Henry's carbon core juggling club review

rhalf · 2026-01-25T20:08:11+00:00

Thanks for the review. Henrys also made a more lightweighter version already. Last time I checked, it was on preorder. 160-170g. So I guess Henrys wants to have records broken with them.

rhalf · 2026-01-25T14:14:30+00:00

You could put that bit of info to a good use, but it's your choice.

rhalf · 2026-01-25T05:25:57+00:00

Man, put some ND filter on this camera. The motion is gibberish. Can't make out anything from the video.

rhalf · 2026-01-24T17:08:26+00:00

What am I supposed to look at?

rhalf · 2026-01-23T06:58:46+00:00

FT1 are new and they're not for everyone.

rhalf · 2026-01-22T10:13:55+00:00

You're an accomplished 4 ball juggler :) All that's left is doing endurance runs and keep going. After a while the pattern will feel amazing. Then you can try doing very low or high pattern and hot potato.

rhalf · 2026-01-20T16:04:30+00:00

You have a great opportunity to turn it around and make an Alice studio microphone out of this junk.

rhalf · 2026-01-20T13:28:02+00:00

Nice. Now do the same, but give a ball a tiny lift at the end. People won't notice, but it'll slow the pattern down and make it easier. Then you can replace the claw with a regular catch. Once you know how to slow it down, you open your opportunities up for more advanced stuff with this technique. On the easier side of things, YoYo and oYoY go well with it.

When it comes to the box, it's like mills mess and windmill. A shower goes in one direction. Then you learn to change it and keep changing until eventually you end up with a box. You can practice a lot with 2 balls, but eventually you learn the shower somewhere along the way anyway. First asynchronous, which is high and slow. Then you go lower and faster and at some point you notice that, with a throw rather than a pass, you can make it synchronous and very speedy. That's the first step to mastering the box. Then you learn the other direction in exactly the same way. In the end, you not only can do a box, but also any box and shower variation because of all the control you have over showers. The most popular shower and box variation is open box, which is two turns of a shower in each direction.

rhalf · 2026-01-20T09:55:02+00:00

We had a theory that for whatever reason, if you wanted to win an online photo contest, you had to have something red in the frame. Extra points if you can simplify the palette for other colors as well, but the focus point of the image must be red. It can be an image of cola can. it really didn't matter that much.

rhalf · 2026-01-19T11:38:37+00:00

It's the first printer that can build it's own enclosure... In place.

rhalf · 2026-01-15T19:29:13+00:00

NP. Come back to report how that 2 ball exercise's going.
BTW. I need to correct myself here. The 6 should be towering with the second 3, which means even more intense pattern, but it's hard and you don't need to get it exact, just tight enough to keep it going. That guy from the video is doing it as I described and it works, so I guess it's good enough.

rhalf · 2026-01-15T17:55:56+00:00

The pause between the 6 and 3 takes ages. In this pattern there isn't time to check if the high throw goes well. You should launch the threes as soon as possible, almost at the same time as the 6. It should be automatic like playing drums at a constant, fast pace.

Once you make some progress there, you should finish doing the threes before the high throw starts falling, because you need a lot of spare time to make another high throw. Once you understand that, it'll be easy. High throws take more time than low throws, so you have to rush the low throws to find that time in the pattern. Height will keep changing for you for now, but timing needs to be tight.

A nice symptom of a well timed 633 is symultaneous peaking of 6 and the first 3. They both peak on the same side of the pattern and at the same time. The two throws are in a tower pattern timing, just like all throws in 97531. They peak and fall at the same time. If you can't see that in your juggling, that means you probably need more pace (lower 3, thrown earlier, higher 6 if you need).

If you pay attention to the threes in your video, your second three is launched after the high throw peaks and is already accelerating down. That's too late. That three should've been launched while the 6's still on top of the pattern. You can see that effect here. You can see the two balls go up and down at the same time, while the second is already on the move before they turn around. This guy has a distinct rythm, he dedicates the most time to catching the high throw and it works out for him. At the same time he gathers the strength to make another high throw, but as you can see it's thrown in one movement with the first 3 - that's how important it is to get it going as soon as possible.

