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Lol I just realized the tower placed fairly distant (5-6ft) to the desk and sitting position for acoustic purposes (love inverse-square law), which might make me less sensitive for this matter.

Look, chips can work in the dark. Let it be so. Computers don't need lighting any more than the undersides of cars do. Especially funky lighting. For either.

I have one fan that has a white light: well, it tells me that it is power, I can more easily see it spinning, and know that my hard disks are getting some nice draught. I have never purposely bought lights or a device with lights, for a PC. And never will.

My motherboard and RAM have rgb but I just set them to white. My first computer I built had all blue LED lights, including stripper-heel clear fans. That was pretty much your only option back then. I've also had red themed and green themed PCs, but now I like the neutrality of white.

They basically sound like a harder wood because there's no pores anymore, so they lack decay, but they sound like a wood and sand and finish like one. The extra cost is all cost for the custom large pieces of stabilized wood we have to buy that end up costing around 200+ usd per board foot and takes a long time to prepare.

@zach915m Does the coloration come during the resin in fill stage (colored resin), or is it still a surface treatment like traditional stain?

It's actually in the wood! (which is why the depth and chatoyance is so insane) They use this stuff called "cactus juice" after the wood is at 0% humidity to penetrate the entire thing in a vacuum chamber. it's really wild during machining because of the burl and color throughout the entirety of the wood were always holding our breath to see what the final look of each set will be based on how it cuts.

I found myself buying displays and/or storages exclusively those days every year.

And some of the worst deals too.

@YMO You must be right. Personally less sensitive to such BS as I only look at specific clusters though.

grew so sick of T-bird meat year after year. our Thanksgiving meals are now: tacos and tamales. Or, homemade red posole which is on the stove now! remember #PieFirst !

What I find hard to resist is the Ironwood Verite. This is even though I'm very happy with my Cocobolo Verite...

I resisted. So could you.

I have a closed ironwood, and it’s fantastic. Slightly snappier transients than stock wood and much prettier, IMHO.

Maybe iFi felt like they weren't getting anything out of the partnership with Drop, and are kind of dragging their feet as a result. It seemed weird to me anyway. If you have a good product, why not just sell direct?

They just posted a update about it, seems like Ifi shipped everything on time but their warehouse dropped the ball completely. They say their warehouse has recieved the units but they dont yet know when they are shipping them. Assuming covid has their warehouse in disarray but certainly not a good look for Drop, seems like they are pretty poorly managed these days.

I did the same thing on my end. I already told my grievances to @iFi audio for HQ feedback about this mess.

Seeing really good feedback from friends too. Seems legit (at least right now).

I ordered a mini to check it out. Definitely curious to see how it holds up with development workflows.

Good to know! I am still rocking a trash can Mac Pro so mini is tempting. I wish Apple would release a new display for under $6K.

At this point, I am strongly surmising either component only can't excite me this much. It's clearly in the realm that I always call 'combo synergy'.

Optimization x3. I doubt current software is seeing the gains they vaguely boast about.

Great alps switch as well as great ergonomics. Very unlike what they produce now (I couldn't be a fan of magic keyboard at all...)

I use an Apple Keyboard Extended II as my daily driver. I replaced all the switches with Matias quiet switches a few years ago.

Started from grado (hemp), then opamp (erish/magnius), now estat/kg (hive and carbon respectively). What's next? lol

Still all conditioned by something exceptionally good to me though.

A few years ago, I experienced something similar. Though it was more a case of going from biased to neutral. Regardless, I found—and continue to find it—liberating.

@Inoculator I had similar struggles before when sr1a in the house (verite remains not used for weeks), later I realized things I thought 'lost' were just there with different presentation and my ears can take care of distant vocals better than I thought (as I failed to find 'critical missing' in the end).

The best way could be just let yourself and them go freely, and observe how things stabilize.

Verite cups also always seemed to have a bit of resonance where the dip is, so it does mask it a bit. Just a dash of color.

By the way, I do feel hd600 is a little too hot in mid treble, and most nearfield 2ch is relatively uptilting than farfield to me. I ultimately let hd600 and sr1a go, and my 2ch settled down in far field configuration. Now everything else non-verite is manageably close to verite. And that solved the problem at the end of the day.

Yup, it's been up for a couple weeks now. It's very good, I highly recommend. I have been loving mine

No wonder, I didn't check the site for the past few weeks. I haven't had much interest in BH's dynamic amps but that piqued my interest a bit as estat tube offerings are quite rare except some $$$ hybrids.

I have a thread here with information on it, or you can always dm me if you got questions

@ChaChaRealSmooth Testing with two different SS energizers: small (srm-212) and big (kgsshv-c) boxes. Switching one to the other feels ridiculously dramatic particularly regarding microstuffs and heft. Not very sure yet if that's synergy or scaling though.

The longer I use mine the more I like them. I'm working on trying to find pads that will fit so I can pad roll.

@dncnexus That sounds interesting. Comfort-wise, I'd like to have a little larger diameters in internal holes.

But concerned with potential sonic changes in negative ways -- they sound really good as is (+ measure damn nice too -- short review with a set of measurements forthcoming)

I'd say Verite Closed is a close second. VC probably out-resolves it by a bit because of BE-coated driver, but ESX900 is a lot slammier and more fun. Definitely sign up for the loaner when it happens!

@tommytakis @E_Schaaf I for sure need to hear the ESX900, sounds right up my alley. I will cross my fingers I get in on the tour. Gorgeous work Evan!

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