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Only the celing fan bothers me when I am trying to listen to speakers in the same room.

Somehow listening to full-size headphones naked feels wrong, but listening to IEMs feels ok. Independent of temperature...

Actually, yes, there's silent central AC. I have 2 of them, and the neighbor has 2 more on the same side of our houses. They could all 4 be running and we could nearly have a whispered conversation.

New ones ain't cheap, though!

Surface Pro? A mark 1 or 2 Pro is cheap.

The first iPad Pro 9,7. Better than chord mojo imho

@Gaspasser Could you explain more? I had an ipod touch but its horrible scrolling down all the saved albums, especially on a small screen. But with the update, can you search only your album folder? That would help a lot... What other filters are there? I'm thinking of getting an ipad...

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/sorting-and-filtering/

Yes you can search albums/artists/playlists
It is easy to use on my small iPhone 7 screen.

Apparently I’m in the minority who like the update
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/06/20/spotify-users-frustrated-update/

the marketing seems to hint a lot at this being close-ish to their top shelf offerings. i would happily pay $1k for a slightly stunted or ugly/utlitarian Solaris... so i'm intrigued to see where IO lands.

No dynamic bass like Solaris but maybe a baby Andro? Would be awesome!

I've never loved any BA IEMs. The closest I've come was the Noble 5, but there's always something a little weird about them that causes me fatigue. It's been a few years since I bothered buying one, though, so maybe they've improved.

I think the 1st gen Fiio X3 or X5 cable would work, too

Don't worry. He will return with an alias.

It’s not subjective, just listen to anything not in the foreground. (Conditional on having a good enough headphone/chain)

LAME has been the best mp3 encoder for years now. They keep a list of "nasty" test samples that are known to cause problems:

http://lame.sourceforge.net/quality.php

AFAIK, no one has submitted a sample in quite some time that causes problems at high bitrate encoding with the more recent builds of LAME. Pretty much all remaning issues are @128kbit/s or lower.

Need to watch out for Joint Stereo. I personally prefer 320CBR (stereo).

Besides MP3, AAC and OGG should work fine.

Wish I had another option, but I'm stuck with them, there is only one other slower provider in my neighborhood.

The only option available to me is Cox. I've tried to get anything else and they don't serve my address. It's fucking collusion

If ram was more reasonably priced I would say go for 16. I upgraded to 16 in my Lenovo a few years ago because I kept getting memory allocation errors/crashes trying to run Chrome and illustrator/photoshop with only 8GB. Based on what you are running 8 GB should be fine. Make sure you get something with an SSD as well.

Agreed. SSD is the single largest performance improvement one can make on any computer.

An SSD will ruin you for spinning disks. But if you go cheap for some reason make sure to avoid eMMC. It has more in common with an SD card than anything genuinely high end. It is not what people mean when they wax lyrical about the performance benefits of solid state.

U mean The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series Vol. 6? It's a great album. Streaming that hundreds of times via Qobuz.

just wondering if you talking about Focal solo 6?

I would have picked one up too if I didn't already have other iems that did the job for me that the Plus does.

How does these do for active use? Meaning jogging, walking, bicycling, ect. In picturesI noticed there does not seem to be any replaceable filters on the nozzle.

@Poleepkwa - Nozzle has no filter. It's a very comfortable IEM and would probably be fine for active use. However I refuse to use anything more expensive then $30 IEMs if I plan to wear anything while running. But that's just me, I really don't like distractions while I do something.