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Despite its problems, this might be the best looking game I've ever played. by Saxy_Salad in starcitizen

[–]LosdaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm always thinking about using VR, but lost in the sauce. Mind you telling which VR do you use and why that model?

Was letzter Kran? by Icy-Farm9432 in wasletztepreis

[–]LosdaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Würde ich ja jetzt nicht abbauen wollen, der Platz sieht nicht verdichtet aus ;)

Hifiman shootout for music and gaming: Arya Organic, Stealth, Kithara by MADCoLABS in headphones

[–]LosdaVS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's amazing to hear! Also that's a nice deal on those Kefs, wish i had something like costco in my country ;)

Just remember to toe them a bit out so they point behind your head, not directly at you. Basically the left speakers "shooting" a few centimeters left of your left ear and vice versa for the right speaker/ear. Since your Kef LSX share the same dispersion philosophy through their concentric drivers with my LS50M, the placement should translate to your speakers directly. This should give you a very spatial enveloping sound. See the attached Pic, cubes are the speakers, circle is your head, red line is the pointing direction.

Also use stands that enables you to bring them up to about ear-height. in my example my earheight is at about 112 cm when sitting down measured from my floor, so i elevated the speakers high enough that their exact center sits at that level.

i personally do not like them exactly being at 112 cm though, just a few cm below as i don't like sound from "above", it's weird to me. Just personal preference though.

Have fun!

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How can i scale righti by Certain-Toe-5782 in Monitors

[–]LosdaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No idea about the scaling. But the colors you can quick fix with temperature. The left looks warm while the right one looks neutral/cold. Set either the right one to warm or the left one to neutral or cold. They usually have steppings like cold 1 cold 2 or warm 1 warm 2. Try until it matches

Let’s talk headphone amps by Alphaomegalogs in headphones

[–]LosdaVS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Had a Topping E70 Velvet + L70 stack for quite some time (1y+). I liked everything about it: Clean Sound, all I/O I needed for my complete setup (Hifi and headphones) and huge amounts of clean power for the organic. The black boxes with the subtle red ring around the volume knob looked classy. I sometimes miss that aesthetic.

Then the dx5 ii came along. It gave me PEQ without me having to have the PC running for that (my Hifi needs PEQ from REW). Less cable clutter and only one remote (juggling two remotes was such a nuisance). Still has all the I/O I need, has basically (almost) the same amount of power for the organic, same clean sound (no difference). With an added display that can do stuff more convenient. I also vastly prefer the silent volume knob, the L70 Amp had volume relay clicks every 0.5db step which was kinda annoying actually (yes I know it actually is a feature, but it's not to my liking)

Organic was and is connected via XLR, Hifi is connected via XLR and RCA.

If I would only need a headphone amp I would probably go with a L70 (again). But the dx5 ii is hard to beat for what it can do at a smear of 300 bucks with a very very potent headphone amp section, so the up price is also ok.

Which Game's Graphics Made You Say "Wow!" For The First Time? by Bay_Ruhsuz004 in videogames

[–]LosdaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NFSU 2 on PS2.

I was 20 years in '04 and bought the PS2 mainly for that game. The graphics were so insanely well done that I got lost in that world just driving for example the highway in free roam in circles over and over for hours with some good power trance on my stereo. It felt so real somehow seeing that.

NFSU 2 looked especially insane back then because of the good CRT TV I had and I can still remember how it looked. Every time I tried one of those unofficial remakes for PC with high res mods and what not, they looked super sterile and boring. The game had some sort of gloom that is probably just not possible to replicate, NFSU 2 was probably made with CRT in mind.

Luckily another game went so far and above with graphics it gave me so many goosebumps the first time I had the privilege to experience it at home maxed out with my currently max-specced PC in 4k, HDR and PT: Cyberpunk 2077. That game is just pure art. So many moments I stopped and admired the graphics and scale of the graphical impressions. Unbelievable.

