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I need a new manga to read.
Something serious, or a non-moe slice-of-life.

Something along the lines of Uchuu Kyoudai, Oyasumi Punpun, Otoyomegatari, Pluto, Planetes, Monster or Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. (Which are all excellent manga in case you need a recommendation).

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Love so Life <---- most moe sorta SoL I've read.
Okay, okay.
How about Silver Spoon? pretty mainstream I guess, but awesome for a reason
Maybe not super serious, as there's a good enough of humour put into it.
 
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Why Head-Fi, why?? D:

That font looks terrible and now there's a huge block of numbers on these webpages.

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Wonder how it'll be with 5 digits. Thread lock at 9999 to prevent that from happening?

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Then we make an “「Official」Asian Anime, Manga, and Music Lounge 二” thread
 

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I'm playing through Aquaria since I got it in the Humble Bundle. Fun stuff:

What are your guys opinions on Colorfly? And on this situation?
 
I have the opportunity to be 'tested' by them right now(something I don't like) as a reviewer. 
 
Basically, they want more focused reviews, and videos and so C3 will be sent maybe for review.
 
I'm fine with that except for some of the 'requirements' on this 'test' which really puts the non biased self written review into a bit of the iffy zone when they want to see more regions of X and Y etc etc.

Personally I don't like the concept of review units since they already have a bias. I prefer to write my own biased reviews for my own personal reasons. In other words I will not review something unless I actually want it and not for the sake of a company asking me to write one. It's why I haven't had any review units yet and I hope I don't get asked to do one any time in the future. Sure you get to listen to some cool gear, but I would rather do that without the burden of having to write a review in an attempt to make a company look good, which I find happens too often with review units.
 
Back on the topic of the C3 review units, again I don't like that concept as they seem to be trying to shape their reviews to focus on something to benefit themselves. It's really hard to write an unbiased review, especially for audio.

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What are your guys opinions on Colorfly? And on this situation?

I have the opportunity to be 'tested' by them right now(something I don't like) as a reviewer. 

Basically, they want more focused reviews, and videos and so C3 will be sent maybe for review.

I'm fine with that except for some of the 'requirements' on this 'test' which really puts the non biased self written review into a bit of the iffy zone when they want to see more regions of X and Y etc etc.

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The C4 is great, though volume control for sensitive IEM is hell. Lots of those jap audiophiles use it. Others use AK100.

Review with more focus on specific regions of evaluation? Nothing wrong with that.
As long as they're not telling you to praise their product.

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I don't like that concept as they seem to be trying to shape their reviews to focus on something to benefit themselves. It's really hard to write an unbiased review, especially for audio.

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The whole idea of posting a review on head-fi is to write one as unbiased as you can. It's not entirely that difficult. The company I am currently writing for asked for a completely unbiased review too; not all companies want to self-promote.
Though the end note is usually not "would you recommend this product" but "to what crowd would you recommend this to", hence a ambiguous conclusion on about your backing of the product.

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Personally I don't like the concept of review units since they already have a bias. I prefer to write my own biased reviews for my own personal reasons. In other words I will not review something unless I actually want it and not for the sake of a company asking me to write one. It's why I haven't had any review units yet and I hope I don't get asked to do one any time in the future. Sure you get to listen to some cool gear, but I would rather do that without the burden of having to write a review in an attempt to make a company look good, which I find happens too often with review units.
 
Back on the topic of the C3 review units, again I don't like that concept as they seem to be trying to shape their reviews to focus on something to benefit themselves. It's really hard to write an unbiased review, especially for audio.

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Most companies prefer you write an honest review. If the review isn't good for their company, they don't feature it. 
 
Plain as that. Rocky at Dunu is someone I've talked to a bit. He has already mentioned that a few of my reviews for the units weren't very good for Dunu in terms of me liking them and giving them a good score. But yet, I still get and write reviews for them really.
 
I wouldn't call it shaping. The represenative wasn't really trying to represente the company as much as criticizing my reivews(which I appreciate). About how I need to focus more on the 'good's' of the units. It's selling points and less on my subjective feelings about it. Which I felt was more of her adding in what I should start doing in general.
 
So all in all. I told her to wait for my X3 review to come out. The X3 review will be a brand new format for my reviews in general where I will try to do pro level reviews. 
 
I'm interested in working with Colorfly and their reps do seem good.

