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The Nair is awesome! I miss that perfect tonal and FR balance. Best of any iem I’ve heard. If I had cash to throw around I’d get one just for fun.

I can’t wait for the Nair 2 ;)

I said this in my review, but I love how it gets out of the way of the music. Doesn't call attention to itself and works well with modest sources.

You "should it" indeed. :P

edit: damn it he edited it from "I should it" to "I should try it" >_>

I hope you don't have cats. Every warm spot you sit, they claim it.

Right, I forgot about that. Finding electric power, Ohm's Law, etc. Still, I really like what I'm hearing with these old 600 ohm Senns.

Do all of the same rules apply to high-ish impedance planars like the 200 ohm LCD-4?

I have an AKG K 240 DF old school 600 ohm pair you can have for shipping costs if that's your thing. I tried to like them, didn't work.

When one reads (even better, hears a nice reading) of "I, Pencil", it makes it plain that none of us really know much about anything.

We are all pretty darned specialized in our understanding of things.

https://imgur.com/a/A7qrDsk

@yotacowboy maybe I'm just too dumb to actually do that. I love my EC Ultralinear and DNA Starlett too much.

I failed this week.

I now have enough experience not to buy anything that is in the same league as my current components. Just no longer makes sense to me. Either I go next tier (tons of money) or I just shut up and enjoy what I have now. Since I don't have funds to go next tier I just shut up.

Wish I had the Aeolus again to try it on the last dac I auditioned. Maybe you can try it for me?

Maybe an updated impression? With my new purchases, I may be soon adding something ZMF-flavored.

Edit: Especially if you have a 3F/DAC2541 to try it on.

Should listen to "Within"...the unevenness of timing between the piano solo with different touch/articulation and dynamics starting from 29sec. Also hearing post ringing/synth voice like between 1:04-1:06, with the siblance. Also 1:53, you can tell the piano goes ever slightly flat. Dunno if its a Yggdrasil/schiit thing. Can't hear those details in something like a soekris....hence I just can't go back.

@Cellist88 "Within" is one of my favorite Daft Punk songs. Maybe I'm biased because I play the piano. And tbf to Soekris, 2541 did a good job; just wasn't to my tastes/level of Yggdrasil GS.

If by "bass note articulation" you mean "extra texture", yeah I can hear it in that note. The stuff @Cellist88 mentioned is easier to hear with Stellia than modded HD800. I then noticed for the first time the first verse of Instant Crush is quietly double tracked in modal voice, also easier to pick out with Stellia but audible with HD800 now that I know it's there.

I think you need some external action with what you were born with.

I generally test my rig with whisk(e)y. I'll have to tell the home office I need additional funding for micro-batch beer testing. :)

I find myself turning up the volume after each beer as if my ears were the ones getting drunk.

glowing penis?

It's the image of music in flight!

Useful as ambient light https://imgur.com/EF6VHYq

@purr1n unlikely. I don't go anywhere unless it's to get groceries or the post office. At any rate, it seems to have disappeared today

Could be earwax.

I don't think it is. I clean my ears regularly. Like I said though, today things sound fine. Either that or my brain adjusted

It’s not only about headphone but the whole system and may be your friend doesn’t have the amp that go well with Utopia and hence the suggestion to keep enjoying HD650.

Yeah but my Utopia is gone while HD650 is still here. Baller on Stellaris but not top shelf quality for me, limited scaling.

Do unto others what you would have done to you...right?

Entirely your fault for making a dumb resolution :P

I mean if you’re going to fall off the wagon so soon, you picked a great resolution to break.

Wait why are you dissing Lucinda Williams? She’s a great song writer not part of of female vocal genre at at all.

What makes you think that was a diss? I love her songs, choice of backing musicians, choice of producers, and voice! :)

Oh I didn’t get your post at all I guess. I just jumped to Lucinda’s defense ,)

You're one of the knowledgeable SBAF members. Get in on the dogpile.

TBH man, with a lot of the technical audio stuff people are talking about, I'm still very much green behind the ears. I learn a lot just quietly reading.

Nice.

Or "If I buy this I will be happy" :(.

Keep sane. Time to blow out your other amps and headphones.

Giving the Bachelor a good workout here with multiple headphones. It seems to be more sensitive to choice of DAC than SW51+ for best synergy.

Currently it's on loan to a friend. Slowly changing his attitude about tubes (not that he has to be a big tube guy, but want to steer him from completely negative attitude).