SoupRKnowva

Should be a noticeable improvement in technicalities. Synergy will be the question.

The loaner unit made me question my sanity.

Lmk how it is man!

From what I've read, the one off EC Ultralinear. Unfortunately you'll have to pry it off the current owner's cold dead fingers.

Something along the lines of the EC Af works well

Solid State

I hooked up the Torpedo 3 -> HD650 black mesh last night. Getting re-acclimated with the sound before the HD560S ships. Probably work my way from HD600 -> HD800. Need to roll tubes for a little more excitement.

Nvidia has good linux drivers, they're just proprietary which linux peeps don't like, I run linux most of the time as well

I've used nvidia as well under linux. Things i didn't like was power management not working properly, the card a gtx980 did not clock down properly and ran full blast doing jack shit because i didn't like screen tearing. Also nowadays i run Fedora and that has a rapid update cycle for the kernel which is with nvidia not ideal. I don't care if it's a binary blob.

Amd has been really good the last few years, plug n play no bs.

I would wait, nvidia is revealing new cards tomorrow and AMD is probably going to respond with leaks or directly. I’m guessing both camps have new cards around the 5700XT price level within a month or two.

We need AMD to give Nvidia some competition at the top end. These creeping prices are getting out of hand. I remember paying about $550 for a 580 lightning back in the day and that was considered the best you could get.

Same @Taverius, only reason im getting a new card is so I can integrate it into the water cooling loop on a new machine I just built. current card doesn't have any blocks available, plus, ive had it for like 3 years at this point, time for an upgrade

How did you get on fixing the pads? I found it very difficult: had to actually stretch the plastic strip wit pliers. Seems the newer parts are a smaller fit.

But yes, new headphone :)

I just pressed them in...not much trouble in my case

Lucky. Maybe yours were truly HD800 stock. I think mine were HD800S, but they sell them for HD800 too.

Reach out to TSAV

Your post prompted me to poke around on the local CL. Check out this bad boy: https://albuquerque.craigslist.org/ele/d/albuquerque-yamaha-2200-power-amplifier/7135059854.html

Going from memory but I think those might be the really expensive (10k?) speakers that Stereophile jizzed over back in the early 90's....or maybe a close relative

They look a lot like a set they sold at The Wiz a bunch of years ago ('90's or so). I wasn't anywhere near as informed as now, but IIRC, they were a little bass light but even sounding. Probably hooked up wrong or underpowered retailed around 1.5K/pair

I know different folks have different charities they like and if you want to donate to a different one I think that would be great too!

I think if any group has a chance of making tangible progress towards ending police brutality, it is probably the ACLU.

Happy Birthday!

I will pass on that one, i went leather

Hell Bent for Leather?

Did it?

Then I suppose Hell must be a bit kinky.

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7.5 hours just of driving..oooff

Welcome to Texas bud

I saw one months ago in the flesh without knowing it existed and did a massive double take. That is one good looking car.

It gets a lot of shit for having a BMW engine. I don't have an opinion on that; I just think it looks much better than the old one.

I’ve got no hype for old Supra’s, so I carried no baggage into my expectation for this new one.

But do you get to see monkey wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVEhLO2daI4

nah, but I can buy toilet paper

I love the camera markets near Namdaemun.

As far as the buy or not you just have to decide whether to roll the dice or not. I would say the odds are with you that things will go fine but there’s of course a chance that they won’t.

BTW, if you’re in the market for a tripod Markins is a great Korean brand of ball heads that is readily available for a steal on the used market there.

M9 also slightly less warm in the treble, but very similar fr overall. I think deep bass and treble are the main improvements of the 9 as well, better low end definition, and then a moderate improvement across the board in clarity and detail vs the 7. The 7 really is an incredible value imo

@SoupRKnowva and @netforce I might have found the next IEM to try out. M9 sounds like what I like nowadays: Neutral with little warm. Thanks! Tell me more stuff that didn't sound like shit to you.

M9 will almost certainly be the next IEM I get. Would've got it earlier if not for the FDX.. but I briefly heard it some time back and totally LOVED it. @SoupRKnowva nailed it.. doesn't wow you.. but, man, it just sounds RIGHT. They scale nicely, too. Unfucked BA treble FTW!

congrats dude!

Congrats man! Once you get settled in let me know. We can meet up and talk about Kpop.

Congrats indeed!! I hope it actually turns into a career for you (if that is what you want),

Even with the filters, they're not forgiving of harsh sources. Nonetheless my faves, even from my phone.

I’ll be back mid April @famish99

@famish99 keep your booty calls to yourself, please

I mean I wasn't floored with them but it was a friend's pair. I can ask him if he wants to sell but its iffy cuz he likes them.

Did you find a pair? $235 https://www.head-fi.org/threads/wts-usa-nc-h-jvc-x-drop-fdx1-w-paypal.922696/

I saw those, alas, it’s too late for me to able to purchase now. Thanks though

The Trio was no good, a pretty disjointed mess, the fourte was even worse. The A6 was nice tonally, but nothing special technically. The A12t on the other hand was pretty incredible, though over priced at 2k

U12t is currently my favorite multi-BA IEM. I really like the U18t too, but it can be a little bright. Fourte has a mini-headphone like presentation, but I hate its signature. I haven’t tried the Trio.

Haha yeah, it took a lot of willpower to spread it out over Friday through Sunday

I'm on episode 5 now. They clearly extended the budget a bit, and it looks like they shot a lot of the season in Iceland or somewhere similar.

As it turns out, it was about an hour and a half north of Toronto in the Canadian tundra