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  1. Yep, the trim looks fantastic. Nice touch.
  2. Fantastic idea. On vacation this week so I might have to fiddle with this concept.
  3. Sweet case, too bad it wont accommodate the HiFiBerry DAC+.
  4. Fantastic news. Now its time to enjoy all that hard work!
  5. swapface

    The Swin-Car

    Impressive engineering. Thanks for sharing!
  6. Yep, true that! Been playing with Windows 10 for a day now. They finally got some things right with this one. Kinda like how they got Vista right with Windows 7.
  7. I was both but just sold my tube amp. So, for now, SS.
  8. Following the rules for the most part makes life easier. So, cheers to the easy life!!
  9. Go figure...............but I totally get it. Sometimes its more about the look and the color.
  10. Awesome, thanks for sharing. My first horn in the 4th grade was a King Silversonic Coronet. Played it through 9th grade. Then in 10th I scored a Benge Claude Gordon that I used through high school and in college. Still have both of them although I don't play anymore.
  11. IbizaFlame, what horns are you holding? I know they are trumpets, just curious of brand and model.
  12. Enjoyed that, thanks for sharing!
  13. yeah…girls will want things “to match.” Now, i make my own rules and "not matching" is the new “matching”. A lady at work asked me once what i did over the previous weekend. I said i bought stuff for the house. She asked what i bought. So i said, “what goes with 12 speakers, a flat screen tv, guitars, and a slot machine?” She said, “Nothing.” I said, “wrong. a full sized, operational traffic signal light.” To quote my youngest daughter about my home decor “you’re such a guy." By the way, traffic lights are VERY bright when put in your living room. Apparently we do lack some taste.....I guess. I all was well in my home till I, with the help of my son, replaced my Quintet II system for RF-82 II system and I quote, "those are not speakers, that's furniture!". I still remember the look on her face. Over the next two weeks all the pictures came off the walls and nick knacks were removed. Then a week later a just one new picture went up in the room. Its was a very nice picture that said "Theater" in a very fancy cursive as I think she realized that our family room had just turned into a home theater. Not long after that my son moved out and I turned his room into a 2 channel room and started back into vinyl. She just pretty much stays out of that room. However I did help her convert our daughters room into a craft room when she moved out. We just celebrated 30 years and I can tell you this, she gives me more grace than I deserve. I guess some of us just get lucky.
  14. What he said............... Great tool! Just One SMALL detail; it didn't work, neither did superantispyware... Next I would have tried JRT. I'll be sure to add ADWCLEANER to my bag of tricks. Always looking for tools to clean stuff up. Thanks!
  15. What he said............... Great tool!
  16. Oh yeah, Freddy had some chops for sure!
  17. Oh yeah? We'll see about that! Uh oh, Thebes is gonna "Release the Hounds"
  18. Great forum and even more important, great people! I read posts from this forum every day. While I don't have much to contribute I have learned a ton from everyone here. Cheers MKP!
  19. Hi Jerry, Since the last post I picked up a hifiberry DAC+ for my Raspberry Pi2. This has been quite the experience... First of all, I'm not a computer geek when it comes to commands/codecs, etc...I figured I could get away with flashing a preconfigured image on a SD card for hifiberry DAC+ to get it to work. And I did, the hifiberry site has a preconfigured image for the DAC+ using the Raspian operating system. The DAC works using this preconfigured image, but Raspian is like a desktop OS, and not really what I'm into...plus it's glitchy...I'm sure one can tweak and add-on to it however. For media entertainment, the OpenELEC/KODI operating system is what I prefer. It seems more stable, and has a lot more entertainment value. I've listened to the stock Raspberry Pi2 DAC, and the Hifiberry DAC+, and the Hifiberry definitely sounds smoother and more refined than the RPi2 DAC. The stock one has that dull Behringer house sound about it...adequate, but not hi-fi. In order to configure the Hifiberry DAC+ to work with OpenELEC, (which has no command terminal window) one has to use SSH, (secure shell) from a desktop PC or whatever. Using a editing program, like Putty, one can bring up a command window on their desktop PC and use a local area network to communicate with the RPi2 using the OpenELEC OS, and then give commands. Sumthin' like that...it's been rough. Through the Hifiberry forum site, there is a link with pretty much a step by step procedure for configuring the DAC+ for OpenELEC 5.0 or higher. I followed the procedure to my best knowledge, and still can't get ALSA in OpenELEC to recognize the DAC+. I'm doing something wrong, I just need to keep poking at it. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fleonbuitendam.nl%2Finstallatie-hifiberry-dac-en-openelecop-een-raspberry-pi-2-model-b%2F&sandbox=1 The stock Canakit case needed a bit of hogging out for the Hifiberry DAC+ to fit. Looks kinda ghetto, but it'll slide for now until I make a aluminum or metal case with some mass. 019.JPG Mike Yikes, yeah, that case is ugly. We should call that FrankenBerry. I chose to use my system for audio only which is why I arrived at using Volumio and the configuration seemed pretty straight forward. I have not tired configuring OpenELEC however perhaps I can offer some other ways to get the configuration files modified. There are some other tools out there that may make this process easier. Since you mentioned Putty that tells me you are using a Windows based machine to access the PI via SSH. Consider using WinSCP instead of using SSH. Its basically a FTP tool that will allow you to pull the file you want to edit to your local PC. Make a back up of the original file then edit the file and copy it back to the PI. You can also right mouse click on the file and edit it directly but that is more risky. You will need to configure The protocol you should use is SFTP, Host name can either be the default name of your openelec machine or you can use the IP address. Port number is 22. Hope you find this is useful. Jerry
  20. Hey Mike, I believe you will need to change the audio configuration in OpenELEC to send the sound output to the analog output then you should be able to send the audio out the headphone jack. Jerry
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