E_Schaaf

Your curiosity and work ethic are a delight to behold!

With the exception of 2x on boring work training videos, I don't understand "speed reading" content that's intended to please us emotionally. Why would I fast forward through enjoyment?

Sometimes the speed adds enjoyment for me, or rather, reduces the opportunity for distraction, which in turn makes it a more immersive experience. I am definitely ADHD and was medicated for several years (I was a good kid and took my meds as directed), but had to stop for cardiac reasons.

That makes sense. I'm not ADHD and rather prefer obsessive thinking and high anxiety.

Yeah Buddy! You'll be seeing my money sometime this year. Still love my Mini-S very much. Keeping me tied over for a while

Using the O2 or some other unnamed super secret beauty?

O2. Familiar driver, but new and exceptional flavor ;) some breakthroughs with various nylon meshes applied to the back of the driver and fancy kinetic coupling definitely helped.

@Azimuth bout halfway between Knoxville and Chattanooga. My parents place.

Between the Cumberland Plateau and the Smokey Mountains is a nice place to be.

This is why almost every headphone I've ever considered is closed. Spending some time with one on and no music playing helps appreciate just how valuable good isolation is, even if it can't block everything.

Shoutout to all of the ETA supporters for funding this research. Hope y'all can reap the benefits with our next launch... If there's one thing I've decided its that none of the variants are unequivocally best. It's truly like flavors of ice cream.

I've noticed a trend in the market towards constantly using lighter, thinner, more efficient materials across driver technologies. It makes sense on an intuitive level, but it's been refreshing to explore the opposite approach too. Lots of novel textures and sounds I never thought I'd hear from a headphone.

Aside from the obvious duller transients and lesser macro dynamics I have a speculation that stiffer surrounds yeld more plankton and texture and vice-versa (soft surr> less plankton/texture but more clarity).

Would love to build headphones in the future just to play with those interesting variables.

Yes of course - it is a wiring thing. From what @E_Schaaf is describing, this could be what's going on, or it could be simile as you put it.

I do have a sense of the sound of a material through my fingertips even when sound isn't playing through a transducer. The transducers in this context are my nerve endings, and they're inputs instead of outputs. Either the wires are crossed or I've just trained myself deeply enough that I can't separate my expectation bias from my immediate perception. :Shrug:

I think it shows experience and maybe some special cross wiring - but it seems like what good artists/engineers/specialists in a specific field experience with intuition. You just know what could work to solve a problem/where it comes from/what would be good design just by looking at it, way before running a simulation or measurement. Just hours and days and years of time spent and its a good thing!

https://www.etaheadphones.com/headphones

Most orders placed while I'm away from home should still ship before Christmas.

That being said, a new ETA over ear may also be coming soon ;) This one's been quite a journey...

I'm sure many people find these comfortable. Compared with speakers, I find /all/ headphones uncomfortable ;) but I'd rather have the whole ear type.

(also, although it's not great for music, over-the-ear feeds my hearing aids too. This is good for you-tube videos with speech.)

Voice coils generate magnetic fields which is directly due to the current. This means you want as low a resistance possible. So coils are made from aluminum, copper and even silver. Nickel is used for magnetic lamentations but don’t conduct any current. I don’t think you would really see it used for transducers unless it’s a field coil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zylon

LCP! I've tested one or two of those... Perhaps not genuine zylon though. PEEK and PEI seem like great polymers for use in diaphragms too

Please share impressions!

I got purr1n's (which also incorporates the cal for his mic) and a generic one. Will put them somewhere and let you know.

I'm using EMM-6 and don't use the Dayton provided compensation FWIW. Thanks for your help!

@atomicbob Searched but can't find a clear definition of "Manhattan cut". Is it just thicker but smaller? Do share your technique!
https://www.mishimareserve.com/our-products/manhattan

@gixxerwimp - you found my source for the cut and it looks like the picture. Approximately 5 ~ 6 cm thick. I'll write up my method in a bit.

I like to base my preference for paintings based solely on the average thickness of the paint across the media in microns. More paint = better colors. Better colors = better painter.

This will happen when I decided to do a subscription model for my body hair.

Sounds like a BMW + Topping collaboration.

Something something cars with air bags that don't deploy until you pay for the feature. This is like the whole Klim thing but even more inane.

https://www.webbikeworld.com/klim-climbs-mountain-of-messages-to-clear-air-surrounding-airbag-subscription/

They all looked between 25-35. Two women and one dude.

Randomly came across this vid
https://youtube.com/shorts/I-ySkJGDGI8?feature=share

@Cspirou Coincidentally the only PortaPro spotting in-the-wild that I’ve experienced was on a young Russian guy when I lived in China.

I'm fairly sure... You know how after a heavy lift or standing up too fast your high frequency hearing can become temporarily muted? It's like that, but more subtle, and longer lasting. More testing required, maybe I'll take blood pressure a few times over the course of the day and see if there's a correlation...?

I suppose it could also be opening of the sinuses too. If I'm stuffy everything sounds brighter and leaner than otherwise, perhaps the opposite is also the case

I'm the last person to comment: my HF hearing is permanently muted and I don't exercise. But I was once addicted to pottering-about rowing. And there was enough exercise to create arm muscle. And the mood change was more than just the river environment.

Sadly, for the purpose of this research, I never took music with me.

B for opens, A for closed.

A, plus stage depth & localization. (can that even be done?)

unabashedly team A.
Then again...what music are we listening to??

Not seeing myself letting go of the Lyr3 either, a great all rounder imo and i suspect the Lyr+ is the same.

Different not necessarily better.

For some of the more esoteric transducers I've been playing with, I simply want something that doesn't clip when Valhalla 2 can't hack it

TIL not everyone can do this!

Now I need to know: can you voluntarily pop your ears "in either direction"? What I mean is: can you pop your ears so that everything gets louder and also pop your ears so that everything gets quieter?

I always thought everyone can do this, too. I theoretically can do it for as long as I want, though just now was the first time I did it for about 30s. It actually becomes exhausting after a while. :)

Jotunheim, balanced, high gain? If that's not enough, the raggy has more power and even higher gain.

I suppose it's not *that* far off from a K1000 in terms of the load...

Dartzeel NHB 108