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Vansen

Gear Master (retiring), Male, 36, from Seattle

Staff Member Pyrate

Sorry for disappearing over the last month. Supporting a family of six through RSV, a cold, and then COVID has taken all of my time. Jan 9, 2025

Vansen was last seen:: Feb 6, 2025

1. thegunner100
  Love the new avatar!
  
  Nov 28, 2017
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  2. Vansen
    Always have to get in the holiday spirit. :)
    
    Nov 28, 2017
2. Vansen
  Just grabbed tickets to go see Jerry Douglas at Daryl's House. A legendary artist at my favorite venue.
  
  Nov 20, 2017
  1. Kunlun and powermatic like this.
  2. gaspasser
    I love the sound of the dobro in his hands. Who is he playing with these days?
    
    Nov 20, 2017
  3. Vansen
    The Jerry Douglas Band, but this might be solo.
    
    Nov 20, 2017
3. Vansen
  Any suggestions for a 2-pin>3.5mm TRS IEM cable for everyday commuting/ gym use?
  
  Nov 17, 2017
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  3. PoochZag
    I really liked the stock noble cable for the gym, thin and doesn't tangle. IT's $50 on its own though, which IMO is a little steep
    
    Nov 17, 2017
  4. Grahad2
    I would recommend veclan given the cheap prices but they're apparently more interested in the MassDrop life now than peon customers.
    
    Nov 17, 2017
  5. TomHP
    http://www.onsoproject.com/
    
    I bought it on amazon jp for 70$ish. Lower impedance than any other cable I've measured, except stock Shure SE846. Zero tangle, very comfortable, very well built. Much better than all those fancy "purely for looks" braided ripoffs.
    
    The exact one I got was the iect_03_ub3c and that's the type you're after.
    
    Nov 19, 2017
4. Vansen
  My eternal struggle with all Plantronics headsets... still too loud: https://imgur.com/a/pk4G8
  
  Nov 13, 2017
  2. thegunner100
    I ordered a pair of Sennheiser x Massdrop PC37X from ebay yesterday. Hoping the mic quality will be decent. I'm expecting them to sound pretty good if they use the HD598 drivers with some refinements from Massdrop.
    
    Nov 13, 2017
5. Vansen
  @HitmanFluffy what are you doing on the homepage of Huffpost? https://imgur.com/a/1xP6Z
  
  Nov 4, 2017
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6. Vansen
  Shipped an He-6. Weighed six pounds. UPS just sent an “adjustment charge” to me declaring it weighed 23 pounds. :/
  
  Nov 4, 2017
  2. zerodeefex
    Wtf. Call customer support.
    
    Nov 4, 2017
    
    FallingObjects, monacelli, Vansen and 1 other person like this.
  3. Vansen
    There’s a UPS truck docked at work about 50 ft from my desk. I usually just throw my boxes on it. I’ll be dropping them off at the ship center down the road from now on.
    
    Nov 4, 2017
  4. ButtUglyJeff
    Did you tell them its an LCD-XC? That I'd believe the 23 pounds...
    
    Nov 4, 2017
    
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7. Vansen
  Windows ME > iOS 11...
  
  Nov 3, 2017
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  3. DigMe
    @Vansen I haven’t been on 11.1 that long but I’m having none of those problems on my 6s plus. The user experience is smoother now for me. Music control works fine from lock screen and control center plus it’s quicker to access. Haven’t tried BT yet. Something went wrong with your OS.
    
    Nov 4, 2017
  4. DigMe
    Also my wife had upgraded to 11 on her 5s before me and it was working fine until she got a 7 yesterday.
    
    Nov 4, 2017
  5. Vansen
    Did a complete reset. Seems to be better. Still wish I could send the ghost of Steve Jobs to haunt some folks.
    
    Nov 4, 2017
8. Vansen
  I'll be in Korea next year... maybe buying a Hidition Viento-R. No switches, flat mode. First CIEM purchase since 2011. http://goo.gl/hWSWJW
  
  Nov 2, 2017
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  3. Cellist88
    Its funny to say something this cliche, but you'll understand from your short visit there, the tuning of Hidition sounds very korean ><. Not surprisingly. Make sure to check out good food, and try to avoid too much MSG in the food >< lol.
    
    Nov 2, 2017
  4. Deep Funk
    The MSG is the worst. Gluten free is one thing. MSG free is everywhere and sometimes the chefs cannot distinguish it until you read the labels again. I am happy I do not have that particular allergy...
    
    Nov 3, 2017
  5. Vansen
    MSG gets an unnecessarily bad rap and is not one of the big nine alllergens in the US.
    https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-msg-got-a-bad-rap-flawed-science-and-xenophobia/
    
    Nov 3, 2017
    
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9. Vansen
  The Millennial in me wishes SBAF supported full unicode emoji integration.
  
  Nov 2, 2017
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10. Vansen
  Hahaha! Best ad I've gotten on SBAF in a while: https://imgur.com/gallery/S0Jtu
  
  Oct 27, 2017
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  2. Vansen
    Far more interesting than the boring IT service ads I usually see.
    
    Oct 27, 2017
  3. DigMe
    Asian thrillers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9wsf1vQvcI
    
    Oct 27, 2017
  4. 93EXCivic
    I keep getting that one too.
    
    Oct 27, 2017
11. Vansen
  Out of all the recent IEM loaners I've had from HF, the Hidition Viento-R on WM1A seems promising. A bit bright, but not peaky. We'll see.
  
  Oct 26, 2017
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  3. Vansen
    I’m in the same boat as you on product evolution. I still think the original JH13 pro is better than this current JH13 v2.
    
    Oct 26, 2017
  4. Kunlun
    Hmm, I remember average_joe hyping the crap out of it, you might remember it more clearly than I do.
    
