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Lauen

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  1. Back in October or something last year I bought a pair of Soundmagic PL50 IEM's (review in signature), which sorta blew me away with their excellent detailed mids. I'm not buying the headphones right now, but rather when I can accumulate the cash needed. so my requirements are: - Highly detailed mids - over ear headphones - I'd like a detachable cable but that's not necessary - Budget: I prefer under $500 but if I like them I can go higher, I'd just need to save up for longer. I don't know what else to specify, just ask if you want more info. EDIT: doesn't matter if they're closed or open
  2. How does it sound worse? does it kill bass, lower volume? Explain please.
  3. having only ever used Ubuntu and Linux Mint and Elementary OS, I must say I really enjoy using Elementary OS. I mostly use Windows though as I'm having trouble finding programs I really like on Linux, while on Windows I have what I like, foobar, skype 6.21, steam with ALL the games. that's about it actually.
  4. Judging by everyone talking about open headphones, I'm gonna go ahead and recommend the Pioneer SE-A1000. Sure, they seem cheap, and the cable is an unrealistic length of 18 feet (6 meters) but these sound very very good for the price, and they are my go-to headphones when I want to use open headphones, over the Sennheiser PC360 (basically HD518's with a mic on the side, and they sound very similar to HD558 and 598's). I've seen claims that these headphones sound extremely similar to HD600's. And sure they have a weird padding but they're very comfortable, at least for me. You might need to perform a quick modification to the headband if your head is not already very big, because these have a very large fit, but what I did was: open up one of the sides where the headband attaches and just do a knot or two on the elastic piece in the headband, and it got shorter to fit smaller heads. You can also make a hole in the elastic piece if you want to do that, but I found making a knot was easier and didn't actually modify the elastic at all, keeping it mint condition. But if you want something that is more comfortable out of the box, Sennheiser HD558 are great open headphones, sound almost identical to the 598's, and by removing a bit of foam in the cups they supposedly sound exactly the same. also they're a little more neutral looking than the 598's. They also have a replacable cord, which is nice if you break it. If you want closed headphones instead, for passive noise isolation and (usually) some more bass, I vote Beyerdynamic DT770, but keep in mind if you get the 250 ohm variant you might need a headphone amp, but only if it doesn't get loud enough for you, which you can only find out by trying them on your current setup(s).
  5. You could probably run that off a 450 watt psu like in this video:
  6. Sennheiser PC360's are literally HD518's with a mic on them so the 558's won't be much better. OP: I heard most Beyerdynamics have really deep earcups so give those a go. I personally have never had an issue with the earcups being shallow on the PC360, but I did once try the Custom One Pro's and they did have quite deep earcups. Personally I'd get the 770's cus they're closed and I like closed headphones.
  7. I hope they're releasing an AMD compatible one when Zen comes out cus I really like this block, plus my second favorite band ever is called Annihilator so I want it mostly for the name LOL
  8. If any of the reported benchmarks are even remotely legit, we're in for a treat! better performance than the 980Ti and Titan X in pretty much every aspect (no idea about double precision computing tho), AND it consumes the same amount of power as a 290X which indicates very nice efficiency.
  9. What about the new SMT tech found in Zen? It's not detailed yet but it'll be two threads per core, like Hyper-threading.
  10. If one can judge performance by size, the FP scheduler looks quite a bit bigger than the one in Bulldozer, and therefore will give better floating point performance, and slightly slower integer performance? also judging by how the FP scheduler is closer to the decoder and fetcher, that will also improve performance? Zen is getting me very excited but I know I shouldn't be in case it's not what we all want it to be. I just hope it brings AMD closer to Intels level, so they can start trading punches again! Also I hope the new chipset this is going on will be small enough to run on an mITX motherboard, as it would be cool to bring some "high-end" AMD stuff into tiny boxes! EDIT: removed random T
  11. Looks like all of EU is affected and the only fix for us is a proxy / VPN. I had to install Hotspotshield to access the site at all.
