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Stats still have their place! The new “entry” SRX1 is quite nice. Bill P had a thread on these with pads swap that looks interesting.

For reference, I take my own curated sets of L-like cushions found on Ali over Grado's, whose tonality is closer to authentic F-pads than L but enables to put drivers away from inner ears (more like L than F).

I went to know how they compare to the HE-90

IIRC @ChaChaRealSmooth got ears on this one too? Though he's also team electrodynamic so not sure how the HE-1's presentation will gel with his preferences.

Totally absurd, All that mororizing must contribute more to the cost than the audio circuits! Ridiculous.
Ridiculous.... But highly entertaining, lol. Even if all my hearing goes, I'd still want to play with it.
ok, ok... I want one. <blush>

Having worked full time and attended graduate school part-time for four years, I can relate. Enjoy your downtime!

Try Irish!

Ballantine’s and Teacher’s are solid. Teacher’s is a little sweet and somewhat lighter-bodied. White Horse is a good choice if you want an Islay blend. Dewar’s White Label is so-so at best. It’s very light and watery: whisky for vodka drinkers. Avoid Grant’s (astringent).

Cutty Sark Prohibition is also super good (but strong!) cheapie.

It’s also slang for a body part.

One of the best videos on YT!

@Vtory I found one called Smoked Wagon that I've enjoyed greatly. They have a few different bottlings but tbh the regular "cheap" one is still plenty good.

To a Brit, bourbon means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_biscuit

Budget Canadians FTW!

Some interesting synergy found with caldera closed and stealth. Sonic profiles are preferable to any other toppings I tried before.

Which one would you keep in the end? The open version or closed version?

@AxeFigo I'd take the closed. Open one still has some merits. But the closed is sonically more refined and balanced (with a few more magics) to my ears.

@Vtory Thank you!

It's really an entertaining coding challenge enough to recommend any (either professional or enthusiastic) coders: https://adventofcode.com/2023

A few quick observations

1) Sorta weird fit, but quickly adaptable. Comfort is rather on the better side.
2) Not nit-picky with upstream but decently sensitive. Thought the transformer block "equates"..
3) Sonically better to me than SR1a regarding complete package

I had the same reaction after moving from the SR1a to the CA1a. Whatever was lost in resolution really paled in comparison to what was gained in bass and comfort/fit. Of course, I'm semi-salivating over the Immanis now, but that's an order of magnitude beyond my bank account.

Whoever was reading and answering those emails was so high up on rage that they cannot have read the answers properly at all. You claim to love your company and then you shoot yourself in the foot in this manner.

Even Linus got a wif of this...what a dumb move.

Lawyers are serious business when their DACs got too much profit margin. Good riddance.

DCS has always just been just ok. I understand they sponsor canjam and other events but their audio equipment is overpriced by 10x, but it looks nice (if ur into that).

Which is the point of a “mechanical” keyboard. But them smooth linears. lol. I with the hobby and sold all my boards after realizing…I hardly use my comp lol

Your last point is critical lol. Joke aside, stroke feeling and sound will be two major dimensions (either eventually comes down to preference), I believe. Often confounded by typing amounts and contexts. Whatever, the hobby is much cheaper than audio haha.. = feels less guilty!

There is joy in the tactility of using mechanical keyboards, even if you’re not a power user.

I wish I can use one in the office, but the nice touchy ones are loud.

The sheet shows UC (Berkeley?)

Oops, typo. Good catch!

Eichmann in Jerusalem is a stylistic masterpiece, a lot easier read than Origins.

Very nice.

@CEE TEE is no longer there. Anything is a crapshoot at Drop these days. Christian used to agonize over little details, little tunings, get feedback from a lot of trusted ears.

Don't get too excited

I do agree that Drop nowadays acts like a mixture of Ali and Kickstarter in bad ways. Presumably lower expected quality. Its return policy got more generous though (the only better thing than old massdrop days) .. enough for me to enter gambling.

Would White House propose tariff on keyboards?

But yes... I just bought a crappy 65% wireless (BT + 2.4G) keyboard on 2nd-hand market here, for 50 CNY, which was... $7. And if I want to buy a new one, it's just 99 CNY, so $14. How do you compete with that?!!

Basically everything major component for KBD is made within China so probably makes sense they would be the best at it now. Have a weird and different design you want to do? Probably much easier and faster to make a prototype there to test out.

I got into keeb building in 2021 back when supply chains were still all mucked up and everything was taking forever. Hypebeast and reseller market were going wild with prices. Glad to see that is deflated a lot now and its a lot of enthusiasts driven again.

The OG Susvara doesn't have any outer damping either AFAIK, you can see the diaphragm through the girlls. Those grills don't do much damping likely except cause resonance. So their removal is a good choice. The brown earpads that look fake... maybe not.

After reading their Chinese material: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/new-hifiman-susvara-unveiled.973067/ it's like the only "upgrade" is removing the grill. While the OG Susvara costs 28,000 CNY on Taobao Currently, the new is said to be 56,000 CNY. So 2x the price by removing some stuff, it should be called "Susvara GTS"

Build quality looks shoddy