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More power to ya!

All the best

Mazel tov!

Regular Pyrate or Butt Pyrate?

@YMO only time will tell...

Ahoy there, Matey! Arrr!

We kid sometimes, but that is a serious piece of gear.

@ChaChaRealSmooth doesn’t that make you just more jaded? I don’t know how you do it.

@joch it's weird because it's both. Om one hand I became much harder to impress and I just don't care about most new product launches, but occasionally something rolls in where I am consumed by the urge to buy (Supernaut).

Still love my old GS/A1. Even the Wavelight couldn't quite replace it

Love A2. It's the jacuzzi I jump into when I get worn out on A1/GS, which is the main swimming pool

Really sad to see this one go, especially as it was purely a parts availability decision. I haven’t heard the A2 but the A1 is astonishing and helped bring a lot of people into the high end without taking out a second mortgage.

It's completely warranted. 2023 had some good stuff

Why we need to do a dick showing contest? Good gear age like fine wine. The good stuff sticks around for years.

Picking the stuff that *will* still be around for years.

Any specific combo that yields the most joy for you? Utopia and DSHA-3F?

Depends on the day, tbh. 3F and Utopia is most technically impressive and engaging, Atrium is most analog and natural, VC Blackwood is woody, warm, and rich, JAR6XXB is spacious, sweet, and velvety. They're all so good!

What did you do to the T50rp ?

@JK47 I had previously completely covered all of the vents in the baffle with electrical tape, but I poked a few holes in the ones toward the back. This reduced the bass and evened out the frequency response. It also seems to have reduced overall distortion, because everything seems cleaner and better separated with a more defined soundstage.

Currently redoing my MK3's. the pleather Dekoni ear pads and headband have started to disintegrate. The left channel bass has started to to grow excessive, most likely due to a leak in the mini-XLR jack I installed. Currently enjoying my RP-kit w/ Mr. Speaker Alpha dog pads, w/hd650 foam to tame treble. Will do write up in next few weeks

My initial reaction was "who?". After skimming that thread it gradually turned into an "eww".

I struggle to understand how someone would remotely find this acceptable. Especially when done to some of the best people in our community.

What makes people think they can even get away with that crap?

/aside
What really surprised me, in that brief visit to headfi, was someone posting "For the first time in the forums I’m left speechless."
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Same driver / tech, with magical tension / tuning. I am old and jaded.

@MisterRogers I think it would be good if it sounds similar because it's $900 cheaper!

Fair point mate

The JAR6XX V1/ A version is my second favorite of the JAR. The mods seem to pair slightly better with the 6XX than the 650, but still both great. https://i.imgur.com/4Lcf3YG.jpg

From my stash of unposted notes:
JAR6xx V1 w/ covers - This is my favorite JAR6xxxx. This version shifts the tonality of the HD6xx in the direction of the HD600, but not nearly as forward in many areas. I still prefer the JAR600 v1 for a lot of music I listen to, but I prefer this version for hip-hop and electronic forward pop. With the covers on, the headphone was tighter, brighter, and more resolving…

Isn't it tough sharing new toy love? :D

If audiophilia was a genre, it’d be shoe gaze

if it were a drug, it would be Oxycontin

if were a mental disorder, it would def be OCD (the real, bad kind)

It’s keeping me in the hobby

I'm simply middle-aged with no kids.

Schiit could do several models: The white Urd of Sheep, the zero gain Un Urd, and as a last self-referential pun, the gamers’ version: Urd Play.

This is getting worse. A lot worse. An Urder Of Magnitude worse!

Hifi kit, like the old-fashioned view of children, should be seen and not urd.

I also like my HE6SE, and it was damned cheap and is made well enough IMO. I don't really have a huge beef with the build quality of other current HFM either. They could be more lux, yes, but almost all of them are light and comfortable and that counts for a lot, too. I know HFM aren't much repped on SBAF, and the constant new models is corny, but I wouldn't discount them.

Any of you chaps heard the sundara closed backs ? Recently were $229 on sale...

Their house sound (for the current affordable models) is just not my cup of tea. Too much focus on treble. I did like the Arya Stealth for its technical prowess, but personally, I’d have to EQ it.

I see you rolled your way into the semis.

"Eight year olds, Dude."

OG Utopia or Newtopia?

@RestoredSparda OG with ZMF Lambskin Focal+ Subs. I've never heard the Newtopia

I see what you did there...

Some complimentary reading: https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/langew/extreme.htm

Talking Timbuktu is a great album by Ali Farke and Ry Cooder!

No bunnies or beatles, just hedgehogs, foxes, and echidnas

Ewwwww Sanic

echidnas? That Mexican food thing?

This was one of the things I suggested as theme music for SBAF. Along with yakety sax, of course.

I hadn't.

And I wish I hadn't looked. It was Top Of The Pops in hell.