Damn a few days? Tropical storm damage is usually not that bad. I live in eastern NC and fortunately I only lost internet for few hours this morning.
I live in an area with almost exclusively above ground power lines. The high winds mean that tree branches, or even entire trees end up falling on the lines. Pretty much the everyone around hear is without power. So even if my area is one of the first to get power back, it still might be a day or two.
To give you some context, the peco website says “do to the extent of the damage to our system, we can not give an estimated time for when power will be restored”.
That’s rough. Last time my area was without power for an extended period was after Florence two years ago. Hopefully it stays cool enough for you
1 Like
Power just came back on. I guess I got lucky and the source of the outage was on a major road, so they had to fix it asap.
At least being in the UK means we get nothing like that. The last power cut I remember was 7 years ago and it was for about 15 seconds
1 Like
Its cos we have so much extra cappacity for when all the kettles get turned on at once hahah. (True story)
1 Like
yep aha especially in the advert breaks of popular tv shows when UK usage of electricity shoots up by 25% for 2 minutes
3 Likes
I absolutely can’t stand that I’m starting to understand what people mean by something being ‘musical.’
clarification as my hugo TT2 is not portable and I’m waiting on my black label nano I’ve been using my Komplete Audio 2 interface in my living room set up and the information and detail are all there but the sound presence is so… flat that it makes all music dead on arrival.
it seems musicality is, to me at least, an composite factor of three elements. Tone, Timbre and Decay. The less fun or natural they are the more music seems like its out of whack. Like the timing is wrong or the dynamic range is compressed to feel like the audio is tight. You know, I’m probably talking out of my ass. I find a lot of the descriptions of sound very hard to parse at times and I think I’m getting it right but I don’t know.
5 Likes
Micro surely?..The micro is indeed musical, the wait will be worth it 
1 Like
Yep. Micro. If I REALLY like it I might upgrade to the idsd pro a couple years down the line depending on where I am career wise.
I’ve been looking at the Hugo2 for my IEM’s but it’s a tad more analytical than the iFi offerings and seeing as most of my IEM’s are more mid/treble focused as I like them…Then my dream source would probably be the iFi Pro iDSD…forward IEM’s with a tweak-able source would entertain me for yonks lol.
PS…As it’s the “Rant Thread” how come iFi call their products Nano and Micro…In the greater scheme of things neither is Nano or Micro 
3 Likes
Not sure. Their naming conventions never really made much sense to me personally.
nano
micro
pro
zen
hip
It’s hard to describe my experience with my Hugo as I dont listen on iems but you are right about the analytical nature of the sound, but its not a sterile analytical to me. Very rich in its detail. I think there was a thread on here about the Hugo2 causing hiss with IEMs. though going back to ifi their iematch cable might help with that.
You won’t get that with the Micro even with low impedance IEM’s like Andro’s…a portable “versatile” DAC/AMP that can’t handle low impedance IEM’s is a fail imho.
1 Like
tbh im starting to think dacs make basically no difference… the monolith, the dragonfly black, and my laptops built in all sound basically the same on my sennheisers… nothing pops. nothing feels bigger and more powerful or more warm or anything, sub bass, mid bass, highs, mids, all are the exact sames… it all just sounds the exact same and i think it could just be a hatred of ESS sound or it could be that dacs make no difference and i will end up wasting money on something that will do absolutely nothing to make the sound better and im just as easy just putting my headphones into the headphone jack and forgetting about this shit… music is music and sounds the same…
sorry i think im in a bit of depression
The HD58X is not very sensitive to amps and dacs. What ever you have is fine as long as you like it. I’ve only ever really heard a difference with a better amp (Asgard 3) on my $400+ headphones and have not really bothered to try and tell a difference in DACs. Source gear is the least important part of the chain in almost all situations, especially when in the sub $300 range.
i just wish these headphones had more impact… more warmth, more color
Nighthawks… 
2 Likes
Maybe you would like something like the HD6XX and a darkvoice tube amp. From what I hear, it warms them up and makes the bass more punchy.