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

[treecloud]

Glad you like it. I did find it on Amazon but, on my computer, it only shows up as 24/48. To say that I dislike the Amazon Music app would be a major understatement. "Ultra HD" = 24/48? Misleading at best. Amazon needs to do better, but I suspect the general public won't notice.

Yeah I'm finding some great new music on this thread (hidden among the kittens and booze)

As others have said Amazon going after the mass market. Or rather trying to create one for hi res music. A new population to be dazzled by the wonders of good audio?

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

Did I hear booze?

 

[valiant66]

Yeah I'm finding some great new music on this thread (hidden among the kittens and booze)

As others have said Amazon going after the mass market. Or rather trying to create one for hi res music. A new population to be dazzled by the wonders of good audio?

I am somewhat miffed that Amazon HD is not yet available in Canada. And I'm fine with HD = RedBook, UltraHD = Anything higher res. When you compare it to MP3 it's all a win.

After reading @Jason Stoddard 's musings on hi-res, MQA, Yggdrasil design decisions, etc. etc. etc., I am perfectly happy with RedBook. Except I can't get it on Amazon Prime in Canada... which is the only streaming service I subscribe to.
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[tincanear]

Nah,
ǝʇɐɐɐɯ ɐʎɐɹʇS, s,ʇI

Are trying to say we are backward?

No. Just upside down Hot winters & cold summers

 

[treecloud]

He's still doing stuff.


Here's Stereophile writing about the Carver Challenge: https://www.stereophile.com/content/carver-challenge

There's this ad/video of Carver going into an audio store and kind of having a party that I saw a while ago but couldn't find just now. It's almost a cross of the famous Robert Plant video and something a bit more gonzo.

That's a good visual description of the aural benefit of a line source. Kind of pricey at 18K...

It's important to go all the way to the ceiling, with a relatively narrow wave launch...find a pair of Acoustat 1+1's in good shape, send the transformers to Roy Esposito for updating, put them in a room with standard 8' ceilings, and IMHO behold one of the all time great vintage bargains in audio

 

[treecloud]

I have a couple more shelves to add but this is the general idea. I know some of you felt I should go with shiny copper pipes so I have the option to change out the patinated pipe any time and thus I left the adapters natural going into the flanges. There is enough play in the threads of the flanges to allow for a bit of leveling. The top posts are not attached yet and this is very stable. Having a Cary amp on the bottom shelf helps a bit. Solid cherry, copper pipe and fittings, cast iron flanges.

Damn good lookin. What are you going to sell them for?

 

[Paladin79]

Damn good lookin. What are you going to sell them for?

Lmao! No, just no. I may never be done with this one. Now @bcowen is making a miniature version and the man is natural born mercenary, I could coach him a bit and maybe he could come up with a reasonable facsimile. It only took me seven or eight lessons before he figured out which end of a soldering iron to hold but he got it, eventually. The man is starting to show potential, albeit slowly.

 

[ScubaMan2017]

I call my Bifrost 2 Burt, when in the privacy of my home.

I call my Vali 2, "the mighty toaster". At home.

 

[Paladin79]

I call my Vali 2, "the mighty toaster". At home.

If a Vali 2 is a toaster, then a Class A tube amp must be Chernobyl Junior I would think.

 

[nerone]

If a Vali 2 is a toaster, then a Class A tube amp must be Chernobyl Junior I would think.

If anyone think a Vali 2 is a toaster, I wonder what this person would think of my Firstwatt amp which I can't touch for more than 5~7 sec. A furnace?

 

[Paladin79]

If anyone think a Vali 2 is a toaster, I wonder what this person would think of my Firstwatt amp which I can't touch for more than 5~7 sec. A furnace?

Good point, but little toaster is certainly a nice name. Winter is a comin', class A helps.

 

[bcowen]

How the heck did you get my password?, and why did you name an amp after it?

I had to do quite a bit of dark web poking around, but word on the street was that you had a solid state amp and I needed to verify that. I was going to gift you some GE tubes, because even they sound better than solid state. Not by much, mind you, but every little bit counts.

 

[bcowen]

If anyone think a Vali 2 is a toaster, I wonder what this person would think of my Firstwatt amp which I can't touch for more than 5~7 sec. A furnace?

Grab a fully warmed up 211 or 845 tube. After 5 - 7 seconds you'd have no skin left. The Vali 2 is a refrigerator in comparison.

 

[nerone]

Good point, but little toaster is certainly a nice name. Winter is a comin', class A helps.

If I was to give a nickname to mine, I'd call "lampadinha", Portuguese for "little lamp", also the name used for the Disney's Gyro Gearloose little Helper.

 

[johnjen]

These small amps are but a lone match in the wind compared to my 6L6 amp.
The bias resistors alone run at 270ºF and there are 2 of them.
The top plate gets 'toasty' and the mains transformer even toastier.

The tubes themselves are merely hand warmers compared to the thermal radiation, radiating in all directions.
I figure I can maintain my 'tan' all winter long just by being in proximity to this pseudo nuc-a-lur device.

Here's a glow in the dark pic of the amp.
I figure you'd be able to see the heat mirage, looking at the amp If it were in daylight…



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JJ