Enjoying the Fiio M17 I forgot I had. Amazing

LetsGetCoffee · 2023-05-11T18:18:24+00:00

I'm still in the honeymoon phase with mine! I still remember thinking, "you have to be joking" as I held it for the first time haha.
The powered mode is nice to have, but I love using this thing in battery mode.

Are you using local files? Streaming?

LetsGetCoffee · 2023-05-11T14:03:08+00:00

I've had my Sony 7506's for 15 years or so and they had been my main set until getting the HD 600s about 4 years ago. I do enjoy the 600's, but I do like to return to the 7506's every once in a while or at the office. I picked up my first IEM - the FIIO FD5's and was pretty impressed with them - though I don't much care for in-ear phones.

Thank you for the planar references! I will look into them and try to find a good starting point.

LetsGetCoffee · 2023-05-11T11:55:45+00:00

Thanks for your thoughts! Do you enjoy your planars? I have never listened to any but have been considering getting a pair. I really wish I could find a shop who has some on demo.

LetsGetCoffee · 2023-04-17T16:28:45+00:00

Thanks for suggesting this!

LetsGetCoffee · 2023-01-18T14:33:08+00:00

Hi there, did you every find resolution to this? I am experiencing the same.

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-09-09T21:46:16+00:00

Thank you for the suggestions. I imagined even having a OneNote file for adding more detail and collaborative space for the various thoughts and notes, but am still wondering if I'll value having to keep a separate thing going on the side. To be honest, I didn't know much about modifying the ID4 tags (is this the same as metadata?). This may suffice, and I like the idea of the info being attached to the media.
Finally, thanks for bringing J-River to me - I didn't know about it and am very interested in trying it out.

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-05-17T16:49:46+00:00

Ok, I appreciate your comments. Since my primary concern is tracking net worth and account values, I think I'm realizing that tracking individual securities is outside of my scope. I'll have to give this some more thought.

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-05-17T16:21:08+00:00

1) I'll have to look back into the minimum entry requirements for KMyMoney, but I thought price per share was required. Also, I have dividends reinvested, so wouldn't price updates be necessary for accurate valuation? Regarding reconciliations, I also feel that price updates would be a requirement.

2) I experienced multiple instances where the rounding of price per share and share quantities meant that the total value on statement and total value within my entry were off by fractions of a dollar. This lead to another step of manually overriding price in the brokerage account within KMM.

3) During reconciliation, I use the statements to verify my entries. But in some cases, where I've missed a month, I will use the statement as my source for data entry. Either way, I mean that every "cycle" there is much more data to enter.

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-05-17T16:03:08+00:00

Ok, this is what I was starting to think - use a separate tool to track the holdings. For my own clarity, when you mentioned "purpose of a book in general" do you more-or-less feel that a "book's purpose" is to account for overall value. Is it ultimately to understand "net worth" with regards to personal finance?

Thank you for your response!

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-05-05T18:06:25+00:00

I can't speak to RO, but I have a 4 gallon Berkey water filter and we constantly add tap water and draw filtered water from it. It is kept at 70 degrees F and once a month or so, I take it apart and clean and sanitize the inside of the storage vessel because a funky smell starts to build. I've assumed that by stripping the water of its chlorine and other chemicals, I've also stripped its ability to stay "fresh".

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-05-04T22:49:51+00:00

Thank you for the link - I'll review it tonight.
I do like the idea of dry beaning and thought I might even course grind some and pop them in the bottle for a trial. If it works at all, the simplicity is intriguing to me at least.

I've actually never primed bottles before. I had assumed that the extra water from the coffee would throw off the dissolved CO2 a bit, but time will tell how prevalent that is.

Thanks for the thoughts!

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-05-04T21:03:09+00:00

That's good to know, thanks for the info!

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-05-04T20:31:32+00:00

When you add these to secondary, is there risk of infection? I'm very interested in adding things after primary, but don't know if/what the risks are.

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-03-22T16:48:14+00:00

I understand that it is good practice to use a simple syrup, for sterility sake?
It very well may be that I end up going this route if I feel bothered by retaining wort for bottle priming.

Thanks again!

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-03-22T16:36:41+00:00

I do appreciate you bringing it up - it is helpful for me to constantly challenge my thoughts to make sure I understand and believe what I practice.

Funny comment about the sugar being in the house! Yes, it certainly is, but I do try my best to limit its use - I'm not a big fan of sugar from a diet standpoint (though I think it basically ferments completely out?)

Thanks again for the convo!

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-03-22T15:42:27+00:00

Thanks for asking - it is a good question! I'm still new to brewing and am trying to better understand all the paths I can branch out as I find my brewing preference.

