Canada means frost heave will be an issue for sure

I've posted this a couple times over the last year or so.

I work as an engineer in a factory where our products go in corrugated cardboard boxes. The corrugated cardboard market has seen substantial price increases over the last few years. Think about it ... all of a sudden in 2020, the entire world was buying everything online and getting it shipped in cardboard boxes. Cardboard manufacturers had a hard time keeping up with demand and really the prices haven't come back down since then.

You can see the steep increase in slope shortly after 2020 starts here:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCU32221132221102

So, as an engineer in my company we are tasked basically daily to work on ideas to cut costs to our product. Reducing or eliminating the amount of cardboard that we use is an easy way to cut costs. I never peeled back the layers of my old HD650 box, but I imagine the "interior" of that fancy box was just some kind of dense paper product with some nice looking cosmetic material on the outside.

I’m not really understanding why you would pick up the Arya Stealth in the first place if you prefer warmth.

Every review I’ve ever read or watched of them clearly states they lean bright.

I used to have a modded HD650 and then got a ZMF Atticus.

I thought the improvement with the Atticus was basically negligible and sold them within a week of ownership.

90% of this hobby for me *is* shopping and buying new gear

I really want to buy a Lyr+ but all of the posts about them dying has made me really nervous about buying one

I understand there’s the warranty but it would just be a hassle going back and forth

I can’t believe I missed out on buying a Piety. I’m on Reddit all damn day and somehow this went under my radar lol

Vampire Survivors all day every day

Thanks, the Yellow button did the trick instead of using the Blue button.

But now I've given myself cold feet about ordering so I'll sleep on it for at least one more night

I am debating between buying these exact 2 headphones, so I really appreciate your write up.

Whenever you have the free time, would you be willing to compare 1 more song between the two of them?

“Albatross” by Big Wreck. I briefly owned the Edition XS and the acoustic guitars in this song would tickle my ear drums and I really enjoyed that sensation (especially after 0:30). I imagine the Arya Stealth would also have a similar presentation, but I am wondering if the 109 will still have the tickling sensation. Any other thoughts between the two headphones on this song?

Thanks in advance if you take the time to do this!

My only regret with my Woo stand is that I didn’t buy the double

It's pronounced shit.

At the start of the covid pandemic, they even started offering toilet paper with "Schiit" on it as a joke when the toilet paper supply was so low. Looks like they still offer it. https://www.schiit.com/products/toilet-paper

edit to add:

The have a physical location they call the Schittr (shitter). They had a product called the Schiit Eitr (shit eater). They still offer the Schiit Fulla (full of shit). They really lean in on the whole shit thing.

That's not correct, it's simply pronounced shit

While really appreciate and value oratory's considerable work, I think it would be elevated another notch if there was an easy "export to .txt" or some databank of .txt files instead of the PDFs that are on Dropbox.

I thought we all just looked at graphs and made memes here?

Yeah that Asgard 3 wasn't working correctly.

I bought B Stock LCD-X a couple weeks ago. One of the pads was really crinkly, the other pad had a noticeable blemish. Some other scuffs and little things around one of the cups.

Not lucky like others but not terrible I guess. The crinkly pad was the worst offender to me, looked completely different than the other.

Edit to add photo. https://imgur.com/a/jAtfHv9

(After EQ'ing to Oratory's settings) I loved the bass presentation of the LCD-X but they still felt too relaxed for *my personal* sound signature preference. I'm sure it's because of HiFiMan's boosted brightness, but there were plenty of details I was hearing in the Edition XS that I wasn't hearing any more in the LCD-X.

I really enjoyed the sound of the XS but unfortunately couldn’t get a comfortable fit even with an extra pad on top. My quest for my next headphone continues.

I didn't want to get hung up on something and be one of those "Well, actually..." people so I mostly disengaged on the heavier science parts.

I didn't catch anything glaringly incorrect but my brain kind of went on autopilot and processed it as [Andy Weir writes science] during those parts.

I might have to buy the Clear OG.

I just got the Edition XS and they may not be for me … I’ll be posting an impression tonight or tomorrow