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Quote: Originally Posted by So_Sweet To be honest, mines a bit laggy too.. I have to turn like a CM before it starts moving lol... it is really quite laggy and sometimes not responsive.... is it a defect?

hi everyone, is it normal that the wheel is a bit lag-gy?

Quote: Originally Posted by VicAjax what are grey bullet tips? is that the soft flex silicone? should be this one, sorry i dunno the exact name of this

coz i have previously owned UM1 and UM2, so i go for um3x .....

Quote: Originally Posted by jc9394 I have the same experience on the Shure Olive, but the UM56 kills it by the mile... i remember the maxim of head-fi.... btw, the UM3x + Olive plays SRV very well...

Today i bought two different pairs of Shure Olive (medium) and Shure Grey Bullet tips for my UM3x. The Shure Olive just give me the best sound out of the rest of the tips i own. The Bullet Tips are great too and they are more durable !

i am going to buy the Etymotic Black and soft foam tips for UM3x , do they fit ? i think the Ety black foam tips can increase the size of soundstage of UM3x , i hope they can fit ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Pangaea fatko, I think the biggest and most valid take away from this thread is that we all hear things differently. In the time that I have spent on Head-fi the general opinion (again, not all) is that iPod's stock SQ is not good. I have had a bunch going...

is my iPod Photo 30G the worst SQ in all iPod family???

the LittleDot DAC II is said to be launched this December

hey guys, i just got my UM3X today !!!! and i am surprised that UM3Xs do ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

is it good for bassline monitoring? i am a bassist and i have to listen the bassline's melody. i am going to buy a pair of IEM today rather um3x or tf10. i want an analytical and also flat response IEM.

Here comes the latest K601 user. I love its comfort and analytical and yet relaxing sound with hugh soundstage. I dun like 701 but i like 601 with no doubt.. For a USB DAC, DAC1 or MiniDac can drive it better?

i will be leaving Hong Kong for probably up to 6 months... since i am not able to bring all my headfi stuff , i am going to buy a USB DAC to continuing my headfi life out of hometown... i have converted all my favourite CDs into Wav and stored in a portable hdd, and i will bring a notebook...

Quote: Originally Posted by jmmtn4aj What does that look like? I've updated my post regarding an experience with that (or lack thereof), coincidentally before I read yours http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f11/wh...ml#post3898351 i hope you can read Chinese.. Cantonese 佢地食左屎...

Quote: Originally Posted by chesebert all magazines? what about official HK documents? legal documents? text books? street signs? Almost all magazines are written in Cantonese Chinese unless they are intended to publish to Taiwan or China (coz they cant understand) Legal...

Quote: Originally Posted by jmmtn4aj Exactly. In China you'll find street signs with common words look the same, bookshops with 'bookshop' as a suffix will have the same characters, supermarkets with 'supermarket' as a suffix will have the same characters, and if you go into a store...

Quote: Originally Posted by RYCeT Quote this from Cantonese Wikipedia Same writing, can be read in Mandarin, Cantones, Hakka, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese with a different pronounciation for each language. Will you say Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese is one of...

Quote: Originally Posted by chesebert NO. even in their written form, they are different; more specifically, the meaning of the words are different, the sentence structures are different, and most importantly the ways their are communicated are different. Same character, like the same...

Quote: Originally Posted by chesebert So what's the purpose of language? to communicate, to say it simply. So the question is can a person speaking 'Cantonese' communciate with a person speaking 'Shanghainese'? Well, your natural answer is no, because they sound different and...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Tadashi Tell me about it. I can only recognize about 200 charters and write about 100 what do you know how many character you can recognize? by test?

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Tadashi Well to quote wikipedia it can be argued that Chinese is a reference to a language family as it can be argued the other way around . Chinese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia anyway, Chinese characters are somehow difficult to...

Quote: Originally Posted by chesebert Quotation from Wiki: "Cantonese, a Chinese language originating from Guangdong province to the north of Hong Kong, is Hong Kong's de-facto official dialect." Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia empahsized for clarification. The...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. Tadashi IMO the difference between cantonese and mandarin are very diffrent say compared to other regional dialects that sound relativity similar but, are rather different. I spend a lot of time hearing various thing in cantonese and when I hear mandarin...