Lyander

I saw the trailer at an IMAX screening of Oppenheimer and the person sitting next to me shouted "Balls!" Didn't see it myself

Haha, I will say that the original remains a more terrifying conventional horror film and that this one might offend some folk who have certain strong beliefs, but I personally liked it a lot. Pacing was kinda crap, the middle of the film kinda meanders a bit, but I honestly didn't hate it. Dunno if I'd rewatch it but I don't regret having seen it.

@joch agreed, they're an integral part of the hobby I think and have pushed lots of people into getting their feet wet DIYing. Would be a massive loss if they just up and vanished.

I only WISH I could lmao.

It’s been mentioned in the Used Deals thread

I wish I was in Seattle to pick through his stuff

Ah whoops, I seldom check that thread out. Likely should make a habit of it before taking up space here, hah. Don't think there's anything there specifically that I could afford or benefit from getting even if I were in the general area, but looks like there are some great odds and ends to pick up there.

Does it help you to be more expressive if you have a dog attached to one limb?

(Seriously: hope that has all healed up ok)

I've complained about not being able to use speakers because I live in a fairly population-dense spot. Not only are my neighbours noisy as hell on the regular, but I'm self-conscious about bothering them by playing music at levels I'd consider "immersive". I actually recorded this around midnight to show how it's impossible to get a "clean" sound where I am: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjgGAjune4xyieUeyOpjPqNksa2Hcw?e=4Tqiou

@Thad E Ginathom Haha, all's good now! My one finger still can't fully extend all the way and aches when I use it a lot, but it's getting back up to spec. I got into indoor top rope climbing a while back and that's been helping with rehabilitation

Smart trying it for the first time at 30. Glad you're not an idiot like me who tried it at 38.

I did think it was best I check (relatively) physically intensive stuff off my bucket list as early as I could before my knees just start telling me to bugger off, hah!

I jumped off one of the walls after climbing it and fell on my ass and at a slightly worse angle would have broken my hip. We don't bend so good after a certain age.

I did it once (forgetting Bob's rec) and it seemed to work fine, but yeah - one of those Ali units or an ebay lab supply if you can get one shipped cheap.

Enjoying mine right now - Berlin Tele ECC88 tube, industrial LPS, 2x upsampled 44.1 to Pi2AES, Soekris dac1321, & Custom Cans modded HD6XX. Lovely decays!

A LPSU or noise nuke is fine for the MCTH, just not for the LP or the LAuX. It really does help lifting a bit of haze to reach a bit deeper details.

Totally get it. Consistency is key. Try to move every day if you can, even if it’s just light mobility stuff in the morning when you wake up. Have a treadmill for a recovery walk today since you can’t go outside? Some VERY light weight work could be ok today if you go nowhere near failure and just do it to get blood flowing a bit. Just don’t overdo it and hurt yourself. Recovery is super important.

@Lyander, that's more than than I've done in one workout my whole life. What the heck are you made of?! @Gazny, you've been an inspiration. I picked up my weights again for the first time in 9 months. Thanks! @Riotvan Fifteen years ago, I'd run in place to "Can't Touch This" before stretching. It's precisely the right pace and length; tho' it did sound redundant after a while.

@Claritas haha I'm aiming for moderate intensity over a couple hours, nothing impressive here. I did go lift some weights (10lb curls/ 40lb lats) until I was wiped, but I'm not trying to become Ahnuld at his peak, just aiming for aesthetics and health. I don't really count reps which is likely dumb, mostly go by feel.

I wanted to eat rock salt after though. Was probably dehydrated.

Its funny, starting in the hobby a decade ago, KZ was coming out with new models weekly, varying QC issues, and completely ripping off other designs. They have gotten so much bigger since then and they still are dripping in drama too often.

Tyvan's response is clear BS, DMS and other industry folks have been getting these offers and when they call out KZ, KZ pretends it wasn't them!

I didn't hear much of KZ back then, but I guess I was looking elsewhere. The IEMs that I was drooling over at the time were the original Vsonic GR07 (still wanna hear a pair TBH), but I suppose KZ was still growing at the time. More familiar with more recent scandals.

