dncnexus

I wish there were SBAFriends near me here in southern New Mexico. In person with good gear and beer is always a delight.

We need to do a DMV Friends meet soon! Where's @sheldaze at, yo!

On a plane. Seriously, touchdown was 11:55pm. Otherwise, I would have been there!

Yep, that sounds like a Stellaris

Seriously just ask Marv. What was the title of the AF?

Craig said he made it for people "who knew exactly what the fuck they doing"

That XLR to TRS "SBAF pro tip" was buried so an idiot wouldn't take it and plug it into another amp and watch the poof of magic smoke...

Use an XLR to TRS adapter (reverse from regular). Just never use this adapter on any other amp.

Post #465 has the PDF of the "Speshul SBAF manual" https://tinyurl.com/y9ol9luz

"For people who know what the f*** they want and what the f*** they are doing"

These things are the real deal @E_Schaaf knows what he is doing. Very impressed!

@Gaspasser you will be the first on my list. Keeping in SBAF and local would be a double win in my book. Should be in the next 3-4 months I will be putting up for sale.

Did you just get the Starlett?

@YMO Yes I did. I wanted to try out DNA to see if it was my type of amp, and I love the Starlett so now I know I enjoy the house sound, and I got the cash for it I am upgrading and gonna let another SBAFer get the Starlett once I get the new amp in.

If you like the Clear, very good chance you'll like the Utopia more. Something about the Utopia driver just sounds better than the lower-end Focal drivers, and I don't mean just technicalities. The "metallic timbre" thing is so overstated.

@ChaChaRealSmooth do you seeing yourself using VO or Utopia more. For my library thinking the VO works better, but where the Utopia shines, it really shines no competition.

@dncnexus I'm prone to wild mood swings and random fits of choosing a can, so it probably roughly averages to equal use among all my headphones that I own. That being said, Utopia and Verite are definitely complementary cans.

Is this Dex's charity thing? Haven't popped in there for a while but congrats!

Great to hear that the Clears are going to a good home - congratulations!

@Lyander yep! It was for Dexs charity

*jerome powell moneyprinter gif here*

@YMO the reason for the big pay increase is I went from a small tech company to a FAANG company. Just to give alittle more insight

Yup Yup, that's tech. Banking is very different, but it's my trade.

It's weird, for me it shuffles similar songs and if I skip one song it shifts the genre!. Like WTF?

@nishan99 yeah, I will shuffle, and it decides to play the song at the top of the playlist, and as i click next, it will shuffle through all the songs that are in the window and never any anywhere else. I have 3K+ songs to shuffle and listen to 50 max.

Probably didn't read the rules.

Dislikes are usually given because the post doesn't add information (or something useful) to the thread topic.

And more rarely because of disagreement with a point. And sometimes because butthurt.

Don't worry about it. And read the welcome forums.

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@pure5152 rebooted again (4th time) and finally now everything seems to be working. Very odd indeed

wtf yeah that's so strange, that's super frustrating you had to reboot four times to get it working.. glad to hear everything is working now though

@pure5152 the 4th reboot, the restart wasn't working had to do a physical unplug and replug. Not something I like to do but was unresponsive otherwise.

Figured out I only need those two if I really want to go the minimalist way (which I don't as I still enjoy diversity lol). Anything else I owned can't compete in my use cases.

The Hives are an interesting thought. Keep getting good impressions.

That truly does look amazing.

even though Verite is my least favorite ZMF sonically, they are gorgeous and actually look their price unlike most headphones in the $1k+ range.

Looking to pick up a VC during ZMF November, hopefully with a similarly impressive wood finish as yours.

@E_Schaaf its a darkvoice

Whooooaaa friends don't sell friends Darkvoice!!!

@JK47 technically wasn't to a friend :D I get a pass right? Maybe?

Beats might have boosted bass

Another point that hasn't been mentioned yet, more resolving and revealing audio equipment sometimes makes favorite songs sound awful. Case in point, I like early Taylor Swift songs (judge away) but find them painful to listen to on my desktop headphone setup because of the distortion and compression.

Also, I've found Dubstep, Trance, and other electronic music sounds better, to me, on my less resolving closed backed Maddog pros than my modified open DT880s. I personally find my mid-range headphones work best for certain types of music and not others. YMMV since you have higher end gear.

Utopia: you'll know in 8 seconds whether they're your endgame or not.

The Utopia does reveal itself pretty quick. I’ve come close to pulling the trigger on something 600 for a while now.

It took the Euphoria to make the Utopia click for me, after 2 years of owning them. They're so dependent on the rest of the chain.

That will not change. Better learn self-control

He’s right, that’s been me every night since I got my Aficionado hooked up

It does place a subtle grip on you. Next thing you know 2 hours have passed!

It will warm up for the time being

Did you work faster? (to get home)

The worst anxiety ever. I feel for you. Best of luck.

You got this man, show them you're the stuff!! You got all my good luck as well

Go get em!! Chipping in my luck to you as well.