowd funding venture with them because just at that time my long standing DAP failed and the problem with most has been battery which is irreplaceable so that the idea that Geek Wave would have a replaceable battery appealed enormously.
I suspect they Larry was misled or encouraged by certain individuals who apparently are no longer around. As yes quality products (like university research and dissertations) do take a long time to development and bring to completion. If I may say so I think the problem in misleading came from a belief that more other products could be meshed into the development of the Wave which proved mostly not to be true. So that the situation became messy through a managerial business decision of not understanding fully the audio electronic industry. I trust Larry as his own tone in announcements was quite different. I think Larry may also have been mislead by the possibility of 3d printing which was the rising craze and cannot deliver what it was thought to unless you make a really big investment for metal 3d printing which is quite beyond a small company like LH Labs. I hope for them to remain small and dependable and that each DAP will be thoroughly tested before being shipped out as I certainly cannot afford paying shipping fees back and forth for little fixes as I live far away overseas. I still believe in an old fashioned world where I will pay for quality and expect it to last a lifetime.
To be honest I know very little about audio equipment and engineering, although earlier many years of actual live concert going to the hear the “stars” in Europe has sensitized me to what is good sounding, not apart from my own musical upbringing I abandoned as a troubled teenager - stoopid me.
I am now some 50 years later a retired academic who not only taught but was privy to much of the financial stuff going on at universities and found it hard to talk sense to the so called cookie cutter administrators and academics become Deans and Vice Chancellors, who all had their eye on making money and treated university degrees as products like a one-time sale of cookies over the counter, and forgot about customer loyalty investment and its returns and quality in order to make up for the continual erosion of government funding for a supposedly free education system in a so called democratic system. In other words funds were decreased but expenses rose through cost of living and at the same almost in contradiction the governments put caps on what universities could charge so as to pretend at election time that university education was still a universal right for all at very little cost to the student in pay back later schemes. This encouraged university administrators to do exactly that as was done in the early Geek Wave campaign, to make wild promises about education products they could not fulfill and adopt silly time wasting processes and languages aimed at making the customers the students feel happy. Quality Assurance schemes became elaborate form filling and data collection exercise which employed ever more administrators and ever less teachers and so that the business administrators slowly took over running of education until it has become in many institutions a worthless piece of paper these days. The administrators developed their own rhetoric to prove to the voting public in customer happiness forms that students were doing well when in fact they were being hollowed out with a business minded cancer which killed the real organs of education.
We have seen the ultimate outcomes of this sort of thing in the recent popular label in the media of the Post-Truth Era and exactly what sort of leaders it can throw up world wide.
I hope that Larry can learn from how the Custom Art company has developed, and that we will all be enjoying our electronic listening experiences on that dreadfully named DAP called a “GEEK” Wave (for heaven’s sake what an awful childish name…and they may well do to rename it before comes out so as to make a break with the troubled development history) which are still just a substitute for the real thing. I am not disparaging this as we all like to have wide open and high sound stages that mimic what it is possible to experience in halls with the separation of instruments and to experience a wide dynamic range of every instrument at every pitch. One good thing is that this technology has made it possible for many more to experience music they could not have either because of financial or geographical reasons basically. It could encourage them to seek out the real thing or even learn to play themselves on a real instrument. For all that we owe audio engineers ad developers like Larry a great debt of gratitude.
I hope I have not bored anyone with y essay reminding folk of how reality is being radically restructured in this so called Post Truth World. (I do not and never will get a Facebook, snapchat or whatsapp account, etc.). I spent a lot of my time explaining to student how opinions could be manipulated and fraudulent results be gained which would earn them worthless research degrees.
And I look forward in declining years to still be able to appreciate via the excellent DAP Larry will deliver us to the music I love that keeps me sane in difficulty times and in culturally unfamiliar territories where I worked and to the music which has formed my sense of structured order that is constantly being modulated and transformed but remains order nevertheless.
