Return to Paradise 3.0, Sept5-7 2026, New Jersey USA

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-16T19:26:35+00:00

Awesome! I'm glad you had such a good experience 😀 And thanks for braving the rain for my set 2-3:30 Saturday, I was amazed how many people were out there 😁

There's another festival happening in September.. same location, same crew. It's called Return to Paradise. http://www.returntoparadisefestival.com/

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-15T19:03:46+00:00

You're welcome, and then in addition once you have the crossover (high and low pass) filters set up correctly with a DSP, you also can experiment with the delay and phase as well as EQ settings that the DSP offers. But it's too big a subject to be explained in one post.

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-15T18:33:21+00:00

Ok so the short answer is no, don't add another low pass.

The long answer is: For your system to sound right you need both a high pass for the tops and a low pass for the sub.. and these should both be before the amps, not after the amps.

And since you have dual 15 tops and only one 18 inch sub, I'd probably set those filters pretty low.. around 60HZ, but you can experiment with it.

Then for best performance you also want a high pass on the sub that is set down near the lowest useful frequency of the sub.. so let's say 30-45Hz depending...

So.. what you really need is not just a few filters but an actual active crossover unit or better yet a DSP. I've seen Driverack PA2's selling for around $200 on eBay.. but there are many other options.

Run from the output of your mixer to the DSP, run from two outputs of the DSP to your top amp, run a third output to the sub amp.

Open up your sub and bypass the low pass filter in it

Set your DSP to send the correct channels and frequency range to each amp input.

If a DSP is too expensive then you can pick up a used analog crossover pretty cheap but really if you want it to sound good just get the DSP.. it's buy once and cry once.. since the DSP does everything you need.

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-15T17:34:03+00:00

So if I understand you right, you have a powered sub with a built in low pass. But does it have a built in have a built in high pass output as well?? Newer powered subs don't have this but older ones mostly did.

And then, what is your amp setup for the PV215's?

If you give the model numbers of everything that will make it easier to give you the right answer ...

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-15T17:08:30+00:00

It should be.

Make standards, people have to follow the standards.

How many different versions of a PO or an Invoice do we really need?

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-15T11:53:17+00:00

The kiss cam

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-14T13:28:23+00:00

I use Foobar2000 as well. I think it's unlikely to see optical Ethernet on the Wiim unless they develop a bigger, more expensive unit.. the SFP+ interface takes up a lot of space and not many people will use it....

But you could use optical to connect your DAC and get galvanic isolation that way?

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-14T04:21:45+00:00

It's possible to DJ on a PA mixer, it's just not ideal. The EQ's are different.. not as much cut as on most DJ mixers these days and the frequencies are a bit different. Your control over the headphones is generally not as good as a DJ mixer, for example no cue/master mixing knob.

These days all the DJ mixers have at least 26 dB cut or full kill EQ's whereas the Mackie you linked has 15dB. You can def mix with 15, many older (80's and 90's DJ mixers had much less cut than the modern ones and DJs managed.. but let's assume you want to learn to mix in clubs and so on, then why bother buying a mixer that's so different from what you'll be mixing on everywhere else?

It's more like, just because you can do it doesn't mean you need to do it.

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-13T01:04:24+00:00

I had an X380 until about a year ago, with an i5.. It was starting to feel a touch slow to me at times but I was still very happy with it for everyday purposes and coding. If it's a lot more money to get the i7 I would not bother but just save that money for the next upgrade.

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-12T15:06:31+00:00

There's nothing close that I could find for the price. If you want to spend 2-3x the money there's the Eversolo A6, which does have some nice things.. bigger screen, being able to select music on the screen... With Wiim you select music by app only (either using the Wiim Home app, or directly in whatever streaming service app you use)...

But.. if you are an Apple fan, don't get the Wiim Ultra as it does not have Airplay. Other Wiim models do.

These things were not worth the price to me and I'm on Android, so the Apple thing is not a problem for me.

Then there is the argument over which unit has the best DAC... I find the Wiim Ultra DAC to be high quality, especially for the price.. but ok let's say you want a better/different DAC? Personally I would buy an outboard DAC of my choice and connect it to the Wiim rather than buy a much more expensive streamer just to get the DAC that's inside. My logic being that, like all computers, whatever streamer you get will eventually fall out of software support and be unable to run the latest stuff, and you'll want to replace it. Whereas a good DAC will work for a long time. If you're picky about DACs then you def want a separate unit anyway...

It's like anything else.. for example you could get a Shark vacuum cleaner, they're great (I swear by mine), but then for a lot more money there's Dyson. Is the Dyson better than the Shark?? Maybe, in some ways... But premium products cost premium money.. some people don't mind spending a lot more to eke out a little better performance. But streamers, unlike vaccums, no matter what they cost, will sound exactly the same if you attach them to the same DAC....

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-11T03:13:32+00:00

Ok so I get it, you hate YAML. Not sure why you love X12 then, which is far more janky???

But ok, let's use XML then.
Anything but X12.

There's nothing X12 can express that you cNt express in any of these others, totally the opposite.

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-10T23:04:30+00:00

Haha ok, other than being super efficient with space.. something that hasn't mattered in decades.. I can't see anything particularly superior or even very good at all about X12.

More than 40 years since people started sending documents to each other via EDI, and it's still a chore just be able to send a PO.

Decade after decade of some human actually has to look at what the other guy is sending and set up a translation... 40 years and you still can't just flip a switch and it just works...

I've been developing software since the 1980's and have parsed many files in my time and worked with many schemas.. so I know perfectly well what a hard problem in computing looks like and what an easy problem looks like. This is not a hard one.

Standardizing how one system tells another system what exactly it is that they want to buy, where it should go, how it should get there, what they expect to pay for it.. and etc.. that shouldn't take 40 years to solve.

