Josh83

I never used a Zune but I know there were some die-hard Zune lovers. What was wrong with it? Didn't the HD-DVD lose out to Bluray mainly because Sony is the giant in entertainment industry or did it really have some inferiority?

Also, what is the site you are referring to with this guy?

I’m sure there are still people when love their Zunes, but in my experience it appealed to a small slice of people who hated Apple but didn’t care enough about audio to investigate audiophile players. When it existed, there were constantly stories about software updates bricking Zunes, etc.

I think they raised their prices but they seem to have grandfathered me.

Between dissertation materials and music, I have 5TB of data, so by default I go with services they offer unlimited backup.

I've decided it's much better to back up movies and music to rotating thumb drives kept off-site, and only back up photos and important documents.

Movies and music change less frequently, and once written are read-only.

Fortunately the news isn’t life or death. Just narrowly missing out on a dream job. Thought I had it, and it would’ve been most exciting moment of my life (besides getting married). Still have current gig. But I’m really ready to change careers. Will keep moving in new direction, though.

If it didn't happen, it wasn't meant, IMO. The right thing will come along at the right time man. Good luck, career changes ain't easy :) I hope it goes well.

I’m trying to be a little more spiritual, etc., but I’ve never been a destiny type. Life is random. Stuff out of my control prevented landing it this time, but odds are good for figure, and there are career/skill moves I can make now to increase future odds, which is what I’m going to do.

Good point.

Was it this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wBSi5AOSM8

It was some presumably current, highly Auto Tuned pop song I did not recognize.

Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20130211122250/http://www.willsheff.com/we-never-have-to-be-alone-dr-hook-and-the-medicine-show-live-1974

Who needs Christmas lights when the tubes are burning?

Sorry, but antidepressant usually don cause tinnitus. This is a rare side effect. They could worse the symptoms if the person ALREADY has the tinnitus... Other medication , very common are the cause for tinnitus. (Antibiotics, blood pressure drugs, etc) I do work with psychopharmacology since 1995 and have seen 4 or 5 cases of tinnitus caused by drugs, most of them caused by 2. Generation of anti psychotic

I didn’t say everyone on antidepressants gets tinnitus. I said people w/tinnitus should check their meds. Even single digit incidence is a lot of people in raw #s, given how many Americans take antidepressants. It definitely was the cause of my tinnitus, and the audiologist I just saw (who specializes in tinnitus) says she sees people all the time who don’t realize their tinnitus is caused by their antidepressant.

Unfortunately, the only antidepressant of the six or seven I’ve tried that doesn’t cause tinntus also doesn’t help my nerve pain much, which is why I was taking an antidepressant in the first place.

I thought the Fidelio X2 was my end game at one point.

/Wrists

I had much worse takes back in my early days. Besides “endgame,” X2 isn’t an embarrassment. Better bang/buck than a lot of mid-fi non-neutral headphones (definitely than all the Beyers and arguably than Elear, IMO).

The X2 are actuall one of the few I would consider buying again. They are pretty inexpensive secondhand these days.
Good bass/spaciousness for movies and games.
Easy to drive and comfy. Works well with boom mic

Although the 45 RPM Analog remastered vinyl is crazy good too. This is the one album I own in multiple audiophile formats.

The PM-3 is the only headphone I regret selling. It’s not the best at anything but it was extremely comfortable and made very pleasant sounds that I enjoyed.

There's a good chance I'll give Garuspik's a chance as my next planar. They're damn sexy, which doesn't hurt their odds.

Hey @Merrick, have you tried the HP50s? If you liked the PM3s, I think you'd also like the HP50s, which can be had much cheaper (new now for $125ish). A steal, IMO.

@Josh83 I haven’t tried those, but I remember them being mentioned in the discussions about budget planars. Not sure I need them now, my longing for the PM-3 is more emotional than out of an actual need for them.

Contrary to what you may have seen on FB/twitter/etc, not all treble spikes are (ear) rapists.

@Hands is that you? Oops, no... He said "spike".

Paywalls should die.

The TLDR is that companies are using services that automatically cancel orders deemed likely of being fraud. The example in the story was a dad who bought headphones from Audeze for his son, only to find out many days later that his order had been canceled because he'd opted for fast shipping, which had trigger the fraud service to cancel it.

As an update, what’s odd is that the *volume* is clearly lower. But since the tone has also changed, it’s somewhat more noticeable right now. I’m hoping that will change as my brain gets used to it. Plus, I’m going to have to try a new medication for my back, since that’s never going away. TLDR, anyone taking medication that messes with neurotransmitters should pay attention to how it affects your hearing.

Nearly all closed headphones get a little hot after a while, just one their things.

I’m used to hot. But these EL8Ts create some kind of suction, at least on my head, that actually makes my ears pop when swallowing after wearing them for a while. Weird.

The AFO does this to me sometimes, and it's an open headphone. The suction-type seal is the reason, I think.