Torq

^JOLTED !!!

@brencho you just feeling a little test(osterone)y today or have you heard this thing and can comment/rebut? JOLT is fun but Spring 1 plus Azure is an intriguing combo.

Haven't heard it yet, will be cool to hear it. I just don't like double speak but hey even reviewers gotta eat.

Dude chill I’m on my way

A friend drove for Amazon deliveries when he got laid off. Absolutely miserable workload, and you work as long as it takes & get paid for that workload.

He regularly had to work 10 hr+ days and every extra minute drove his wage down. Awful.

I've had that happen when I was expecting a pair of cans to arrive. My reaction was similar to the below

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

Then the porkers show up 15 minutes after you go out for the evening ...

Yeah, the wheel on the previous one wasn't just prone to rattling, though, it was almost unusable, producing incredibly inconsistent input on many units. It was the standout "nope" that should never have shipped in that state. You'd have noticed if it still did that.

Well, it all seems to work just fine. The wheel responds as I would expect it to, with tactile feedback on top of it. And the four touch sensitive bits have adjustable sensitivity and haptic feedback. So it works as expected in that regard.

Good stuff, in the pre-WM1* days, I was considering the QPR1. Hopefully they can bring the fight to Sony and A+K in that segment if the market eventually.

That's always been the deal breaker for me with the HD6XX. Great in lots of ways, but I just wish they weren't so claustrophobic.

The open AKGs have depth and width. The FR can sound weird though. Get a K500/K501 and give it some juice. When that driver wakes up...

It’s the front/back foams on the HD6x0. Without them it widens considerably, of course then it sounds thin and the vocals more distant.

On my Utopia it’s due to the pads, they seem to funnel the image down, and overly reduce air. Changing them to something with a wider opening and there’s plenty of height, at the cost of it’s presentation becoming thinner and the tonality being thrown out or whack.

NOS mode only just using JRMC with red book rips. I have zero DSD content, so I got the PCM-only version.

You can still play DSD on the PCM version - it'll just automatically convert it on the fly (not that there's a good reason to do so). Are you doing any upsampling in JRMC or just letting it play natively? (Just curious, I liked it best native).

Native, I’m trying to keep it simple for now. I’m new to NOS and I really like how the Cyan sounds with Jazz and Bluegrass.

Muahah, and I didn't even mention Grado yet.

I like my Beyer's. T5P Gen2 for closed portables.

why U waste time on all dis when Topping D3 with Beats EP is all U need? (or was that beats TP?)

Common effect of aging on hearing

I imagine this would be problem, when iem-s did that.

I'm mildly surprised. How about the good ole HD800?

Well, to be clear, I meant that sometimes the HD800S straight out of the DAVE feel like they'd benefit from an external amp (it's not about volume, they'll play defeaningly loud). Haven't had that with the HD820 (even on music that tends to show it).

Haven't tried normal HD800 out of this, since I don't own them.

Sounds like a date, mate!

I guess it's still better suited to certain genres, rather than an all-rounder though?

Well, put it this way ... I can't think of a better all-round closed-back model than the HD820. So, in that regard, it's the least specialist and best performing of the closed backs I've had my ears on (currently own HD820, ZMF Eikon, TH900 Mk2, MDR-Z1R, TR-X00 Ebony).

Ok, I guess they did by putting the "S" on the end, but you get my point.

Does the Andromeda need a new tuning? I would think reducing its sensitivity to output impedance would make it a sure thing for a lot of customers. Or is this part of its "charm" ?

S for Shiny

..which is why I have one from the first run tucked away in a cupboard, just in case I accidentally destroy the 650. Only slightly neurotic.

I've been telling people this for awhile. It all starts there.

Is the new 660s that bad?

Really ought to consider relaxing the policy that requires everything to be delivered by white gloved virgins.

At least the Yggdrasil is starting to ship again! Not that you care about that.

if you looked like someone who sat by the front door all day waiting for a package, portable toilet and all, maybe fedex was right to drive right past?

My audio setup is in my office, which is by the front door. The portable toilet, though...you may be onto something.

I saw fedex several streets over the other day, walked up showed ID and got my package that way.

I'll go out on a limb here and predict that @Torq likes it. Value leader for the $ perhaps?

And someone sell the me-too/data-sheet-dross Chinese companies some font-design software, or license them a decent font, because "Courier" looks f'ing silly on electronic displays.

People are deaf, especially objectivists.

Yes, people here seems to love those Toppings... don’t know which drug they are using during listening sessions...