Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up
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Balthazar B
500+ Head-Fier
cgb3
500+ Head-Fier
I like the look of the Jag XKSS more, sadly there were only a handful made ever so it is not exactly available.
J. Leno did a nice review of Steve McQueen's XKSS
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Derrick Swart
Headphoneus Supremus
From your own post :
Testing of the NP5 Prisma has been completed and the certified software is being implemented into Roon's system now.
The link in your post:
https://roonlabs.com/partners/primare
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Derrick Swart
Headphoneus Supremus
The brand is Primare
And Prisma is their software which runs on more product models of them.
And Prisma is their software which runs on more product models of them.
AudioGal
100+ Head-Fier
So, the BBQ was a "meh". Needs some work on the recipe. Reasonable first prototype. Yeah, that's it. Prototype. Tasted really good going into the crockpot but it didn't fully embrace the flavor of the pork and came up kinda bland. Smelled amazing though. I've got some thoughts on where to go from here with the second prototype.
As promised, here's the recipe I came up with for my first prototype:
2 x 6oz tomato paste
3/4 cup molasses
3/4 cup OJ concentrate, thawed
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce - yeah, there's a little vinegar in this, but not much.
1/2 tsp onion powder
1 tbsp garlic powder
1 tsp mustard powder
1/4 tsp cayenne
1/2 tsp cumin
1tbsp hickory flavor liquid smoke
Pictures:
At start of cooking
Done!
And on a toasted onion roll
As promised, here's the recipe I came up with for my first prototype:
2 x 6oz tomato paste
3/4 cup molasses
3/4 cup OJ concentrate, thawed
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce - yeah, there's a little vinegar in this, but not much.
1/2 tsp onion powder
1 tbsp garlic powder
1 tsp mustard powder
1/4 tsp cayenne
1/2 tsp cumin
1tbsp hickory flavor liquid smoke
Pictures:
At start of cooking
Done!
And on a toasted onion roll
Ripper2860
Headphoneus Supremus
Looks very good, but how does it taste?? 
Roy G. Biv
Headphoneus Supremus
@AudioGal the braising liquid doesn't necessarily have to contain the final sauce. Meaning, braise the meat in a more simple liquid and 'sauce' the meat after it's cooked and pulled. This also gives you the option to use the pork in some nice carnitas where you probably wouldn't want the sauce.
Some water that comes 1/3 of the way up the shoulder, a rough chopped onion, a couple of cloves of garlic, 1 cup OJ, salt & pepper to lightly cover the meat and maybe a sprigs worth of dried thyme (optional) and you're good to go. (I went a little heavy on the TLAR for ya). After it comes out of the crock pot, carefully lift the meat away from the braising liquid, let it rest covered in a deep dish for about 10 minutes then pull/shred to your heart's content. Sauce it, or not, as you like.
Still, a nice first effort!
Some water that comes 1/3 of the way up the shoulder, a rough chopped onion, a couple of cloves of garlic, 1 cup OJ, salt & pepper to lightly cover the meat and maybe a sprigs worth of dried thyme (optional) and you're good to go. (I went a little heavy on the TLAR for ya). After it comes out of the crock pot, carefully lift the meat away from the braising liquid, let it rest covered in a deep dish for about 10 minutes then pull/shred to your heart's content. Sauce it, or not, as you like.
Still, a nice first effort!
earnmyturns
Headphoneus Supremus
It looks pretty nice, probably a good choice for non-DIY folks who want a compact, fairly versatile network player. I like that it has Chromecast and Airplay 2 built-in besides Roon, that makes it a very convenient endpoint for all digital sound-streaming gadgets.
I just sold my old Jot 1 on eBay today. Only got 2 bids on it but glad to see it go to the next audiophile. I do like my 2 better but the 1 helped take me to the next level.
StevePNW
100+ Head-Fier
I really like my Node 2i and it’s associated BluOS Controller which works well for me. When I plug in a SSD containing my FLAC files it adds it in my music services list. It has TunIn and Radio Paradise in as part of the baseline. I added Amazon Music HD, Tidal, and Spotify. Tidal integrates well and you can control it from BluOS or the Tidal app on my iMac, iPad, or phone since it supports Tidal Connect at launch (I’m doing the 4 month for $4 trial). Spotify Connect works great with it as it ports you right to the Spotify app automatically. Amazon Music interface is nothing to write home about as noted before. It also supports Airplay 2.
I didn’t need another DAC but can explore the full Tidal catalogue with it (incl. MQA). Otherwise I just port from the Node 2i to my RME DAC from which I also listen to the CD transport thru coax. I’ve been very impressed with the $549 device and it runs rock solid hooked-up by ethernet directly to a mesh wi-fi node.
It all sounds stellar to me through the Freya S and both Vidars, primarily driven by the quality of the recording and mix as has been frequently discussed. Cheers
I didn’t need another DAC but can explore the full Tidal catalogue with it (incl. MQA). Otherwise I just port from the Node 2i to my RME DAC from which I also listen to the CD transport thru coax. I’ve been very impressed with the $549 device and it runs rock solid hooked-up by ethernet directly to a mesh wi-fi node.
