[jseymour]

Just use this

I just replaced 10 ga. Western Electric tinned copper with this cable. I am amazed with the increased detail.

 

[Bowmoreman]

I still have one somewhere, just little interest at this point in my life.

My C11 is in its scope case the other side of my office… it’s a beast, and needs a permanent observatory mount… especially now. I even have a custom Hyperstar f2.0 camera lens adaptor that turns it into a 560mm focal length f2.0 imaging MONSTER. @sixergixer would understand.

Alas, I’m in end stages of realizing that those days are over. No longer have the funds for an obsy that can handle dual mounted C11 and AP130… I have the gear, but the build is too far down the (current) priority list. Were it already done, I’d be golden, as then “finger issues” are vastly minimized via permanent automated setup). But, not. Garden completion and windows and deck and… are more important. Current thought is a micro obsy with my pier and a very small footprint roll off mini shed, with full remote automation. I.e. small as possible. Problem is, I still worship visual in addition to astrophotography.

Sigh

But, tunes rule *also*, and thence thankfulness…

 

[Bowmoreman]

Try welding cable-----many,many strands of small wire to make a flexible cable that a welder can manipulate while conducting 200 or so Amps.

That is basically what my current bi-wire speaker cables are… since 1990… these were the grounding cables we used at Stratus Computer to ground the chassis of our fault tolerant mainframes (they ran quadruple redundancy computing in parallel)… epic electric consumption, but could handle ANY HW failure and still keep computing…

I believe net Gauge is either 0 or 2… (I’ve previously posted photos, @Paladin79 graciously made me insulator crosses for the biwire setup out of beautiful sycamore to better insure no shorts)…

Nothing else in the last 34 years has beat it… but, it is a higher(ish) use case with my Apogees… easier speakers might not give a Schiit…

 

[Bowmoreman]

I find Schiit's icons unintuitive, but I think that's good for the brain. I'll get them once I expose myself more to them. Basic ones like the inputs I know, because of shape association.

I also have a Mojo 2 and initially felt lost in the menu until my mind created a map of that visual language with light colors. Now I love it and wouldn't have it any other way.

Reviews painted it like learning COBOL or something. Learning the Mojo 2 menu was easier than the puzzles in Uncharted games.

COBOL was hard?

Seriously?

I compiled routines that were literally” Perform SEX until SATISFIED.

Dumbest language I ever learned, ashamed to admit it.

Seriously

(Disclaimer: that said those who can still do arcane crap from forever ago are increasingly, and insanely, more valuable; wish I could still code JCL)

 

[Bowmoreman]

Why name a dog Bismarck? I love it!!!

My youngest son was taking AP European History in high school, and became enamored of that era in time. We are German extraction (I’m 2nd generation US born 3/4 German). He latched onto German history, and … Bismarck…

One day (we didn’t have, and hadn’t his entire life, have a dog) he said: “Dad, if we ever get a dog, we should name him Bismarck”…

4 years and many life changes (house sale, cross country move to texas, and covid) later, we got our Bismarck: Born 12/26/2020.

That’s why.

Edit: and officially “Bismarck von Wagner”

(He has yet only ever encountered one Human that was not worthy, only ONE)

 

[rkw]

Yes! I do it all the time. In the upper right corner of the post you want to bookmark, just right-click on the "Post #xxxx of xxxx" link to get the menu below that gives you the Bookmark option.

I don't get that.

It's in some web browsers, but not Chrome.

 

[sixergixer]

I don't think I would have found it so attractive except that most of my music is classical. Classical metadata is a mess that roon mostly fixes.

Modern music isn't so nearly challenging to identify automatically.

Tangentially, I'm always surprised that when I have Siri identify a piece on that KWAX classical station I mentioned a little while back it most often turns up a result that I can immediately open up in Apple Classical and save to listen to later if I want. I've learned it cannot ID special live programming that isn't an actual recorded album release, but otherwise, it's pretty spot on with the exact recording and not something that it thinks is Barenboim conducting Beethoven's 7th but is actually Karajan or some such.

 

[Paladin79]

My C11 is in its scope case the other side of my office… it’s a beast, and needs a permanent observatory mount… especially now. I even have a custom Hyperstar f2.0 camera lens adaptor that turns it into a 560mm focal length f2.0 imaging MONSTER. @sixergixer would understand.

Alas, I’m in end stages of realizing that those days are over. No longer have the funds for an obsy that can handle dual mounted C11 and AP130… I have the gear, but the build is too far down the (current) priority list. Were it already done, I’d be golden, as then “finger issues” are vastly minimized via permanent automated setup). But, not. Garden completion and windows and deck and… are more important. Current thought is a micro obsy with my pier and a very small footprint roll off mini shed, with full remote automation. I.e. small as possible. Problem is, I still worship visual in addition to astrophotography.

Sigh

But, tunes rule *also*, and thence thankfulness…

Well I have taught photography so I might understand the lens. Otherwise you are saying you do less with telescopes now, as do I.

 

[ImagesbyMurray]

Happy Friday!

Nice! Can always count on you for great selections. Last cut on album led me to this:

 

[rkw]

$830 for a lifetime subscription is definitely a big up-front ask - basically paying for 5.5 years straight up, but then it's free after that, I guess. That's a long-game move...

To be perfectly honest, I didn't purchase Roon lifetime even at $499 because I wasn't confident that Roon would survive for the long term. I work in tech, where most startups fail after a short time (and I've been with a few failed startups). Harman Kardon's acquisition of Roon changes the equation, and I'll reconsider when my annual subscription is up for renewal.

But everything's relative. I'm also okay continuing with Roon at $144/year, along with Qobuz at $130/year. I was spending many times more during the LP and CD era, not even adjusting for inflation.

 

[Timster]

Surely since Kraken has been Forkbeardified, then an updated Syn (Syn F? Syn Max? Uber Syn?) is just around the corner?

I'm hoping so!

 

[JamminVMI]

Bummer, man! I think there's some unwritten law of the universe that states the probability of getting a nail in a tire is exponentially higher when it's brand new.

Or you live in California’s Central Valley… ugh. There was to much tyre trauma going on that weekend, though…

 

[JamminVMI]

Got some? I could up the quality of duct tape and used chewing gum in your build you know.

…and my brain went to the Doublemint twins!

 

[sixergixer]

To be perfectly honest, I didn't purchase Roon lifetime even at $499 because I wasn't confident that Roon would survive for the long term. I work in tech, where most startups fail after a short time (and I've been with a few failed startups). Harman Kardon's acquisition of Roon changes the equation, and I'll reconsider when my annual subscription is up for renewal.

But everything's relative. I'm also okay continuing with Roon at $144/year, along with Qobuz at $130/year. I was spending many times more during the LP and CD era, not even adjusting for inflation.

Very solid assessment all the way around.

 

[PBraith]

OWC's macbook battery replacement kits should come with a warning about how you may have a strong urge to break things and cuss uncontrollably.

It's back together now. Minus a couple torx screws

I hear you at least once every two weeks. Screws Mr Apple! Not glues! Although I must admit I was absolutely amazed the other day when I replaced a battery on a 2009 Macbook (Dont remember which model) and yes, it had screws only holding in the battery. Fixed it in no time.