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I mean, I would definitely take that McIntosh gear without a hint of irony, but yeah that reads like a rich person who buys expensive toys and never uses them.
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Mar 11, 2018 15:26
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AVS forum delivers now those are legitimately good speakers but the bad positioning, cheap desk and 4 grand in Schiit gear push it over the top for me
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Also has HD800s. Missing an obnoxious anime background.
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Lowness 72 posted:Also has HD800s. Also, you can afford redundant schiit gear but not a decent or matching pair of monitors?
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I could theoretically spend that much on desktop audio but it would all go into Genelec monitors.
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Lmao at B&W Nautilus 805s like three inches from your ears. HD800s own though.
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I have a generic Onkyo receiver with 2 4" Kicker car speakers mounted in 3d printed spherical enclosures for my computer. Super pro.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Isn't that anime on the right screen? poo poo you're right. The speakers aren't near field monitors right?
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Lowness 72 posted:poo poo you're right. Well no... but I meant computer monitors. But yeah also that. Although now I'm curious what those B&W sound like at that distance... 
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:Lmao at B&W Nautilus 805s like three inches from your ears. HD800s own though. srsly I'm using non-nearfield monitors myself and they're....fine but then I roll my chair back and it's like "Oh, right." Some Genelecs would rule but I'd have to hit the Powerball first.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Well no... but I meant computer monitors. But yeah also that. Ha yes I understood. Guy has two lovely pc monitors, one that might be a crt? Then he's got speakers blasting into his ears sitting on a piece of plywood basically. Do you guys ever watch those zeos review videos? Guy is such a slob.
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Lowness 72 posted:Do you guys ever watch those zeos review videos? Guy is such a slob.
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Lowness 72 posted:Ha yes I understood. Guy has two lovely pc monitors, one that might be a crt? I love Zeos. He is totally a slob though, and I don't even know if I like the reviews because I agree with his opinions or more just because I like the way he talks. I also love when he runs the gigantic svs subs in his little apartment and shakes the building apart.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Isn't that anime on the right screen? $4k of terrible-to-mediocre snake oil electronics if this unflattering measurements of their $2400 DAC is of any indication: https://audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/measurements-and-review-of-schiit-yggdrasil-dac.2358/ He/she/it might very well get better performance using the $0 "audiophile garbage" onboard PC outputs. tl:dr version stay the gently caress away from Schiit stuff Palladium fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Mar 13, 2018 |
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Palladium posted:$4k of terrible-to-mediocre snake oil electronics if this unflattering measurements of their $2400 DAC is of any indication: https://audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/measurements-and-review-of-schiit-yggdrasil-dac.2358/ Love this from there: Amir how much warm up time did you give these things? I doubt you subscribe to it but Jason Stoddard mentioned that it needs about 72 hours to stabilize. The Gungnir MB I tried changed sound for about three days. Then it had much subtler changes for a week. (Subjective impressions).
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What is this thread's opinion of Emotiva? I kind of want to get that stealth dac.
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Lowness 72 posted:What is this thread's opinion of Emotiva? I kind of want to get that stealth dac. https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/measurement-and-review-of-emotiva-dc-1-dac.2306/ Slightly worse than a Topping DX7 but nearly 2x the price and no remote. Though either won't matter one bit if you aren't spending most of the budget on the thing that by far matters the most: speakers. metallicaeg posted:Love this from there: Yup, the sheer amount of denialism from the Schitt shills over there is a comedy goldmine by itself, especially now they can't use their favorite banhammer tactics against objectivists in the usual audio Kool-Aid meccas like Head-Fi.
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Palladium posted:https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/measurement-and-review-of-emotiva-dc-1-dac.2306/ It took me a second to realize you meant empiricists and not literally fans of Ayn Rand.
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https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/ele/d/high-end-audio-complete/6519586001.html lol what the gently caress is this poo poo?  Why are there like 5 things with tubes and a cassette player?
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All that kit to run an AM aerial through.
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Lowness 72 posted:Also has HD800s. The official Sennheiser website links to the "Unbox Therapy" youtube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dauPuQV5ws loving shameless.
