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  8. FORTIS WANTS A BETTER THREAD

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    Don’t you just add milk to cereal ?? I can easily do that :lol2:

     

    The other day I burnt water LOL I forgot I put the pot on to boil some eggs :read:

     

    That's exactly why you need one. I am very forgetful sometimes. I throw everything into the pot, press a button, go off, do something else while my food is cooking, and the pot turns off itself, slowly releases steam, keeps your food warm, etc.

     

    If I want to boil eggs in it (yes, you can), I throw my eggs in, water, boom, in 10 minutes boiled eggs.

  9. FORTIS WANTS A BETTER THREAD

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    Meh, didn't do anything for me. Bought a breville toaster oven that had an air fryer built in, tried it out and wasn't impressed. Maybe the dedicated units are better?

     

    Ended up returning it and bought the Wolf toaster oven, that thing is a damn beast! Haven't touched the microwave in months since we got it.

     

     

    Toaster over. OMFG. Ok, this thread is too much. You guys are amazing. Toaster ovens are the shit. Instapot + toaster oven is really all you need to cook anything.

     

    Just got back from the gym and have some chicken drumsticks cooking in mine. My mouth is watering at the thought!

     

    Instapot, when you need your latest cooking gadget to be configured into an IED. :lol2:

     

    LOL holy crap. Terrible. But funny AF.

     

  11. HiFi/Highend/Audio Gear

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    Just buy this, forget any of the hi-fi consumer stuff:

    http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/duet

     

    It's a professional unit designed by recording industry experts, you can't do better for this kind of money. And you can hook it up many different ways, the headphone jack is on the front within easy reach. It sounds superb, I use mine constantly with desktop monitors: Genelec M040s with Hsu Research dual 10" sub units under the desk. It uses the USB interface to take the digital stream and process it with its own DACs, and if you really want to get into recording it'll do that as well. As for headphones, it's your call, they all sound different, but the Sennheiser HD650 is a known standard that has an excellent reputation.

     

    Thanks for the recommendation! Love the size of that unit. Gonna start laying down some EDM tracks with that as a bonus :D

  12. Let’s Talk Social Media

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    I think social media is dangerous.

     

    I love twitter though. But I try not to check it too much and only follow a handful of good accounts.

     

    Pretty much sums up my view, too lazy to type :D and Chamath is much better at rationalizing than I am :D

     

  15. HiFi/Highend/Audio Gear

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    I've never used more than a headphone jack direct when listening to computers. It's usually good enough for what it is, and I never sought the hi-fi experience that way.

     

    If the external sound card has an output for a D/A converter ("DAC"), then I would get a decent DAC and start from there. I haven't played with a computer sound card in forever, so not sure if all of them have these outputs or just a select few.

     

    The DAC will improve the analog output you will get as opposed to running the standard analog output straight to an amp or direct to headphones. You can choose to run an amplifier if you wish for greater quality, but of course this is up to you.

     

    A Cambridge Audio DAC Magic is a nice starter DAC, costs around $500 I believe. It can take in coax, optical and even USB. I'd recommend that:

     

    https://www.cambridgeaudio.com/en/products/...ma/dacmagic-100

     

    With respect to the output connection itself....coax over optical if given a choice. A lot of lower end gear has eliminated coax, but if it's available it's better sound.

     

    BTW, I recall now using a laptop at an audio show among other input sources. We just used USB to a DAC and it was fine.

     

    Headphones? Provide a budget and/or goals, and we can go from there. If you have nice hardware, headphone quality is not as critical. If you run a nice DAC and amp, then a low end pair of headphones will usually sound better than high end headphones fed straight from the headphone jack. This is the same principle with speakers in general, not just headphones.

     

    Amp? Not a ton of choices out there for headphone amps. I know Woo is popular, but I haven't listened to them to vouch for them.

     

    This might be out of your budget, but it's what I'd use:

     

    http://www.synthesis.co.it/roma-roma41.php

     

    The Grommes PHI-26 headphone amp was a favorite about 10+ years ago when it was still around. That's another one I like.

     

    I have no idea what I'm talking about in this space, so when I mentioned an amp, I think I had it in my mind as a DAC.

     

    For headphones I stick with Klipsch, but my budget would be under $300.

  17. Is anyone in the BITCOIN market?

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    Because Ether is out to take its blood and soul, aka flippening. Bitcoin has significantly limited utility compared to even other fund transfer coins. It's expensive, it takes fcuking forever, it's one of the primary coin pairs so as altcoins go up, Bitcoin goes down. I'm kinda salty that I have about 5 grand in Bitcoin. Could be used so much better in altcoins

     

    Which is why I like LTC

     

    But this is true...BTC for store of value. LTC for payments. Quicker time, smaller fees. Once there is a good network connecting the two, game over.

     

    I love talking about this. But, in reality, speculation is driving up the market, lol.

  18. Is anyone in the BITCOIN market?

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    All these shit coins gonna be volatile as hell, so I wouldn't even blink at a 50% loss or gain.

     

    Be careful what you invest in, SEC cracking down on all the non legit shit coins.

     

    People are talking about dentacoin, fcuking LOL. Oh. Lord.

     

    The cheapest, most legit coin you can get right now is LTC. And I'll go out and say XLM and XRP are legit and cheap as well.

     

    Stick to the coins that are traded on coinbase, kraken, gemini, major exchanges etc. Period. If you are really worried about the risk of some of these small coins.

     

    Chad can your friend look into ZCL and see what he feels about the bitcoin private fork there?

     

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