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A few quick observations

1) Sorta weird fit, but quickly adaptable. Comfort is rather on the better side.
2) Not nit-picky with upstream but decently sensitive. Thought the transformer block "equates"..
3) Sonically better to me than SR1a regarding complete package

I had the same reaction after moving from the SR1a to the CA1a. Whatever was lost in resolution really paled in comparison to what was gained in bass and comfort/fit. Of course, I'm semi-salivating over the Immanis now, but that's an order of magnitude beyond my bank account.

Whoever was reading and answering those emails was so high up on rage that they cannot have read the answers properly at all. You claim to love your company and then you shoot yourself in the foot in this manner.

Even Linus got a wif of this...what a dumb move.

Lawyers are serious business when their DACs got too much profit margin. Good riddance.

DCS has always just been just ok. I understand they sponsor canjam and other events but their audio equipment is overpriced by 10x, but it looks nice (if ur into that).

Which is the point of a “mechanical” keyboard. But them smooth linears. lol. I with the hobby and sold all my boards after realizing…I hardly use my comp lol

Your last point is critical lol. Joke aside, stroke feeling and sound will be two major dimensions (either eventually comes down to preference), I believe. Often confounded by typing amounts and contexts. Whatever, the hobby is much cheaper than audio haha.. = feels less guilty!

There is joy in the tactility of using mechanical keyboards, even if you’re not a power user.

I wish I can use one in the office, but the nice touchy ones are loud.

The sheet shows UC (Berkeley?)

Oops, typo. Good catch!

Eichmann in Jerusalem is a stylistic masterpiece, a lot easier read than Origins.

Very nice.

@CEE TEE is no longer there. Anything is a crapshoot at Drop these days. Christian used to agonize over little details, little tunings, get feedback from a lot of trusted ears.

Don't get too excited

I do agree that Drop nowadays acts like a mixture of Ali and Kickstarter in bad ways. Presumably lower expected quality. Its return policy got more generous though (the only better thing than old massdrop days) .. enough for me to enter gambling.

Would White House propose tariff on keyboards?

But yes... I just bought a crappy 65% wireless (BT + 2.4G) keyboard on 2nd-hand market here, for 50 CNY, which was... $7. And if I want to buy a new one, it's just 99 CNY, so $14. How do you compete with that?!!

Basically everything major component for KBD is made within China so probably makes sense they would be the best at it now. Have a weird and different design you want to do? Probably much easier and faster to make a prototype there to test out.

I got into keeb building in 2021 back when supply chains were still all mucked up and everything was taking forever. Hypebeast and reseller market were going wild with prices. Glad to see that is deflated a lot now and its a lot of enthusiasts driven again.

The OG Susvara doesn't have any outer damping either AFAIK, you can see the diaphragm through the girlls. Those grills don't do much damping likely except cause resonance. So their removal is a good choice. The brown earpads that look fake... maybe not.

After reading their Chinese material: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/new-hifiman-susvara-unveiled.973067/ it's like the only "upgrade" is removing the grill. While the OG Susvara costs 28,000 CNY on Taobao Currently, the new is said to be 56,000 CNY. So 2x the price by removing some stuff, it should be called "Susvara GTS"

Build quality looks shoddy

damn...do they beat the jade greens? That was sort of the thing in clicky land. I want to get off linears, but I can't really get off the smoothness of the L&F tangerines I have

You seem to refer to Wuche one right? I also like their Morandi very much. No doubt they make fantastic linear switches. Nonetheless I value fun factor these days. Joyful feedback to finger is sorta addictive. Especially whey they are done right.

Interesting! I am the opposite, I think. I've liked all biodyna headphones that I've heard.

Tag me and call me out! Proud ortho hater here :P

BA hater 4 lyfe.

for reference, it's currently with akko fairly silent switches and womier xvx low profile keycaps

How does one use this?

@roshambo123 by using multiple layers (3 layers in my case) and programming layers to assign keys (or combos) that are not shown in the keycaps.

Does one need to take HS typing class again to use that :)

a journey away from carpal tunnel i hope

Yea, hopping hobbies is "fun". The exploration and ignorance(naivety ?) can be refreshing, but man people can still be wrong. Difficult to find a trusted opinion.

Makes sense. I was looking into the costs of getting into motorbikes recently. A good entry level sports bike lines up with the cost of some top tier, but not orfas-priced audio gear. Honestly, I'd rather the bike. Entry and mid-tier audio gear got stupid good anyway.

What I always feel weird about is dropping money on my cars without blinking, and balking at an audio cable that's $100. Later on I wonder if I'm touched in the head

I had monoblock AHB2's for my HE-6 at one point. I miss that rig.

I loved vi, and was quite fluent in it twenty or thirty years ago. I went from a manual typewriter to vi!

I use Sublime as my main text editor, mostly cause it's on every platform and is native. but I am kinda jealous of my coworkers that are vim gurus. I can and do use vim, but only for minor edits to individual files

Even vim itself still is wonderful editor. The efficiency of all those keyboard commands has never been surpassed.
Of course, there is stuff that a modern IDE does better, but for most single file editing, I still use vim.

@Cspirou Was frustrated with MS Word for decades. I feel like to gain a better control over my document. Also gets along with Git well! Eye opening.

@MisterRogers To GC-addict like me, Rust encouraged low-level thinking, but not like C++ but rather much more elegant and motivating.

@Thad E Ginathom Thoroughly enjoying to separate markup and content. But still need pdf preview as a noob!

I actually started my dissertation with MS Word and I was getting overwhelmed with all the formatting that I switched to a LyX template one of my grad school friends made. It might have annoyed my advisor not being able to have revisions on an MS Word doc but it saved me an immense amount of time and stress.

Now I try to make docs with LaTeX/LyX all the time. I’m currently working on a recipe layout

If using LaTex, beware of it being mistaken for ChatGPT :)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00349-5

@SoupRKnowva Yes, I still own and like them.

do you have a comparison of all three somewhere on the forum?

@SoupRKnowva I haven't updated/posted thoughts (particularly with the current system) recently, but I did have a few posts on them in both Caldera review/measurement and/or music appreciation threads.

Yes, I've been using a mini PC using AMD 5500U chip as my eh... mini PC, and this thing really works well! And I do remember there were performance leaps from Zen 2 to Zen 4. When people talk about how great Apple's new chips are, actually AMD ones are quite close