I can't blame people for taking money to sustain themselves, but yeah had to be someone established and ostensibly cosy to blow this out of the water.

Welp totally missed this bit of the mess pertaining specifically to a CRN follow up with @Crinacle. Good standing by your morals and ethics.

https://crinacle.com/2023/08/17/the-kz-boycott-still-stands/

@fraggler Not sure if that's a joke or not right now. Brain can't be arsed to figure out what I might have done.

Lol. Sorry. Just joking. You were the first to bring to my attention all the stuff going on and I saw this update about the apology and shutting down for a week.

Gotcha. Nah I'm just slightly brain dead at the moment so have trouble with entirely text humour haha. It's a weird situation and I until recently watched the channel for fun (GN or HUB for strict information), but this has been a mess indeed.

Guilty as charged here... I pretty much gave up photography because I couldn't keep up with the gear chase; and I felt it was never going to amount to anything without the gear. Fighting the good fight on the audio side though, for now anyway.

@Qildail good on you! I think there's a bit more "push" towards GAS for creative hobbies as opposed to hobbies of consumption like hi-fi and personal audio, mostly because it's easier to rationalise? But yeah, very often it's more the artist than the tools they use... within reason.

I would have previously ignored Anker in the past but recently I got a brand new pair of their Liberty Pro 3 ANC IEM’s in a woot bag of crap that I won in a contest and I’ve been very surprised by them.

My one USB cable is Anker and I've got a couple 30W chargers from the brand— that's all my experience with Anker to date. Rather curious now but I think they're considering Senn HD350BT. Will maybe be trying out the lot in store

I got 4 sets of the Anker Q35s for people to use at the office. They work just right for the price.

liked for using the excellent & severely underused, bordering on archaic now, word, "misbegotten"

A few years ago I had a card I had (quite literally) never used get frauded for ~$1800 for a furniture order in Africa. Get the right merchant with the wrong controls and it’s not hard to brute force card numbers until one hits.

Turns out it was $2660 worth, just got SMS notif for four of the transactions. Dispute filed, no decision yet just gotta wait for the results of their investigation. Blegh. Stress.

@yotacowboy Given how often I find the cats are the ones clambering all over my stuff and how cool "faraday cage" sounds that one gets my vote :P

Possible corrosion from humidity? Could be that the switch is particularly susceptible to it as the symptoms are the same and the wiggling sounds like friction is the solution. How could cat hair even get in there?

@Sqveak I was kinda being facetious, but I'm sure some very fine cat hairs might have gotten into it over the months I've had the amp, just not necessarily IN the gain switch. Corrosion is a more likely suspect, on a serious note, because I remember that WD40 contact cleaner DID help with the 3+'s issues... temporarily. Yeah electronics in this climate are just debuffed, gah.

@Biodegraded Amperex ECC88, and I am wanting to kick myself in the face now because now that you mention it I feel like this is something I used to know but have since forgotten because I have 2MBs' worth of non-volatile memory in my brain (maybe in an old PM thread?). That explains a LOT. Thank you!

DC offset issue exacerbating the effect?

@E_Schaaf I am not even going to pretend that I remember what that is, only that I know I've come across the phrase before, hah. Gonna be googling that now. Either way, going back to the Piety I do differences between original and inverted absolute polarity still, but it's a lot subtler, yeah.

Yeah I get it that sometimes this way is the fastest way to get pressure on a company but at the same time it literally had people in the twitter thread completely unrelated saying they were going to review bomb us as a result. Silly stuff but doesn't seem like I noticed that on where people actually rate us

Saw those as well, and given HUB's history I can sorta see why they'd draw a... protective sorta crowd, but this was just weird. Cheers A, may the rest of the week be less silly. Might wanna do a review of your sponsor spots to date lmao.

Yeah there is some overlap with HUB audience and audiophiles but not like its big. Think it was us trying out different sponsorships since we tried a whole bunch of different channels last year in the fall. Now we can see what worked and what didn't lol

Calling yourself "everyperson" is selling yourself short methinks.

Oh eww no I don't use Blue mics I'm a lot pickier than that :P

I don't even own a mic other than in my phone, because no one really wants to hear what I have to say.