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Get it modded by rhythmdevils - much nicer pads!

How do you like the new MB card?

Installing it this weekend - will update. I can't imagine it being an upsetting downgrade from my SFD-1, but maybe spatial presentation.

A good lawyer—and I mean *really* good = peace of mind. Take it from a Jew.

I'm a two-time loser. In one, she divorced me; in the 2nd, I divorced her (what a bitch). At the time(s), it can be pretty awful. But, as the saying goes, time heals all wounds.

Speaking from experience: do not throw yourself into work, do not power through it. I stubbornly thought I could fix myself and it threw me into such a gradual downward spiral that I did not recognize the depression that was so cleverly hidden that I fooled even myself. Lost nearly ten years of my life after the split which was longer than the time we were together.

Only have my limited perspective to go off, but I imagine the plethora of manufacturers is at least in part borne of folks ripping designs off and not wanting to be too obvious about it. IEMs are also effectively jewellery for a lotta folk, ergo the multi-kilobuck stuff. Think Vertu smartphones and how idiotic that whole business model is.

I know in India, it’s either IEM or speakers. TOTL headphones have little to no market there. There is great interest and demand for IEM.

Humidity is one of my guesses.

@Sqveak dual-entry not necessary because the connector is 4-pole at both earpieces, so a balanced cable can be used to either.

New drivers will be interesting. Lower impedance than the current ones, but not stupid low. Higher quoted sensitivity than the current ones too.

Saw the English announcement over on the headfi thread: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/fostex-t50rp-incremental-mods-and-measurements.618659/page-189#post-18093381

@Biodegraded I think it's cool that it can be done either way. I dig the symmetry :)

"doodad to connect the thingamajigger to the computer" DUDE!! I've got one of those! you can borrow it from me, srsly.

From my experience, you’ll only find stuff only when you’re not searching for it.

My problem is I can't find the exact doodad, so I wind up stacking several different doodads until I eventually get the combination that I need.

Pietus Maximus has unity and negative gain

Thanks, @edd. I should say that I'm intrigued by more than just the unity gain on Kara (preamp, multiple I/O, volume attenuator). I've been thinking about a stereo preamp that can also work as a headphone amp. Just curious if anybody has actually listened to the headphone output.

Oh, wait...

<removes bits of masonry from teeth and tries the Pakoda>

Can never remember which of those words is which!

Previously, the hub was not in use. That's when problem first showed. It was connected to USB-C on PC. Tomorrow I will get a cable C to A to try other onboard ports

@Lyander It's been here some time. I hope it isn't ageing like me!

Have done a kernel upgrade today. Just a chance something might have been changed in the previous one.

otherwise it may just be a case of faecal matter.

I kinda hate to say it but we're getting used to this. But hey climate change is a natural process that human activity ABSOLUTELY hasn't exacerbated in recent centuries, eh?

Naah... *Nothing* to do with humans. Or fossil fuels. Or cows farting...

Nothing of any of that stuff.

No electronics for you! That is at the limit of many devices operational ambient temperature specifications! Stay cool when you can, be well.

I'll be offering handshakes at my touchphobics' booth. Or the special of the day: a distant wave :)

@YMO Be careful. I’ll hold you to it…

Sending you a distant, but friendly, wave, right now...

:)

Step up in what? And from what?? Stop the clickbait!!! ;-)

Gungnir MB single ended into SW51+. I know it is cliche, but I am hearing things in songs that I think were smeared together. Instrument separation is greater. I have only a scant few hours on it but I am really happy.

Wait till you have the Cinemags xlr—>rca

I haven't heard that specific one, but I used to own the ADI-2 Pro and have heard the DAC version (pre FS). I think it's a solid dac on the stereotypical pro/dry side, but the real value is in the built-in DSP options.

@Merrick While I don't share solidarity with the student protestors, I cannot argue with your statements. Unfortunately I don't think senseless violence in the region will end while Israeli leadership retains settler-hardliners and Palestinian leadership continues to act as a proxy for regional powers hell-bent on Israel's destruction. Would this current cycle end if Hamas frees their Oct. 7th hostages?

Having trouble with the idea of someone catching a ban for a profile post. He didn’t de-rail a thread or even start trouble in Marv’s thread. Not much disrespectful in this back and forth, either. If you’re gonna tolerate the libertarian dude in Marv’s thread worried about a border “invasion,” maybe also tolerate the one vocally left wing dude here.

There are rules around politics in the forum. Marv's thread is the only place. Let's make this the last post on this. Merrick will be back soon.

@crenca I wouldn’t even say that I hear more detail. Maybe I would in an A/B test, but that’s not what makes the difference to me. Somehow, I enjoy the music much more lossless, but can’t really say why. I always wanted to try with aptX, but never got around to it yet.

I’ve debated selling my Auteur for a Bathys. I use headphones infrequently and when I do the noise canceling and ability to use as a wireless headset is something I need.

@Merrick I don’t think I will ever buy a closed-back again, I have the Bathys for that duty. Plus, they are my travel headphones for hotel room/good quality as well as for train/plane wireless and ANC requirements, and I use them as a headset for meetings when I’m at the office. Great allrounders.