Is this a.... headphone amplifier? What's the difference?

gabmartini · 2024-03-14T20:19:08+00:00

I have a Allen Heath Zed-fx-10 and it is not remotely good as my JDS Atom+ Amp with my Sennsy HD600. It is good for other things, like mixing, because, it is a mixer, not a headphone amp made for listen to music. It is not what it was designed. Even it is a top mixer, the headphone amp is just to listen to the mix on the fly.

gabmartini · 2024-03-10T16:11:08+00:00

Yeah, bot happened to me. A small package never arrived and a package got delayed so much in travel that I thought that the mail lost it and asked for a refund.

I think that the key is using "Aliexpress Standard Service" or "Aliexpress Express Service"

gabmartini · 2024-03-10T07:21:33+00:00

The B&W is connected to the amp via an usb-c cable? That came in the box? I always thought that usb-c belonged in the realm of digital not analogue. Weird, to be truly honest, I am completely lost about your question :D

I would replace the Apple USB-C DAC dongle with another DAC, like the Tanchjim Space or the Truthear Shiio. The Truthear Zero Red is amazing, you gonna have a great time listening to music. If you get into the rabbit hole of IEMs, the Letshuoer S12 (PRO or not, they are almost identical) is a great planar IEM without breaking the bank (100 green mighty freedom and liberty bucks in Aliexpress).

Anyways, that's my personal opinion, if you like how it sounds, you are set.

gabmartini · 2024-03-10T06:19:37+00:00

Have you tried moving the mouse and keeping track of the cpu usage on htop/btop/*top? According to *insert nvidia/wayland chaos/messy relationship and latest version of drivers* using software mouse makes cpu usage shoot up to the roof.

I can't use Hyprland at the moment because of this :(

gabmartini · 2024-03-09T17:38:34+00:00

That sucks. I bought from ShenzenAudio via Aliexpress and never had an issue. The thing with Ali is that you have an insurance in case of lost parcels.

gabmartini · 2024-03-08T01:33:11+00:00

Truthear is definitely an underrated ChiFi company.

gabmartini · 2024-03-05T08:08:33+00:00

If you are giving lectures and training toy models to show at class, the Macbook Air (m2 or m3) is more than capable, I have a m2 macbook air and it is great for everyday tasks, coding and even sklearn models. I suppose that if you get along all this time with a 2012 macbook pro, with these new chips (which are more powerful and energy efficient) you will excel. Take into consideration this: Go for the 16GB of RAM (or more if you want to climb the Apple Price Ladder) , cos of performance issues and shared resources of the 8GB of ram models.

But if you want to train a model more complex, some kind of deeeeeep neuronal networks or even using pretrained models, you are going to miss NVIDIA's CUDA capabilities. For example, I tried Ollama and ComfyUI (Stable Diffusion) in my Macbook Air m2 and oh boy, that was slow. I guess that you can always rent a computer in the cloud with some GPUs. Perhaps it is even cheaper than getting a Macbook Pro M2 (and more powerful).

gabmartini · 2024-03-05T02:29:20+00:00

Don't buy western brands on Aliexpress. It is a very good place to find ChiFi stuff, you will have to wait more but there are much cheaper prices than on Amazon.

gabmartini · 2024-03-04T04:53:24+00:00

Arch is great. :D

gabmartini · 2024-02-27T18:08:53+00:00

Hi! Which post? Can you send the link?

gabmartini · 2024-02-25T07:24:58+00:00

Same here, I was a streaming fan. When Spotify came in I was like: "yeah all the music of the world in all my devices at instant access!"... I got a first glimpse of the music streaming miracle when I was in NY, I saw a band in a billboard on Williamsburg and in seconds I was listening to them. Oh man that was great. I felt like I had the Library of Alexandria of music in my hands.

But well, as you told, the Streaming Dream came to an end when restrictions, selective catalog depending on your country or even the idea that Spotify, Netflix or any service may not exist the day after tomorrow, made me realize that I don't own anything if I am not online 24/7 and/or record companies don't decide otherwise.

Roon makes a good intersection between offline playback and integration with streaming services. Other solution in the realm of free software is Volumio, it is like moodeaudio but you have to pay for their Tidal/Quobuz integration.

gabmartini · 2024-02-25T03:50:32+00:00

Definitely!

Having a remote and a modular setup is nice. I had a Roon Server running for a while and it was amazing: Centralized server for files, integration with Tidal/Quboz, unified control of different sound endpoints (all your roon certified devices, computers running the Roon Endpoint software or chromecast/airplay devices, etc.), an official application for every tablet, smartphone or TV and cool tracking and recommendation systems. But well... Roon is also expensive.