  12. yeah that would be a perfect amp, but the closest we get now (including value) is probably the O2
  13. Last I checked you don't even need the @ test: Dark_wizzie EDIT: Test successful. also: I've used two dedicated soundcards in my life, both Asus Xonar, one DX and one D2X. the DX got some weird interference on the mic, directly related to the graphics card (at the time I had an XFX HD6870), there would be a noise (on the mic), and the pitch of the noise changed with the FPS I got in games. Minecraft would give it a very high pitched whine, and DayZ gave it a low hum. I then swapped it out for a D2X, and no more trouble with that. Later down the road I have upgraded my setup a bit, I now have a pair of ATH-M50's, SRH440 from Shure, Sennheiser PC360 (basically 518's), and CHC Silverado, JBL J33 in-ears, and Soundmagic PL50 in-ears. When I got the J33s, I tried to plug them into the D2X card, and the high output impedance of the D2X (10~ ohm) barely gave me sound through the 16 ohm in-ears. the dampening factor actually broke the J33s. So there's that. And I can't hear any difference at all between that card and my onboard (Realtek ALC892 on an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0). I have also checked with other people, and they can't hear any difference either. My hearing isn't bad either, I used to have slightly impaired hearing but over the years my ears have become more sensitive than any of my friends (who supposedly have perfect hearing). Sure, there might be super high end soundcards, but those are ludacris amounts of money. and it being inside the case doesn't exactly help. Then there's output impedance, which pretty much all of the ASUS Xonar cards (and most of the Creative Soundblasters) usually put out like 10 at least. the new STX II has, by my research, around 40 ohm output impedance, rendering it useless for any headphones with less than 320 ohm impedance, due to the dampening factor where headphones should be 8 times the impedance of the output of the amp. If you want good onboard, there's stock Realtek, and then there is ONE good solution: ASRock's Purity Sound. It uses a Realtek ALC1150 dac, which is very good spec-wise, and then a TI NE5532 headphone amp, which is a transparent amp, no coloring of the sound, 0.3 ohm output impedance, and enough power for most headphones on the market, and the amp itself is less than a dollar if I can remember correctly. If you absolutely need an internal soundcard for something, just grab a cheap Asus card, like the DGX. I wouldn't trust it to be AMAZING or anything, but it would probably do its job quite fine. and then there's the best solution from my perspective, just getting an external setup. it'll be outside the computer, you can have it on optical for no ground loops and as little as possible interference, it can have its own psu for cleaner power, and you can even use it on different computers just by unplugging it from your pc, and into another, even laptops, where a dedicated soundcard wouldn't be usable. And not to mention: the STX II is like $300 or something, while you can get an o2 and odac for less, which will be better for straight up stereo music listening, cus it has low output impedance (0.1 ohm or something), enough power for pretty much any headphone ever, and it's a completely transparent amp, no sound coloring. For $40 you can get the Syba dac which also works absolutely great, it even has a mic input on it.
  14. I'm not entirely up to date on phone hardware but it's just what the article said
  15. It's still pretty lackluster, but I myself have what I need.
  16. Source A guy on Twitter linked me this when I tweeted that there were no good waterproof windows phones (bit of a coincidence it was launched on the same day) And it looks pretty damn nice! It's a 5.5" display, you can apparently choose between an HD (I assume this is 1280x720) and a full HD (1920x1080) display! It's got Gorilla glass on the screen but the article doesn't mention which generation.. It comes with a Qualcomm Cortex 64 bit, quad core at 1.2 GHz, it doesn't mention the model number or anything. 2 GB RAM, 16 GB internal storage, and a microSD slot with support for up to 32 GB (slightly disappointing, 128 gb would be sick imo). 13 MP Sony camera, 5 MP selfie. There's even a heart rate monitor in it. 4G and all that jazz, but no word on which category it is. and last, a nice 2600 mah battery! It's pretty slim too. Price has not been released, but it's supposed to come to EU, Asia and the US! Looks like if Linus wants to review it he'd have to get it from the US then, even though he doesn't really like Windows Phone.
