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how I long for the days when college was affordable, because there was no government student loans. I'm not talking about you, per se, but more people should get into trades instead of getting borderline useless degrees.

Take care, mind your sleep and relations.

Sad to read this. Don't let the sleep loss distort the big picture.

I hit up the Steam sale too. Starting with classics like Portal and Half Life. Any recommendations for a newb?

Not sure how newb.. Have you played Donkey Kong?

Sorry, computer gaming newb, no PS4 or Xbox One experience. I own all the Nintendo systems tho.

Uncle Kevvy didn’t invite you for Christmas dinner!?

I haven't done this myself on Christmas but the others I talk to who also occasionally volunteer say this is time where that is really needed. Might be a good antidote to isolation!

Lone Wolfing for Christmas also. Will probably spend the day at a work space I've been renting and working on a project.

Please share some rips. I didn’t think of cassette tapes as being a good format for fancy audiophile listening.

That's the thing - it's not. There's just something about how the saturation and compression/pumping is reproduced on a hi-fi system when you turn it up, really satisfies an aural itch that uber-clean playback can't touch. It's very much a music-phile thing and not an audiophile thing. Homemade tape recordings on chrome actually can sound remarkably close to the source though. I'll do some comparisons.

Tape is awesome. No doubt. A good player like a Nak is about the best you can get out of the format. R2R is stil in the home standard for me, even over vinyl. Quarter track stereo at 7.5 ips is way closer in SQ to 1/4" at 15 ips than you would think with twice the real estate and twice the speed.

EARS canal resonance screws up impulse response. See this post and the few above it: https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/ears-fr-measurement-dump-zmf-focal-audeze-extras.8087/#post-273114

Bringing the mic flush with the opening helps a fair bit, but yeah the pinnae still influence results. probably best to just invest in a decent affordable mic and put a flat plate coupler together, as per purr1n's advice. I'm still tempted to convert the one side of my EARS rig into flat plate for CSD, IR, distortion, and test for channel balance and keep the one silicone pinna purely for FR.

He probably thought your showroom is shit compared to the Bose setup at the mall.

With the ZMFs, I'm not surprised. The ZMFs I've listened to don't wow in show conditions. With the Focals, maybe he's just used to what he has and doesn't want to change.

At least they know what they want...

I do have upstairs neighbors. Generally they're not concerned with noise level until we hit about 9PM, at which point I normally turn it down to ~80dB or less. Really dense walls and ceilings though (might even be concrete - can't hang anything from them), so doesn't penetrate too much. I do always have to resist the urge to crank it though...

Damn bro that is a killer setup.

Man I want to hear that.

Expecting for things to lighten up late this month and onward. Thanks for your patience!

use a sys to control sub volume. The monoprice amp is assuming you have some DRC that will adjust sub level or you'll do it in your receiver controls.

That's what I was thinking. Also wondering if SWA400 is capable of running two 4-ohm subs in parallel (which I suppose present a 2-ohm load) if at fairly low listening levels.

If you didn't want to deal with two volume controls, you could attach these to your Saga sub outputs?

https://www.amazon.com/Harrison-Labs-Line-Level-Attenuator/dp/B0006N41B0

Wondering how using a transport other than Eitr might change things...

Probably a noticeable improvement.

interested to see what you come up with - I´m using my HD580 with custom more open grills + mass loaded

TP, woven cotton from a t-shirt (never finalized a mod with this one before!), melamine, rug liner,and some secret-formula acoustic paper. Asymmetrical cuts. FR looks wonky on the graph but sounds like I wanted - smooth, expansive, and somehow both zippy and thicc. Like how I wanted all of my past Audezes to sound (though they never did).

Would be curious to get squiggles of it just as a reference point. IME some jaggedness in plain FR isn't necessarily audible since a Paradox I heard some time ago was just as "level" sounding, if not as "smooth", as an HD650.

I gave up putting around with HP-3 mesh when one of the screws on the outer ring immediately died (same happened with @Eudis Fernandes iirc). So much for being mod friendly.

The Mormons beat you to it by a couple of centuries, and the harams of the middle east by more than that.

difference is that nobody intends to marry or reproduce, and all of my partners also have other partners as well.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201807/what-is-the-difference-between-polyamory-and-polygamy

J-Dilla made music with production values many artists in Pop and Rap can only dream of. Only Kanye matched him on 808. Now I feel the urge to play Burial...

What always struck me about Dilla is how he made a simple kick, snare, and sample or two feel like such a personal and distinctive statement - he was one of the first to have a clear voice on the 404. Not everything felt locked to a grid - he embraced the inherent looseness of sampling existing content.

Never heard an open DD with deep bass this solid and articulate. Measurements coming soon! Might send to a few buddies after I find a 4-pin cable.

STOP THE PRESSSSSSSS!!!!!

People are always quick to flame the dealership model for driving prices up but you guys do a huge bulk of the work for uninformed customers. Better luck next time.

Ungrateful bitches.

Congrats! Very cool.

holy crap, that's amazing. Congrats dude!

Thanks everyone! I'll be helping with assembly as well as R&D / tuning. Definitely a startup vibe, small team, lots of room to experiment. Should be fun!