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In a former life we were running all bob tails for testing in Pete's and Volvos and that shit was fun to beat on

Greta Thunberg had a stroke watching this

In a previous life I drove tandem plow/spreader trucks for my local public works and those trucks went good when the box was empty. I'm sure it surprised a lot of the cars in traffic that expect trucks to all be slow.

Yeah man, goood

@Cellist88 do you own the MIB? I plan on doing a good comparison between the MIB XLR outs -> cinemag 600 transformers (not the lesser cmlI-15) -> SE amps

Vs

SE out -> SE amps

Using a high quality switcher with two inputs. But not sure when I’ll get to it.

@Cellist88 I have plugged both outputs into my Liquid Crimson and my impressions don’t match that last post in the MIB thread at all. They sounded the same tonallly with the direct SE outs having less haze/ more clarity vs XLR with transformers. But need to compare again properly.

I’m on the fence about the mib, but value proposition of good friends here makes it hard for me to justify 2x the cost of the og dacs. I would use it Se, hence the interest but if it’s just a side grade I can just wait.

For a moment there I thought you had put in wrong tubes. Glad you found lost treasures.

My faith in you has been shaken. For shame.

;-)

I miss his passion for sound as well. Injected some heat into this place!

I’ve been enjoying the vinyl much more now than I moved the rig to the 2CH. Plus the format kinda forces you into whole album listening by default.

No contest

Well put.

Offering rentals for this is really cool.

Yeah, now i'm wondering how we could make something like this work for something like Gambler.

My HD800-JAR created by @ext1 fits my personal preferences at such a high level that it is not likely to be displaced by any other headphone. This is my reference.

JAR660 fulfils a similar role for me. Tone is to die for and technicalities are sufficient, within the context of being fairly source agnostic. I can only imagine what JAR800 out of a high end setup sounds like.

How can we hear one of these and is it better than Utopia? :)

Thus the tortured poet?

maybe i'll sit down and listen eventually. don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming anything on it being pop music, more so that I just don't read many (any?) music reviews that are as intently focused on the meaning of somewhat insipid lyrics. Maybe it's just folks mistaking vagueness for ambiguity?

but first imma gonna listen to some Lana Del Rey...

What's the use case, IEMs that need some tube magic?

The sub-$500 face off!

Until they turn to mush, hahaha enjoy, and may they last you thousands of hours

That's the very thing that also fueled my tube nervosa of messing with perfection. Once you find that synergy, I had to hoard said tubes that = that synergy machine to make sure you had enough to keep the party going for a long time. Glad you found that sweet spot though!

Here's to at least another 25 years for this replacement!

We had four lead crystal champagne glasses from our wedding. Three of them have been destroyed by kids and movers over the last thirty years. I may have to sell Yggdrasil if the fourth one ends up broken…

I have two beer glasses I got from Belgium that have particular value to me. One of them has the name Prof that I thought was cool since I just earned my PhD. When I bought the glass the shop owner just casually tells me that I bought a 70 year old glass and that the beer doesn’t exist anymore. Not sure I can find a replacement that easily

That was good. Amir is just lazy

Hadn't previously read any of Josh's articles before, that was impressive.

Thanks for the kind words, everyone!

I know, you sold me your Lyr 3 (if I am recalling) lol

Sounds like a Vali. Got it

No, you're right, I'm confusing Lyr2 and Lyr3, edited comment.

@jowls https://tinyurl.com/2svx3hkn

It's an old meme sir, but it checks out.

@jowls - Ada reminds me of the couple times I've heard Klipsch Heresy's; JAR660 reminds me more of older, darker, warmer Sonus Faber. So no, Ada, per my personal preference for a slightly darker presentation, isn't knocking out JAR660. Edit to add: Jupiter really, really nailed the 660 mods; JAR660 plugged into a decent portable are a considerable threat to all things desktop-bound.

@Lyander I'll compare directly w/ Solaris OG this week at work. But briefly (~1hr) comparing Fathom directly to OG Andro via iBasso DCE, it's kind of crazy how Fathom is a like adding "EQ", but for slightly sharper image definition, less haze, and adding bass texture and extension; something you don't get by just shaping the frequency response with passive EQ.

@Lyander so far I'm preferring Fathom over both Solaris OG and Andro OG, headstage-wise. Fathom is slightly more extended, less foggy/hazy than Andro. Smoother, less peaky treble. Tonally overall, Fathom cuts right up the middle between Solaris DD bass rich and Andro upper mid-forward. All running out of iPhone-->iBasso DCE 4.4mm Bal.

My reading comprehension tanked again, I thought Fathom was gonna be a DAP, ergo my incredulity at how it improved Andro bass haha. Okay this is nice, might try get ears on one at local distro. I'm out of the nice IEM game considering my luck but would be fun to try.

I even got permission to burn about 40 hours of mill time machining the model out of renshape. I've still got the model somewhere around here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDeMD_JkGY

I like your design better

ROHM done right baby !!

I've only got a few hours on this seemingly not borked version and it cuts right up the middle between AKM M6U and RU7, tonally. But it is very open, very clear and clean with no treble fuckery. Bass is also kinda neat in that on certain recordings it sounds quite cavernous and extended with little bleed into the midrange. (all impresions via Solaris OG)

told ya. :)