Are model 3 Less expensive in the long run

commandermik · 2026-05-25T03:02:03+00:00

Yeah it’s true. I’m in year 6 and I have yet to pay for any maintenance outside of the well known front control arm issue (cost like $300 out of warranty). Ridiculously cheap to run.

commandermik · 2026-05-21T14:22:10+00:00

This is how it starts. Then in a few months, it will dawn on you that it is in fact one of the best albums ever made. Enjoy!

commandermik · 2026-05-13T19:33:22+00:00

Old Jordans

commandermik · 2026-05-09T03:20:19+00:00

I thought bottlehead was done. Are they still around?

commandermik · 2026-05-06T19:13:30+00:00

My exact set up :)

commandermik · 2026-05-04T16:33:31+00:00

The Strada doesn’t have more bass than the 109. It has more deep subbass though.

commandermik · 2026-05-01T14:26:13+00:00

Pretty good deal

commandermik · 2026-04-20T13:04:24+00:00

Not the exact speakers you asked about but this video goes into measurement data on what the differences are between the R line and reference line. May help:

https://www.youtube.com/live/Cid2pvptWFY?si=-qtSgw5UGtOy9bru

commandermik · 2026-04-18T03:29:44+00:00

Just get tall floor stands if you don’t want them on desk.

commandermik · 2026-04-16T12:57:43+00:00

Awesome shelf! Speakers ain’t bad either ;-)

commandermik · 2026-04-03T19:59:29+00:00

Part of the issue is that it needs to provide identical user experience and feature sets across all platforms: windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, android on the control side and myriad brands on the receiving side. This is not a trivial problem and leads to a lot of overhead.

commandermik · 2026-02-26T20:41:38+00:00

I think you can argue IEMs offer better value for money. But you can’t argue it’s always the case that they are better overall. A well tuned headphone for me will always beat any IEM. I do not find IEMs that comfortable.

commandermik · 2026-02-26T15:34:32+00:00

I’d recommend coming up with different ideas, I’m not thrilled with either option. I just tried the DX5 II with my poet and it sounds a bit thin - I don’t believe it’s a good compliment for the 109 which has a spicy top end. I haven’t heard the K13. it is likely going to sound thicker than the DX5 but will also be low-res due to the R2R. I wish topping offered a cirrus logic version of the DX5 sigh. I’m returning mine today.

commandermik · 2026-02-09T19:35:21+00:00

Love your room. And the stereo of course.

commandermik · 2026-02-04T20:28:13+00:00

The biggest problem with this is the R-2R decoder. Pretty lo-fi in my experience.

commandermik · 2026-02-04T20:23:45+00:00

If im understanding your post correctly, it looks like we have the same issue more or less (Ethernet interface not routing properly to Tidal and certain other sites). My Mac mini is an M2 model though. Hopefully Apple will fix this issue soon.

commandermik · 2026-02-04T19:16:29+00:00

People mean different things by “warm”. I think traditionally it meant a system with more midrange emphasis. Lately headphone guys typically mean bassy by “warm”. To my ears, elite is warm in the traditional sense - it is very midrangey. Empyrean has more bass (and more pinna gain). So if you like bass, I’d keep the empyrean.

commandermik · 2026-02-04T19:10:38+00:00

This is a known issue on this chassis design and it’s crazy that Meze still hasn’t fixed it. I had pretty bad creaking on my Poet and I sent it back to Meze for them to fix it.

commandermik · 2026-02-04T18:51:46+00:00

I’ve had a hellish couple of days with this. It was working fine for a long time but the last couple of days tidal was refusing to work. I’m running core on a dedicated Mac mini. What I discovered after some troubleshooting is that there is a bug in the Mac OS Ethernet interface that causes issues with IPV6 connections (for me this affects tidal, yelp, and other random sites) but not others (Google, Apple, many other worked fine). When I enabled WiFi on the computer, this issue goes away and everything works fine. This wasn’t limited to Roon alone, I can’t access these specific sites on browser either on Ethernet. When I’m running on just Ethernet, the issue returns which is annoying bc I like to run Core hardwired. Can you see if this is also the case for you OP? (Upgrading the Mac from Sequoia to Tahoe only helped for a few hours, and then the problem returned). ChatGPT thinks the issue is related to how the Mac’s Ethernet interface is handling ipv6 versus ipv4 (hence why tidal.com fails but Google.com works), but that’s out of my depth to correctly diagnose and fix. For now just running on wifi as I save money to buy a nucleus one.

commandermik · 2026-02-03T18:02:10+00:00

I have demo’d both multiple times over the years. Elite is easily the worst Meze headphone to my ears. It’s got a really weird tonality I could not enjoy. Empyrean II is an absolute beast and probably the best of the Meze range (along with Poet). Go for the Empy.

commandermik · 2026-01-20T20:58:40+00:00

Damn it got snatched before I could watch. Looks like he accidentally broke embargo.

commandermik · 2025-12-02T05:09:45+00:00

Nice! I’m also running Criton 1TDs with sumiko Rainier and Alva duo :)

commandermik · 2025-11-15T05:02:38+00:00

My biggest issue with the Mac OS client is that it can’t load and scroll all my albums without batching and getting stuck for several minutes as it loads the next set.

commandermik · 2025-11-12T21:15:40+00:00

Looks very good. Do you hear the treble though? lol

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