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No one should be treated this way, specially not the guy that composed the Doom 2016 sound track, honestly one of the best parts of the game. They should have been paying him triple to come back, not stealing his work and blaming him for everything>

https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce

Crazy to read this. I love the Doom 2016 OST. I wasn't even aware of this situation.

Likewise unaware, even of the harrassment Gordon was getting. I still listen to the 2016 soundtrack regularly and reading this made me want to puke. Fuck inept management and gaslighting.

The cast iron open baffle seems super interesting

Oma being German for grandma I enjoyed those visits, too. Bill Withers said it all

@Cspirou the Ironic was also very good, just not as good as Imperia or monarch for me. Some of the other guys liked it best though

It’s weird cause all my other speakers have always been spiked. I tried this cause someone suggested it and I’d never done it before. But yeah, the spikes, specially since I’m on a concrete slab are much better

Slab is awesome. Spikes on slab always.

it honestly sounds so much better. everything is more open, but more importantly the bass improved to an honestly crazy degree, much better impact and definition down low. @AdvanTech described it as removing a smear which I mostly agree with.

Some things would improve, like stage depth got a bit better, but I could never get the bass where I liked it. I guess I got lucky with room modes and my original placement

I can think of less enjoyable workouts ;)

lol I am sore today from it, but I would guess its mostly from moving my 77" oled alone multiple times

Perlisten based out of Verona, WI, very near Madison, and you can visit the nearby New Glarus brewery, too. FWIW.

Didn't @spwath work for them one summer?

No I didn't, but I live right by Verona. I've got to check them out

Also finally setup google drive backup for the important bits on the NAS. I'd been meaning to do that for quite a while

Did you have the old one in a RAID? Because if you did that’s really damn slick you were able to do it without a full reset.

I use the synology hybrid raid, which is software raid, with one drive redundancy

That sucks. My Synology NAS died trying to rebuild itself during successive blackouts. I have the replacement connected to a UPS and set to hibernate if power cuts out.

Hope you got everything backed up.

Sad. But a good reminder to those folk who think these things are immortal that --- they are not!

damn you @rlow, you stole my joke

was gonna foolishly post all impressions here as comments, but corrected myself, overly wordy post about the Qutest here https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/chord-dave-revisited-in-2022-vs-wavedream-signature.12197/page-3#post-390778

Freya S was one of my best purchase decisions. Makes all these connections better and for the most part stays out of the way sonically.

I’m kinda wishing I’d waited on a plus now, so that I coulda had the jfet buffer in addition to the passive I intend to use

Man, maybe it's the gear I was using, but the passive in the Freya S is leagues better than I remember the goldpoint I had being. and it has a remote and more steps

I suspect the Dave might be better :)

I like the look tbh. So they no longer use berilium? Maybe that’s for the Grand Utopia? Being slightly facetious.

Lame new look and 5k USD zzzzzzz

Here’s to hoping it “actually sounds better” and it’s not just a side grade

May the force be with you. But not too much force. Don’t rip anything!

I would rent if possible, after ten years I gotten fatter from going into a 34 > 38.

Hopefully it doesn't fit because you've packed on muscle since then. :)

haha it is indeed!

Edited more in above

the designer did a podcast that's not a bad listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tgi7njiRSM if you want a nice overview of all the info

Ultrakill best single player fps gameplay ever IMO

@E_Schaaf I dunno if you've checked it out, but I would highly recommend Prodeus, its more Doom 2016 than Doom Eternal(which is what I hear Ultrakill is more like), but its incredible nonetheless.

Buying some of the old Final Fantasy games. Picked up the VII remake recently and it has reignited my love for the series. Easily best game I have played in some time. Now gonna go back and play the ones I missed.

I would love to wall mount, but I have a sit/stand desk. someone needs to make a wall mount that is on a track that can sync with ur desk going up and down, I would love that, added bonus of the monitor never moving from you doing things on the desk

I started playing Prodeus though, what a killer boomer shooter. Its basically Doom 2016 but with chunky graphics. Ost is even great, though not Mick Gordon tier

That's an interesting idea. Basically do a motorized wall mount on a rail. Probably a market for it.

That's only because it is currently featuring the possibility of people doing stuff to their speakers instead of just listening.

Oh... Tell me again? The difference between passive and active speakers?

A whole new world of possibility just opened up.

I really wish the Alienware qd-oled monitor wasn't so compromised. always on audible fan, no polarizer, unreasonable processing delay, etc

but I could easily put the 42" oled a foot or foot and a half further away from me than my current 34" ultra wide...I think it would work

I'm with you there - I've had an HDR-capable gpu for a couple of years now but there's no HDR screen worth buying.

Although the delay on it is fine, it's >1 frame at 120hz and I'm too old to need more than that.

Whereas with the speakers it’s like a slight increase to bass definition, sound stage, and refinement across the board, which mostly disappears once’s engrossed in the music anyways

This is another episode of “soup struggles with audiophiledom”, that just happened to occur after I _finished_ my rig

Wisdom advises to avoid being impulsive. Put the big rig away for a few months. Live with the minimalist system. Then get it back out and re-evaluate.