[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

Rice is messy, you should try maglev feet, I hear they make a huge difference.

Indeed. Try these: https://solidairaudio.com
In my situation where there's a lot of heavy traffic on wet Dutch ground, they make a lot of difference.

 

[438555]

Does it have vent holes on top? are they real or for show?
If it doesnt have real vent holes on top you could likely stack something on it.

They look like real vent holes, unlike the Yggy.

 

[438555]

Does it have vent holes on top? are they real or for show?
If it doesnt have real vent holes on top you could likely stack something on it.

The transport will use a drawer. No top loading. No slot loading.

Though with this message, it doesn't matter. I can just put it between the Yggy and the preamp, and leave the preamp to be on top to have more ventilation

 

[judson_w]

I am laughing again with this part referring to body parts of a mouse: “Using a clock close to the DAC, running it all the way back to a moderately de-jittered and cleaned up transport clocks and data, very little difference exists. To repeat: trivial, mouse nuts, vanishingly little differences. This makes transport mechanism selection point towards product life and reliability, as it should.”

That reminds me of a joke that I heard Colin Mochrie tell at a live comedy show once:

Why do mice have such tiny balls?

Spoiler: Punchline

Because so few know how to dance.

 

[RickB]

My new Vali 2 sounds so good it feels like I'm getting away with something.

 

[wout31]

Next step in the Sol 50Hz experiment.
My "El cheapo" inverter is good, but not good enough. The output is stable, but a little to low 59,7 Hz.
So that is not a good enough solution. It would make the records spin at 32 RPM instead of 33 1/3.
Now ordered a 1 phase in and 1 phase out 230V VFD for a max 400 watt. Should be enough
The accuracy of that thing is 0.01 Hz and I will use the Mani 16V AC power supply.
Fingers crossed.

 

[macdonjh]

No really... You need special pads for the rack feet too!

I set mine in rice to increase damping and minimize vibrational noise

...and soak up any spilled Scotch-mod immediately.

If you stack the Bifrost 2 on top of the Jotunheim, it blocks the amp's vents and makes it run quite a bit hotter. Have you tried the other way around?

I'm currently stacking my Jotunheim atop my Bifrost 2 and they certainly run warm, but I can easily keep my hands on both.

That's just silly, nobody who's anybody in audio puts his amp on top. It just isn't done. That's like having non-engineered equipment shelves or $10 cables.

Indeed. Try these: https://solidairaudio.com
In my situation where there's a lot of heavy traffic on wet Dutch ground, they make a lot of difference.

Can you use those to float your boat, too?

 

[macdonjh]

Indeed. Try these: https://solidairaudio.com
In my situation where there's a lot of heavy traffic on wet Dutch ground, they make a lot of difference.

Kidding aside, I did some very minor experiments with vibration control-- limited to different feet under source components. I could never hear any difference. But my architectural situation appears to be much different than yours. My house is on a slab on top of expansive but not mushy clay. The closest freeway traffic is 1 km away, our neighborhood streets are pretty quiet. Now, I did buy a pair of Sound Anchor stands for my current speakers (the "floor base" style). Oddly, I bought them mostly to protect the bottoms of the speakers from the vacuum cleaner. But, they did do what Bob Worzalla said they would: made the bass noticeably deeper and tighter and the sound more focused overall. And, no scratches or dings on the bottoms of my speakers, though there are scuff marks on the Sound Anchors.

 

[Ableza]

Tweaks are tweaks. Solutions in search of a problem. If they make a difference to you then they make a difference to you. And that's fine.

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

Yes master, you're right.
My whole life is a series of tweaks.
It keeps my therapists busy.

 

[macdonjh]

Solutions in search of a problem.

I've used that phrase myself.

 

[macdonjh]

While at our local grocery, I noticed they had this:

One of the latest I've tried from Abita. However, I'd had that recently, so I opted for something I haven't seen in a while. I've liked most things from New Belgium Brewery, so I brought this home:

Crisp and clean and hoppy without crossing over into IPA territory. I don't understand the fascination with IPA... The New Belgium Trippel made a good accompaniment to Schiit:

And my latest from ECM: https://ecmrecords.com/shop/1576244364/big-vicious-avishai-cohen-big-vicious I like this from Avishai Cohen quite a lot. I wanted to like this https://ecmrecords.com/shop/1580804906 as well, but do not. This was a minor buying spree of ECM releases brought on by all the talk about the MA Recordings samplers.

 

[Scott Kramer]

No one's asking an interesting ? on the transport... Will it have a cute little-tikes training-wheel dac (analog outs) OR be a pure digital transport?

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

No one's asking an interesting ? on the transport... Will it have a cute little-tikes training-wheel dac (analog outs) OR be a pure digital transport?

The latter.

 

[Scott Kramer]

The latter.

Cool, If not I'd be ?'ing Schiit's integrity .