Hrodulf

Ahh, SIno's Nonsense ADvertising I see.

Certain Chinese with a "science" marketing site ... let us not forget the genuine genius of Jeff Zhu, Holo Audio, also Chinese.

If you're serious, look at BOCA bearing for full ceramics. If you don't want to overpay, get the bare balls and pull the seals/cages and go hybrid. for hybrid, it's worth it to go with Si3N4. over time they'll eat the races but SS races are a good bit cheaper to replace. basically just buy a new SS cartridge and swap the silicon balls over again.

Good to know @yotacowboy ! I went with Zealous ceramic hybrids, which are almost 2x the price of SS, but should last longer. If they do last 2x the mileage of SS, then I'll be happy. However I am kinda concerned how they deal with rough roads. Time'll tell.

Honestly, yes. But with the the caveat that I’m enjoying it as an alternate way to enjoy music on a device that is inherently compromised (airpods do AAC only).

Holy crap.
https://youtu.be/yt8NLFsBWxw

The stage company guys told me that they finally reached the practical limit of LF SPL. When that thing would swing at full force, people could hear Doppler distortion of the rest of the spectrum, as it rode the moving air from the M-Force.

Holy shit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgdoxEK96Oo

Years back I had a Pioneer receiver of similar vintage - not the model in the vid, but it looked close - on loan for a while. Not quite what I'd have called hifi.

I like those JBL L4311's. But not turning up the high and lows. Yeah, let's make them more V shaped. mp3 was designed to hide the details. Glad to see we are getting away from that. If we can stream 4K, we can do full wav.

If this gets more people (younger people presumably) into real hifi I’m all for it. Go Billie and Finneas (and Spotify).

Damn. Seeing him in interviews going back a few years I guess it was obvious he was having a good run but it's still a surprise. Like Betty White would be almost.

Double Damn! Another great, gone.

This is certainly true to extent. Most of our perceptions are illusions. However it is easy to draw for laypeople the conclusion that unaltered perception is impossible, it is not.

I disagree, too many fireworks going on. So yeah, this day starts loud. Did you know fireworks were forbidden in NL? Guess what, people are people.

2 hours in the initial impressions... I guess some might like it. Some mods and it might be good for classical.

You mean cannons instead of percussion for Beethoven's 9th Symphony? Adds more impact, that is certain...

@JK47 9/10 audio show people disagree!

@Hrodulf, what speakers would you classify as having this characteristic, and ones that don't?

Also: a good room sounds like different rooms with each different recording.

"Fabrics with nap, such as velvet ... have a higher quotient for catching fire because they ignite much more quickly ...."

^^^This post was made by SabreGang. #rattlerattle

"The report pointed out that it took three days for the fire to be completely extinguished,..." Three days!? Damn!

@gixxerwimp they've actually improved the bass/mid integration by lowering the crossover. But stuff like soundstaging was unusually bad. I'm starting to suspect that the UA interface might've been to blame as well. Or maybe I'm getting spoiled.

Were they dsp-d for room as well?
Ime the old Class-AB egg monitors imaged better than the newer Class-D with the dsp crapp, and imaging went actually worse with room corrections active. Depth of soundfield took a dump.

@Priidik , yeah GLM was there as well. On/Off, I preferred it enabled because it negated SBIR bass boost. But damn, I kinda expected them to take more than one measurement. Correcting from a single point is a lottery. With GLM ON the soundstage was better as lows were pushed back and mids had more room to work, but damn... the sound was very unnatural. I had very high hopes for the coax driver.

Enable auto-translated CC's if you don't speak Putin.

If its effecting your (the guy running the site) mental health this badly, you've gotta pull the plug, in my opinion.

Most reviewers, in most fields, are proud of being independent. This guy doesn't want to be a reviewer he wants to be a paid PR man.

@Thad E Ginathom I think he's just a troubled man with delusions. I'd never go into content marketing and expect it to pay for itself. Unless I have some ultra valuable way to give unique insight.

It's because head tracking is shit for gaming unless it's VR. Then it's a necessity. I'd wager this is a product slated below Mobius and meant to be less of a niche product meant for the everyday gamer? *Checks Audeze site* Yup, seems that way.

Depends on the game. Most of the issue is that good head tracking is expensive and awkward, so only simulators bother with it.

Flight/space/driving sims are awful without it. So is ARMA tbh.

But there's no standard, open protocol for it, and all the good ones are like 150+bucks, so very few games support it.

Also the tracking on the mobius isn't good.

WTF, this new headphone doesn't even have virtual surround? I figure take out the tracking, no biggie...But the surround too? LOL

Mine is well used. The weather was pretty hot today, so maybe that accelerated the process.

I had a similar experience with Yggdrasil GS. I think the used A1 cards have something to do with it.

The Bifrost 2 is the same.

I’m pissed off too man. There’s Dayton drivers in many of the newer speakers. Many are using worse drivers than KRK. KRK just has the awful Chinese plate amps based around warmpuke TI/BB chip amps. Gibson owned and fragile as hell.

I bet there is more than 'puny phase linearity'. Compression driver dynamics and ridiculous-tech motors in the one you preferred. Even the amps would probably tip the scales to the favored.

@Priidik the speaker I compared them to is still a prototype, so I bought the one which was available. The prototype had 4x 5W430 midwoofers and a much cheaper compression driver, so it wasn't THAT over the top. The amp still was Hypex FA253. The one I bought is leagues better...

Ooooooh.. is there a thread yet?

The thing about hobbies is there's a relative dearth of research into it outside of, say, gaming as an addiction that's relevant in modern context. What irked me about the article was that it's revealing of how very pop culture mental health issues have become.

Also, irritation not directed at you earlier, @crenca. Mostly grumpy cuz article and scalp sore :))

@Lyander I get your response on trivializing serious psychological issues, however I don't think that the author was doing so. He was merely using the simplified description of the illness to point out several phenomena in the hi-end community he finds morbid. At least my takeaway isn't that everyone there has OCPD.

Yup they even said as much towards the end. I'm just grumpy because I see people diagnosing THEMSELVES with similar things just for their own benefit way too often, and others applying derogatory labels to groups of people (as here) as a way to demean them.

I'm just a sourpuss :P