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T-man posted:If you spend more than $50 on sound equipment your an idiot imo $50. You sweet, summer child. You've never encountered a true  audiophile. I did some IT consulting work once for a businessman working out of his home office, who had at least $20,000 invested in his "listening room" - including powering his equipment off of a gang of two AC - DC - AC converters (to remove "line noise"), balancing his tube amplifiers on Starrett precision surfaces (about $1k each and he had three of them) and using $45/foot triple shielded inch-plus-thick speaker cables run around the perimeter of the room, balanced on graphite isolators that were themselves sitting in trays filled with quartz crystals.And that wasn't good enough for him - he was talking of building an underground "listening room" in his backyard, 20' underground, linked to his basement via a tunnel and with a built-in faraday cage.
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Kwyndig posted:Jesus, how much would it even cost to build a Faraday Cage the size of a listening room? The irony is if you're already under 20 feet of soil the faraday cage is just gratuitous overkill.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:So what does that guy listen to? From what I saw, a lot of classic rock and orchestral/symphony music. He was the classic "if I'm going to buy something its going to be the most expensive version I can find" wealthy idiot archetype. For instance, despite doing no work like graphic design or video editing that would require it, he had a Mac with a 5k display. And then cranked up scaling and font sizes so he could see and read things on his screen.
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Re: flip clocks, anyone know of one that doesn't cost an arm and a leg (sub-$100), doesn't have all of the mechanical parts exposed and isn't festooned with the manufacturer's logo?
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boo_radley posted:I can't remember if cdrom drives like that ran straight atapi or some other proprietary protocol. It's not totally crazy if they were ata, though. It was usually ATAPI/ATA/IDE running through a proprietary interface that provided data plus power in the same connector. You'd also see laptops with secondary connectors in the drive bay for other devices. I had a Dell laptop for work in the late 2000s that would allow you to substitute a secondary battery for an optical drive. I think it was a Latitude 630...? With both it had something silly like 14 hours of endurance on a single charge.
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Nov 28, 2019 21:11
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T-man posted:A part of me wishes we had a gimmick phone that only updated when you press a physical button and did monotasking + calls whenever an app is open. Preferably with a low spec android system and a battery bigger than some older laptop's. Someone needs to make a smartphone case that resembles a DynaTac 8000x, except instead of being filled with nicad cells and antiquated communications tech its packed full of 18650 cells that charge your smartphone. Maybe make the speaker and microphone functional to boot.
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Nov 30, 2019 08:30
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Queen Combat posted:Same. There is a small, weird, but dedicated market for these. In my experience (8+ years doing mini lab field service) it's people printing out their homegrown porn, and then deciding they don't want to pay $40 for a handful of 8x10s.
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LifeSunDeath posted:so far it's not super interesting I work as a telephone system admin for a large municipality and this is about 99% of safety forces radio traffic. When I work in the 911 call center it's more interesting hearing the operators arguing with some old guy who's trying to rat his neighbor out for having too many political yard signs than police or fire radio traffic.
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