It all sounds stellar to me through the Freya S and both Vidars, primarily driven by the quality of the recording and mix as has been frequently discussed. Cheers
AudioGal
100+ Head-Fier
Steering back to audio from BBQ, I've been enjoying hearing about which streaming software and supporting hardware people are using. Figured it was my turn to share. While the description below may sound like a lot of work, it's something I enjoy doing. Yeah, I know, I'm weird. In the end it's all about furthering my enjoyment of the music I love listening to. The gear's cool and all, but it's the music that matters. If that invalidates my audiophile membership card, so be it. 
Quick detour - One thing I've noticed as I've improved my main headphone setup (currently a Modi MB -> Loki -> Mjolnir 2 -> DC Ether C) is that my enjoyment of my daily driver rig while at work is an LG V30 phone -> Etymotic ER4XR, has increased. No, the daily driver rig hasn't magically gotten better. Just that the discovery of new things in music I'm familiar with on the home rig have affected the way I'm listening to the daily driver rig. Kind of like an automatic upgrade in between the ears. Go figure.
Current digital music concoction:
For the endpoint I've been using the long discontinued Slim Devices Squeezebox, connected via S/PDIF to a Modi Multibit DAC. The user interface is a remote control for the player. Which I consider to be a plus - the transport controls are always available on the remote without needing to have a web browser window pointing to the server to start/stop/pause/skip the music. "Pause" and "Play" being the most used buttons. Love the display, it fits in nicely with the pile of Schiit hardware. HOWEVER... Digging through the library for a specific tune or starting up a stream on Pandora sucks using the remote and is best done using a web browser on whatever is convenient - phone, tablet, laptop, etc. Best of both worlds.
My server is very DIY though. Currently I have an installation of the moOde distribution Linux running on a Raspberry Pi 4, with the Logitech Media Server installed on top of that. Two 4Tbyte external hard drives are connected via USB 3.0 to the R-Pi, running in a quasi mirrored set up - only one drive stays mounted. When the library is updated, a shell script catches that the update occurred, mounts the second drive and runs rsync against the library. Once the second drive matches the first, it's spun down and unmounted again. The Pi is configured to boot from a small Linux partition on the USB drives, there's no microSD card in the Pi. System logs are mounted remotely to another R-Pi that has an SSD as its system drive which allows me to spin down the hard drives when idle. The rest of the space on the drives is used for storing music. LMS has plugins that support the streaming services I have accounts with - Spotify, Pandora, Qobuz which all integrate into a single presentation of the complete collection.
Music organization and meta data - The music files are stored as RIFF WAV files, organized in a tree - file name is track number & song title, each album is a subdirectory (folder) holding the relevant files, artist folder holds all the albums by that artist. All of this is in Windows style format since I started ripping CDs using Media Monkey on a Windows machine. Nearly complete on moving the ripping process to the R-Pi with a pair of CD drives so that I can rip more than one disk at a time and move the user interface for the ripping process from a GUI to a command line style I/F.
Once I've finished getting enough of my CDs ripped, I'll start on the auto-updating player for the car. Will be yet another R-Pi4 with a decent size SSD attached and configured to appear as a music player to the USB interface in the car infotainment system. I've no desire for anything better sounding than the factory system in my car. Vermont roads aren't known for being a smooth ride on a good day and Subarus aren't know for having the quietest cabins.
Edited after posting to correct size of disk drives. Terabytes not Gigabytes. Sigh. Still not used to thinking in terabytes of storage. Thanks to @RickB for pointing out the mistake!
Quick detour - One thing I've noticed as I've improved my main headphone setup (currently a Modi MB -> Loki -> Mjolnir 2 -> DC Ether C) is that my enjoyment of my daily driver rig while at work is an LG V30 phone -> Etymotic ER4XR, has increased. No, the daily driver rig hasn't magically gotten better. Just that the discovery of new things in music I'm familiar with on the home rig have affected the way I'm listening to the daily driver rig. Kind of like an automatic upgrade in between the ears. Go figure.
Current digital music concoction:
For the endpoint I've been using the long discontinued Slim Devices Squeezebox, connected via S/PDIF to a Modi Multibit DAC. The user interface is a remote control for the player. Which I consider to be a plus - the transport controls are always available on the remote without needing to have a web browser window pointing to the server to start/stop/pause/skip the music. "Pause" and "Play" being the most used buttons. Love the display, it fits in nicely with the pile of Schiit hardware. HOWEVER... Digging through the library for a specific tune or starting up a stream on Pandora sucks using the remote and is best done using a web browser on whatever is convenient - phone, tablet, laptop, etc. Best of both worlds.