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The C4 is great, though volume control for sensitive IEM is hell. Lots of those jap audiophiles use it. Others use AK100.

Review with more focus on specific regions of evaluation? Nothing wrong with that.
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Yep, that is what they want. They don't need praise for it. 
 
She was more or less trying to criticize and help my review style out more(she read a bit portion of my reviews ). And thus (as she personally believes the C4 is uber awesome) she would like a reviewer that can highlight specific regions so that she as an aslo good audio listener, can appreciate. Because these guys of course want to sell the unit and she knows its good. Thus concise reviews on why and etc from reviewers. Is basically what I see it as.
 
I've introduced her to CLIEOS just now though.  I was astounded that she was looking for uber level USA reviewers who had a good English language and didn't know of CLIEOS

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The C4 is great, though volume control for sensitive IEM is hell. Lots of those jap audiophiles use it. Others use AK100.

Review with more focus on specific regions of evaluation? Nothing wrong with that.
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Yep, that is what they want. They don't need praise for it. 
 
She was more or less trying to criticize and help my review style out more(she read a bit portion of my reviews 

). And thus (as she personally believes the C4 is uber awesome) she would like a reviewer that can highlight specific regions so that she as an aslo good audio listener, can appreciate. Because these guys of course want to sell the unit and she knows its good. Thus concise reviews on why and etc from reviewers. Is basically what I see it as.
 
I've introduced her to CLIEOS just now though. 

 I was astounded that she was looking for uber level USA reviewers who had a good English language and didn't know of CLIEOS

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Malaysia?
 
As for reviews, yeah I guess so but you still have the bias that the company is going to be watching for your review. Doing a review on your own will is much more unbiased.
 
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So they filter out negative aspects and put in the good ones. That would be shaping their reviews and that would be a bias.

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Malaysia?
 
As for reviews, yeah I guess so but you still have the bias that the company is going to be watching for your review. Doing a review on your own will is much more unbiased.
 
You said yourself:
So they filter out negative aspects and put in the good ones. That would be shaping their reviews and that would be a bias.

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English speaking reviewers with a fluent take on the english language is what I mean. 
 
I wouldn't really say so. Depends heavilly on the reviewer. Just because it was provided to you for free doesn't mean you will have bias. I have ripped some 'new' ones into provided units.
 
But of course. I have learned from the masters on how to do that. Jude and Tyll are of course my masters at this. On how you can criticize and drop a product while still keeping everyone happy. Obviously its a bit subtle and what not with me still being clear on what I mean. My ARCAM rPAC , Dunu DN 17, Oblanc NC1 reviews are these.
 
They don't filter the aspects. If your review is one that endorses their product. They post it on their facebook page. If it doesn't. It doesn't go on their facebook page, and you get a thank you.
 
I have yet to have A SINGLE company filter or try remotely in filtering my aspects. Not one. They all said honest in their emails to me. And not once came to tell me otherwise even after reviewing my review on their product.

Yep. They can decide not to feature it, or only feature what parts that do benefit them, but they won't have your review removed. If you look in Head-Fi you'll still find it unedited, for example.

You will notice that's the same thing Head-Fi uses for their holiday gift guides. Highlight one or two lines from one or two members' review. The full review could have been bashing all over aspects aside from that one part they liked, but you don't know unless you read the actual review (not directly linked).

I'd be interested in tryin out a DAP review but honestly however that works... Aside from build quality and UI, and any noticeable changes in SQ from say my 4S, I don't think there is that much to say? Or am I wrong?

 
Killing 4 birds with one stone.
 
All 4 are new review units. I was able to use the HS2 (first stone) so that the X3 can be burned in(if you even believe in SS burn in, I don't care. I just do it so I can tell others I have put it through X hours) and so I can burn in the new RHA's and Dunu's.
 
So how does the HS2 work?
 
The FiiO explanation is a bit hard to follow. So use these pics
 
The HS2's outputs and inputs labeled are not actually outs or in's but rather both. It's a passive device so it can do this.
 
If you want to with one input, output to two headphones(and only two at max just with HS2) you can do the config here

 

 
So what is happening right now is that the front plates two ports are all connected with headphones. And the switcher is set to 1. If you look at the back. The X3 is inputting into IN1(don't worry about it being Input or output as this is a passive device).
 
If I move the switcher, the audio disapears from the two headphones. This basically means that I can hook up as many as 4 different input sources (analog) so this means 4 different amplifiers of my choosing or sources or whatever. And have it play to two devices of my choosing whilst I can easilly switch between those 4 in this config. 
 
