[bosiemoncrieff]

dreamt about the gadget again...can't wait to take delivery of it in 2018.

The OPPO dvd/blu ray/cd player has an HDMI in. It also has a gigabit ethernet in. My MacBook Pro has an HDMI out.

How would you rank these in terms of sound:
(1) MBP -> HDMI -> OPPO -> Coax -> Bimby
(2) MBP -> Ethernet -> OPPO -> Coax -> Bimby
(3) MBP -> EITR -> Bimby
in case I hate myself
(4) MBP -> optical -> Bimby?

I think I know the answer. Unfortunately it makes me want a digital coax SYS...

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

What struck me most was:

The king's chamber is a lonely, dark, and silent place.

That is why they should have tuned that sucker to 256Hz instead.
It would have been a warm, lively room full of music!

And to know it's called "The kings chamber" but not a tomb at all.
It's a giant DAC from one of Mike's ancestors.
The "sarcophagus" is the lunchbox from Giant Constanza, a few meters down the road, left there to cool.

 

[winders]

...Mike considered it a bug and devoted his engineering time to revise the software to take care of the bug and rolled it into production.

No. Mike did not consider it a bug. He "fixed" it so that anyone measuring the DACs would not see the "notch" and wrongly focus on it as an issue.

 

[HumanFly]

I stumble opun some weird stuff when googling the tuning to 432.
Complete conspiracy theories about the nazis and the Rockefellers trying to enslave humanity by tuning to 440hz instead of 432.
The devil is in there too :
http://www.earth-matters.nl/26/1212...a-tuning-and-the-bastardization-of-music.html
Maybe I google wrong

 

[jacal01]

dreamt about the gadget again...can't wait to take delivery of it in 2018.

Did it still have the big red mushroom slap button on top?

 

[jacal01]

I think it lost me at "heart chakra vortex".

If googling for bioenergy transformative DNA and kundalini activations is wrong, I don't want to be right.

 

[KoshNaranek]

I think it lost me at "heart chakra vortex".

If googling for bioenergy transformative DNA and kundalini activations is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Just kick back and listen to this

 

[HumanFly]

closer to my personal frequency but also quite often 432 or 256 hz.

 

[jacal01]

Just kick back and listen to this

Be still my vortex...

closer to my personal frequency but also quite often 432 or 256 hz.

More exactly:

"Where were the sounds coming from?
Where did these sounds come from?
Tell us, please."

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

 

[radicus]

HA! The word Exactly-ish is used in the linked article. Not sure that is a real word...
But, it made me think about The Gadget. Which will get you Exactly-ish to the musical tuning you crave!

"But," as Sean Connery would say, "it depends on what the meaning of ish ish."

 

[RCBinTN]

dreamt about the gadget again...can't wait to take delivery of it in 2018.

The OPPO dvd/blu ray/cd player has an HDMI in. It also has a gigabit ethernet in. My MacBook Pro has an HDMI out.

How would you rank these in terms of sound:
(1) MBP -> HDMI -> OPPO -> Coax -> Bimby
(2) MBP -> Ethernet -> OPPO -> Coax -> Bimby
(3) MBP -> EITR -> Bimby
in case I hate myself
(4) MBP -> optical -> Bimby?

I think I know the answer. Unfortunately it makes me want a digital coax SYS...

I am using this path...MBP - USB - Gen 5 - GMB.
The SQ is great.

Same as your #3 w/o the extra connections.

I haven't tested #1 or #2.
My backup is your #4 that sounds OK but not as good as the Gen 5 USB.

Hope this helps!
RCB

 

[US Blues]

Amazing where stuff I read here pops up again:

The king's chamber is a lonely, dark, and silent place. It measures 10.47 metres (34.4 ft) from east to west and 5.234 metres (17.17 ft) north to south. It has a flat roof 5.974 metres (19.60 ft) above the floor and is entirely faced with granite. The only object in it is a rectangular granite "sarcophagus".
Apart from a 13 second reverb tail several remarkable resonances can be heard that are connected to 432 Hz, the fundamental of Stellar's native and ultimately natural tone scale and of this Universe.
An interesting way to "experience" this IR of the Kings Chamber is to retune your music and instruments to concert A pitch A = 432Hz and then the true resonance of this ancient chamber can be brought to life for your musical creations.
As can be appreciated in these impulse responses The King's chamber resonates very strongly to an F# chord, and the Kings Chamber coffer resonates to A, which is the Minor third of F-sharp. 729hz and its octaves are the big notes: it is a perfect F-sharp when A is tuned to 432hz. However the modern well tempered F-sharp of 740 Hz (A=440 Hz) is close enough to also bring the room to resonate, especially two octaves down at 185 Hz.

This is about the kings chamber of the great pyramid of Gizeh ofcourse.
(And in no way do I claim this to be science of any kind. No idea if it even is a proven thing or not.)

Cheops Thrills.

 

[kstuart]

+1 on Skroweczewski for a complete Bruckner cycle.

Just my opinion of course, but...

I cannot even listen seriously to any other Bruckner symphonies than Haitink. His Concertgebouw recordings on Philips seem to be the only one that understand what Bruckner was writing. Especially in terms of rhythm.

YMMV.

 

[kstuart]

It should be possible to capture the Gadget's digital output in FLAC form, so that everyone can get an idea of the effect.

There is software available that will do that. For example, if you have Jriver Media Center, the DSP page has "Tempo & Pitch".

I have not checked, but I am sure there is a free plugin for the foobar2000 free music player that will do the same thing.

What Mike stated is the reason for The Gadget is that all those software methods "sound like a** " so Schiit developed something that does the same thing with audiophile quality sound.

But you can test the idea with any digital Tempo/Pitch plugin or software.

 

[sublime9]

I think it lost me at "heart chakra vortex".

If googling for bioenergy transformative DNA and kundalini activations is wrong, I don't want to be right.

I lost it when they claimed that green light is 528 nanometers which is a harmonic of 528 Hz. Apparently the difference between wavelength and frequency was lost on that spiritual fellow.