[artur9]

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?

I would think that would be as expensive and less useful, audiophile-y, than the UnDaes-o and similar.

 

[RCBinTN]

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.

Excellent from a personal enjoyment level - and also to gain info to help your students. What a great opportunity - first hand knowledge to pass along. I'm envious of the chance to help people that way.
Best -
RCB

 

[RCBinTN]

Ahhhhh...but will they both be enough to negate the ABBA Effect?
Or.....possibly enough of these potions will result in a Cozzi / RCB production of Mamma Mia...costumes and all!

Sorry, catching up.
I love the bling but need to show more leg...and the music must be ABBA.
Just to calibrate.

 

[MOFOfunk]

... 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.

Thank you for the good and inspiring explanation. Enjoy Berlin. And stop by for a coffee if you find anything of interest in Aarhus (Culture capital of europe 2017 http://www.aarhus2017.dk/en/ )

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.

Right on. I cant stand the lying. How the f*ck do they label a laptop as Pro when it only have one type of micky mouse connection.
Is there any good value to dollar ratio and not so audible challenged laptops outhere.

Seems like the Eitr newsfeed has gone awfully silent the past month(s). Hope thats a good sign.

 

[kimbo]

INL/DNL linearity is attained after a hundred or so clock cycles, which would be seconds or fractions of seconds, not hours. Mike discusses thermal uniformity as the key in his Yggdrasil development thread.

Hey Ableza, can you point me to the Yggdrasil development thread you mention? I'm having problems finding it. Many thanks!

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

The most that can be said of Apple's unfortunate decision to kick optical support out of its product line is that it's the clarity I needed I get a serious, dedicated CD transport and stop relying on computer audio.

 

[Baldr]

Chapter 3 on the MP Saga. I went to school, began working at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach on solenoid design, hated it, and began working for Texas Instruments on field testing of early digital multi-channel tape recorders. I went first, and briefly, to Saudi Arabia (you guessed – hated it) and ended up in Peru, working in jungle sites which I actually loved. The problem was there was no place for either Music or Hi-Fi traveling from site to site. I stayed down there traveling around and working for five years or so, ended up drunk in my favorite bar in Lima (Johann Sebastian Bar) listening to some Mahler and decided that I missed music, hi-fi, and redheads enough to get back to the good old USA. (I hadn’t been to Ireland yet.)

Back I came, hooked up with an old acquaintance who was opening a stereo store, and started building tube amps for that store. They were designed specifically for Quad ESL speakers. This was 1976 or so, the era of the last of the great, old-time analog audio. It wasn’t long before another old audio buddy approached me to co-found (with him) the original Theta Electronics. This was the 6DJ8, no feedback, passive EQ preamp which was ice water dumped on the early solid state electronics (which would knock the fillings out of your teeth while generating the noise background a loud stuck, noisy, toilet) and old classic 12AX7 tube designs (which had the bass of a refried beans fart through a couple of layers of diaper, while retaining all of the stuck toilet noise). The feedbackless 6DJ8 was a completely different sound, quiet,open and not harsh at all. I was so engaged in this company, I was not involved in music at all.

At least until I went back to McCabe’s in the early 1980’s and got back into it, practicing frequently until one night late I was coming home to my second floor apartment and tripped on the stairs going up and used my hand to break the fall, which also broke my little finger metacarpal. Ugh!

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

I was going to say 'wow Mike, you're up early!' but it's only 9:45 in London...

 

[artur9]

I stayed down there traveling around and working for five years or so, ended up drunk in my favorite bar in Lima (Johann Sebastian Bar) listening to some Mahler and decided that I missed music, hi-fi, and redheads enough to get back to the good old USA. (I hadn’t been to Ireland yet.)

Mahler and redheads?! Is that a healthy combination?

If there had been decent headphones in those days, would Theta have ever come into existence?

 

[Whazzzup]

I have dug this electronic rabbit hole but good, no sense in stopping iam close to the other side

 

[RCBinTN]

This was the 6DJ8, no feedback, passive EQ preamp which was ice water dumped on the early solid state electronics (which would knock the fillings out of your teeth while generating the noise background a loud stuck, noisy, toilet) and old classic 12AX7 tube designs (which had the bass of a refried beans fart through a couple of layers of diaper, while retaining all of the stuck toilet noise).
At least until I went back to McCabe’s in the early 1980’s and got back into it, practicing frequently until one night late I was coming home to my second floor apartment and tripped on the stairs going up and used my hand to break the fall, which also broke my little finger metacarpal. Ugh!

Just love the description of the sound quality. Perhaps led to the mega combo burrito filter that certainly delivers clearly-defined fart resolution.

Sorry to hear about the broken finger, Mike. A bitch for a banjo (or piano) player, for sure.

 

[RickB]

Feeling kinda jaded and your Schiit stack no longer sounds magical, making you want to upgrade something to improve it? Just take up shortwave radio listening as another hobby. Then, when you go back to music listening on your Schiit system, it will sound positively awesome again.

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

What's the most audiophile-approved blu-ray player out there? And to what extent, if any, does its sound surpass that of conventional DVD in an ordinary 2-channel setup?

I'll add a layer of complexity to make this question even more interesting. Are there any known blu-ray players that *also* function as all-region DVD players? And which *also* have coaxial out?

http://www.primare.net/assets/_managed/products/files/BD32_productflyer.pdf

EDIT: Found the link above, not sure from the brochure whether they do all DVD regions, but I'd assume so. Also, holy crap AES/EBU.

 

[JohnnyCanuck]

What's the most audiophile-approved blu-ray player out there? And to what extent, if any, does its sound surpass that of conventional DVD in an ordinary 2-channel setup?

Probably one of the OPPO models. For two channel audio, though, I'd still route it through my Gumby.

JC

 

[RCBinTN]

Perhaps check-out the Oppo BDP-105. Here's a review from Steve Guttenberg...

https://www.cnet.com/news/oppo-bdp-105-not-your-average-blu-ray-player/

We own the BDP-103D and the transport is really solid. The BDP-105 has much better DAC ability. If you want better picture quality, go for the Darby option.

Hope this helps -
RCB