Hrodulf

never thought I would see metal at the opening ceremonies

I agree and mostly listen to metal. There's just something about the Auteur that best presents the qualities of metal and avoids emphasizing the occasional ice pick treble of some recordings.

I reviewed the SMSL SU9 Ultra and now have the FiiO Q15 here. Both exhibit the same basic sound. I wonder what a more adventurous implementation could achieve.

The portable thing is interesting. Do write a SBAF suited bit here, when you can.

I will try. So far the Q15 seems very nice but it's hardly pocketable. The PEQ feature is very handy for general retuning.

@shotgunshane nope, no EW200, but I know it was hella bright. Since EA1000 Simgot has mostly got the tonality right.

I’m always tempted to try some of the better lower cost IEMs but I rarely pull the trigger, I don’t want a pile of lower cost IEMs that I rarely touch. The only cheap ones I have are the Truthear Hola.

Only a few hours in, but I'm impressed, especially with the spaciousness and resolution. Just a little bit hot in the upper mids for me, but it's amazing what can be had for under a benjamin these days. Last 'budget' dynamic iem I bought was FD-X1 around $200, and these are a class above...

Can anyone take a stab at translating this? product-centric–pushing tech initiatives

@bixby sounds like merch and stuff

Tidal youtuber IEM collabs I sure hope

Samsung has a habit of keeping bespoke software platforms around, unlike Oracle. As an example, Samsung has owned BMC Marimba for a while and slapped the Harman name in front, but hasn’t changed anything else with it.

Not holding my breath that Harman will fix Poon's bag of shite system for classical music. Why the bloody thing feels the need to list the wanking translator of the liner notes while not being able to ID composers is beyond me.

@Tchoupitoulas you are too good for Roon. To be fair, no streaming service is even close on catering to classical music. This means Apple Music too.

I imagine Bach facepalming in his grave...

Watched Oppenheimer at a pretty high volume.

How does it sound now?

@JK47 pretty much unchanged. At first I thought it was the amp, but it would make the slight crinkling sounds unplugged too. Beats me...

Did... did someone just strap regular speaker drivers onto a headband?

Damn that is low sensitivity!

@Armaegis orthodynamics... Moondrop Para. And they're good! https://imgur.com/a/TkFKjVA

The Geshelli one I heard was pretty remarkable.

@caute Midgard, like Earth. Asgard-Midgard-Hel like Heaven-Earth-Hell.

Ah @joch to the rescue! here i was thinking they was caulin themselfs mid lmao, ty

I think most people will assume that it’s “Asgard but mid” which I doubt Jason and Mike thought about at all, haha. I think most people forgot that they saw the first Thor movie where they call Earth Midgard 1,000 times.

Here's an example - https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/e9fa960a-8284-45cf-9ba3-cd516041a00a

I've never been able to hear the UMG watermark. What should I be listening for?

https://www.mattmontag.com/music/universals-audible-watermark

Lame car analogy to follow: You have a track car without limitations. Would you rather have a 1.6 L R4 engine boosted to squeeze it's tits off at 400 kW, or would you rather have a 5 L flatplane V8 outputting the same number?

@Priidik I think Purifi did a good job explaining that at high excursion you get less effective piston area due to surround flex.

That is one thing. Then there are the spring (compliance) factors of surround and spider. Compliance is only neglected to be linear - it really is not. Then there are excursion dependant mechanical losses. We haven't even touched on motor stuff. A dynamic driver really is as complex as a woman. Purifi has nailed all of these drawbacks to a great extent; and it shows both listening and measuring.