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I’m roughly a 1:1 ratio but I really do need to sell some stuff

Yes, but I don’t expect that I’ll be able to narrow it down much. My various transducers are all different from each other and have different amping requirements. At least, I’ve ruled out e-stats.

No, after going through my forgotten tech drawer I found multiple IEMs I no longer use, which means I do technically have many more transducers than amps.

sad, I love my OG

@rhythmdevils It found its home with the right fellow.

I appreciate AKM DS sound (though some implementations are too bloomy, etc.) and at time prefer it over Yggdrasil. Wish I knew of a good (neutral) AKM based desktop DAC that was price competitive (no more than $2k range)...basically a Schiit version ;)

All my favorite DS DACs were pre-Velvet Mush AKM and pre-Ginsu Sharp ESS. Still have Wolfsons and AKM 4399s in the racks.

Now that AKM is coming back from their fire and companies are taming ESS, I hope DS continues its “comeback”. Our hobby needs healthy competition with good products.

DS never left. It has been used in mastering forever and still is.

Some data suggest 43% of all Americans will have caught COVID by the end of Feb. this winter. Second biggest wave since it started!

Got boosted for both recently.

We get neither Christmas nor Boxing off in Taiwan :(

And to you as well!

For once the CA Atlas didn't overwhelm with bass, and the mids are brought more forward.

I have the Azla sedmax for my ie900 and those are good too

Can't drink it. Wish I could.

But if your body is fine with it, absolutely drink coffee! I wasn't so much into the caffeine as the flavour, which I really miss. Especially when I catch a whiff of it.

@roshambo123 The complex relation between caffeine, cortisol, and anxiety; dehydration in the summer. I always start with a sports drink (Propel packet). And I'm precise about the amount of caffeine: I figured out how much I need to feel awake without feeling "wired."

@Claritas This is interesting. I will start my day with some electrolytes also before coffee and see how that goes!

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He wasted away for the last time.

May future days only allow for a good drink to enhance fun moments, not for it to blunt shitty ones. Whiskey that old should be savoured, hah.

I also find alcohol works best after moments of heightened dread

Apart from Orthodox Jews at a kiddush, I have never seen a fellow drink only "a shot." Once, my host at a pre-wedding dinner party poured me (the best man) and also his brother-in-law, sitting next to me, *half* a shot. I just said, "Would you mind passing the bottle down to this end of the table? Thanks!" So it worked out fine.

don’t look at the cinematography side of the fence! Man, I was lusting for the Zeiss primes shortly after Vincent Laforet did Reverie on 5DMk2 back in 2009.

Even Sony has bargain-price 50s (APS-C and FF). It isn't all GM!

I love my FE85/1.8 (on an APC-C camera). And I have a Samyang 135 that is something like 1/3rd of the price of the fancy Sony.

Tamron and Sigma (to name but two) also make lenses for Sony E-mount.

Film? Thanks, but no, my once-loved OM1n is staying in its museum cupboard corner

If you can find a good deal on a Nikon D700 with some old Nikkor/Nikon manual focus lenses, jump on that. Otherwise Pentax tends to slip through the radar because Pentax was never good at marketing...

Funny thing though - experimenting with a switch to decaf was what got me seriously into specialty coffee around 20 years ago, had a hard time finding really good decaf so I started roasting beans myself in a quest to find better on a budget (wife was in med school).

Do as the Italians do: caffeine AM, alcohol PM.

@Biodegraded Basically a lighter version of what Elvis did

"All right! Way to go Dude! If you will it, it is no dream."

Just the endorphin buzz. It'll wear off.

So then:

Decaf = Unmodded HD650 + ok amp
Regular = JAR650 + DNA Stellaris?

I love the taste of coffee but I can't go back. Decaf is the gateway drug to the dark roasted black hole. Nothing like falling off the wagon now and again though, as long as you get immediately back on.