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Whoa, that's awesome!! Congratulations Birgir

I don't know of medical conditions related to allergy which increase wax production, but I don't know everything. Wax production is increased mostly by mechanical stimulation (yet another reason for not using Q-tips nor hard mold IEMs) and other circumstances like dusty environment. Maybe the same allergens worsening your nasal condition can stimulate wax production somehow. Or it's possible that having your nose blocked produces some ear congestion, so you inadvertently touch your ears more, like after swimming to pull the water out, or use Q-tips more often.

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Do you mean that nasal discharge goes out from your ear canals too? If so, you'd need to have your ears inspected.

This is why I won't ever use custom IEMs. I don't like pushing the wax too deep into the ear canal, and even less making it too close to the drum. Universals don't get as deep inside. Moreover you can clean regularly the universal's tips as thoroughly as you want, or even replacing them , but you can't apply the same "treatment" to custom molds having the phones built in. There's not a safe way to use Q-tips unless you just use them to dry the pinna and the outermost part of the canal. For that you don't need Q-tips, a good towel and your fingertips will do the same more safely.

Yep, in this I agree with Josep. As a toy to learn how changing frequency response alters our music perception, the Ultracurve is funny. Even for speaker listening in very complicated rooms having big modes which you can't control by placement and room treatments, it is also more than funny, can become a cheap solution. With some trade offs, but everything in life has them. However in Monkey's case, I don't think the differences he notices among his DACs are frequency response related. Most DACs have the same frequency response curves with slight variations which alone won't explain how different we perceive their sound. Two of the areas where I find most of the differences are bass response (more in the bass quality: impact, body, texture, coherence, integration, etc) and voices rendition. Most DACs measure the very same from 20Hz to 8KHz, however some are very distinguishable -the Benchmark DAC-1 for instance-. I still have to find what measurable parameter has a correlation with the sound. These are its measurements as published by Stereophile. I can't see there what makes it so recognizable compared to others

I'm interested in the T50v1. It's one of those phones that I've never listened to, which I believe can be special in some ways. Are you selling them NoNoNoNoNoNo? If so, please keep in touch

I've "listened" to it in several occasions and I find it far from transparent even in its by-pass mode on digital link. The analogue outputs are pure crap. But it's very affordable...

Yep, but you're speaking at about 1dB attenuation at 20KHz, 3dB in the worst case, then not more than 1-2dB at 16KHz, which while may have some effect in the midrange perception, I guess it's not the kind of midrange emphasis we're speaking about. EQ can achieve some things, but not everything. BTW the thing Azazel recommended is craptacular IMHO.

While Boomana is right and the cells producing wax are in the outer part of the external ear canal, in its outer most part where some hairs grow, there are sweat producing cells. Also in all the pinna. That liquid can come from one of several of the following: - Condensation from the humid air kept in the canal between the mold and the drum. - Sweat from the outer most part of the canal, or even the pinna leaking inside through any tiny leak that might be. - Liquid that was into the canal before inserting the molds. - Suppuration from any external ear infection (not very likely since you don't have pain nor other symptoms, moreover that's purulent, not water clear). - Other causes that would require an eardrum perforation.

you sick people

Oh well, I'll wish you an early Happy Bday too

x2. Not sure if distortion, speed or other issue, but I'm prone to think that any of those DACs would measure ruler flat regarding frequency response.

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x2 I think a DAC should sound natural and believable, specially in the midrange where most of the information resides. If the sound you seem to like isn't perfectly transparent to what was recorded, and has some tricks to sound nice, who cares? It's you who must be happy listening to his rig.

I don't think there's a prototype finished before mid October in the best case. As Luvdunhill said, the boards have to be ready yet. Then there's the getting some needed parts... Probably Picaudio can tell you better since he'll be building most of the Spanish team units.

Hal Galper Quintet - Children of the night Getting ready for Terence Blanchard - A tale of God's will

Joe Henderson - Inner Urge (RVG Ed)

I had a big band day so started with Rick Wald / 16NYC - Castaneda's Dream Then followed by more Rick Wald / 16 NYC - Play That Thing Now on the computer with the HF-2: UFO - Headstone on Spotify.

Have a great day Ian

The case doesn't look that bad in the pics, however one fitting the guitar's shape would provide better crash protection. Enjoy it, I'm sure your mate had liked that

Sure it will, I hope so. Just in case, start looking for a proficient luthier in your area. He can be very helpful to align the bridge, setting the action, giving hints to preserve it, and providing service if needed. Also he could give you an estimation of its value. Maybe it's worth enough to have it properly insured. I'm quite sure it is

Have you tried it on an amp yet? If the pick ups are fine, I bet it must sound wonderfully vintage.

OK then, send it to me, I would play some other tune like "yesterday"

That's it, have a great day!!!