Merppity

I got to attend Audio Expo North America (AXPONA) this weekend, so I thought I'd write up some listening notes and a few photos I took. That and a short review of the ZMF Atrium Closed that I purchased.

What I heard:

• ZMF Atrium Closed, Atrium Open, Verite Open/Closed, Caldera, Atrium, Auteur, Atticus,
• Meze Liric, Empyrean, Elite, Liric, 109
• Audeze LCD-3, MM500, MM100
• Raal CA-1a, SR-1b,
• Sennheiser HD800s, HD820, HD660 S2
• Denon 9200
• Warwick Acoustics Bravura
• Briefly heard: Focal Utopia 2022, Astell and Kern Beyerdynamic collab thing, some speakers I don't know.

What I Own:

• DCA Expanse, Aeon Closed RT
• Meze 99
• Sennheiser HD650, IE600, IE80 (broken)
• Grado SR60e

TLDR:

1. A little big chonky
2. Lots of power
3. Volume wheel is smooth (but volume change is not)

I personally don't believe in amps and DACs changing sound all that much and, as far as I can tell, the K7 is no different. It sounds good, and I didn't hear any distortion even at dangerously high volumes. Meanwhile, there's no audible noise floor with the Moondrop Blessing 2. And yes, I did pay for this with my own money, for personal use.

The wheel goes from 7 o'clock to 5 o'clock clockwise and moves extremely smoothly with no crackling (looking at you Schiit). Turning the wheel all the way down powers it off, and you turn it back to power the unit on. This can be a little annoying, as it

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Close up of the grill

Build Quality, Comfort, Accessories

Note: I paid for these with my own money, so I'm not some reviewer shilling. Guess there might be purchase justification tho.

As always with DCA headphones, they feel incredibly solid and well built. These are probably one of the best constructed headphone I've ever held. I also rather like the Hirose connections DCA uses, they just feel sturdy and durabl

You've all seen the posts on why FFXV's story or combat sucked, but I'm here to complain talk about the overall feel of moving around in the game.

And I've got quite a number of complaints. First there's an infuriating number of animations to cover nearly every action, each of which takes away control of your own character just to play some insignificant animation.

• Want to pick up an item? Animation. Want to pick up the next item next to it? Wait for your first animation to reset, try to point your character the right way, and then try to pick it up without accidentally jumping. Then: animation. Thank god they made battle drops automatic, cause I shudder to think about trying to pic

Maybe this is a bit of a stupid question, but how do I turn the circle of LEDs off? It doesn't turn off, even when the monitor is off.

As a side note, anyone know why LG On Screen Control only shows split screen and brightness/contrast as an option? I have plugged in the USB cable, but appear to be missing game mode controls, etc

I bought some lamb roast from Costco without thinking it through, and now I've got no idea what to do with it. What's your go to recipe? Baked? Stew?

I've got a 1080ti, i7 7700k, and 16GB of RAM. When watching YouTube videos, it'll occasionally flicker to the thumbnail of the video I'm watching for like 1 frame, and this happens in both full screen and windowed. Oddly enough, this only happens with YouTube, not Netflix. I've tried both hardware acceleration on and off, and this whatever it's supposed to do.

Does anyone know if there are foam filled silicone covered tips for the IE80? I've been using Comply tips, but it's kinda annoying how they fall apart so quickly. They're usable for months, but become suboptimal after only like 3 weeks, and I don't really want to spend money on replacing them every few months.

I've seen the Monster gel tips on Amazon, but don't know if they're any good (the sample pack is also rather pricey, and doesn't have the wax guard). The reviews are also... not encouraging. Does anyone have experience with those? Thanks in advance for the help

I want to trade in my Paperwhite and maybe buy an Oasis, then try and stack the discount with the Black Friday sales they always have on Kindles. However, I'm wondering if it'll stack. On the trade in website, it says that you can't combine it with other offers, but IDK if black friday sales count.

I recently bought this cable for my IE80s. The thing is, it makes the earbuds sound somewhat bass boosted and almost distorted. I'm just wondering if this is actually possible for a cable, or if it just sounds this way to me because my old cable was damaged. I supposed the only way to find out at this point would be to buy a stock cable from Sennheiser and test it, but those are 40$ without shipping, and they also take time to get here.

So recently I've been getting some momentary framerate/display type lag. It happens when I'm gaming, using Firefox, basically doing anything no matter the load. It's that kind of lag that freezes the screen for just a moment or two, then everything seems to suddenly appear like it should. This happens in everything from League of Legends to Battlefield 1 to just normal browsing.

My build is:

GTX 1080ti, not overclocked

7700k, also not overclocked

2x 8GB 3000MHz Corsair RAM

2x 2TB Seagate 5400 RPM HDD

Corsair 600W Gold PSU

500 GB Samsung 960 EVO NVMe M.2 SSD edit; this is what Windows and a majority of my applications are installed on

All my temperatures are good, roughly 30 to 40 C