[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

From reading between the lines, I think it is clear that the Wizard of Coz actually LIKES ABBA.(Truth be told, it is on of my OCCASIONAL guilty pleasures)

It's Constanza's favorite.

 

[Letmebefrank]

"It is not the DSP which needs to thermally stabilize. It is the DAC chip which needs to settle into its INL spec"
I read this as: It is not the DSP which needs to thermally stabilize - it is the DAC chip (which needs to thermally stabilize). As I understand it (which I freely admit, I don't), INL spec is a bit like THD - a measured target for the accuracy of the DAC, and it only achieves it once it has thermally stabilised - but I definitely could be wrong.

You could be right. I am hoping that @Baldr himself will provide us with a definitive answer as to what exactly takes that time (24-72hrs) in his DACs to sound best, that way I will have a go-to post to quote whenever the issue comes up, instead of the 3-4 posts from different threads that I currently use. I don't care if I'm proven right or wrong, I just want to better understand. Mike's multibit technology fascinates me but I don't understand it as well as I would like to.

 

[Ableza]

"It is not the DSP which needs to thermally stabilize. It is the DAC chip which needs to settle into its INL spec"
I read this as: It is not the DSP which needs to thermally stabilize - it is the DAC chip (which needs to thermally stabilize). As I understand it (which I freely admit, I don't), INL spec is a bit like THD - a measured target for the accuracy of the DAC, and it only achieves it once it has thermally stabilised - but I definitely could be wrong.

This is correct. Or at least it is in general with ADC processes.

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

So I'm at the start of my European tour, staying at the Garden House in Mayfair. Yesterday, I saw a wonderful young international string quartet play Shostakovich, another contemporary composer, and a student composer at the Royal Academy. The violist (Emily Pond) made wonderful facial expressions throughout and the performance was on the whole deeply satisfying. I would love to have heard the Grosse Fugue. Alas.

Then at 7:30 I was at St Martin in the Fields for Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi. Excellent performance of the four seasons, and lovely Brandenburg Concerto #3.

Finally at 10:00 I saw Ivan Levit(t?) play the last three Beethoven sonatas at Wigmore Hall. Wow! He had such a deep communion with the instrument that the audience didn't dare clap between the first and second sonatas. He didn't come out of his trance. His fingers rested on the keys for five or six seconds, the pianist unmoving, and then the next piece began.

Tonight I heard the Sibelius Violin Concerto with Pekka Kuusisto on the violin and Vladimir Ashkenazy leading the London Chamber Orchestra at Cadogan Hall. I don't know if it's the smallness of the space or the largess of the orchestra but they really brought off Elgar and Sibelius with tremendous intensity—the fortissimi had all the force that I expect from Chicago and Berlin. The soloist said that he intended to encore a happy folk song but that after the fire here in London, decided to play something by a german composer I had never heard of, something about a guardian angel. It was deeply moving, the violinist whistling along to playing. The sounds he got out of the instrument were uncanny. Sometimes I could swear pipes were playing. If he's in your town, go see him!

Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra in Stratford-upon-Avon last weekend were exhausting but worthwhile—JC gets a little histrionic at times, and frankly A&C does too, though the styles are so radically different (being written a decade apart in what was the most swiftly changeful two decade career in literary history) that despite being nominal sequels, they really bear nothing except two or three characters (in name) in common. Angels in America at the national theatre tomorrow and Friday!

 

[MOFOfunk]

What's your story Bosie mon Crieff?
Do you attend operas for a living? Is that even possible? Is it like that guy who participated in all the marathons in one year? Are you going for some record or are you just really into Opera. Is there others like you? Is there a title, like trainspotters?
Is sounds like some great experiences you have. Kinda like festival.
Did you ever go to the new opera house in Copenhagen? Is it any good?
Enjoy the rest of your tour.

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

I'm what's called a literacy specialist; I help middle school students of color who aren't reading at grade level reach grade level as quickly as possible. However, I have eleven weeks in the summer to travel, as well as two weeks at Christmas, all of Thanksgiving week, a week in the spring, and various long weekends throughout the year. I treat culture as a scarce resource to be consumed hungrily, and I do so.

I'm enjoying London, but I can't wait for my time in Continental Europe, which begins on the 30th. Berlin in particular will be wonderful. I should've packed more shorts.