In the other config. I have the X3 plugged into the front plate. The back plate with the IN letterings will be outputs now. And so thus I can output or change the signal from 1 through 4. This means that I can connect a different headphone to each IN back plate plug (as long as the device inputing can drive it) and switch between headphones easilly without stopping song, plug and replug etc etc.

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Yep. They can decide not to feature it, or only feature what parts that do benefit them, but they won't have your review removed. If you look in Head-Fi you'll still find it unedited, for example.

You will notice that's the same thing Head-Fi uses for their holiday gift guides. Highlight one or two lines from one or two members' review. The full review could have been bashing all over aspects aside from that one part they liked, but you don't know unless you read the actual review (not directly linked).

I'd be interested in tryin out a DAP review but honestly however that works... Aside from build quality and UI, and any noticeable changes in SQ from say my 4S, I don't think there is that much to say? Or am I wrong?

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I've only used the 4S for audio a few times. It's my phone and its internal storage is for apps, videos, and pics. I was using my iPod as my DAP.
 
But in terms of how navigation and how you put audio on. It's quite different one way(think Sandisk) and the second one is how Apple and most modern makers do it. It gives you two options. The X3 that is.
 
There is autonomous and manual music navagation.
 
For manual navigation/file adding /creation:
Basically, think of navigation like a root folder on your computer. Imagine having an empty flash drive. The empty first layer is the 'root'. But then from the root. You can slowly add folder's and name them whatever you want and place whatever songs you want into them. You can make sub folders within those as well. Think of it like navigating 'deeper' into your computer or root. This is how the X3 navigates in a sense.
 
You make, name, and categorize your folders personally. This means that it fits almost everyone. People here have talked about how they like to have playlists, or how their navigation is a bit different. Using this root folder navigation with you naming and formating everything allows you to be FULLY in control of which songs are where.
 
You can do this for both internal storage and TF card. Just add the folders in. 
 
To see your manual folder creations. From the title menu, you go down to 'Browse Files'. From there, you have a choice of 'Local Disk' or TF Card'. Choose the one of which your files are located and bam! Your personally created, organized and whatever folders are there.

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For auto organization:
 
HOWEVER, the X3 isnt just bare like that. There is also the classical organized groupings. This includes 'Play all' in where the X3 will display all songs you have in both local and TF storage, and another main folder on the initial root section called 'Category'. Inside category are 3 sections. 'Album' Genre and Artist. This is self explanatory on what is inside all of them. The selection pulls in music from both internal and TF card.
 
Play all, shows you all your songs in total. And the categories operate like how the iPod has the bottom sections. These are auto organized things. You don't personally take care of these. The system auto does. However you could change the artist name or whatever on the computer, and thus it will change. 

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Whilst in song:
Whilst you are playing a song. You can press and hold the 'back' button which will then bring up the info menu. The info menu has an information selection panel to show you all the juicy tech details of the song you are listening to. You can then also add it to your favorites(favorites are accessed from title menu). And also a quick access to EQ. Treble and Bass only. This is not a custom EQ for each song, rather it is a quick panel access to quick EQ'ing while you are listening to music, Below that, you have the option to delete the file, change the play mode(repeat, shuffle etc). And a back to title screen selection

So it's like Rockbox then in terms of song navigation?
 
Some people in the AK120 thread claim there's a difference in sound quality between FLAC and WAV. If that's the case, the AK120 does a poor job of unzipping the FLAC file. I ain't going to use WAV on a portable media player, not to mention the complete lack of file tags.
 
In the same thread, some people claim there's a difference in audio quality between a 64 GB SD card and a 32 GB one. What.

I don't have any other DAP, I've always chosen cellphones intended for music playback.

Don't know why you pasted all that about the X3 but that's still within the enumeration of review elements to cover that I mentioned. Well sort of.

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So it's like Rockbox then in terms of song navigation?
 
Some people in the AK120 thread claim there's a difference in sound quality between FLAC and WAV. If that's the case, the AK120 does a poor job of unzipping the FLAC file. I ain't going to use WAV on a portable media player, not to mention the complete lack of file tags.
 
In the same thread, some people claim there's a difference in audio quality between a 64 GB SD card and a 32 GB one. What.

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Never used RB.
 
The difference....could be B.S lol.
 
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