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SHAQ4PREZ posted:The official Sennheiser website links to the "Unbox Therapy" youtube video. I thought all those unbox themed channels were basically paid ads anyway, even if they didn't clearly disclose.
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Any one who hasn't paid for the item themselves or relies on advertising will have an intrinsic bias for an item. It is human nature. Some are more obvious about their shilling (unbox therapy or IGN) than others. There are a few exceptions but never trust any random review.
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DancingShade posted:I thought all those unbox themed channels were basically paid ads anyway, even if they didn't clearly disclose. Jesus gently caress I wish I had an extremely annoying manner of speaking so that I could get paid to do lovely Youtubes as well.
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If Hydraulic Press Channel is anything to go by, people would probably be into "whacky Finnish dude unboxing". Just lay on the accent and misappropriate English swear words. I really like Hydraulic Press Channel.
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Wasabi the J posted:If Hydraulic Press Channel is anything to go by, people would probably be into "whacky Finnish dude unboxing". Just lay on the accent and misappropriate English swear words. I'd watch the gently caress out of Hydraulic Press Channel doing unboxings by using the press.
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I wish this guy was trolling but I am certain he is not
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polyester concept posted:I wish this guy was trolling but I am certain he is not There's no way that's not a loving joke.
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He says at the bottom that they're really there to make it easier to spin then round.
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Foxtrot_13 posted:Any one who hasn't paid for the item themselves or relies on advertising will have an intrinsic bias for an item. It is human nature. Some are more obvious about their shilling (unbox therapy or IGN) than others. Above a certain cost, or at least a certain cost above the average for an item type, anyone who has paid money for an item will also have an intrinsic bias for the item in order to justify their purchase and prove to others (and themselves) that it wasn't a ridiculous waste of money.
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polyester concept posted:I wish this guy was trolling but I am certain he is not who the hell sells used air filters? more importantly who is buying them (for non audio purposes)? i might not like a car much but im not about to roll the dice and munch the engine
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Panty Saluter posted:who the hell sells used air filters? more importantly who is buying them (for non audio purposes)? i might not like a car much but im not about to roll the dice and munch the engine Well it does say it was from a garage sale, so it doesn't need to make sense. People put all sorts of poo poo up in them that probably shouldn't be used as anything more than something to stack things on, if that.
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At least one of them looks brand new. I'd rock it, if I still owned a car that had a carb.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:My desktop setup is this: Why is it sitting on a moving blanket that it appears a cat has shat upon
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Lowness 72 posted:What is this thread's opinion of Emotiva? I kind of want to get that stealth dac. I have one of their amps and it's a solid piece of equipment but it's also ~10 years old. The fact that they've branched out into selling 200 dollar subs and 100 dollar bookshelves doesn't exactly instill me with confidence but at the same time I've never heard or read anything that would make me doubt that they still make quality electronics.
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polyester concept posted:I wish this guy was trolling but I am certain he is not 
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Collateral Damage posted:I didn't read the text at first and thought it was just to serve as a dust filter for a bottom intake fan. For that purpose I thought it was a pretty clever if somewhat redneck solution. I kinda feel like the pressure drop across an automotive air filter would be too much for a small electric fan. You'd either wind up drawing air through gaps around the filter or reducing its throughput so badly that you would have heat issues ... to the laboratory! 
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Panty Saluter posted:who the hell sells used air filters? more importantly who is buying them (for non audio purposes)? i might not like a car much but im not about to roll the dice and munch the engine "Oh sweet, a six pack of air filters! I replace the filter every other year, and as this 1982 Buick LeSabre will surely last me another twelve years, I can save six dollars! I am a crafty consumer."
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ColdPie posted:"Oh sweet, a six pack of air filters! I replace the filter every other year, and as this 1982 Buick LeSabre will surely last me another twelve years, I can save six dollars! I am a crafty consumer." (two years later) "Where did I put that box of air filters? I'm sure I bought a big pack.. Oh well, I'll just buy another one."
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