ChaChaRealSmooth

If things ever really settle down, I'd be up to fly across the Pacific to meet up with everyone IRL.

Should JK and I bring our bidets too?

If you don't you both aren't allowed in.

Verite pads for DNA amp for sure.

@purr1n yeah, I settled on Verite pads again. Just like it the most on my setup. I can see Universe being preferred on something like DHSA-3F, maybe the EC 445.

Let the hate flow through you @ChaChaRealSmooth. Those Verite pads swings too much.

@fp627 I haven't experienced that myself, but that kind of makes sense since dofferent languange have and emphasize different kinds of sounds. Wonder if that would affect instrumentation.

At any rate, I'm happy with my setup.

I believe logistics eventually plays more important role than language. @fp627 did you perhaps witness more USA hifi products purchased by UK than other non-Eng spking european countries?

Another important confounder: participating forum/community (weakly associated with lang)

Audio equipment is like human babies. When born, it can make /all/ sounds but, as it grows, it becomes limited to those it hears around it and is asked to make. We should keep our equipment linguistically flexible by playing all sorts of music.

@Lyander GRADO HYPE TRAIN BABY WOO WOO!

(in case people missed this somehow, the status is a joke and this post is quasi-satirical)

Yeah I caught that one lol. I do still miss the Grado sound sometimes, might get a cheapo set when I can afford it, but the voicing of the older stuff just seemed very specific. Hopefully e series and newer change that.

This part has this 2010 vibe for me. Good memories with Grados, but, they are memories.... Watch when you ship a Grado and one of the drivers crap out (happened to me a few times).

Good to know, my wife's a fan so I'll pick that up.

I love Jamiroquai but found that most of his music were horribly mastered. Some of his later albums sound better than his earlier work.

I humidify my house to 40-50% and still have these problems myself. :(

@YMO SoCal is semi-humid at times. I'm from a wet country (England) and never felt uncomfortable living here, aside from the occasional 110 degree days.

Asian tiger mosquitoes are indigenous where I live. Spawn of the devil.

@dubharmonic not sure what species it was, but not a widow. Didn't stop me from jumping out of my skin and almost dropping my Utopia.

I scoop every spider I find up in a glass and put it outside. They're creepy looking, but you have to remember that we're a thousand times bigger and they're terrified of us.

There's nothing that can really hurt you in SoCal. Black Widow spiders aren't aggressive and usually only bite if you accidentally trap (or try and handle) them. If they bite, it's uncomfortable but very rarely a problem. Despite what people think, we don't get Brown Recluse spiders. We get spiders that look similar, but are harmless.

Haven't heard an explosion..

Shit soldering job is better than leaving stuff for waste. Modern day people are so simple that when a child bikes rear wheel nuts get lose they throw the bike away cuz - yeah. It is broken. Saw this the other day. LOL

Not long after reading an article on how sideways push switches tend not to be supported by anything more than the soldered tags which take the strain, I found that was the exact problem with my mosquito swatter. My electrical soldering is shit too... but it saved the day, the device, and a whole five or six in USD!

My right ear is gimped, courtesy of one of these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wySXPVACc_o

In my younger days I passed out inside one of those giant Tonka speakers at a rave. I’m sure that’s when I damaged it.

Is this another way of saying you have cauliflower ear?

You know you have the right phase when the soundstage doesn't sound like ass. Some amps or other gear or even recordings will invert phase.

It can also depend on the recording as well, some are recorded backwards and the button will help those.

Some amps are inverting and using the phase switch seems to go better with that. My sense is whichever phase sounds "duller" is the "wrong" phase. In other words, whichever phase sounds more focused is the right one.

^what an entitled millennial. :P

Says the millennial ^

^bleh

The iFi stuff is very good. They do really good shit with that Burr Brown DAC chip. They are the best DS implementations that I’ve heard, at least for my preferences. (haven’t heard the Matrix, Convert, or other Yggdrasil priced DS stuff though).

I wouldn't recommend this without some reservations (some of which aren't related to sound), which I will go over. But it really ain't bad. This will go on loaner for those interested (thanks to @iFi audio)

Yggdrasil GS + Starlett/Jot R. It's too engaging for its own good, as well as hitting my personal preferences.

AKG Sextetts.

Old but amazing in the right condition and right audio-systems.

@rlow an argument can be made that we are indeed nuts.

I surmise we tend to set the volume to our own optimal position that is determined by a number of factors -- as opposed to sound pressure only. I bet if you 'measure' spl then everything would follow the specs.

Note there are two non-wrong ways: "Enough info at lower vol" vs "Not harsh at higher vol".

Actually, I'm a dumbass. This is because I'm only using the XLR-out from Yggdrasil (it goes to Jensen 1:1 transformer). I used SE from XSP, which is not as hot.

Turned out way simpler than I thought!

You know where to reach me about toys. :p

Time for Starlett.

^that being said about new toy syndrome, I don't get excited about things I don't like. The Morpheus didn't grip me like this.

Yeah yeah, now sell it to me for $50 shipped. :P

Yeah it sucks because I can’t turn on the M-22 until probably October.

What is hot for you?

Rolling power outages?

On the other hand, if we have on pretty good authority (and reason to believe) that it's legit, then we'd consider it.

Vox I think may be FPGA delta sigma, but I could be misremembering that. I would agree that without a trusted ear having heard it, too much $$$ to gamble.

The NectarSound Headphone seems cool. Nectar Hive is a Electrostatic headphone seems cool that it is diy made in a garage. Seems pair with the Bottlehead electrostatic amp. Might be too niche as it isn't mainstream.

Horowitz recorded it at least five times and never managed to get it right. But Rubinstein did.