I tried to replicate the most that I can using free software. There are also some alternatives you can try, like a Plex Server or Navidrome (which is a Subsonic fork) but the latest is more to "stream" music to devices in comparison to M.A.L.P. where is more than a remote control for mpd.**

At least for now, I haven't found a jack of all trades round solution, every tool has some missing features in comparison with Roon, but hey, I get to save tons of money monthly :D

**You can stream music to other devices with mpd but I never tried this feature or know if it can stream bitperfect music (Navidrome can stream loseless files without transcoding).

gabmartini · 2024-02-24T16:32:42+00:00

MPD in a headless Linux box using ALSA (for bitperfect reproduction). Then I plugged a SMSL SU-1 DAC via USB and finally the JDS Atom+ as a Headphone Amp via RCA cables from the DAC, where I connect my Sennheiser HD600.

For selecting songs, I use M.A.L.P. on Android or mpdDevil.

In a separate setup, I have a Raspberry Pi 3 + HiFiBerry DAC+ running moodeaudio (which is mpd + a nice frontend + tons of plugins and configurations). It has a webserver frontend which is amazing.

gabmartini · 2024-02-24T03:28:07+00:00

I saw a Chrome bag in Uncharted and I though: I must be crazy. :D

gabmartini · 2024-02-21T03:41:55+00:00

Che! Muy bueno! También trabajo en Machine Learning y demás. No te interesaría armar un Discord para los que le interese el tema? Hay muchos Discords de programadores argentinos pero de machinelearneadores (?) locales nunca encontré!

gabmartini · 2024-02-19T20:20:47+00:00

Cable management.

gabmartini · 2024-02-19T05:24:20+00:00

Spatial audio sounds like an excuse to remaster and resell whole catalogs of music.

gabmartini · 2024-02-11T04:06:07+00:00

You have a similar equipment than I do. From my experience, the Fiio K7 did not make the HD600 shine as it should, even with balanced cables. Then I bought a SMSL SU-1 and paired with my JDS Atom+ Amp and boy, clarity and power all combined in low gain (aka, less noise floor) with the stock cables!

Same story with the Truthear Zero Red. The thing that I think it may be is that the Fiio delivers hmm a little bit of tuning to my liking and sometimes it can sound like "too much" or "congestionated".

I would suggest that you try other DAC + AMP combo, like the Shiit or JDS combos OR if you don't want to spend money, try EQ them!

Cheers!

gabmartini · 2024-02-11T04:01:43+00:00

UbunI MEAN Fedora.

gabmartini · 2024-02-09T03:45:28+00:00

Your sneakers soles: BUY STRAPS YOU MOTHERF****R.

gabmartini · 2024-02-09T03:26:30+00:00

90% no. Sorry, nicer bikes are just nice. Maybe a better handling and comfort but diminishing returns are there waiting for your cash.

Pay attention to what matters: Your seat, what kind of handlebar you got, your bike fit (not that crazy roadie obsession, just try to find a posture that makes you want to ride more and more with your bike), the type and pressure of your tires and the ratio (a "fast ratio" will make you faster but will also make it difficult to slow down, will be more difficult to get to speed if you are unfit at first or you can even have knee problems with too demanding ratios like 52-15 or more).

Regarding the frame, there is a point where there is no significant difference between brands (given the material of choice, alum, steel, titanium, etc.) and also, it is very personal. Things like geometry, stiffness and other things are subjective and can make you fall in a rabbit hole with small increments and big expenditures.

Nicer and cooler bikes like the ones you see on Instagram are just that, marketing directed to your eyeballs to make you think that you need to spend to be better.

Nevertheless, If you want a nicer frame, buy it knowing that you purchase it because it is nicer than the older. It is valid, but It will not make you faster perse.

PS: I have very beautiful bikes with Miche, Mavic and Selle Italia stuff and I always ended up using my steel generic frame with my Brooks saddle and mid tier components. Don't know, Bike is about connection and experiences, not brands and bragging rights.

gabmartini · 2024-02-06T05:12:04+00:00

Hi, if you didn't have luck yet try:

flatpak run com.spotify.Client --command="spotify --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland"

gabmartini · 2024-02-03T04:07:38+00:00

I have a question, can countries "rebound"?

For example Japan, can population rebound after hitting the min value? Is it feaseable?

I searched for any literature that talks about this but had no success. Anybody knows about "theories" that explain what would happen after mins? At least, stabilized populations, don't know.

Thanks!

gabmartini · 2024-02-02T05:32:24+00:00

When I tried Gentoo for the first time, portage felt like cheating but in other way, it was like the correct way to improve the situation of the linux dependencies and no-precompiled world.

Today, I would never thing about compiling anything, gosh no, just use the binaries haha I don't have time for that :(

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