Priidik

Had a quick listen for fun. Not half bad but sure enough Harman galore. Some anti Harm eq and they sound decent.

My daughter (7) loves to watch YouTube with her little closed back headphones on her tablet. She has her own little world and no noisy brother then. Ha.

My one sister got the Quantum 800s and they were... fine. I get why JBL voiced them the way they did but it wasn't something I particularly enjoyed the sound of. Does seem like all the JBL products are approaching a sort of singularity with respect to voicing for obvious reasons, but it's fun hearing the technical differences.

Could just be that there's significantly more stuff going on in a laptop that's introducing noise, and also yeah given how ubiquitous DAPs were about a decade ago it just feels like folks were more aware of portable players, so migrated those to phones

Cost cutting probably. My thinkpad X13 sounds fine actually, nothing nasty just a bit rolled/smoothed over top end. Low on detail but serviceable.

Phones still come with headphone jacks?

I've been away of headphones and iems for quite some time because of speakers - damn, these blew me away. This is true value for $£€ in times of inflation and uncertainty.

I assume the $25 Crinacle one, not the $1100 A&K one?!

Yeah, the cheap IEM.

It is great device. Sounds good enough. Zero hiss. Bluetooth range great. Great app. Crappy buttons. Ifi Go Blue sounds more natural but not as good Bluetooth, has hiss and no app. Great volume control. I sold the Ifi and went back to 5K.

For the crappy buttons get the tpu case and they are no longer an issue. Barely any accidental presses.

Yep I've had a 5k forever and it's a great little device. sad they took that dumb new "multi channel BS" approach with the new stuff.

Estonian women are rather pretty.
I swear Alfred had other motives when designing the shape but he insists it is all acoustics.

I think I've only seen you even mention the speakers here a few times off hand, which is nice in a way, don't want to MOTs pushing their stuff. but god damn man, these speakers are fantastic, so now im out here pounding the drum. It is true they aren't cheap though. Maybe when I get up to the closest dealer, I can try out some of the cheaper ones as well and report back on them too

In Munich last year, the Estelon room was one of my favourites, and IIRC that was Aura, not Forza. Excellent speakers indeed.

I'm using ZMF pads on my Susvara. Quality made, and sonically excellent.

May I suggest those cheap thin "leather" pads (because they are NOT made of leather) from AliExpress? I've tried quite some options, not ZMF, but 2 types of Dekoni and 4(?) kinds of cheap Chinese pads, those thin "leather" pads suit me the best, as they sound kinda warm-ish while others still give me the chill or spikes sometimes.

Someone here tried them but I’m having trouble finding the impressions. IIRC they made some things better and some things worse. The consensus basically remains that, for HD800, stock pads are best. That’s what @ext1 uses, for instance.

Then I found 'Monkey King'. I liked it, so did kids.

Pinocchio is great, although a bit grim for little ones.

Just watched Pee Wee's Big Adventure with my 8-year-olds. They thought it was hilarious. A few scary bits during some dream sequences with clowns, but overall very enjoyable. Great to revisit it after many years. Still holds up.

Water flows up when it splashes

That glorious loose cannon slam. It would remedy so many dull and sleeping sources.

Well... The full range system is going to cost you.. or can you DIY it? :/ :D Nothing in the regular markets places has this level of perfection. Even EC Studio vs EC 2A3 MK2 would trade blows because MK2 had better bass imaging(<-- HP world).

Loving the prosthetic colorway!

hearing aid color eeeek

Hear my reasoning. There is long been 'AI' at work with mic enhancement and noice cancelling to make voices more intelligible and remove various formats of ambient noise in real time.

Why not do something along the lines with reproduction. Any audio tinkerer knows by adding any 'stage' you remove information from the source. Consider the chain of crap in a BT headset. So something should attempt to estimate back what the original kind of was. Wrong as it may be - one evil counters another.

Yea, some normal dacs do it too. I like to remember the wavedream did this.

A little compression, some exciters, maybe even crystallized effects, and throw in a band pass. The dsp can do it all + eq

It's absolutely fine.

I wanted to, but exactly that weekend is packed with other stuff. :(

The audiophool thinking being that "isolated" would mean zero area of contact, so a very small area of contact is close to isolated. I have always thought, Duhhh, what?

Cat's claws do not decouple from your skin when she gets angry at you. Tiny point of contact - rather effective coupling.

@Priidik --- great explanation! Thank you :)

Tbh, I stuffed some lamb wool (speaker damping) into the nozzle of the Mi buds to kill the brightness.

I think the Xiaomi Airdot isn't significantly worse than the Sony offering, at least.

The Earfun Pro Oluv edition sounds better than the Galaxy Buds Pro/Airpods Pro. So might not be a lot better SQ wise.

Does the gelatinous mass dissolve all ferrous weapons? Can it only be dissipated by fire? D&D rules!

Fire is no problem to gelatinoids. We just through a leg at it and put it out. Growing a new leg is easy enough, and anyway, we don't use them much.

Cue the blancmange competing at Wimbledon in a Monty Python sketch. This is so silly...

I shall recover from plankton deficiency at work in main listening room for 10 minutes and replenish the buffer for some more dull listening.

https://youtu.be/ohnkD-gjNVQ?t=56

Not only does your vocabulary fail, but it also gets increasingly difficult to describe why X is better/more refined/different than Y as your invest more in tailoring the sound to your personal tastes.

This is why I can't share impressions anymore. Having different shades of really good sound is one thing, almost no one can relate to the gear so I can say headphone X is super nice but I've no idea how it sounds on other gear. Also I feel the driving gear has taken hold of the overall sound signature where all headphones are to my tastes. Fell in love with HD800 where for years I couldn't stand it long term.

The difference might vanish if you drink more....or less

Speaker cables, yes. These are some Furutech job. I guess these : https://www.tweekgeek.com/ncf-booster-signal-cable-riser-and-rca-xlr-stabilizer/
The microdynamics are noticeably improved resulting in more relaxed and 3D instrument images.

This is in my workplace critical listening system. Perhaps less noticeable in lesser systems.