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I think we caught the minor part of that storm yesterday. A bit of lightning but nothing serious. But we were also a bit paranoid since it was the one year anniversary of the Derecho that took out 20% of the state

Oh dang! Our power went out a few weekends ago for the same thing. Although it was only out about 6 hours. 13 is rough in this heat. Stay cool.

We lost two fruit trees due to high winds. Thankfully the power stayed on. I hope you have power again.

Send me your hard drive. ;)

The Lord's work.

Very tedious and laborious, but makes browsing through one's digital collection so much more enjoyable.

makes sense - produce the products whose abuse will necessitate your other products. Like big pharma!

@E_Schaaf, I wish I could "epic" that comment :)

Perfect for the gradually-going-deaf ORFAS crowd.
HD-SuperFaceTweeter TBA soon.
Glad I just bought spare HD800 pads.

BBF forevar?

Wasn’t until the vibes that I realized what this is

Not available where I'm am. Is this it?
https://youtu.be/SDBPXE45zzk

@gixxerwimp that's it!

@netforce you guys carrying it? Wonder if it could drive the hifiman he-6.

@neogeosnk TSAV will without a doubt be carrying it!

I just left TSAV not too long ago and I am with headphones.com which we will not be!

Looks great and tempting. Is 94 SNR and 0.5% distortion competitive though? I wonder how it competes vs a Woo WA8

I don't have any direct knowledge but maybe @dBel84 might have someone in his DIY network who might be able to guide you.

My body is ready, @E_Schaaf

@E_Schaaf None of those are HM strengths or unique attributes.

only unique attributes to HFM I can think of would be 2khz dip, bad build quality, impossible to drive well?

You sir, are a badass

Hans Gruber is holding my favorite NOS DAC hostage... John McClane will save it!!!

I thought it would be more like this: https://gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/die-hard-christmas-gif-2018-2.gif

Haha that is awesome! SBAF’s world domination plan continues!!

But doez guy knowz SBAFs...?

He did some lurking, never made an account. He has a Schiit stack and some purple heart TH-X00!

Hope you get to try the Audeze EQ, I know you don't use Roon but it is built in.

@Ganzy initially, I was always using Audeze's EQ settings through SoundSource.

Unfortunately most of the music I find streaming isn't available on Bandcamp. Drives me nuts.

I put all new music in a single, long playlist and then, every few months, make hour-long playlists out of the best stuff I've found. Just doing this helps me keep track of new (to me) releases. And in the days of commuting, listening to the playlists on the go was a good way to figure out what I really liked and would want to listen to properly on my desktop setup.

Bandcamp is just a niche of what's available that I like. There is a whole world of music out there. At times even the little niche of Bandcamp can seem like too much. My Bandcamp wish list is 181 albums. Was 182 yesterday. Slow progress.

It’s pretty cool to see the government increase transparency. I hope the trend continues.

Nice! Is this frontend essentially an SPA hosted in S3?

@rott yes, it’s a React SPA on S3! Soon we’ll be working on reducing the bundle size!

you should try the beer style named after them, too. It's delicious in the summer!

@yotacowboy have done, will do again!

800 and 650 tick all 5 or, at least 4 of these aspects:
Reliability (R), Durability (D), Comfort (C), Timbre (T), Scaling (S). Now let's look at planars I've tried/owned:
Hfm HE1000 v1, v2 - C, T, S
Hfm Arya, Sundara - C, T
Audz LCD 4, 2C - T, S
MrSpkr Aeons, Ethers - R, D, C

I have never heard an LCD4, HE1000, or any other TOTL ortho outside of noisy show/dealer demo situations. When this class of ortho is properly fed, are they capable of the resolution/timbre realism/accuracy/fidelity that the TOTL dynamics? I think I always heard a "plasticky" tinge from mids on up, despite the bass being awesome.

I tried to ditch planars but couldn’t... so now have a great dynamic set up (starlett-HD800s, JAR650) and planar set up!(Mjo2 +Diana v2) Why choose? Variety is the way to go

Best leather pad?

Everything I've had from Focal, Audeze and ZMF have been great!

I've had decent luck with a few of the protein pads from aliexpress but in general it's not great. I've had more flaky headbands than pads. Protein leather often gives more treble than lambskin too. That being said, size, shape, perf arrangement, and internal foam are more important to SQ.

This was a good episode, but I'm bummed there's an obligatory section in every single podcast where John bitches about the tendencies or requests of his audience. I get his pet peeve and all, but dude could use that time with his guest in other ways.

Ah shit, I'm all turned around. This IS the one I was thinking of.

@Superexchanger you're absolutely right about that! He does it every time.

@fp627 thanks for the impressions. Do you ever use the Stellaris with planars?

No. I don't think it synergizes well with any of them other than Verum, which after what happened, I won't be buying anymore. Note that I'm not saying it's all bad or won't work, just that there was no synergy.

Good synergy - Verum
No/neutral synergy - MrS/DCA Ether and Aeon, newer HFM (soft-fi-man stuff), RAD-0
Bad synergy, probably due to not enough current - Audeze, older HFM

Haven't tried Meze Empyrean.

Note that Verum and RAD-0 were only in meet conditions. Newer HFM was briefly borrowed. Ether was EFO1.1 and the Aeon was a shorter listen.

In short, there are other amps out there for less $ (maybe way less), easier tubes or just SS, etc. if you want to use planars.

The curse of fairly neutral-ish or slightly bright headphones is that these differences will be more obvious.

I also had chronic ear infections when I was a kid. Not fun. Luckily my kids didn’t inherit that.

So much of how we perceive what we hear is dependent on mood. I also think power might have something to do with it. A lot of people underestimate how much quality of power going into the amp matters