JoshMorr

Image height was recently brought up by Stereophile. I sit on a lower chaise, perfect height. Laying on a couch might be perfect too. For a chair or sitting up, raising might help. I was trying to discern how raising the speakers would help the bass as they mentioned in stereophile, but no theories on my end.

There is a showroom in Nashua, Audio Video Therapy, that is a Klipsch Heritage dealer. Bet they might have these setup to try. Met them at last meet, easy to talk to guys who mention they could loan speakers to take home for a night or weekend.

Love AV Therapy. That's actually where I first heard the speakers on that Parasound integrated. My favorite speakers I've tried there so far are Aerial Acoustics floorstanders, but the larger drivers and much higher sensitivity of the Forte III appeal to me given I own Rag 1. Might need to head back up and try the Forte III on my amp this time, or bring home.

Celebrating going to stand in line and buy a bunch of records sounds lame, but its actually pretty fun day where im listening to records by 9am all day and ignoring fatherly / husbandy duties.

What are you looking for this year?

Bill Evans & Wes Montgomery to add to jazz stacks, Greta Van Fleet & Flaming Lips for new music, Gong & The Crow Soundtrack for fun / weird vibes

Just listened to this for a minute but def has potential and I will listen to more later.. I’m glad because I want to find more Asian bands that I like.

Ahh this is great. There goes my money. Thank you for sharing!

Did this recently. Had to fucking crush them and hurt my delicate fingies.

Y'all need to just push em on like Big Rhonda.

You push them on and they spring off. Apparently, the old ones didn't do that: must be a feature of new-improved-design.

The internet told me that the answer is to stretch the transparent plastic band to weaken it. That worked.

Used pliers.

That's funny. Made it to prove to @MrTeaRex and @furiousipaduser that I had bass with a 3.5w SET amp. They were doubtful

Beast mode

Jealous! Saw him at his first London gig a while back. Incredible, you'll love it. Two drum kits. TWO!

Dunno... No one has scolded me, so I'm rolling with my happy headphones and L.A. Rams shirt avatar.

This calls for a custom title

You can't really have too much speaker when it comes to horns. There's more reflections in smaller rooms so larger horns tend to perform better there because of their better pattern control. Consider the 2-way KI-396 like I have too, Metropolis Lake Outfitters does a special version with in matte black with the flypoints deleted and they're the same price as the Forte III for a whole lot more speaker.

Im roughly 10 feet away from them in a pretty big room, interesting to hear that they open up further the more you can seperate from them.

I agree on the lower level listening level, I find it pleasant. Still get bass and detail while listening at around 80db.

Yeah, it takes some distance for the tweeter to integrate to the mid properly and it's the high frequencies that give you "air".

Ooh yes, had it on pre-order for months. 29th Sep release I think?

Yea comes out Friday, pre ordered as well. Managed to digitally archive it in advance though...

Have to say, if you ever get the chance to see him live...wow, one of the best gigs ever for me. TWO drum kits. TWO.

Yeah, his friend's comments are a bit illogical. Cheap DAC #1 reveals details expensive DAC #2 cannot. A child could make the comparison. FWIW, my TEAC UD503 revealed 5x more detail than the Aries, if you want a non-Schiit point of view. I don't see how being a violin loving Italian vs American has much to do with it (other than showcasing one's own prejudices).

@philipmorgan, thanks. That reads like pure troll to me. It doesn't even seem clever enough to be real shilling. Or... Is that what passes on HF these days?

He did use some technical[?] terms I'm not too sure of...

violin? planio? orcastrator?

Heck, what would I know though: I come from Europe.

Paging @Dr. Higgs. Could try posting in the NY thread for more results as well.

If you're driving in via I-84, Gerosa Records in Brookfield,CT is nice.

Check out Rough Trade Records.

Interesting... looks to be mostly lower end mid-fi models. Also interesting that all the HD5 models have slightly different specs. And they're all open backed... I would imagine HD-600/650 > HD-5X9, but maybe these will replace the HD-558/598's.

edit: Ahh, they aren't all open backed. So three models of open, and a new closed back. The 569 seems to be the most interesting to me. I'd love for a nice closed back 650.

Looks like a wireless closed back headphone? Seems pretty nice. Not something I would get excited over.

The PCX 550 is wireless, the HD-569 is wired.

So?

It was awesome. Had no idea how much energy they played with. Thought it was a guy and mostly electronic whatever and a girl, but it's 5 PC band where they all multi task play multiple instruments and really rock. Too fun, would def recommended seeking out a show

I'm so watching this! I think there is some unrest about what's gonna happen between Sansa and Middle Finger.

Really like this episode, didn't see the arya thing coming. I usually feel like they need to wrap some stuff up, but not disappointed this time around

Great episode to wrap up a great season.

My guess is someone found a unlinked placeholder page and Zach probably wasn't ready to release / explain all the finer details of the release. Just seems like the $1k tube amp market is going to be competitive.

Well I gotta say that thing looked like it was "hand crafted" with off the shelf parts in someone's garage. But it'll be interesting to see what it materializes in to.

Thought the same thing. Parts Express case with a wooden face plate. I will rock a fugly amp all day if it sounds good though.

That's a tough sell when Mjolnir 2 is balanced, a heck of a lot more powerful and $100 cheaper. Also output impedance isn't listed

Ewe. Almost all of the part cost must have been sunk into the chassis on this. The same output transformers are used in things like the $229 miniwatt S-1.

@dubiousmike - Seriously? Wow, then this is some serious price-gauging.

The article we posted about was on their version 1 of the amp. They have since revised it and it sounds much better. The price drop was obviously needed as most people had commented on as was the volume issue.

I actually don't know much about the amp, I just saw our old friend GUTB has been reduced to posting his rants there since no one else will listen

Yah seems like at any turn he's going to say something. I would just ignore it. I was thinking about saying something but don't really feel the need anyone who takes personal vendettas onto other forums are dumb

Totally read that in a "Warriors" voice (in my head).

me too!