Cellist88

I can't agree with that. She just sounds like a mix of D'angelo, Whitney Houston, and talking singing like Florence + the Machine. She literally sings like 10 pitches per song, while just talking. There is no development, and literally stays the same from beginning to end. If you take the lyrics out, literally trash tier music for me. Reminds me of Norah Jones when she sang Tragedy.

That's exactly the point: her choices here are weird AF, bro, especially given her past output. I can appreciate how she pushed herself somewhere different. It's amazing how difficult it is for humans to choose change and I applaud it, even if the results aren't my cup of tea.

Just finished Adele-30. My disdain for the album started with the shards of glass flying off the massed strings in the 1st track, the annoying gimmicks and then the harsh squawking background vocals. At least the 2nd half was a bit easier to take, but not enough for a repeat play.

Just happened to be on a massive sale now, else it was your area or clemmasters Solaris…though it’s getting to the point where I hardly use portable audio because the car stereo is there

Dude just get a cheaper DD IEM and call it a day for portable use.

Airpod pro is a DD

I made the switch about six months ago. I still look for settings within apps instead of in the settings app. Also iOS spellcheck and keyboard suck. But overall not that different.

I was an android user for 8 years. Primarily Nexus phones and then a OnePlus in the end. Switch 3 months ago to iPhone 12. Learning a new UI took a few weeks to find everything I wanted to use, but it’s largely the same thing, with a new skin. Honestly didn’t even notice notifications were different. Biggest lose for me was Google Assistant, but I gained in a few areas as well.

@jnak you can use third party keyboards on the iPhone. I felt I always had to on Android because I couldn't stand the stock keyboard but never had that issue with iPhone.

@Cellist88 I would say the pro offerings are not worth the added cost TBH. We have two tech salaries and I still feel like phones are overpriced with the regular pixel 6 being a solid offering for the price.

Did you play with the Pixel with day 1 software? I can say that, having been in Android for many years, the experience on day 1 is always significantly better than pre-launch.

I'll see on Friday with the actual unit but the demo unit ran fine and smoothly at the store. The regular pixel 6 is amazing for the price. I'm just bummed that Google as a software company hasn't fully optimized to the new hardware. I thought the addition of new camera hardware, tensor would make a bigger diff, but seems everything is an updated port of old software. Has a lot of potential but not realized rigjt now

I don't go crazy with a phone but if I'm gonna spend 1k, I want to use it for 4-5 years like my old Samsung. I root for team pixel but they don't have a good track record, and Apple purposefully holding back features just to sell phones the next year is snakish. My note 9 has every feature I'm happy with and the only company willing to go that route is Sony , but they want to charge an arm and a leg.

f**k YEAAAAHHHH! Oh yeah, if you weren't aware, the original ten novels are available in English from Viz. I'm glad we have the whole original novel series (which covers all 120 episodes of OVA) in English.

We rolled tubes, caps, transformers, cables, and now boards.

The real next step is rolling Ac adapters! LOL JK. In all seriousness, though something did change, thankfully for the better.

I'm about to start rolling my eyes...

Sometimes my sarcasm is legendary.

So microphones tend to be setup far field?

Schoeps CMC641 represent! If I could only have one mic forever that's the one.

@Cspirou depends on the room, but a sort of medium distance, not super close or far.

Dolby or Dolby Atmos?

I'm pretty sure Dolby atmos? I mean tickets were like 24 dollars each, though I don't know if that's just standard now. The only thing that has be coming back is watching Blade Runner 2049 in Dolby Atmos and that was just.....ridiculous....haven't experienced anything as good since.

One things that really affects the soundqaulity in theaters are where you sit. You sit in the first 3rd it will be pretty bright. Dolby Atmos really worked well inside the cars. Image on other hand seems subpar. Looked like SS instead of HDR. Highlight blown out, contrast off...might just been the theatre I visited.

People fall in one of these three categories: What a expensive string! vs What a expensive converter! vs Nothing comes cheap..

At least it's not the cost of a LiM per string...

At least a good set of cello strings still bring musical joy

I'll have to give that one another listen. Three of his solo Beethoven recordings are particularly worth-hearing. His very imaginative, but also coherent, Op. 27/1. His tightly structured but still quite virtuosic 32 Variations in C minor. And his bold, albeit ultimately uncompelling, attempt to play Op. 27/2 according to the tempo markings.

Everything android does...just adapt after 3 years Lol

They may adopt certain features later, but generally they turn out in the whole to be much more refined as a package compared to their targeted competition (with very decent supported lifetimes), which tons of people worldwide look forward to getting their hands on. But yes, the Keynotes are somewhat silly at this point, exercises in over-production to keep the masses excited over what's already expected.

I think they make great products! Just don't like how they make it out like they were so innovative....first ever.....industry leading....IP86 Water resistance....it just rubs me off poorly.

On first look based on some pics and its case, I thought it would replace their $700 closed back model.. Little did I know it was $4K

Yeah, that would be a hard pass for me. If I was spending that $$, it would be for either a RAAL system or ZMF TotL.

Yeah that's why I was asking. Was interested in getting them with cohesion being a factor that irked me slightly with the solaris and the mild raspiness from the scooped mids...then I'm like...should I just get the 8XX and screw iems altogether?

If as of late you use mostly headphones, get 8XX. If not, think about it. I enjoy my Ara even if it is BA ville, but the 2k-8k can get on my nerves on some recordings.

yeah....already have an HD800SDR though....gotta make a decision soon ><...

Just looked myself and the prices seem to match Spring 2 prices?

That's only the introductory price, which will go up another notch.

Bummed that they don’t have multipoint Bluetooth connections

Eagerly awaiting the death of my XM3 so I can upgrade

"The 1000XM4 buds fully support Sony’s own proprietary LDAC codec" ... dayam!
My 3s are pretty new, so the upside is I won't be getting these until the price drops

Coffee is best black like my amps.

I love coffee.....Just my ethiopians were tasting good but my South Americans not so much. Changed the water composition and tasted amazing...but then its just another bag of worms....different water for every coffee...past the grind size, temp, ratio, pour method....it was a moment of.....fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

It's taking me several weeks to dial in my new Kinu M47 for my moka rig at work. I feel your pain, sorta, kinda ...