[hearditontheX]

You may want to try the app, NIOSH SLM. Also search for this on Amazon or anywhere else: Dayton Audio iMM-6 Calibrated Measurement Microphone for iPhone, iPad Tablet and Android,Black

I use that microphone and RTA app on an iPhone for car stereo work.

 

[MisterMudd]

Jenny said when she was just five years old
You know there's nothing happening at all
Every time she puts on the radio
There was nothing goin' down at all
Then one fine mornin' she puts on a New York station
She couldn't believe what she heard at all
She started dancin' to that fine fine music
You know her life was saved by Rock 'n' Roll

Despite all the amputations
You could just dance to a rock 'n' roll station

Jenny said when she was just five years old
My parents are gonna be the death of us all
Two TV sets and two Cadillac cars--
Ain't gonna help us at all

Then one fine mornin' she puts on a New York station
She don't believe what she heard at all
She started dancin' to that fine fine music
You know her life was saved by Rock 'n' Roll

Despite all the computations
You could just dance to a rock 'n' roll station
And it was alright.

Love me some Lou Reed.

 

[dhcarquinez]

A holiday, a holiday, and the first one of the year
Lord Donald's wife came into the church, the gospel for to hear
And when the meeting it was done, she cast her eyes about
And there she saw little Matty Groves, walking in the crowd
"Come home with me, little Matty Groves, come home with me tonight
Come home with me, little Matty Groves, and sleep with me till light"
"Oh, I can't come home, I won't come home and sleep with you tonight
By the rings on your fingers I can tell you are my master's wife"
"But if I am Lord Donald's wife, Lord Donald's not at home
He is out in the far cornfields bringing the yearlings home"
And a servant who was standing by and hearing what was said
He swore Lord Donald he would know before the sun would set
And in his hurry to carry the news, he bent his breast and ran
And when he came to the broad millstream, he took off his shoes and he swam
Little Matty Groves, he lay down and took a little sleep
When he awoke, Lord Donald was standing at his feet
Saying "How do you like my feather bed and how do you like my sheets
How do you like my lady who lies in your arms asleep?"
"Oh, well I like your feather bed and well I like your sheets
But better I like your lady gay who lies in my arms asleep"
"Well, get up, get up, " Lord Donald cried, "get up as quick as you can
It'll never be said in fair England that I slew a naked man"
"Oh, I can't get up, I won't get up, I can't get up for my life
For you have two long beaten swords and I not a pocket knife"
"Well it's true I have two beaten swords and they cost me deep in the purse
But you will have the better of them and I will have the worse
And you will strike the very first blow and strike it like a man
I will strike the very next blow and I'll kill you if I can"
So Matty struck the very first blow and he hurt Lord Donald sore
Lord Donald struck the very next blow and Matty struck no more
And then Lord Donald took his wife and he sat her on his knee
Saying "Who do you like the best of us, Matty Groves or me?"
And then up spoke his own dear wife, never heard to speak so free
"I'd rather a kiss from dead Matty's lips than you or your finery"
Lord Donald he jumped up and loudly he did bawl
He struck his wife right through the heart and pinned her against the wall
"A grave, a grave, " Lord Donald cried, "to put these lovers in
But bury my lady at the top for she was of noble kin"

 

[MisterMudd]

I might be movin' to Montana soon
Just to raise me up a crop of Dental Floss Raisin' it up
Waxen it down
In a little white box
I can sell uptown
By myself I wouldn't
Have no boss,
But I'd be raisin' my lonely Dental Floss
Raisin' my lonely Dental Floss
Well I just might grow me some bees
But I'd leave the sweet stuff
For somebody else...
but then, on the other hand
I'd Keep the wax N' melt it down
Pluck some Floss N' swish it aroun'
I'd have me a crop
An' it'd be on top

Movin' to Montana soon
Gonna be a Dental Floss tycoon
(yes I am)
Movin' to Montana soon
Gonna be a mennil-toss flykune
I'm pluckin' the ol' Dennil Floss
That's growin' on the prairie
Pluckin' the floss!
I plucked all day an' all night an' all Afternoon...
I'm ridin' a small tiny hoss
(His name is MIGHTY LITTLE)
He's a good hoss
Even though He's a bit dinky to strap a big saddle or
Blanket on anyway
He's a bit dinky to strap a big saddle or
Blanket on anyway
Any way I'm pluckin' the ol' Dennil Floss
Even if you think it is a little silly, folks
I don't care if you think it's silly, folks
I don't care if you think it's silly, folks
I'm gonna find me a horse
Just about this big
An' ride him all along the border line
With a Pair of heavy-duty
Zircon-encrusted tweezers in my hand
Every other wrangler would say
I was mighty grand
By myself I wouldn't
Have no boss
But I'd be raisin' my lonely Dental Floss
Raisin' my lonely Dental Floss
Raisin' my lonely Dental Floss
Well I might Ride along the border
With my tweezers gleamin'
In the moon-lighty night
And then I'd Get a cuppa cawfee
N' give my foot a push...
Just me 'n the pymgy pony
Over the Dennil Floss Bush
N' then I might just Jumb back on
An' ride Like a cowboy
Into the dawn to Montana

Movin' to Montana soon

Love me some Zappa!

