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Sonova to Sennheiser as McDonnell Douglas to Boeing?

It's a shame to see Sennheiser's decline. But they've not released anything good since 2009 (if you don't count HD 800 S), Alex Grell left 5 years ago, and they could have had winners, e.g. a new version of the HE 60. Were it not for JAR they'd be moribund.

HAH, "moribund'''s not a word I'd heard in a very long time but yeah, that tracks. Seems like, at best, they're able to come close to matching past endeavours, but I do feel like things've taken a turn for the worse with their modern direction.

The Massdrop HD6XX is a steal. But after the HD800 it went downhill. Maybe some decent IEM releases over the years but that's it.

Yuck

I know its not the same, but the cable that came with my CFA Fathom is a 4-wire ribbon style cable that I thought I'd hate because weird design, and SPC, but the ergonomics are actually quite nice. Sound wise it's more even than the CFA pure silver super litz.

I saw those. Time Stream cables I think they're called by Campfire? Not heard those ones specifically but while I cannot make any hard calls just yet because my sinuses are flooded... I forget how much more cables seem to matter for IEMs than headphones.

Get vaccinated…that’s the best way to stay safe.

Hope it misses you and your family. Stay well.

stay safe, buddy, shit's no joke

I am perpetually mentally stuck in 2006.

i thought it was "no doy", like, gag me with a spoon.

"Gag me with a spoon" okay THAT'S one I haven't peeped in a very long time.

(got Salnotes Zero 2 for a sister, decided to try them out. My head feels like it was being squished almost).

I can handle more bass when the front seal is low. But a high seal with a lot of bass is a recipe for fatigue

IEMs, ugh. Yeah it's the low-loss seal that really does it for me I think, the base of my ears started aching soon after. Also this is kiiiinda reinforcing my opinions on burn-in.

I dare say DBZ has far more cultural impact than a lot of Disney movies

@Cspirou I would say yes including how big DBZ is with Saint Seiya in Latin America.

I never followed DBZ, just DB when I was younger

Hope the recs prove interesting!

And more power to @atomicbob!

Thank-you, but not sure I understand the context.

@gurubhai I'm giving myself time to grow properly accustomed to them. Just have them running out of the Piety for now but will give the MCTH a shot sooner or later. With how much fun these are I am beginning to question the value proposition of a lot of modern orthos, haha.

There are some aspects that these modern headphones seem to be better at and I use an umbrella term, modern resolution to refer to aspects such as, bass definition, separation, imaging precision, black-ground etc. Outside those aspects, I do think Yamaha and Sennheiser solved headphones back in the 20th century.

@EagleWings That's why we mod the vintage orthos, to improve tthese aspects you call modern resolution. I won't be satisfied with a headphone if it couldn't do those things.

Neat, Levenger makes some nice pens.

@JK47 someone shared this over in a Discord server I'm in, not sure where they got it from though. Production is basically more v-shaped by a fair amount: https://i.imgur.com/F3mMgxF.png

And I found measurements over on HF: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/sennheiser-hd-490-pro-plus-coming.971458/post-17932853

I’ll be producing a lot of YouTube comments

So, is it using single entry 4 pin mini-XLR connector? I don't know, it looks like a mini-XLR connector, and there's a 4.4mm balanced cable with HD490 Pro Plus.

I like the HD650 cable...still the best for the HDs

@Thad E Ginathom
$ cat snagged | grep cable
Would that work?

$ echo "cable" >snagged
$ cat snagged | grep cable
cable
$

This is one way of unsnagging cable with the command line.

I like to call test output files dog. Then I can type

$ cat dog

Small minds... Small things... :)

Like, channel imbalance that only shows up after changing the gain while the amp's on, or just different channel balance from high to low gain period?

High humidity corrosion fuckery?

@Wilewarer the former. With the 3+ I had to flip the switch a bunch, wiggle it laterally to re-center image. Piety and Unity are fine now, I'm just never touching gain settings unless I have to.

@Sqveak ugh, likely. Hate it. No real reason to use lower gain for me unless I try with IEMs. Likely never going to now haha.

@joch I developed a headache as soon as I switched it on bad. I can see this working with REALLY lean headphones maybe, but I feel it makes more sense for iFi to keep their analogue crossfeed implementation than their bass boost.

Understandable. Original XBass on Zen Can I think did it right. XBass+ and Truebass is where they went really south. IIRC, Thorsten developed the original XBass. Subsequent versions after that sucked ballz.

Right, I actually remember really liking X-Bass since it was a more tasteful boost than marketing had me believe. This is just obscene. I had to look FR up, it peaks at +11dB by 20Hz.

Right, that's what I was thinking. I'm gonna be quadruply sure and email schiit about it though. The specs align and the wallwart is rated for 3x the amperage so it should theoretically be super safe. I know that should work but I'm fully in cover my ass mode haha.

definitely hide the 110v stuff unless absolutely sure. you can accidentally plug 220v into 110v without much issue. not so much the other way

@Cspirou
At the moment the only 110V gear I have are the AC-AC Schiit wall warts (unless I'm properly mistaken the Modi MB 2 and Magni don't really have anything to do with voltage conversion themselves?)

Good luck with the Jeepneys. Those things are fun to look at.

Unless your amp runs super toasty, most electrolytics will run more than a decade. Unless they're extra crappy, that is. Most will bulge up and you'll start hearing noise at 2x the AC frequency of your mains. Then it's time to swap the suckers out.

We all have our favourite tubes but theres no point of going for them usually. I am content with 3rd or 4th best. Buy 3 or 4 and you will be golden for more than 20y.

The only capacitors you need to worry about are electrolytics which are generally only in the PSU section. Usually pretty cheap and you will always be able to find an equivalent in the future.

Heilung is superb! Would like to attend a concert.

@Hrodulf same.

I let out a supremely unmanly yelp when they were introduced, hahaha. I think I've shared some tracks on here before, they're a group that I was really into a few years back for when I feel like throwing my body around, but my tastes keep shifting around.

I thought they are silicone and resistant to acidic/alkali conditions

Do you have teeth in your ear? Wow.

@joch it might just be me but I've always had silicone eartips go pretty quickly, which is why I bought a LOT of those Etymotic triflange tips (they kept getting stuck in my ear canal when I'd take em out).

@Jinxy245 they tore right where the different materials joined! Only had these since March 2020 so not extremely long, bah. I love how these sound but this sucks.

Haha you can’t have cake and eat it too. Have you tried a different upstream?

I've been trying to spend a less money lately (just sidegraded to a Zen DAC v2cuz I was honestly getting a bit tired of the Modi 3+ sound after... over two years-- would be fun to hear the Andros out of that actually), I'm mainly going between the Apple dongle and a BTR7, pretty consistent so it's the Andros themselves I'm guessing. Not a bad thing, polarity issues are rare among my usual music listening

Also just as a sanity check (I struggle with this a lot more on the main headphone rig, this was done pretty fast): https://imgur.com/a/awKBBbP

I saw the trailer at an IMAX screening of Oppenheimer and the person sitting next to me shouted "Balls!" Didn't see it myself

Haha, I will say that the original remains a more terrifying conventional horror film and that this one might offend some folk who have certain strong beliefs, but I personally liked it a lot. Pacing was kinda crap, the middle of the film kinda meanders a bit, but I honestly didn't hate it. Dunno if I'd rewatch it but I don't regret having seen it.