I don't think rock is supposed to sound like a lawnmower accompanied by maracas. I guess that's why we bother with all this gear.
I don't usually listen to music in the car, so I'd started to forget how bad car audio can be.
I hear Lyr3 as an amp that disciplines unruly headphones, which raises the question of why you want an unruly headphone in the first place. I...
Headstage is complicated. In some sense you should really not be hearing things come from way outside your ears. Headphones, amps, and DACs can do...
Yeah, unfortunately all of this is just another reason that it's difficult to actually know without trying things (ideally at home, in the...
Usually when people get advice on gear, it's given mostly based on what they're hoping it will sound like. Yeah, there's the follow-the-rules...
I've seen a couple impressions of the Model 465 posted for shows, and it's always described as being perfect, the best whatever headphones have...
Public schools have plenty of reasons other than anti-union zealotry to want to avoid them. Right now I substitute teach because I make great life...
I'm in my 30s. It's been a while since my hearing was tested, so I don't know about peaks and dips, but on a sweep I still have up to around 17k....
I've had a few weeks with a completely stock HD800 now, and it's... just not that problematic in the highs to me. The peaks are really audibly...
I'm less worried about the IP and more worried about "OK, but how are these 20 Chinese R2R DACs all different from each other?".
If you take out the cost of the headphones and tubes, we're down to 5 figures - real bargain territory! It does look nice, anyway.
A lot of the reason I like videogames is because many of them put real effort into the soundtrack. I got sucked into Final Fantasy MMO land...
Going scorched earth over a product class where all the models are historically irrelevant in a few years is kind of wild...
I've been curious about these, but the BD34301EKV is a really, really expensive part, the most expensive of all the audio DACs I thought to check...
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