Who else can't sleep the night before their fancy new gears arrive?

@samureyex I answered your PMs

@tump350 Thanks man.

@agisthos Yea I have the matching amp. The picture a little above your post is that amp. Be wary the C1 is its own integrated thing and doesn’t necessarily benefit from a BMC dac, All other BMC amps do.

About your pre-amp question, if you use headphones, 100% get this. I’m not aware of anything better. If you have a matching BMC amp, 100% get this as well. You can say the amp is handicapped until it is unlocked via the CI link. Other than that, maybe a direct talk with BMC can yield more result than me.

Do look into the Sonnet Morpheus though. Based on what I’ve read, it is a stupendous dac with a stupendous pre-amp.

@elliottbnewcombjr "I thought Pratt Institute had made a mistake admitting me"
probably gonna be the most humble thing I see today. Haha love it. I can say since you worked your butt off, They didn't make a mistake in the end. I guess more college should accept "mistake students" =P

So, my repaired sub finally arrived after a weeklong journey where it shouldn't have been. The box was completely destroyed and there was some type of liquid spilled on the box. The driver said it looked like some detergent, he offered to return it. I asked him if I could open the box to check for damage. And.. at this point everything seems to be ok.

So much for the waiting and anticipation.

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A week ago a beautiful Aavik U-150 w/  dac and mc phono preamp  was delivered....Georgeous piece...It's sitting on the dining room table for me to look at and touch everytime I walk by it. I'm afraid to hook it up....I just want to look at this beauty like a fine piece of artwork......:>)

I was supposed to receive a shipment of GIK Acoustics panels on Good Friday and I had trouble sleeping the night before. Then I only received half of what I was supposed to receive. That cast a pall over the weekend. Then I received an email from Fedex saying the remaining packages would be delivered on Saturday. I waited all day and nothing arrived. ARGH! Finally on Monday the remainder of the shipment was delivered. But a set of brackets was missing and are out of stock. They should be here sometime next week. I feel frustrated, but I will anxiously wait with that weird pit feeling in my stomach.

Yeah, just like Christmas eve when were were kids. Still a thrill.

@mbmi  beautiful indeed.

@baclagg  YIKES! It's always the worst to wait all day on delivery day and get nothing. I share your pain. 

The Buddha teaches us that when we attach ourselves to ’things’, we will eventually become disappointed and saddened, because a belief in the permanence of things is misplaced; things fade and die over time, and they loose their luster in our imaginations once they are acquired. I understand the wisdom. But all that flies out the window when it comes to audio. My pulse increases at the prospect of acquiring a pair of speakers or an amplifier, etc. It’s like Howard Hughes says in the movie, “I may seem crazy [to them]… but it all makes sense to me.” So, yeah, like a child on Christmas Eve…

No, I don’t anticipate the delivery. I’m very analytical about things. It comes, it gets tried and if it’s not everything I imagined it would be it gets kicked to the curb. Then it’s back to the hunt which is much more fulfilling.

@samureyex 

Thoroughly entertaining thread.

Need more topics like this one.

@waytoomuchstuff haha TY and I agree with you. Things like this bring out the kids in us.

Also I'm like you. I turn on some universe stuffs and I fall asleep before I even try to fall asleep. My go-to was Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey with Neil Degrasse Tyson before netflix removed it. The Quantum series with Brian Green is also incredibly ENTERTAINING and sleep-inducing at the same time. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. 

I believe it's called Exploring Quantum History with Brian Greene. Not 100% sure. 

@samureyex 

I'm nodding off just reading your reference to "Exploring Quantum History".  I'm brewing some coffee as we speak.  Got a lot of day left.  

Those "universe stuffs" programs can be a bit of a mine field.  While mostly calm (read: boring) some of them involve big things blowing up with frequent flashes of light.  It's a bit like trying to go to sleep with a strobe light going off.  So, I've learned to exclude titles that involve "creation", "demise", "destruction", etc.  Just sayin'.

The plural of "gear" is "gear". I did get fancy new gears on my Pinarello Dogma once though. I could not sleep the night before either. 

I took delivery of my brand new Boulder 2160 power amp on Saturday. Definitely a restless night the night before. Then i was up hours before normal, cleaning house, dusting my kit, full of nervous energy awaiting the big arrival, plus friends to lift it in. I put on my best clothes,  even shaved this winter's beard off; i did save for three whole years, fully half of my income every month, just for this moment.

Amp arrived....absolutely ecstatic, please see my write up on WBF.

What i can say, is that once evening came, i was happy but exhausted and had an early night. I then had one of my best night's sleep in memory; i guess fulfilling a long held dream will do that to you☺

Anticipation. I’ve had it for 45 years, excited while waiting for every piece of gear ever arrived!