[Brian D]

Fantastic product. Never really thought of stripping it down this far!

This is a $99-ish product from us if done in a Modi-sized box. Worth doing?

YES. A rotary encoder added on would be nice but even as it is presented now it would be an immediate buy.

 

[jonathan c]

Are you being paid while you make Cowen prototypes??

…if so, I hope in State of Georgia USD than in Republic of Georgia GEL (Lari…)

 

[StimpyWan]

This obstacle is easily overcome:

What...! It doesn't go to 11...!

 

[Jason Stoddard]

YES. A rotary encoder added on would be nice but even as it is presented now it would be an immediate buy.

The catch is volume indication. We could do old-skool Freya/Saga (with a non-motorized pot), but it can be overridden by the remote control. Motorized pots are too large to be viable in that size, bigger size means it's getting too expensive.

 

[Bonehead7171]

This obstacle is easily overcome:

WANT!

 

[StimpyWan]

The catch is volume indication. We could do old-skool Freya/Saga (with a non-motorized pot), but it can be overridden by the remote control. Motorized pots are too large to be viable in that size, bigger size means it's getting too expensive.

I never could understand the need for a "volume indication" visual aid? My ears are the volume indicator...!

 

[Mike-WI]

Fantastic product. Never really thought of stripping it down this far!

This is a $99-ish product from us if done in a Modi-sized box. Worth doing?

Sys w/ remote. Yes.

 

[Jason Stoddard]

I never could understand the need for a "volume indication" visual aid? My ears are the volume indicator...!

When your kid turns it all the way up and you don't know...that's when volume indication is important.

 

[valiant66]

I'm also finding this oddly fascinating. Probably because it feeds into my speaker fetish.

--snip--
Totem Kin (love my Totem Tribe II as a center channel)

+1 for Totem. My Mani-2s and Model 1 centre make great sounds together.

Hardly efficient though...
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[StimpyWan]

When your kid turns it all the way up and you don't know...that's when volume indication is important.

Too many years working in studio. I always ensured volume pots were completely turned down, before powering up...! Safety first...!

 

[valiant66]

I've seen and had some players (especially the mixed media ones like DVD players) that don't do gapless playback, which is why I brought it up. CD-ROM based mechanisms also don't tend to implement gapless playback maybe because they're built for the way computers access data.

I won't ask for my dream feature, which I don't expect anyone to implement these days: index point access within tracks. I've only seen that on some Sony ES players.

+1 for that too. My first CD player had that feature and I took it for granted until it died and discovered nothing else offered it.
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[macdonjh]

CD index marks are potentially useful, but I think the reality was that consumers were confused about the difference between tracks and index marks. There was no consistent way for how the record labels should use index marks, and it wasn't long before both the record labels and CD player manufacturers gave up on the idea. I have the original CD release of the Glenn Gould Goldberg Variations, where the entire CD is a single track with 32 index marks. Within a couple of years, I saw that CD release had been changed to 32 tracks, an acknowledgement that index marks didn't gain acceptance in the marketplace.

I don't remember, were gaps between tracks "hard coded" in early CDs? Would the index markers serve to allow gapless playback of tracks with several sections? I admit to hardly ever using the feature. I am glad Goldberg Variations has been separated into separate tracks.

 

[valiant66]

The attached image is a homage to ORT, Paladin79 and Bcowen. I am aquiring a collection of Wohler LED and Benchmark Media Sp320x meters. Looking at them puts a smile on my face. In these times we need all the smiles we can get. I can't thank you folks enough, I received a sch-remote digital VU from Ebay today. It looks like a really cool device for a favorable price from the videos, I will update when I get it working. The hypers and a review.

https://sch-remote.com/Color-LCD-to...alyzer---Envelope---Goniometer-PID-EVOR04.php

https://www.ebay.com/itm/175599918338?hash=item28e2921d02:g:tUkAAOSwJv5j3pUq&amdata=enc:AQAIAAAA8LRXJdcpu+0iUg2z9ZUtSx6XiM6jLMdTb5wsdB39SWciyxpp1UW53E60ZPS7JcYy7P/fvyVeZo+BGDZzYy+GzdHcCucDfExW0ZUYrDLHMu1pguXYL7+EJOz01lM3XBQSBhjBxCh5KiMHPHH0AceotYAUNvkFPl8V/+3MYKkl9qrZvakn2CyYOeNR1sh08IcnuXxqlP0GLeQSs3mATOYDgz4nZW0X7Hlb4aOU6XQtyDvMhe/HiKwmQUJtyN+GABD6IAlR4OnMaVGT4IzEhgeqAuJCHyXewdcX1bhCoGeG1DUhoWNs8Cddaqups9jltFDNlA==|tkp:Bk9SR4iJia39YQ

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...emote-digital-vu-spectrum-meter-review.44010/

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This has been sitting in my Amazon wish list for well over a year, since I saw t mentioned here: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B096KLDMCV...H892MZHZ&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it

 

[Bonehead7171]

I don't remember, were gaps between tracks "hard coded" in early CDs? Would the index markers serve to allow gapless playback of tracks with several sections? I admit to hardly ever using the feature. I am glad Goldberg Variations has been separated into separate tracks.

Yes, but if you are listening to a live recording of Goldberg, you do not want a 2 second gap between tracks. It takes you out of the moment.

I hardly use it either, but when I am listening to Beethoven 5, I want the 3d movement to go RIGHT INTO the 4th movement. ATTACCA. And if it doesn't it RUINS THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE!!!!

 

[valiant66]

Fantastic product. Never really thought of stripping it down this far!

This is a $99-ish product from us if done in a Modi-sized box. Worth doing?

ABSOLUTELY!!

(Sorry for shouting, my excitement got the better of me...)
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