DanielListening
1000+ Head-Fier
I always told myself I either need to be in the centre of a city or in the middle of nowhere.
I am currently in the centre of the city.
I am currently in the centre of the city.
OMG SOo beautiful!I don't stop and express gratitude enough for how fortunate I am to live here. It's a small community and I'm cut off from the bustle of a larger centre. But the natural beauty and splendour I get to experience on a daily basis is, to use an audio term, summit fi.
I raided my IG account for some highlights of the past year.
I woke up this morning and rode my bike a few minutes down the road to watch the sunrise by the river
A few minutes in a different direction is a nature walk through an old growth forest
A few minutes up the road and there's a world class hike through one of our provincial parks:
This was taken out of my bedroom window a couple weeks ago:
A random shot along that 100KM highway I referred to previously.
All in all I'm very grateful for my surroundings, something I don't express enough.
Perhaps. Though I would find it hard to imagine that campfire is specifically any smaller than most other IEM companies other than those that cater more to professional artists. I find it hard to imagine they couldn't just order more parts as the need to rebuild inventory arose.
So changing models frequently definitely seems like more of a way to drum up interest in new products.
I think the dorado and vega are still relatively new enough that they will stick around a while longer. But it wouldnt surprise me if by next summer they were either completely phased out or replaced with others IEMs using the ceramic shells.
There is also a couple early impressions from someone who apparently heard them a couple weeks ago on reddit that describes it essentially as a polaris v3, though not in a particularly glowing light. https://www.reddit.com/r/inearfidel...s?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Then again, this is from crins subreddit, so take that as you will, though that same user does seem more interested in the holocene.
We need more of these on this side of the border!Dude.. I was just there this evening with few friends then went to a Pho place nearby.
Nooo I waited too long lol
Well you have to remember, these copper-silver, copper-gold, silver-copper, etc. alloys are actually far less conductive than plain copper, silver, gold, brass, etc. By mixing the two metals, the resulting alloy is less conductive than either would be on its own. So, a lot of times if they’re hearing anything it’s the objective degradation of signal quality
Why not do both? There’s a whole world filled with music out there for each of us to experience. Yes, we each have our “warhorses, ” but the beauty of streaming is discovering new artists, genres, or composers. Streaming gives us (for the few who are interested) to listen the hundreds of variations of, “Monk’s Dream, ” or the top ten recordings of Mahler’s 5th, providing an opportunity to decide which one is my preferred recording.I'm pretty old school in that I don't (and have no plans to) stream, I've got no real interest in TWS at this point and I love chasing after the best masters of my favorite albums. Here is a great list that contains many greats, oddities and rareities.
https://www.whathifi.com/us/features/50-albums-audiophiles
Posted some impressions of the Bravado MKII's over in the EE thread. I like em' for my personal preferences.
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/emp...ssions-formerly-earwerkz.786335/post-16440604
It sure looks a lot like the Polaris. I wonder if Mammoth could live up to its name I'd definitely be getting the Holocene, since the C/2019 is my favourite in the Campfire lineup. And they share similar 2 BAs for mid/low + 1 BA for high + TAEC housing. Based from its description, it also matches the sound of C/2019. I also like the umber brown shell Despite its seemingly flat neutral tuning, the C/2019 does have a good warmth in the lower-mids, and quite a natural timbre
Unfortunately (for me) this seems to be the definition when anything is described as "fun" now. Just means someone took the bass knob and cranked it with little regard to the whole picture. What is this, the 5th "fun" over-bassed monitor? They must sell well, but at the same time, they keep trying to fill this bass head category with new and slightly different, but really the same, stuff. And if they were successful models, wouldn't we have a stable release of some kind that hangs around longer than a season? Why constantly put out half-assed IEM's? It's starting to stink up the brand.
Lol, yeah, it is.
For a newer model just dial up the bass +1 and add some estats, use ceramic chambers again. Sit back and collect accolades.
I don't know if this has been discussed before, but it occurred to me recently that the "new toy syndrome" and "flavor of the month" phenomena in audio might in fact be the flip side of brain burn-in: the sound signature is "different" in an interesting way to what our brains have previously encountered, but as we adapt to the new signature it becomes perceived as more "normal" and thus as less interesting and exciting.
Any thoughts? I could well be either dead wrong or stating something stupidly obvious.
Why not do both? There’s a whole world filled with music out there for each of us to experience. Yes, we each have our “warhorses, ” but the beauty of streaming is discovering new artists, genres, or composers. Streaming gives us (for the few who are interested) to listen the hundreds of variations of, “Monk’s Dream, ” or the top ten recordings of Mahler’s 5th, providing an opportunity to decide which one is my preferred recording.
Why not do both? There’s a whole world filled with music out there for each of us to experience. Yes, we each have our “warhorses, ” but the beauty of streaming is discovering new artists, genres, or composers. Streaming gives us (for the few who are interested) to listen the hundreds of variations of, “Monk’s Dream, ” or the top ten recordings of Mahler’s 5th, providing an opportunity to decide which one is my preferred recording.
What some might think of as “degrading” is actually where the alchemy is with many of the best new cables. I'm listening to an example at the moment, it's a “Gold Plated Silver | Palladium Plated Silver | Silver-Gold Alloy, ” cable, which if conduction was the final word, would be grossly inferior to my all silver Thor/Leo, or big copper PW No. 5, but it's not, not even close. The Zeus has vastly superior dynamics, adds “flesh” to the Thummim’s midrange (it's the only weak point), and has an extended, but realistically smooth treble via the multiple States!