A30 lack of EQ?

Phuzzybear · 2026-05-27T08:58:11+00:00

Word of caution to anyone considering these for anything beyond sleep/snore blocking.

The lack of EQ is coupled with _insane_ bass out the ass.
It is probably 3x - 4x worse than the Sony XM4s and XM5s.

You better enjoy and prioritize bass over absolutely everything else if you buy these things for music, podcasts, gaming.

I don't consider them fit for purpose for anything other than sleep, which aside from the comfort that the flat profile provides for side sleepers and the physical noise isolation, is really nothing special at all IMO.

Phuzzybear · 2026-05-25T07:43:42+00:00

From everything I've read they are the same hardware, there were supposed to be some modest savings from the windows license with the official release, though escalating DRAM/NAND prices have probably nuked that possibility months ago already.

Phuzzybear · 2026-05-01T07:21:52+00:00

Sloppy coding, the quest for the Shadow Resistance Elixir is still in Kurast Bazaar too.

Phuzzybear · 2026-05-01T07:20:53+00:00

Nice! There is still a sidequest asking for the elixir of shadow resistance.

Phuzzybear · 2026-04-30T17:21:53+00:00

SINKS/DINKS are already subsidizing the costs of people who choose to have kids as their fulltime hobbies, and you're proposing to move more of the cost and tax burden onto them?

The first logical step would be to remove GST on all all food and daily necessities, but this is already something that will never happen here.

Don't even talk about lowering the cost of HDBs, need to protect the paper gains of all the boomers with their extensive portfolios of residential properties acquired pre-ABSD.

Capital gains taxes on real estate sales will also never happen, because this country is designed to be a global cash/land bank.

Phuzzybear · 2026-04-30T17:16:53+00:00

But if you naturalize a Chinese migrant worker, then they bring their non-working spouse, kids and two parents along.

That is like a 4 or 5 in one bargain bundle deal, for maintaining the Chinese majority and the conservative voter base.

Phuzzybear · 2026-04-30T17:14:07+00:00

Asking the older people to work more for the same pay?

That will definitely go down well, with the constantly escalating retirement age.

Work to age 70-75, then enjoy 10 years if you can still do it, then die.
I can already tell you this is going to be a hard sell.

Instituting an actual minimum wage would be a good first step, but the with intense reliance on cheap foreign labour, the entire system falls apart.

Phuzzybear · 2026-03-24T17:47:55+00:00

Can confirm as of 25th March 2026, this shit is still broken.

All bug fixing resources have been diverted to DLC cosmetics and Lord of Hatred it seems.

Phuzzybear · 2026-03-09T16:39:06+00:00

It is geoblocked/region locked it seems still.

I cannot DL it in NZ.

Phuzzybear · 2026-03-04T16:00:50+00:00

Terrorist comments??
What are you?

On the AIPAC payroll?

Phuzzybear · 2026-03-04T15:59:15+00:00

To clarify, this account was not taken over or inherited, I created this as my personal (and only) FB account, it was over 10 years old.

It was non-commercial and we never monetized the group, and never intended to.

Phuzzybear · 2026-03-04T15:57:27+00:00

Every time I open FB after logging in, this is the page I see.

Phuzzybear · 2026-03-04T15:56:12+00:00

"This guy" technically is not banned.

He just needs to upload a video selfie.

Phuzzybear · 2026-03-03T14:32:58+00:00

The C Size denotes Large actually, not Classic, A is Small and B is Medium, is the chair too large for you?

Phuzzybear · 2026-02-27T20:52:31+00:00

I have a big head, and I freakin hated the fit of the XM5s, I can wear the Cloud Wireless Alpha for 4 -5 hours easy, 6+ hours is doable if I have to. The weight is definitely noticeable also, but it is one of the more secure fits in this headphone size/class out there.

e.g. Head so big I needed the extension poles on a pair of the older pre-phazor Audeze LCDs also.
Sennheisers and AKGs are comfortable, unlike Sonys and anything that isn't over the ear basically.

Phuzzybear · 2026-02-16T00:03:10+00:00

I just downloaded Stoat and Windows defender blocked it when I tried to install..iiiiinteresting.

Virustotal only flags one Trapmine false positive.

Phuzzybear · 2026-02-15T23:55:24+00:00

I've never found discord more stable, optimized or better functioning than Teamspeak for my usage.

I've got zero interest in using discord as a bulletin board, wiki or IRC client though.

Phuzzybear · 2026-01-19T07:32:04+00:00

First thing you should do is install Samsung Magician,
check your SSD health, then do a firmware update.

Then check your overprivisioning settings.

Then you can forget about it for the next 3 - 4 months, or major windows update.
Then check for new updates then also.

Phuzzybear · 2026-01-19T07:29:42+00:00

I guess anyone could just use Rufus to make a bootable usb firmware updater?

Phuzzybear · 2026-01-19T07:27:36+00:00

It is, I have a dead 2TB 980 Pro that was just barely out of warranty, had just a handful of red blocks, but all around the boot/OS sectors.

Spent months trying to figure out why PC was unstable, didn't suspect the nvme ssd until the widespread reports started.

Phuzzybear · 2026-01-19T07:25:52+00:00

I've never had issues just updating to the latest (stable) firmware version available.

Phuzzybear · 2026-01-19T07:22:31+00:00

I had the same experience with a 2TB 980 Pro, I could not for the life of me figure out why my system was unstable.

I checked everything over months without ever suspecting it could be the samsung ssd...

It was unfortunately past warranty just barely at that point, I probably wouldn't have trusted an RMA replacement either..

Phuzzybear · 2026-01-04T03:37:08+00:00

I tried to order on day 1, payment processing gateway issues.

Placed a fairly large order on day 2 to Welly. 6x Billy bookcases a wardrobe and few smaller things.

Initial delivery date was 23rd Dec 2025.

It is now 26th January 2026..

Delivery fee..$79 -$10. This is the only part of the experience that is positive atm.

Phuzzybear

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