Unsomnambulist
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I'm back to using the Vali 2 as a headphone amp. There is just something about that tube sound that I prefer. It took a long break of using solid state to make me realize that.
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axolotl
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Goodonya.
I still have not re-plugged my audio system. It's been a solid seven months.
I need to be slapped.
Unsomnambulist
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What are you doing? Just listening to music as background?
axolotl
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Nickyboy
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Do you want us to orderly line up or just randomly have at you? I'm going to use a fuzzy pillow, if that's ok with you.
axolotl
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Not the pillow!!!
You can go full-on Airplane! mode with me.
The movie, not how the rapper was killed, which I will put in The WTF? Thread.
Unsomnambulist
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"Retro vintage 80s technology." 
lpfreak1170
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"Retro vintage 80s technology."
That will NEVER catch on.
axolotl
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Are you deaf? It's perfect sound forever!
Unsomnambulist
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Until digititus and bit rot rear their ugly heads.
axolotl
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Thank goodness, we have your time machine to tell us what's really going to happen.
Unsomnambulist
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Thank goodness, we have your time machine to tell us what's really going to happen.
So I have a time machine to go back to the past to see what happened because... you all have terrible memories?
axolotl
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No, it's 1982. You took your time machine into the future.So I have a time machine to go back to the past to see what happened because... you all have terrible memories?
Remember? It was only yesterday morning.
Gee, what a terrible memory. Tsk, tsk.
Hee, hee
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Unsomnambulist
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If it's 1982, then I'm only 14 years old. 14 year olds are not allowed to operate time machines.
Old Uncle Toe
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So if today you got in a time machine and traveled back to 1982, you'd then be trapped, because you'd only be 14 years old and not allowed to use the machine to return to 2018. But then 36 years later, you'd do it again, because that future is your history. It had already happened. But then again, you'd not be able to come back. So now there would be three of you, at 14, in 1982. And then 36 years later, again...
And eventually, there would an entire world of 14-year-old Unsomnambulists in 1982, all not walking around in their sleep.
Unsomnambulist
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And going back and killing my grandfather would be useless, as there would be too many of me around...
Unsomnambulist
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Unsomnambulist
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I need more music to listen to my equipment with. 
Unsomnambulist
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When I switched from a 12" MacBook to a Mac mini a few days ago, I had a very negative reaction to the change in sound quality I perceived. It seemed harsher, brighter and tipped up. It made my warm and laid back Vali 2 tube amp sound like an aggressive solid state amp.
Tonight, something "clicked." I did try a simple step recommended because I was also getting audio dropouts in playback (something that almost never happened on the MacBook): resetting the NVRAM, which is non volatile memory where various settings are stored. That seems to have cured the drop outs (knock wood). But soon after I noticed that the sound quality was much better. It's still brighter, but now much clearer and detailed, with more air. It's a little more relaxed. Placebo or brain burn-in, or did the reset do this too? I'm not sure.
It might have also helped that with the MacBook, I had only one USB-C port to which was connected a multiport adapter further connected to a USB-A hub, to which I connected my audio equipment, as opposed to the Mac mini which has two built-in USB-A ports, one of which I dedicated to the connection of my digital audio equipment. A dedicated port has much less potential for injecting noise and jitter in the signal than one port through which many things are plugged in.
Anyway, I am up way past my usual bedtime because I can't stop listening to music, because it sounds so good.
Tonight, something "clicked." I did try a simple step recommended because I was also getting audio dropouts in playback (something that almost never happened on the MacBook): resetting the NVRAM, which is non volatile memory where various settings are stored. That seems to have cured the drop outs (knock wood). But soon after I noticed that the sound quality was much better. It's still brighter, but now much clearer and detailed, with more air. It's a little more relaxed. Placebo or brain burn-in, or did the reset do this too? I'm not sure.
It might have also helped that with the MacBook, I had only one USB-C port to which was connected a multiport adapter further connected to a USB-A hub, to which I connected my audio equipment, as opposed to the Mac mini which has two built-in USB-A ports, one of which I dedicated to the connection of my digital audio equipment. A dedicated port has much less potential for injecting noise and jitter in the signal than one port through which many things are plugged in.
Anyway, I am up way past my usual bedtime because I can't stop listening to music, because it sounds so good.
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