zottel
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zottel

Friend, Male, from Franconia, Germany

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I always wanted to avoid tubes, but Vali 3 really has me tempted to at least try (outside of meet conditions). Gotta resist … Mar 17, 2024

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    1. zottel
      zottel
      One of catchiest ear worms I know (but a nice one): Bauslupenband by Mundhaarmonika
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      2. zottel
        zottel
        Funny artist name, btw: Mundharmonika is the German word for mouth organ. With that extra A, however, it becomes Mouth Hair Monica.
        The rest of his work is not as good, IMHO, but I really love this song.
        Apr 9, 2023
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      3. Thad E Ginathom
        Thad E Ginathom
        Ahh. I was parsing it Mundhaar-monika and being baffled.

        Wait. Now I read your second line. Baffled again.
        Apr 9, 2023
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      4. zottel
        zottel
        Yes, the original word is Mund-Harmonika, of course, but with that extra A, “automatic” parsing becomes as you first did it, Mundhaar-Monika. :)
        Apr 9, 2023
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    2. zottel
      zottel
      Hm. Just put in another coax cable between streamer and DAC. Unexpectedly, it seems to have removed a tiny bit of harshness.
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      2. zottel
        zottel
        I found the new one in a drawer, it was a wrong delivery years ago and I had forgotten I had it. It seems better shielded than the other one, and it has better connectors, but nothing fancy, either. Both seem sturdy enough that I wouldn’t have expected a difference.
        Apr 8, 2023
      3. zottel
        zottel
        That might well happen in my brain, though, the difference I think I hear is tiny. Might be due to the fact that I just read on the headphones.com measurements explanation page that the cable can lead to jitter, which is I why I tried the new cable in the first place.
        Apr 8, 2023
      4. HotRatSalad
        HotRatSalad
        They say length can matter because of signal deflections. I have long 4 or 6 footer and a shorter 1.5 between my pi2aes's and dacs and I hear no difference. Long one is a cardas cable shorter is mogami which is on the headphone rig where I'd figure it was easier to hear a difference.
        Apr 8, 2023
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    3. zottel
      zottel
      Listening to St. Matthew Passion performed by Dunedin Consort. Very moving.
    4. zottel
      zottel
      Great recording: Midsummer by Quadriga Consort (96/24 at Qobuz). Old Scandinavian and English folk songs.
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    5. zottel
      zottel
      I love my rig so much lately.
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      2. zottel
        zottel
        I have a Jazz FF and a Daccord FF, both in black. Wonderful gear with a stellar price/performance ratio.
        Apr 6, 2023
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      3. zottel
        zottel
        P.S.: Did you know that the Daccord sells for nearly half its original price nowadays? :)
        Apr 6, 2023
      4. Claritas
        Claritas
        Yes. I'm loosely thinking of getting one. I'm jealous that you got to meet Jan. He seems like a feel-good kind of guy, but also professional. We should PM.
        Apr 6, 2023
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    6. zottel
      zottel
      Listening to Oh Dear by Isolde Lasoen (current Qobuzissime). Wow! I really love that kind of music.
      1. zottel
        zottel
        Generally, I tend to like music created by drummers.
        Mar 18, 2023
      2. bixby
        bixby
        Excellent, thanks. A sprinkle of Hooverphonic in there and great drums.
        Mar 18, 2023
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    7. zottel
      zottel
      Listening to a 90s Playlist from Roon. Those songs I heard often then and never since show like nothing else how f'ing awesome my rig is.
    8. zottel
      zottel
      Why is piano so hard to get right? On many recordings, piano sounds slightly off from my rig. On some (few), it sounds great, mostly Jazz.
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      2. zottel
        zottel
        @AdvanTech Yes, I tried on speakers, too, but the best I have is a Dynaudio Music 5 smart speaker. Great sound, yes, but in terms of microdetail/plankton my headphone rig is far ahead. Tonality is sometimes nicer on the Dynaudio, but still, piano …
        Mar 14, 2023
      3. zottel
        zottel
        @RKML0007 Yes, that’s the thing: I play the piano myself, I know exactly what it should sound like. I did play the trumpet for a while, too, so there’s that. But then, I play acoustic guitar as well, and I love many recordings of that instrument. Same for drums, though good recordings are not so plenty there, and it requires really good and detailed equipment.
        Mar 14, 2023
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      4. zottel
        zottel
        I guess you’re right, @Cellist88 . All those overtones are hard to capture. I wonder what a piano tuned for just intonation would sound like, at least in the key where that works, then. :)
        Mar 14, 2023
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    9. zottel
      zottel
      Just discovered Snarky Puppy, specifically the album Culcha Vulcha. Wow! Great sound!
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      2. Walderstorn
        Walderstorn
        They are amazing! The best drummer i have ever heard live plays for them, Larnell Lewis. You can check some videos with him on youtube, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd1X5JWaGgQ