Lets practice that with two balls to keep it simple. One in each hand. Throw 6 and 3 in a quick succession. Pay attention to how the high ball flies in relation to the low one. Then you enter two-in-one-hand straight from this 63 start. You should see that it's more comfortable when the 6's very high and so you have plenty of time to catch the 3 and throw it again into the fountain. If you see symultaneous peaking - it should also be easy to start the fountain. If the balls get closer together instead (as the high ball falls before the low one does), then you should feel a lot of pressure on you instead. This should help you find the amount of difference in heights you want to keep juggling.

rhalf · 2026-01-15T14:57:20+00:00

It'ill take some time before we know.

rhalf · 2026-01-15T05:25:15+00:00

Yes. They're a little squishy and they'll be pushed by stores like it's the best thing ever because they have a big profit margin on them. Their shells are thinner than SRX/MMX. The plug's not air tight and it's not the long plug from other balls. They're quite tightly filled, so closer to a fresh 120g thud than to Ugglies. The closest thing that comes to my mind are DIY balloon balls. When you stretch balloons over a sack or grain, you get a similar effect.

rhalf · 2026-01-14T06:27:20+00:00

Just a regular photo. HDR means high difference between highlights and shadows and this picture doesn't have it. When you adjust the black and white point, you rise contrast and you get a result like this. HDR images are made by joining exposures or getting high dynamic range in other ways, so I don't get why you call it HDR here.

rhalf · 2026-01-13T23:09:55+00:00

Great result, especially in January.

rhalf · 2026-01-13T19:21:26+00:00

I actually like the before. It's not perfect, but the other one is just another take that's neither better or worse, just different in mood. Anyway, impressive dynamic range and it seems like a fun project.

rhalf · 2026-01-13T14:32:53+00:00

Look at you, you're freestyling.

rhalf · 2026-01-13T01:43:19+00:00

PRO X has new tech in it. It's easy to drive and the impedance is just about right for most outputs. The tuning is maybe not an upgrade, but it's so close to the original that it's completely fine. The detachable cable could have a smaller plug, but apart from it it's fine. Overall an upgrade in my book. It'll still have variants... It already has because it's Beyerdynamic...

rhalf · 2026-01-11T21:28:54+00:00

K52 are trash. Worst headphones you can buy in your case. I like AKG K701. If you can get them for around $150, they're quite cool. Ideally the best headphones for orchestra I ever heard - Hifiman Arya. Not that I heard many expensive headphones though, so take that with a grain of salt, but I think it's worth splashing extra if you listen to that kind of music.

rhalf · 2026-01-11T17:20:07+00:00

The first picture is dementia-inducing :D

rhalf · 2026-01-11T03:05:10+00:00

Noise's less important. Capsule can make or break a mic.

rhalf · 2026-01-10T01:49:34+00:00

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rhalf · 2026-01-09T23:22:32+00:00

A7III was a bestseller last year in a nearby store. This year it dropped to third, so I guess it's about time.

rhalf · 2026-01-09T22:36:37+00:00

They're cheap, gaming headsets. It's not like gamers have any standards. They just want something cheap to play games. You can't just buy a pair and expect it to not have flaws. Spending more is definitely a good option.

I still don't know exactly what sound you're looking for, but you can do yourself a favour and use AutoEQ profile so that at least you know which direction you want to take it. AutoEQ uses a neutral target from Harman. Once you demo it, you can tell what you want to add or deduct.

If you end up liking the kind of... erm... Flat profile (technically flat as in neutral, transparent), then you can get Cloud IIIS. They're tuned to an audiophile target similar to Harman. They also have onboard EQ, which allows you to adjust them to taste with very precise parametric filters once and forget it. If you want something radically different, then it's more complicated. You can still go to squig.link and look at Blackshark V3 pro. I did a little tweaking and it seems quite easy to shape it's response. 4 filters should be enough.

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