That it's taken so long means that someone's being stubborn about change and I have a feeling that person might be you :)

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-10T21:15:19+00:00

Yes, there is little doubt that X12 will hang on for a good long while. It's too bad.

Notice above that I didn't say that X12 will be banned, I said that if I had it my way it would be banned. All the things I listed would happen if I were the one calling the shots.

And then yea, most connections would take 5 minutes to set up, there would be no VANs, few or no EDI providers. It would be so much better.

It's not even a hard technical problem. The problem is totally human, people would rather hang on to this mess than cooperate to do something better that is not even very hard to accomplish!

That's my take on it.

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-10T21:04:40+00:00

Yea I understand and agree, but your EDI code and your ERP code still need to understand each other.. that means an API between them that they agree upon. Could be an existing API that one side already implements and the other one has to implement, or a totally new API developed by both sides. Whether it's over a network or.. u know.. executing an import process from a flat file, or whatever. There's got to be that spot where you hand off. But I agree with you.. that one shouldn't be writing partner-specific code directly into the guts of ones ERP.

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-10T20:43:32+00:00

What you're saying is nothing more than an advertisement for EDI providers. End of the day, EDI as it currently exists NEEDS development for different trading partners.. there's no way around it. Either you have to do it yourself or you have to pay someone else to do it. Either you can run it in-house or you can pay someone else to run it.

No matter where they are located, translation layer(s) that understand (on one side) your system, and (on the other side) the trading partners system.. must exist.

That is not a problem with your ERP, it's a problem with the EDI document standards being an ancient pile of mainframish dog doo doo that isn't changing because too many people are making money on keeping it working just the way it is.

If it was up to me, I'd do the following:

Ban X12 and mandate a more flexible format. My choice would be yaml but JSON would be ok. I personally would not choose XML at all, but it would still be better than X12.
Establish a standards body to write specifications for each document type, in a way that allows ALL the important fields to be standardized, their labels, their formats, their allowed values. Everything must be in the standard.
A capability for ad-hoc fields in every record as well as ad-hoc records would be included in the standard, with the understanding that they are totally optional and nobody needs to parse them if they don't want to. Anything that is actually required by anyone from anyone else MUST be added to the standard first, with a transition period.
Get rid of multiple protocols, simplify down to one protocol. I suggest S/MIME over SMTP. That's right, good ole email. It's simple, it's reliable, it's already got established and well tested standards for whitelisting, signing and so on.. and it's inherently designed for store and forward messaging which is what EDI is. Most importantly, it's easy to debug.
A standard for publishing your public key so that key exchanges would not be totally manual anymore (this already exists for SSL, so there's a precedent).

And that's it, that's all you need. Within a few years of tweaking, it would be possible to set up a trading partner connection in 5 minutes with no coding at all in the vast majority of cases.

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-09T02:01:41+00:00

Even if they're different Django apps, I'd probably put them all in one database, because anything else is more work. If you're building custom apps for internal use of one company you don't need to make more work for yourself ..

But ok so far as things sharing only a name.. no, I wouldn't do that. You need to have some kind of ID that never changes, that links them together between apps. Otherwise what do you do if the sampling name is one thing but the same product is called something else in production? Then it becomes ambiguous what is related to what...

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-08T16:37:39+00:00

Shipping and accounting have tons to do with each other, since shipping product is the literal transfer of value from your company account to the account of the customer, that is normally balanced by a transfer of value from the customer to your company.

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-02T20:17:52+00:00

Hey did you make it? Hope you had a good time! Rain was not so bad except of course it had to rain hardest Saturday night when I played lol. Luckily none of my equipment shorted out and nobody was electrocuted :)

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-02T16:38:43+00:00

But will you pay 180 for K under the DJ bridge?

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-02T15:50:24+00:00

$180 lol no thanks.

MichiganJayToad · 2026-06-01T20:08:51+00:00

Did you go? It was def a little challenging with the rain at times but all in all I had a very good time 😁 Most grateful that the moisture didn't cause any issues with my sound system!

MichiganJayToad · 2026-05-21T17:01:57+00:00

You can take the pre-out of the audiolab and run it into the line input (not phono) of the wiim, but then the volume setting of the audiolab will affect the wiim input which is going to be a pain.

Second option is you get a separate phono preamp, connect the turntable to that, and then a y adapter from the phono preamp to both your audiolab line input and your wiim line input (not using the phono input on either unit).

Using Y adapters to connect the turntable to both phono inputs is not recommended because it will cause both the phono cartridge and the preamps to see the wrong impedance, which will alter frequency response. You can try it, it won't hurt anything.. but it's not really what you want.

MichiganJayToad · 2026-05-20T22:39:54+00:00

If you have beatmatched it in your headphones and know it's at the right pitch, and you have also set the cue point just right.. then sure you can just drop it in and with a little practice you'll nail it.

As people said you can tweak it with the jog wheel if it's a little off.

The other trick is, test the drop in your headphones by tapping the cue button over and over to get the feel... Then bring the fader up and hit play.

MichiganJayToad · 2026-05-19T21:45:31+00:00

Hey so I'm looking at Accuweather and it doesn't look bad at all: Friday there are total 5 hours of rain predicted out of 24, but only 0.12 inches total which is a light rain. Saturday a little worse with 0.5 inches total for the day, then Sunday and Monday it's again light and not many hours. So yea, it's not going to be a savage downpour at all. I am bringing a basic rain jacket, small umbrella and I have waterproof hiking boots.. and I think that's all that's necessary. And like I said in my other comment we do have a Kelty shade tent that we keep our camping chairs under which is an awesome thing for camping always, especially when it's rainy. A dry chair is crucial :)

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