The diary entries of a little girl who is now 30! ~ Part 2 - Page 266

I'd opt for a surrogate. 

Man, that Perfect Wave DAC in FS is a good deal...

I decided to buy my mom a Blackberry Playbook for Christmas. 

I went into it with low expectations, since the sales were pretty dismal at the beginning. Now that I've run the tablet through its paces...

Holy friggin schitt!!!!

From a hardware perspective, the playbook is a mile ahead of my ipad and nexus 7. Everything about it feels premium, the screen is fantastic (not quite retina or super amoled, but for under $200 on Amazon, I ain't complaining), and ergonomics are great.

The absolute best part of the package for me are the speakers. It has stereo front facing speakers that simply outclass everything I've ever heard on a mobile device, even most laptops. I just watched a few movie trailers, and I'm just flooored. If you guys are interested in getting a tablet that is a complete package, and frankly the best mobile multimedia device I've owned, then please don't pass this up. The web browser supports flash too.

The only downside to the tablet (and it's not really a direct issue), is the smaller developer community compared to the bigger names. This is still a non-issue, since you can learn to load Android apps onto it with less than 10 minutes of internet research.

I'm getting myself one too so I don't snatch hers up.

Got all irrational and fed up waiting to be able to order an MK3 JKSPDIF so I ordered a Stello U3 instead.  Maybe I'll regret that for one reason or another, but I'm sure it'll be a step up from the my DAC-2's USB input.

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Originally Posted by driver 8 

Man, that Perfect Wave DAC in FS is a good deal...

A couple modded ones have appeared in recent weeks at decent prices too. I'm looking for a meaningful improvement in a DAC rather than an incremental one, so I really want to be able to audition models before I start looking for any in earnest.

Taken from private PM over the last week or so (edited and only roughly quoted for the sake of not polluting the thread with an encyclopedia sized entry)

My honest reaction after that exchange and the attitude of that kid

I wish I had the money to buy them, just out of spite for the other guy I'll offer you some S400's with one driver dead ^_^

It seems like he was implying the AHD-400's weren't decent headphones with good isolation. 

Hey DF, I'll trade you my broken Shure SRH940's for those if you send a box with a paid shipping label to my house first.

-Edit-

And schedule the UPS pickup for me.

Man, I've just been vegging all week when I said I'd be getting shipping supplies together to start selling my unused amps and ****.  I have, however, been saving all the packing material from my random ass Amazon buys lately.  Maybe some of that would work?  And I have the original packaging from my Lyr and Hifiman stuff.

I also need to get the Audez'e cable out of my WA22 before taking pictures of it.  I was actually dumb enough to plug it back in last month, having completely forgotten about the amp's 4-pin XLR jack eating it.  I'll make this known in the thread of course, along with the fact that the amp pretty much sounds the same across the balanced and single ended outputs.

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Originally Posted by mosshorn 

I wish I had the money to buy them, just out of spite for the other guy I'll offer you some S400's with one driver dead ^_^

Quote:

Originally Posted by driver 8 

It seems like he was implying the AHD-400's weren't decent headphones with good isolation. 

 

Hey DF, I'll trade you my broken Shure SRH940's for those if you send a box with a paid shipping label to my house first.

 

-Edit-

 

And schedule the UPS pickup for me.

lol

Deal to the guy who can run over to my place the fastest. First one to bang on my door gets it. You gotta run though no car or plane allowed.

Hm run from Florida to Canada? If it was a full 009 rig, I would have to Forrest Gump that :D

That sounds like work, I'll pass.

I suddenly have a really strong desire to own some R10's despite having heard a pair before and not thinking they were worth their typical asking price and knowing it's potentially an awful investment.  There was, however, something special to that sound I heard and I want to hear it again*.  And my affection for the TH900's is making me want more bacteria drivers and crazy wood work ;_;

I kind of want the ATH 3000ANV's too, but they're all expensive now.  What is up with that?

Besides that stuff my "one of these days" list includes:

UERM

Freqphased JH13's

one of them super DACs

and an aquarium; I miss having an aquarium.  Maybe I should get that first to take my mind off all this headphone stuff and feel motivated to clean my room.

*and that was on some bunk ass RSA amp.  I want to hear what they'd sound like with my stuff.

For whatever reason I keep thinking a small 4 or 5 gallon aquarium with a Siamese Fighting Fish and some aquatic plants would be a good investment in attaining more tranquility in my life

I wouldn't want fish that'd fight each other.  I made the mistake once when I was little of putting a small newt in the same tank as my fish and one of them bit its arm off :( .  It grew back, but the process of regeneration stunted his growth making him my smallest newt after I had acquired more (in their own tank).  I was really surprised since none of the fish in that tank ever attacked each other, but one had beef with quadrupeds, apparently.

Getting aquatic plants is definitely half the fun, though!  Especially when they're from crappy pet stores and have snails living in them. 

And there's something to be said for having the faintest bit of algae smell around with the sound of one of those bubbly things, ****, what are thy called?

I've been thinking of an aquarium or something. I need something to kind of stare at while I listen to music other than the computer screen/some random area. Maybe I'll invest in a lava lamp or something. Only problem with those is the "house on fire" thing :P

So I'm browsing through the Music forum, and just getting more music. I feel nowadays music hasn't been impacting me as much. Call it getting jaded, not having anything better than KSC-75's right now, or winter depression. I'm not really sure why. I've been toying around with the idea of finding a hobby to go alongside this one, but most require money, which I don't even have enough for this one  Exercising is an option. I guess once you get past that "ugh" part it becomes enjoyable. I'm not overweight, merely lazy. But it's free! 

I think I'm done for the night. I think these late nights and personal life stressors have been getting to me too easily. Night all.

EDIT: Why does everyone feel that lo-fi makes it atmospheric? If I wanted to listen to cassettes, high, while pretending it's 1987, I don't need your post-processing on the music to help me do it. Kthx.

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Originally Posted by DigitalFreak 

 

My honest reaction after that exchange and the attitude of that kid

 

Just walked in the door...and into Cheap kid in UK's madness!