>Impulse bought a Questyle CMA15 yesterday Lmao fuck me. Shop was selling the last CMA15 unit at a heavily discounted clearance price, so I fomo'd. It doesn't drive the Duality the way I like it, but it'll suffice for now. The Questyle has a nice physical switch to flick between HP Amp and DAC-only so that's going to be fun when I do add an endgame amp to the stack. Unlike other amps, the Questyle is current-driven and has quite a nice warm tonality akin to tubes, so it does a niche in my collection, but I'm gonna look for a dryer sounding amp next.

>>23333 that cable + iem combo is so ugly, what is wrong with you and prestige anon

>>23334 That's the stock cable (Mira MK2) for the Storm. It's not like I intentionally uglified my setup.

>>23335 get the yongse britney, it will probably look superb with the storm and is more functional a shame that your setup looks as ugly as it is, don't know how you even listen to them knowing how ungodly they look

>>23336 I appreciate the suggestion anon, but admittedly I have a massive price bias - so it feels wrong to substitute the mira cable for smth cheaper when the mira retails for $2000 msrp.

>>23337 yeah it was kind of obvious you had a mental illness. no worries, there are other options. an all black cable from pwaudio will probably match well and really put focus on the faceplate. na aoraki mk3 fits the color scheme nicely, same for penon storm and ea centurion 2 (black gold edition) anyways you should really optimize your cable, the msrp of the mira is most likely mega inflated just to make the storm stand out as a product. shoddy product matching tbh

I've decided that EQ is a meme.

>>23340 How so?

>>23342 Analog audio. How am I gonna use EQ to compensate for my POS' shortcomings if my source is my vinyl record player hmmm? Check meight EQists.

>>23333 (me) addendum: cma15's tonality isn't warm at all, it's my music that's warm. after A/Bing with my dx340 for a day i'd say the questyle is mildy bright

Gave my friend my old f**o jh3 pieces of shit and he said his bluetooth skullcandy pieces of shit sound better.

>>20437 (me) My Jutem leather case got delayed again, goddamn chinks

>>23386 Pics?

>>23387 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMqxHkfvp64 not my pic (obviously) i ordered lemon yellow colorway for mine

>>23388 Damn you got the 4chan (gay and cringe) colorway.

>they all left me Guess I'll schizo talk about mid-fi with myself in here. For starters, I'd like to let everyone (myself) know that I'm boycotting audiophonics and will not be shopping there.

>>23547 Well I'm still searching for an amp to improve my chain but I haven't actually bought anything yet. But my Jutem case arrived and looks cool I guess.

>>23548 As long as it's genuine leather.

>>23549 It's called sully goat leather, apparently it's French or smth. Hopefully it's not dogshit.

Our guy Jay is showing some new sliivos. I'm a myer enjoyer but I'll wait for something new. Aesthetically they did a good job as usual. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YRUFCOZgmE

>just washed and styled my hair >put IEM's in instead of headphones to not mess it up >forget to turn off speaker amp >blast music on speakers for hours while enjoying my bibeo game >only realize at 3 AM that my speaker amp was on the whole time

>>23596 based professional next-door neighbor

>>23586 >our guy arguably has the most useless reviews >>23596 >deaf common problem with audiotards unfortunately

>>23609 ur mom

Have you heard that fox IEM solved IEMs?

>>23693 I've heard that fox iem is kinda zesty.

>helped a friend to sell his Mira MK2 cable >got baited by another into buying his Elysian Gaea >convinced my local retailer to stock Palavox iems good shit this week

>>23711 (me) also bought a symphonium helios, hoping to receive it tomorrow. collection is coming along nicely

Damn everyone left me for 4cuck...

>>24056 im here bro

My xduoo ta-32 is already shitting itself and I don't know if it's a simple tube issue or a more serious problem. I hate chinkfi and I hate tubes.

>>24130 maybe you're just unlucky, shit happens

>>24154 Surely I can't be unlucky every single time. Maybe there's something about tubes I just didn't know. I started hearing a wining noise in the left channel every once in a while. Cleaned the tubes and swapped the two smaller amp tubes around. Now I hear it in the right channel. Hoping it's just a tube issue that can be solved with a replacement and I ordered two psvane upgrade tubes, but damn bro, I just got this amp. Google said these tubes need way longer before they need to be replaced. Granted I use it for like 6 hours a day or more because it's my desktop setup but still. Maybe tube amps aren't meant for such prolonged use?

>>24164 >Maybe tube amps aren't meant for such prolonged use? Not surprising, I've heard of tubes dying in a matter of months

>>24165 >have to spend a hundred bucks every 3 months on tubes >the rectifier itself costs another 200 Brother...

>got new tubes >issue got fixed >couple months later it comes back Can't believe I fell for the tube amp meme and especially for the chink tube amp meme. It hurts to admit that I should have gotten a Fiio K17 or some shit. Fuck this garbage dogshit xduoo TA-32.