Well, it's a bit after 9 AM, I've rebooted and rescanned the USB library on my AURALiC Aries streamer (added more "Christmas" albums, of course), and we've probably got enough music queued up to last till evening. Certainly will get us through the rest of preparing Christmas dinner and dinner we've scheduled with friends and GF's son at about 2 PM.
This has been another year for the record books in many ways- so many things to take care of at work and otherwise, including finally moving out of my old place, which was a huge project/effort in and of itself (late October and much of November).
Many new technology tasks and initiatives launched at work, and several for music/audio, which I'll likely be writing about more this coming year as things come to fruition. My thanks to my collaborators from HT Guide- both past, and present/upcoming.
I know about "interesting things" in the pipeline at work, too, 2016 should be a very, very interesting year all around. Many challenges, but many opportunities, too.
I did get one "present" for myself this year, and thought I'd report about it because it seems to be an unusually good value proposition for this type of thing. You see, I really like the sonics and build quality of the super high end Audio Technica headphones, but, believe it or not, I can't stomach the $500+ prices. OTOH, there is a pretty significant and big step up in performance, even compared to their more standard $200 products.
Well, short story long, they have a new model, the ATH-MSR7 that is getting fairly rave reviews, as regards both it's measurements and sonics. OF course, there's always a downside, and this is a fairly typical quote:
They are also not the sort of pseudo high end headphones with a built bass boost to impress- they do go deep, but they are very neutral and clean. I love them. The high end sound, but at about half the price of the high price spread- typically around $250 depending on the retailer. Very neutral but transparent midrange through top end. Comes with three cables, including a phone style cable, and a 3 meter cable for when you need some flexibility on listening distance from the source.
They won a headphone of the year award for 2015...
If you're a headphone buff (I'm actually not, but... For these...) you may want to check these over the ear headphones out. Most impressive.
Merry Christmas, everyone, and get ready for 2016! Best wishes for the new year!
This has been another year for the record books in many ways- so many things to take care of at work and otherwise, including finally moving out of my old place, which was a huge project/effort in and of itself (late October and much of November).
Many new technology tasks and initiatives launched at work, and several for music/audio, which I'll likely be writing about more this coming year as things come to fruition. My thanks to my collaborators from HT Guide- both past, and present/upcoming.
I know about "interesting things" in the pipeline at work, too, 2016 should be a very, very interesting year all around. Many challenges, but many opportunities, too.
I did get one "present" for myself this year, and thought I'd report about it because it seems to be an unusually good value proposition for this type of thing. You see, I really like the sonics and build quality of the super high end Audio Technica headphones, but, believe it or not, I can't stomach the $500+ prices. OTOH, there is a pretty significant and big step up in performance, even compared to their more standard $200 products.
Well, short story long, they have a new model, the ATH-MSR7 that is getting fairly rave reviews, as regards both it's measurements and sonics. OF course, there's always a downside, and this is a fairly typical quote:
The Bottom LineThe Audio-Technica ATH-MSR7 is a great-sounding headphone with the one caveat that its sonic detail is so impressive that it brings out both the best and worst in any given source material.
They won a headphone of the year award for 2015...
If you're a headphone buff (I'm actually not, but... For these...) you may want to check these over the ear headphones out. Most impressive.
Merry Christmas, everyone, and get ready for 2016! Best wishes for the new year!
arty:
It's good enough with IEM's (UE 900S) for my commute to work on the train, where it's more about noise removal and improvement than serious listening. But then, Sony certainly has the capability to know what it takes - they just seem to not care as often as not.
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