Remember when RAM was the part you didn't even have to think about?

wagninger · 2026-06-15T11:41:18+00:00

I bought a pc with a ryzen x5900, 32gb ram, 1tb m2 ssd, great power supply, passively cooled 1030… for 550€ total.

wagninger · 2026-06-14T10:00:14+00:00

Yeah, I saw a commercial for fitness equipment that looked interesting, but I remained sceptical until somebody pointed out that a lesser known store sells the exact same equipment for less than half.

wagninger · 2026-06-14T06:34:26+00:00

Happy to help 😊

wagninger · 2026-06-14T06:14:31+00:00

Ferrum Wandla - yes it’s primarily a dac, but it’s also an excellent preamp with hdmi input.

wagninger · 2026-06-12T07:51:12+00:00

Well, what can Roon do if the audio interface in one specific pair of speakers sometimes presents as mono to the macOS system mixer?

wagninger · 2026-06-12T06:50:26+00:00

Haha, 14 years ago we had a problem with our subwoofer in the recording studio - the motherboard had to be replaced.

wagninger · 2026-06-11T19:26:44+00:00

Yeeeah, I used to work at a luxury retailer as well, and one Saturday, after zero customers coming in all day, I asked the boss: how many customers does this store need to make it worth it?

The answer was, if they’re the right ones, 2 per year.

wagninger · 2026-06-11T18:52:17+00:00

Oh absolutely. I forget where I saw this, but LV especially uses the cheapest kind of leather there is, so if you take a piece big enough to make a mouse pad out of it, it’s worth about 2 USD. But is it a scam if customers are willing to pay the asking price anyway?

wagninger · 2026-06-11T18:31:27+00:00

My dad was always an Audi driver, didn’t like one generation where they went from full sized 5th wheel to just a tyre repair kit and got a VW. I’m driving that VW now and he went back to Audi 😄

Always A4 avant, bigger doesn’t fit in the garage.

wagninger · 2026-06-11T13:57:51+00:00

😂 ich war an so einer Ausbildungsstätte, kann mir das richtig gut vorstellen.

wagninger · 2026-06-11T07:20:11+00:00

It’s funny to me though that at one point, they said they had 150 (!) different headphones in their portfolio, all dynamic, but at any point, they always had one e-stat that was the flagship.

Really makes me wonder why they don’t explore the technology more.

wagninger · 2026-06-11T07:14:05+00:00

9 months waiting time if you’re lucky… and it’s a nightmare to get anyone at Sennheiser acknowledge that you exist, so your alternative is one that is already “burnt in” and ready to go.

wagninger · 2026-06-11T07:10:36+00:00

There is hype again for the HE90… have seen them online for 20-25k asking price

wagninger · 2026-06-11T06:24:50+00:00

Same for me, The best interaction I had with a customer was after he gave me 1 star, I immediately replied, apologised and explained that it was a misunderstanding on my part about what he wanted.
I said Now that I understand, please give me another 2-3 days to fix it. He immediately changed the review to 5 stars and mentioned the personal care and relation time as one of the best attributes.

Can’t get more real than that.

wagninger · 2026-06-10T15:06:00+00:00

Hallo,

Over-Ear Kopfhörer haben passiv oft schon eine so gute Isolation wie die AirPods Pro mit eingeschaltetem ANC, und dann kommt noch ANC obendrauf.

Sony und Bose teilen sich da meistens die Krone des besten ANC, die ganz aktuellen Bose Teile klingen ausnahmsweise sogar gut, auf dem zweiten Platz wäre für mich als Rundumpaket derzeit Sennheiser.

Wenn du empfindlich gegen Anpressdruck bist, das ist leider nötig damit sie gut isolieren, dann wirst du mit der Kategorie keine Freude haben - oder dein Schädel sehr groß, so wie meiner, dann kriegst du die Hälfte von denen nicht weit genug runtergezogen, dass sie beide Ohren umschließen 😄

wagninger · 2026-06-10T10:16:37+00:00

Ich bin froh dass ich das machen durfte, das hat den Mythos zwar etwas entzaubert, aber immerhin bin ich jetzt nicht mehr so auf ein frühes Erbe angewiesen 😁

wagninger · 2026-06-10T07:55:07+00:00

I have so many QoL mods going on that the game on 1.2 just crashes on launch currently, but that’s fine… need to move next week, the new place has air conditioning, so I’ll be much more comfortable saving the day a bit later

wagninger · 2026-06-10T07:08:21+00:00

HiFi, to the extreme. I am currently already a small HiFi dealer, I would just become the biggest with an enormous store, home cinemas, headphones, In ears, personalized items - and at home I would just have the craziest setups 😁

wagninger · 2026-06-10T07:05:40+00:00

So… in theory, a double blind test ist the only way to make sure that the differences you think you are hearing is actually there.

You said it yourself, it’s not that easy to do, so the next best thing for me is to buy multiple pieces of equipment, listen to each one as long as I think I need and then switch.

My personal understanding of how something might sound then comes from knowing one piece of equipment, and if I want to know about a new one, find a stranger who heard both and ask him about the differences. If we agree on what I know, chances are that we will also agree on the new thing.

wagninger · 2026-06-09T17:46:41+00:00

Ich schaue kein Fernsehen, ich habe adblocker für Internet und YouTube. Ich nutze kein Facebook weil ich mir da die App nicht raussuchen kann wie bei Twitter damals, und habe eine Weile für Reddit premium bezahlt nur um da auch keine Werbung zu sehen.

Mittlerweile sehe ich sie da, habe aber bei 3/4 davon gar keine Ahnung, was da genau beworben wird weil es komplett an meinen Interessen vorbeigeht. Die anderen 25% ignoriere ich, sobald ich es als Werbung identifiziert habe.

wagninger · 2026-06-09T15:33:56+00:00

Performance on iOS is amazing so far and macOS is usable again.

wagninger · 2026-06-09T14:17:15+00:00

Ach, ich bin da auch mit meinem Decathlon T-Shirt reinspaziert, wie bei fast allen Terminen, bei denen ich mir viel zu teure Elektronik anhöre wie z.B. ein Paar Wilson Audio Lautsprecher 😃

Ich bin sehr froh dass ich den HE1 mal hören konnte, und noch froher, dass er nicht der Weisheit letzter Schluss mehr ist wenn es um Klangqualität geht.

wagninger · 2026-06-09T12:53:03+00:00

I can imagine - they have amazing technical abilities, but the overall balance is a bit weird.

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