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Re: Said goodbye to my best friend this morning.

^^^^^ Totally understand as I did the same thing 4.5 months ago with my little fur baby. Truly heartbreaking but I wouldn't have it any other way either.

motorstereo

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Re: Pölk Monitor 7A Driver

Picture of the front and back of the driver in question would help tremendously.
I'm not 100% but 95% sure the 7a would have had the mw6500 driver.

pitdogg2

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Re: Said goodbye to my best friend this morning.

Dogs lives are way too short. Sorry to hear about Skeets.

Milito

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Re: One can dream, can't they? - Audio Exotics

billbillw wrote: »

It is basically a standard server put into a very fancy custom case with custom passive cooling and a custom linear power supply. Price is pushing €90K.

Some additional reading on that particular model (Olympus) finds they also went to a proprietary digital connection called XDMI (are there any XDMI DACs yet?) and use battery packs to create the low noise power supply setup. It doesn't actually have the linear power supply that the original model had.
All that said, the Motherboard, CPU, DDR5 ECC Memory and Intel Optane storage that are the heart of this server would cost you less than $3000 from Microcenter...
A 24 core/48 thread CPU for a music server is so ridiculously over-powered...That is the type of system that is designed for very heavy multi-threaded operations like CAD rendering, video rendering, etc. Its roughly double the CPU capability of my desktop Intel 12th Gen i7 on multi-threaded, but very close on single threaded, which is most audio streaming operations.
Anyway, they are selling them as fast as they can build them apparently.

billbillw

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Re: Post a picture.....any picture...part deux...

Tony M

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Re: You’re doing it wrong…

"The USPS, the undisputed champions of doing it wrong.

3 shipments from 3 different places and all 3 are, as of right now, somewhere unknown. How is that even possible!?!"

Many many years of practice and a hell of a lot of money.
They've nailed it!

skipshot12

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Re: MIT Shotgun S1.3 Interconnects 2M

The problem with monster was beyond products and money. Their sue happy culture is probably their ultimate downfall. They sued everyone and everything. Anyone who had any inkling of their antics pretty much swore them off. Monster is just a chinese rebadge now of random bluetooth gear and other knick knacks.