I got some excellent advice some years ago to spend money on experiences rather than things, and my headphone collection notwithstanding, I try to abide by this thinking.

 

[wink]

(snip) I have eleven weeks in the summer to travel, as well as two weeks at Christmas, all of Thanksgiving week, a week in the spring, and various long weekends throughout the year. I treat culture as a scarce resource to be consumed hungrily, and I do so.

(snip)

When you're retired, you don't get no holidays, breaks, days off etc., etc, ad hoc, ad nauseum.

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

Just returned from the apple store, and I must correct an earlier post. The new and current version of the iMac, like the late 2016 touch bar MacBook Pro, DOES NOT have optical out of the headphone jack. Because why remove a port when you can just remove functionality within that port?

 

[HumanFly]

I think people will soon realise that Apple is no longer the vision of a man who wanted to do things differently but a megabuck-shareholder-ran company like all the others.
And megabuck companies remove functionality just because some guy in accounting says so.
I think we will see the first apple devices with a powerswitch in the back before third quarter 2018.
(As they will no longer lead but follow the small guys that still have to think instead of calculate)

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

Are there any digital to digital conversion boxes to extract bits from Thunderbolt (1, 2, or 3) and deliver them to optical, coax, or AES/EBU?

Seems to me if Mike wanted to make any CD transport, its "killer app" would be Thunderbolt or ethernet input and conversion to o., c., or a./e. Might as well throw in USB as well, for the masses.

While we're dreaming, what about wifi? Bluetooth is a piece of schiit, of course, but at least wifi operates losslessly.

 

[axle_69]

Are there any digital to digital conversion boxes to extract bits from Thunderbolt (1, 2, or 3) and deliver them to optical, coax, or AES/EBU?

Kind of. There are boxes with Thunderbolt (2 or 3) connection to the laptop, that have PCIe slots, where you can fit a sound card with AES/EBU output (like the Lynx).

 

[Ableza]

You might find something here: https://www.sweetwater.com/c1089--Thunderbolt_Audio_Interfaces

 

[belgiangenius]

I think people will soon realise that Apple is no longer the vision of a man who wanted to do things differently but a megabuck-shareholder-ran company like all the others.
And megabuck companies remove functionality just because some guy in accounting says so.
I think we will see the first apple devices with a powerswitch in the back before third quarter 2018.
(As they will no longer lead but follow the small guys that still have to think instead of calculate)

That's right. Next year's profit must be bigger than this year's, regardless of how big this year's profit was!

I started boycotting Apple years ago because they have an extraordinarily low value to dollar ratio.

One reason I like Schiit is because they don't operate this way.

 

[Blue Warper]

Are there any digital to digital conversion boxes to extract bits from Thunderbolt (1, 2, or 3) and deliver them to optical, coax, or AES/EBU?

Seems to me if Mike wanted to make any CD transport, its "killer app" would be Thunderbolt or ethernet input and conversion to o., c., or a./e. Might as well throw in USB as well, for the masses.

While we're dreaming, what about wifi? Bluetooth is a piece of schiit, of course, but at least wifi operates losslessly.

Maybe we're soon going to see one of these boxes from Schiit. Some time ago Mike said he might work on such a device, but then he would probably opt for making two versions, a cheaper one (with fewer connections, I suppose) and a 'full' and more expensive one. If I were to take part in this Schiit guessing game too , I would personally think this is what they're calling the "Eitr".
I hope to be right here, because I need such a box too, and I'm postponing my purchase, hoping that Schiit will (soon?) announce one...

 

[Whazzzup]

My solution was to take my iMac out of play, quiet the process and dedicate the bits to travel in a serene path to its ultimate conversion to an analogue signal. Antipodes audio from New Zealand, ds GT desktop player with dedicated power supply, and roon core. The irony of replacing my 5k iMac, was after downloading the roon remote app to my iPhone 7, I found out my iPad 2 bought when they first went to lightening, was incompatible. So of course I had to buy an iPad Pro, 12.5 inch, with 512 gb, so I could remote roon from an iPad once my antipodes arrives, easy come easy go with apple.
I applaud bosiemon, for your seasonal leisure dedication, being retired since my early 40 I have had to run the marathon not the race, while I dedicate this time to various specific objectives of experience, I have needed pace. Like a good high stepping strutters enjoy the ride, the destination will look after itself.