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qirex posted:There must be some amazing orange sofas, fur rugs and hanging plants in the accompanying pictures. 
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I want this.
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Feb 10, 2023 21:20
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Hhahahahh, holy crap. I have a broken one of these in my closet.
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Feb 10, 2023 21:29
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phosdex posted:I want this. My dad has 2 that have been relegated to hanging in his holiday cabin. They're totally ridiculous and cool.
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Feb 10, 2023 22:27
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My grandparents had one of these hanging in the living room in the 70s and 80s.
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Feb 11, 2023 00:07
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What do I need to type into ebay to purchase one or 5
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Feb 11, 2023 02:26
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Wayne Knight posted:What do I need to type into ebay to purchase one or 5 I googled "mineral oil lamp". Mineral oil drips down the nylon lines in a trippy fashion and catches the light.
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Feb 11, 2023 02:46
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Oil lamp… Yeah, it’s a thing I could not believe existed when I first saw it.
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Feb 11, 2023 02:53
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Crime on a Dime posted:absolutely Pick a year and month! Heres a post from another thread of ads: Humphreys posted:
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Feb 11, 2023 06:25
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Hell yeah this poo poo's always been around.
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Feb 12, 2023 15:54
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more like BJL
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Feb 12, 2023 15:55
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also what's the coolest looking overpriced audiophile poo poo, a lot of them have that "DIY" look to them but I absolutely love the DS cart with the Cylon light on it and would totally get one just for that if I had lottery money (sadly it doesn't track back and forth like the actual Cylon light)
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Feb 12, 2023 16:07
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1) this is the perfect culmination of audiophilia. 2) cue the paragraph long arguments of which type of silicone is better.
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Feb 12, 2023 17:12
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Feels Villeneuve posted:also what's the coolest looking overpriced audiophile poo poo What type of cool looking are you into? Luxman’s tube gear is gorgeous mid century modern. A DCS Vivaldi stack is an attractive modern design that is laughably overpriced. Sonus Faber speakers have beautiful finishes, and for a long time were considered the go-to speaker to appease spouses. My personal favorite, though, is the Estelon Extreme Mk II. Talk about making a statement.
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Feb 12, 2023 19:38
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We all knew this was the logical conclusion and yet I'm surprised to see it Well done, I've lost the last shred of faith in humanity I had left
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Feb 12, 2023 19:39
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Music you can gently caress
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Feb 12, 2023 20:29
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You really need to get into the infrasound range if you want oscillations that'll actually suck you off. 'Course, if you use a rotary subwoofer and penetrate too far you risk lopping off your glans with the blades.
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Feb 12, 2023 23:01
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Did we talk about this yet? https://www.tomshardware.com/news/dollar500-audiophile-sata-ssd-cable-with-superstar-crystals-listed toilet braid is a new one...
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Feb 21, 2023 17:48
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movax posted:Did we talk about this yet? I love Tom's quote:Without a review sample, we can’t completely dismiss all of the product listing claims regarding this cable’s Hi-Fi qualities. However, the maker has missed some obvious optimizations, as the design omits any reference to using precious metals or oxygen-free conductors.
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Feb 21, 2023 18:18
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I love this channel but some of this stuff is creeping into audiophile territory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPYnqogJC5Q
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Feb 24, 2023 08:46
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That reminds me, I need to get a 3.5mm to dingus adapter.
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Feb 24, 2023 09:58
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Humphreys posted:I love this channel but some of this stuff is creeping into audiophile territory. He’s been dangling a whole foot in that territory since either the DAC or the Meze video, both of which were over a year ago
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Grassy Knowles posted:He’s been dangling a whole foot in that territory since either the DAC or the Meze video, both of which were over a year ago Yeah, he's been at it for ages. And in one part of my mind I kida worry for Franks welfare... A snake mixed with all that noise and contant drummer vibrations.
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Feb 24, 2023 15:45
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Oh, I thought that he was taking the piss. I've not seen any of those, just his usual random old stuff, but this one seemed to be mocking.
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Adolf Glitter posted:That reminds me, I need to get a 3.5mm to dingus adapter. I think it's called a sound
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Adolf Glitter posted:That reminds me, I need to get a 3.5mm to dingus adapter.
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If you're a reviewer it's pretty much a given you'll slide down the slope, the slope was specifically constructed and greased by audio companies to make this happen.
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Im a reviewer and I dont do that. It ends up meaning you get blacklisted constantly.
