Thaddeus Smith

whew. I had a pit in my stomach seeing this thread resurrected, even though it's a year later.

poorieb

That's the hope. We already had our house build scheduled for end of summer next year, but would definitely be delaying now if we hadn't.

Same for my wife and me, both Moderna. She had body aches and joints on fire after about 36 hours. I just generally felt crappy and achy. We both felt markedly better by the following morning, after a solid night's rest (48 hours).

So i've been tinkering with both since my yamaha DSP has both analog and AES inputs. So I've done analog pre-outs from my AVR where there's a D/A to A/D to D/A conversion, and then variations of DACs/Streamers with digital passthrough at 24/96 so the only DAC conversion is at the final stage within the Yamaha. There's a difference, but I think it has more to do with the gain structure differences between the analog and digital connections, rather than the additional ADC/DAC conversions. One thing I found ultimately annoying with the all digital chain was that I was left to use the little app-based volume sliders which can be pretty fiddly and annoying over the long term. So my latest iteration is a benchmark dac2 with a remote that I can use as both a headphone amp and pre-amp in front of the yamaha. I haven't used the pre-amp function yet, but I'm confident that this piece of kit is competent enough that any degradation in sound with the extra conversions will be entirely inaudible by me.

My first car, in 2000. 1976 BMW 2002 .. what an absolute blast to drive, though it took every penny of my 19 year old salary to keep it running. I ultimately blew the motor three years later driving down the highway and I sold it. I bought a 1971 BMW 2002 about a decade later and planned to make it a good daily driver, but it had more body rust than I knew what to do with and I got busy with starting a family, a farm, etc. A little bit of me yearns for something like that nowadays, but I just don't have the time or budget for a car hobby.

I do this with my 2-in 6-out dsp since I have two subs, bass bins, and top ends. Everything is up on the front stage so I just run it in stereo from the source and effectively have two large 3-way speakers.

Obnoxious would have been tolerable. We'd have had to ban 90% of the attendees if that were the criteria..

It's not too salacious. The dude got absolutely plastered and acted inappropriately towards some who were in attendance. There weren't many rules at these gatherings, but those who were there collectively felt he crossed lines that couldn't be uncrossed, and those actions were incongruous with participation on the forum at large.

I now have the benchmark DAC2 as well and have been trying to sort my source out between a mini ITX pc (with some fans, gasp) over USB and a raspberry pi4 running RopieeeXL (both USB and a coax HAT). I've not been able to discern any difference in sound quality between all three connections when using fairly revealing headphones. When using the PC, I'm running the roon server directly on the device itself. When using the RPi I run Roon server on a dual Xeon workstation with 64GB of memory and the added galvanic isolation of communication via ethernet. No discernable difference there either.

I wasn't trying to be a dick. Sorry if it came across that way.

Taiko Audio, to match his $45k $35K music server.

Absolutely! And my back. It's work that needs to be done, that I can do, but I don't have a tractor or bobcat to use the standard pto-type post pounders. I've done a couple by hand and it wipes me out for the weekend (10ft pipe, 5ft in the ground). So this will be a huge boost.

And then this big fella. Not audio related, but still exciting. Pneumatic post pounder that I'll be using to erect fencing around our new house plot. I can do up to 2 7/8 OD pipe with this, bolt on tpost adapters, etc. Runs off a modest compressor.

The Benchmark DAC2 arrived today and it seems to have really solid synergy with the headphones. It'll also serve great as a preamp in the next house when I consolidate my systems. As much as I wanted to keep everything in the digital domain through to the final DAC conversion in my Yamaha XO, the software volume slider was fiddly and getting to be annoying. So this adds a really solid volume control + remote, a quality DAC with XLR outputs for the Yamaha, and can serve as a small preamp for multiple digital sources should I ever want/need that.

Well duh, hehe.

You're such a nas ****.

A little bit of "treat yo self." Current production Audeze LCD-2 in rosewood. I've got a benchmark dac2 dx coming Monday to drive them and eventually serve as a preamp in the new house stereo system.

Turntable > phono stage > dsp > amps > drivers

You're already tinkering, so why not go active? I chopped the tops of my La Scalas and currently run active 3-way with HF/bass bin/subs in stereo. I've gone a year now without changing anything, but if I end up wanting to try something new in the future I'm not locked in by a passive XO, lack of power, etc.

withdrawn

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.