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I've always noticed it for studio monitors, but it's like 50/50 for home audio. I want to say every Martin Logan I've seen has been priced singularly. Magnepans are usually priced per pair. Kef is all over the place.

@rlow I was thinking about that for a surround setup. But I think I'd probably want two pairs (front and rear matching pairs) and then a center, which seems to be different/smaller. Seems more of a niche case. At least headphones aren't sold per driver (yet).

I work at a broadcast studio. While pairs are more common there are instances where single speakers are used. Additionally, when just one speaker dies you don't want to buy a pair to replace it

Consider waiting for Valhalla 3.

Nah, I like the idea of having an all choke-input Schitt stack for my headphones. I can call it the Choke Slam stack.

My future homeownership will definitely involve power isolation to the power outlets I plan to use for audio! I would love to see Audiophile-approved apartment complexes!

All earths lead back to the same god.

I have several Tripp-Lite isolation transformers. Compact yet stupid heavy boxes.

By “stuff that sits in the midrange” do you mean your significant other nagging you or otherwise pulling you away from your system? If so, I think we can all relate.

I was thinking female vocals, so this is actually really spot on!

Mids are like ass. Necessary and usually sufficient. If that's good the rest we can negotiate on.

Spicyyyyyyyy ;-)

Look guys, if we can have open air PC cases, you can have open air Yggys ready and waiting for your next card swap.

The plus chassis makes this pretty easy. I know Jason said no to all four in one case, but I could see them doing something BF2-style with the “autonomy” architecture and the slide-in cards.

Why am I thinking about 4 GPU-hub-like boxes, connecting to a switch, and each box has its own external PSU, for keep the board warm? No...

Not quite 24 hours since you posted - how's it coming along? I love my Monarchy amps, and am always tempted any time one of his DACs come up for sale to buy one. Curious how they hold up against modern offerings.

I would say warm and smooth, but congested. Sounds much better than last night. Beats Yggdrasil in the bass quantity (I had to turn my Audioengine 6's down), but loses pretty bad in bass texture and overall midrange/imaging. It doesn't show the variances that Yggdrasil does from recording to recording. I'm probably going to put it in my retro game setup, but very, very enjoyable. I plan on keeping it.

Also worth noting...This thing has been in storage the past 5 years and I do think I see a smudge of rust in the balanced connections (hoping the RCA jacks don't have the same issue). This is the first time feeding it a good source since I had it, so trying to give it as fair a shake as possible.

As to why it costs more than a PS5, it's because it's a niche device from basically a one man company that is basically the ONLY option for 4k scaling on lower sources (and that is an increasing use-case, given the way the TV market is) and will likely be the only option for a few years. The expectation was that it would be over $1000 a few months ago!

I remember looking for the Framemeister! I didn't want to deal with the OSSC compatibility issues. I basically solved the problem by buying a new CRT every time I moved, eliminating the need for a scaler.

I’m old enough when I had the XRGB2 device. Those were the days. Nowadays MiSTer is super convenient.

*not LITERALLY arrived, but it's available for purchase.

The temperature's rising?

(Or am a century out of date? It happens. Often)

The 80's Shoprite ad is my second favorite.

Okay, I would die for a lossless version of those ads. Also, 5 cans for 99 cents is impressive.

I'm generally happy with mid-bass on headphones in my setup for stuff like pop or even metal or EDM, but electronic stuff that isn't really melodic grates my nerves. It needs room to breathe.

hp that are good for metal or EDM are usu good for any other genres, ime—if they can do those challenging ones, they are typically also good allrounders

Found this little gem the other day while browsing YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twBcMibg1Vs&list=LL&index=2

You can also play around with stuff like Foobar's "Ram Disk" plugin, which will sort of on the fly load tracks to RAM for playback and flush them when new tracks are sent to it. Fairly similar principles. There's other playback software that plays with loading tracks to RAM too, though, if you poke around.

PlayPcmWin is another RAM player (free).

Unapologetically copy/pasting from a few minutes ago. It seems to be the day for this...

You can play music off a CD, which must be slowest storage device on any computer that doesn't still have an antique floppy drive.

Importance of storage device? Hmmm... maybe punched cards wouldn't work too well.