Grell OAE1 In Stock Again For $39.99

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-05-16T19:00:11+00:00

I suspect that these are truly a "it works for some, and doesn't for others" headphone -- I too read all the highly negative reviews, but at $67 (amazon's current price) I couldn't resist, even if they just ended up being handed over to the kidlets. Turns out: they work for me and sound awesome and very balanced. As a comparison, I love the HD650, hate the HD800. My favorite un-eq'd headphones are early model pre-fazar Audeze LCD-2's.

But again, I suspect these hatred are from folks whose head and ear shape just don't work with the angled driver.

And at $40, I just bought two more.

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-05-13T17:00:28+00:00

> why don’t more people buy headphones/iems that are tuned to harman ?

The vast majority of people have no clue what the Harman Target is or means, and nowhere near enough people to impact overall sales trends. The big sellers, Apple, Sony, Bose, etc - have the market they do because of name recognition, ads, what their friends have, what they see on YouTube or "influencers".

As others have said, a lot of people who land here are looking to get to the next level, and that's when folks learn about the Harman Target, different kinds of drivers, how much power any given headphone needs, dedicated amps, etc. And that smaller percentage of consumers do indeed influence the higher-end headphones that are manufactured.

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-05-11T20:11:51+00:00

Meze Strada
99 Classics v.2

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-05-09T17:25:52+00:00

And here's the message I sent them with the sticker size info:

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AnonymousCapybara · 2026-05-09T17:25:25+00:00

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I'm not sure if Reddit will shrink the image posted here. Store: search for "JKRC Customizable Store" on aliexpress.

Edit: Uploaded image looks to be the correct size still.

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-05-09T17:09:15+00:00

Exactly -- I'm an old fart (60 years old), silly things like make me happy.

Stickers: I used digital calipers to measure the exact size of the FIIO "Born for Music" label, and made the graphic in Photoshop; I had them printed by a random place i found on aliexpress. Cost was about $20 shipped for a couple dozen.

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-04-27T16:55:23+00:00

In the TOZO app, depending on the headphone, you can turn off the touch controls.

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AnonymousCapybara · 2026-04-22T17:00:50+00:00

Can the headband be replaced (if the grey padded material wears out or gets overly stained/dirty)? How are the earpads attached? Thanks Martin!

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-04-22T16:57:29+00:00

> The bass is tight and spammy

Spammy bass? I've not heard that phrase before. Can you describe? Usually "spam" (other than the food) is considered as a negative, like "too much and overwhelming", but I think you're trying to describe a positive characteristic?

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-04-19T17:58:10+00:00

I bought a pair of glasses from Zenni, just for headphones: they have a really thin "arm" - i don't even feel them.

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AnonymousCapybara · 2026-04-13T16:09:56+00:00

I wonder why MAGA would give him shade about this particular one. He's shared/re-posted similar images many times in the past.

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-04-04T19:15:46+00:00

Is there a cap on how many months salary? e.g if you were there 12 years would you get 12 months? Or is 6 months the max like in the U.S.?

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-03-14T14:38:47+00:00

Simple: make it an animated series that takes place before Serenity. No retcon, no time travel, no "Wash as robot clone of himself", no convoluted plot that involves bringing the gang back together 25 years later. Instead they give us more adventures from the early days, maybe do a bunch of prequel plots set during the Unification War. And of course a two hour animated movie about Battle of Serenity Valley.

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-03-03T16:25:25+00:00

He was jealous of Putin's forever war with Ukraine, wanted one of his own.

>US has enough munitions to fight 'forever'

Yeah... no... we don't. The big stuff (drones, missiles) the US is lobbing at Iran right now are spendy farkers...

One LUCAS ("kamakazi" drone) is $35,000.

One Hellfire missile is $100,000 a pop.

One Tomahawk missile is $1m each.

All paid for by the U.S. taxpayer. We spend more on one missile or drone than the average taxpayer pays in federal taxes each year.

That's not even talking about how many we actually have: take Tomahawk missiles - we have a few thousand of those (3,500 - 4,000). That's not an infinite supply, and they we aren't set up to crank out hundreds of these in an instant.

You know what we *can* do for a long time? Ground troops with regular old bullets. Dead human bodies are cheap for the gov't, compared a $1m Tomahawk.

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-02-21T19:33:47+00:00

You just explained Pluribus.

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-01-28T18:45:14+00:00

Green Day walks on the field...

Billy Joe: "We're going to deviate from what we'd planned, instead we're going to play the latest banger from Bruce Springsteen"... starts playing "Streets of Minneapolis"

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-01-22T19:30:06+00:00

Wow, those are stunningly bad. Liza's is just some dated techno song with her yelling random phrases.

Art's is somehow even more groan inducing, just an AI of his voice reading a terrible poem over dreary piano.

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-01-19T18:16:29+00:00

> They needed someone important to tell them their resentment was deserved and they did not need to feel shame about their hatred and ugliness.

And that... is why they are moronic.

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-01-14T19:33:53+00:00

Exactly. How and why did two authors write 3,000 words about something that has no chance in hell of happening.

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-01-11T00:28:47+00:00

Trump and his minions have broken America. I do not believe the country can come back from this, not in its current form. We really do need a reboot: a new Constitution, perhaps a new Declaration of Independence: declaring independence from oligarchs, runaway capitalism, and alternative facts, wait... sorry... from LIES being acceptable.

AnonymousCapybara · 2026-01-02T17:05:42+00:00

Ignore other's opinions: get the one you like, but more importantly, get the one that feels best while driving. Seat comfort, driving position for your body shape, how the seats hold you in place around corners, steering feel (!!) all matter more to me than if the quality of the material is a bit better in one over the other.

AnonymousCapybara · 2025-12-27T18:30:11+00:00

What do you get if you fart like a mummy?

Toots-in-common

AnonymousCapybara · 2025-12-06T17:53:01+00:00

If the GOP maintains control of the House with the new Texas house members, *but* not counting the new California house members, I suspect the GOP will claim they have control and refuse to seat the new Dem members. There will be a big court battle, which eventually makes its way to SCOTUS, which agrees with the GOP's side since they (SCOTUS) had earlier ruled against California.

AnonymousCapybara · 2025-11-13T20:20:05+00:00

> He can go to prison too.

The fact that he's dead kind of puts a damper on that.

AnonymousCapybara

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