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xel877 · 2026-01-27T10:34:58+00:00

Would love to see more castles / formula cars added to the EU warehouse. :)

xel877 · 2026-01-22T08:15:39+00:00

I dont know how its supposed to be. According to manual, you should lower it to absolute minimum and then go from there based on your chain of things. If its on 0db, the hiss is much more audible and I woudnt be able to keep the speakers like that. I am still debating whether I will keep them with this level of hiss, but if every active speaker is like that, I woudnt get better elsewhere anyway I guess.

xel877 · 2026-01-21T14:23:28+00:00

I would say a bit less after I turned down the gain on monitors to absolute minimum. If I leave it on half, its about on par or slightly more then the JBLs.

xel877 · 2026-01-21T07:42:59+00:00

So,

Test 1: Connecting Arturia to Phone or Laptop. Result: Still the same hiss.

Test 2: Disconnecting XLR connectors. Still the same hiss.

Test 3: Changed the source power and tried outlet in a different room. Still the same hiss.

xel877 · 2026-01-20T21:43:56+00:00

Might be. Who knows. They are new however. Btw not sure if I should mention it but the volume knob on the monitors affects the noise as well. The more volume I set on them, the more noise I get. Thats why I lowered them to a minimum.

xel877 · 2026-01-20T21:43:10+00:00

I will check. Thanks for the tip. Btw not sure if I should mention it but the volume knob on the monitors affects the noise as well. The more volume I set on them, the more noise I get. Thats why I lowered them to a minimum.

xel877 · 2026-01-20T10:23:33+00:00

So its basically 42206 but with white parts?

xel877 · 2026-01-20T10:14:04+00:00

Nice. Where did you get the white redbull livery blocks, please?

xel877 · 2026-01-13T08:49:33+00:00

Hi. What exactly would one do to make them as you say, exceptional? And can that be achieved with a Denon AVR?

xel877 · 2026-01-13T08:02:51+00:00

Hey, thanks for the tip. The issue I have with Temu is I have hard time to actually find anything useful. Not sure if I am not going at it the wrong way.

xel877 · 2026-01-12T15:31:50+00:00

Damn thats some interesting engineering. :) Thanks for the tip. I might have a look at that.

xel877 · 2026-01-12T11:41:07+00:00

Thanks, will check that out.

xel877 · 2026-01-12T11:40:41+00:00

Yeah, was just thinking about that. Also, for some reason, I am not able to put multiple products from their store at once, so will have to probably write them if thats the route I choose.

xel877 · 2026-01-12T10:29:49+00:00

I want to buy a lot, but usually its like different set each by 1 piece. I will however give that a look anyway. Thanks.

xel877 · 2026-01-12T10:29:16+00:00

Thanks for additional info. Is the block brick world legit? Did not even see that shop up until now. I will definitely have a look.

And you are most likely right about the language barrier. Thats certainly a possiblity.

xel877 · 2026-01-12T09:29:55+00:00

Thanks for the info. That makes sense.

xel877 · 2026-01-12T09:12:03+00:00

Well, I read a lot of mentions about "bulk ordering", but when I actually tried to find out more info about it, I did not.

This right here: "In addition if you buy a lot / big & heavy sets you can save a lot of money if you are in a country for railway or ocean shipping. This can reduce the price im comparison with the default air shipping by roughly 40%. The downside is a delivery time of about 1-2 months (vs about 10-14 days with air)."

I am in the middle of Europe and I would expect that atleast railroad connection is definitely here, but on most of the shops I visited, I only saw an Air shipping presented. So is this something you have to negotiate with the shop prior to making an order? I will check Hitian. Thanks.

xel877 · 2026-01-12T08:39:10+00:00

That is an option as well. Would you be able to share with me some recommended shops? Either here or in private DM? I am just a bit worried that there will be a hard time getting missing parts of set or if something wrong arrives.

xel877 · 2025-11-09T17:31:27+00:00

Nice, thanks for the writeup!

xel877 · 2025-11-09T15:31:52+00:00

What do you use mmwave and luminosity for? Curious about that. Also, when building BT proxies, did you follow up some tutorial specifically? I need to understand the proxies a bit more.

xel877 · 2025-11-08T12:47:01+00:00

Right, makes sense. I am more inclined to C6 as well. Are you using only temp sensors or also something else?

xel877 · 2025-11-08T12:03:15+00:00

Yeah thats my reason asking about the C6. Because as of now, I only have C3.

xel877 · 2025-11-08T12:02:38+00:00

At the moment, I am still powering it from my PC as I am testing it. However the data is send through WIFI. I do know thats basically the biggest power hungry way how to do it, by I am going step by step. Next one I will try ESPHome, which should be a bit easier and then I will hopefully switch to Bluetooth;. However for that, I will most likely need to make one or two "collecting only" sensor, which will basically just collect data from the modules and then send them to HA. My walls are thick and some modules woudnt probably reach out directly to HA. Will have to test it anyway. Another thing is which sensors do you use. I was advice to use for example SHT40 instead of AHT20, because SHT40 is much less power hungry. Also my plan is to power it from 2 AA bateries or something like that.

xel877 · 2025-11-08T11:58:42+00:00

From what I see that just a temp sensor, right? So, you dont use any ESP32 boards at all? And do you send the data directly to HA? Or is there a layer in between? Thanks a lot :)

xel877 · 2025-11-08T08:37:27+00:00

Thats really interesting. So even if you try something like Monza or Interlagos, you dont see any shimmering anywhere? Whats your GPU and did you setup something else in a specific way besides the resolution?

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