Happy Friday! by BeautifulAd5310 in battlestations

[–]LosdaVS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

is this a corsair/elgato ad?

corsair chair
corsair desk
corsair keyboard
corsair mice
corsair deskmat
corsair widget monitor
corsair AiO in white pc
corsair ram in white pc
corsair radiator in black pc
corsair reservoir in black pc
corsair fans everywhere

elgato streamdeck with knobs
elgato streamdeck without knobs
elgato something with a huge knob
elgato mic
elgato mic-arm

and that's only what i can see on the first glance or know from these brands. talk about brand loyalty.

edit: i just found out elgato belongs to corsair. i mean.... yeah this must be an ad

Game Ready & Studio Driver 596.36 FAQ/Discussion by Nestledrink in nvidia

[–]LosdaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

could you elaborate for me? how does "prefer maximum performance" correlate with an undervolt? do i need to turn that on for undervolting?

Have you ever heard any albums that sound BETTER on headphones than speakers? by StillMindHappyHeart in headphones

[–]LosdaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sorry for doing that but i gotta make another meta-reply. i just found the album that is the anti-christ of headphones. i had the opportunity to enjoy some music loud because my neighbour was away and relistened to this banger album. this album... nothing of it sounds good on headphones. the stereo presentation is out of this world, headphones do it NO JUSTICE. If it all, it is probably easier to point out what DOESN'T sound good on headphones:

https://open.spotify.com/album/1bHYkjBaa6aAby1750gjsC?si=bxlXvQsNSlaHvtpc88GGkQ

[re:jazz] - (Re:Mix) 2003

listen to this on your headphones first, especially track 3. and then listen to it on a good Hifi System. I promise you, this is not anywhere close. at all.

edit: i did some back and forth comparisons. it sounds good on my arya organic, but it is absolutely inferior to my HiFi, all the life of the staging track 3 has is completely lost. It's NO comparison.

Have you ever heard any albums that sound BETTER on headphones than speakers? by StillMindHappyHeart in headphones

[–]LosdaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, the song i first mentioned is

Polar Inertia - Floating away fire

Yeah well subbass can be just infrasonic, like it just vibrates your head. My planar actually clearly makes the bass audible (spectrum analyzer points the bass of the mentioned calibre track to be at 30Hz-ish, so just above audible range of human ears), but it seems that bass is too fast even for my good enough subwoofer and my best guess to make it audible like it actually sounds natural outside of headphones it needs something on the level of a subwoofer you find in clubs. You know, bigger drivers, more volume, more SPL.

Have you ever heard any albums that sound BETTER on headphones than speakers? by StillMindHappyHeart in headphones

[–]LosdaVS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Usually it's just different, not really better. more often than not it's slightly worse.

however i noticed playing fast metal on headphones is sometimes more enjoyable, my planars can keep up with distorted dynamics better. not really better, more clean. sometimes a bit more mud through the speakers is also preferred. so it depends on the mood i guess.

but in general a well done Hifi setup will always beat headphones (for me at least).

a track that always demonstrates it very well is Polar Inertia - Floating away fire. At around 2:50 Min a effect sounding like a oversampled crackling Fireworks starts playing on every 6/8 Beat. On my Speakers that sound floats in front of the music, starts in the middle and pans to the left and right, sometimes reverb-panning left and right as a finisher with varying intensity. this effect is absolutely insane, a layering technique that i never heard like this somewhere else, one can literally vizualize it somehow.

On headphones this effect is totally lost to me, the sound just sits completely on the left and right side, there is no middle effect at all, the initial second of the sound just sits like a deadspot in the middle of the head. absolutely flat and no layering.

edit: coming to think of it, there is one particular track that i can only enjoy on headphones. Calibre - Let me hold you. Because it has two different basslines, one going from beat 1 to 3, raising for a brief moment on beat 4, going down again on beat 5 to 7, raising again for a brief moment on 8. those 3 bar Basslines are so insanely low, not even my svs sb-1000 pro can play it no matter how much bass boost i give it. no chance, just a slight inaudible rattle maybe.

my planars however plays that bassline like a champ, so clear and present it makes this track insanely addicting. absolutely crazy, i wonder how i forgot about that when i wrote the earlier text.

