I hope that means I get bumped up in the list and receive the GOV2 earlier, I was originally on batch 24-25.

Does anyone know if the Geek Out V2+ can work with a dead battery when plugged in the USB port of a computer?

So does anyone know if the higher powered versions have an incidence on noise floor and distortion?   And what about the higher order harmonic distortion that was shown on the ES9018M?

Has anyone seen the measurements for the GEEK since the switch to the ES9018M?   I've seen the measurements for the GEEK Pulse, there seems to be quite a lot of high order harmonics.   Do we know whether going from the normal GEEK to the Super Duper GEEK raises noisefloor and THD?

Quote:   I feel your pain, Californication and Death Magnetic? BUt more seriously, for records you are asked to master (and not re-master), how often do you have wonder if the guy who mixed had an idea of sound quality?

Quote:   Have you ever gotten mixes/recordings that were so bad that you went "no amount of mastering can save that, re-record and redo the mix please!".

It wouldn't help much actually, you'd get a flat response, but with zero reverb, and mastering rooms aren't reverb free environments either,

That's strange, if you feel that you need to push past 60 with classical, it's obvious that classical at 60 is still less loud than pop at 40. Besides, how do you think an amp is going to solve your volume issues? By getting the headphone to play louder, that's how. Incidentally, that can also...

We are talking of two different things, you are considering the technology from the pov of the record collector and I'm considering it in a general pov.

When comparing different technologies, it's usually more appropriate to ignore factors external to the technology itself. It's basically like claiming that SACD is a better technology because there exists better masters taht were only released on SACD.

I was only comparing a new master tape and a newly pressed LP from that master tape andI thought that the vinyl master pressing was directly cut from the master tape after a RIAA equalisation.

Compared to the master tape, vinyl is a very degraded source.

Quote:   It's mostly for the pro market, that's the reason for the dual headamp output.

Quote:   Another example of sampling rate and bit depth.   - Screen resolution is a 2 dimensional sampling rate, horizontal and vertical, the point is that once you get past the "Apple Retina" resolution (~300 dpi), there's no visible progress any more. It's the same for audio. Peer...

Quote:   I've had external USB hard drive that supposedly only needed power from USB crap out with several laptops due to insufficient power.

Quote:   Yeah, that's good, you did contribute a lot to the community.

Quote:   A lot of laptops (or even regular mother boards) don't have USB ports according to specs.

Why don't you regularly recc music anymore?

Quote:   My guess is that superstars are only possible in certain environments, I don't think it's a matter of talent, but of the general public prizing itself to have individual tastes, of originality being celebrated. The ease of access of more music than ever is also playing a role...

Quote:   That doesn't really change my point, we aren't in the era of super stars any more, for example, Florence + the Machine is talented, will she sell as much as the Rolling Stones? I think not. Any album list is not only related to how talented the artists are, it's more a rating...

Quote:   Yoyodyne Consulting is actually the source of the ODAC boards, the rest are resellers who also integrate the boards into appropriate casings.

Quote:   IMHO, that's more indicative of bias than anything else. there are at least 2 very important factors to consider.   - Perhaps most of the people interviewed had live their early adulthood during that period.   - That period is also characteristic for producing super stars.

Gasoline is the fastest way to burn headphones.

Quote:   What if the mastering engineer is mastering on an equalized system, plenty of them do.

Quote:   The gain structure is supposed to be reworked so as to avoid the most egregious issues with mismatched gain,