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JohnnieB

JohnnieB

Senior Audioholic
I really don't like much of the new country music out there, just a bunch of pretty faces with a business deal. This band is different. I really like their sound.



 
macddmac

macddmac

Audioholic General
I really don't like much of the new country music out there, just a bunch of pretty faces with a business deal. This band is different. I really like their sound.



I can't get enough of Pass the Jar.. My current favorite live album.
Cheers, Mac
 
Cos

Cos

Audioholic Samurai
New Build: I had to try the X99 Mobo
- Asus X99 Deluxe 3.1USB
- Intel I7 5930K CPU
- Corsair H105 Water Block CPU
- 16GB DDR4 Corsair 2666Mhz Memory CAS15

Rest is Recycled from my old Build
Corsair 900D Full Tower Case
Corsair 1200w Modular Power Supply
ASUS AMD 290x 3GB GPU (got a great deal open box, otherwise would have gone NVidia)
Samsung 512G Pro SSD Drive
Corsair Force 4 256G SSD Drive
Intel 80GB 330 SSD Drive
2x 3TB Western Digital Black HD (used to back up my NAS)
1TB External Iomega Drive
Creative X-Fi Pro Gamer Pcie sound card
Emotiva Airmotiv 4 Speakers
Dell 27" WQHD U2713H Monitor

 
afterlife2

afterlife2

Audioholic Warlord
I really don't like much of the new country music out there, just a bunch of pretty faces with a business deal. This band is different. I really like their sound.



They are doing a free concert this summer in my city. I might check them out. :)
 
H

hankki

Junior Audioholic
A foam lance to my high pressure washer, maybe washing the cars will be more fun:)
Are we buying too much stuff or do we feel that money should be rolling out as quickly as we get it? :)

 
JohnnieB

JohnnieB

Senior Audioholic
These just arrived, a little light reading. :rolleyes:

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rojo

rojo

Audioholic Samurai
I also got some headphones from fleabay, a pair first gen Parrot Zik cans:



$400 headphones for < $150 shipped ain't too bad. There's a bit of drama surrounding them though. They have a Point of Sale demo firmware loaded, and a lot of the functionality is missing. I've been in contact with Parrot, who have offered to perform warranty repair / replacement on them. I'm getting ready to mail them off this afternoon. After finding out the nature of the firmware on them, I thought they might've been stolen. :x Parrot reckons the store carrying them just sold the demo unit and shouldn't have. They told me this a week after my offering my suspicion, so I'm guessing they contacted the authorized vendors around the area of the auction and checked.

Anyway, I was going to wait till I got the replacement phones before bragging about them in this thread, but I guess now's as good a time as any to show off my find. They sound great, although when they're playing heavy bass the treble gets a frog in its throat. I'm most impressed with Parrot's customer service, though, offering warranty service from an item I bought used from an unauthorized seller, with no original proof of purchase other than the eBay ad.
Well, after a long month of forcing myself to be patient, Parrot has rewarded my patience handsomely! They upgraded me from a woefully incomplete 1.0 to a new-in-box 2.0. Cheers, Parrot!



I'm giving the battery its initial charge now. I'll post up a review possibly later this month.



Initial impressions:
  • They are much lighter and more comfortable than the 1.0. They still make my ears hot though.
  • The noise isolation is profound, even without the active noise cancelling.
  • They sound somewhat lifeless without Parrot's Android / iOS DSP software. They work wired and un-powered, but that is definitely not their forte. I expect that they'll liven up once the battery is charged and I get the DSP enabled in the firmware.
Oh, and the Dayton iMM-6 in the first pic is a little experiment. I'm going to find out whether a Smartphone Headset to PC adapter (basically a TRRS female to 2x TRS male cable) will allow me to perform REW measurements with a PC. I'm still waiting for the adapter to arrive though. If it works, it could be a worthwhile far-less expensive alternative to the UMIK-1. Indeed, it could even be superior, allowing measurements in the time domain with a capable sound card (whereas a loopback connection for time domain reference is not possible with a USB mic).
 
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Adam

Adam

Audioholic Jedi
This past week, I bought myself a Fire Phone - and my Echo arrived yesterday (after being ordered in January).

The Fire Phone is pretty cool, but the non-standard OS is a bit of a pain. I love the lenticular images, though.

The Echo has surprisingly (shockingly, almost) good audio to it. It works okay and isn't really magical, but the speech capability in it are amazing. Computers have come a long way since that first speech program I used on a Commodore 64. :)

I admit that I was hurt at first when Alexa responded to my marriage proposal with, "I'm happy with our relationship as it is" (or whatever she said, it was difficult to hear over my sobbing), but I'm actually relieved. I don't need her nagging me if I get home late.
 
JohnnieB

JohnnieB

Senior Audioholic
Amazon Echo. It's a product that they started selling late last year/early this year. It has voice recognition and can play music and stuff.
I like the idea of the tech, I just have way too many fears about something that monitors my speech and is hooked to the cloud. I already have to choose my words carefully so my g'friend doesn't get suspicious about nothing, God knows what the feds would think. :eek:
 
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