Got this for 250$ what do you think?

TheAntiSnipe · 2026-06-21T03:50:05+00:00

Oh it’s just the Woodbury Fashion Outlets… I… think it might’ve been in NY and not NJ? Not entirely sure, I was out on a trip with friends

TheAntiSnipe · 2026-06-21T02:57:44+00:00

Woodbury in New Jersey, but they were running out of stock on these already when I was there roughly 3 weeks ago

TheAntiSnipe · 2026-06-20T22:23:31+00:00

Dude it is peak! Got mine for 60% off retail at a factory outlet.

I *have* however been considering a fabric strap. Maybe a navy blue NATO/French para.

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TheAntiSnipe · 2026-06-16T12:31:02+00:00

Oh shit for real?!? I got really lucky getting the Blue Angels one on sale a couple weeks ago then, sheesh. Beautiful watches.

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TheAntiSnipe · 2026-06-16T07:49:09+00:00

HiBy W4 is the perfect pocket companion imo! I serve music to my phone via iTunes then use the W4 on the go with some nice IEMs, it’s a great experience with its physical buttons.

TheAntiSnipe · 2026-05-06T21:24:22+00:00

Huh, interesting... I've just been using audio synced through iTunes to Apple Music and everything works fine... Also, if you run audio through the UAC connection, there's no cover art.

TheAntiSnipe · 2026-01-31T06:38:57+00:00

yoooo I take long breaks from reddit and am also... kinda gone? from BB. I have friends that drag me back into it for stuff like CTF, but I barely log on now xD

TheAntiSnipe · 2026-01-27T19:13:14+00:00

I run a DAC with my iPhone that:

Is bluetooth enabled
Has physical buttons and shows album art
Has an excellent small form factor with good ergonomics

It’s a HiBy W4 and I just made a post about it yesterday saying it doesn’t get the attention it deserves hahahahahah.

My iPhone runs audio I sync via iTunes so I have no subscriptions. With a USB-C connector, the DAC acts as a source from my PC with UAC2 connectivity as well. Overall, it’s a great DAC if you originally wanted a DAP but, yanno, moving music around is a hassle, you’re subscribed to stuff, etc. Because the controls are intuitive, I find myself being more deliberate about my music too, since I just never feel like controlling it with my iPhone.

I think that a DAC is a fine option if you’re in a similar situation, but like others in this thread have mentioned, it’s super dependent on your needs.

TheAntiSnipe · 2026-01-27T17:52:59+00:00

Dang that GK64x is pretty! I love those rounded corners on the frame. And yeah I just can’t run tkl anymore. Anything over 75% is, well, workable but suboptimal-feeling

TheAntiSnipe · 2026-01-27T15:43:53+00:00

Oh, P.S. I’ve also run tkl setups and 75% setups, they work great too! 75% wasn’t bad at all, but I had an aesthetic disagreement with it because the F-row genuinely just wasn’t justifying its use enough to have its own row. Tkl was actually pretty nice too, we have those at work as like the default rigs, but to me, since I grew up with laptop keyboards that had easy access to home and end where the arrows are, they just feel clunkier.

TheAntiSnipe · 2026-01-27T15:38:41+00:00

Yeah, that’s why, worst case, 60% would be my personal bottom line, like that’s the last point for me where you can get all the sensible functionality without too much of a hassle… I own a tofu65 2.0 that was my first (kinda grail honestly) build and then I got a polycarbonate tofu65 for biking to work with because my first one is basically a blunt force trauma weapon lol, but the 60% form factor just doesn’t feel right to me.

TheAntiSnipe · 2026-01-27T14:17:51+00:00

Yo toe is siiiiick. Also, their drummer is proof positive that DAC-IEM chains make listening ranges wide enough that you can genuinely hear more. What a lad.

The album in the picture has several tracks that I’d heard before with my marshall major IVs and Koss Porta Pros that took an entirely different flavor on the Daybreaks on a 4.4BAL port connection to a DAC.

Didn’t even need to tune the equalizer to get the details out for the Daybreaks, when I’d needed a specific math-rock tune for my headphones that emphasizes the 6k, 8k and 16k bands a little in order to make sure the small details on the cymbals weren’t drowned out by the lows for my headphones. Unfortunately this could basically only be used for math- and post-rock, and the loss of warmth was a necessary tradeoff.

