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Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

it's a step up from this very power strip i've used in cuba

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flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

Lain Iwakura posted:

it's a step up from this very power strip i've used in cuba



that reminds me i should find a use for this 110/230 line conditioner

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

Lain Iwakura posted:

it's a step up from this very power strip i've used in cuba



please...



this was for a house boat connection as well

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

a digital clock built all discrete shouldn't be that dense, is it not multiplexed or something?

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

As long as regular people aren't tricked into wasting their money, I am ok with audiofoolery. The more expensive and ridiculous the better!
These products are just as valid wastes of money as jewel encrusted phones and sunglasses, luxury designer handbags and gold plated everythings for idiot billionaire investors.

And placebo is a really powerful effect, my best sound equipment is the cheap tube amplifier I bought as a kit and had to solder all the parts together, because obviously it's the best - I built it with mine own hands!

Jeesis
Mar 4, 2010

I am the second illegitimate son of gawd who resides in hoaven.

DJ Commie posted:

a digital clock built all discrete shouldn't be that dense, is it not multiplexed or something?

It is more "look at my giant e-penis" than actually being well built or functional.
http://www.transistorclock.com/index.html

Also apparently he made this as well
http://tube-clock.com/

Jimmy Carter
Nov 3, 2005

THIS MOTHERDUCKER
FLIES IN STYLE

Bloody posted:

im the +/- 25 ppm oscillator being advertised as extremely special

so you're saying I can sell a GPS-backed version with 10ppm accuracy and thus charge 250%?

Jimmy Carter
Nov 3, 2005

THIS MOTHERDUCKER
FLIES IN STYLE
this audio interface requires an HP Cesium Atomic Clock for maximum warmth

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

Silver Alicorn posted:

yeah there's a video from a guy talking about how he was skeptical at first but as he plugged more and more of his components in the soundstage "broadened" and "deepened". he also mentioned he liked to listen to rock music at concert levels so he almost certainly has mid/severe hearing loss

a lot of speakers that get reviewed as "lively," "detailed" or "expressive" are way too treble-forward because accurate speakers don't sound great when your ears are bad

this effect is the only reason anyone buys klipsch [the small ones, their big fuckoff '70s ones are cool]

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017


you scoff but there's no noise floor on pure silence.

ultravoices
May 10, 2004

You are about to embark on a great journey. Are you ready, my friend?
grifters got to eat too

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

qirex posted:

a lot of speakers that get reviewed as "lively," "detailed" or "expressive" are way too treble-forward because accurate speakers don't sound great when your ears are bad

this effect is the only reason anyone buys klipsch [the small ones, their big fuckoff '70s ones are cool]

yeah my living room speakers are some kg4 i got at a yard sale they are great

wdarkk
Oct 26, 2007

Friends: Protected
World: Saved
Crablettes: Eaten

Jeesis posted:

It is more "look at my giant e-penis" than actually being well built or functional.
http://www.transistorclock.com/index.html

Also apparently he made this as well
http://tube-clock.com/



that's a fuckton of resistors

are they even connected to anything?

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




hifi
Jul 25, 2012

my house doesn't have any earthing, which makes the tunes better

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast

wdarkk posted:

that's a fuckton of resistors

are they even connected to anything?

i see a fuckload of resistors, diodes and transistors


you're blind if youre trying to say that there's no logic on that board

inkwell
Dec 9, 2005
*flicks the veneer of a crazy rear end bavarian cuckoo clock* Feh, i bet the birds in here don't even wind up the movement

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

Sniep posted:

i see a fuckload of resistors, diodes and transistors


you're blind if youre trying to say that there's no logic on that board

error checking using ttl with rtl and dtl as the operands maybe? now that would increase the component count

crusader_complex
Jun 4, 2012
im awaiting dd-wrt: studio edition

TOPS-420
Feb 13, 2012

how will this card affect my x-fi experience

Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.

TOPS-420 posted:

how will this card affect my x-fi experience

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



flakeloaf posted:

guess i'll just adlib a cooling solution

i like to get creative :shobon:

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

TOPS-420 posted:

how will this card affect my x-fi experience

nice username

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?
Marco should get some of these for streaming his lossless Phish soundboard recordings to his fancy headphones

because nothing deserves the highest possible fidelity note than jam band soundboard recordings

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

eschaton posted:

Marco should get some of these for streaming his lossless Phish soundboard recordings to his fancy headphones

because nothing deserves the highest possible fidelity note than jam band soundboard recordings

being able to hear that channel 15 in the snake has 1.7dB more hum than the others and the generator just dropped under 60Hz for the fourth time since the minidisc master of ramblin' ramblin jam-time 1996 started

josh04
Oct 19, 2008


"THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"

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real mad about the ethernet card which can't get enough power from pci-e

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
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real mad about the ethernet card which can’t get enough power from pci-e
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the external power is optional, in case you don’t trust the cleanliness of your pc power supply

DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder
oh my baud

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


ic what you did there

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






i'll be the bulging cap

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

lol 10% tolerance, get out of here with that pleb poo poo

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

Do they have a smaller real cap inside them? That packaging looks overly suspect.

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






No they're just polypropylene caps

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

flakeloaf posted:

guess i'll just adlib a cooling solution

pfffft hah

angry_keebler
Jul 16, 2006

In His presence the mountains quake and the hills melt away; the earth trembles and its people are destroyed. Who can stand before His fierce anger?

Jeesis posted:

Obviously you need to dunk that fucker in corn syrup. It is not like you will notice the smell anyway.



corrian, the most expensive substance on the planet, fit only for the finest of audio devices and the seamless sinks at burgerking

SRQ
Nov 9, 2009

flakeloaf posted:


guess i'll just adlib a cooling solution

this is such an obscure and amazing joke
only in the pos

speaking of which it makes me endlessly salty that Canada was a tech powerhouse in the early/mid 90s and late 80s (ATi, Adlib, Gravis Ultrasound). I mean gently caress me if you had a 486 in 91 with the best poo poo it was probably Canadian.

and every single one of these companies failed spectactularly in some way, as they all do, as Rimm did, as Nortel did, as everything since and before and in the future. gently caress sakes.

I suppose ATi didn't quite fail, they were competive throughout their entire history, but getting bought out counts as failure gently caress u I want those profits staying inside Canada.
:canada:

SRQ fucked around with this message at 08:59 on Jul 29, 2017

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






You'll always have the Robertson, friend.

pram
Jun 10, 2001

i remember this motherboard lol

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Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast

pram posted:

i remember this motherboard lol

ya same... wasnt the whole tube preamp section right in front of the bog standard poo poo-rear end Realtek HD Audio chip like on any other mobo too

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