[adias]

In my case, it's not upgrade path but variety: MJ3, ecp DSHA-3F, Ferrum Oor, DNA Stellaris have all their own character and fit to particular music and headphones. Switching between them reminds me of those good differences. Same way as one can enjoy good cooking in different cuisines.

I can see that, however I have no patience to keeping various components of the same pipeline and keep rotating them. Way too much work, but if you enjoy that, great!

 

[Balthazar B]

Although I'd like to see Bottlehead continue, we'd need to find someone who really loves it to run it and give the customers the support they deserve. We're really not ready for the intensity of DIY, I'm afraid.

To expound a bit more: I've never been a huge fan of acquisitions. Too frequently it results in a big(ger) pile of mediocrity, run by paint-by-numbers management types who don't really care enough to make a niche company work. You're not gonna acquire/manage/research/focus-group your way to out-competing a company run by someone who lives and breathes their products, goes to sleep dreaming about new gear, wakes up excited every morning to go to the bench, and loves what they do because it's the best thing in the world. Period. NEH-VER. No matter how much money you throw at it.

Maybe there are some soon-to-be-forced-out Roon engineers who might want to take a crack at running Bottlehead. Despite the rhetoric we've heard before accompanying the takeover (paraphrasing: let it continue to be run as an independent entity), clearly Harman (and Samsung, and its investors) will be looking for ways to make money from it any which way they can, and things may not be so rosy for many of the folks who are left. Oh, yeah, "merger of equals" is another favorite, oft-used phrase associated with takeovers, and -- shockingly! shockingly! -- never works out that way.

 

[jonathan c]

If you check out that site where the audio friends hang out you'll find a lot of talk about 'plankton'.

JC

… that’s because they dwell in Bikini ‘Binaural Bottom’ !!

 

[Ableza]

Let's also add The Absolute Sound and Stereophile and a few others.

Yes they followed the model

 

[Topo47]

@33na3rd photo of TT. Allan Perkins RPM.
Maybe I'm looking at Schiit Skoll in near future. Sure in enjoy running it thru the Freya+

 

[jonathan c]

Although I'd like to see Bottlehead continue, we'd need to find someone who really loves it to run it and give the customers the support they deserve. We're really not ready for the intensity of DIY, I'm afraid.

To expound a bit more: I've never been a huge fan of acquisitions. Too frequently it results in a big(ger) pile of mediocrity, run by paint-by-numbers management types who don't really care enough to make a niche company work. You're not gonna acquire/manage/research/focus-group your way to out-competing a company run by someone who lives and breathes their products, goes to sleep dreaming about new gear, wakes up excited every morning to go to the bench, and loves what they do because it's the best thing in the world. Period. NEH-VER. No matter how much money you throw at it.

• From a corporate viewpoint, most acquisitions are conducted to entrench the acquirer’s senior management. It is that or be acquired and have the exits clearly shown.
• Also, in a fundamental sense, acquisition is an admission of inability to grow internally & profitably … two usually sound reasons for the ouster of management.

 

[33na3rd]

@33na3rd photo of TT. Allan Perkins RPM.
Maybe I'm looking at Schiit Skoll in near future. Sure in enjoy running it thru the Freya+

Oh my, very nice!

Thank you for sharing the image!

 

[eliottj]

Thanks for the honesty...its rare these days...
Old stuff just because its old is not any worse or better than when it came out.

Jason often states "we can do better" from a really good Analog EE this is a challenge to him etc...always trying to design stuff and improve on things etc..

I cant remember how many times I sit here and try to "discern" real world differences...and often think well there arent any or if they are there they are so small that I ask the question "Does it really matter?"..

Human Beings are funny creatures at times!

So many great new and old choices out there.

I had an Asgard 3 and enjoyed it. Picked up a PS Audio GCHA (headphone amp) which is 14 years old on a whim and it was cheap. I ended liking it better than the Asgard. I use it only as an amp. Just a personal thing. Just like me prefering the MM2 to a Bifrost 2.
There you go.

 

[Ableza]

• From a corporate viewpoint, most acquisitions are conducted to entrench the acquirer’s senior management. It is that or be acquired and have the exits clearly shown.
• Also, in a fundamental sense, acquisition is an admission of inability to grow internally & profitably … two usually sound reasons for the ouster of management.

The number one reason given in my industry for acquisition is "vertical integration" but the real reason is normally to artificially increase total business size-by-revenue for bragging rights on Wall Street.

 

[Jason Stoddard]

• From a corporate viewpoint, most acquisitions are conducted to entrench the acquirer’s senior management. It is that or be acquired and have the exits clearly shown.
• Also, in a fundamental sense, acquisition is an admission of inability to grow internally & profitably … two usually sound reasons for the ouster of management.

This is super funny, because the majority of acquisition proformas I've seen include:

1. Retention of senior management at the acquired company, at truly LOL-tastic compensation levels.
2. Additional funny money for said senior management.

"No, sorry, I'll wait till you're BK and get everything wayyy cheaper and without the encumbrances," sez any intelligent money-guy.

Remember, I've been in audio a looooooong time and also been through the dot-com 1.0 boom and bust.

 

[earnmyturns]

I can see that, however I have no patience to keeping various components of the same pipeline and keep rotating them. Way too much work, but if you enjoy that, great!

Two systems in two locations, each with a pre to switch between amps and sources.

 

[jmimac351]

I like hearing about zero feedback amps… and turtles. And sources for cheap scrub track tires.

 

[Jason Stoddard]

I like hearing about zero feedback amps… and turtles. And sources for cheap scrub track tires.

1 of 3.

 

[Timster]

I hadn't seen that one, thanks for the link. There goes my 'no low vis' statement!

The comments are interesting too. This seems to be an unforced error as the comments include that traffic volume was low, so no need for the SW to be cleared ahead of the landing traffic.

Some commenters also note that in other jurisdictions they would not issue such a takeoff clearance, as I commented earlier. I do wonder if the fact that ATC could issue such a clearance in VMC makes it "routine" and normalizes it to such an extent that nerves no longer jangle in adverse circumstances, and the error chain is maintained.

I read the incident reports with fascination: and two observations almost always jump out. One is that the error chain often starts with an inconsequential event; and then gets compounded again and again. The mind set that (one "knows") can't easily be broken, and second, the Monday morning QBs who have obviously never been there.

Cheers

Lots of good info on the site if you are into that stuff, and Simon keeps it pretty clinical in the reporting. But you're correct on the Monday am QBs... They pop up everywhere. You do need a filter, as with most places on the interwebs.

 

[jmimac351]

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