My server is very DIY though. Currently I have an installation of the moOde distribution Linux running on a Raspberry Pi 4, with the Logitech Media Server installed on top of that. Two 4Tbyte external hard drives are connected via USB 3.0 to the R-Pi, running in a quasi mirrored set up - only one drive stays mounted. When the library is updated, a shell script catches that the update occurred, mounts the second drive and runs rsync against the library. Once the second drive matches the first, it's spun down and unmounted again. The Pi is configured to boot from a small Linux partition on the USB drives, there's no microSD card in the Pi. System logs are mounted remotely to another R-Pi that has an SSD as its system drive which allows me to spin down the hard drives when idle. The rest of the space on the drives is used for storing music. LMS has plugins that support the streaming services I have accounts with - Spotify, Pandora, Qobuz which all integrate into a single presentation of the complete collection.
Music organization and meta data - The music files are stored as RIFF WAV files, organized in a tree - file name is track number & song title, each album is a subdirectory (folder) holding the relevant files, artist folder holds all the albums by that artist. All of this is in Windows style format since I started ripping CDs using Media Monkey on a Windows machine. Nearly complete on moving the ripping process to the R-Pi with a pair of CD drives so that I can rip more than one disk at a time and move the user interface for the ripping process from a GUI to a command line style I/F.
Once I've finished getting enough of my CDs ripped, I'll start on the auto-updating player for the car. Will be yet another R-Pi4 with a decent size SSD attached and configured to appear as a music player to the USB interface in the car infotainment system. I've no desire for anything better sounding than the factory system in my car. Vermont roads aren't known for being a smooth ride on a good day and Subarus aren't know for having the quietest cabins.
Edited after posting to correct size of disk drives. Terabytes not Gigabytes. Sigh. Still not used to thinking in terabytes of storage. Thanks to @RickB for pointing out the mistake!
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RickB
Headphoneus Supremus
Steering back to audio from BBQ, I've been enjoying hearing about which streaming software and supporting hardware people are using. Figured it was my turn to share. While the description below may sound like a lot of work, it's something I enjoy doing. Yeah, I know, I'm weird. In the end it's all about furthering my enjoyment of the music I love listening to. The gear's cool and all, but it's the music that matters. If that invalidates my audiophile membership card, so be it.
Quick detour - One thing I've noticed as I've improved my main headphone setup (currently a Modi MB -> Loki -> Mjolnir 2 -> DC Ether C) is that my enjoyment of my daily driver rig while at work is an LG V30 phone -> Etymotic ER4XR, has increased. No, the daily driver rig hasn't magically gotten better. Just that the discovery of new things in music I'm familiar with on the home rig have affected the way I'm listening to the daily driver rig. Kind of like an automatic upgrade in between the ears. Go figure.
Current digital music concoction:
For the endpoint I've been using the long discontinued Slim Devices Squeezebox, connected via S/PDIF to a Modi Multibit DAC. The user interface is a remote control for the player. Which I consider to be a plus - the transport controls are always available on the remote without needing to have a web browser window pointing to the server to start/stop/pause/skip the music. "Pause" and "Play" being the most used buttons. Love the display, it fits in nicely with the pile of Schiit hardware. HOWEVER... Digging through the library for a specific tune or starting up a stream on Pandora sucks using the remote and is best done using a web browser on whatever is convenient - phone, tablet, laptop, etc. Best of both worlds.
My server is very DIY though. Currently I have an installation of the moOde distribution Linux running on a Raspberry Pi 4, with the Logitech Media Server installed on top of that. Two 4Gbyte external hard drives are connected via USB 3.0 to the R-Pi, running in a quasi mirrored set up - only one drive stays mounted. When the library is updated, a shell script catches that the update occurred, mounts the second drive and runs rsync against the library. Once the second drive matches the first, it's spun down and unmounted again. The Pi is configured to boot from a small Linux partition on the USB drives, there's no microSD card in the Pi. System logs are mounted remotely to another R-Pi that has an SSD as its system drive which allows me to spin down the hard drives when idle. The rest of the space on the drives is used for storing music. LMS has plugins that support the streaming services I have accounts with - Spotify, Pandora, Qobuz which all integrate into a single presentation of the complete collection.
Music organization and meta data - The music files are stored as RIFF WAV files, organized in a tree - file name is track number & song title, each album is a subdirectory (folder) holding the relevant files, artist folder holds all the albums by that artist. All of this is in Windows style format since I started ripping CDs using Media Monkey on a Windows machine. Nearly complete on moving the ripping process to the R-Pi with a pair of CD drives so that I can rip more than one disk at a time and move the user interface for the ripping process from a GUI to a command line style I/F.
Once I've finished getting enough of my CDs ripped, I'll start on the auto-updating player for the car. Will be yet another R-Pi4 with a decent size SSD attached and configured to appear as a music player to the USB interface in the car infotainment system. I've no desire for anything better sounding than the factory system in my car. Vermont roads aren't known for being a smooth ride on a good day and Subarus aren't know for having the quietest cabins.
Amazing. One question, did you mean two 4TB external hard drives?
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