ilikebananafudge_

Same driver / tech, with magical tension / tuning. I am old and jaded.

@MisterRogers I think it would be good if it sounds similar because it's $900 cheaper!

Fair point mate

The JAR6XX V1/ A version is my second favorite of the JAR. The mods seem to pair slightly better with the 6XX than the 650, but still both great. https://i.imgur.com/4Lcf3YG.jpg

From my stash of unposted notes:
JAR6xx V1 w/ covers - This is my favorite JAR6xxxx. This version shifts the tonality of the HD6xx in the direction of the HD600, but not nearly as forward in many areas. I still prefer the JAR600 v1 for a lot of music I listen to, but I prefer this version for hip-hop and electronic forward pop. With the covers on, the headphone was tighter, brighter, and more resolving…

Isn't it tough sharing new toy love? :D

If audiophilia was a genre, it’d be shoe gaze

if it were a drug, it would be Oxycontin

if were a mental disorder, it would def be OCD (the real, bad kind)

It’s keeping me in the hobby

I'm simply middle-aged with no kids.

Schiit could do several models: The white Urd of Sheep, the zero gain Un Urd, and as a last self-referential pun, the gamers’ version: Urd Play.

This is getting worse. A lot worse. An Urder Of Magnitude worse!

Hifi kit, like the old-fashioned view of children, should be seen and not urd.

I also like my HE6SE, and it was damned cheap and is made well enough IMO. I don't really have a huge beef with the build quality of other current HFM either. They could be more lux, yes, but almost all of them are light and comfortable and that counts for a lot, too. I know HFM aren't much repped on SBAF, and the constant new models is corny, but I wouldn't discount them.

Any of you chaps heard the sundara closed backs ? Recently were $229 on sale...

Their house sound (for the current affordable models) is just not my cup of tea. Too much focus on treble. I did like the Arya Stealth for its technical prowess, but personally, I’d have to EQ it.

I see you rolled your way into the semis.

"Eight year olds, Dude."

OG Utopia or Newtopia?

@RestoredSparda OG with ZMF Lambskin Focal+ Subs. I've never heard the Newtopia

I see what you did there...

Some complimentary reading: https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/langew/extreme.htm

Talking Timbuktu is a great album by Ali Farke and Ry Cooder!

No bunnies or beatles, just hedgehogs, foxes, and echidnas

Ewwwww Sanic

echidnas? That Mexican food thing?

This was one of the things I suggested as theme music for SBAF. Along with yakety sax, of course.

I hadn't.

And I wish I hadn't looked. It was Top Of The Pops in hell.

@Inoculator, did that work for you?

@ilikebananafudge_ I have not gotten around to trying it out, hoping it does the trick though! I had trouble with the porta forwarding configuration when they first rolled out Roon ARC, but then a quick switch fixed it, not sure what changed.

Okay, hopefully it works!

Listening to Nightmares Made Flesh by Bloodbath

https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/fs-grado-sr225-new-old-stock.12922/

And you should…! then again, I’ve become zmf curious, lots happened since last time I checked in.

@Wilson thanks! But I'm looking for an RS1 or RS2 at the moment. I need some of that woodiness.

Yeah. I want to be clear - they sound good, but I think it's a personal preference.

@Vansen that’s how I felt—just abt the v1 instead. I think rather than a mids suck out, the treble and bass were lifted to balance out the inherent mid centric sound of the driver (?). Sounded neutral & natural to me, perhaps someone else’s light v-shape? In the end, preferences tho, like you and Brencho said! But a 600 that’s extended at both ends, hits hard & w no veil? Sign me up

I honestly think those are my same top 3, @ilikebananafudge_

This means you're doing it right

Now playing George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass", more music is needed.

How has no one mentioned Neutral Milk Hotel yet??

What a beautiful face
I have found in this place
That is circling all 'round the sun
And when we meet on a cloud
I'll be laughing out loud
I'll be laughing with everyone I see
Can't believe
How strange it is to be anything at all