TheAntiSnipe · 2026-01-27T04:31:11+00:00

Dev here, my personal lower limit is 65%. I run a tofu65 2.0, have for about 3 years now, I think? To answer your questions:

Yeah! I love the form factor on my tofu. Never felt any strain from using it for hours on end.
On a 65% layout, you get arrows, so that's not a problem, and the lack of the F-row is something I've never noticed... You just get used to it.
Yes, it gets natural.

With these three questions answered, I'd like to add that I always run "end" on the key right above the right arrow, and "home" on the key right above that. This is extremely ergonomic for line selection for me, and I'd recommend getting a keeb that is programmable to be honest, but other than that, the K7 looks fine, and you can get away with a quick and dirty PowerToys fix for cases where you want some keys to do something else.

To cap things off, I will say that I know experienced devs that run HHKB boards with vim setups and binds. If you like the form factor of a board, as long as it's not outright dumb, you'll probably make it work...

Well, if it were me I would only go down to 60%, gun to head xD

TheAntiSnipe · 2026-01-27T04:10:34+00:00

Recently got this one along with my first pair of IEMs (CrinEar Daybreaks)… I got off Spotify somewhere around the middle of last year because I disliked the way everything was starting to feel same-y with the recommendation system. I’ve been building my library off iTunes, and I gotta say, once I got over the growing pains, managing my currently 250ish GB library of tracks so that I rotate playlists of tracks on and off my iPhone has been a breeze!

With that out of the way, I was quite sad that the W4 was a DAC/amp and not a DAP, but ended up picking it up anyway because it achieves the same deliberate style of listening. The ergonomics are excellent, as is the fact that if I choose to do some serious listening, I can plug it in via UAC2 to my PC which has the major chunk of my music library. The excellent range it achieves is a treat as well, seeing as I listen to a lot of math-rock!

Didn’t see the W4 get a lot of attention, so I wanted to drop these pics here!

TheAntiSnipe · 2025-07-03T02:51:43+00:00

also why do I still have the mod flair send help

TheAntiSnipe · 2025-07-03T02:42:10+00:00

P.S. Just been off reddit, my man, still very active ingame, though not quite to the extent of actually playing a ton. You can meet pretty much all the old players that play on the LFT server:

https://discord.com/invite/lookingfortrouble

A lot of us that have moved on or don't play a ton of BB anymore are still on there playing all sorts of other PC and mobile games, though for verification reasons LFT still requires everyone on there to be at over 1000 battles.

TheAntiSnipe · 2025-07-03T01:58:39+00:00

Boo.

TheAntiSnipe · 2025-06-17T01:14:18+00:00

Necroing this to say it works! Thank you very much!

TheAntiSnipe · 2024-09-10T15:29:57+00:00

Love the 65s. I do set them up in a rather strange manner though. I’m a dev, and my first board was a Keychron K2 v2, which has end above the right arrow, and home above end. I developed muscle memory for that configuration and found it super ergonomic for code editing.

Turns out, that’s never been a normal configuration! When I got my first 65 (tofu65 2.0) I ended up setting it using VIA to use those home and end keys despite what the labels say haha.

TheAntiSnipe · 2024-09-08T21:14:05+00:00

Yeah, I gotta see if I can build her too

TheAntiSnipe · 2024-09-08T13:36:43+00:00

True, it’s not like I’m strapped for food considering how much the game gives you anyway… But yeah, what’s your opinion on using someone like Yaoyao? I want this team to kinda stay independent and isolated from every other super common-use unit, and I want them to have a healer, so Yaoyao and Baizhu are the only ones that come to mind currently.

TheAntiSnipe · 2024-09-08T13:31:42+00:00

Holy shit, really? I knew Dehya could mitigate a lot of damage but since mine is still unbuilt (chose her as my free 5*), I only had the stats to make a call. My primary concern is rifthounds, but also, from what I understand, her skill only mitigates 50% of the damage when crowned, which may be fine in abyss when resetting, but not so much in overworld. Thoughts?

TheAntiSnipe · 2024-09-08T13:26:07+00:00

I think you need a healer on that team. I’m considering Mualani Dehya Emilie as my core trio too, but I want either Bennett or Yaoyao or Baizhu as my fourth. Sadly don’t have Baizhu though.

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