    Certainly, I think JH has degraded for some reason. Jerry apparently sold the company a while back, maybe that was when things started to slide.
    
    Oct 26, 2017
  5. DigMe
    Did he sell to one of the big corps? That's what keeps happening in the coffee world. Stumptown, Inteligentsia, now Blue Bottle.
    
    Oct 26, 2017
12. Vansen
  RIVA Turbo X does not work with iOS 11. Disconnects everytime you try to pause or play new music. :/
  
  Oct 23, 2017
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  3. DigMe
    That sucks
    
    Oct 23, 2017
  4. DigMe
    Maybe I'll continue to wait a bit before I update.
    
    Oct 23, 2017
  5. Vansen
    I wish I could send the ghost of Steve Jobs to go haunt some Apple folks these days.
    
    Oct 23, 2017
    
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13. Vansen
  iOS 11 feels like a less refined version of iOS 10. :/
  
  Oct 22, 2017
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  3. Kattefjaes
    My iPad Pro 9.7's control centre looks like a bad sliding block puzzle now under 11. It's a usability car crash. I suspect that Jobs would have hurt someone over this if it came out on his watch.
    
    Oct 22, 2017
    
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  4. Vansen
    I miss the Jobs.
    
    Oct 22, 2017
  5. TomHP
    They took our Jobs
    
    Oct 22, 2017
14. Vansen
  The ads that pop up on here for me make me feel like a boring person...pagerduty, statuspage, datadog, etc..
  
  Oct 17, 2017
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  3. Kunlun
    Kitty litter Arab dating uber!
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    Uber dating Rolex Watches dating!
    
    Oct 17, 2017
    
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  4. Vansen
    "Just a Huma looking for my Weiner." -kunlun's tinder feed
    
    Oct 17, 2017
    
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  5. Kunlun
    Huma dating Discount Weiner uber!
    
    Oct 17, 2017
    
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15. Vansen
  If you hit Ctrl+Z in a random explorer window in Win 10 after copying >100GB to a SD card, it will delete all that just copied. No prompt.
  
  Oct 15, 2017
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  3. DigMe
    I use MS SyncToy for moving music back and forth from SD to HD and vice versa.
    
    Oct 15, 2017
  4. BenjaminBore
    Undo 'yer undo: CTRL-Y
    
    Oct 16, 2017
    
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  5. Vansen
    ''Twas what I did. Had to copy it all back. >.<
    
    Oct 17, 2017
16. Vansen
  I'm calling out Giorgio Moroder's mustache as FAKE in that photo!
  
  Oct 4, 2017
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  3. brencho
    That's one helluva pussy tickler! An italian man once stopped me in New York to compliment me on my pussy tickler, so I take no credit for the conception of that genius phrase.
    
    Oct 4, 2017
    
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  4. Merrick
    @brencho if the man who stopped you was Giorgio Moroder, then this will all have come full circle!
    
    Oct 4, 2017
    
    JK47, Vansen and brencho like this.
  5. Case
    @brencho , I wonder what that guy would have called a goatee
    
    Oct 4, 2017
    
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17. Vansen
  I'm still of the opinion that Apple Music consistently has better masters than Tidal or Spotify.
  
  Sep 30, 2017
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  3. jowls
    I’m perfectly happy with Apple Music, although the impact of streaming on artist revenue still concerns me. I use it for discovery, then buy the CD or digital lossless of the stuff like.
    
    Sep 30, 2017
    
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  4. Dino
    https://images.apple.com/itunes/mastered-for-itunes/docs/mastered_for_itunes.pdf
    MFIT mentions some good Best Practices but is kind of wishy-washy and enforcement is kind of vague. At least they mention my pet peeve, DR. Wish it was better. Maybe better than nothing, maybe not.
    
    Sep 30, 2017
  5. Merrick
    Apple Music uses MFiT masters when they’re available, and sometimes those masters are unique to iTunes/Apple.
    
    Sep 30, 2017
18. Cellist88
  Digging this new profile picture
  
  Sep 28, 2017
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  2. Vansen
    :D It's fitting in light of recent photos on the home page, while staying in cat avatar territory.
    
    Sep 28, 2017
    
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19. Vansen
  Anyone know of any streaming capable DAPs on the horizon with potential that don't use AKM or ESS DACs?
  
  Sep 15, 2017
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  3. Vansen
    I spent a couple of weeks with Christian's ZX2 and wasn't tempted to go buy one. WM1A screams "buy me" everytime I listen to it.
    
    Sep 15, 2017
    
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  4. Bill-P
    Yeah, I just compared WM1A vs ZX2 in the Andro thread if you'd like to read about it. WM1A is not a bad choice at all.
    
    It just doesn't have streaming capabilities.
    
    Sep 15, 2017
    
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  5. kitantisune
    Not quite streaming, but ZX300 is coming out soon and will have USB DAC support. If you don't mind an extra cable, then it might work. I'm waiting to see if it's close to ZX2/WM1A before jumping on it.
    
    Sep 15, 2017
    
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20. Vansen
  Pulled the iPod 5.5g out of storage after a convo with @Kunlun. Still an amazing DAP.
  
  Sep 11, 2017
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  3. Merrick
    @Kunlun What chips did the other iPods use?
    
    Sep 11, 2017
  4. Claritas
    It was legit
    in
    a world of shit.
    
    Sep 11, 2017
    
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  5. Grahad2
    @Merrick newer iPods were on Cirrus chips, but the 4th/5th older ones were also Wolfson I believe.
    
    Edit: Ok so all the old ones were Wolfson: http://macintoshhowto.com/ipod/which-ipod-has-the-best-audio-quality.html/2
    
    Sep 11, 2017
    
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