[Matro5]

  Embrace your biases.  If you like something then you like it and the "why" doesn't matter. 

I think this is the correct approach to hifi. If you like Schiit because its Made in the USA or its tubes glow or Jason seems like a good dude and it makes you like the product - and your music - more, who cares if you'd tell it apart in a double blind test?
 
I get why people don't want to be "ripped off" by someone selling something that doesn't make any discernible difference in a scientific study, but my benchmark is different - does it make me happy? Of course, feeling like I'm being deceived does *not* make me happy, so most of this nonsense gets filtered out easily.
 
But if a piece of gear puts a smile on my face for whatever reason, out comes the wallet. 

 

[HipHopScribe]

  Rites of Spring, the DC hardcore band? Or is this a different Rites of Spring? I'm surprised a vendor would use lo-fi 80s punk as a demo to sell speakers to audiophiles.

 
I'm gonna guess that should be "The Rite of Spring" by Stravinsky, not Rites of Spring 

 

[fargus]

   
I'm gonna guess that should be "The Rite of Spring" by Stravinsky, not Rites of Spring 

 
Yeah, I suppose that makes a lot more sense. Decent band though, and two members did go on to Fugazi, which was a great band, IMO.

 

[ishmael39]

This is exactly why blind testing is the gold standard for gear comparison. If you can't pick a difference consistently in a blind test, then you are fooling yourself.


You can't. You can try all you like, but the human brain is hard wired to operate from all sorts expectation bias. Only a blind test isolates you from the bias and produces 'real' results.

Which is why this cable silliness has NEVER passed a credible blind test.

. Maybe some of you "double blind" folks should embrace your inabilities to discriminate or you inexperience as a listener? How are you at judging fine art?

 

[sam6550a]

  Rites of Spring, the DC hardcore band? Or is this a different Rites of Spring? I'm surprised a vendor would use lo-fi 80s punk as a demo to sell speakers to audiophiles.

I believe the composer was Igor Stravinsky, composed in the early 20th century, not some 80s punk stuff.

 

[Ableza]

  Rites of Spring, the DC hardcore band? Or is this a different Rites of Spring? I'm surprised a vendor would use lo-fi 80s punk as a demo to sell speakers to audiophiles.

Stravinsky.   Early 20th Century Russian punk.

 

[KoshNaranek]

Stravinsky.   Early 20th Century Russian punk.

Yeah, he certainly was a punk!

 

[FLTWS]

 
Stravinsky.   Early 20th Century Russian punk.

 
LOL. That's what was said about him when the work debuted in Paris.  Lots of fun anecdotes surrounding that premier.
 
The "Rite" has been a lifelong love of mine, definitely on my short list for that desert island people are always talking about.

 

[45longcolt]

If this is not the most consistently entertaining thread on Head-Fi, please point me to any other that is as much fun.
 
Punk Stravinsky, indeed. Shame he never met Sun Ra.

 

[JohnnyOps]

Some 20's punk stuff.

 

[Left Channel]

 

Stravinsky.   Early 20th Century Russian punk.

Yeah, he certainly was a punk!

 
LOL. But FYI that was probably just a visa-related photo, though he did once have a minor tangle with the music police. 
https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/06/30/stravinsky/rfnaZtqjCQXZAobdv7kVkI/story.html

 

[MarkF786]

I'm using a Bimby with a Jot and was thinking of adding a Valhalla 2 to use with some headphones. What do you think about adding a Sys to switch the Bimby between the two amps? I'd just keep the Sys' pot on max so it would have minimal effect on the signal.

 

[MWSVette]

I'm using a Bimby with a Jot and was thinking of adding a Valhalla 2 to use with some headphones. What do you think about adding a Sys to switch the Bimby between the two amps? I'd just keep the Sys' pot on max so it would have minimal effect on the signal.

I have used mine exactly like that and it works well...
 

 

[Clemmaster]

You could just keep the Jot as a preamp for both?

 

[r2muchstuff]

I'm using a Bimby with a Jot and was thinking of adding a Valhalla 2 to use with some headphones. What do you think about adding a Sys to switch the Bimby between the two amps? I'd just keep the Sys' pot on max so it would have minimal effect on the signal.

RCA Y cables out of Bifrost to both amps, simple, works great.
 
JMTC & IMHO,
r2