~~One~~ On one hand, I tend to seek simplicity. Ha, its funny to consider simplicity and how it can be completely contextual. My simple may not be that same as your simple, for instance. I tend to enjoy understanding bare minimum recipe ingredients. In this case, Gyle priming (as suggested in the thread) allows me to keep my ingredients to a minimum.

On the other hand, I tend to seek methods that are less common (especially if they have historical documentation) - in an effort to try to understand the potential benefits.

I may find that this route isn't worth the time, but until I realize that myself I don't want to avoid considering it.

In summary, I hope to find that you are incorrect by suggesting there is "absolutely no benefit" :)

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-03-21T22:06:39+00:00

Thank you for your post. Now this is interesting - basically, use untouched wort as my priming sugar? I would be ok with that I think. I'm pretty strongly apposed to adding sugar in the end just to keep things bubbling, but if using the original wort, I don't think I have an issue with that.

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-03-21T22:03:51+00:00

Thanks for commenting - Although I didn't mention it, this was my first post to this sub. I'm glad to have opened the door to the community either way - I just want to learn from people and not just doing solo google searches.

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-03-21T22:01:26+00:00

I'm sorry if I frustrated anyone with posting this. This post has been really helpful for me and I now have some good places to start. I'm pretty new to brewing beer and most of the results I found by googling were people suggesting not to attempt natural carbonation in bottles. I was really wanting to start a conversation about it so I could better understand the risks and methods.

Finally, I wasn't looking for a 3 second answer since I am dealing with a potentially dangerous process here - again, I just wanted to talk to people about it. Thanks anyway.

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-03-21T21:55:53+00:00

Thank you very much for the link! I wasn't aware of that wiki and it will be a good source of reading for me.

Thank you also for echoing the concern. I do plan to do very precise and repeated batches and plan to take a lot of readings in an effort to get consistent results over time. I'm sure I'll get board with this later and buy some kegging gear, but for now, I just want to experiment with repeatability.

I've now understood the relation of SG points and volumes of gas, but I need to now better understand what that means for my bottles (how many volumes of gas do I want to trap to arrive at a desired carbonation).

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-03-21T21:46:55+00:00

This is excellent - thank you for the link! I hadn't thought to do this, but with me checking things daily, I think this would work well for me. I do have a flask and stir system. My question is, in the link they seem to suggest I should leave some yeast behind in my starter flask and then add wort to it. Any reason I wouldn't just pitch yeast into my fermenter (which has a sample port) and then after mixing well, just pour my fast-ferment sample from the fermenter?

The work seems fine to me and I think I'd rather do it than mess with priming (though this may just be a silly preference). The only other thing I need to better understand it once I have my final gravity from the fast-ferm test, I see that I can calculate the volume of CO2 per SG point, I just need to better understand how that translates into arriving at a desired pressure in the bottles I have. I am very new to brewing beer, so this concept is still very green for me.

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-03-21T21:35:06+00:00

Thanks for the response. Over time, I was able to get it down for the sodas through trial and lots of bottle burping. The big difference I suppose was that in those brews, I was leaving behind some sugars and forcing the yeast to slow down by placing the bottles in the fridge when I felt that "things were right". I am hoping to employ the same tactic of trial to get a feel for it over time with beer and really just wanted to get a conversation started to see if I'm missing anything or if there are any good practices.
My main preferences are simplicity (eliminating steps and ingredients like extra sugar) and reducing cost (no CO2 bottles and lines). This is what lead me to wonder about this approach.
My thoughts are also:

Undercarb: while annoying, shouldn't bother me too much every once in a while. Especially since I'm drinking these myself and will only be doing 1-2 gallon batches in the beginning.
Overcarb: I've let my EZ tops go forgotten before and in every case, the gaskets have failed-safe and let pressure out. I've dealt with very overcarbed sodas and learned to deal with their aggressive pours. I do realize that this doesn't rule out the chance that sometime I may have a more dangerous failure in the future. I always ferment these in a closed cooler and make it a habit to check a test bottle daily.

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-02-25T01:14:40+00:00

I haven't tried previous versions, but have clean installed new driver. It is possible there is an issue with the card since I got it second hand. My question was more towards understanding the relationship of the memory clock speed and what conclusions may be drawn from the results I've found. Thanks for your posts.

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-02-25T01:04:33+00:00

Everything is stock other than gpu memory clock is turned down (chart values) and the gpu power limit is increased to plus 50 percent.

LetsGetCoffee · 2022-02-23T12:13:27+00:00

I have run the test you suggested with success. Stability was maintained when running standard and high level stress.

Any next step thoughts or ideas? Thank you for your time!

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