 

[SuperRoo]

We are live
https://www.facebook.com/Schiit/videos/799597204427254/

 

[Plautus001]

Like you, I don't find a lot of new stuff that I really like off internet radio etc. Especially during the day when I'm working.

What DOES work for me to is to gather "I like this" recommendations from these forums and others. I take notes on paper and in a spreadsheet. For example:
* somebody mentioned Johnny Winter's Step Back ... I found and listened to that on Qobuz. And then re-listened to Second Winter from my collection as well. Winners.
* somebody mentioned Moonshine Society - Sweet Thing ... WHO??? Turns out I'd already favorite'd it in Roon/Qobuz some time ago, and forgotten it. Listened again. Put it into my database with some notes.
* somebody mentioned Rory Graham aka Rag'n'Bone Man - Human (2017) - WHOOOO? Wow that's different. Like it, made database notes.
* and some folks of course name music that, when I try it, I don't like enough to want to listen to it again. But the hit:miss ratio is pretty good.

But since people here have a wide variety of preferences, this exposes me to a bunch of stuff I likely wouldn't otherwise know about. And there's a bias towards decently recorded music that sound good on headphones.

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footnotes:
* I like albums, playing from track 1 to track X. Don't much like playlists with 20 or 40 different artists. When I listen to 8 to 12 (or more) songs, I can get an impression of how much I like the artist, even if I'm not giving the music my full attention. (And when the album stops, I like the music to just stop. So I can make notes if warranted, and consciously choose what I'm going to try next.)
* One thing I dislike on Roon is that is doesn't support user-added free-text comments. At least, not that I have discovered. So my various notes (in Excel) aren't a part of "integrated experience." Tags are necessarily structured and limited ... useful, but different.

It really is all about enjoying the music. The gear just helps us get there.

Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit... one of the best live CD’S ever

 

[earnmyturns]

For Slick, "White Rabbit" "is about following your curiosity. The White Rabbit is your curiosity."[14] For her and others in the 1960s, drugs were a part of mind expansion and social experimentation. With its enigmatic lyrics, "White Rabbit" became one of the first songs to sneak drug references past censors on the radio.

When I was listening to "White Rabbit" a lot, as well as studying "The Annotated Alice" (notes by Martin Gardner of mathematical puzzles fame), I was definitely into curiosity-following and mind-expansion, some of it legally with deep dives into books like "The Undecidable"

 

[DougD]

Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit... one of the best kive CD’S ever

Thanks ... you know I will be giving this a listen within a day or two!

 

[Plautus001]

Thanks ... you know I will be giving this a listen within a day or two!

Awesome... I corrected "kive" to live lol

 

[ScotchNeat]

Jason spent some time on the stream last night about the use case for a small, low-power, extremely high-quality speaker amplifier for use with things like near-field monitors in a small space (like on a desktop, for example). Got me thinking about how cool it would be to have a 10W Tyr in a case the size of a Modius or Bifrost.

 

[Paladin79]

Jason spent some time on the stream last night about the use case for a small, low-power, extremely high-quality speaker amplifier for use with things like near-field monitors in a small space (like on a desktop, for example). Got me thinking about how cool it would be to have a 10W Tyr in a case the size of a Modius or Bifrost.

A couple of us were working on something similar for mini radial speakers with tubes, a few folks bought small solid state amps. There is a need since the speakers are small in size.

 

[45longcolt]

No fewer than four Schiit products are listed among "The Greatest Bargains in High-End Audio" (Entry Level) by The Absolute Sound magazine in its 2023 High-End Audio Buyer's Guide issue: Mani, Magnius, Modius and Freya+. No surprise to any of us on this thread.

 

[Mike-WI]

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live?ref=watch_permalink&v=799597204427254
Facebook Schiitr - Jason & Dave

"A tube Ragnarok? Why not..." - Jason

Single digits for Folkvangr

Valhalla 3 - a possibility using Folkvangr tech in a smaller headphone amp

Displays - ? - e-paper?

Sysius - multi (2)-switcher, balanced - "a bad idea". Query about just a switcher w/o volume control. Jason notes Saga exists

Sol 2 - maybe. Way out...


EDIT:
YouTube Schiit Audio - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZqCWt2_qqB-UD0-pcPpxCw

Hear The Singularity With Jason And Dave - 10/14/22 - ​

 

[ThanatosVI]

"A tube Ragnarok? Why not..." - Jason

This has my interest

 

[Kapazza]

"A tube Ragnarok? Why not..." - Jason

Hmm...a hybrid headphone/speaker amp, Mjolnir 2 successor in Ragnorak's form factor would be interesting. "Mjolnius".