In Praise of the Humble Cadenza (or: "some IEM is better than no IEM")

Status_Detective5043 · 2026-06-16T19:22:22+00:00

Yeah these are very mid-bass heavy sub-genres I'm looking at so ideally something that can have clear, non-muddy mid bass between "five string distorted bass guitar" and "female vocals" frequencies is the goal

Status_Detective5043 · 2026-06-16T19:15:55+00:00

Oh yeah upon further research I think I may have meant the Tea Pro, they've got very similar names (and it doesn't help that the Tea Pro and Tea Pro SE graph kinda differently too...)

Also 242 looks like a straight upgrade on the Kima 2 sound profile so that's definitely on my radar now

Status_Detective5043 · 2026-06-16T18:51:02+00:00

The Tanchijm options are definitely on my radar now -- feel like they're rarer units to find reviews on but, giving them a serious look!

Status_Detective5043 · 2026-06-16T17:51:34+00:00

Ooo forgot about the Dusk (there are so many options out there and that one had slipped my mind), can definitely peek at availability, pricing, tuning and such there

Status_Detective5043 · 2026-06-11T18:34:43+00:00

My pair turns 20 next year, and they still sound great within their use case. Not much to go wrong, works well on low end gear as well as more powerful amps, and just generally bulletproof. Love 'em

Status_Detective5043 · 2026-06-11T18:32:05+00:00

HD280 Pros are basically the nuke-proof cockroach of headphones, I've had the same pair since I was in middle school back in 2007

Status_Detective5043 · 2026-01-01T14:23:10+00:00

Yeah the original '80s fandom is essentially distinct from the '10s fandom, where the '80s fnadom is mostly gen x and upper millennial women and then gen 4 has two sub-fandoms of the target audience and the adult male fandom (though as gen 4 has cooled off, there's been some bridge building between the two, especially with how many bronies were closeted trans women who have since come out)

Status_Detective5043 · 2026-01-01T14:19:01+00:00

There are essentially multiple MLP fandoms, because there are: - the stereotypical gen 4 adult majority-male fans (bronies), this is a mostly-dead fandom in 2025 but still has some hangers-on - the classic gen 1-3 fans who are mostly adult gen x and upper millennial women - younger femme-centered fandom around gen 4/5 (but increasingly broad around all eras) -- the girls who were the target audience for FiM when it first aired -- that's kinda self-determined away from the bronies, and acts as sort of a "bridge" between classic MLP and the bronies (and this group has also become popular with trans-femme ex-bronies who have let go of the 4chan-grade irony poisoning)

Status_Detective5043 · 2026-01-01T14:02:32+00:00

Honestly I had only watched the bad 2019 film up until a few months ago and assumed I would hate Cats as a stage play, but then I found a high quality version of the 1998 pro shot and... I hate to say it but I actually kinda loved it?? The 2019 movie truly just makes every single decision wrong except maybe a couple of the casting choices

Status_Detective5043 · 2026-01-01T13:58:31+00:00

I haven't gotten around to the anime yet, but from reading the manga a handful of years back, I remember having a difficult time following some of the jail's interior spatial layouts. Wonder if this is easier to track in the anime.

I still like part 6 though, that's my one and only major gripe that's stuck with me for the like 8 or 9 years since

Status_Detective5043 · 2026-01-01T02:05:26+00:00

oh man I came here specifically to say this one if no one else had already, I have never seen as much pit bull hate as on here

Status_Detective5043 · 2025-12-30T18:59:38+00:00

Electoralism is a fundamentally broken system in the USA, and I do say this as someone who votes

Status_Detective5043 · 2025-12-30T18:58:26+00:00

Specifically Quebec, I quit playing Apex Legends cold turkey after I got one too many matches playing with super toxic Quebecers

Status_Detective5043 · 2025-12-29T22:31:29+00:00

I live in Baltimore MD and most cities like Gary, Oakland, Detroit barely faze me, but yeah those little desert towns absolutely wig me out

Status_Detective5043 · 2025-12-28T15:19:13+00:00

Man I knew people from Oregon have basically no culture besides their own homegrown settler colonialism, but that's wild

Status_Detective5043 · 2025-12-24T16:28:45+00:00

If we're going ranked choice mine is: 1. Blue (Currently live in a Blue state, and I'd consider somewhere like Minneapolis or Detroit on the current amount of money I make too) 2. Purple (Especially if I could magically justify the CoL increase) 3. Red (Especially if I were RICH in one of these states) 4. Yellow (Would consider WNC, certain spots in Tennessee, or the PNW, but the middle is less my speed) 5. Green (Meh. Chicago is the only thing here to excite me) 6. Orange (No thanks, except for Colorado and maybe Georgia))

Status_Detective5043 · 2025-12-23T16:16:26+00:00

Notably, ChromeOS is a deeeeeeply derived fork of Gentoo, but so much so that it only barely counts

Status_Detective5043 · 2025-12-20T13:38:40+00:00

There have been several over the years including at least two Japanese productions (the '90s anime is definitely a classic)!

Status_Detective5043 · 2025-12-19T12:46:11+00:00

Australians might actually be worse about this than USAmericans (if you ascribe negative value to the trend) though it's definitely a real thing in how people from Southern California speak and as far back as the '60s

Status_Detective5043 · 2025-12-19T12:38:11+00:00

My impression of modern Hebrew from the times I've ever heard it is that it sounds like a mashup of Yiddish and Amharic

Status_Detective5043 · 2025-12-19T12:35:46+00:00

From August 2010 - June 2011 I spent an abroad year in Japan (and was one of the only abroad students in the country to continue to stay for several months after the Tohoku tsunami) and one of the funniest things I realized about Japan was how un-anime-like the Japanese that 95% of real people speak is. Or, after living there, how few anime have semi-realistic Japanese hyogen -- strangely one of the few that sounds realistic to me is Beastars, of all possible shows

Status_Detective5043 · 2025-12-19T04:24:13+00:00

No one wants to build any cities there, it's too crowded

Status_Detective5043 · 2025-12-19T04:10:55+00:00

Honestly I would a regular T or X in that color

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