[45longcolt]

Background: As I am typing this, I'm sitting in a telco with one of my clients who refuses to understand that what they're trying to do won't work. It hasn't worked for about four years (Yes, four. And not months; years.) of them trying, and there's no logical reason to assume that it could ever work the way they expect and need it to work. Yet they keep dumping more and more time and—somewhat fortunately for my business partner and myself—money into this thing, even though it would be cheaper for them in the long run to just scrap the concept, write off the money and time they've already spent on it up to this point, and start over with a different, more realistic approach to the problem they're trying to solve.

This is what happens when the IDEA (concept, vision, theory, goal, whatever) expands to fill the whole brain, leaving no room for reality, let alone perspective. Fortunately, this never happens to us audiophiles...
(insert sarcasm emoji here...)

 

[45longcolt]

Hmmmm...When to stop? When it makes neither dollars and cents nor common sense?

ORT

A rather cents-sitive turn of phrase from our resident Toad.

 

[45longcolt]

Hell, I still have a tube phono preamp on my desk upstairs that Mike and Dave did about 8 years ago. Is it dead? Yeah, probably. Don't get too excited. I'm not. More on that later.

Count me among those who've long wanted exactly this. Heck, if you'd released it eight years ago, I could have afforded the tubes.

 

[ArmchairPhilosopher]

sounds like they have an advantage giving you money assuming they are not stupid

More often than not in my line of work, "they must be stupid" remains the only logical explanation for far too many of my clients' behaviors and decisions.
My business partner has spent the past 10 or so years trying to teach me to just shut up and take their money. Yet not a day goes by that I don't feel like I'm taking advantage of someone with a mental disability.
It's surprisingly difficult not to turn into a grumpy old cynic in this business that I'm in, and not just because of the fiscal and managerial side of things.
There are days when I—as an independent contractor—am sincerely baffled by the fact that certain areas of government and public works function at all.

 

[Paladin79]

Count me among those who've long wanted exactly this. Heck, if you'd released it eight years ago, I could have afforded the tubes.

 

[Zachik]

There are days when I—as an independent contractor—am sincerely baffled by the fact that certain areas of government and public works function at all.

Remember, even a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day!

 

[dstrimbu]

Are you guys in the Bay Area OK? This was quite the jolt even 100 miles east where I am.

Didn't feel a thing up here (~20mi N of the Golden Gate).

 

[OldRoadToad]

A rather cents-sitive turn of phrase from our resident Toad.

Well written sir, and thank you!

ORT

 

[dstrimbu]

Was talking to a friend and I said its like a magic box as yggy seems to be magically presenting detail and sounds ive not heard before....

Yggy is a magic machine, for sure. Best DAC I've ever owned. Incredible price/performance ratio!

 

[dstrimbu]

Google has not offered any way to search local content for the last decade or longer...

Yeah, Google Desktop was an amazing product, but security and privacy issues were pretty much insurmountable.

 

[wout31]

Was I the only one that clicked the WE91E link and was LMAO at those THD numbers?

 

[Ripper2860]

I saw them, but rather than laugh, I winced.

 

[Paladin79]

Was I the only one that clicked the WE91E link and was LMAO at those THD numbers?

It was already mentioned. There is one for sale on Ebay last I looked.

 

[FLTWS]

The watts are fine with the right speaker(s) but I don't even remember distortion figures like that back in the 70's.

 

[Paladin79]

Count me among those who've long wanted exactly this. Heck, if you'd released it eight years ago, I could have afforded the tubes.

I considered buying one of the two Bottlehead models but I absolutely abhor plugging cables into their top plate and having them poke straight up. It makes for an easy design, everything on one plate but I would have to do some drastic cabinet and top plate changes to be happy. I will be working on a turntable plinth and dust cover very soon, I suppose I could try to match that. I will be using birdseye rock maple.