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I like "dark" too, but not with a bass boost so big that interfers with the mids...something like the b&k curve for speakers but translated to headphones would be nice.

Ohhh hell yeah that'd be awesome. I seem to like BBC dips too though, and maybe not so much air up top (esp. ~11kHz). One good thing that's happened since I signed up here is that I seem to have a better handle of my preferences, haha.

Bassheadss will assimilate you. Resistance is futile.

@Taverius https://www.head-case.org/forums/topic/13278-hifiman-shangri-la-jr-electrostatic-headphones/?page=3&tab=comments#comment-788888

Maybe they're conducting a radical new business experiment of improving a product BEFORE its release

They're the radical new pinnacle of being incompetent...the only advantage the Jr had over the 009 was that the 009 was 8 years old, now the 009S is the novelty, so they don't have any argument...time for v2 and then v3 once they hear the 009S...typical Chifiman

Instead, how about this:

I'm glad one of us is having a great Monday! Enjoy it 9suns! You deserve it! Revel in the glory that is a good Monday. (I'll be over here nursing my 2nd coffee and trying to ignore my boss.)

@Elnrik you're only on your second cup? You're doing Monday wrong :))

2 large cups of coffee, 1 energy drink, and going for a nervous breakdown. I think I'm doing Monday just fine. hahaha

"My car don't have car keys, my crib got palm trees"

"pussy smell like sardine, you need to get up of my lawn please" I nearly cried with that one lmao

Also, being Stax's 80th anniversary, it would be underwhelming to not have an "SR-011" at the end of year (009S will be the 10th flagship)...let's see how it goes!

Seems like the Sennheiser strategy of adding S to everything.

The S in new Sennheiser stands for Sennheiser though

Thanks buddy! How's everything going?

That's sad. Lucky you had the money saved for dealing with the infection, but loosing the mic must hurt too.

Thanks Thad! I've learned my lesson a couple of years ago and now I always have money saved, plus I hate loans and quoted payments...and yes, that mic is beautiful (and sounds beautiful) :(

I miss the PB we ate in the US - was just a bunch of honey-roasted peanuts in one of those PB grinding machines. So good!

@bixby thanks, I actually looked it up and turns out it’s the same sugar content. There’s something about how the flavour is concentrated in US pb that they just can’t quite pull off over here.

Speaking as an atheist...

Oh wait. Speaking as an atheist who is not all that keen on peanut butter...

Se las reglas y todo. Pero cuando escribo rapido, la riego. Son problemas comunes. Meh. Mientras me entiendan :)

Ese es el mejor uso de este foro-- pa practicar Ingles!

Esas son nimiedades, tu inglés es cojonudo! Cada vez que quiero escribir algo complejo es como jugar a la ruleta rusa, pienso: "a ver cómo se las arreglan para entender bien esto, ahí te va" jajajaja

That's a very good point, don't know about headphone makers, but in speaker demos dealers tend to use equipment based on business relationships (ie, not the best amp for X speakers but he carries both)...it's not always like that but could be the case.

My first listen of the Utopia was from a Naim streamer. Focal and Naim merged a few years prior, it definitely didn’t do the Utopia justice, and it’s pretty efficient.

The common sentimet for not-so-efficient planars seems to be giving them lots of juice, so that D8000 you tried may well have been under nourished:

Sensitivity for reference:
102db/mw LCD-3
98db/mw D8000
97db/mw LCD-4
88db/mw Abyss Phi
83.5db/?? HE-6
83db/?? Susvara

Dave output:
1% THD 6.8v RMS with 300Ω (154mW)
1% THD 6.8v RMS with 33Ω (1.4w)

Mjolnir 2 Output (often recommened for planars that aren’t an HE-6):
Maximum Power, 32 ohms: 8.0W RMS “per channel“

I've always wondered about that; I mean, the female is called a peahen, so you'd expect an association with peas.

But having owned one, peas are not what come to mind when I think about one: rather, it is the intense desire to murder them.

Though I suppose Awfulscreechatfouramcock is not a good name :P

They anticipate the desire to murder. Hence sounding as if somebody IS murdering them.

But... Possibly the most beautiful bird in the world. Everybody knows them. It doesn't take a three month trek to possibly, maube spot one. If it did, I'm sure they would be the absolute pinacle of birder ambition. But I'll leave living with them to someone else :)

Falo espanhol e português, a disposição.

Si, hablo Español. Fun language, but I avoid speaking it because I cannot stand the tourists. Spain is in Europe but so many Spanish tourists speak only Spanish. It does not make sense...

That's a sad truth...I know very few people that speaks proper english here, like, less than 10, it's a shame...

Speaking of the intersection of audio and music. I read about some music reviewer that listened to everything through apple earbuds. I guess an argument can be made that most people listen to music this way. But really, take your job a little more seriously and invest in quality gear.

I agree @Cspirou, something like the Sennheiser HD5xx line is not expensive and would do the trick, it's also a good idea to have the apple earbuds as a reference too, but not as the only way to review music, that's irresponsible imho

Also some sort of two channel system. Even though most music is enjoyed through headphones, in the studio they mix it for speakers. Get some lsr308s on standmounts.

Bass slams like a paper bag. Potato chip yo.

Mr Miyagi, I like that mids real soggy, I bought Grados and sake, favourite meal used to be chocolate

She got a big booty so I call her big booty