Did someone say AirPods Pro 3?
And 2 TB iPhone Pro Max?
That should make the (amazing) N30LE the last DAP I’ll ever buy.
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Oh, I did grab a Questyle QCC Dongle Pro … for when I wanted to stream to the N30LE from my phone (i.e., somewhere where there is no WiFi). It’s more power efficient than putting the iPhone in hotspot mode, and lets me use LDAC to talk to the N30LE.
I may pre-order the APP3, as my APP1 battery is dying and I held off upgrading because the APP3 was so close…
Update: I DID pre-order the APP3. 
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That’s so soooooo on topic. How about another Dad joke before you tempt me to pre order and I have perfectly good Pro 2s.
Son: Can we go to a haunted house this year?
Dad: What’s wrong with the one we live in?
Son: What??!!?
Dad: Good night Son, sleep well.
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My APP3 just billed.
I pre-ordered about 30 seconds after the store came back up (I caught it mid-refresh, where it was showing APP3, but the page link to the APP2).
Now, like a plonker, I have the APP3 coming to the house, but I’m picking up my phone in the store … (I blame the rosin fumes confusing me on them having the same delivery date).
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Gosh Ian, you’ll pick up your phone, run back home, then have to go right back to the store and wait in line again so they can show you how to set up your new AirPods.
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I’m not a believer in fancy cables, but I do believe that cables degrade over time. I just swapped out the RCA interconnect between my Lokius and Bottlehead Crack. I’d been using a ~25 year old cable because its length was perfect, but changed my desk layout and switched to a fairly new interconnect from Worlds Best Cables.
Result: Better imaging, less flatness, less forward, less noise, more nuance.
The old cable may not have been “oxygen free”, and sometimes copper corrodes with time. I’ve experienced this with speaker cables – bright orange wires turn dark brown and then sound bad.
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Like many things in audio, people are all over the place on the subject of cables. And it’s one of the surest ways to start a heated controversy with vehement assertions back and forth, if not insults and flame wars.
I saw this on Lachlan’s YT channel (Passion for Sound) and find it amusing…
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You know you’re an audio guy when
you see these in your email inbox and before you read anything, you think twin subwoofers !
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I’m not gonna lie, when I first saw that pic I was thinking “what kind of weird driver is that,… wait a minute!”
But context is also important, you posted it on a headphone gear site!
What would you name twin subs? Wham and Slam or Wub and Dub?
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Solder joints that have aged or deteriorated along with poor material choices in the original design can definitely cause the kinds of sound issues you’re describing. One of the worst offenders is the use of cheap coax interconnects. Many of the low-quality coax cable interconnects I’ve heard sound dull and lifeless, stripping the music of its energy.
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My favorite interconnects are still the ones I’ve assembled myself using a variety of reputable, respected connectors in conjunction with Canare Star-Quad microphone cable. Some of which are now more than twenty years old. A few of these interconnects have been plugged in and unplugged thousands of times, suffering the abusive toll of heavy overuse that I have put them through. Even quality connectors can fail under such excessive demands.
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I have plenty of materials on hand to build replacements for the worn cables. However, like you, I often find the price to performance ratio of World’s Best Cables hard to resist. The enticement and ease of placing an order on Amazon gets me back up and running in no time (I never have enough of time) with free Prime shipping. I guess that goes for all my purchases, even those beyond my obsessive audio addiction. It’s no wonder Bezos has gotten so filthy rich.
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