        Edit - Hope i can catch them again.
        Mar 4, 2023
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      3. Kolohe
        Kolohe
        Mar 4, 2023
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      4. Jinxy245
        Jinxy245
        Check out "We Like it Here"...another standout. Good stuff!!
        Mar 5, 2023
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    10. zottel
      zottel
      <- Friend \o/
    11. zottel
      zottel
      My Mini C will be delivered today! \o/
      1. Emojiless, Jinxy245, Case and 3 others like this.
      2. zottel
        zottel
        It’s here! First impressions: Great value for the money, great resolution, nice tonality. If I keep liking it like I do right now, this will be “my closed-back” for quite a while.
        Feb 16, 2023
      3. zottel
        zottel
        Unfortunately, I do hear a small difference between the stock cable of my Clear Mg and the Forza cable @Emojiless sold with the Mini C. Which means I’ll have to buy a longer Forza cable sooner or later. Sigh.
        Feb 16, 2023
      4. Emojiless
        Emojiless
        Yeah, I also heard a difference on the Clear OG. Glad you like it!
        Feb 17, 2023
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    12. zottel
      zottel
      Interesting: One of the things I notice with Zen Stream is that lyrics are easier to understand (acoustically) than before.
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      3. zottel
        zottel
        One example of a song that had nearly painful treble before and doesn’t anymore: Funky Butt Strut by Wonderbrazz.
        Feb 11, 2023
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      4. caute
        caute
        Which streamer are you comparing it to? (If any)
        Feb 11, 2023
      5. zottel
        zottel
        It had been simple USB from a Pi 4 before.
        Feb 12, 2023
    13. zottel
      zottel
      I really hope my Zen Stream will be delivered today. Held up by strikes at DHL, it only arrived in my region last night.
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      2. zottel
        zottel
        It’s here! \o/ First short tests suggest that it indeed sounds a lot better than Pi USB and is also considerably better than CCAudio optical. Yay! :) Unfortunately, I have to work a bit now before I can really start testing.
        Feb 9, 2023
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      3. caute
        caute
        Where abouts are you located? I haven't read of a DHL strike, but I fully support them (except when it holds up your or my package, then I'm against it).

        EDIT: sorry, you're German! I thought I knew that lol, with your pf post on the fret wanker. One of my all time faves.
        Feb 9, 2023
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    14. zottel
      zottel
      Thanks to a generous tax refund, I have a Zen Stream incoming, and hopefully a used Mini C. \o/
      1. Qildail, Jinxy245, lagadu and 2 others like this.
    15. zottel
      zottel
      Switching TO a certain headphone can be radically different from switching FROM it.
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      3. atomicbob
        atomicbob
        This phenomenon can work both ways, depending on the differences between the two.
        Feb 3, 2023
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      4. Josh83
        Josh83
        I think it has to do with the fact that one often can’t tell if something is “supposed” to sound some way on a recording, and you don’t realize that something’s missing until you hear it on better gear. Once you hear the latter, the former’s flaws become obvious.
        Feb 3, 2023
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      5. Thad E Ginathom
        Thad E Ginathom
        Headphone is a game of two halves.
        Feb 4, 2023
    16. zottel
      zottel
      Love the new Liechtenstein Tapes album by Fanta 4.
      1. zottel
        zottel
        It’s a revisit of old hits, recorded “live” in a studio on analog equipment. The sound is absolutely addictive.
        Jan 14, 2023
    17. zottel
      zottel
      German Music Dictionary: Griffbrettwichser Translation: Fretboard wanker
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      3. caute
        caute
        Not a musical term, but I'm a fan of the insulting "sitzpisser". Means what you think it means, a man who sits when he pisses. "Warmduscher", which is incidentally a London-based band, is also a fun insult, it lit means "warm showerer" but is used derisively to refer to what we would call a "wimp"
        Jan 10, 2023
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      4. caute
        caute
        Another word we don't have that the Germans do that is more useful is "Fremdschämen" which lit means "strange shame [to be]" or the kind of embarrassment you feel when someone else makes an ass of themselves right in front of you, kinda the opposite of the popular Schadenfreude.
        Jan 10, 2023
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      5. Claritas
        Claritas
        My friends can tell that I mean the same thing when I call a pianist "a technician." Plenty of those around, especially on the competition circuit.
        Jan 11, 2023
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    18. zottel
      zottel
      I guess I’ll have to buy a Pi2AES. I just dug out my Chromecast Audio, and even its optical out is slightly superior to USB on the Daccord.
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      2. zottel
        zottel
        Not a big difference, but a bit less digitus, rounder, more air and plankton.
        Unusable for > 48 kHz, though, audible clicks that are not there in the original.
        I wonder how an actually good source like a Pi2AES might sound.
        Jan 1, 2023
      3. zottel
        zottel
        And no noise when switching frequencies. \o/
        Jan 1, 2023
    19. zottel
      zottel
      Happy Holidays to all of you! Over the past year, this forum has become a place where I feel at home.
      1. zottel
        zottel
        Invaluable information, but even more important: Great people, much less internet-style madness than elsewhere, though we had our share, too, of course.
        Great place to be.
        Dec 23, 2022
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      2. Thad E Ginathom
        Thad E Ginathom
        Over the past year? I thought you'd /always/ been here!

        :D
        Dec 24, 2022
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    20. zottel
      zottel
      Listening to the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack. It’s been ages since I last did. But I still know all the lyrics by heart. :)
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      3. zottel
        zottel
        Hehe, actually, I thought the same. It’s one of the very few recordings I remember from my teens where listening again with good hardware wasn’t like “Wow, I never heard all this then!”, but more like “Hm, I did’nt remember it sounded so bad …”
        The remastered version from 2015 is actually quite a bit better (though not a revelation at all, too), and it contains the songs missing from the original soundtrack.
        Dec 22, 2022
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      4. Kernel Kurtz
        Kernel Kurtz
        I'm gonna have to find that one. Just recently listened to the soundtrack from Phantom of the Paradise. Another horror/comedy that came out in the mid 70s when I was a kid and is kind of a cult classic around here. And yeah, I still remembered the lyrics :-)
        Dec 22, 2022
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      5. Merrick
        Merrick
        I love Rocky Horror! Used to go to the midnight shows when I was in high school.
        Dec 22, 2022
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    Gender:
    Male
    Location:
    Franconia, Germany
    Gear List:
    Meier Corda Daccord ff, Jazz ff
    HEDDphone Two, Clear Mg, HD650
    Bathys
    Dynaudio Music 5
    Roon, HQPlayer, Zen