Woland

Tidal defines none of my music experience because I refuse it…because of MQA. Again I asked what insight are you looking for?

@Merrick lol :)

I make occasional use of Spotify. If I want to hear a song I'll even use youtube. I don't use streaming to explore music. Streaming is not relevant for me when discussing MQA.

I don't agree that the forum, or the thread, is being "dragged down."

I do, however, agree with @Woland on this: the company is being restructured, sold, whatever. MQA might, or might not, survive that. It depends if anyone wants it and thinks its financially viable.

Whether the time has come to dance on MQA's grave, or not, remains to be seen.

Its the thing itself as well. Discord’s biggest weakness is lack of permanence. Longer discussions get buried in the pile and forgotten or lost. Discord is difficult for keeping record but great for quick communications.

@Philimon Yeah! I think of it as giving me a pile of chats to wade through. And with little sense of what's active or interesting. And somehow they generally feel cliquey so I'm reluctant to participate. Not sure why these impressions are so different to, say, a message board like SBAF or the old school IRC/BBS.

SBAF is not your typical message board either though. SBAF discourages noise (at least in main sub-forums) and is anti-censorship.

nice warm fire?

Yeah, they're not living up to my hopes. The flammable wooden enclosure is probably the nicest bit tho!

Also, if you're not familiar with with the self-reinforcing stupidity of crowds, google the Asch conformity study.

@roshambo123 Googled summary conclusions from Asch conformity study. "Apparently, people conform for two main reasons: because they want to fit in with the group (normative influence) and because they believe the group is better informed than they are (informational influence)." https://simplypsychology.org/asch-conformity.html

Believing the group is better informed can also be spelled "pluralistic ignorance." Meaning, you might have 100 ppl swearing new tube amp is better than all tube amps, until you get one person that says "Um, maybe not?" And then people who had misgivings suddenly feel verified and turns out only 30% or something were really independently confident of their opinion. Grand scale example: Covid mandates

Which closed ATH?

@Philimon. Not sure of the models.. Three w- wooden ones.

If my dt-1350s ever die, I'd go for the WP900 as a portable and office headphone.

Have you tried adding a few more Vali 2’s?

Modius E is pretty good, but I think the balanced portion of it is better than SE

I will review it for you: it sounds like a dac

I wonder if there’s also a Modius+ soon.

How many billions is the asking price?

But... for deals like that, you have to become an absolute ignorant bastard. Not worth it.

Actually, what would be worth it...

Seeing the look on Jude's face when he heard that Merv had sold SBAF for /$Billions/.

Wicked LOL.

What's the chain? What version of Vali 2? Here comes upgraditus, a presence I've not felt since...

@Wilson Mediocre DAC (Dragonfly Red) and HD6xx. Source is Audirvana with Sennheiser AMBEO plugin.

Oh! This is new - Glenn Gould's humming sounds musical.

iPhone 4 with iOS 4

@k4rstar What audio file types does iOS 4 support? MP3 and AAC, or does it have ALAC support?

yes it supports ALAC. I only use MP3 and AAC. lossless file formats are a myth and waste of hard drive space.

To quote @SoupRKnowva
"who the f**k is willc? ... why are they staff?"

Have to admit wishing I'd never read that thread.

That "bruh" shit straight from the Biff Tannen timeline...

I'm sure one of those petals cost more than my car and my wife's car and my neighbor's car combined.

This was cool to read about. Thx for sharing.

"Didgeridoo player William Barton will play his composition 'Of the Earth,' accompanied by performers with 60 pairs of clapsticks made using brushbox timber salvaged from the Concert Hall’s old and new stages."

Alas, it's just a chrome dome.. <img>https://cdn.head-fi.org/a/11815435.jpg</img>

Hmm... I don't hate it, but I preferred the original look. Hopefully that's just a pre-production look. Where did they say it's the same circuitry?

@Armaegis https://www.head-fi.org/search/10264657/?q=lisst&c[users]=Jason+Stoddard&o=relevance

@rhythmdevils I wake up still hearing the music from the day before.

No. I wish.

I hesitate to use my system lately because it's too intense.

Octal LISST for Freya will be back soon...maybe as early as next week.

Great! Now all I need is a Freya :D

This is cool, I just grabbed an OG saga for next to nothing and wishing I had a LISST. Saga OG in passive is wicked good IMO