Neil Gendzwill

Those turns are pretty tight. I don’t think you need a huge radius board for that. Maybe 10m?

A side-effect of that is that at a given length, the nose and tail will be much wider on a hammerhead design than a normal profile at a given length. My Contra is a 169 and the waist is only 27 but with a 10m SCR the tip and tail ended up very wide. This makes the board way more unwieldy in tight situations than I expected.

It allows more effective edge for a given board length. It also reduces the amount of material in the nose which can sometimes flap around or vibrate at speed. But there are plenty of boards with more conventional noses that carve well. The flip side is that if you make the nose too short the board becomes difficult off the groom. If you get Coiler to make one Bruce offers several nose shapes including a very abrupt BX style nose but he recommended against that one for me based on where I ride (Western Canada).

Wonder if Fawcett had any input into the design of that one.

Hey look, Beta Tester #7 said they were very smooth and precise. If you can't trust Beta Tester #7, who can you trust?

Black Snowboard of Death. The MegaDeath is the premium version of that board.

Well the MegaDeath is targeted at a niche boutique market. For most people the regular BSOD is a better choice. And cheaper.

Bruce builds great boards but they are heavy. The MegaDeath is a wonder of lightweight construction.

Not sure the small manufacturers can really keep up with the big guns on tech. Something like the Capita MegaDeath really highlights that.

Audiophile network switch? Is there really such a thing? An uncompressed CD stream is very low bandwidth by modern standards, why would you need special gear?

Those are just people without the foggiest clue on how digital signal processing works. The output of a DAC is not a stepped wave.

I think you’re wrong about the wides. I tried to heat mold my Ions a couple times and no joy. I have no clue how you jam your feet into them. The normal Ions fit me fine, the step ons are definitely narrower. But the step on Photon wides were comfortable out of the box and so are my new step on Ion wides.

The peaks and valleys are not at all similar to sampling. And of course you can’t hear the samples, the signal to the speakers is analogue. What you can hear with CDs is the quality of the recording and playback chain. In the early days of CDs it was bad on both ends. Nyquist says you can exactly reproduce up to 22 kHz with the CD standard. Of course Nyquist also requires an ideal low pass filter to do that which doesn’t exist. The filters they used on playback originally had significant roll off and caused pretty bad phase distortion in the high end.

Shrugs. I drive a Miata. My Linn Sondek still sounds great.

When CDs first came out absolutely vinyl sounded better. There were a whole bunch of reasons for that. But now that the medium is mature so long as you have a properly recorded cd and a decent player it’s going to trump vinyl. I will say that most people are very surprised to hear how good vinyl can sound as they haven’t heard it through decent gear.