Everything posted by Dusty Chalk
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KEF LS50s or ?
's'truth. I have a tendency to do that about everything. People call it me getting, 'bubbly'. Mostly with music, but yes, about everything. Which is why, when I catch myself, I try to tone it down. Which, on this forum, is as easy as typing up a whole post, then deleting it. Then I still get that catharsis without being ...while being slightly less annoying. I really should write reviews of music reproduction equipment. 'cause that's what they want. Ad copy. I revert to my natural form.
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AKG K812
No, we don't mind you posting, just don't post horseshit. And certainly don't regurgitate others' opinions, reviews, and (mostly) horseshit -- come up with your own opinions, and descriptive terms. And don't fall for snake oil, yourself. And play with positioning and with ampage -- IIRC, AKG's weren't that sensitive to the amps that drove them (although they did scale a little), but the home (non-pro-orientated ones) were pretty sensitive to positioning on the head.
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AKG K812
Allow me to be the first: I call
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What are you listening to Part the Third
I might need to find that, but for now I was put in a Jethro Tull mood by someone on Facebook, so it's been a Jethro Tull kind of day ever since.
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Music Server Options in 2014, a.k.a, Yup, my old music server broke
Do they still make Mac Minis?
- Paint It Black...
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KEF LS50s or ?
I didn't want to overhype them?
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Post what you're watching
The Killing season 3 -- in preparation of season 4 aug. 1 EDIT: dayum, my eyes keep welling up with tears, and I'm only on episode two. Dayum.
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Cool Kickstarter/Indiegogo Campaigns
The return of 'Reading Rainbow'
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New Oppo player for late 2012
I guess you could call it that. I'll tell you whut, though, if someone were to take a Dell and repackage it in another case without taking it out of the Dell case -- and call themselves a case modder -- they'd go out of business right quick. At least take it out of the Dell case.
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New Oppo player for late 2012
As does Lexicon.
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AnandTech measures HTC One M8 and Samsung Galaxy S5 audio output
Wish they had gone straight to the Harman Kardon edition.
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Guitar-Case
Yeah, it's more subdued on that one than usual, probably due to the custom aspect. To others: for reference -- it usually has this really exaggerated cutout that makes the top look like a dangling chad: EDIT: sorry, that was a horrible example, it's usually much more exaggerated:
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Happy Birthday Nebby!
Happy birthday! (party favour noise)
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Cool Kickstarter/Indiegogo Campaigns
I have to admit, I posted as much to hear of any possible fallbacks (the wear and tear thing, in particular, seems "beyond current technology", to paraphrase how grawk so diplomatically put it), because I really like the idea of solar powered cars, directly or indirectly, ever since I read The Oatmeal's diatribe on the Tesla, albeit for entirely different reasons.
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Compare DT990 vs MA900 vs Philips Fidelio X1 vs Ultrasone HFI-15G
That reminds me -- depending on the weather, those high-end audio-technica lambskin pads on various headphones can be really nice. So if you're in Minnesota or Canada, I'd put those above 'everything else'.
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Guitar-Case
It is Sent from mah phone-blet via Tapatalk
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Compare DT990 vs MA900 vs Philips Fidelio X1 vs Ultrasone HFI-15G
Dt770 Hd600 Sony MDR-F1 EVERYTHING else Sent from mah phone-blet via Tapatalk
- Guitar-Case
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Cool Kickstarter/Indiegogo Campaigns
Tentatrio (+ Starwhal if it crests double) plushies Short movie from the maker of the Cockroach King video
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New HiFiMAN headphones
I'm sure they've already settled out of court.
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What are you Grilling now?
sausage and asparagus sounds good...I might be doing that in a little bit...
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KEF LS50s or ?
Ah, okay. Yeah, the LS3/5a -- although two-way, and not concentric -- was pretty fabulous for near-field listening, largely because that's what they were designed for. I'd lean towards the LS50 just for that reason. I imagine (straightens throat) the imaging would be pretty superior on those. Bookshelf speakers aren't necessarily designed for nearfield listening. So...not quite common knowledge, but it's probably a statistically accurate generalization. I'd be less concerned about the port. The biggest concern with having it close to the wall is that any chuffing might get exaggerated, and I've never been able to hear any on any speaker.
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KEF LS50s or ?
Wait, which ones are full range single drivers?
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What are you listening to Part the Third
Spleen Arcana -- one would think other things of this based on either the names or the packaging (dead can dance style album covers, wax paper and leaf in the package), but it's old school prog, pure and simple, and quite good.