GoodEnoughGear

Everyone knew Zuma was an asshole, Mandela is rolling in his grave. Also, I'm not too surprised that I met a few Afrikaners who perma left SA and they are shocked that they didn't leave sooner...eh.

Seems things are a bit calmer today. Thanks for the thoughts, folks.

SA government did not foresee this? No word from the Zuma camp about the looting. What happened of he dies in jail?

Congrats! It'll likely be the fall before it's my turn (f#ck you, Fosun Pharma https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/business/taiwan-china-biontech-vaccine.html)

Oh man, sounds like a mess.

And it wasn't any kind of competition mind you. Those young fuckers just bound around like it's nothing :).

I played tennis for the first time in 6 years. I was better than most people in my group but I feel like shit today

Tried any planars with it yet?

Yep, BW2's channel conked out completely eventually. It has been resurrected by a local enthusiast but at quite some expense but gone from my hands. I haven't tried planars yet.

This was really a bit of an impulse buy, but at $2.5k in South Africa that is a smoking deal.

MHA100 in the house doing Headphone and preamp duty. The rotary and momentary button combo for settings is WTF annoying. The sound via HD600 is a good jump over DAC2541.

Their songs remind me of the old Blues songs. Raw and straight to the core.

The computer geek in me: I need a see through case to show off the guts

The audiophile in me: I need an all metal case because of RF noise

It lives!

@Cspirou yes he has a glass side panel. Besides aesthetics it also makes the computer allot harder to work on when you have cables strewn everywhere.

I have two bins of cables in my garage just for this reason. I never throw out a cable haha

Like Arthur pulling the sword from the stone

Wounded Knee - Primus
PUPPET - Tyler the Creator
My Girls - Animal Collective
Slow Spines - Clark

Laurent Garnier: "The Man With The Red Face", get the live version. Otherwise Bach...

My Bloody Valentine "Loveless" is one I use for a quick check of layering ability. That album makes it easy to hear if the amp/dac/headphone is capable of layering. It will or it won't make that mix layered and separated. Not a good example to use to suss out the degree of layering. But will suss out if it does or does not.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Ryzen-9-5950X-vs-Intel-i9-10900K/3862vs3730

Wow that's actually crazy. $200 more, 6 more votes, 20 less watts, almost double performance.
I remember when the and fx were just like half the price, double the cores, double the power consumption, half the performance.

Human nature, want what we can't have.

Good "problem" to have. Better to invest for retirement anyway. I hear ORFAS dues are expensive.

Some of his reviews contain a max of 1 or 2 bits of useful info hidden like an Easter egg in the 20min long video. Otherwise, his reviews are just as useless as most commercial reviews out there.

When a gear is overly bright or warm, he wouldn’t call it out as flaws and would rather use euphemisms like “neutral” or “natural”. Sometimes it helps and sometimes it can be misleading.

My condolences as well. A well written sentiment.

My condolences, wishing peace to you and your family.

Thanks for all the wishes, everyone, we appreciate it. Take care of your loved ones!

I think the auralic stuff is supposed to be good, that's what yg acoustics is using in their 50k speaker with steamer built in

I seem to remember Audio-gd DAC-19 having a steamer built in too...

The DCS Bartok is the best AIO I've heard but holy shit the price. It really blew me away though.

There is also the Rupert Neve Fidelice DAC that Torq is a big fan of.
https://www.headphones.com/blogs/news/fidelice-by-rupert-neve-precision-dac-dac-amp-review

This the room: https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=B76354E45D4A8EBF&id=B76354E45D4A8EBF%21171490&parId=B76354E45D4A8EBF%21171488&o=OneUp

Robbi, have you tried putting a curtain for the window on the front wall? I find that covering the hard surfaces with soft materials, help to solidify the phantom center image.

There is actually a blind there that's out of sight - the window is very tall, reaching all the way to the 3.3m ceiling! There's also the awesome bass trap of opening the window. I do plan on a curtain and some acoustic treatment, but just wanted to dial in as much as possible in the un-treated state first.