Everything sounds the same

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20 hours ago, esldude said:

I just taped a $20 bill to my DAC.  However, I used multi-modal mapping to determine the exact place to tape.  It resulted in a $400 improvement in sound.  The music now has a visceral quality that was completely missing.

 

Was this the $20 bill?

 

 

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1 hour ago, Jud said:

 

For 50% of those engaged in those conversations.  I like to aim higher.

 

At least you won't shoot your foot off.

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8 minutes ago, esldude said:

Could be just looking at it.  

 

That would explain a lot. Watch out for signs of projectile vomiting or bed levitation.

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4 hours ago, mansr said:

Even the Vatican conducts thorough investigations into claims of miracles, usually finding a mundane explanation. Although they'd very much like a real one, they also don't want to make a mistake. Perhaps the faithful in the field of audio could take a cue from their Catholic brethren.

Really?

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15 hours ago, mansr said:

http://sciencenordic.com/pope’s-scientists-study-miracles

 

The church wants you to believe that clergy, while dead, performed "miracles" (i.e. acts/events which cannot easily be explained). I just don't think this is a methodology (argumentum ad ignorantiam) that should be deployed by others.

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4 hours ago, PeterSt said:

Not mentioning names now, the guys we talk about do not improve a single bit on audio.

Saved me a bunch of money.

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12 minutes ago, lmitche said:

The simple point here is that digital signals are carried over an analog infrastructure and that whatever makes an analog infrastructure great for reproduction from analog sources also makes it great for reproduction from digital sources.

 

Excuse my ignorance.  I know there are "digital" boards and "analog" boards but what is an "analog infrastructure"?

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12 hours ago, lmitche said:

The physical layer.

 

If you mean the physical layer, then say so and stop referring to it as the analog infrastructure -- which mistakenly obscures the difference between digital and analog circuits.

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1 hour ago, Jud said:

 

Steely Dan even wrote a song about him. 

 

There's nothing a songwriter won't write to make a rhyme, LOL!

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16 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Enough of the nonsense. Keep your abrasive thoughts to yourself and save yourself time by not writing them here. They’ll be removed. 

 

I feel like I missed something.

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9 minutes ago, Ralf11 said:

 

depends on what part of the US - you have to work hard to get white bread* in the white bread town I live in

 

we do have ketchup tho - it is organic, locally sourced, yada yada

 

 

* baguettes excepted

 

Why do Americans insist upon putting ketchup/catsup on everything? Is the food that bad?

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1 hour ago, Shadders said:

Hi,

Ok, i am going to bite.

Why would you say that ?

 

I just looked at the exports of Beef and Lamb - and most of our produce goes to the EU countries, France, Germany and Netherlands. The US is not listed in any of the reports i examined.

 

So, the issue may be, that what you see as stated as being "English" is in fact a US producer marketing it as "English" as a sales technique, not that it comes from England. Maybe check the fine print ?

 

Regards,

Shadders.

 

So, no more issues with mad cow?

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2 hours ago, Confused said:

 

They're too posh for pineapple in Oxford, that's for sure.

 

Pineapple belongs only on Mexican "pizza", which isn't pizza. Also, don't go to  Domino’s,

Papa John’s, or Little Caesar’s and expect pizza.

 

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Just now, gmgraves said:

So-called Hawaiian pizza is pineapple and Canadian bacon. OK occasionally but I wouldn't want a steady diet....

 

No -- not Cdn bacon but rather ham.

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11 minutes ago, gmgraves said:

I guess that depends upon from who you buy it. 

 

http://time.com/4814056/hawaiian-pizza-pineapple-sam-panopoulos-death/

 

I spent my whole life in southern Ontario and have never seen a "Hawaiian pizza" with Canadian Bacon (better known as peameal bacon), only ham. I suppose somewhere, sometime, someone substituted Canadian bacon for ham.

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2 hours ago, mansr said:

I thought it was for Hawaiian, invented by a Greek in Canada.

 

Yes.  My mistake calling it Mexican, although the Hawaiian pizza is a favorite with Mexicans.

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3 hours ago, mansr said:

Haggis pizza?

 

 

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21 minutes ago, jabbr said:

 

Isn’t so-called “Canadian bacon” just a type of ham, ie it’s pork loin cured a particular way?

 

Peameal bacon is made from lean boneless pork loin, trimmed fine, wet cured, and rolled in cornmeal. It is not smoked. Ham is cut from the hind leg of the pig, not the loin and is then wet-cured and often, but not always, smoked. Being as the two things come from different cuts of meat they are most decidedly not the same thing.

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27 minutes ago, jabbr said:

Speaking of ham: Prosciutto & rucola is a popular combo in Italy — on or off pizza

 

I'm surprised no-one mentioned pizza fritta, a ricotta and provolone cheese pizza that’s deep-fried.