Collusion

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck one of the legends gone….

With Schulze, not a good year for composers

Wish we could lose more of the losers and not so many of those who have made great contributions.

Get a rope and start jumping. Otherwise add some running or sprints.

Join the NATO exercises, plenty of that going on I bet

Untrained will gain considerable muscle weight in the beginning. A lot of it is water and creatin bound to muscles.

I have an Oppo 105 and 205. Is it the final word in musical fidelity? No, but it's really not bad. Like @Merrick said, it's total overkill if you have no intention of using the video features. For strictly audio, your friend would get better value elsewhere.

I got to listen to it today and it wasn't utter garbage... but woolly bass, flat microdynamically and some sabre glare. I wouldn't probably personally like it in the long run. And I don't think it's a good match for my friends Stax setup (SR-009 + SRM-T8000).

It’s definitely a bad match for the SR-009. Bright headphones and Sabre glare don’t make good bedfellows.

I thought it was just okay. A comedy/action/adventure that was so goofy, that I didn't really get invested in the characters.

oh it's a movie. ok

The group I saw it with responded extremely positively. I was pretty lukewarm on it. Just seemed like a lot of random silliness, but it did have some solid character work. Still can't believe the husband is Data from The Goonies.

@Riotvan had them over 2 months. You live and you learn. Resale price was pretty reasonable though.

What’s the rest of your chain @Collusion? Do you have the OG S400 still? Anything else you’re comparing to?

@rlow I had Raal HSA-1b, Rotel RA-1520 and Simaudio Moon 250i for amplifiers. HSA-1b was the best and Rotel the worst in terms of graininess, but it was certainly present with all of them. DAC was Soekris 2541 and source Qobuz via Bluesound Node 2i.

I am now listening to a pair of ATC SCM 19 v2's and In terms of smoothness I'd put the three speakers in the following order:
S400 (OG) > SCM19v2 >> S400mk2

Reflectivity is a pain, time to breakout the oversized cushions.

You just need comfy Irish wool throws and about 4.5 cats. :)

And more often than not, they are operating from stolen accounts with good reputations. And worst of all, the scammers are getting pretty good at counterfeiting paper notes with current dates.

I'm pissed because half the vehicle postings on FB marketplace are scams. $1500 for mint older cars posted across multiple locations.

Maybe instead of eight TDA1543's they should've used sixteen of them!

What else? Customs issues?

@Sqveak nope, still within EU

Odd.

I have heard the A-S2200 at a local shop, albeit briefly and not with recordings I am super familiar with, but seemed like a killer amp. Things seemed to have a lot of life and immediacy. Previously the owners had had a Hegel H190 in the same setup, and I would say I found myself more impressed when I stepped back into the listening room and heard the Yamaha playing.

@Tchoupitoulas What power cable do you recommend with the Bissell

My personal assistant tells me that I liked this one the best (don't forget to select the 2-meter one for more travel):

https://www.psaudio.com/products/pauls-reference-dragon-ac-power-cable/?gc_id=16023073403&gclid=CjwKCAiA6Y2QBhAtEiwAGHybPblRKL57tjnPzCWMNmxt-wbQj3Im7rmyTyu2xq3VCFjEmPZNHJG2ABoCBBMQAvD_BwE

https://img.aijaa.com/b/00556/15033004.jpg This thing really is a whiny little bitch. I actually vacuumed with earplugs this one last time and it still sounds extremely annoying nevertheless. SPL meter shows 82dB with A-weighting at arm's height. Probably not enough for hearing damage - but will cause brain damage in the long run for sure.

I don't understand. I guess I should pull out the old Mojo 1 I have somewhere and give it a listen to see if it's still legit?

Micro usb to keep the poly forwards compatible

It's British company. Many Brits don't like birds to be kept in cages: None would accept a parrot being kept in a small, dark, plastic box.

Compatible or not.

@Erroneous Unfortunately yes. Altough I wouldn't describe it as bright, treble is certainly glarey and slightly piercing. Not well delineated at all.

Can't think of any reason why'd I pick this over a Schiit Modi 3 or Modius (semi serious).

Technicalities are okay, compared against Soekris dac2541: ARC DAC8 has better macrodynamics, worse microdynamics and slightly greyer background. I'd say detail retrival and imaging are better, but dac2541 wins easily on timbre and involvement.

that's something where I wonder if a beefy power conditioner will "protect it"... but then you're spending money on an ad-hoc fix that might have been spent on buying a non-broken item

It could be as easy as moving some cables inside back to their intended position or reterminating them --> cheap and easy fix. To the sour end where an IC might be damaged and is obsolete or otherwise next to impossible to replace.
It does smell like a bad cabling issue, or some capacitor might have gone.

@wbass That's actually a very good point! There's certainly some risk involved, since I cannot really test the unit before buying it.

An hour of listening and still no signs of fatigue.

IIRC the stock HD800 is one of the headphones donald used when developing the Starlett, so no surprise it sounds great :)

ETA Gen G or ESX 900

@Stuff Jones Raal SR1a's, but I need something that I can listen with traditional amps & in bed.

@Collusion - The Verum 1 don't need much juice and I've enjoyed them out of IEM-intended DAPs. A little bulky for bed maybe though.

Yep, I still like mine.