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hm, well, not too bad. Not at all by faaaaar.

Sorta pointless given I'm running BNC out of Digione Sig, but nervousa now quelled (and, sorta wondering what comes of Schiit's transport thingamadoodle).

OK - now that I've had some time flipping between BNC and Unison USB: Unison 94.3-96.2% of BNC. Things that jump out at me: Unison bass favors attack, Digione Sig favors coherence, i.e., it gets attack, sustain, delay, release better. Most noticeable on double bass or high dynamic contrast electronic bass. Unison presents a little less space around instruments, too.

Think YodaBronco was being deliberately silly just then, @Sqveak. It'd be in character for him :))

Or maybe not. Who knows. I'm happy with HD600 and watching HD650 modding with mild amusement and interest while deciding if I wanna save up for a big boy tube amp in a few years :P

Some want 650 mid smoothness with 600 extension and neutrality

@Sqveak: 1999 is pre head-fi, iow, Headwize prehistory of headphones

In hindsight RobS's engagement with the site went from forum participant to "changes name, new profile pic every 2 days and 5 posts/day" like it was social media. This probably caused positive confirmation bias later countered by negative hyperbole. Doing souce first while not having sampled much gear didn't help either, and we end up with noisy impressions justified after the fact and a lot of dick-measuring.

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Writing à stream of conciousness is a form of art, not everyone is a James Joyce. Most people if they do not digest properly the only thing they come up with is a stream of diarrhoea

@Wilson Whoa! Don't remember that one. Python?

@Thad E Ginathom , yup! I didn't get the humor when I first saw the sketch when I was a kid, but then I tried to read Proust...

I have yet to try Proust. Python will have to wait.

I enjoy lifting my skinny fists from time to time!

Luciferian Towers is a bit formulaic, but crank it up on a speaker rig and it just washes over you. It's a little less overtly negatively political, too. Much more positive vibe.

^ hence why I don't like it as much. They peaked with F#A# IMHO, and I don't bother with anything after Yanqui. I like that political edge - makes them stand out in the genre. For a more simple, positive approach, there's always Explosions in the Sky - also great live.

Can ultimate control ever be wrested?

Dogs are wonderfully loyal ... cats can be good companions too, but one must always be alert as they can be so devious.

We have two cats, two dogs. Dogs are 35- and 70-pounds. The cats rule over them (although the bigger one is just happy-go-lucky about everything).

Pigeons! But what is the best kind to use?

Don't diss the pigeons, depending on how bad the 'net is where you are a well-trained carrier pigeon could offer even faster speeds than what your ISP is capable of:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-safrica-pigeon/pigeon-transfers-data-faster-than-south-africas-telkom-idUSTRE5885PM20090910

I was thinking of RFC2549: IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service

verb, which verb, what verb, impatiently the verb.

This all looks like foliage to me.

It's like Madlibs!

back when i was in grad school i had access to a full machine shop. I bought some 300M HSS 3" cylinder blanks and CNC'd them into spherical isolation devices with tungsten-steel bearings. they didn't do anything good.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280384629_Spherical_Foundation_Structural_Seismic_Isolation_System_Development_of_the_New_Type_Earthquake_Resistant_Structures

In my opinion if you want to hear any improvements from that isolation materials on your SS gear your gear, as well as output, should be extremely good. Otherwise it is the same like using a $1000 cable to connect Modi Multibit to a Lyr3 and claim there is a huge improvement.
That's why I become really suspicious when someone tells me to try those "improvements" without even asking anything about the gear I own.

In my opinion, if you want to hear improvements from isolation materials with SS gear, the gear should be extremely bad!

The HD600 can be just a tad shouty with vocals while just a tinge brighter. Treble is a little bit more grainy. I prefer the smoother treble of the HD650.

LOL crap I guess I'm a cozy listener and didnt know it. Here I am trying to maximize slam, oops way off lol

Haha, nah, I'd say to trust more experienced listeners when they say certain pairings can make the HD650 punch hard; my impressions are out of good-value stuff mostly, i.e. G109A, ZDT Jr., and Sunrise3+LPS, so nothing particularly "exciting". I'm actually curious to hear the HD650 out of a Valhalla 2 or Mjolnir 2, but no one I know locally has em.

Eh, no use whining over what I can't audition easily.

It says a lot that this is exactly what older Beats headphones did.

@Lyander yeah, 30% of the old headphone weight was from non-functional metal parts. It was an entertaining write up.
https://medium.com/@BenEinstein/how-it-s-made-series-yup-our-beats-were-counterfeit-but-they-cost-about-the-same-to-make-as-the-364cc6808d18?

@JustAnotherRando haha, yeah, they knew that without the metal weights the Beats cans would be too light to feel premium. Interesting how people's perception of a product can be skewed that easily.

I'll give it a week to settle in, but purr1n's take on the apparent benefits of the nexus stage matches my experience so far.

Thanks I may pick one up in the next few weeks.

Very impressed with mine!

Drink your whiskey, play the tango music and foxtrot...

I just want to know why. Why stack your speakers vertically, and surround them when ksc75. When tuning my system nothing would inspire me to do that.

One day I hope to assemble a rig so righteously bitchin' that I can do nothing else but "quietly listen to Jefferson Airplane" on it.

Or you had a good sleep last night

Or your sinuses are currently pristine

Bass is good. Bit of a boost in lowest octaves, but is fairly concentrated. Can be a good or bad thing if you want that warmer transition through lower mids.

I think the main problem is there's some sort of glare in the treble, bit of upper mid emphasis. But they're still solid all around, the JVCs.

The nozzle with the most amount of cotton does remove any treble and upper mid nasties but also makes them sound suffocated and low-fi as hell. Until engineers have perfected enclosure design to avoid all resonances and ringing in closed dynamics I think we're gonna have to settle for this if we want decent timbre. Will probably post more impressions later.

Mine as well, blue nozzle is the less stuffed. So far the most interesting thing about these is that they seem to scale a bit better than Andro. Yggdrasil to T3 on low impedance seems to highlight the macrodynamic capabilities of a DD better than Andro. No hiss, really punchy and enjoyable.

I'll have pineapple on pizza juice.

Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!

No Qobuz up here in the Great White North. May have to see if I can setup a VPN to give it a try.

Was a "hi-res" skeptic until I pulled up some familiar albums in 24/96 on Qobuz, like Buckley's "Grace". Been cursing MQA more ever since. I'm sure you're getting a better sense of Yggdrasil's resolving abilities as well.

It's kinda like I got Yggdrasil A2^2 now.