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

[rkw]

Not for me. Superautomatic at home, aeropress on the road.

If you use AeroPress only for travel, the Go Plus model is a really clever design in a compact, self contained package.

 

[misterpumpy]

Redacted

 

[rkw]

Or they are medium or light roast folks, maybe?

That's an interesting point to bring up. Dark roast brings out the oils that may cause more gummy deposits.

 

[adydula]

Well for the past few days it was touch and go with the hurricane and my son in Asheville NC.
He has power, water came on today, cell is intermittent, no ISP yet. Trying to find gas, and food stuffs.
Things are still in a very, very state of confusion and a real mess...

But as always the good in people is showing, people helping people, neighbors helping neighbors.

A looooong way to go and many still missing....thanks for all your nice comments and prayers!!

Alex

 

[Ableza]

I used to drink nothing but dark roast coffee, until I discovered that lighter roasts have higher caffiene by volume... so now I drink light to medium roasts.

And by the way I'm a drip fan. "Super automatic" to me would be the work machine that is plumbed into a water supply, and I don't have to fill the reservoir.

 

[golfbravobravo]

Would that be an MTE, Member of the Order of the Trojan Empire?

.... and here was I, thinking that one had sailed by everyone........

 

[Ableza]

.... and here was I, thinking that one had sailed by everyone........

Some of us do read your posts... looking for nuggets.

 

[Syan25]

Some of us do read your posts... looking for nuggets.

You mean chicken mcnuggets or the nuggets that are tampered with during a vascetomy?

 

[adydula]

So to keep my mind occupied I put this stack together:

Comparing amps to drive the most difficult headphone to date, the ModHouse Tungsten DS, 76 db sensitivity, 155 ohms.
It likes gobbs of power, and EMF....for those in Rio Linda thats VOLTS! :>)

GoldenSound stated an amp that can deliver 20 volts is good enough for normal listening levels.
30 Volts if you want ear bleed levels...unsafe, dont do it!

Well I tested several amps and compared with Schiit, Midgard, Vali3, Mjolinr 3 (not in this pix), the PassLabs HPA-1 and a 2 Ch Van Alstine 6CA7 based
tube amp.

Using a 1 KHz test tone, measuring the SPL with my homebrew SPL adapter I measured these SPL levels:

Midgard: 80 db
Mjlonir 3 : 83 db
Vali 3: 88db (Yes Vali 3 did 88db!)
PassLabs: 73 db

Now listening to a 1Khz test tone is not listening to music for sure.

This small experiment told me that you do not need a $4K tube amp to make these cans sing..

The Schiit Midgard and MJ3 and Vali 3 in that order were my musical listening preference.
Midgard was best in HIGH gain with the volume knob at the 3pm + position.
No clipping, no distortion, and it was LOUD enough to cause me to turn it down often.

I will also comment on the low cost Schiit Modius E vs the $1200 Soekris 2541 highly touted sign dac.
Both great dacs, but a noticeable difference in sound stage and voicing...

My preference was with the lower cost Schiit Modius E dac...the main difference to me was the Modius had a more tonally neutral
presentation than the Soekris.

YMMV.

Cant wait to get a Gugnir 2 here to contrast!

Fun to test, play and compare with ones own ears!

Alex
:>)

Also tested with Rad "0"s...All of the amps can handle the Rad 0's very well....much easier to drive.

 

[Ableza]

You mean chicken mcnuggets or the nuggets that are tampered with during a vascetomy?

Those found through some sort of mining activity, so I suppose vasectomy.

 

[GabeR]

Hot damn! That's a lot of holes!

Also maybe end of year!



Needed a bit of venting...crude spray-painted prototype...

 

[ArmchairPhilosopher]

Hot damn! That's a lot of holes!

Well, duh! All that dust and cat hair has to get into the amp somehow! ;p

 

[Roy G. Biv]

I am spending the whole day sorting out the tagging on the CDs. Maybe it's that apple music doesn't import tags, but the whole set is titled and described differently. Sigh.
A good reason to buy from Qobuz?

I've purchased 3-4 dozen albums (none are classical) from Qobuz and the metadata can be a very mixed bag. File names are also wildly inconsistent, even within the same albums. Both are easy enough to fix, tho.
FWIW, I use "MP3TAG" and it makes fixing metadata very easy.

 

[adydula]

If anyone want to have access to the DEMO discs going around, please PM me.
46 discs of some excellent Demo music from vendors like Boulder Cable, VMPS. Meets like the NYC Raves, Rocky Mountain Meets when they were in vogue, SalkSound and Jim Salk demo stuff, Capital Audiofest, and much more....

Alex
:>)

 

[docBliny]

I've purchased 3-4 dozen albums (none are classical) from Qobuz and the metadata can be a very mixed bag. File names are also wildly inconsistent, even within the same albums. Both are easy enough to fix, tho.
FWIW, I use "MP3TAG" and it makes fixing metadata very easy.

You'll also get a different folder structure for your download with their Qobuz Downloader vs via the main Qobuz app.

I've also had to start checking Roon import logs to make sure I don't end up with corrupt files. If a download fails or even has hang ups, I end up with a corrupt file which luckily Roon import will flag. Not that impressed with the reliability of the download logic in either of those apps (you had one job Qobuz Downloader)... this is on Mac.