Comments on Profile Post by Overkill Red

  1. bixby
    bixby
    not sure how you define great or cheaper, but my $220 total cost phone and IEMS used sound remarkably good with UAPP vs $1300 used desktop setup. Close in sound, nope, not way far off though, but on the value scale the portable solution is kickass!
    Dec 31, 2018
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  2. Overkill Red
    Overkill Red
    You're right; to a certain point portable solutions are great. I do feel that diminishing returns starts to kick in very quickly though! I would spend in increasing increments whenever I upgraded my portable gear, whereas with desktop gear it feels like I get more bang for my buck.

    Though that may just be stuff like the Yggdrasil being very good value.
    Dec 31, 2018
  3. EagleWings
    EagleWings
    Ed, we’ve never met, but Nic has talked about you. What you mentioned is the very reason I got into desktop audio.
    Dec 31, 2018
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  4. Overkill Red
    Overkill Red
    Oh, hopefully good things :) we're alike then! I do like to poke my head back into the IEM/CIEM realm to check out the newest flavors, but right now it seems like there's a sort of technological ceiling that's preventing that segment from reaching new heights. Perfect time to explore the desktop world, I suppose!
    Dec 31, 2018
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  5. EagleWings
    EagleWings
    Definitely good things :) I agree, and many more options and routes than the portable realm. But it also turns out to be a bigger rabbit hole.
    Jan 1, 2019
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