If only I got that lucky, the majority of the links that I find on those japanese sites end up being dead, so even if the song is free it only exists on some japanese guy’s dusty hard drive from 2014.

I was reading this and it was actually really informative but about halfway through I lost my place and I just can't be bothered.

Paragraphs, man.

I use 256 kbps with Opus for robustness against all possible artifacts (heard some at 192kbps and even 224kbps). But if you ask me, 128kbps is the best bitrate for Opus in terms of efficiency. ALMOST transparent, yet files are super small.

Chill out. Someone who might not have heard of Harmon Kardon would not be able to recognize the blurry low pixel text.

No idea what this subreddits rules are on sailing the sea, but I had some luck with a few from a new service I recently downloaded. More niche songs that don’t have a bandcamp release or a self hosted mediafire and are basically just random videos uploaded to NicoNico or YouTube couldn’t be found, but at that point I doubt the song was even produced beyond YouTube-level quality. Also note that most of the songs I’ve been downloading are very old and not QA’d at all, so I don’t have much input on getting new songs.

Yeah, it is not very straight forward. This is why it's easier to use MSRP to understand how the company views the hierarchy of their own product lineup. When using this approach, Hifiman apparently values the HE6se v2 above the Arya - regardless of what the actual street prices, and people's opinions/feelings, are.

Between the two, the HE6se is the more punchier and dynamic pair (arguably, even rivals the Susvara, in this regard), whereas the Arya has the more impressive headstage with a meatier low end rumble (at least the Stealth). You can always apply EQ to the HE6se to add more quantity to the sub bass region, but the comfort leaves a bit to be desired, which the Arya fairs much better being lighter while also having a subjectively better suspension headband design.

So it's a matter of what the balance of features you value more.

Hey, question for you. How do the sound qualities of the arya v3 and the noire line up in your opinion?

Reminds me of a 770

It’s a question of amplitude. In theory, a single driver is optimal, since it’s a point source. Creating a driver capable of loudspeaker sound pressure levels, that can reproduce the entire human hearing frequency range with high resolution and low distorsion is tricky (almost impossible). Doing the same at headphone audio levels is much much more doable, probably even easier than overcoming the problems with multiple drivers and extremely short listening distances. With multiple drivers you also have crossovers, with their problems and added distorsions and phase issues.

Also, you have technologies as planar magnetics or electrostatics, that are very difficult to use well at loudspeaker volumes, but extremely viable at headphone levels. (Electrostatic designs are also an example of a seriously high-performing single driver loudspeaker, albeit one that requires BIG speakers if you want full range bass reproduction at somewhat respectable levels.

In the loudspeaker world, some companies are jumping through a substantial amount of hoops just to get speakers to behave like a single point source even though constrained by the need to use multiple drivers, like Genelec TheOnes (three-way coaxial point-source design with substantial audio and DSP trickery...).

Most (all?) high end headphones are single-driver designs. If there would be substantial advantages to instead using multiple drivers I'm sure many high-end headphone designs would, but they don't...

20 tb is enough space for a million lossless tracks, you don't listen to that much music, you're just hoarding shit.

Can you read?

I'd definitely go for kids' headphones because of a lower max volume

30s and Clear were way too sharp for me so I gave up on them.

Osibisa - Welcome Home

Osibisa - Sunshine Day

SAULT - Wildfires

Little Simz - Introvert

amaarae - FANCY

Osibisa -

Moliy - Body on fire

Worlasi, Senkulive - Animate

Adomaa - You Used To Love Me (Intro). It's a special experience.

Aṣa - Nike

SAULT - Fight For Love

Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas, Henrik Schwarz - Eye Nyam Nam 'A'Mensuro (Henrik Schwarz Blend)

Black Sherif - Soja

Cina Soul - Falling

Burna Boy - Kilometre

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Agree especially here with a dsp detachable cable. You could customize anything that this will drive. It’s also probably why it’s not removable.

Sounds like you might prefer the HD650 or the new Meze cans.

Lol. Will definitely try next time I make it east.

All drivers are available if you order enough on alibabba but I do reject many when I match for my obsession so I don’t match lightly when I craft each set

I adore that headphone, it’s gorgeous too

Fuuuuuccccccckkkkkkk yyyyyyyoooooouuuuu on that Cypher Labs Prautes. Just looked it up based on the side profile alone, let alone the rest of the cabinet. Fuck that's an amazing looking amp. One of 50. Listen in very good health!

Oh dear it really is that good as it looks too if ur in ny hit me up

Which ones should I look into? trying to keep it around $1200 or lower and don't know a whole lot about them.

most of my low bitrate songs are unreleased or mixtapes

Fuuuuuccccccckkkkkkk yyyyyyyoooooouuuuu on that Cypher Labs Prautes. Just looked it up based on the side profile alone, let alone the rest of the cabinet. Fuck that's an amazing looking amp. One of 50. Listen in very good health!

I will definitely take a look. Thanks! I am a bit confused by the he lineup altogether and how it fits in with the sundara/ananda/arya lineup. Looks like I need to do some more reading.