Rant thread - share your grievances, not just audio

That feeling when you’re feeling so tired that you want to sleep but you cannot sleep. That’s what I am feeling right now, so for the mean time I am trying to find a way to make myself drowsy since it is a pain in the ass when I want to sleep I cannot do it, while I want to wake up and do something active the opposite happens.

So yeah, please get yourselves some stable sleep schedule and don’t be like me whose sleep schedule is inconsistent.

That can be such a struggle. I couldn’t sleep at all last night either. Just about managed a nap during the day.

Sleep is important

it sounds like you need a phone you can add storage too and plug in some 512GB or 1TB.

I’d like a dap with dual USBC you can run an SSD to

Okay, do the Moon Audio Dragon Cables actually DO ANYTHING? Like you have silver. You have copper. Hell you can even get them custom built with to do the whole Hart Audio cable thing with the interconnects but does the change in wire material actually change sound in a noticeable way?
The only thing I know about silver in the cables is that they can be good for longer cable runs.

Speaking of Hart, my cables just arrived in the UK and UPS are charging me £32 import fees for gods sake

Can’t comment on wire configurations/materials on interconnects, speaker cables or even on HP’s…but with IEM’s especially low impedance sets they do make a sound difference, more so than swopping between balanced and SE (when volume levels are matched correctly) imho.

Just a health and safety heads up…Vampire audiophiles beware of them Ag cables, best rock the copper and stay safe lol.

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Lol.
So there is a measurable benefit at least on some headphones/IEMs. Cool

And to be serious for a second, silver cabling wont damage your equipment?

No just your bank balance lol…pretty sure if you have the💰you can buy gold cables?

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Another sleep related problem again and it sucks. So yesterday at 4:30 am in the morning I couldn’t sleep even though I am feeling tired at that time. So in order to tire myself and get some sleep, I have decided to go for a bike ride for 2 hours, from 5 am to 7 am. All I can say is this, my adrenaline at that time was so up that I rode my bike as hard as I can, and in the end I didn’t knew that I have done it for 2 hours straight while listening to Lamb of God’s Ashes of the Wake. So yeah, I got back home, rested a bit, took a bath and then slept. But it fucking sucked, like I didn’t slept at all in terms of the feeling I got after waking up, so yeah I should have took some sleeping medication instead of taking a bike ride at an intense level.

If you need some more Hart-style cables, audioverse.de can make compatible cables at a similar price if you ask explicitly for a female 4-pin mini-XLR amplifier connection. I don’t know if they use the exact same red. Ask me in a month… I didn’t check whether the owner speaks English though, I would guess he does.

Get your orders in this year though :wink:

I am sadly reminded as to how terrible 360p is… I may have just been spoiled by getting used to 1080p (or getting to play LTT videos at 4k on my TV), but still… Found an older anime by the name of Kannagi that caught my eye… Foolish me thought “well, surely even something 12 years ago would have thought of 720” I go to download and… 360. “Okay, we can live with this, I used to have to do it-” Not even 60 seconds in “Dear God… WHY?!?”

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I don’t know man, to me when going back to 360p quality videos reminds me of the humble days. I mean back then, I have never cared much about the video quality as long as I can watch the shit that I love but I get you where you’re coming from. Also yeah some videos and games in regards to resolution have not aged that well, but I dunno man, it gives me a sense of nostalgia of the younger and naive years of me.

I hate being so absolutely paranoid about spending money.

EDIT. To clarify. Being in Canada means a lot of my stuff has to be ordered internationally. I am incredibly paranoid about ordering equipment across international lines.
I am also paranoid about ordering within Canada. I have the money. I know what I want. Why can’t I just fucking do it.

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You can’t take it with you so…

LOL.

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LOL
god I wish. I got about 7 grand in freelance coming in within the next 2 months but it’s probably just gonna sit in my account and go to waste.
Also doesnt help that I’m kind of… oddly waiting for the US dollar to crash a bit more so we can be at parity. Canadian Sales Tax is something I can accept ultimately. Even duties. Paying 25 percent more on basic items though?

To clarify I took the freelance for the express purpose of paying for shit. And yet the exact same paranoia remains

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You’d make a rubbish Roman Abramovich…No $400 million yacht for you sir you’d be like…

lol

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Woah hold on there, you want me to spend Dinghy money? Nah man. Inner tube is way more affordable

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I always forget about duty and tax, every time I buy something internationally, not only is the shipping a large amount from the UK, but whenever the order arrives I get a surprise import tax of like 20% of any order

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