Welcome to you JTS Ah! Fresh blood always makes us thirsty
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And you call yourself a newbie?? Newies canât say âGungnirâ . Welcome, certainly welcome.
And Welcom Dan, Greg, and all the others. Canât hardly keep up.
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Well he didnât say âGumbyâ.
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Hello and welcome Greg.
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Welcome!
Thanks for the warm welcome guys Look forward to sharing and gaining knowledge from everyoneâŠ
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Hey Torq(In Whoâs Name I Trust) (Iâm going to start abbreviating it to IWNIT). So Torq(IWNIT) Stereophile just did an article on the Raal SR1aâs and rated them class A+. Looks like you are vindicated by some of the audiophile community for those who may have doubted. Congrats to Raal for making it and you for being at the forefront of the headphone world in discovery. So now that thatâs out of the way letâs get down to business. I want a headphone that doesnât play like itâs inside my head, is supremely accurate, comfortable, doesnât make my head or ears hot and is cheap. Oh yeah, also doesnât need an expensive external amp to play at comfortably realistic sound levels. I expect this by next Tuesday. You have your assignment now go out and playâŠ
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While I donât think the SR1a are for everyone, by any means, only one person that has sat and spent proper time with mine didnât like them; and Iâd have to describe that person as a fairly major basehead based on what they did like.
I was actually several months behind the people who I personally credit for raising awareness of the SR1a, and most specifically @Zhanming057 - as it was his posts and reviews that re-sparked my interest in them after not having been able to get my ears on them a CanJam @ RMAF 2018.
When I fantasize, I want a unicorn.
Closest thing I could recommend would be the HD58X. But itâs not that comfortable unless you bend the band on it, and itâs not that accurate without something like Sonarworks/True-Fi or other EQ.
As for not playing inside your head, the only headphones that do a really good job of that are not cheap (and a lot of it is down to the source material anyway). They start with an SDR-modded HD800 (or a stock HD800S), and rapidly jump to things like the Vérité, Abyss, MySphere or SR1a.
The new AEON Flow 2 might fit the bill as well, though Iâve not heard it personally, and itâs also not in the âcheapâ category.
If, when you reference a user here, you put an @ in front of their name, like this @nooac, theyâll get a clickable notification that will let them see you mentioned them and they can follow to your post, otherwise they wonât know itâs there unless youâre responding to them directly.
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Thanks for the response.
Yep. You made it clear they are light on the base.
So I presume my next research might be the HD58x, SDR modded 800âs and others. Also EQâs that donât color the sound as you have previously mentioned. (my homework) I was leaning on the Sphere 3.2 when I noticed your writings about the RAAL SR1a.
In reference to my comment about your seeing it before others, I donât travel in you knowledge circles and bow to your knowing the people involved. I Like your passing on the accolades appropriately.
A unicorn!? If Iâm going to fantasize Iâm starting out with a loaded aircraft carrier, private island and scantily clad audiophile girls⊠The movie rights of course negotiable after the multi billion dollar signing bonus and interplanetary obligations as an intergalactic explorer. Just to start.
The lack of @ for peopleâs names is purely my laziness. I still like @Torq (IWNIT).
As a post script, I havenât figured out how to do the blocked quotes of previous writings so I just use " ".
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I thought you said they had to be cheap?!
Because they donât exist ⊠just like a single headphone with the specific traits you requested 
Everything else on the list is possible, if potentially a bit pricey.
Highlight the text in the post you want to quote, and a "Quote box should pop up, click that, and itâll insert the highlighted text into your post, with the user reference and link.
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Look at me! Iâm a quoted texter!
That was before I knew you existed. My worst case scenario is I get what I want and itâs expensive. Ok. The hunt is on. Particularly the off ears, which already exists and the audio presentation in front of my head, not in between my ears. The gauntlet is thrown.
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I appreciate the kind words, but have to recommend that people consider multiple sources and perspectives when dealing with gear reviews (objective or subjective). At least until you have enough of a baseline with a given reviewer to understand if what they like, and how they express things, marries up with what you like (and I donât know of any one I agree with 100% of the time).
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As far as fantasies go for mythical creaturesâŠIâm going with a dragon!
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In SoCal for the week, had to stop in a storeâŠand saw this⊠
@Torq itâs like fate/destiny is real lol
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Welcome to California.
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Iâm a native son of Cali 
From the Sierra Nevadas south of lake Tahoe as the crow flies
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Funnyđ
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