rfernand

This is all it took, yes. What gave it away? Portable CD players?

RS1x is the only headphone I'm interesting in hearing / owning right now.

@ColdsnapBry hesitate not!

Phono pre-amp

Watched the replay. Yeah, bal preamp. And Midgard looks like improved Magnius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On0IImHTTNY

Geralt: How do you like that silver?

I just saw that when rfernand mentioned the site. I’d jump on those if I had known.

“Sony guts, it’s good”

seems overdue

No matter how good it sounds, I don't know if I could ever buy McIntosh gear. It looks so gaudy to me. Same with Chord.

This thing does not have VU meters, if that's what you're reacting to. Just green LED-lit tubes.

I mean is Mc-amp. It better knock your socks off...and your wallet.

I haven’t updated mine yet. @zottel is another Bathys user. He wrote about it extensively a bit further down.

Well increase the resolution, refreshrate and or length of the cable and you start running into problems. I've bought 4k 120hz cables that couldn't even do 4k at 60hz. Lot's shit out there that doesn't meet spec. LTT and others did some video's on it. Once you run into limitations fibre optic is not bollocks, go over 5m with 4k@120hz and you pretty much need these.

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that! Fibre is totally not bollocks. I used to have 8Mb/sec broadband: along came fibre and now it is 200.

And maybe it is the case that case that html, as it is now, needs to be history. And a fibre-based system would be so much better.

My cynicism kicked in due to the super-marketing-language talk.

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"The THX mission is to empower high-fidelity entertainment"

Eh? What? Funny, though, that the guy's name is Jason Fiber!

So I probably missed out on learning about a good thing because of... my prejudices.

It happens.

what 1% of ORFAS used the MHA 150 as a headphone amp?

Back when I was at TSAV, usually the clientele ordering the MHA150 skewed older and their use-case was getting the unit to work with their headphones and 2 channel setup. Friends with used MHA100 I know liked using speaker taps with their planars. At msrp, I wouldn't cop MHA150, half off? Better price

If they sell one without a dac at mha200 price , maybe.

Don't take me wrong, very frustrated. I wish they just updated it. Seems like expensive abandonware at this point.

This is the fate of any Android based player. I bought more than one. Seemed great at first and now I wish I hadn't.

rip, and my condolences, your mother in law im sure will be missed.

Long live the MIL-F god damn we really are a bunch of 7 year olds.

lol @caute

Quite likely. He's hinted as much in previous interviews. It's the one the critics will eat up, but I secretly hope he gets Magical Mystery Tour done at some point soon.

Well, the week came and went… so maybe no Beatles record this holiday season.

What the hell drug are you on? It’s sarcasm. f**k off.

it's a speech from good will hunting lol, chill, my man, it was supposed to be funny...

How do YOU like ‘em apples?

I do not, but that is just nervosa. It can be handy and seems Roon handles it well. I have put it on during parties when playing playlists for background music. I do know of some folks I have chatted with that used it religiously though, but when they actually sat down to compare they heard the difference and ditched it. That being said, if it sounds good to you and it is handy, rock on and keep using it.

“Death Magnetic” CD and the current streaming master sound the same to me with VL, which surprised me. I thought the CD was beyond salvation.

Will keep listening…

It's important when recording mixtapes so your mix volume doesn't jump around. Similar when letting a system play or shuffle tracks automatically. I don't use it when listening to single albums. -14 LUFS is a reasonable compromise.

We also hear different things - I can’t say I like LCD-X with the Kann Cube (the ESS brightness kills me!) but 325x and 6xx overcompensate just enough.

Amps, same thing. Eddie Current Studio B (I think) was so surgical and sterile and super black… and I loved it with DCA Stealth. But Focal Utopia nope, I got to the pain threshold very quickly…

Thank you for telling me your experiences. I'd guess that's synergy. I know from experience that synergy can improve the sound of a set of equipment. But I've also seen synergy used to supplement the defects of the equipment. I think every piece of equipment should sound accurate on its own. And synergy should be sought only to augment that, if possible—to "tie the room together," like the Dude's rug.

I’ve come to terms with the fact nothing sounds accurate. Everything (DAC, amp, speakers, etc.) has an opinion on the sound (distortion).

To me the hobby is about putting together the things that reproduce sound the way I like it (and instruments I know in a “realistic way”).

Alas, like The Beatles sang… nothing is real and nothing to get hung about :D

(Unless it sounds like ass)

Those 8010As are beauty and image like a laser. If you add the little 7040 sub it makes a big big picture.

@Justin S : I’ve never owned a sub for music! Maybe it’s my choice of genres? But I will keep the 7040 in mind.

The 7040 is a nice small sub. It really changes the staging (deeper) and reenforces the bottom end.

Try to make posts now and reply back here with results.

ۜ\(סּںסּَ` )/ۜ. woohoo

Works now. Thanks for your assistance!

But dying to know what people think about its sound - extravagant choices made, to say the least!

I placed my order this AM. My interest was piqued ever since it was first teased months ago.

It's surprising how well this thing drives a lot of headphones. I thought it would struggle a bit with the Stealth, but at high gain it proved to be a lot of fun.

Peak Folkvangr is achieved with the PS500e :D

I love the amp with almost everything except Focal Clear. I just don't like tubes with Focals in general, and even the mighty Folkvangr can't seem to help that.

@Qildail : The Utopia, on the other hand, eats it up with gusto