[SpeakerBox]

My luxurious grinder hopper with handle is in LA waiting to clear customs

On pins and needles

Made of gold, silver, and platinum alloy I bet!

 

[ScubaMan2017]

Paul Rigby?
That's the guy who wrote in a USB cable review:
"... Normally, when you push music through a USB cable, the data, which arrives in blocks, includes narrow bits which represent the high frequency portions of the final music. Within current USB cables, these bits are largely lost because the cable isn’t fast enough to cope, the sampling continues but the narrow bits are largely ignored because they are seen as errors. ..."

https://archive.telluriumq.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/black_usb_hifi-world.pdf

I think maybe he should leave technical descriptions alone.
It doesn't mean you can't believe that for the 6000CDT:- "The leap in quality was quite shocking"

I'll be interested to find out about the Schiit CD transport

Ah, good call @jimmers . That's the thing I'm still learning about this silly hobby: anybody can post anything. I like the look of the 6000CDT. The pricetag is a bit steep for me. I also like its user-replaceable laser cartridge.
I have some old CD and DVD spinners from old PCs. I wonder if the mechanisms still work.... Hmm.

 

[porchwizard]

Hmmmm. “Narrow bits” - those must be the ones, no, the THINGS that fall between the ones and zeroes. Halfsies?

Platform 9 3/4

 

[DACattack]

Paul Rigby?
That's the guy who wrote in a USB cable review:
"... Normally, when you push music through a USB cable, the data, which arrives in blocks, includes narrow bits which represent the high frequency portions of the final music. Within current USB cables, these bits are largely lost because the cable isn’t fast enough to cope, the sampling continues but the narrow bits are largely ignored because they are seen as errors. ..."

Catching up on the thread this morning and this quote made me laugh out loud and, sadly, splutter some lovely Peace Coffee Sumatra all over my laptop keyboard ... That said, I have read (from others) that that transport is well regarded. Much as I would like to replace my aging player, I'll hold out and wait for Mike's offering ...

 

[earnmyturns]

That's the guy who wrote in a USB cable review:
"... Normally, when you push music through a USB cable, the data, which arrives in blocks, includes narrow bits which represent the high frequency portions of the final music. Within current USB cables, these bits are largely lost because the cable isn’t fast enough to cope, the sampling continues but the narrow bits are largely ignored because they are seen as errors. ..."

Almost feels like as if someone fed him that as a prank to see if he'd regurgitate it

 

[Ableza]

Paul Rigby?
That's the guy who wrote in a USB cable review:
"... Normally, when you push music through a USB cable, the data, which arrives in blocks, includes narrow bits which represent the high frequency portions of the final music. Within current USB cables, these bits are largely lost because the cable isn’t fast enough to cope, the sampling continues but the narrow bits are largely ignored because they are seen as errors. ..."

https://archive.telluriumq.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/black_usb_hifi-world.pdf

I think maybe he should leave technical descriptions alone.
It doesn't mean you can't believe that for the 6000CDT:- "The leap in quality was quite shocking"

I'll be interested to find out about the Schiit CD transport

That's because cables are tubes, and larger chunks of data have more friction along the tube walls, causing the tubes to heat up and the smaller chunks to bunch up and create congestion ("noise.") It's like physics only different.

 

[45longcolt]

That's because cables are tubes, and larger chunks of data have more friction along the tube walls, causing the tubes to heat up and the smaller chunks to bunch up and create congestion ("noise.") It's like physics only different.

That sounds a lot like what's happening in my arteries...with cholesterol instead of data...

 

[jimmers]

That's because cables are tubes, and larger chunks of data have more friction along the tube walls, causing the tubes to heat up and the smaller chunks to bunch up and create congestion ("noise.") It's like physics only different.

You obviously need some High Fidelity Cables with "Magnetic Conduction" technology
https://www.highfidelitycables.com/

 

[Gazny]

You obviously need some High Fidelity Cables with "Magnetic Conduction" technology
https://www.highfidelitycables.com/

This is why I use Shiit Pyst cables, they have SuperUltraHyperTechnology with Unobtanium™.

Beyond Just Technology: SuperUltraHyperTechnology
PYST cables are made from only the finest 6-nines Unobtanium™ alloy, molecularly assembled in our Alternate Universe™ reality-distortion tesseract field , using a secret geometry reverse-engineered from crashed UFOs, painstakingly smuggled out of Area 51 by deep-cover operatives. Performance is further enhanced by the use of a QuantConnect™ quantum-entangled pair of transmission interfaces, held at absolute zero by our exclusive Stasis Field™ technology. The cables are then wrapped in NanoAeroCap™, a nanotechnology-enabled aerogel anti-capacitance insulation system, featuring Fractal Interleaved Geometry™ to create negative inductance for maximum audio transmission quality.

Or, er, well . . . again, no. These are nice, high-quality cables, with solid, reliable connectors. That’s it. Hope you like them!

 

[US Blues]

This is why I use Shiit Pyst cables, they have SuperUltraHyperTechnology with Unobtanium™.

But is it the new, Free Range Unobtanium?

 

[Derrick Swart]

Ah, good call @jimmers . That's the thing I'm still learning about this silly hobby: anybody can post anything. I like the look of the 6000CDT. The pricetag is a bit steep for me. I also like its user-replaceable laser cartridge.
I have some old CD and DVD spinners from old PCs. I wonder if the mechanisms still work.... Hmm.

https://theaudiophileman.com/gungnir-ho-schiit-gungnir-dac/

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

Playing with dose and grind is blowing my mind. 19.5g at 1.5 was getting astringent so I tightened it up to 1.0 and reduced to 18.5 and wow was the result tasty. Reduced to 17.5 though and the sweetness was gone. This is a hell of an art.

 

[porchwizard]

But is it the new, Free Range Unobtanium?

Everybody knows that unobtainum is unobtanium

 

[US Blues]

Playing with dose and grind is blowing my mind.

That kind of play blew my mind back in college.

 

[Ableza]

That kind of play blew my mind back in college.

Yea, I remember dose and grind from the Disco days...