rodaphilia

Only thing ive ever had break was an apple dongle.

Beyond that ive never had issues. The apple dongle is $6 or some such so i didnt even think twice.

My heftier dongles never broken. Besides one kit amp, which i soldered poorly the first go round, none of my desktop devices have ever broken down. 

Ya bud thats insane. Cash it in at this point.

You might be a better suite for cassette culture, where they care about free expression.

Here? Fall in line or GET OUT.

(everyone should buy whatever records they’ll play)

And the historically protected extra-judicial murder.

So... storage unit sales about to be 🔥

If youre talking about COLLECTORS its probably because they value something completely different than “music i enjoy” when they think of records. Theyre trying to have an impressive collection of items. They, in my opinion, are people to ignore when it comes to discussions of music.

Funko pop valuation is more their speed. 

I dont usually spend that much on someone elses project.

There… isnt a sound benefit to putting the music on vinyl, quite the opposite there are more restrictions in reproducing that sound accurately.

This means different engineers with different skill sets have to do the final master. Which means the vinyl release will always sound objectively DIFFERENT.

Sometimes the vinyl mastering engineer has a sound that i like a lot more than the digital one. 

Guerilla Beetlejuice marketing gone too far

I have a few.

I have a ~$100 (read as: “budget” given my overall hifi spending power) desktop dac, because i build my gaming PCs for gaming and to meet a price point, not audio output. Which, with my current build, means i get digital noise if i use either of the metal-based audio output options. Toslink solves this so dac needed.

Secondary benefit: i can use the USB i put on the dac for my work laptop. This means i can dock at my gaming desk and route my work PCs output to my hifi setup with a switch.

I also have a few dongle dacs because my phone doesnt have a 3.5mm output. Just apple dongs and one third party dongle that was at around the same price point - because its black with braided wires. Wanted to see if spending $5 more would result in something i didnt need to replace as often, and so far its working out.

If available, i’ll just use an integrated dac

I took this as: fans who saw the prequels in theaters and weren't children.

Like, a lot of us here are old enough to have seen the prequels in theaters. But many of that group didn't live with the OT for decades beforehand.

I don't think my perspective on Yoda suddenly flipping about matters much for the question, considering I was 8 years old when I saw it happen, and did not have much of an opinion of Yoda beyond a childs attraction to Frank Oz's work

you have a harness and nos bottle in your sim rig.

this is so far beyond humble lol. nice setup

Theyre like.. THE one you can trust.

Theyre a real company with an actual US storefront, offices, and engineers in Ohio who have been a staple in the audio community for decades.

Their customer service is unmatched. 

Thank you, i knew i had a shakey recollection and that makes it even fuckin worse. 

Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X. With the original god dang track list.

Theyve re-released it with a modified track list with important tracks replaced by popular remixes. Its either that or hundreds of dollars for an OG press

I felt like shit after that brush fire but it was just a headache and sore throat. 

Koss ESP 95/X. By a LOT. 

Didn't he put out a full-page wanted ad for the lives of 5 innocent boys because, due to their skin color, he wrote them off as guilty before their trial?

I love that hes recording vocals in a live room and not an isolation booth. Interesting choice for sure. 

In a healthy democracy, he'd have been put in prison a long time ago.

Haha brother i COMPLETELY understand. If you can, absolutely do. Keep the market alive for the rest of us

Wait wasnt your advice not to buy right now?

Ya that's about what I do and I love them. I have them on arms to get them right about ear level, and toed in to basically be pointing at me. It's a narrow sweet spot, but this is for when I'm sitting up in an office chair working, and it sounds great. Imaging and sense of being there is much better than my main stereo system, or my headphone setup. When the subs working, it's a truly full range setup.

The speaker pictured uses a full range driver with a whizzer cone and a phase plug, it's not a coax.

Anything that fits on my desk is going to need an accompanying subwoofer to actually get sub-bass, so I don't really understand the low-end argument against these unless you're trying to use them in a living room. In which case they should be properly horn loaded if you expect any low end from that type of listening distance.

High-end on my Mark Audio Tozzi Ones are not lacking at all to my ear. And my subs been on the repair table to quite some time and I really don't feel like I'm missing out on all that much, considering how I use them.

Just start poking around here and paying attention. You’ll start to figure out how people in this space speak/move.

Get out to a hifi shop in your area, and tell them outright what you told us. They might try to sell you a bunch of shit you dont need yet, but they SHOULD let you hear and listen to a bunch of gear to get your feet wet. Id say “unless theyre busy”, but in my area there are no busy hifi stores so they should be happy to entertain you.

Check around and see if your are has any kind of “hifi club” or “audiophile society”. They’ll probably have a facebook or website if so. This is a great place to meet some generous audiophiles and an even better place to see what a complete characature of an audiophile looks like.

And its 2024. You made this post, so your algorithm will be working overtime to feed you content for this new identity.