GoodEnoughGear

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.

Lucky man! Big Thumbs Up :D

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I fear that months of being shut in the house is making me forget that excellent practice. Already been in trouble on another forum this week for standing against some prejudice. Was my post a "personal attack?" Oh, sure, it was :)

my problem is after. i cringe everytime i see my posts, so i skip over them. wish i could delete them all haha

LOL it's a circus, dude. The EFF (guys in red overalls) are always a spectacle :).

I know....DA appears to don't have balls and ANC is acting similar to NP before 94 to this American. Such a joke....

Whiskeys made for drinken and nuttin else, so lockdown gave you the boot in the ass you needed ;)

what's a "formal whiskey"? Does it wear a cummerbund and tails?

A kilt instead of a tracksuit?

Now the avatar makes sense. I'm also a barefoot runner. I've done a half marathon barefoot and would like to do a full marathon one day.

Since you are in South Africa I assume you are a fan of Zola Budd?

Hey CSpirou, nice to see another barefooter on here! Yeah, Zola's an icon, though I came to barefoot running my own roundbout way. I'm also half marathon material, but I just don't have the time to train properly for a full. Also I find foot impact rises significantly with speed for me - I can happily do 21.1 at 6:30 pace, but cracking the two-hour mark is about what I can manage before my feet become the limiter.