Recent content by Sasqui

Very interesting product. I still have half a 5 gram tube of AS 5... maybe I should get with the times?

Instead of sharing a common ground, each side has it's own dedicated negative. A 3.5mm jack has L+, R+ and Ground (not counting if it has a microphone) Amen!

Yea, a sound card is a DAC at it's heart. 4.4mm outputs are balanced, meaning each side has an individual ground. I've only seen them on "dongle DACs"

Do you think I'll notice any difference in sound quality? I was looking at a few "dongle DACs" that have a balanced 4.4mm output (along with a standard 3.5mm output)... is there a benefit to connecting the balanced input to a receiver?

Backstory: I've got a incredibly nice sounding pair of bookshelf speakers that I built back in the 1980's. And, I recently picked up a 100wpc Realistic STA 2600, it's the same receiver I had back in the 1980's, but it was stolen during a break in in 1990. Hearing it again after 30+ years makes...

Been a while since I've posted here! Last year, I intercepted about 2 dozen Dell Laptops slated for recycling. The majority were Precision M6800's in great shape, almost all had either NV or AMD discreet work station graphics. I've since slapped SSD's in and sold most of them. Off-tangent here...

Don't assume the 6600K is dead. I recently had two MSI motherboards die, one was due to a fan short, the other just stopped powering up after adding ram sticks. The 4790k CPU and memory were fine. That and at least three X58 boards just stopped working, one had a burnt edge. The Xeon chip(s)...

Yea, Win 10 on an older DELL precision M4800. And no doubt you are right with 3 different GUI's make Windows 10 "smoother"... it doesn't seem to have helped much. grrr.

I'll try that! Why would the Ethernet properties set in one location not show up in another? It's frustrating, fuck windows progress... My guess is it's a conflict between MS Windows and DELL drivers for the Ethernet adapter? So subnet mask and subnet prefix length are the same?

The BLUE power LED is solid, only the green TX lights are active. When it's powered on, the yellow light turns on and off till the green TX lights go on, and the power light is blue. The thing is... I set a static IP address in the windows XP/Win7 interface (that I'm used to), but it tells me...

After I set, saved, closed and confirmed the settings in the ethernet properties here: I go here: Then here, why does it say DHCP, when I set a static IP before??? It goes here... I have no idea what to enter when I select "Manual"! I set it to Manual... why is it not the same as...

Still won't connect, damnit, I also tried https://192.168.168.167 (the assigned IP address for my ethernet adapter so no surprise there?). The 10/100/act X0 light is green on the TZ400, so is the 1000/act X1 light for connection to my switch - that is connected to the Fidium hub... The only...

Should I disable my wireless, then set the static IP address with the ethernet cable plugged into my ISP router? ....Or set the wireless to static? What about DNS, leave that alone? Yep, noob here, though I do know the difference between a DHCP and static IP address, so I have that going for...

So after a reboot, DHCP is off, but there's still no default gateway for" Ethernet": Is the TZ400 meant for IPv6? Does anything look off? Be glad to share a screen if you've got time!

Did another reset and it rebooted. I've only connected the LAN cable to my laptop.... This is killing me. There's no default gateway for "Ethernet": I tried setting a static IP with no luck, still can't connect to the address of the TZ400 at https://192.168.168.168 My Wifi was turned off. I...