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Post by MartinT on Apr 25, 2024 19:17:17 GMT
From what I hear it's a real problem in Alabama! What's different about Alabama? Wait, I might not want the answer...
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Post by MartinT on Apr 25, 2024 18:02:18 GMT
I had extra hot jalapeno chillies, Mike declined.
What can I say?
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Post by MartinT on Apr 25, 2024 16:31:13 GMT
Seriously?
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Post by MartinT on Apr 25, 2024 16:28:34 GMT
I heard about it on R4 this morning. A lot of crossover nonsense about amalgamating classical with pop. As you say, unnecessary and it's not as if the Proms are lacking in ticket sales.
In fact, I'll wager that the big classics sell out the fastest, so why fix what ain't broke?
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Post by MartinT on Apr 25, 2024 16:24:20 GMT
Melissa Tallon - Blue Hours Martin Smith just happened to put this on while we were at Audiostore and I identified it within a couple of bars. He looked a bit surprised! open.qobuz.com/track/126172719
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Post by MartinT on Apr 25, 2024 16:19:45 GMT
Just got back from Audiostore after the upgrade of my Signature Rendu SE to Deluxe (latest) level with a new main board and updated OS. Got it plumbed in and booted up. Deleted the default Roon and Squeezelite apps and setup DLNA for Qobuz hi-res FLAC streaming with my preferred device name.
It's now running music and sounding distinctly 'new' and 'dark' (but, surprisingly, not harsh). Not ready for proper listening so it's going to get a few days of Tara Labs before I can properly judge what's going on with it.
Mike and I had a great day out and a rather good pizza while we waited for the upgrade work to be completed.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 24, 2024 19:50:31 GMT
It's an unusual, and challenging, recording and the mic used on her voice has some definite colouration. However, she sings quite powerfully and with great emotion. Catch her on YouTube if you want to see her perform.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 24, 2024 19:47:31 GMT
Yes, the digital filters only work by having NOS mode off. They need oversampling to do their magic, although the differences between them tend to be small.
NOS, or non-oversampling, mode means the DAC runs straight through as a linear DAC without correction.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 24, 2024 14:26:32 GMT
No wonder, Tim. You tell us one thing and you see another!
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Post by MartinT on Apr 24, 2024 11:05:16 GMT
My next mod will be trying to incase magnetic waves of a toroidal Transformer, just waiting on supplies to land Careful, you might invent time travel and then how would you get back?
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Post by MartinT on Apr 24, 2024 10:45:41 GMT
I have a regime in mind and will vary each day, making sure I go out daily and do different things.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 24, 2024 10:41:46 GMT
Go for it - I'm not hearing any downside to the uGreen Cat7 although my run is much shorter.
Some Tara Labs burn-in helps, too.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 24, 2024 9:20:21 GMT
The mesh looks good, a lot neater and will keep your DAC running cool.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 24, 2024 8:37:00 GMT
What I'm saying is that they're not a quality company. Quality companies care about the quality of their product to satisfy that 0.1% of discerning customers.
Spotify are not one of them. I used to respect them but not any more. Just another Ford.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 24, 2024 8:00:22 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Apr 24, 2024 4:29:54 GMT
That confirms they won't give a sh1t about us audiophiles.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 23, 2024 18:42:58 GMT
Don't forget to take some of your favourite CDs along... How quaint
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Post by MartinT on Apr 23, 2024 18:40:45 GMT
Still a lot of pressure to perform in different areas of the business, creative, administrative, financial etc Agreed, but for £186k I'd take a shitload of pressure, too. Only, I get that pressure now but not the pay.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 23, 2024 16:19:46 GMT
Please explain set direction according to curvature No, I have my own system and it depends on whether you subscribe to Russ Andrews' theory that cables acquire their direction as opposed to have it preset.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 23, 2024 15:39:09 GMT
The 0.5m uGreen Cat7 'tails' are now in, between the DXE filters and router/EtherREGEN to replace their supplied patches. This makes the whole ethernet run made uniformly from whatever nylon-braided magical cable the uGreen is made from that sounds so outrageously good. Done like this, I can hear how comprehensively it outperforms the Supra in upper-mid transparency, bass tightness (and, boy, is it tight) and general openness.
There are no direction markers so I made sure to set direction according to curvature as I always do with unmarked cables.
What a great upgrade for the cost of a few biscuits!
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