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I'm not even including paypal fee here.. Conversion rate is already much lower than other similar services.

I use Wise when I can

But I keep two PayPal accounts for this reason. One EU and one US.

@Cspirou Yeah, I learned and used Wise for the first time. Seems Wise could save 4-5% of total money against PP other things being equal. That's why I was so shocked..

I tried three builds before landing on one I could jive with. Now running a Confessor with a Winged Scythe.

Summoning the ashes helps a lot. Maybe too well. My skeletal spearmen are tenacious and fearless.

*spits out coffee*

Lol I often feels like myself being a poverty class when reading HF summit-fi threads.

@zerodeefex Definitely. I love adventuring with its unique gameplays. A series of micro decisions is also quite addictive enough to forget hours spent in the game.

Saw a friend playing it through a Discord stream. Made me buy the game. I still have PTSD from the Sekiro boss fights...

Supposedly the day one patch fucked things with stutters and frame drops. Think i’ll wait for another patch.

The injustice started in 1921 when the then divided territory above the Black Sea was forced into the later Sovjet Union. I was obsessed with Ukraine after MH-17. Complicated region that Black Sea area...

We’ve had bipartisan normalization of a 9/11’s worth of domestic deaths every day or two. Kind of hard to get people worked up about deaths halfway across the world in the face of that.

There’s also a fairly substantial portion of GOP voters who think Putin is great, and a smaller (but no less wrong) portion of Democratic voters who think that previous immoral U.S. foreign policy somehow lessons the immorality of what Putin’s doing.

Who is Kerry?

A guy known to stax or other estat people as an amp builder (DIY-T2 builds in particular). So far he got orders or commissions individually but now things seem to start as a little more formal business.

Oh that's cool. I've seen Kerry's projects and he does really good work. In fact the mini Dynalo SuSy I built is a PCB designed by him

This part was already pretty good in manga og, but anime describe the main theme way more elegantly. Putting lots of efforts in expressing the contrast between Kamado duo and Shabana duo.

I personally love to feel refreshed when I return from semi-long break for a certain piece of gears. One reason why I can’t let things go easily.

Both the smallest and the lightest respectively among their works, too... Hey physics where are you?

To me sine tones are a little difficult to hear particularly for higher f. I'd rather recommend to play with N band graphical equalizer with the favorite songs (start form fewer N then increase number later!). Let's get familiar with each frequency and associate with its function in perception.

this is all well and good, but without any baseline for your preferences, all EQ tweaking impressions kinda become strictly subjective and kinda lose their value in a way as objective impressions

Good point. But, in the context of understanding others' impression, isn't the inverted EQ one very objective way to express one's tonal assessment? We have to infer others' preferred tonality in the end (by figuring out relative assessments in various ways), and I do think EQ is no worse than that. e.g., bassy --> cut x db in bass (inverted: +x db gain in bass).

Relevant thread (some pics there too): https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/eta-mini-impressions-and-reviews-thread.11855/

You'll be getting a B stock unit just for the sake of this friendly comparison, because that's all I have left for right now. Of course, I suggest staying on the official tour roster so you can also hear and share thoughts about a set with closer to ideal channel matching and production build quality :)

Kind of a cool showdown. 1978 planar magnetic vs 2022 electrodynamic both with good acoustics.

s/-headphone/-woman/

reread.

;)


(...or partner of choice. Sorry, this joke is not inclusive. "|man|dog|goat" etc would have spoiled the flow. OK, so it could have been an interesting exercise in regular expressions...)

@Thad E Ginathom I followed your instruction then damn lmao. Ok, I am not unfaithful.. I am just training RE myself... lol.

I like the differing presentations too much to be able to settle for one myself. Not easy to pick which one I like better than the others; depends on mood and other things.

Having previously lived with the Mjolnir 2 for a few years I feel your frustration. I re-terminated everything I had and made pig tail adapters out of the 6.35mm end. But some manufacturers will void the warranty on the whole HP if you do (like Focal UK), so you have to be careful. Of course if it's a loaner you're SOL.

That is annoying. A friend here said to buy all headphones with 4 pin XLR and use an adapter. They saved me a lot of frustration over time.

Make balanced output headphones illegal from 2023 onward.

@gixxerwimp It's heavily (I think) modded yamaha hp-1. Feels like a JAR580 on a planar-magnetic steroid. Dialing them in with eq for tonality, but lots of technicality wonders already there.

I have a YH-100 modded by dBel84 and it also sounds amazing. Those vintage ortho drivers are something else. Too bad they need soft materials for proper damping, otherwise there could have been some awesome off-the-shelf headphones out there.

Mine (loaner tbh lol) is done by RD. I already thought unmodded hp1 surprisingly decent.. but the mods metamorphosed it to a monster.

Because loaner gear should never go anywhere near your "other" head. Personal gear though, feel free to crank up the bass =)

If you need extra time that's fine. Sounds stressful!

Thanks much! I may need a second head to assign zoom/teams meeting for the work (i.e., mostly boring)..

iFi uses some sort of multibit Burr-Brown chip that also processes DSD that I don’t fully understand

AFAIK they use hybrid chips handling both (mb) pcm and dsd. At least more understandable to me!

I’m not sure why they don’t just do a 1 week trial and after that you have to buy, instead of a 30 minute limit that you can close the app and reopen to restart.

I think 30 min way makes more sense. If one likes its sound enough, any music enthusiasts would be eventually irritated by the time limit lol (it didn't show the remaining minutes friendly, either).

OTOH it's very possible one user didn't find interesting initially with OS/DS dacs but the benefit might be worthy once he buys a new dac enabling to turn off internal OS/LPF.

It's probably just me, but when I get irritated I don't buy. Seems I'm more than willing to cut my nose off

Sig version is exactly the same, just with some extra accessories. Ifi produced a comparison chart that did show differences but then on HF they confirmed the units were the same and the chart was incorrect. Someone can correct me if I got it wrong.

Sorry, I was thinking of the Neo iDSD, not the Pro! Ifi needs products names there are easier to differentiate.

Super agreed! I often find their names a little confusing. Also thanks for the prompt correction. I was almost misled haha.