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Step up in what? And from what?? Stop the clickbait!!! ;-)

The divestment is part of an overall strategy to make Israel economically unsustainable, like activists did with South Africa during apartheid. And it won't happen without protests, because there's so much money in it, the universities will have to have their hand forced.

@rott Pretty sure the students are not having professors and guest speakers arrested for sharing right wing views. We can take about equivalencies when they do.

leaving aside campus speech/ protest issues, re: the military wisdom of bombing, creating rubble, then ground assaulting, see Monte Cassino, Stalingrad, etc.

@crenca I wouldn’t even say that I hear more detail. Maybe I would in an A/B test, but that’s not what makes the difference to me. Somehow, I enjoy the music much more lossless, but can’t really say why. I always wanted to try with aptX, but never got around to it yet.

I’ve debated selling my Auteur for a Bathys. I use headphones infrequently and when I do the noise canceling and ability to use as a wireless headset is something I need.

@Merrick I don’t think I will ever buy a closed-back again, I have the Bathys for that duty. Plus, they are my travel headphones for hotel room/good quality as well as for train/plane wireless and ANC requirements, and I use them as a headset for meetings when I’m at the office. Great allrounders.

Each to their own, but I don't think that DSoTM is going to figure for me even once this century.

Meddle, perhaps. Or Atom Heart Mother.

Or even Ummagumma, which was the first non-classical record I ever bought

Loved the technical qualities of v1, a different FR would be intriguing…

As far as I know, no. If this is in the works though, I don't think I'd be sending mine in for the update unless technicalities improved and it moved in a direction I enjoyed

I visited a friend who has an inexpensive setup with small book shelf setup nestled between 4 monitors. It was pretty pleasant. I like my headphones, but the best sounding ear pads for me are also the most uncomfortable.

@SoupRKnowva maybe some coaxials above the monitors on the left and right pointed towards you?

@SoupRKnowva, just replace the two monitors with a Dell 38" ultrawide and then you won't have that problem. If you're using dual 24" monitors you may gain resolution this way too. :)

My HD800-JAR created by @ext1 fits my personal preferences at such a high level that it is not likely to be displaced by any other headphone. This is my reference.

JAR660 fulfils a similar role for me. Tone is to die for and technicalities are sufficient, within the context of being fairly source agnostic. I can only imagine what JAR800 out of a high end setup sounds like.

How can we hear one of these and is it better than Utopia? :)

@Merrick Nope! Two channel systems have been something that's eluded me for awhile, I've tried to build them before and ultimately never used them.

I've considered replacing my stock SMPS for my Pi2AES but don't know which one to use. Allo seems to have gone under so the Shanti isn't an option. Do people still like Sboosters?

I used to like the way Sbooster made my system sound but over time realized that it's acually quite noisy. Switched over to Muzg and I'm quite pleased with the result

I bought a Aeon 2 directly from Headamp since I really liked the Aeon. Their return policy was 60 days which was great. I listened to the headphones for a few days and decided it wasn't for me. I sent an email telling them I wanted to start a RMA and they asked "Why!? What's wrong with them?". I told them I didn't like it. Then follow up email made me feel like I was being interrogated for a crime.

Maybe you were supposed to select 2 day even though there was a cost associated, which would have been zeroed at the end of checkout….but then, maybe you were supposed to read minds ;)

@crenca - Mind-reading would come in handy, ha. I definitely wondered if I missed something, so I double-checked before reaching out. Turns out, they offer not just 1 or 2 but *7* different 1 or 2 day shipping options for that item - none free, and ranging from $17 to $96. Honestly, a simple explanation or apology would have gone a long way, but from what I can tell, that's not how they handle business.

That is awesome to hear! Finding awesome is all we need in this hobby.

More power to ya!

All the best

Mazel tov!

"I'd like to try whatever it is you're having."

@Jinxy245: you have to mine it out of my brain cells!

I thought you were being figurative

I'm useless with figures!

I hear nothing but great things about the Sparkos opamps.

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.

I think they captured the vibe well. I wish they had kept the environmental music from Fallout 1 & 2. It’s got a little wokeness, but that’s unavoidable these days.

As far as plot goes, it is stronger than the latter Bethesda games.

I can’t wait to see the turbo plasma rifle.

Really liking it so far. It’s refreshing to see “heroes” that are morally ambiguous, in a world where moral ambiguity is all that could possibly survive.

Not much bothered about either of them, but tried Rebel Moon Pt1 the other week, out of a vague desire to see something with spaceships, and was actually surprised how bad it was. Or, not even bad, really, but just a giant... nothing. So many resources, so little effect. I half-watched up to the "climatic" last battle, then turned it off out of boredom.

Watch the second one…it’s even worse

One can argue that Taylor can tell a better story

I have to admit, I really like what Resolve and team are doing (or goimg to be doing) with their compensated df targets with zones instead of just a line.
I'd very much like to see them do more than just fr, I mean, you already have the tools... why not add thd, imd, csd measurements? It costs you nothing to add them too.

@Ardacer They don't believe that any of that matters. It's why, as much as I have no shortage of respect for the work Crinacle and Resolve and all the others have done insofar as building a library of useful FR traces go, that's the extent of the respect I have. Maybe we're all wrong and getting /better/ FR traces will render CSDs, burst decays, impulse responses all useless after all. Who knows.

I highly doubt that. Fr+phase/ir is enough to perfectly model a minimum phase system, and you can extrapolate csd from that, for example, but good luck trying to see those effects which are easily seen on csd/bursts on fr plot. Also, thd/imd being useless is quite the opinion fo have...