Thaddeus Smith

Bumping this thread. Amp has been sitting unused for a year - Covid broke up the pony express plans and I refunded the buyer's funds. Make an offer for local DFW and let's see if we can make a deal.

Took me a couple days to isolate all the leaks and patch them, but we've got running water now. we lucked out, and the damage was nearly non-existent compared to many up here. i just need my repairs to last about 18 months and then i don't care.

Oh ffs, you're absolutely right. Went right over my head.

My house was/is frozen. What aren't you understanding about that?

We've got utility power for now. Hopefully others can share the burden of outages while we start to unthaw without interruption. The next few days will be repairing the pipes I know are shot and watching the rest thaw for signs of issues.

Had our first pipe breakages early this more ing, so I shut off at the meter. I've isolated which lines, just not sure how far down under the house it goes. It's an ancillary bathroom and we're building new next year, so i'll probably just cap the lines underneath the house and move on with my life.

The benefit is that you don't have to string extension cords everywhere, can flip on lights as needed, etc. It's enabled us to run a heat lamp in the barn and heaters in the house 100yds away, all from the same generator.

No for how I have it connected. Which is what we did, except we used a 220v plug in the garage that's in place for a welder. It's frowned upon, especially when utility power is restored, so you have to be very careful and ensure your mains are turned off.

We don't give livestock nearly enough credit. They need extra feed and water for internal combustion heat. But otherwise they're resilient. Goats grow cashmere and fluff up. Birds flood their feathers and trap air pockets. Pigs pile up into a clump. Give them space out of drafts, but maintain airflow so moisture doesn't build up. We're actively heating a small stall for two goats that are less than a week old, but everyone else is relying on their natural survival tools. Some chickens will likely end up with frostbite on their combs, but that's truly minor and all of our other animals so far are acting strong, no signs of distress. The hedgehogs and cats and pug, however, are more fickle and the real purpose for why we're running a generator at all for the house. Also, the field faucet is thawed and we've got a source of flowing water again.

Yup, fortunately we were able to borrow my inlaws, but definitely need to get our own. I won't go into detail and risk being scorned, but with the mains off we're able to connect the generator into the garage and power whatever what we need on the property using existing infrastructure.

Same, bud. Stay safe. Latest M&M homestead update: utility power has been off since 2am Monday. The house is mostly frozen inside. We've got a generator powering oil heaters in our bedroom for pets and a heat lamp in the barn for babies that were born Friday. No animal deaths so far, but it's always a possibility. Running water inside the house is no longer viable, but I'm going to try and thaw out our field faucet. Twice a day feedings is definitely taking a toll on feed supplies, but I think we've got enough to get through to thawing Temps. We're able to warm up and eat, shower, etc next door, and we parked the girls overnight there so Morgan and I could focus on keeping the homestead viable through the night. They're on a different provider than us and so far haven't had any outages - so we're grateful and blessed. The sunrise over our snow covered garden and barn was beautiful this morning.

Yessir, Sam the goat dog.

We're getting it right now in N.Texas. Haven't seen snow like this in a decade or so. Had a couple of goat kids born Friday afternoon. Always seems to be the way it goes..

There's at least a couple of members who use and recommend that, yep.

Also, my Yamaha limits the digital input to 24/96 so I just set those upper thresholds in Roon for playback. Everything at or below those thresholds play natively and everything above get's downsampled. I think I have maybe 6 albums which are 24/192.

Correct. Like I said earlier, I didn't kill too much time researching before deciding to just try it. Here's a couple of threads that prompted me go to that route since I wasn't dealing with BNC or Toslink. https://www.gearslutz.com/board/connectors-cables-stands-and-accessories/1137971-spdif-coaxial-aes-cable.html https://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/1022735-spdif-gt-aes-cable.html

I'm good on the rest of the setup, thanks. Just needed some clarity about how I was applying input attenuation in the SP2060.

Isn't it still black lacquer, which would be resin based?

Doing well man. Mostly keeping our heads down, grinding away at work and the homestead. We're building a new house on the property next year, so all our free time and resources are going towards that endeavor. Trying to keep my livestock safe in this cold snap we're having. Musically, I keep vacillating between the band "clipping." and another called "DakhaBrakha" - they couldn't be any further from each other on the spectrum. Tonight, however, Pink Floyd's Animals is hitting the spot for some reason.

Woooooooosh. Obviously I missed that movie reference.

I don't think Mormons have anything to do with this..

Thanks for confirming Chris. It seemed logical with such a wide variance range on the input channels, but wanted to make sure I wasn't robbing dynamic range. My interconnects between dsp and amps are short and balanced. Speaker wire is longer and grouped together, but tidy. Power cables are short and I try to keep them away from signal lines, but there's no real effort applied to separating everything. I don't hear any background noise. As for the dac to dsp connection, it's just a 1m rca to XLR cable. I spent a good half hour researching and it seems that going AES to spdif is a bit more fiddly and requires proper conversion equipment. Any direction between toslink and AES does as well. Spdif coax to AES however, especially over short runs, is a bit more forgiving if your equipment is robust enough to handle it. Recommendations were simply to try it and see. I did, and it seems to work just fine.

So I bought a Topping D10s to use as a USB to SPDIF bridge... between my music server and Yamaha SP2060... Which then feeds my amps... Without changing anything else in my system I suddenly found myself with a usable range between 1 and 5 on the PC volume, out of 100. Greater than 5 resulted in possible hearing loss. So I bumped down the attenuation on my amps to just 1 notch off of infinity, which gave me a usable range on the volume slider of about 1 to 10 on the PC. I don't have any meaningful attenuation on the output channels in my DSP, which left me with the option of attenuating the input channels. I found sort of a sweet spot around -20dB on the input signal, which gives me a more usable range of about 1 to 60 on the PC volume slider. Is that the right way to go about this, or is there a better way to achieve the desired results? The input range of my DSP is fairly wide.. I've read some of those PDF's floating around the web regarding gain matching, I just never seem to know where I should be applying it - and it would seem my particular signal chain of gear is fairly sensitive.

I'm all for not taking advantage of widows. Businesses are fair game, however, if they don't do their research to understand what they have. I just can't grasp why there's people out there who don't want to buy the good deal, but reach out to let the party know they should be charging more.