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Freshly ground beans from your local roaster make a phenomenal difference to the quality of your brew. A decent grinder is probably the most important thing beside water just off the boil.

Been in PO hobby for a few years already. To think pour over is a cheap hobby heck it's just as expensive as espresso in the long run when the FOMO on those rare 90+ SCA coffee beans gets excessive haha. As for me I prefer using my Lagom P64 SSP MP electric grinder as daily

ZP6! Classic for clarity. :) Let us know how you like it...

Ahaha a lot of us use it for ZMF. Yeah, who would’ve thunk that Focals work nicely, too?

It’s crazy when you move from the 3F/N to another amp, and it just sounds wrong.

I'm not a particular fan of the Utopia - it's great but just not quite for me, inc. from my Stratus - but I always fondly recall hearing it anew from my buddy's 3F. One of those beautiful, clear, rich, sparkly sounds that stays with you.

Getting back into work after a weekend is tough :-)

You guys get vacation?

Not all jetlag is fun, but all fun is jetlag.

Wait... I may be getting something confused with tables here.

Hydrate.

Well the manufacturer does advise who should NOT eat them..

I love spicy food but these challenge level spices are just mad. Yeah no the kids did ignore the warning but depending on where the one that brought it to school got it... eh negligence.

"The 13 girls and one boy who were taken to hospital were conscious and reportedly had minor symptoms." -- This sounds like the makings of a new spicy harem anime...

I wish it could slap my nuts more, but I am not complaining for $25.

Wondering if getting an older model at less than MSRP, or just save and get a newer GS.

@purr1n

I think we all have our own answers to begin with. The ethos of this place is not chase perceived value but to realize true value. Moving on.

Yea, pretty incredible.

I'm also jealous of his AV setup and reading room.

Damn... Grado is ballsy with their pricing. They will sell of course. I'm replying to this, so obviously I'm also thinking about them. Just give me a $500 HP1000. You can do it Grado.

I bought the gold 325x LE. Why not..

Grado pricing is not bad relative to what others are asking. Except for the SR series I will also say they’re not value buys.

All the hooplah over cable materials and geometries blah blah when the weakest link is the connectors anyways. Skip all the screws connector whatevers and do bare wire to flat binding post (or weld on a flat spade if you must).

Beldon 9497 is pretty decent

To each their own, but I just bought WBC with banana plugs and moved on. But if you’re wanting to squeeze every ounce out of it, then bare wire is the gig.

I’m roughly a 1:1 ratio but I really do need to sell some stuff

Yes, but I don’t expect that I’ll be able to narrow it down much. My various transducers are all different from each other and have different amping requirements. At least, I’ve ruled out e-stats.

No, after going through my forgotten tech drawer I found multiple IEMs I no longer use, which means I do technically have many more transducers than amps.

sad, I love my OG

@rhythmdevils It found its home with the right fellow.

I appreciate AKM DS sound (though some implementations are too bloomy, etc.) and at time prefer it over Yggdrasil. Wish I knew of a good (neutral) AKM based desktop DAC that was price competitive (no more than $2k range)...basically a Schiit version ;)

All my favorite DS DACs were pre-Velvet Mush AKM and pre-Ginsu Sharp ESS. Still have Wolfsons and AKM 4399s in the racks.

Now that AKM is coming back from their fire and companies are taming ESS, I hope DS continues its “comeback”. Our hobby needs healthy competition with good products.

DS never left. It has been used in mastering forever and still is.

Some data suggest 43% of all Americans will have caught COVID by the end of Feb. this winter. Second biggest wave since it started!

Got boosted for both recently.

We get neither Christmas nor Boxing off in Taiwan :(

And to you as well!

For once the CA Atlas didn't overwhelm with bass, and the mids are brought more forward.

I have the Azla sedmax for my ie900 and those are good too

Can't drink it. Wish I could.

But if your body is fine with it, absolutely drink coffee! I wasn't so much into the caffeine as the flavour, which I really miss. Especially when I catch a whiff of it.

@roshambo123 The complex relation between caffeine, cortisol, and anxiety; dehydration in the summer. I always start with a sports drink (Propel packet). And I'm precise about the amount of caffeine: I figured out how much I need to feel awake without feeling "wired."

@Claritas This is interesting. I will start my day with some electrolytes also before coffee and see how that goes!

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