The Forge runs the Susvara on 300ohm taps without losing the midrange magic

They’re equal after extensive A/Bing on USB outs! However, I want to save the SP2000’s battery and using it as a DAP and streamer takes quite a toll on the SP2000. You won’t be missing anything with M1,2,3 Macbooks

This is exactly why I keep saying you can’t correlate subjective impressions/preferences to the threshold of audibility, no matter how you slice and dice them up

M1 MacBook Pro. Works flawlessly with the Unison USB

Chord DAVE exists as Chord’s TOTL DAC

For me, summit-fi league doesn’t mean TOTL. A Chord Hugo 2 TT is considered summit-fi for most people but isn’t TOTL by any stretch. Using that analogy, splurging 1K on an IEM gives me and most people that extra step to cross the mid-fi tier and enter the gates of the summit. There’s a reason...

Diminishing returns in IEM is already at the $20-$50 ChiFi IEMs, and above that it goes downhill pretty quickly. The last 5% is just PURE preference especially in the summit level. Me personally, I'm hitting 95% of Orioulus Trailli and ALL of 4K IEMs and up with my Campfire Bonneville, but for...

Even Jay (a YTber that reviews ultra high end stuff) don't see the value with the switches, audiophile ethernet cables and advises everyone that it's the least important part in the system. As for me, I'm perfectly happy with my Macbook Pro on battery as my "headless" streamer providing perfect...

Preference alone makes the whole subjective reports inaccurate. You can NEVER correlate or line up subjective reports to established thresholds EVER no matter how you slice and dice it up

I wouldn't consider a $1,xxx mid-fi though but Fathom on the summit level is definitely a great one

Thanks! It's one of a kind with me at the right place and at the right time! Captured with just an iPhone 12 as you can see on the lens flare on the lower center :)

Looks like 0.7

Assuming two different devices/DAPs with completely different architectures (Cayin RU7 1-bit delta sigma against A&K SP3000 multibit, delta sigma) where both have low distortion measurements at least 70dB down from fundamental (no way to hear the harmonics physically next to fundamental...

Back in 2021, I took the prettiest Mammatus cloud that appeared at Olympic Park Seattle! Feels like getting sucked-in a vortex

These bass texture terminology don't exist in the audio science hence why you're such on different wavelengths. For an audiophile these are reproduced through "system synergy" while for audio science it's a combination of FR + impedance matching or damping factor + SPL listening levels

Totally! Nearfield monitors mitigates sophisticated room treatments hence better sound with minimal room treatment, but the sound doesn't scale as large as 2 channel living room setup of course

I think timing/accuracy/jitter of harmonic reproductions as well as inherent amplification is needed to reproduce those treble features at the eardrum. A simple sine sweep for FR and 1KHz FFTs won't show any of those timing of harmonic reproduction differences (only amplitude of a specific...

Lots of media/movies depicting conspiracies on a grand scale which gives common folks an idea of conspiracy theories

Very gorgeous faceplate!

We perceive the same indeed! If I’m referencing Susvara with its flat FR from subbass to upper-bass/lower mids, those that adhere closer to Harman IE curve (tucked away mid-bass), I perceive them to sound less rich in texture and less full in the immediacy as well. Bonneville’s bass quality...

I perceive the Bonneville completely differently from yours. Bass never bloated, mids just rightfully leveled for me with incredible layering and nuance riving 3k and up IEMs IMHO, treble is thick and refined (not thin and sibilant). Maybe you just have a bad synergy with tips, cable and DAP...

Yep it’s crazy expensive but that’s the proper way to maximize an IEM’s sound and minimize its shortcomings where the likes of PEQ and other digital EQ can never achieve IMHO

Completely different sounding to me. DD mids and treble from Trifecta sound nothing alike from bonneville

Nobody knows. I think it's not the old school AgI particle there. Definitely top secret stuff. Normal contrail condensation disperse into transparent gas within 5 seconds or so hence contrails dissipate as the plane crosses through and does not leave end to end horizon long trails while those...

You can play Tic-Tac-Toe at the sky now :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: