I like Shostakovich's Symphony No.5 In D Minor, but really, just use something you're really familiar with that you know has big drop/dynamic swings. A lot of my evaluation is listening to crappy pop and various genres of rock.
Thanks! My music library primarily contains 80s and 90s pop and rock music and wanted to hear better/easier examples to better demonstrate dynamics. Much appreciated!
I listen to a lot of that stuff too! Also check out some movie soundtracks; might be cliche but "Don't Want To Miss A Thing" by Aerosmith works.
Did not notice that the Innerfidelity Wall of Fame was still being updated... Why couldn't they left it untouched post-Tyll?
Think my MCTH has low volume channel imbalance. Any way to trobleshoot/fix before contacting Massdrop?
Yeah... got a Klipsch HP3 which I have to listen at 7-8 position. Low impedence headphones is the problem.
Tempted to rent a 4 br house at same price as a 1 br apartment because then can finally get space for speakers.
Currently temporarily living in a 1600sq ft duplex. I actually quite like it compared to the 2400sq ft 4bdrm house that we sold in April. There's something refreshing about simplifying and downsizing.
I should say that the house was great and all - it had beautiful wood floors, lots of trees, a fruiting pear tree and a large yard. I'm just enjoying the simpler life at the moment. Our yard gets mowed weekly by someone else, I'm 100yds from my child's school and soccer practice, we purged a lot of "stuff", etc..
@Grahad2, yes, the soulless commute is definitely a disadvantage. And it encourages interest in IEMs!
Audio technica DSR9 not to my taste More M70X than MSR7. Bright sounding headphone with good staging and detail.
There is something about this site that fuels my anger when having a bad day. Needed last of willpower to avoid contributing to damn noise.
You should cut stuff out of your life that brings this kind of negativity. I wouldn't come here if it made my bad days worse.
I like reading impressions of upcoming and interesting gear here cause you learn a few things. Probably gonna have to try cat videos instead of here for a relaxing activity.
@Stride, Try engineering, machine, and reviewing tools to destruction. AvE will cheer you up! How can you be angry when you just watched a guy opening a kitchen-gadget box with a chain saw?
Realise been distracted too much by the noise here. Got to take a break and listen to the music more. Laters.
On instinct disliked a rando noisy post and went through. Felt good for a second. Now realise do not want this power and undisliked.
Sony zx2. Its Latina vice-like grip has squeezed eargasmic tones out of my IEMs' balls. Thanks SBAF for the recommendation and imagery.
I will second preferring the tonality of the ZX2 with SoundEnhancement off versus the newer gen. But I don't use the Andros enough to justify the ZX2...
Interesting to find the ZX2 has similar retail price to the wm1a. Guess I have to plan another visit to the store and see if I get wowed.
ZX2 can regularly be found for under $600 USD. If you score a B stock Andromeda it's still a big chunk of change but it beats out a lot of bigger rigs.
Just learnt about EAC/dBpoweramp after been using Jriver for the past 2 years... Back to the local library.
So now I am an Acquaintance? Got to find a better looking question mark picture. Or a more appealing sex-symbol. Or toobz.
Or this one (you'd have to buy to get without watermark...): https://www.shutterstock.com/cs/image-illustration/nixie-tube-indicator-retro-style-question-98351777