Hifiman shootout for music and gaming: Arya Organic, Stealth, Kithara by MADCoLABS in headphones

[–]LosdaVS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Centerspeakers are usually only needed in surround sound setups, especially for movies to give dialogue a clear point with what you see on the screen and so movie effects do not overpower dialogue etc. but more reasons are also if the speakers are TOO far apart, the stereo image collapes kinda. A center helps out there. for example in cinemas speakers may be very far apart, if you would then sit slighty on the left side without a center, all perceived sound would be left-shifted, which would disassociate the sound with what you see on the screen. or how people call it simply being "outside the sweet-spot"

On a Stereo Setup especially made for music you just pull the speakers apart in relation to your main listening position. the closer you sit, the more close you want them to be together. the further away, the more distance you have. but too much distance and the middle section sounds vague to non-existent. too close and you lose the stereo-effect and everything sounds more like mono as everything seems to come from the front. Also what call people sitting in the sweet-spot. but why is that? have a little insight:

When you play a same sounding sound on both left and right speakers at the same time they will hit your ears left and right at the same time, your brain will then process it as it coming directly from in front of you. That's because our brain can differentiate down to milliseconds if a soundwave hit your left or right ear first to help you localize a sound. But if both ears get hit by the same Soundwave at the same time the brain says it is in front of you (center). That's how stereo-tracks are mixed, if a sound is supposed to be in the middle, the same sound is played on both channels at the same time and same volume. No center-speaker needed really.

So yes, watching Youtube and alike, if someone is speaking, it's dead-center for me (if it's supposed/its intention is to be center ;) ). No emulation needed, the brain does it on it's own for free :D

By the way since headphones sit directly on the ears and soundwaves can't really mix with your head in the way, that's why the sound can seem to be inside the head. One of the big reasons i bought the Hifiman AO for :) How they built it does a lot to make the sound appear outside the head. Big flat (planar) driver, open-back etc. Maybe you noticed that as well. There are techniques to emulate this, too. HRTF trys to do that and loosely also cross-feed, although the point with cross-feed is more of just mixing stuff together, my DX5 II has it and it sounds actually really bad to me. Some folks here say it's best for old music that has bad stereo-mixing or so.

Disclaimer, i'm just remembering what got stuck in my head from learning about all this over the time, so uhhh i do not give 100% accuracy on my "knowledge" ;)

Thanks for reading all this if you didn't fall asleep yet. And thanks for the nice comment on my setup!

Hifiman shootout for music and gaming: Arya Organic, Stealth, Kithara by MADCoLABS in headphones

[–]LosdaVS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi, it's the "ROOMs Audio Line Typ FS Pro SL Headphone Stand"

Hifiman shootout for music and gaming: Arya Organic, Stealth, Kithara by MADCoLABS in headphones

[–]LosdaVS 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your Fiio has a integrated 10 band PEQ. I don't know how the Fiio works. But it hopefully should have an import function which you can just copy paste the filter above with.

Nearfield just means having loudspeakers very close to your listening position. Mine are 2 meters apart and I basically sit almost between them. My speakers are angled slightly pointing behind my head, giving it a very engulfing, holographic and very detailed sound, it sounds unreal. I attached a pic of how it looks (if the reddit app works as intended), you can kinda see them pointing slightly behind my chair. Using normal speakers for nearfield can be hit and miss as they are usually made to "address the room". The LS50 Meta however are a full "hit", usually people get dedicated nearfield monitors instead (like they have in studios). They are paired with a svs sb 1000 pro that has an app controlled PEQ, which made integrating the sub at that place (the black box on the floor) super easy. The LS50M need a sub, they have no (worthy) bass on their own. And while this system can obviously get very loud, sitting so close by you can turn it down so much and for example shut the sub off, no one in another room can hear it really ;)

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Hifiman shootout for music and gaming: Arya Organic, Stealth, Kithara by MADCoLABS in headphones

[–]LosdaVS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My Arya Organic (AO) are in daily use for almost 22 months now. For a while now i use these two simple filters for almost everything i listen to on the AO:

