ChaChaRealSmooth

It made the news in Australia, so it must be pretty bad. Thoughts and prayers go out to any affected. Hopefully no SBAF folk.

I can imagine. A cyclone (different name, same thing) came this way in 2016. The only time I've ever seen heavy rain moving sideways in the wind. We were lucky, with no damage to our house or garden at all, but the city lost a huge number of its trees. It was extreme, but...

What hit us then was an /absolute baby/ compared to Ian passing over florida!

Still in your bedroom

I want to attend a CanJam just to meet Danny from RAAL. What a great dude.

@tommytakis card collection was undefeated.

@ChaChaRealSmooth glad you liked it. Tuned it almost completely by ear in fact! The unique acoustic features made my measurement rigs have 13dB+ of variation at different spots in the fr even when other headphones measure consistently so I gave up on graphs. Voicing by ear is very rewarding... And the sound is still evolving ;)

Wow. Gulp. I run a handful of EVGA 3090s for animation work. They're a touch fussy to begin with. I wonder what will happen with service.

This is a good thing, bedroom dwellers will have to go outside more often.

@Justin S Reports are that EVGA is holding onto a fair bit of stock to ensure they'll be able to deal with RMAs and the like. Something about how they reserved enough as informed by models developed from historical precedents.

To be absolutely clear: I want to be able to provide the community with cool loaners we'd all be interested in. In no way is the loaner program going away. I'm just thinking that a small break wouldn't be a bad idea given the recent flood of loaners

As a Canadian, I'm sad that we don't get any cool loaners up this way, though I understand the logistics of it make it difficult =(

@Armaegis +1 on this. I would love to have some cool loaners up here. @jnak00 did a loaner of his private Jot 2 a while back and it really pushed me to up my solid state amp game here. I think loaners are really useful when you're figuring things out.

What if u like the first and absolutely dislike the 2nd?! I must be weird :D

I'm the opposite, dislike HD600, like slightly modded/EQ'd OG Clear ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I dunno: Wood is pretty, but heavy.

you hear that @MisterRogers ?! I blame you, years ago. :)

You are most welcome mate. Happy to corrupt (er, help)

I haven't heard anything ETA since the prototype Genesis. If @E_Schaaf and @tommytakis are willing I'd love to run a loaner tour

@ChaChaRealSmooth Mini S and Mini C loaner tour is starting soon! would you like me to put u on the list?

@tommytakis put me down for Mini S

Nice. Welcome back.

The real story everyone was @ChaChaRealSmooth was acting like a virgin playing vidja in his bedroom.

@YMO don't tell them about all the wadded up tissues.....wait

He is too busy swapping pics with me.

Swapping what ?

You know you want my #.

I run two volunteer organizations - a local youth swim team and a local parish church. I'm "president" of both organizations, which means I have to $collect$ money to pay pastors, coaches, building rents, etc. as well as organize, supervise, make decisions from the mundane to the critical, etc.

The fact is most of the people within these organizations and who directly benefit from them don't have a real understanding as to the time and effort it takes to accomplish everything - they simply "take it for granted". In addition, many of them have all sorts of suggestions and critiques, most of which are too ill informed and "idealistic" and are not helpful in the least.

It's frustrating when they level ignorant and unrealistic criticism but it is par for the course however. Perhaps @rhythmdevils will think it over and reconsider.

This is a great comment on the “article”

https://i.imgur.com/evKk1pS.jpg

Meh. Apple didn't remove it b/c lightning was better at audio. It did it to save space (constantly making phone thinner) and it allowed them to make the phone more water resistant. The same reasoning why they will eventually remove the lightning port (and any possible future usb c port). We are niche. The vast majority just don't care or miss it.

Matter of time til they ditch headphone jacks on laptops and iPads too

@ChaChaRealSmooth Surprised HD800 didn't make the list. Just lack of bass?

@roshambo123 More like "never owned that headphone and never liked it." So honestly I can't say because I never tried it for that purpose

@Qildail Don't get me wrong, they're not what I'd call top-tier for gaming (again, SR1a is the king) but it's definitely better than all the other ZMFs

We had a week long heat wave already and another this week. Why can't it just be 80 breezy and not humid ?

@HotRatSalad

https://i.imgur.com/EqntsX0.jpg

Been just running the AC while I’m at work so I can listen when I get home. Even set to 74 I feel irresponsible, but second floor apartment in pre-1930’s building = don’t care.

BHA-1 really does sound worse when it’s hot, too. Marv was right about the hot mosfets and bass mud there, I think.

Remember that one time I asked you why Asians love Michael Jackson, you said you dunno. You are hiding something from us, I know you dance like him.

I hate that this made me cackle hard enough to devolve into hiccups.

Create tiktok account, make this announcement be your only post. Fin.

Without a doubt, commission. E.g., Schiit's MB bass, OG Cavalli LC's scooped upper-mids, HD800's treble. If you can't / don't want to get closer to neutral than that, I don't care how great your staging is.

omission is lack of ability. Commission is acquired taste Lol

Hmmm, sins of ommission and I might still enjoy what is there. Sins of commission stick out and spoil the party. (In a general sense.)

I bet it’s a lot easier with speakers

I used to have an amp with a polarity button. It didn't make any difference to me. Or the world. Or the sound as I heard it.

To you lucky-? guys out there who can tell... Congratulations! One more thing to worry about! ;)

@gixxerwimp it's hard to put into words. The inverted phase with SR1a sounds unsettling and strange. Something about the presentation is messed up