[Locutus73]

My experience too. RPi2>Gen 5 Bimby sounds surprisingly clean.

I second that.
RPI3 (moOde Audio+BubbleUPnP Server)>Gen 5 Bimby>Valhalla 2>HD600. I’m a hi-fi audio newbie, but it sounds heavenly to my ears.

Locutus73

 

[winders]

Modems are not "the Internet"......

 

[MWSVette]

Actually even today one can still connect to the internet via modem...

 

[winders]

Actually even today one can still connect to the internet via modem...

Yes. But connecting to another modem to send data point to point is not "the Internet".

 

[rkw]

Actually even today one can still connect to the internet via modem...

That's true but a few people have posted recently about using modems in the 1970's and calling it "the internet", which it was not.

 

[Locutus73]

Yes. But connecting to another modem to send data point to point is not "the Internet".

No IP, no Internet; nevertheless I learned here that we could use pigeons to connect to “The Internet”.

Locutus73

 

[MWSVette]

Yes. But connecting to another modem to send data point to point is not "the Internet".

AOL has dial up via modem internet service available via today.

However, if you are saying in the 70's it was modem point to point that would be correct.

 

[JCS17]

Long time lurker, first time posting…

In the interest of protecting equipment from sleeping cats, as well as protecting cats from being harmed by equipment: May I suggest what I have observed friends doing for their beloved felines? One friend has a heating pad for her cat to rest on; this requires a heating pad with a just warm setting; some heating pads get too hot on even the lowest setting. Other friends provided a heat lamp for their aging, arthritic pet.

While cats cannot be reasoned with, I suspect they will gravitate to a more attractive alternative. Wouldn't you find a nice, cushy heating pad more comfortable than a hard, metal surface with pointy cones?

Cheers, Jim

 

[GearMe]

Yes. But connecting to another modem to send data point to point is not "the Internet".

Thanks!!! Please do take this line of thought further. If possible, include a discussion on multi-layer communication architectures, the differences between collision detection/avoidance...

Uuuugggghhhhh!

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

Thanks!!! Please do take this line of thought further. If possible, include a discussion on multi-layer communication architectures, the differences between collision detection/avoidance...

Uuuugggghhhhh!

Or calling someone driving a Porsche like a 12 year old girl on high heels a racer.

 

[FrivolsListener]

Modems are not "the Internet"......

Absolutely not. The first ideas of the internet were discussed at BBN in 4/1963 about an "Intergalactic Computer Network." BBN later built the IMPs that were the original connections from the computers to the internet.

(Jeez, that's big.)

Anyway, the first thing attempted was a remote login that crashed on the letter "G". Stanford, IIRC, was the end node of that failed connection.

ObSchiit. Streaming lossless is trivially easy now, and hopefully it stays that way. Use an open standard, not a proprietary thing. FLAC forever!

 

[FrivolsListener]

Thanks!!! Please do take this line of thought further. If possible, include a discussion on multi-layer communication architectures, the differences between collision detection/avoidance...

Uuuugggghhhhh!

(Clears throat, prepares notes...)

(Runs from thrown tomatoes)

 

[winders]

Or calling someone driving a Porsche like a 12 year old girl on high heels a racer.

Here I am qualifying in my Porsche:



Does that make me a little girl?

 

[RCBinTN]

Long time lurker, first time posting…

In the interest of protecting equipment from sleeping cats, as well as protecting cats from being harmed by equipment: May I suggest what I have observed friends doing for their beloved felines? One friend has a heating pad for her cat to rest on; this requires a heating pad with a just warm setting; some heating pads get too hot on even the lowest setting. Other friends provided a heat lamp for their aging, arthritic pet.

While cats cannot be reasoned with, I suspect they will gravitate to a more attractive alternative. Wouldn't you find a nice, cushy heating pad more comfortable than a hard, metal surface with pointy cones?

Cheers, Jim

Welcome to Head-Fi, Jim.
You are gonna fit right in here.

 

[Alcophone]

Long time lurker, first time posting…

In the interest of protecting equipment from sleeping cats, as well as protecting cats from being harmed by equipment: May I suggest what I have observed friends doing for their beloved felines? One friend has a heating pad for her cat to rest on; this requires a heating pad with a just warm setting; some heating pads get too hot on even the lowest setting. Other friends provided a heat lamp for their aging, arthritic pet.

While cats cannot be reasoned with, I suspect they will gravitate to a more attractive alternative. Wouldn't you find a nice, cushy heating pad more comfortable than a hard, metal surface with pointy cones?

Cheers, Jim

My cat loves this thing, but has avoided my Vidar so far. Still waiting for the day.