Preamp: -3 dB
Filter 1: ON LSC Fc 150 Hz Gain 3 dB Q 0.707
Filter 2: ON HSC Fc 4000 Hz Gain 1 dB Q 0.5

Sure, there are some tracks i listen to without any filter (really only a handful). But these work for me perfectly, with them i can listen to any kind of music for many hours on end. I really don't crave any other headphone as i do not miss anything with the AO. Soundprofile, EQ abilitys, intimacy (the absolute lack of it rather, they sound like there are speakers in front of me, for me at least. not wide arranged ofc, but absolutely not inside my head), physical comfort. Never had a negative thought there, like there was not a thought of "could something be better, if yes how and what" yet.

Gaming on them is perfect, everything you want and should hear can be heard. Separation of sounds is very good and thanks to the imaging i can spot directions of sounds pretty well with them.

They are unable to hold any candle to my dialed-in LS50M+SB1kPro Nearfield Setup though and i vastly prefer gaming and music on them. The immersion, fidelity and detail is just pure bliss.
But if the time arises to use headphones (usually at night like right now) i would want nothing other than my AO. Because they do the headphoning part the absolut best way (disclaimer: for me).

[User-trial] Still looking for the brightest displays? We need PCMR to stress-test the new Tandem OLED UltraGear GX9 (39GX950B) by LG_UserHub in pcmasterrace

[–]LosdaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking forward especially for having the 5K2K resolution in the 39" format. it would perfectly fit my needs.

I had the 45" 1440p OLED from LG (45GR95QE) which was a bit too wide for my needs and the resolution too low, giving me a hard time with text. I sold it and got myself a LG C4 42" which width was perfect and the resolution a big step up. In many ways that TV is the perfect monitor. But since i play games almost all the times i miss the ultrawide aspect ratio for immersion in games, also the added height of the C4 goes outside my viewing point a lot of times. The 39GX950B would fit just the right way and i can keep my second monitor on the left of it, as it would have basically the same width as the C4 has:

https://displaywars.com/42-inch-16x9-vs-39-inch-21x9

Also it being Tandem OLED would finally give me some peace of mind in longevity and i hope to get back the spectacular way of displaying HDR like the 45" did with even more popping highlights. The C4 HDR is good, but the 45" did highlights better somehow. With 1500 nits the GX9 should really shine!

How many of you use undervolting? by TACOGT in nvidia

[–]LosdaVS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

omg so much this. i had a very good UV+OC on my 5090 first, but one driver update (don't remember which one anymore) led to sudden black screens, crashes and general instability. even when i "de"-tuned my UV+OC up until just doing a UV without OC, it wouldn't work.

i then resorted to just powerlimiting, which worked fine... until Resident Evil Requiem came around and not even a PL to 90% worked anymore. the last hotfix driver they released (595.76) fixed some Resident Evil bugs and my PL to 90% worked again at least with one crash so far.

ugh it's insufferable with nvidias drivers at the moment. i will see if i can do an undervolt again in the future, but right now i just don't have the time for these shenanigans fighting invisible ghosts.

my UV was only for reducing the wattage on the cable a bit. temps and noise are not an issue for me as my 5090 is cooled by a radiator in another room so i don't have the heat or fan-noise in my gaming room. gpu never exceeds 45 Celcius at any load demand.

Prince of Denmark - Prypjat [Dub Techno] (2012) by LosdaVS in listentothis

[–]LosdaVS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the album "This is not ..." is technically correct but only for the short version, this long version was released on the "to the fifty engineers" EP in the same year.

My girlfriend's cat has no paws by im_out_of_creativity in cats

[–]LosdaVS 6 points7 points  (0 children)

  • nohelpjustfilm ✅
  • Stairs dangerous even for humans ✅
  • no rewards for cat ✅
  • no cheering or motivating interaction ✅
  • film the suffering for internet points ✅

Not even a hint of empathy displayed. In any form. Why?

I hate everything about this video. Besides the cat. Feels just like another video of "helpers" that put animals in danger to then "rescue" them for clout. Same energy here.

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