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Thanks for the kind comments. All of the TBVOs I’ve done are linked below. I’m pretty intense about them, both on the recording history and mastering. Up next is probably Madman Across the Water or There’s a Riot Goin’ On. Blue and Electric Warrior are also in the mix for the next few. https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/the-best-version-of/

That is a lot to go through. I'll have to read through it when I have time. Had a long ass day at work today.

Roland Orzabal is still the greatest pop band name ever. Nice writeup!

He knows there are more factors. He simply keeps it to himself because he knows a well mastered Jazz recording can make your feet tap regardless of your system's budget. His personal headphone for a long time has been (and likely still is) the HD650. That should tell you enough. He loves music more than his gear but that does not stop him from measuring...

funniest thing to me about that forum is that 1 year ago, it was an echo room of ardent (and I'd admit well informed) fierce empiricists. And thanks to reddit and head-fi, it's now chock fulla idiots and a handful of 6moons hacks. it went from being "if you want one side of the coin..." to meaningless garbage dumpster fire threads a million miles long.

It’s been a victim of its own success. When you tell people that $100 can buy you the greatest DAC or amp ever made, you attract a lot of noobs who don’t know the party line and end up asking “stupid” questions that inflame the veteran Amirites.

I'm mainly interested if either/both pads kill microdetail in the process of boosting the mids.

DT880 FTW. Less effed in the treble than the T1 Gen 2, and I think newer ones all come stock with felt inserts that balance the sound out a lot more? Mine did, it seems, and it was manufactured in 2010 (according to a Beyer rep when I provided my unit's serial no.)

DT150 baby

I think my dt770 pro 32 ohm is solid for a cheap closed can. still on the lookout for a better option. I was thinking it might be the Elegia, but it didn't work out. Anyone hear the DT177X Go from Drop?

For a variety of reasons, including sound and OCD tendencies, I’m digital only. I can’t imagine worrying that my “identical” copy of an album sounds worse than someone else’s. That said, I really appreciate the tactile nature of vinyl and admire vinyl-heads. But, boy, DACs seem simple relative compared to turntables.

Schiit screwed up. They have now made an offer that must be making everyone who decided /not/ to be an early adopter squirm with envy!

To be clear, my comment isn’t really a criticism of the Sol, in particular. I’ve had the same thoughts reading SHF threads about “hot stampers,” cartridges, TT isolation, etc.

Seconded the lawyer advice. Whenever your in an accident (especially when there is an injury) and it wasn't your fault, lawyer up. Consultations are usually free.

I’ve never had an accident of any significance before. How does a lawyer work when we’re dealing with the other driver’s insurance company? (We haven’t talked to them yet.)

He will make sure to get them to cover everything. They'll want to settle as quickly and cheaply as they can with you.

*sorry, don't know why this double posted.

At least we all can agree on Tyll vs. Rafe.

SS, XLR, and dynamics for me, though I certainly dabble in the other ones, too. Tyll is the only slam dunk. Even when I disagreed with his take on a set of cans, I learned something from his review and could understand his logic. That’s the highest compliment I can pay to a reviewer.

There's a... stamina switch.

I had to resist making a stamina joke, not because I'm above it, but because there are too many options.

"Today, we had a long talk about DAC chips. We know that many people have requested the absolute latest and greatest, so we are approaching this discussion quite seriously. "

I never used a Zune but I know there were some die-hard Zune lovers. What was wrong with it? Didn't the HD-DVD lose out to Bluray mainly because Sony is the giant in entertainment industry or did it really have some inferiority?

Also, what is the site you are referring to with this guy?

I’m sure there are still people when love their Zunes, but in my experience it appealed to a small slice of people who hated Apple but didn’t care enough about audio to investigate audiophile players. When it existed, there were constantly stories about software updates bricking Zunes, etc.

I think they raised their prices but they seem to have grandfathered me.

Between dissertation materials and music, I have 5TB of data, so by default I go with services they offer unlimited backup.

I've decided it's much better to back up movies and music to rotating thumb drives kept off-site, and only back up photos and important documents.

Movies and music change less frequently, and once written are read-only.

If it didn't happen, it wasn't meant, IMO. The right thing will come along at the right time man. Good luck, career changes ain't easy :) I hope it goes well.

I’m trying to be a little more spiritual, etc., but I’ve never been a destiny type. Life is random. Stuff out of my control prevented landing it this time, but odds are good for figure, and there are career/skill moves I can make now to increase future odds, which is what I’m going to do.

Job update: Ended up with several offers by the end of the summer. Took one that’s a better gig than the one I didn’t get earlier this summer. It’ll also allow me to more easily move into that field later if I want to.

Good point.

Was it this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wBSi5AOSM8

It was some presumably current, highly Auto Tuned pop song I did not recognize.

Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20130211122250/http://www.willsheff.com/we-never-have-to-be-alone-dr-hook-and-the-medicine-show-live-1974

Who needs Christmas lights when the tubes are burning?

Sorry, but antidepressant usually don cause tinnitus. This is a rare side effect. They could worse the symptoms if the person ALREADY has the tinnitus... Other medication , very common are the cause for tinnitus. (Antibiotics, blood pressure drugs, etc) I do work with psychopharmacology since 1995 and have seen 4 or 5 cases of tinnitus caused by drugs, most of them caused by 2. Generation of anti psychotic

I didn’t say everyone on antidepressants gets tinnitus. I said people w/tinnitus should check their meds. Even single digit incidence is a lot of people in raw #s, given how many Americans take antidepressants. It definitely was the cause of my tinnitus, and the audiologist I just saw (who specializes in tinnitus) says she sees people all the time who don’t realize their tinnitus is caused by their antidepressant.

Unfortunately, the only antidepressant of the six or seven I’ve tried that doesn’t cause tinntus also doesn’t help my nerve pain much, which is why I was taking an antidepressant in the first place.

I thought the Fidelio X2 was my end game at one point.

/Wrists

I had much worse takes back in my early days. Besides “endgame,” X2 isn’t an embarrassment. Better bang/buck than a lot of mid-fi non-neutral headphones (definitely than all the Beyers and arguably than Elear, IMO).

The X2 are actuall one of the few I would consider buying again. They are pretty inexpensive secondhand these days.
Good bass/spaciousness for movies and games.
Easy to drive and comfy. Works well with boom mic