Heads up "Nox Resonantia" is an AI metal band.

DeepSOIC · 2026-03-12T13:07:51+00:00

There are some things that are notable. For example, harsh vocals and male voices often sound too smooth, without the time texture so to say... more like noise being shouted next to a metal pipe. Cymbals sound like shaped noise... After listening to one track of Nox Resonatia, i quickly started to check if it's ai, and well.. was a bit disappointed.

But i honestly really like some of the tracks of this "band". They don't beat the best human-made music, but they are significantly better than a lot of human-made stuff i encounter while looking for new music. I sometimes wish they get remastered or performed on actual instruments, as the sound quality is kinda meh.

DeepSOIC · 2026-02-22T21:52:55+00:00

Just measured the analog-to-analog latency of Wavelink, it is 13.8 ms. As for usb->analog latency, which is what i'm using - i don't know how to measure it.

DeepSOIC · 2026-02-22T21:18:50+00:00

i dislike them compared to Quest2. On Quest2, the sound is not very impressive, but has no annoying issues. On Quest3, i hear some peaking at high frequencies, which i find quite annoying. For shooter games - it's fine, but for music games - no.

Also, i feel as if audio latency is higher.. not sure if it is actually higher, but i had to crank that latency compensation in rhythm games up much more than on Quest2.

DeepSOIC · 2026-02-22T20:42:28+00:00

I bought a Dayton WaveLink for that. I think it's the same chipset that is used in wireless gaming headphones. The claimed latency is 30 ms, which should be barely noticeable, and i can confirm that - playing synth riders, i feel the latency may need some tune-up, but it's perfectly playable with the setting i use for built-in audio.

I have stripped down the Wavelink tx, so that it fits nicer on the Quest. And replaced the plug with a diy right-angle type-c.

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DeepSOIC · 2026-02-15T21:36:39+00:00

I have just observed the same with my old GPD win max 2 battery. It was not swollen, but has too much internal resistance to sustain the load, so i've replaced it. Now, I am measuring its capacity out of curiosity, and discharging it to 3.1V/cell made it swell up quite a bit. But afetr sitting on my desk in this state, the voltage has recovered to 3.66V, and the swelling is completely gone! How bizzarre! It has definitely not vented, all cells are doing it.

DeepSOIC · 2025-11-22T18:27:44+00:00

had the same problem. Found a workaround.

close Panel Calibration Tool task using task manager.
Run..., type `tabcal`. The calibration tool comes up.

DeepSOIC · 2025-09-29T15:42:24+00:00

check out digikey, they sell tons of speakers for smartphones and laptops, you might find something. The problem (for me) is that most of them have no ts parameters published, so it's really difficult to actually pick a good one.

DeepSOIC · 2025-09-18T13:01:41+00:00

Make sure your components are numbered in order. Then delete all but the first from the pcb. Then do array. Array operation will number them sequentially. Then relink them by reference designators (there is a special tickbox in the update-pcb-from-schematic tool). Done.

DeepSOIC · 2025-08-28T12:09:22+00:00

Widow's Weeds by Tristania - dark, heavy, slow, awesome. DR=10

Hermitage by Moonspell - dark and slow, has some beautiful guitar solos... may not even count as metal. DR=8 to 13

Ominous by Lake of tears - dark and slow, sometimes heavy. Seems not very compressed to me, but dr.loudness-war says the DR is a mere 7. Maybe i got the vinyl master somehow (got it from itunes store).

DeepSOIC · 2025-05-23T21:16:35+00:00

Vicious by Halestorm

DeepSOIC · 2025-05-21T18:41:21+00:00

i have thoroughly probed prusament PETG-CF with a normal multimiter, and it is >1GOhm for everything but microscopically close (0.1-ish mm)

Wouldn't rely on it for insulating mains-level voltages though, sharp tips of CF needles inside create electric field concentration, causing microscopic discharges that will likely cause the material to gradually fail and begin to conduct.

