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my point is that there has always been a bell curve if you will of perf vs surface level visual quality, and comparing a game that is very much so far to the right to ones in the bottom third and saying there's a large scale trend is bogus imo. no one is out there saying ER is a technical masterpiece, it isn't. and by the same token, there are current games that are just as performant as BFV.

I do however think games generally launch in worse shape than they should now, I rarely play them right at launch, preferring for bugs to get worked out for the first month or two.

Activision has been doing an amazing job with bugs on warzone..

They have an expensive DAP based on R2R if I am not mistaken. R2R is latest buzz in head-fi and DAP manufacturer are just using it to make some easy money. ChatGPT is ready with early impressions as well.

Better than chasing more zeroes right to the decimal point.

I think it's because you can plug in your XLR terminated HP directly into it. Convenience doesn't come cheap.

Look....I liked the Euforia back in the day enough to buy one, but I wouldn't pay $3500 for it. It would have to improve significantly in so many ways, including but not exclusive to PRaT, resolve, and stage. And even then, as an OTL it remains a specialist product. Too bad the ZDS isn't made anymore.

Directly from Feliks it is 3000$ with 23% eu tax already included. So it seems bloom has some margins on it

CP2077 and Elden Ring have no right to run this bad on my 1080ti while Battlefield V look miles better than ER and almost as good as CD2077 while rocking a +60fps. Those the most popular examples and there are plenty more others.
The optimization gap between consoles and PC is getting bigger every generation and it's sickening.

would it make sense to just get something good now and then in 2-3 years upgrade for the next 5+ years? Prices now are insane, and perhaps the competition brings a unification of architecture/standards/whatever? you never know with the way things are going what the future holds..

Fixed platforms always get juiced harder as time goes on. Variable open ones won't by nature.

If you're looking for longevity check out the UE5 tech demos to gauge next-gen game requirements. Reqs are set to sky rocket, and CPU will be the bottleneck for even 60 FPS. A 4080 may struggle to get a steady 4k60 in a 1st wave game that runs 1440p@30 on PS5/XSX, and will decrease in 2nd, 3rd, wave etc.

Any good scores?

@wbass open box Celestee for $600

Looks like they launch middle of next month. If you are close to a Microcenter, could camp out for one, play the lottery of trying to buy it online before it sells out, or trying around Thursdays in the morning for restocks on AMD's site directly. Previously AMD cards held lower demand than Nvidia cards so my local MC would usually have stock on them even last year

AMD cards at launch in 2020 was kinda pathetic as even my MC, biggest one in the country, for around 200-300 people that showed up, they had like 10-15 each of the 6800XT/6900XT so hopefully AMD actually has more stuff available and it isn't just the pricier AIBs

I will stalk their website probably. I am in the EU so i have no much choice i believe.

1080p content will, all other things being equal, look better on a 1080p display than a 4k one. What collusion mentioned would be called integer scaling and almost no software does it, they will nearly all use bilinear or some sort of spline filtering to get to 4k

Thanks to you all. @SoupRKnowva I read that on Reddit a while ago and wanted to confirm before the purchase.

The screen door effect may still be noticeable on a laptop but honestly, at least IME, it's something you can learn to live with. 1080p displays are often higher refresh rate for equivalent price and that matters more to me, and you'll not be needing as powerful hardware to make the most of it. 4K is better-suited to larger (32in and above) desktop monitors.

My tape deck has about 30dB SINAD on a good day with commercial tapes and I love it to death lmao

Chart is for virgins

wouldn't demo, much less buy a single DAC listed on that chart

@Cspirou You don't have to use a GPU for HQPlayer, but there's the option of offloading some of the CPU load of upsampling to the GPU, as long as you have an NVidia GPU. For PCM it's really not necessary -- a Raspberry Pi can handle PCM upsampling these days -- but depending on how high you're upsampling and what filter you're using, DSD can be a workout for even a high-end gaming PC.

I enjoyed this message. Thanks for sharing!

Has a lot more to come down. Probably will be sub-$100 soon. Their growth hasn't caught up with their stock price.

I'm fine with my brain waking up by itself --- as long as it doesn't disturb me!


(Hmmm, seriously.... maybe this is part of what dreaming is about!)

I've always listened to everything lying down. An eye mask helps. I use the one made by Nidra. A folded dark T-shirt works too, but then you have to close your eyes.

Headphones are not as comfortable while lying down, also most are seal and position sensitive.

I often listen to podcasts while in bed and IEMs are the best way. Porta Pros also work

Impressive! Moondrop really is setting themselves apart from the competition.

Moondrop is the company we all wanted Vsonic to be back in the day.

I actually expected the lackluster headphones when they announce 3 different headphones each with different technology. Focus on one ffs especially for a first headphone.

Back b4 I found SBAF, I bought an AudioGD C-2 HF amp. It played loud, but made everything sound simply awful So bad I coundn't in good faith sell it off when the time came.

I had a C-2 as well @roughroad. No dynamics at all. Current drive amps. And @Vtory you can have NFB all day, but it is still the amp design that still counts.

They don't have a good reputation I know, even over HF. I just like their looks :D

I think we have both wow and flutter covered here.

No boundary issues tho.

I watched all the way until the end but feel asleep in the middle. Did I miss the part where he got attacked by a mountain lion?

That surprised me. I thought they'd have been sold out by now.

I was just looking up availability of opamps (that BF2 also uses) and they won’t be available until October at the soonest and up to march 2023

It’s definitely supply chain issues

2/64 card is 4-6 weeks as well. You think people will start selling these for like new prices soon ?

orthos FTW