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I like tubes too !! inner and thermionic… probably no innertubes …
I like tubes too !! inner and thermionic… probably no innertubes …
… bicycle or turntable?
Off on another tangent - nixie tubes!I like tubes too !! inner and thermionic
Edit : How can I remember lyrics from 30 years ago, but not why I went to the refrigerator?
Just to say thanks to all the people who chimed in on this; corndog71, ludvigrollover, golfbravobravo and Clifh93.New topic (I think) for the sine wave.
Now that I have my schiit kit, I want to feed my Modius E from my iPad.
Using a standard cable works fine with the iPad->Apple Camera Adaptor->USB-A-cable-USB-C->Modius.
The problem is that the longest known working cable I can find that says it works with Apple kit is 2m/6ft and I'd like 3-4m/9-12ft.
If I can get a longer cable then I can route it out of sight under the furniture and also keep it away from mains/other cables, and I don't have to get up to select or search for the next track on the iPad.
There's any number of vendors on Mr. Bezos's site, but the long cables don't mention Apple in the "works with..." section.
Does anyone have a long, known working cable connecting their iPad/iPhone and the USB-C on Modius / other Schiit device that they can recommend?
Just to say thanks to all the people who chimed in on this; corndog71, ludvigrollover, golfbravobravo and Clifh93.
I didn't go with the Wiim streamer although that would have done the job; I wanted a long cable that would stretch from the listening chair, facing the speakers (and Schiit kit) or could be pulled sideways to where I can listen horizontally on the long sofa through headphones.
Once I'd established that only an Apple Camera Adaptor will feed music from the iPad/iPhone without going through the on-board DAC (as per Schiit advice), then it was a case of searching harder for long USB-C (for Modius) to USB-A for adaptor and long USB-A (for Apple powerbrick) to Lightning (to power the iPad through the camera adaptor), and a long USB-C to USB-C for the Mac as an alternative source.
The original question was about sourcing long (>2m / 6') cables that were Apple compliant. There were many that were longer but they specifically did not state that they worked with Apple kit, only Android / Google gear, so as Apple compliance was notably missing from their spec sheets then I wasn't going to risk trying them.
Even though they didn't say that they worked with Apple, I did expect them to work as I'd used long (15'/5m) Din to whatever cables to connect source to Armstrong 621 amp and amp to headphones (Wharfedale Isodynamics, so powered out of the speaker ports) without issue, so I knew that the Apple sources could send a signal over those distances, but their explicit omission of Apple had me wondering.
Anyway, problem solved, I searched harder on Amazon, found cables that had Apple compliance and 15'/ 5m length and now am a happy (horizontal) Schiitizen.
So, thanks to those of you who took the trouble to chip in on this, your help is appreciated. PM me if anyone wants the links to the cables I bought.
I really have no idea (sorry) but are you able to swap tubes between sockets? My guess would be it's simply a bad tube.Off on another tangent - nixie tubes!
I broke down and got a nixie tube clock off of Etsy. The builder, based in Ukraine, actually delivered and I received it in less than a month! This is compared to the time I tried getting one from someone in China who sent me a piece of cloth... The clock works well, but has its peculiarities. One of the digit electrodes in the most significant hours tube behaves quite strangely. The '2' electrode will not illuminate immediately. At about 20:15, the lower part of the digit illuminates. Then, over the next 2-ish hours the illumination slowly creeps up the tube until it's completely illuminated at around 22:00. It stays solid until midnight when the '0' electrode illuminates fully. The '1' electrode illuminates correctly as well.
My question is by what mechanism can this type of behavior occur? To the best of my knowledge, at the appropriate time, a constant voltage is removed from one pin on the tube and applied to another to switch digits. Nothing special, just switching the same voltage to a different pin. That potential is applied uniformly across the entire plate. Very little, if any, heat is being generated, so there shouldn't be any convection occurring in what little neon is in there. I tried turning the clock upside down to see if anything changed. Nope. I also took a strong Nd magnet and waved it across the face of the tubes to see what would happen. Nothing.
This group has the widest experience base I've seen so I thought I'd pose the question. I'd love to see what you guys have to say! Thx for indulging me!!
Edit - my friend Wikipedia just enlightened me on the phenomenon I've been seeing. Now to see if I can experience photoionization tonight...
Definitely a great song!Tonight's Syn-full song recommendation: ( Not yacht rock. )
Easy Livin'.....Uriah Heep
You mean sending the audio stream from MPD running on the server to something on the pi? I forget if MPD can receive as well as send so if it's not MPD what is the something?Welp, I just ordered a pi2aes. I plan to continue running mpd on my server and use mpd on the pi in proxy mode, so both the files and db will live on the server, with i2s out from the pi2aes to the DAC. Mustn't. Pay. Subscription. Fees.
…. are commandeering this thread …. from to ….Welp, I just ordered a pi2aes. I plan to continue running mpd on my server and use mpd on the pi in proxy mode, so both the files and db will live on the server, with i2s out from the pi2aes to the DAC….
This reminds me.FTFY
any yacht rock song worth its salt has Michael McDonald on it
Nope, it's just a matter of taking a remote fileshare a step further and also making the database hosted on the same machine as the fileshare, basically installing mpd in both places (server and pi). It's called "satellite setup":You mean sending the audio stream from MPD running on the server to something on the pi? I forget if MPD can receive as well as send so if it's not MPD what is the something?
Because the internal processing of the room correction is better when it's fed better analog. At least, that's the theory. The room correction effect seems to swamp it, though, not least because room corrected audio is quieter than uncorrected for headroom protection reasons.Why would you ever choose streamer -> DAC -> A/D -> room correction -> amps?