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  1. Thanks for the response, but as I mentioned at the end there these don't fully satisfy my requirements.
  2. It does seem like the more premium models actually work on providing extra passive isolation. I get it, but all I get is the narrower sound stage (and general discomfort, but that's personal) without actually needing any of the benefits because I live alone (and game in a separate room anyway).
  3. Hi there, I'm a long time headphone user. I have always been partial to using headphones in all situations. In the last 15-ish years I've used the following headphones (in order): Logitech G35 Sennheiser HD 595 Sennheiser PC 363D Sennheiser GSP 600 Sennheiser PC 363D (same one as before, but with new cushions) Sennheiser RS 175 I was ok with the G35. I really loved the HD 595 because of its open backed nature. I went PC 363D because the HD 595 had started going iffy in one ear and because it had a good mic. I liked how it was similarly open. After a while the cushions got disgusting and the mic boom started drooping which often resulted in my breathing directly down the mic, so I bought the GSP 600. I fucking hated that thing. I didn't last for more than two weeks with it. I couldn't stand how it tried to close me off from the environment. Felt like I was sitting around with a vice on my head. I ordered replacement cushions for my PC 363D, messed about with the mic boom and went back to that set of headphones. The one thing I had hated all this time, was the wires. This got worse and worse over the years, and after the hundredth time getting my headphones yanked off of my head because the wire got caught behind my rolling office chair enough was enough: I was buying a wireless set of head phones. A welcome addition was the fact that this was during the early days of Covid and I wanted to buy a good condenser microphone anyway, so it no longer had to come with a mic. I bought the Sennheiser RS 175. It has been.. serviceable. I have no complaints about sound quality (I am not that discerning an audio listener, to be honest) and, despite not being marketed as such, it is reasonably open (I understand openness isn't as easily achieved in wireless headphones due to the need for a lot more additional electronics related to the wirelessness). However the quality/comfort is not great. The ear cups have bad faux-leather cushions that I've already had to replace once because they started disintegrating - flecks of fake leather everywhere. The head band's cushions are paper thin and only cover a small part of the head band because of the presence of a contact-charging point on the head band. Another thing it does that I don't like, is that I have to crank the headphones and put Windows volume to 10% or any loud sound will result in the headset doing some volume normalization thing where the whole volume is lowered significantly for a while. I'm guessing it is doing this to avoid clipping, but I have no idea why this is the first and only pair of headphones I've ever owned that I've heard do that. So I've been looking for a new pair, and I have the following criteria: Good sound quality Comfortable RF Wireless - not bluetooth No microphone, or one that can be completely removed A reasonably open design Preferred: Regular 3.5mm jack connection, not USB This, apparently, is impossible to find. The headphones that seem to come closest are Audeze's Maxwell. They are USB-only, sadly, and I am not entirely sure how open they are, but they do seem to satisfy the other requirements. Am I just being way too picky here? Do you guys know of any headphones that satisfy all of those requirements? I'd love to hear from you guys.
  4. How consistent was this fix? I have the exact same processor and memory (different motherboard and gpu) and I have the exact same issue you described. Did you see the problem return, or did it not happen again? EDIT: Welp. Never mind, I guess This doesn't even work for me, since the system will not boot and I need to clear cmos whenever I enable Power Down.
  5. You're looking at a new discounted price for the 512 GB LCD model. The 512 GB OLED model is the same price the 512 GB LCD was before, only the LCD one is discounted right now.
  6. Oh that seems like a pretty big improvement. That's more than fine for what I'm going to be doing with it. Thanks EDIT: Also, I'd like to reiterate that I didn't actually expect it to be worse. I just worded my initial post a little awkward.
  7. Yeah, that's pretty much what I had hoped to be the case. It just isn't always easy to compare cpu's, and the age gap doesn't help. I guess that in and of itself could have told me something I'm probably just going to go for the 7800X3D. I don't see the need for more than 8 cores right now or the foreseeable future. The way I see it, the 7800X3D is already enough of an improvement for the work stuff. For the record, what I was saying was that I expect the 7800X3D to be *faster* than the i7-8700. I worded it a little awkwardly, but I was trying to say: "I think the old chip WILL NOT outperform the new chip, am I wrong?"
  8. I'm currently running a system with an i7-8700k and an AsRock 7900 XT (upgraded from an RTX 1080 Ti when Starfield came out because performance sucked on the former). I'm considering an upgrade to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. I expect that CPU to be a lot better in gaming, but in most reviews it's getting dunked on in terms of productivity. Since I also do a lot of WfH, I do occasionally have to do certain things that lean heavily on the CPU (file compression, virtualization, light rendering). Now, I have to believe that a chip that's 6 years old isn't going to perform any better than a brand new chip, but is there some reason (maybe related to the 3d v-cache) why this would be the case? I'd be fine with similar productivity performance if the gaming performance went up, I just don't like the idea of going down in performance in this specific area.
  9. I tried to link to a video in my post, did I mess that up? It's specifically in the "Are hard drives dead? 8TB M.2 SSD" video, I tried it mere hours after the video was uploaded so I doubt it was a limited time promotion thing. I'll try it again, it was this video specifically:
  10. I hope this is the place to put this, but what is up with the iFixit Pro Toolkit promotion on this video? Linus says it's 59.99 when you go to "ifixit.com/linus", and there's a link in the description, but when I click the link (or manually enter the url in my browser) all I see is 69.99. Is this a region thing? Edit: For the record, this is what I see.
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