[Derrick Swart]

Why on earth would you even want that?

he has stocks of D/S chip companies

 

[audio philestine]

Yes I new that, but it did remind me of when as a young lad of about 12 stepped (bare foot) on a hot soldering iron. I smelt it before I felt it! Was difficult getting to sleep that night...

How did I manage that one you might ask. I had left it on top of a steel tool box, and then, maybe 10 minutes later, forgotten for the moment, stepped on the tool box to reach something on a higher shelf.

Yep. Not the dumbest thing I ever did, possibly the most painful.

If you haven't read it yet, you need to read Jason's soldering iron story. I think he posted it on this forum about a year ago. Hilarious, in a schadenfreude way. It's nice to know even the best of us can make these kind of mistakes..

EDIT: found a link:
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/sch...bable-start-up.701900/page-1790#post-13867303

 

[US Blues]

Sheesh, you want extreme weather testing? try the northern parts of Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota. We went from 65-72 degrees on a Tuesday to thunderstorms and hail on a Wednesday to between 12-30 inches of snow on Thurs/Friday.

Also, I played college football with bunch of Alaskans, they couldn't hang with cold we got in Northwestern Minnesota..

Anyway, now that my odd weather brag is over, good luck on your invention.

All of Manitoba just broke out in laughter.

 

[CAPT Deadpool]

Sheesh, you want extreme weather testing? try the northern parts of Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota. We went from 65-72 degrees on a Tuesday to thunderstorms and hail on a Wednesday to between 12-30 inches of snow on Thurs/Friday.

Also, I played college football with bunch of Alaskans, they couldn't hang with cold we got in Northwestern Minnesota..

Anyway, now that my odd weather brag is over, good luck on your invention.

They were probably from the Anchorage Area it is much warmer. Fairbanks has almost a 150 degree temperature swing every year reaching below -50F about every winter. I recall replacing the Rear Main Seal/gasket (sits between the engine and transmission) on a Humvee with only 3000 miles on it. Most people have probably never had to do that on their CONUS vehicles, also Humvees are built pretty shoddy IMO, the Strykers held up much better, and don't get me started on CUC-Vs or SUS-Vs. The temperature swings are hell on seals and gaskets. One week it would be -50F the next +20F. The Army does most of its extreme cold weather and temperature testing at Ft. Greely about 100 miles south of Fairbanks.

 

[unsane69]

May I ask what speakers you have hooked up to your Ragnarok 2? I am on the verge of ordering one for my inefficient (4 ohm, 83-86db) speakers.

I don't post much, but it's great fun reading what y'all are up to, ups and downs alike.

You need to post more because that avatar is the schiit.

 

[Rensek]

All of Manitoba just broke out in laughter.

Yeah, I considered tossing manitoba in there as well. Our friendly neighbors to the north see the same weather we do. Sometimes warmer, sometimes colder.

The better radio stations I pick up all come from Winnipeg/Manitoba.

 

[judson_w]

And those are some super-important points that nearly every company misses:

1. You can’t just apply pressure if your supply chain and processes are crap. They’ll just break, and you’ll be stuck with nothing.
2. You can’t just apply pressure if your people don’t benefit from it. They’ll just keep doing what they’ve been doing, and you’re Schiit outta luck.
3. You can’t just apply pressure if management hasn’t agreed to it (or, at least, accepted it, and is up for really really trying.)

If you don’t have those things in place, you can’t open the floodgates. Heck, I’d argue that you still can’t open the floodgates unless you have at least a couple of other things in place:

I wish where I work followed these notes. Everything has been rush and change and implement new things and now we have been run into the ground and are closing (or being sold).

I think "Why is there Vanilla and Broccoli?" would be a better representation.

That may be, but now I want to visit a local ice cream shop that makes unique and unconventional flavors of ice cream. Some of my favorites include vanilla and black pepper (creamy sweet with a bit of heat at the end), basil, cardamom, and green chile cheesecake.

 

[treecloud]

If you haven't read it yet, you need to read Jason's soldering iron story. I think he posted it on this forum about a year ago. Hilarious, in a schadenfreude way. It's nice to know even the best of us can make these kind of mistakes..

EDIT: found a link:
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/sch...bable-start-up.701900/page-1790#post-13867303

THANKS for finding that...good one, a triple play! I don't know what it is, but the burns on the bottom of the feet seem to be the worst. Maybe STANDING on the bloody thing with your full weight has something to do with it? LOL...ouch.

 

[Jason Stoddard]

@Jason Stoddard so being Nexus, will it take either single-ended (like Bifrost MB original generation) or balanced input, but drive the RAAL headphones always in balanced mode regardless of input? 4-gang alps pot (no remote volume) ? How many front panel switch selectable inputs?

In order: yes, yes (Alps RK27 4-gang, not some cheapo 9mm thing, same as Jotunheim), and 3 (balanced, SE, and card, like Jotunheim).

 

[Clemmaster]

Freya S question: with Nexus active, balanced output, would both a 2V single ended and a 4V balanced inputs have the same volume?

in other words, does the SE -> Bal conversion double the voltage?

 

[Jason Stoddard]

Freya S question: with Nexus active, balanced output, would both a 2V single ended and a 4V balanced inputs have the same volume?

in other words, does the SE -> Bal conversion double the voltage?

With Freya S, yes.

 

[Clemmaster]

Hmmm. Unless I had it on passive by mistake, that’s not what I got when I plugged in Bifrost 2 SE, compared to Yggdrasil balanced. I’ll test again...

 

[Jason Stoddard]

Hmmm. Unless I had it on passive by mistake, that’s not what I got when I plugged in Bifrost 2 SE, compared to Yggdrasil balanced. I’ll test again...

Yggy balanced is more than 4V output—about 4.3V.

Of course, I'm going by memory too...maybe I should check.

 

[Clemmaster]

I just tried all modes, with Yggy balances, B2 balanced and B2 SE. the SE input is consistently quieter.

Also, Nexus 1X mode is definitely louder than passive?

 

[Jason Stoddard]

I just tried all modes, with Yggy balances, B2 balanced and B2 SE. the SE input is consistently quieter.

Also, Nexus 1X mode is definitely louder than passive?

Maybe my memory is faulty.

But there will be differences depending on what impedance you're driving, whether you're going balanced in or SE in to balanced out or SE out, etc. Balanced in at 4V will be twice as loud as SE in as 2V, if you're going balanced out. But they'll be the same via SE out. There are also differences in how Freya S and Freya+ handle balanced signals. It's all very confusing, even for me.

Bottom line, if you're trying to level match for comparisons, it's best to do it with a meter.