Comments on Profile Post by MichaeLeroy

The Lemur Pro, https://system76.com/laptops/lemur, is a nice little machine, but its tiny downward firing speakers are a joke. This will probably be my excuse to check out the new for me territory of wireless HPs.

Is the Dragonfly Amp/DAC compatible? There was talk about that.

Are you sure the bluetooth included is good? I know mine is awful which is why I ended up with an ES100.

@Deep Funk I have no personal experience with any Dragonfly, but my general experience with DACs on linux and a quick check of Linux forums point to excellent compatibility. When I have a chance, I'll try this machine with my iFi mini BL. I'm listening to Vanatoo zeros using BT right now, with good results. Pairing was easy and latency is much lower than I have experienced with other devices.

Linux Ultrabook, I must check those out.

You can enable LDAC on most linux laptops.

@Deep Funk I've only had this Lemur Pro for a few days and so far so good: quiet and great battery life when used like a chromebook, with good UI. The fan does kick in when used for more serious work, but it a lot less shrill than typical of small notebooks. Perhaps not as sexy as an XPS 13 developer edition, but unlike Dell, System 76 sweats the details of drivers, so everything just works.

@Gazny, thanks for pointing that out. Probably thanks to android, Sony made open source LDAC drivers available, if unavailable in the kernel, the driver can be used via pulseaudio-modules-bt. Good deal either way.