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It's amazing how much information gets "smoothed" over by lesser equipment and bad power sources. Especially modern metal recordings, when fed through an incisive DAC.

@GoldfishX Hah tell me about it, it's shocking how much more you can actually hear with a system that can handle really busy passages more authoritatively. I'm mainly just impressed that I'm getting sound like this out of an "affordable" (sorta) rig: MMB2 (OS mode)>Magni Piety/Unity or MCTH>HD600. Would have been unthinkable a few years ago.

Florida too hot and humid. I'm not keen for even more of that.

So far I'm feeling Reaper is really intuitive to work with since I've grown accustomed to Audacity over the years and other layouts just feel amazingly prohibitive. Creature of habit I suppose.

my personal work flow was some audacity into reaper to use a vst or two.

@Armaegis might be a reference to a popularish site squig.link where assorted folk have been sharing their measurements sorta like what that person who had a Renaissance painting profile photo (sup?) had but much more polished.

@YMO Sounds wise. You can check out any time you like, but...

@YMO You'll feel different after midnight.

Clarification:
The torch you carry in your hand for illumination?
The torch you carry in your heart for another?
The torch you use to join or cut metal?
Other?

Checked it out, I think your cat has a point, Germany being comfortably in front against Hungary I was able to refrain myself. ABBA is really strange I never have the urge to listen to their music, but if I get a nudge I give it a try and I always think „not half bad“

ABBA is great fun music, definitely makes you want to groove. You get what I mean about that thing in the right channel around that timestamp though? I was relistening just earlier today and it got me again haha

Dancing Queen is amazing. I've always loved a balad, and it tells a great story. And the music is super.

I got reacquainted with it through a friend sending me a sort-of-spoof version. Which I enjoyed in it's own right, but even more after then listening to the original.

(Spooky Mens' Chorale, if anybody is interested.)

Same.

... You're welcome?

Writing a physical note and sticking it onto my PC. Thank you Bob! Yep it's transducers for now since I don't have the means to measure anything else just yet, only just realised I might have been doing a disservice publishing dBFS. Still learning.

When looking at the whole measurement including fundamental, dBSPL for sure.

For relative measurements dBr relative to the harmonic frequency is what I use. I prefer it over percentage.

Percentages look nicer and are easily digestible I think but yeah dB SPL offers more meaningful information (esp when noise floor is captured) about how much distortion folks can actually feasibly hear I think (I measure when things are as quiet as they can be in my area). I've been waffling about a bit going between them but I think I'll stick with SPL moving forward when measuring transducers.

vertigo? I like these remastered Beatles albums - bottom end is much more clear - heck the whole spectrum is.

@crenca I don't know what it is about them but I actually felt a bit queasy listening to the '22 versions. I do appreciate how they have more coherent staging as opposed to keeping near everything panned to either side, but there's just something about them that reminds me of the feeling I get using ANC headphones (not a pleasant sensation). Also noted when I moved to IEMs: much more bass than expected.

I tried them again just now. The '09 was fine, but I felt pressure behind my eyes with the '22 again. I was on the MMB2>Piety>HD600 chain yesterday but I swapped to the Magni Unity as an AIO today to make sure it wasn't the more aggro presentation of the other chain.

Thank you, yeah this means I'm not near ear death yet haha. I do tend to crank volumes when I want to sink into a specific album but I was hoping I wasn't quite reaching 90dBA peaks, even if only for a few minutes total.

It's also good to note listening noise loud may not equal to loud music signal. I remember seeing several studies indicating so. I think it makes sense. Rock concerts may be very loud (well above 110db often) but hearing loss is far more frequently reported among constantly noisy environment workers (mostly <110) than among concert enthusiasts.

That's true, I vaguely remember that being mentioned on here I think. I keep my exposure to anything notably loud at a minimum as best I can but for better(?) and for worse I just live in a noisy area. Bites.

@joch I'd bet a cup of my favourite coffee that it is. Bleh, at least they know where to look for meaningful discourse I guess.

CFA IEMs are very sensitive. I use these on airplane rides since the volume comes out loud when announcements are made. https://a.co/d/gloilXt

@joch I do use my Andros when out and about but usually stick with less perilously expensive things when I know I'll be in a roughish area. That's part of why I got those Tangzus I'm actually rather liking a surprising amount.

What's the timbre like? FR looks pretty smooth so shouldn't be too much tonal oddity from dips and peaks. Any shout from the upper-mid emphasis?

