Donât know the seller but anyone in the UK thisâs a crazy good dealâŚ
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Jesus, that is insanely cheap for them.
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Donât think theyâll hang around long 
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That makes sense, man! Can you and @MMag05 do me a favor, maybe? Can you both take a listen to a few songs for me, Iâd love to get both of your views and see how different or similar they are.
daft punk - Voyager
daft punk - Give Life Back To Music
Men I Trust - Lifelong Song (very decent sub bass and mid bass texture testing song)
Parcels - everyroad (the last 2 minutes of the song is sub bass heaven, just have to be patient lol) itâs also a good song to test stage and imaging as well, whole bunch of different voices coming from above, behind, side to side, all over the place.
I appreciate you boys!
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This is otherwise known as the âplease listen to this IEM so I donât have toâ special!
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His thread has been hilarious with unfamiliar people coming in and making assumptions about him without knowing him at all.
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Nice thread to detox myself after getting overdoes by snake oil and shills that are everywhere on HF otherwise. 
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âŚand for what itâs worth, I agree with him about IEMs (and to an extent, earbuds and headphones, too); they can not match a real life performance or properly set up speaker system. They can only approximate to varying degrees of success. A big part of why Iâm into IEMs and buds so much is that I canât feasibly bring my speakers and subs on the road with me, and headphones by and large fill a space that matches neither of my use cases (I have a couple of pairs, but rarely use them for that reason).
Iâm going to be very curious to see how his eventual write-up on the Storm goes; I think heâll put it among the top performers but may gather the ire of any fanboys out there. I look forward to it!
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Are you going to be adding Tangzu to your scam list?
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Will wait for their response first.
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My bad! Not trying to be a douche 
eagerly looking forward to what you think of this thing.
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Nah Iâm just messing. Lord knows the group listening to things keeps me a little bit out of trouble, in trying to try things I shouldnât!
Speaking ofâŚ@Rikudou_Goku
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Oh Iâm definitely familiar with that song. Iâll give it a go on the Legato. Any chance your on Spotify? I have a great playlist of 70s and 80s roller skating songs I could share.
I may not be of the age to have went to the rink as a teenager in their prime years but, I did go multi times a week in the early 2000s. I was a rink rat and did all the rubber legging, shuffling and jam skating. The DJ was an older gentleman and played the prime songs of the rink heydays and I got hooked on them. I actually meant my wife at the rink. We still visit them fairly often and now that our kids are old enough to skate we go as a family. Even got a roller skate tattoo to commemorate us meeting their and the memories of it.
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haha I am on spotify and have a Skate Jams playlist as well. I too was not the right age for prime rink rolling but I skated a bit and always appreciated the vibe
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KAEI TAP 2 (Upgrade MUSE02 version) with Moondrop Dawn (3.5mm) on OnePlus 8T using UAPP
Sensitive/low-impedance test:
Softears Volume (5ohm, 123.7db/vrms@1khz) :
(TUBE ON, LOW GAIN) Can still hear the music (extremely low volume though) with the amp being on at 0 volume, which is kind of annoying. The volume wheel´s volume (no pun intended) control is excellent and allows for very fine adjustments. ZERO NOISE AT ALL even without music playing, although if you turn off the music and raise the volume to around 12 o´clock there is some noise
(TUBE OFF, LOW GAIN) 0 volume still has some music playing although slightly louder as with the TUBE OFF the volume overall is actually louder. Control over the volume is pretty much the same in that it has excellent control BUT since it is louder overall, it does mean that it gets louder quicker. No tube noise from it even with the wheel turned all the way to the max (no music playing obviously) but there is some very slight hiss in the background at that point which isnât really a problem since no sane person will listen that loud.
(TUBE OFF, HIGH GAIN) Same as before but even worse volume control since it gets quick really fast. Hiss is more present and at ALL volumes while at max volume the hiss is much louder.
(TUBE ON, HIGH GAIN) same as with tube OFF, there is now hiss present at all volumes AND at 9 o´clock the tube noise kicks in. Volume control is slightly better though as the volume is a bit lower than without the tube activated as mentioned before.
Comment: You will have no issues AT ALL using sensitive and low-impedance transducers.
POWER test:
Ruler (Planar, 50ohm, <92db):
(Tube ON, LOW GAIN): Cannot hear music at 0 volume. Playing at around 1-2 o´clock. ZERO noise at all volumes and no hiss.
(TUBE OFF, LOW GAIN): Playing at around 12-1 o´clock.
(TUBE OFF, HIGH GAIN): playing at around 10-11 o´clock. No noise nor hiss at all.
(TUBE ON, HIGH GAIN) playing at around 11-12 o´clock. No hiss at all, tube noise is very slightly present at max volume.
DIY 500ohm BUD (500ohm):
(TUBE ON, LOW GAIN): Cannot hear music at 0 volume. Playing at around 12-1 o ´clock. At max volume, there is an extremely tiny tube noise that is present.
(TUBE OFF, Low GAIN): Playing at around 11 o´clock. No hiss nor noise at all.
(TUBE OFF, HIGH GAIN): Can hear music at 0 volume slightly. Playing at around 9-10 o´clock. No hiss nor noise at all.
(TUBE ON, HIGH GAIN): Can hear music at 0 volume very slightly. Playing at around 10 o´clock. Tube noise is present a bit at max volume, no hiss.
Comment: Can drive pretty much anything.
Source memeing: Tube on or off honestly really doesnât sound that different too me, the Tube on mode might be very slightly smoother, warmer and with looser/slower bass compared to the tube off mode. But extremely hard to tell since the volume changes instantly with the different modes. I might prefer using low gain compared to high gain simply because you get a bit better volume control (doesnât go loud as quick).
In conclusion, this is a damn powerful amp that will drive anything and without any issues with noise nor hiss with the most sensitive iems. While this does count as a tube amp (well, hybrid) you should think of it more as an SSD amp with tube glow.
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LOL 
My CO in the first unit I was assigned to in the Marines used to say this all the time. âNegative Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.â I definitely miss that dude. He could make you laugh in the middle of a firefight. Anyways, thanks for the chuckles. 
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âNegative Ghost Riderâ is definitely still used across all of the branches
edit: Oohrah Devils, old 6042 here, HMLA-169 for most of my service.
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