  17. ooooh, the snowball ICE, you should have specified that. I have the normal version.
  18. It's a condenser mic, all of those have a tendency to pick up a LOT. use setting 2 with a pop filter at a short distance and you should be good. I don't mean to plug my own channel but I use what I just mentioned, mic is usually 2 inches from my mouth, and at 100% volume in Windows
  19. Why can't they just make a windows phone app instead of these useless features?
  20. I sort of remember someone saying sometime that it was supposed to be x86-64, and didn't mention ARM, so I guess only x86-64?
  21. Even though cdon might be a swedish company, the webstore itself is norwegian. and prisjakt.no is not a store, it's a price guide, sort of similar to pcpartpicker. This is also a norwegian site.
  22. I was reading the thread and I got to page 23 before I realized there were 220 pages.. My favorite car is a VW Golf Mk3 1.9 TDK (75 hp). Manual transmission is a must. I know it doesn't sound like a lot, but those specific cars hold a lot of sentimental value to me. My first car was a "tornado red" variant of the Mk3 Golf, and it had said 1.9 TDK engine. When I got it, it had gone 270K miles, and the clutch, engine and suspension felt pretty good. As far as I know, what was done to get it legal before I got it (my dad has been a mechanic for 30 years of his life, not anymore though) was: replaced entire brake system in front, new handbrake wires, replaced air, oil and diesel filters, LOTS of welding and rust treatment, and more that I can't think of right now. The car started as long as it had power in the battery and diesel in the tank. During my time with it I changed the transmission (reverse disappeared and I had issues actually changing gears) and all engine and transmission mounts. New tires too. I had many adventures with it. Trips around in the snow, summer cruising with friends, a LOT of just roaming around listening to music. The car in general was in really really bad shape, but the engine just worked. Only pic I have of it, sadly. This was right after I polished it with "color polish". Before polishing, most of it was pink LOL. Eventually I realized this car was not meant for keeping, it had too much rust. I had it for about 9 months. The total miles when I scrapped it was 300K miles. I then bought a Peugeot 307 hatchback off my dad, and scrapped the Golf. It only cost me 400 USD anyway. PURPLE! A nice car to drive actually, but it didn't feel right. It was a really efficient car too, it had a 2.0 HDi engine with 90 hp, but I got almost 50 mpg with it, very nice. I sadly crashed it after only owning it for 6 months, and I also lost my license because of said crash, I was an idiot. Here it is after the crash. Then my sisters boyfriend who runs a small workshop and often gets cars in trade for fixing other cars got a VW Golf Mk3, imported from the US actually, with a 1.9 TDK engine, and they decided that it was the perfect car for me, so I got it as a christmas present. I opened up a small box on Christmas eve and inside it was a VW key, and they led me into the garage so I could see it. Happiest moment of my life. it was an estate with a sunroof, imported from the US (just a year after it was purchased in the US actually and I got it on the 24th of december 2013) Eventually we realized this was a lost cause too, as it had INSANE amounts of rust. Then I sold the Peugeot 307 back to my father as he wanted to get something done with it and help me towards getting a new car, and it was decided that my sisters boyfriend had a Peugeot 406 with the same 2.0 HDi as the 307, and it was the perfect car for me, a much more stylish saloon / sedan in a lovely blue color, with a nice diesel engine. Here are some of my best pictures of it: I really like simple, mid-sized diesel engines such as the VW 1.9 TDK (AAZ). Both the Golf's I had did close to 300K miles with mostly just oil and filter swaps. the Peugeot 2.0 HDi is a good one too, decent power (90 hp is okay for me) and good mileage. EDIT: The 406 is currently not working, as it had some issues with the rocker arms or what you call them (I'm not that savvy and I don't know half of the words in english, my general vocabulary is good though) but all the parts have arrived and my dad is gonna start work on it tomorrow I think.
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