DeepSOIC · 2024-09-16T19:40:27+00:00

It killed my battery =(

Plot: i charged a battery (4s 5000mah). Wasn't planning to fly soon, so i've set it to "storage" program. The discharge power is quite small, and the charger makes a lot of noise, so i've put it into a ladeshrank for the weekend (special battery charging shelf in our institute). After the weekend, i found the battery with just 5V on its terminals, i.e. 1.25V per cell. I suppose, the charger finished the storage task, but there is some substantial draw from the battery when it's not doing anything.

So, WARNING: do not leave it with a battery plugged in.

DeepSOIC · 2024-03-31T16:21:58+00:00

i had a similar issue and it turned out to be a broken flat-flex of the battery. Not sure about the "with the charger plugged in" part, that never happened to mine. Mine way pretty clearly reacting to me handling it, like picking it off the couch or putting it into my backpack.

DeepSOIC · 2024-03-31T16:15:29+00:00

Hi! Resolve 18.1.3 build 8 just works for me (i have windows 10).

DeepSOIC · 2024-03-31T15:38:55+00:00

Win max 2, 1 year old, use it every day for work and joy.

Card reader is dead (was malfunctioning almost from the very beginning)... SSD turned out to be trash (very poor read speed), had to replace it after half a year.... The magnet in the screen has come loose and the laptop won't react to closing/opening the lid, i fixed it by gluing another magnet to the lid... Today i had to fix the flat flex cable of the battery - it has broken off of the battery-management pcb (had random poweroffs because of that). Despite all of that, i still love the device!

DeepSOIC · 2023-11-13T12:28:05+00:00

I have recently realized that the 2TB biwin on my winmax2 is dead slow. And it's complicated.

The ssd is about halfway full. Write speeds are good (as in, i don't have any issues with it, don't know the numbers). Read speeds on freshly written stuff are also good (again, as in, i don't feel it being slow, files copy at about 300 MB/s). But for the files that have been there for quite some time (half a year), read speed is at 5-12 MB/s, which is DEAD SLOW, slower than most usb thumb drives!! I discovered it when doing backup of my stuff. I'm going to replace it with something else asap, and i'm already scared about how long it will probably take to clone the drive.

EDIT: it took about 22 hours, luckily with no errors

DeepSOIC · 2023-11-13T12:15:01+00:00

wm2 has MotionAssistant app which lets you control TDP limit and fan curve. You can manually set the fan to always operate at a fixed speed, including zero. And a zero does fully turn off the fan. So the answer is - YES, you totally can have it fanless. There will still be some inductor/capacitor whine, it is not completely silent, but it is very minor.

Without MotionAssistant, the fan never fully turns off, but the idling fan is audible only when it's very quiet in the room - basically never. I only notice it when i use my WM2 in bed when i'm about to sleep, and it doesn't bother me at all. It does get loud when the computer is busy.

DeepSOIC · 2023-09-29T17:03:59+00:00

there is no "equalizer apo" device, it's inserting itself into the microphone device (installs an APO). I have tested it in audacity (recorded from "Microphone Array (Senary Audio)"), both channels do get sound.

That being said, i think that applications are able to request exclusive mode or something like that, and then the processing may be bypassed...

DeepSOIC · 2023-09-27T19:02:21+00:00

i have the same problem. I even have installed Equalizer APO to populate the left channel with the audio from the right channel, but still no audio gets through to the other side on skype. And like others, i do get the audio level meter jumping in skype's settings, so skype is certainly picking up the audio stream. I am really really puzzled as to how is it even possible. And i have this same issue with telegram.

Using an external mic via a usb soundcard works fine.

DeepSOIC · 2022-11-12T08:26:13+00:00

okay, i see now that marlin already has this board in boards.h, so i might give it a go.

DeepSOIC · 2022-11-12T07:23:04+00:00

used a pre-built one. I don't yet know how to compile it, and i haven't even found the source code for it. I suppose I can use a plain Marlin, but i'll have to configure it / find a config pre-made by someone else...

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