Ksaurav402

I got UM MEST Indigo at a used price of $1400 and I thought I had reached pinnacle of IEM only to be corrected by owners of “The Bird” a $6.6K IEM.

Yep, prices outside the rock are absurd. I prefer to stay under it!

I have HD800. But sticking stuff *in* my ear is for convenience only and my budget might be $50-$100. And plugged into the phone or tablet for travel, I'm happy.

But... if anyone brings out *audiophile hearing aids* then my budget would definitely change. Hearing aids cost $,$$$ anyway. Can hear conversation, but music sounds like crap.

@Ksaurav402 Tell those $6.6k owners that you’d rather flip “The Bird” than listen to it ;)

I use full-size over ears lying down all the time. Just put something narrow behind your head to allow space for the cups. Might not work for extra heavy phones.
https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/post-your-pic-selfie-thread-with-cans.10050/#post-322384

This in very firm will make any listening easier: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/rosenskaerm-ergonomic-pillow-side-back-sleeper-90444371/

Yeah, I use an Ikea ergo pillow. Only needs a little bit extra under my head for cup clearance.

I have a quite a few dsd. I just play em PCM.. it's the mastering sounding better than any other version, not the format that makes it worth it. That's not always the case a lot of sacd are nothing special.
I've also ripped them to 24/88.2 and 24/176.4 flac

I have a DAC that can play MQA...I don't know if that feature even works.

This is why I always appreciated Schiit's pivot to not only no DSD (after the OG "Loki" DSD DAC experiment), but also optimizing their DAC's for redbook only. It only makes sense.

I had never heard of this. A Google search suggests it is an EU thing. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-21294537 I'm in Canada and my DAP has no warnings, nor have I had to override anything.

@Kernel Kurtz saw it in Head-fi, nothing official yet
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/new-sony-nw-zx700.966466/post-17370644

Looks specific to Sony. Just poor marketing choices I guess.

Sometimes gear just don’t gel? Have you tried a different upstream source?

@joch My belief is the source should be neutral and be able to handle everything well. And it's the amp that works or doesn't work because horses for courses. I use one good source and too many amps for different sorts of transducers.

@joch not recently as only have limited things with me for music atm

Good question. Have you been getting enough sleep at night lately? Enough for you, and at the best time of night for you?

that's a good point....I am sleeping late but trying to hit 7 hrs mark however the timing may be off.

Having a consistent waking time (even on weekends; ugh) is what sets and resets the body's sleep cycle. In any case, I hope you're feeling better.

I don’t want to laugh, but that is kind of funny.

We don't like cricket...
oh no....
We love it!

Hope you caught it. Was well worth staying up.

wider stage and non-offensive treble are important to me

Check out Dunu Zen and Zen Pro

7hz Timless if they fit you.

^ halp me am weeb how to drink my ceegars???

Just give in to the shilling and buy all the alcohol, cigars, and audio gear. Don't be like YMO who only buys one or the other :)

At least I don't have five figures worth of gear in my bedroom . ;)

I wish I had five figures.

I should probably go set mine to backup seven or eight times a day before the update drops...

I was wondering if it was remote playback, too. As the image in the email I got was of a guy driving a car, I guess it’s that, too.

If they want to provide an experience as easy as the rest of Roon, they’d have to provide the equivalent of a TURN server for voice calls, i.e. a relay server that the audio stream travels through as the home core isn’t directly reachable, or some kind of cloud to host the customers’ audio files. I doubt they can provide this without extra cost.

One reason why I feel safe buying high value item from ZMF is support we get. be it lifetime driver support or support of any kind and it makes one feel comfortable that the headphone can be owned for a very long time. I guess those support overhead is also factored in.

More stuff on the horizon: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/zmf-caldera-new-planar-magnetic-from-zmf.964836/page-7#post-17140061

Pick two of these things: cheap, good quality, good customer support. You can't have all three

The future is nothing. I'm glad I have my iPhone 13 since it still supports physical SIMs, but eSIM is the future.

Right now I have 1 esim and one physical sim. Support for 2 or more esim is a welcome change and I'm ok to get away from physical sim.

Older iPhones can also support dual e-sim, I think it was introduced with iOS 15, not exclusive to iPhone 13. Source: Me, using two e-sims on my 12 Pro.

I don't know that there are a ton of options out there, so I'm curious what other folks mention. I'm running the Freya S and I'm quite happy with it in my system. If you don't need gain, it also has passive and buffer modes.

Another vote for Freya S here. I run mine in 1X for conversion and for me it’s close enough to be a wash, but the passive-only kit is as advertised.

Freya S here as well, wait for a used one if new breaks the bank. That's what I did cuz cheap bastard.

Same here, but for something else.

@EagleWings that DDC is very impressive and when something is good we always end up looking for ways to make it even better and that’s what sucked me in.

Synergistic Research? Whoa... here's the sanitizer.

My doubts on those are more "do they still work as a slow blow fuse" and if they are UA listed. I can kind of get a weak link when you have all this high gauge copper coming in and then narrow it down to a small strand before the input transformer. Same weird thing on tweeter fuses and I think some tweeter fuses were small light bulbs.