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qirex posted:If you're a reviewer it's pretty much a given you'll slide down the slope, the slope was specifically constructed and greased by audio companies to make this happen. Yeah, the best way you can criticize a product is to leave things out, or couch things in "well, this isn't for me but it may be for someone else." For example look at Resolve's review of the DCA Stealth. In the subjective impressions of the Stealth in his video, he only talks about the technical performance of the Stealth in his subjective impressions, and in his personal tier list there's a strong couching of "well this didn't work on my head." If you got him off-the-record, he'd probably trash it. I listened to the Stealth recently and woof, that headphone did not sound good. While the graph has the Stealth as Harman-neutral, it did not sound that way at all. It's very ironic that the two biggest boosters of the Stealth are Amir of ASR and Herb Reichert. The thing they have in common is serious hearing loss. And ZMF may be the best example of this phenomenon at small scale. There's a cult around ZMF on Head-Fi and SBAF. The ZMF guy is very generous with the press and on forums, the headphones are well-constructed, and he fits a type that audiophiles love: the sound genius whose gear springs from a singular vision. The sound quality simply wasn't there on the Atrium I listened to. The first note in my notebook when I listened to them was that they were lacking energy. What I heard was confirmed with the measurement. There's nothing past 7K!  The only impression I could find that made note of this was a review that said "treble response is where the Atriums will likely be most divisive."
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Godzilla07 posted:It's very ironic that the two biggest boosters of the Stealth are Amir of ASR and Herb Reichert. The thing they have in common is serious hearing loss. You know, I always wondered what Amir did it when he said he plays the speakers at like 95dB+ for his subjective listening reviews. If he has a giant room and sat far away, or used earplugs, or something else. I guess I have my answer now 
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I also ran my volume high doing reviews and that means that I had far different impressions from most other reviewers. 90-95db at least. I pushed to 100 if I could as well. Before you ask, I have a SPL meter and just volume match with one IEM in one ear and speakers playing.
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There's a difference between listening at high volumes to expose distortion and other flaws in the driver, e.g. Focal Clear, and Amir:quote:I sense nothing is too loud when I go to the dentist. So I don't think your issues are occupationally related. I do have age related hearing loss ("nerve damage"). This has lowered my sensitivity in higher frequencies. But in mid frequencies, the audiologist showed I hear above average. God bless Amir for being so dedicated to measurements that he bought a Klippel NFS, but I do not trust that man for any sort of subjective impression on transducers.
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Adolf Glitter posted:Oh, I thought that he was taking the piss. I've not seen any of those, just his usual random old stuff, but this one seemed to be mocking. To be honest, with Dankpods you never know when he is actually taking the piss or loving something. It's part of the charm and character he made. Although he doesn't gently caress around and will pump stupid expensive headphones with huge preamps to see if they will burn or live up to their specs. I'm a Sony MDR-V6 nerd and yell at the TV when I see people wearing them backwards. But I respect his choice of HerrDerr600s as his control as they are also very good headphones.
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I run high volume because I want my in ears to respond like speakers in a room, which generally the louder the are the better they sound.
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Humphreys posted:To be honest, with Dankpods you never know when he is actually taking the piss or loving something. It's part of the charm and character he made. Although he doesn't gently caress around and will pump stupid expensive headphones with huge preamps to see if they will burn or live up to their specs. DankPods should be viewed as entertainment-only. Please do not trust the drummer who loves the stuff he uses as a musician, or the free stuff he gets from brands, like the $3,000 USD Empyrean that Meze comped him. I wish he were better because DankPods has a massive platform, particularly for people getting into the hobby FWIW the only people who have really trashed HD600s are Head-Fi posters whose brains have been broken by Grados yelling about "Sennheiser veil"
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I got a pair of Grados which are SR80x. They suck my balls. High frequency biased, just very poor tuning.
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My Grado Black turntable cart was very meeehhh too, like the cheaper AT cart my dad put on his TT sounded better than that thing did. I dunno, I guess some of their more expensive stuff is good but their price/performance ratio doesn't seem great. I've got a Nagaoka MP-110 cartridge now and man. For $170-$200 it's a great piece of gear. Clear, balanced, and the reduction in surface noise compared to the Grado black was huge.
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Mederlock posted:My Grado Black turntable cart was very meeehhh too, like the cheaper AT cart my dad put on his TT sounded better than that thing did. I dunno, I guess some of their more expensive stuff is good but their price/performance ratio doesn't seem great. grado stuff has the quality of a small shoddy chinese manufacturing workshop, except made in USA at least that's what i heard from a chinese audio objectivist video
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i like how the LS50 passives and other expensive speakers have generic cheap poo poo for their electrical innards to remind you upgrading sound by interconnect cables is a very stupid thing
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