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OK these sound way better than they should. That bass is solid. Big thumbs up. <edit>And Sonarworks has a profile! Which works great. What a little gem.</edit>

Wonder if there have been running changes of any significance since I bought my pair ~1993 ?!!

I loved my Portas until my roommate in university ripped the cables out of one side :’(

Good idea! The treatment discussion currently lives in some general two channel thread or just spread around the forum? Go for it man.

I’m all for it. I see a lot of people who have their equipment rack or TV between their speakers. I’ve found that removing the rack and or TV improves imaging. I love to see what people are doing.

Right now the structure is "Two Channel Gear Discussion" with subcategories "Preamps", "Power Amps" and "Speakers". Acoustics fit into none of these, so I propose adding "Acoustics". Subcategories could be "Home Theatre", "Listening Rooms" "outdoors" "Professional" ...you get the picture. Need an admin to create this. Maybe it deserves a proper thread for input?

not good, the space just isn't going to be viable without spending over 70k aud to waterproof and modify hallways and won't be perfect anyway. I've taken the biggest room in the house 3.4x4 metres and slowly turning it into a bit of what I dreamt of. Saving for the next house. I'll make sure I have room for a 10x6 metre room ;)

Crap. Tough break :(. I;m looking into all this because we're getting ready to buy something bigger so I need to know what I'm looking for - Mrs GEG has all her ducks in a row (of course) ;).

5 x 6 metre room would be ideal, or acreage so you can just plonk that wherever you want. Depends what you are trying to do and how close the neighbours are!

P.s. I basically bought this house so she could get a dog. They always get what they want! Haha

The M500's retain their crown, but the PortaPros did much better than their price would suggest. They do need EQ to bring out the best in them though. They are a bit too dark, bassy and a bit woolly sounding on their own. Sonarworks works well, carving out about 4dB around 120hz with wide Q and then lifting to +3dB starting at 500hz with some specific peaks and troughs but generally ramping up to +12dB at 20khz.

I'd need more careful listening to evaluate other aspects but I'm not sure it matters - they beat the crap out of my work Jabras which was the goal. Work listening isn't critical in my context at all, so I'm quite pleased with PortaPros + GO2A as a summer and travel work setup.

I agree - it's easy to see when it's obvious noise, those dislikes need no explanation.

Noise, piss poor quality posts, ass hattery, etc, all are defined differently by our members.

JK47 has spoken. Sometimes justice is random. Sometime justice has a reason. The dislike is the bitterness in a beautiful espresso. Accept it and you accept what makes coffee coffee.

Depending on what you are looking for there is a ton of beautiful stuff posted by @earnmyturns and @Changeling
Also another great source is the jazztrail.net blog that earnmyturns menioned.

@Gaspasser Thanks! The thread is becoming a better one than the trusted Jazz Beat thread over at Steve Hoffmans forum in my opinion. Hope to see more contributors moving forward.

Well of course now it's back.

Yep, the interface is fugly like an Amiga-era "scene" cruncher, but it does a really good job, especially for people trying to sidestep Android's own upsampling while using a phone's internal DAC.

(Though the external DAC support has historically been a little unreliable and temperamental on occasion.)

See y'all tomorrow. I'll be holing up with some anime, or sleeping until this all blows over.

Speaking of moons, there's a total lunar eclipse next week, check if it'll be visible from you location.

I realized this is a complete tangent, but more rewarding than talking about nutters.

Oooh, HK lunar events often coincide with ours, so maybe!

"Decent" and "combo jack" is a tough set of requirements- they tend to be found on lowest common denominator kit.

Yeah I mean decent within the realm of that sort of crap. I have a shitty logitech that sounds better than the Jabra they issued me. The headphones are actually OK, but the usb DAC part (has 3.5mm combo) is utter shit.

Suppose I can use a splitter too. So dedicated mic in is OK. Gamer unit?

Plantronics Savi line up or Plantronics Legend.

He might have deleted it himself. He does that you know. Creates new accounts after being banned. Posts. Deletes.

Long as we're not censoring. Thanks.

If you're going to use EQ then I'd say go for it! It sounds pretty nice w/ EQ to me (and pretty bad without). Add some bass, reduce the peak at 7~8k, and you should be good to go. Its comfort isn't the best though being on-ear, hurts my ear after an hour - another thing to consider.

Meh. Money better saved I think at the end of the day. Thanks for the feedback.

Smart choice. I consider the Sine as part of the Apple ecosystem. And if you're not willing to go down that rabbit hole a bit (not judging), then its more wise to look elsewhere. There's some weird voodoo, witchcraft, juu juu going on with that Cypher, that's more then just equalization...

The point of totl gear should be that you have bought your way out. Nervosa should be the game in mid-fi.

Cap Nervosa (for me at least) was Sunday. Spent part of the afternoon today talking with @Melvillian about changing 7$ resistors on a $3K+ Amp.

If you know where you're coming from, where you want to go, and how you intend to get there, then it's not nervosa, it's just tweaking.

Well tbh, it seems to be the case for every massdrop/schiit product. I don't really believe in something being too good for the price.

@Cellist88 less complaining, more contributing. Feel free to try these products and report back with your experience in a constructive and informative manner.

@k4star ? I agree with most of your opinions. I did try schiit stuff and never liked anything outside the Yggdrasil A2. ECP T3 was not my cup of tea, Massdrop Plus was not good(which i posted), Focal Clears impressions mirror @bazelio's impressions on the loaner. I don't have headphones at the moment. Just pointing out a pattern which follows the graph you posted before your ban.