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I regularly listen to my porta pros with yaxi pads straight out of my LG phone when going to bed, and just about every night it sends me into an existential crisis where I question everything I have built to/accumulated in this hobby.

Over the summer at YG acoustics a customer wanted a full size floorstanding pair of speakers in champagne gold. Unfortunatly the tanks of that color at the anodizing place were not big enough for the panels. I wanted to see how bad/good it would look.

That sounds like a very tempting idea. I loved how yg speakers look, maybe even more so with golden enclosure. haha

Yeah i felt like either it would work great, or look terrible. A big problem is color matching between the panels. Thats why they didnt offer other colors. They have a red, but there were so many issues with it. Mostly just black and silver, much easier to match panels.

Beautiful animation, and the stories aren't half bad either.

Strange,I just went through this show a couple of days ago.

Well yeah the lack of resolution for the first half arcs kinda comes with the territory, haha. The sense of escalation between Q & A is part of what I loved about the franchise.

I used to be into VNs but less so lately, and far fewer games in general. Just feel kinda meh about it.

Also I've yet to check out S;G0 so thanks for the tip! Adding it to the list. Original was fine IMO.

RE the director I've not seen much of his work TBH (wow some of these titles are nostalgic), but I didn't entirely hate Zettai Karen Children or Sket Dance so... fingers crossed?

I didn't know much either lol. I can comfortably say his work of Mr Tonegawa was great though, but that's a little different style from When They Cry. The scriptwriter is a very capable guy anyway, so mildly optimistic haha.

That headphone seems well engineered. I am curious.

Roland never disappointed me (digital piano, soft midi, etc). That's why I decided to give them a shot.

But explaining why I liked it this much isn't easy. Trid to list some terms but neither was fully convincing to me. Feels like I just didn't find proper wording yet. Multi-dimensional flavor might be the closest to my honest feeling, but leaves room to be specified.

10,496 freaking cuda cores. I don't need it but I sure in hell want it. I have been waiting for good upgrade for my 1080 ti.

I am very attracted by its huge 24G memory as my requirement is to load as large batch as possible at once. Hopefully (if it works as I imagine) could finish some sort of tasks much faster and make me less nervous for high dimensional big data.

@gixxerwimp roughly $20. Call me cheap haha.

https://www.amazon.com/4-4mm-Balanced-Headphone-Adapter-Silver/dp/B07WSRRN1X ?

Yeah, that maker, but shorter one:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WTQ9M9B/ref=sspa_dk_hqp_detail_aax_0

Right those two. Funny thing is the issue resolved w Erish(+650) that I recognize a little more aggressive than Mgns.

Huh, odd. So the Erish is categorically "harsher" with other transducers but the HD650 comes across as moreso when with the Magnius specifically? Talk about pairing, hah.

Want to clarify I failed to hear any harsh piece from Erish with verite (grado not testable -- bal only amp) in any context. On the flip side, 650+Mgns picks up treble "errors" in some (pattern hardly predictable) marginal recordings: good for some, not for me.

Another twister: Everyone have their own sensibilities and thus pay attention to selected properties of the sound. Not that they are not able to hear everything else, it's just not on the radar.

I recently got Debrox and it improved the clarity in my ears by 20%

Trust your feet. When your feet shuffle and tap, yeah it sounds good. When you really cannot sit still any more, you have found it. A thing you learn through collecting Funk and Soul...

Haha I liked asgard too. Also think it overall sbaf-better. But my taste departs from the forum average, particularly when it comes to hd650. Frankly I couldn’t hear 650 long when I had a3. It’s eventually a matter of context and taste I believe.

Yes same here with 650 A3 BUT Bifrost 2 really made a difference there for me. I felt it lagged behind SW51 and LP a lot with 650. Not so much now.

Then we may have more fundamental differences in tastes as I didn’t like lp at all and sw+650 wasn’t fully convincing to me. All with bifrost 2.

With HD650, yeah, very different. Some virtues shared but presentation largely different. I think Erish cooler and faster in voicing while Magnius is a little more sedative.

Oh god, that relative comparison makes the Erish seem like it would be absolutely abysmal.

I bet so, as FWIW our preferences are negatively correlated in some criteria.

I believe the Macan and Q5 share the same platform, but suspension design is totally different. The Macan (no "S") has the same engine as the Golf R (we really regret not getting the real V6 Porsche engine ...$) but has more than enough torque and power.

The Q5 is front wheel drive biased, while the Macan rear biased 4WD. I didn't bother to test drive the Q5 after reading reviews, but drove the X3 and there was no comparison in handling and steering feedback. Told the wife if she was going to make me drive an SUV it was going to have to be the Macan. PS the new tail lights suck, glad we got the OG

@JK47 close, it's the same platform as the Audi Q5. IIRC Porsche did the engine development on everything except for the 4cyl (VW EA888 2.0 TFSI) and the diesels. True Porsche PDKs in them, too.