E_Schaaf

synaesthesia is when your senses get their lines crossed, literally. That would be like hearing the texture of the pads with no sound playing. I did my bit of "neurological research" as a hippy guy long ago ;).

Seriously, I think that there is a perceptual/psychological side to this, and it might come under the heading of expectation bias? Don't freak at the word bias ;). It's not a bad word. It's part of life.

Yes of course - it is a wiring thing. From what @E_Schaaf is describing, this could be what's going on, or it could be simile as you put it.

I do have a sense of the sound of a material through my fingertips even when sound isn't playing through a transducer. The transducers in this context are my nerve endings, and they're inputs instead of outputs. Either the wires are crossed or I've just trained myself deeply enough that I can't separate my expectation bias from my immediate perception. :Shrug:

https://www.etaheadphones.com/headphones

Most orders placed while I'm away from home should still ship before Christmas.

That being said, a new ETA over ear may also be coming soon ;) This one's been quite a journey...

I'm sure many people find these comfortable. Compared with speakers, I find /all/ headphones uncomfortable ;) but I'd rather have the whole ear type.

(also, although it's not great for music, over-the-ear feeds my hearing aids too. This is good for you-tube videos with speech.)

Voice coils generate magnetic fields which is directly due to the current. This means you want as low a resistance possible. So coils are made from aluminum, copper and even silver. Nickel is used for magnetic lamentations but don’t conduct any current. I don’t think you would really see it used for transducers unless it’s a field coil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zylon

LCP! I've tested one or two of those... Perhaps not genuine zylon though. PEEK and PEI seem like great polymers for use in diaphragms too

Please share impressions!

I got purr1n's (which also incorporates the cal for his mic) and a generic one. Will put them somewhere and let you know.

I'm using EMM-6 and don't use the Dayton provided compensation FWIW. Thanks for your help!

@atomicbob Searched but can't find a clear definition of "Manhattan cut". Is it just thicker but smaller? Do share your technique!
https://www.mishimareserve.com/our-products/manhattan

@gixxerwimp - you found my source for the cut and it looks like the picture. Approximately 5 ~ 6 cm thick. I'll write up my method in a bit.

I like to base my preference for paintings based solely on the average thickness of the paint across the media in microns. More paint = better colors. Better colors = better painter.

This will happen when I decided to do a subscription model for my body hair.

Sounds like a BMW + Topping collaboration.

Something something cars with air bags that don't deploy until you pay for the feature. This is like the whole Klim thing but even more inane.

https://www.webbikeworld.com/klim-climbs-mountain-of-messages-to-clear-air-surrounding-airbag-subscription/

They all looked between 25-35. Two women and one dude.

Randomly came across this vid
https://youtube.com/shorts/I-ySkJGDGI8?feature=share

@Cspirou Coincidentally the only PortaPro spotting in-the-wild that I’ve experienced was on a young Russian guy when I lived in China.

I'm fairly sure... You know how after a heavy lift or standing up too fast your high frequency hearing can become temporarily muted? It's like that, but more subtle, and longer lasting. More testing required, maybe I'll take blood pressure a few times over the course of the day and see if there's a correlation...?

I suppose it could also be opening of the sinuses too. If I'm stuffy everything sounds brighter and leaner than otherwise, perhaps the opposite is also the case

I'm the last person to comment: my HF hearing is permanently muted and I don't exercise. But I was once addicted to pottering-about rowing. And there was enough exercise to create arm muscle. And the mood change was more than just the river environment.

Sadly, for the purpose of this research, I never took music with me.

B for opens, A for closed.

A, plus stage depth & localization. (can that even be done?)

unabashedly team A.
Then again...what music are we listening to??

Not seeing myself letting go of the Lyr3 either, a great all rounder imo and i suspect the Lyr+ is the same.

Different not necessarily better.

For some of the more esoteric transducers I've been playing with, I simply want something that doesn't clip when Valhalla 2 can't hack it

TIL not everyone can do this!

Now I need to know: can you voluntarily pop your ears "in either direction"? What I mean is: can you pop your ears so that everything gets louder and also pop your ears so that everything gets quieter?

I always thought everyone can do this, too. I theoretically can do it for as long as I want, though just now was the first time I did it for about 30s. It actually becomes exhausting after a while. :)

Jotunheim, balanced, high gain? If that's not enough, the raggy has more power and even higher gain.

I suppose it's not *that* far off from a K1000 in terms of the load...

Dartzeel NHB 108

Contrasting that with Zach's post on another profile post, shows where two different companies are in terms of company maturity and what they face when having to price their products. Excellent timing on peering behind the curtain in this biz.

You may have subsidized the R&D costs as hobby interests in the past. Going forward R&D have real costs in both time and money.

Thanks @E_Schaaf. Ordered. I just can't shrug off an FR like that. It's a very cute girl giving you the eye.

Of course there's still plenty of narrow-stroke variation with incremental adjustment of various parameters and different parts used within the same design. I suppose this line of thinking could apply to amps and DACs as well, but my knowledge there is too rudimentary to know what I would and wouldn't want based on a visual inspection.

I always love digging deeper into the 'why' of how sound quality is created, even if it's a matter of guesswork and subjective polling until the patterns become clear... seeking this kind of insight is what keeps me going, that feeling of discovery and puzzle-solving.

The shape of sound

Mini S for semi-open! I'll be selling these soon and they'll be at TX meet too. I tried revamping the original Open design several ways but decided I liked this config with some back damping and over ear pads the best even though it sounds quite different :)

Happy Birthday!!

Happy birthday!

You should send this to your dad.. https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-covid-19-could-hit-you-harder-with-each-reinfection

Four times! I think this is the highest number I've heard yet.

Seems on par with almost everyone in rual TN.

Is the S12 current preferred mod config simply partial micropore nozzle coverage or something more intricate? I have a lot of fibrous filters similar to micropore tape of varying density, and also a bunch of different meshes too. Looking forward to tweaking. I guess it's settled haha

Yeah all you have to do is cover the back half of the nozzle with micropore tape. The transformation from stock is pretty astounding. It corrects all the problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-zbsRbxDms

you might come up with something better too! I'm pretty happy with this though

I like a KISS approach, ill definitely try with your config first and see how it goes :)