I suspect they Larry was misled or encouraged by certain individuals who apparently are no longer around. As yes quality products (like university research and dissertations) do take a long time to development and bring to completion. If I may say so I think the problem in misleading came from a belief that more other products could be meshed into the development of the Wave which proved mostly not to be true. So that the situation became messy through a managerial business decision of not understanding fully the audio electronic industry. I trust Larry as his own tone in announcements was quite different. I think Larry may also have been mislead by the possibility of 3d printing which was the rising craze and cannot deliver what it was thought to unless you make a really big investment for metal 3d printing which is quite beyond a small company like LH Labs. I hope for them to remain small and dependable and that each DAP will be thoroughly tested before being shipped out as I certainly cannot afford paying shipping fees back and forth for little fixes as I live far away overseas. I still believe in an old fashioned world where I will pay for quality and expect it to last a lifetime.
To be honest I know very little about audio equipment and engineering, although earlier many years of actual live concert going to the hear the “stars” in Europe has sensitized me to what is good sounding, not apart from my own musical upbringing I abandoned as a troubled teenager - stoopid me.
I am now some 50 years later a retired academic who not only taught but was privy to much of the financial stuff going on at universities and found it hard to talk sense to the so called cookie cutter administrators and academics become Deans and Vice Chancellors, who all had their eye on making money and treated university degrees as products like a one-time sale of cookies over the counter, and forgot about customer loyalty investment and its returns and quality in order to make up for the continual erosion of government funding for a supposedly free education system in a so called democratic system. In other words funds were decreased but expenses rose through cost of living and at the same almost in contradiction the governments put caps on what universities could charge so as to pretend at election time that university education was still a universal right for all at very little cost to the student in pay back later schemes. This encouraged university administrators to do exactly that as was done in the early Geek Wave campaign, to make wild promises about education products they could not fulfill and adopt silly time wasting processes and languages aimed at making the customers the students feel happy. Quality Assurance schemes became elaborate form filling and data collection exercise which employed ever more administrators and ever less teachers and so that the business administrators slowly took over running of education until it has become in many institutions a worthless piece of paper these days. The administrators developed their own rhetoric to prove to the voting public in customer happiness forms that students were doing well when in fact they were being hollowed out with a business minded cancer which killed the real organs of education.
We have seen the ultimate outcomes of this sort of thing in the recent popular label in the media of the Post-Truth Era and exactly what sort of leaders it can throw up world wide.
I hope that Larry can learn from how the Custom Art company has developed, and that we will all be enjoying our electronic listening experiences on that dreadfully named DAP called a “GEEK” Wave (for heaven’s sake what an awful childish name…and they may well do to rename it before comes out so as to make a break with the troubled development history) which are still just a substitute for the real thing. I am not disparaging this as we all like to have wide open and high sound stages that mimic what it is possible to experience in halls with the separation of instruments and to experience a wide dynamic range of every instrument at every pitch. One good thing is that this technology has made it possible for many more to experience music they could not have either because of financial or geographical reasons basically. It could encourage them to seek out the real thing or even learn to play themselves on a real instrument. For all that we owe audio engineers ad developers like Larry a great debt of gratitude.
I hope I have not bored anyone with y essay reminding folk of how reality is being radically restructured in this so called Post Truth World. (I do not and never will get a Facebook, snapchat or whatsapp account, etc.). I spent a lot of my time explaining to student how opinions could be manipulated and fraudulent results be gained which would earn them worthless research degrees.
And I look forward in declining years to still be able to appreciate via the excellent DAP Larry will deliver us to the music I love that keeps me sane in difficulty times and in culturally unfamiliar territories where I worked and to the music which has formed my sense of structured order that is constantly being modulated and transformed but remains order nevertheless.
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Getting messages from LH Labs about finalizing the Source...it is sounding like it may be coming (but I've gotten these messages before, and nothing came). But I'm hopeful...The Source was supposed to be similar in UI/language to the Wave, so it would be a positive thing if they actually ship (I'm a bit hesitant because I got similar messages about my Vi Tube DAC Signature at the beginning of 2016, but I'm still waiting for it...)
Speaking of the Source..pic posted by LHL via their FB account:
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