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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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STPE 4 fill it with knives and racks of swords...Have been working on the house lately , yesterday it was time to work on the living room
New furniture and assembled this entertainment thingy , hopefully will have the new tv installed that has more color than blue and magenta lol
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This was an indicator that assembly would be an adventure lol
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A big TV deserves a 5.1.4 Dolby Atmos setup...Dang I forgot to post pics with the non magenta TV lol
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Still need to hide the wiring and add a sound bar
Hopefully some day!A big TV deserves a 5.1.4 Dolby Atmos setup...
Absolutely no idea what that is but it looks pretty coolmore like 2 weekends but you get the idea. IanCanada based DDC FIFO re-clocker streamer:
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AddictionAbsolutely no idea what that is but it looks pretty cool. Well done.
Not exactly, at least not the way I have it configured. Its fundamental purpose is to discreetly break out and FIFO (first in first out) re-clock a digital audio signal using dedicated hardware with ultra low phase noise SC cut crystal oscillators on dedicated ultra low noise PSU rails, galvanically isolated from the incoming signal chain, and separately shielded in a faraday cage (actually multiple cages for the mains/FIFO/compute sections of the chassis). The remediated digital signal is then sent to my DAC (digital to analogue) converter via I2S (inter IC sound) which is originally a protocol used board to board inside let's say a CD player. In other words it takes various digital music streaming sources and cleans it up to where it meets / beats a dedicated CD transport in audio quality.Is that some kind of fancy NAS?
Well, that cleared it up!Not exactly, at least not the way I have it configured. Its fundamental purpose is to discreetly break out and FIFO (first in first out) re-clock a digital audio signal using dedicated hardware with ultra low phase noise SC cut crystal oscillators on dedicated ultra low noise PSU rails, galvanically isolated from the incoming signal chain, and separately shielded in a faraday cage (actually multiple cages for the mains/FIFO/compute sections of the chassis). The remediated digital signal is then sent to my DAC (digital to analogue) converter via I2S (inter IC sound) which is originally a protocol used board to board inside let's say a CD player. In other words it takes various digital music streaming sources and cleans it up to where it meets / beats a dedicated CD transport in audio quality.
But on top of the above core functionality you can see I've given it a touch screen based frontend which is running on Raspberry Pi Lite OS with internet access and also running a music streaming server (Lyrion). Lyrion has many capabilities, NAS indexing and streaming being one of them. But, my current use case isn't NAS - rather it's to stream from Qobuz, Tidal, etc with lossless ultra low jitter and ultra low noise input to my DAC.
The hardware is not only state of the art in componentry and function but is modular and modifiable (e.g. I chose to upgrade PSU rails with ultracapacitor filtration, I chose top of the line SC cut crystal oscillators, and I could add optical and spdif output via GPIO expansion), and obviously the OS and software are configurable to nearly anything so I have a true gem on my hands IMO. Maybe I'll acquire a library of music files and start NAS streaming...
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Well my DAC is the other large silver chassis to the bottom left of my AV stack photo (it says I2S on the screen). What I built is a DDC (digital to digital converter) with streaming capabilitiesSo basically a custom DAC for streaming sources or whatever other sources? Looks cool and seems like some that you've wanted.
I'm a simple man. I ripped all my CDs and movies to my Synology. I play back through my Nvidia Shield and let my Denon do all of the processing. If I want to get fancy, I'll play my SACDs through my player and get DSD.
But I've never heard a difference in any of the DAC that I've tried in my Paradigm Studio or Ascend Audio Sierra setups.