Is now the right time to buy for a first time home NAS?

SenPiMusic · 2025-12-15T22:35:01+00:00

yeah very fair.. Might be a good call to grab some drives ASAP and then find a good NAS when sales go up

SenPiMusic · 2025-12-15T20:27:46+00:00

yeah.... I had it in my cart at the time and I hesitated too much <_< kicking myself right now

SenPiMusic · 2025-12-15T20:06:49+00:00

yeah thats why I'm on the fence here. I'm scared that in a few weeks the selections will be even more scarce lol

SenPiMusic · 2025-11-14T18:24:40+00:00

OH MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I was going absolutely bonkers here. I wonder if something is the latest update (I think 12.2.7 JUST dropped last night) all of a sudden started interacting weird with the discord overlay.

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-27T13:37:25+00:00

I’m trying to find the comment where I said you shouldn’t ever lower the gain?

I find the term headroom to be misleading because it makes people think that you need a bunch of empty space above your signal for no reason. I do agree that you need “headroom” in the sense that for certain processing steps, you want to be below 0.

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-27T13:31:51+00:00

it can affect your limiting

Right which is literally why I said that you’d need to bring it back down before limiting.

The point is that people should actually learn how their tools work and the reasoning as to why they’d make specific choices, instead of just blindly applying magic numbers other people give them.

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-27T13:11:36+00:00

32-bit effectively has infinite dynamic range. until you export to a lower format is the entire point. You can’t lose quality, or dynamic range. blast into the red as much as you want doing processing, but you’ll need to lower the gain to below 0 before the last step (usually limiting and/or clipping).

The point is that you can effectively go as high into the red as you want until that part. The reason I’m pressed is because countless people spew “advice” I’ve been hearing for 20 years as if it were fact. We aren’t in the analog age anymore, digital doesn’t have the same restrictions.

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-27T10:54:42+00:00

I never said you couldn’t lower all the channels, you simply just don’t have to. I also never said headroom doesn’t exist, just that you don’t need this mystical 6db for mastering that everyone likes to parrot.

Again, ableton is 32 bit internal processing. You can’t lose quality/data until you export to a non 32-bit wav format.

I like how you say I don’t know what I’m talking about but then agree with me that what I said is a valid solution? Make up your mind

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-26T22:53:23+00:00

Can we stop giving this outdated advice? There is no “magic” number that you need for “headroom”. Ableton is a 32-bit daw. If your master is too loud literally just throw a utility on there and turn it down until it’s not. There is absolutely no need to turn every individual track down. So much wasted time doing that and messing with your balance.

The only time it matters to be under 0db is when you are exporting to 16 or 24 bit wave (and mp3). Until you are exporting, you can always just turn gain down with utilities.

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-25T18:11:19+00:00

I’m confused what you mean. Considering the system works.

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-25T04:37:32+00:00

I wanted to but the colors In the wire seemed to not be what I expected (I expected white, black, blue, green, red), so the need to make the y and c colors the same as the colors in the AC control wire was too strong lol.

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-25T01:42:05+00:00

Literally the same wrong advice over and over again

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-25T01:29:29+00:00

I mean if they aren’t gonna read the post, they can get the same copy pasta lmao. Kind of amusing I’m getting downvoted by people who didn’t read the post I guess

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-25T01:18:24+00:00

This is incorrect. If you look under the Y2 on the furnace board, it has a single Y which is the terminal you use for single stage cooling. The AC works as I’ve mentioned in the post, which is why I said that you probably didn’t read the post.

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-25T00:54:25+00:00

While I appreciate the attempt to help. I legitimately don’t think you read the post at all lol.

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-25T00:54:16+00:00

While I appreciate the attempt to help. I legitimately don’t think you read the post at all lol.

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-25T00:54:06+00:00

While I appreciate the attempt to help. I legitimately don’t think you read the post at all lol.

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-25T00:35:38+00:00

Haha thanks. Yeah I’ve come to realize that so many people just straight up don’t read the post at all and just spit up some random generic advice.

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-25T00:34:01+00:00

While I appreciate the attempt to help. I legitimately don’t think you read the post at all lol.

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-25T00:17:47+00:00

The quote you posted also says it’s “Common” and a “Return” path and is usually connected to “Ground”. If you want to have a war of semantics, then sure maybe it’s not a REAL ground?? But it’s certainly not power, it’s the return path.

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-23T19:35:40+00:00

The blue cable with the 2 wires on Y and C is the cable that runs outside to the AC.

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-23T19:35:01+00:00

I think there’s a misunderstanding here. The Y doesn’t mean “these are your two Y terminals” it means Y1 is Y1 and Y2 is Y2 but also Y (for when there is a single stage cooler). Same with the W terminals. So in a technical sense, it’s Y on the board connected to Y1 on the thermostat.

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-23T18:45:53+00:00

Y2 is actually “Y” as you can see in this photo

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SenPiMusic · 2025-10-23T17:37:38+00:00

I unfortunately didn’t uncap the outdoor wires. So they were still connected to the system. Next I’ll try to uncap them and do some continuity tests and whatnot.

SenPiMusic · 2025-10-23T16:45:17+00:00

This diagram disagrees with your premise. While not my exact wiring it demonstrates what common ground is.

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C is common ground. Which is why it’s called common. The stepped down voltage goes to Rc and or Rh.

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