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You know, make it "Acid" and add "House." Remember the KLF?

The best way to fly. As long as Pin 3 is not hot (which it is not on the Burl).

Send it to meeeee

@Merrick couple tweaks left to do but you're on my shortlist for a private proto loaner along with a few others. I'm excited to test out other drivers in this shell too, but the Peerless work great :)

My body is ready.

shhhhh https://i.imgur.com/o8u3aaj.png

Nice! That reminded of my Hemp measurement to some extent: https://imgur.com/QmKqGDL

Btw can you share the picture to see how pads look like? (My ultimate reason to give up hemp wasn't sound but ergo)

Well, it's not remotely close to done. Gotta see about that sub extension... which might mean pad swap down the line. Right now I have flat pleather pads like on Yamaha orthos.

Sounds awesome. Looking forward to seeing more details soon.

Btw any plan on free-space hanging style such as K1000 or SR1a? Evan bass + Perfect open baffle will be a wonderful combo I believe..

ETA supra is about halfway between a conventional supra and an open baffle earspeaker. That's all I'll say for now.

As a member of big head + klingon ridge club, yes, the Senn 580/600 series headband could improve slightly, but it's already the most comfortable for me during long sessions VS any other headband I've tried (from suspension type bands like Audeze/ZMF/DCA to other clamp bands like Focal).

In order for this to be a homerun, it'd need to be a bit modular. So, one strap/band/pad design with 3 or 4 or 5 different gimbal mount types and gimbal spacings. That's a lot of injection mold tooling startup cost.

Have you not checked with China yet? You could order a "sample" of 50 units?

Congratulations on this achievement.

You need to roll in the GE JAN tubes if you want to use HD600. Stock tubes will have too much upper mids

Yes, GE JAN 5654W are most helpful with this amp. Re-evaluating HE-500 (new Forza AudioWorks cable) on this amp with dac2541. Won't satisfy headbanger sound levels. At 75 to 85 dBSPL this combination works very well.

I couldn't find any 1/4" height anywhere, much less in stock. Closest was 1/2":

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Upholstery-Visco-Memory-Foam-Square-Sheet-1-2-x24-x24-2-5-lb-Regular-Density/264468386398?hash=item3d938b525e:g:6H0AAOSw2RZdgH~h

Couple other sources had the same in different lengths and widths.

There is a worldwide foam shortage, no, really, just saw a whole article on furniture delays, etc.

news to me! I've been getting ghosted by suppliers who have 1/2" cuts of the foam I want in 1/4". 1/4" is unobtanium for some reason, though I have found 1/4" open cell foams in densities too high or low than I need.

Our stimulus showed up and we bought a new car! :) But now we are getting like half back in tax returns than last year. :(

It's not just u, it's just USB :)

Me being pretty damn happy running the HP-3 out of my Samsung S9 (using the bit and bandwidth upsampling mode) says heck yeah.

The desktop rig is better for pure immersion ofc, but compared to quite a few AIOs it's quite competitive.

Recent phones sound better than Yulong. I don't know if it is saying much.

2nd what album? Also, why are there seemingly no good recordings of the Cure. The remasters suck.

It's an obscure beat tape by one of my favorite SP404 artists https://ohbliv.bandcamp.com/album/rugged-tranquility-volume-1-2 the original version is very lean, mono, distant. Yes it's louder, but it's also much richer in texture.

The best recent remaster I've heard was Prince's Sign O' The Times. Extremely rich in texture and detail, with a slamming low end. Original is thin and whispy.

^ I've worked with Nagra field recorders before, they are beautifully built! Been a long time since I've been on a set, used to do a lot more location sound for film/web a few years ago before I branched off to where I am now. Miss it.

Man, I forgot to cash in on my Nordost and AudioQuest points before I left TSAV now that I think about it. Niagara stuff is pretty nice.

Did you get your Niagara 3000? Would be very interested in your findings. Not happy with the 1200 so far in my system.

I like figuring out why things suck and where things went wrong in design. It's research!

Unfortunately I think /r/headphones has a few people hyping/ recommending these so they've been harder to find. Good luck!

Extra like for the dodgeball reference

alright to be fair I can still catch the peak a bit with some repositioning on the EARS coupler, but both of the above measurements were with the same positioning so there's certainly a relative improvement even if it's not 100% fixed. Reduced if not eliminated peak, and brought more presence to middle and upper mids. Regardless, good enough to reach my tolerable level.

Lest we forget: https://bit.ly/3aRt5JD

Modding phones "out of spite" ... that's the SBAF way!

Just curious, if all confounders taken out from the equation, what's your takeaway for pure driver-level differences between 650 and 600?

@Vtory The only drivers that stand out as substantially 'different' sounding beyond unit variation is the brass ring OG HD580 / Early HD600 drivers which seem to have better bass distortion but also are hotter 3k and up. Still a minor difference though. That said haven't been able to control the brass ring drivers quite as well in the highs to suit my preference. Always tweaking...

600 vs 650 driver - 650 driver basically tilted downward 1 degree of slope. I don't think the dynamic nuance or staging ability is meaningfully different.