Mad Lust Envy's Headphone Gaming Guide: (Updated: 5/23/2013. MrSpeakers Mad Dog v.3.2 Reviewed) - Page 703

Oh yeah, when you decide to sell off your ODAC, I'll probably take it off your hands. I gave my hifiman HM101 dac to my friend and all I have now is my xonar U1 which isn't exactly the best dac even though it does have DH.

 

I really do need to sell off my vintage headphone collection, I'd be able to get most of the way to the Annies or X1 if I sold them all.

 

I love carpet.

I really like the comfort of the A40's so I may just fork out the cash for them. The reason I need a new set is because the cable is starting to pull out of the left earcup. I use these alot at gaming events.

Sweet :D Sounds good to me :)

Ok I ordered the Annies. Damn you all specially you Mad LOL. I just want a different sound to the Beyers and they are limited. /shrug. The price was right. So now I will have both special editions. My Beyer will be a nice closed upgrade to my CALs. CALs will become my closed portable for walking.

 

I also ordered a pair of SHR940 pads to try on the CALs if they don't fit or sound good I will put them on the HM5s and sell them. That will hopefully help move the sale along.

 

 I am done with headphones for at least 12mons. /knocking on wood with fingers crossed. God I hope the X1s don't come to Canada.

 

I've gotta admit, I'm impressed that you'd type up so much on these forums using a virtual keyboard of any sort. Don't your fingers ache from mashing them against an unmoving, solid surface like that?

 

 

Lucky you...I wanted one of those so badly, but for whatever reason, nobody bothers putting them on sale. Especially not Sprint.

 

Large screens make touchscreens more tolerable to use, at least. The GS3's keyboard is usable in portrait mode, while a typical iPhone's keyboard isn't. Still, I don't like virtual keyboards eating into my valuable screen space like that, almost as much as I hate not having tactile feedback.

 

Also, as wide as the Galaxy Note II is, I hope any prospective keyboard cases are portrait sliders since I would use it in portrait orientation most of the time anyway. That also makes the whole "blocking off the camera and rear loudspeaker" design issue much less complicated.

 

Still, it's hard to resist the Note's sheer screen size and power...and that Wacom digitizer. That's what makes it PDA 2.0, like the sort of device the Newton MessagePads were trying to be, but the technology available in the mid-1990s wasn't advanced enough.

 

 

Yeah, a typical SRD-series transformer box would work. Just connect the wires to the speaker terminals on the back, set the inputs accordingly, and you're good. The only thing is that Silent Cinema probably won't be of much use over the speaker outputs, but you could always connect the output of a standalone headphone surround processor to one of the receiver's RCA inputs.

 

Even higher-res screens and more processing power as usual is nice, but as for me: no Wacom, no sale. The GS3 is an exception because it was as much an early Christmas gift for my mother as it was for me, but don't be surprised if you find me upgrading to the inevitable Note III or IV once Samsung releases a Sprint variant. (Or, if I don't upgrade until after my contract is over, I might jump ship to T-Mobile. Haven't decided yet, but it largely depends on device availability and who has the better unlimited data plan.)

 

 

So it's safe to say that airier headphones skew more toward competitiveness, while thicker headphones skew more toward fun?

 

If there's one reason I love the Lambda models in general, it's all that "air". Almost sounds like the atmosphere itself is singing, with the sound floating into your ears instead of being thrown in. Coincidentally, it also brings out those positional audio cues like few others can.

 

As strange as it sounds when you're just reading it on a forum, it makes sense immediately when you can get a first-hand audition.

 

 

I'll admit, I get kind of worried about my subjectivity sometimes, even if that's the only way I can really compare audio equipment most of the time without having trained audiophile ears and knowing exactly what people mean when they start flinging audiophile jargon around.

 

Heck, I might have turned off a few people from the SR-202 already because of my comparisons and preference for midrange emphasis, which its great-great-grandfather excels at. It's not a bad headphone per se, but didn't have what I in particular was looking for. Ever felt that way about particular headphone models?

Unless you're in the music, or general audio industry, spending $500 on a pair of headphones is a luxury.

 

Edited by Roger de Ceiba - 1/6/13 at 12:00pm

One review said they have new and improved pads sporting memory foam.  I wonder if you were to get those same pads, and put them on a Q701, if you would see similar improvements in the bass.

Have you tried Swype and/or Swiftkey?

Swype isn't for everyone, and there's a learning curve for the shortcuts and other stuff (without them it's just a pain to use)... The other Swype-like keyboards out there can't quite match it either. I honestly type quicker with one hand and Swype than I do with two and any landscape hardware QWERTY tho (I've actually timed myself).

Swiftkey's easier to pick up and learn (not to mention you can actually get it at the Play store), maybe not quite as intuitive for one handed use but it gets better the more you use it, it's what I've been using on my tablet. They're both large improvements on stock IMO, both save you a lot of tapping/stress.
Edited by Impulse - 1/6/13 at 2:19pm

I'm really curious to read a direct A/B comparison to the Q's and/or some Frankenstein part mix and match like that.
Edited by Impulse - 1/6/13 at 2:20pm

I love chair? I missed the "classic"
Could you use a powered USB hub? I've been suggesting that to people that want to keep their Recon3D plugged optical into Xbox and USB into a computer that doesn't provide power to those ports while turned off. Should be a relatively cheap add-on, side benefit of a place to charge phones and all our USB-charged junk probably would work with PS3, as the Rockband instrument adapters are basically USB hubs with a wireless pairing to the "instrument."


Nameless,
I don't press hard, my fingertips absorb the impact fine. I actually got a cellphone that splits for a landscape orientation qwerty keyboard because I send a lot of texts, and I was surprised to hate it. The buttons are far better than those flat ones in the early Droid phones (are they still like that?) and respond pretty well, but I HAVE to use two hands (two thumbs) and be looking at it to type accurately, I'd much rather be using T9 for short texts cuz I can do that one handed, quickly, without looking at the keys. Typing my longer Head-Fi messages, obviously the bigger IPad screen provides more comfort and allows more than two fingers to type and is the minimal I would consider for longer messages, but still I did a fair amount of abbreviated notes and texting on my iPod Touch before I sold it (to help fund the Q701). I think the main point of adjustment for people going from physical keys to touchscreen is adjusting how hard you tap (you just need to touch it), and let word check help you out if you miss your aim on one letter.

I love my Wacom tablet ^_^

...bluetooth keyboard...