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28 Mar 2016, 11:44 pm

An entire April on outings with my clubhouse seems like a pretty good deal. :)


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28 Mar 2016, 11:52 pm

Lenny & Squiggy


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29 Mar 2016, 12:22 am

My father, his father, and his father before him were all cable men. :lol:
I wonder if thats where I inherited my gross and fine motor aptitudes, daredevil like tendencies, and affinity with tech.


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29 Mar 2016, 1:00 am

Damn YouTube!

I was going to build my own Saturn V rocket in my backyard. Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted and planned on doing that - and then I saw the Youtube video on how it's really done.

I had no idea it was so involved! :(


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29 Mar 2016, 1:43 am

I forgot to post here yesterday



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29 Mar 2016, 3:11 am

littlecatinthewindow wrote:
I forgot to post here yesterday


I forgot to post here tomorrow


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29 Mar 2016, 3:38 am

it is hard to find affordable high quality full-range loudspeakers.



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29 Mar 2016, 3:40 am

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it is hard to find affordable high quality full-range loudspeakers.


Rockets too!


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29 Mar 2016, 3:41 am

Where are my Aspie manners. Hello auntblabby. Great to hear from you again. :D


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29 Mar 2016, 3:42 am

^^^and the high caliber of scientists to guide them. and howdy to you too :flower:



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29 Mar 2016, 3:53 am

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^^^and the high caliber of scientists to guide them. and howdy to you too :flower:


They (the high caliber of scientists) were going to be me! :) Aspies can achieve anything.

I'm just sorry I didn't begin my project when I was a kid. Then, I might have had the time to do it. :)

In all seriousness though - if there's one thing I've learned throughout my life, that is I can learn and master, anything my mind is truly interested in. I don't care if it's even brain surgery. If I'm interested in it - if it becomes a Special Interest, I will MASTER the subject.

I do acknowledge, building a Saturn V rocket would take far more money, land, resources and people than just myself (it was a joke). I've known how they work since being a young child and how dangerous dealing with LOx etc. can be but that hasn't stopped me from wanting to build one of my own single stage liquid oxygen fueled rockets.


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29 Mar 2016, 3:56 am

my aspirations were far more modest, I set forth [after reading an article about digital audio restoration in a 1986 "high fidelity" magazine article] accumulating the tools to build my own digital audio restoration suite, and mastering their use.



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29 Mar 2016, 4:01 am

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my aspirations were far more modest, I set forth [after reading an article about digital audio restoration in a 1986 "high fidelity" magazine article] accumulating the tools to build my own digital audio restoration suite, and mastering their use.



What's the max quality they're up to now? Is it 192kbps?

I used to download tracks in aiff and flac format. I had a top of the range very expensive DAC that was made in England and used to download all the highest quality stuff I could find.

Not just the stuff that was ripped from CD's and upsampled.

Orchestra, studio stuff that was actually recored at high bit rates.


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29 Mar 2016, 4:07 am

384khz/24bit seems to be the high end standard now. I don't know what that would be in bit rate as it is uncompressed. but that is what the golden ears use. I am happy with 44.1k/16 bit. that is what I do all my work in. for compressed stuff, 320 kb/s VBR is what I prefer. even at that rate I can hear the odd compression artifact, generally in the treble range. but that is what I put on my mp3 players.



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29 Mar 2016, 4:32 am

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384khz/24bit seems to be the high end standard now. I don't know what that would be in bit rate as it is uncompressed. but that is what the golden ears use. I am happy with 44.1k/16 bit. that is what I do all my work in. for compressed stuff, 320 kb/s VBR is what I prefer. even at that rate I can hear the odd compression artifact, generally in the treble range. but that is what I put on my mp3 players.


My old system used to rock.

I had a M-Audio - ProFire 2626
I can't remember the DAC but it was up there!
Some audio controller (can't remember - it was 4 years ago)
Top of the range headphone amplifier (I'll think of it) Blackbox or something?
Sennheiser HD650's (still got them with me now - in my hot little hands)
DynAudio BM6A near field monitors on proper stands!


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29 Mar 2016, 4:38 am

can't say I ever had anything that fancy, but at one time I had a system with magnapan speakers, a carver amazing sub [too powerful for the cheap little house I was living in at the time, it made the lights dim on the loud low bass notes], a 2x upsampling [to 96khz] CD player, denon table with moving coil cart. the amp was a monster, a 200 wpc thing [foster electronics, japan] that was heavy as a boat anchor and almost as bulky. those maggies soaked up the watts but nothing sounded more neutral/realistic/life-sized.