I can’t say I’m not jealous! But that doesn’t make $130 not ridiculous.

I tend to wrap loose tubes or tube pairs in bubble wrap or paper and then put them either in ziplock bags with gaffing tape for labeling or in a small box and seal the bubble wrapped tube pair with a gaffing tape label.

Most tubes come in branded and labeled boxes already and you can also store them in there and stack em in another larger box, add some crumple loose paper or wrap the tubes in their boxes in bubble wrap if you want to extend the life of the original boxes. Store in a larger box. That's what I did anyway. I ended up settling on a really good end game for me pairing and haven't really tube rolled since, and I bought ALOT of tubes that I maybe shouldnt have for my Little Dot MK2... oops.

What tube amp are you currently tube rolling on?

Or we just let people spend their own money how they want without being an ass about it.

I would auto eq that target to the meausurements of my headphone

It depends on your headphone

Fuck that Bullshit!

The location and magnitude of that peak can potentially change each time you insert your IEMs, as well as over time while worn if they start slipping out due to ear canal movements, sweat, or wax. What sounds right to you now after EQ might sound off tomorrow or even 2 hours later. Also, good gear is generally tuned with that resonance in mind, which can cause simply chopping off parts of that peak without making other changes to compensate to throw off the treble balance and hurt timbre or imaging.

If you're not sure what you're doing, unless there's either some nasty vocal sibilance (harsh S and T consonants) or an unpleasant piercing or metallic quality to percussion instruments like snares or cymbals that makes them painful to listen to, it would be best to leave that peak alone.

Even if so, I'd suggest trying out different ear tips first to change the depth the IEMs tend to end up seated at in your canals, although do be warned that nozzle size will lead some tips to be incompatible with your IEMs. Foam or Ostry tuning tips (often listed as "turning tips") also used to be commonly recommended for attenuating excess upper treble on chi-fi.

"studies show that you can make any old shit up if you back it with a source no one will check"

Depends on how they define "listening to music." Is being at a concert, or a party with a sound system, also "listening to music"?

An ANOVA is a statistical analysis to determine if the observed variable changes for a reason other than just "chance". But, many people and even scientists (psychologists are not scientists) tend to forget what a significant statistical difference really means biologically, falling in the real of making too many assumptions.

Some of us are on this journey for the benefit of video games.

And, on that note, let me take a moment and just say that "I can hear footsteps so clearly and from forever away" isn't the only measure of a headphone for video games. In fact, I absolutely don't care about that, because I'm neither a pro gamer, nor am I trying to be, and also I'm not over here only playing CSGO and Overwatch - other video games exist.

And when I did play 1,000 hours of CSGO, it was mostly me running around with the Negev, because nobody really expects Negev on round two, and nobody expects a Negev to just sit there and hold the trigger down the whole time.

It's just so weird to me that every time I search for something about headphones and video games, the conversation is always, "You can hear footsteps so good - you'll get the competitive edge", and the response to that being, "Sweet - I'll get those then". Like, to the request of "gaming", and nobody clarifying what kind of gaming.

And for movies, it's always, "It has punchy bass/good low end - great for movies", and it's like... there are other movies besides Transformers and Die Hard. I don't need punchy bass for Encanto or The Princess Bride.

/rant

Pricey, but a good stand. Sturdy and adjustable. I have one in black.

The best way I have found is play your favorite song, metal tends to work great because it's similar to white noise. Play it with and without EQ. Tweak the settings until it sounds good or at least "right" to you. All ear canals are different especially in the upper treble.

thanks, you guys may have saved me $3k!

FWIW I demo’d both briefly and I thought the Empyreans were way too veiled in the midrange, similar to the LCD2 Classic I briefly owned. The Elites sounded much clearer while still being easy to listen to with great bass, similar to the LCD-X which I now own :).

I’m a musician, does my depression cancel out or double

Oh no, anyway

I bought the same stand in black ten years ago for 80€ or so, and it’s still like new. Compared to the headphones the stand is cheap, and lasts forever.

Thanks..I'll take a look at the switches as well

Do whatever works best for your individual tastes and ears.

They're right, the people with the highest numbers of wrapped usually have depression.

While it's true that is where the resonance peak is due to most couplers and insertion depth when measuring, there very much could be a more solid peak there as well. So if you hear it and it's a problem area, definitely feel free to EQ that down

i always have music on

If you hear it as a flaw, that's what matters. If EQ'ing it down makes music sound better, then why not do it?

It is a Correlation, but it can be used to show music causes depression as a trend in the population. So, music may not just make you sad reflexively, but it is directly related with something that does

It's been a minute since I took psych research design, but

This is an anova analysis. Yeah, the mechanism could be anything internal or external, but if you found a proposed mechanism the amount of music, the depression and the degree of exposure to the mechanism would all be directly correlated in a random sampling of a population representative of the whole. So if something related to music listening causes more depression, listening to more music in a vacuum would not increase depression, but in your sample of the population it would show a direct increase in depression as well as a direct increase or decrease in exposure to the mechanism. Let's say the mechanism is spending more time alone increases depression. Everyone listening to more music would mean more time alone in aggregate, resulting in increased depression in your population

If everyone started listening to more music, many would spend more time alone and be more depressed. It causes depression as a trend, not in a vacuum. When they say "causes" they don't mean like how a bright light causes you to blink.

If eating beans is shown to correlate with shitting your pants with an anova analysis and the mechanism is increased gas build up, eating beans still causes increased pant shitting overall in the population. And decreasing bean consumption would mean less pants shit