Though not surprising, it's still dismaying that InnerFidelity seems to be officially no more. And the way it disappeared, without so much as a "Hey, we're closing shop, thanks for the support over the years" message, really smarts. It shows that AVTech either didn't care about their remaining...

There are a lot of questions I wish I had thought to ask Tyll when he was still running the ship at IF, but I guess the one that sticks out to me now seeing that video link is where he gets those magnificent Hawaiian shirts. I genuinely, unironically like them, and it makes me miss the closet...

For me, that would have to be my first HD 600, which was destroyed last year in a house fire. I retrieved it from my bedroom afterward, and while it appeared to still function, it stunk so horribly of acrid smoke that it would never be usable again. It was also covered in soot, and the room had...

That's got to be some kind of record. I've read about a thrift store HD 650 that I think went for $30, but this massively tops that, even with the conversion from GBP into USD.

I have tried parametric EQ and, with the help of published frequency plots, constructed a compensation curve that continues the gentle rise in the mid bass through to the sub bass. It sounds excellent, but it limits my choice in sources. Since I use my HD 600 anywhere I can, I would often find...

Indeed. This was what really opened my eyes when I first got my HD 600. After a short adjustment period, I found the midrange to be my favorite part of the new (to me) sound signature (the lack of biting treble was a very close second). And it continues to captivate. It's the one area where I...

I was technically alive throughout most of TNG's original run, but I was so young that I couldn't have hoped to comprehend any of it when it was on. I know the show was frequently rerun because I remember hearing the opening theme music occasionally on my father's television, but I never...

Indeed. The Star Trek thing was news to me, and great news at that.

Looking at the Facebook post in question, to be fair people were being kind of dickish about what they thought was a vanity shot of his daughter. I guess him being a bit dickish in reply is to be expected. Still, his responses are particularly venomous, and some of them seem to be more about...

People in this hobby consider amps, DACs, and cables as factors in the overall performance of their system, but often overlook pads, which can have a huge impact on the sound. Since the pad is a big part of the acoustic coupling, it makes sense that it will contribute significantly to the...

In the case of the DT880, kind of, at least IMO. The way I'd put it is that while not radically different from each other, they're somewhat the antidote for one another. If you feel the HD 600 is a bit too polite and mid-centric, the DT880 has more treble and better bass extension while not...

It's not just about Tyll, though. Not to make little of his dedication and considerable contributions to the hobby, but he isn't the only person in the world who could do what he did with IF. What made IF special was the way it explored how objective measurements map onto subjective impressions...

It's sad how precipitously things have fallen over there. I've taken it off my bookmarks and favorites lists already. That said, I visited the site the other day just to see if anything extraordinary had happened in the past week. When I checked the comments of the latest article, I saw all the...

Yeah, leaving it here seems like the best course. There really isn't anything more that needs to be said.

I would pay a considerable amount of money to see somebody do something like that. But you know, even there Tyll did it better. I can't find it at the moment (maybe I just don't want to put in the right search terms), but there's a fairly infamous picture floating around of Tyll wearing some...