@Sqveak still breaking them in but there's a weird sort of teethy narrowness to the mids? I actually find these less fatiguing than the Zero 2s which is shocking because FR is so similar other than the bass. Not my ideal, but I can actually use these. Notably richer, fuller sound.

Mind, I haven't had the Zero 2s with me for ages cuz gave em to family I don't see too often, relying on memory.

Addendum and last update here for now I am gobsmacked. Been having them burn in with the desktop stack while I was out and these are good. Need to borrow the Zero 2s from my brother when I see him again to confirm but the Wan'er Studios kick them IMO. Still not perfect but much more my speed.

Proprietary keyed MMCX connectors are a special sort of torture.

I used the balanced er4 cable. Stock ER2 cable kinda sucks.

@M3NTAL
No gross changes to the tonality? I'm not much exaggerating when I say that while I do find the ER2XR muted in the treble in stock form, the aftermarket one I got (the only one local that could fit) just made things all sorts of tizzy and hashy. I'd much rather get something close to stock sound but more durable.

Hot pulling tubes in unregulated power supplies like a guitar tube amp is not quite the same as hot unplugging on a regulated supply and likely fixed bias.

Ya, burned parts. Enough to mess anything up immediately - not always in something like a Vali 3. But I'd still get it fixed sooner than later. And me personally I would have 0 expectation that Schiit would cover this under warranty or even could cover it - i.e. maybe it's as much to fix as a new amp.

@Azimuth thanks for the insight, neglected to consider that. Yeah no I think it was a case of "familiar enough to be dangerous" here like if I'd suddenly try messing with DAC internals. Recipe for disaster

@penguins I'd be shocked if they did TBH. Best case scenario is that sure maybe it was some impurities around the socket like joch said but hopefully it doesn't blow the guy's headphones or ears up randomly now.

I just love how mad audio gear can get. I'm giggling.

https://www.psaudio.com/blogs/copper/the-once-and-future-tweeter

Seems someone even tried making a replica, but the sound test is no bueno: https://www.plasmaspeaker.de/ionovac-replica.html

I've heard the Lansche big bois at a couple shows and that particular technology is convincing. the treble response is super effortless. a bit disjointed sounding with the rest of the speaker being a bunch of paper woofers, but nothing horribad.

@yotacowboy nearly zero mass diaphragm, one would think that it'd sound effortless. Kinda makes sense unfortunately that it'd be disjointed but man I'm wondering whether woofers might be able to catch up somehow. Something tells me this ain't ever working for personal audio cuz... plasma.

To my knowledge, major differences over conventional measures include (1) score-based, (2) multiple quality dimensions, (3) binaural recording-based. But not much material publicly available (more feels like MFR-oriented).

lol for a few seconds
I thought maybe MQA rebooted;)

@Bill-P doesn't seem to be around anymore, but he had all the raw data (spreadsheets).

Here are the .pdf files, my own "compensated" files and some other stuff from his site: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SjExAs5SPWop6Q_Gk6m-grXdI48aVGR5?usp=sharing

EDIT: woops, wrong folder

@Serious nice! Requested access to the files.

Got a couple audio related folders in one folder and I clicked the wrong one. Added you to the right one.
I don't think I ever finished digitizing all the plots, but there are .txt files compatible with REW with my compensated graphs for many of the graphs IIRC, which should be interesting for @purr1n aswell.

If you don’t need the processing power, maybe a fanless system is the way to go. The case still gets mighty warm though.

@Wilewarer Passive is great if you are OK with working within limits and undervolting to massage performance. I went passive on my first APU build a bit over a decade ago and didn't go back to fans until Ryzen and Polaris won me over. An interesting side effect of removing fan noise from a system is being able to hear your CPU and GPU registers chattering away under load! Freaky cool!

I don't game (or video edit, or....) anymore, so I have purchased my last Komputer with a fan anything. There is just no reason for the significant noise

Being immortalized by Patrick Nagel is not a bad thing, and to be associated with Duran Duran, it’s actually quite an honor. There are few iconic album covers I can think of and this is definitely one of the best.

"I do feel a bit bad for the guy cuz he obviously wasn't in a position to greenlight that album cover..." I don't feel bad for him at all, well excepting a bit of pity for him being a grifter. Did not know about Matchbox album cover guy...grifter as well in all likelyhood.

Yeah I have a hard time feeling bad for the Nirvana dude...he capitalized off of it, even going so far as getting a tattoo "Nevermind"...on his chest.