Woland

I have like 4 of them and I will never part with them. Good to know you have a decent roon endpoint at the ready. We need a proper affordable replacement, stupid Google.

There's a lot to love in their simplicity and reliability compared to other streamers. Hopefully they'll work with Spotify Lossless, if it ever arrives..

https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/fun-with-vintage-headphones.9934/
https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/delta-sigma-an-inconvenient-truth.9480/

He does have a gift and good things to say. Despite what he says or thinks about me.

the actual words were "Would you like to ride..."

Florence La Rue... is now 77. And a lot prettier than I am at 69! lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_LaRue
https://www.florencelarue.com/gallery/

Looks like she's doing ok :)

Wait. I just spotted the -->Woland thing.

It's one of those SBAF Status Mistake things.

Sorry, @Woland. No balloon. And the offer would only be made if a weekend in Moscow was on the cards!

@netforce the link got me angry. Now I'm sorry I looked into this rabbit hole and shared.

@netforce - WTF!!!

Its discord, people seem to share their true colors there. Garu was another guy that comes to mind that was completely comfortable posting all that racist shit over discord.

Maybe its the shitposts that would improve your hearing?

Or do it like Miraculix. Grab a slice of bread, inhale your neighbours cooking smell while taking a bite. Save both money and time.

*opening Alexandra Daddario Instagram*

Cool! I thought they had a lot of potential if the FR was right. Snappy driver. I don't remember resonance being an issue, but I could send you some material to try damping the cups if you want. I have some excellent absorbing materials. Taken a lot of buying various things and trying and learning. If they. have empty cups as is which is likely, it would probably help.

I would actually be willing to do this for you for free if you want to send them to me.

PMed you.

@penguins - Either you shop for outrageously expensive tubes or you spent your vacation on a Wal-Mart parking lot

4 days in tulum, but partially paid for by airline and CC points vs 2 pairs of vintage 2A3 tubes (from not ebay)

The HD8xx refund was enough for the SUP + a a bunch of other minor treats, including audio gear @rhythmdevils. The $9 pair of '77 Voskhod 6N23P's that just arrived are very pleasant indeed.

Just as long as it works with roon I'm all in. Would probably keep qobouz though cause it's been good to me.

@imackler I am certain Spotify was going to charge more for lossless, and Apple undercut them.

I also dislike the library limits imposed by all streaming services for unexplained reasons. The Tidal app stops working well after a certain number of songs are added but it works great via bubbleupnp

Since when do on ears have better noise isolation?

All my headphones are open-back anyway. I never liked the closed-back isolation feeling. In fact, it put me off headphones for decades

I still dig my Kef M500s for this. Light, unintrusive, don't fuck with my glasses, easy to take off and on at work.

Must be Head-Fi sponsorship renewal time.

Copycats.

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Probably oscilating like mad if the amp wasn't built with it in mind. Only a scope would tell you more.

I don't think 2c51 is compatible without a proper adapter?

They're in adapters, @Gazny ! Thats why they're so tall in the video.

*Low pass filter. And that’s a well-intended video with some misleading explanations. Higher frequency processing prevents aliasing! Those extra harmonics can lead to extra imd though from non-band limited non-linear processing. That itself is not aliasing where moire images reflect off dc and the upper nyquist limit.

I don't claim expertise... but was puzzled by the discussion of producing or hearing a square wave at all. Square waves are surely a limiting case, like a frictionless surface or a benevolent government.

@Gazny similarly, 15kHz lowpass on all U.S. FM radio. But still sounds acceptable to most!

I want it. Silver looks kinda cool.

but the marketing 1db more efficiency or 1hz/khz longer extension is nothing to me

SEO is easily manipulated. Google keeps changing the rules, but there are ways around the system.

Also I would not be surprised one bit that Amir games the Google algo. He makes his presence known on multiple sites to argue his case and isn't just limited to ASR. I've seen him on Head-fi, Computer Audiophile, (Mass)Drop, etc. It's not just about being 'right' but he wants attention.

Even on youtube now. I was looking for a general video on grounding and his vid came up at the top.

SEO is the term for professional gaming/manipulation or Search Engines including Google and YouTube's.. that's what the O stands for.

MJ2 consumes their souls. Vali2 coaxes a little magic out of their frail husks.

Comments like this keep nudging me toward buying a Vali. I get the impression it punches way above its (price) class.

It's a fun amp rather than a great amp. Currawong described it as sounding a bit drunk (intoxicated). He was less positive on the Vali 2+ because it has been cleaned up to sound more like the solid state ones.

Just spent an hour trying to pay for a US purchase with a US card. Gave up eventually, and used a HK one.

My Paypal account is in suspense. They want to use an OTP to confirm my login and the registered card has expired. They wouldn't get far with that, as the number they have for me is a British landline phone. Which I haven't had for nearly 20 years. And I know they'll tell me I can't use that account from the country I now live in, so not taking it further.

Thanks - I appreciate the pointer. I downloaded free music from a few sites, but the 'free' licensing is often unclear. I would prefer to be able to create files with variations on upsampling and share them directly, but pointing others to downloads for free music and letting them replicate is a fallback.

Want something pirate? You can try to download FLAC files from Chinese music apps, there's an instruction on YouTube about how to do it, and I found NetEase's got some upsampled files.

@Ti_Leo Nonono.. I want something I can share in posts on SBAF in original and processed format with no concerns.

I'm with @Merrick. I've felt a hole in my existence ever since I sold my HD800SDRs. only halfway joking. Been itching to have 800s to pair with the Elekit - I feel like the pairing will be sublime given performance with HD600s.

Return is not so easy from overseas. Drop are not accepting non-US orders anymore, so maybe there will be demand to flip.

Yeah, unless many people hate them, you should be able to flip at a small loss. Considering the impressions so far I doubt that will be the case.

Deleted.

If we are talking about the same thread, looks like my post was quietly deleted. Good.

No: it was in another thread. Have edited.

I'm still dwelling on this experience. It's been a life lesson.