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This is a review of the Moondrop Chu II DSP - I bought this recently for $24 to compare it with some other DSP IEM's and cables that I have also been playing with and I thought I would share the details of what I found: The normal version of the Moondrop Chu II arrived last year into a much...

Introduction I have a bit of a love / hate relationship with Soundcore devices. I love the value and feature set they typically offer. Often their devices can be found on sale at almost 'disposable' discounted prices, but they are a long way from 'audiophile' territory, with cheap 'plastic'...

I wish more manufacturers would make this type of video:

I think Erin has done an excellent job with his latest video about building a budget system: I think Erin is the "New CheapAudioMan" ;) This video would have saved me allot of money. Meanwhile Hans Beekhuyzen latest video talks about a €285 Ethernet filter :facepalm: - for everyone sanity...

Basically a YouTube with a summary of most of the general AI related announcements to various products at CES (basically instead of watching 20 keynotes this video might save you allot of time): I thought some of the Samsung ones were cool (like their Fridge) but probably years away before I...

A very nicely done article on WDR Studio in Cologne - on the Google Arts and Culture app: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/sounds-of-cologne-wdr/gQWRzsVclcCYPA?hl=en

This just got launched and it's pretty amazing. It's effectively chatGPT / midjourney but to generate 60 seconds of a song - lots of fun - but I can see this (or similar / future versions ) causing so many problems for the music industry - e.g. Spotify generating royalty free songs...

I see Fosi Audio have a new Kickstarter project which looks nice: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fositechnology/fosi-audio-lc30-vu-meter-amplifier-speaker-selector I already backed it - will be handy for some A/B Testing :)

This is a very interesting video Adam Savage YouTube channel used a CT scanner to look inside an Apple thunderbolt cable and compared the engineering with an Amazon Basics and an even cheaper cable. And crazy as it might seem I can totally see how Apple can justify the cost of the cable...

Nice techical view of the internals of these devices and how different the internals are in the fakes compared to the original: https://www.lumafield.com/article/real-vs-fake-apple-products-through-industrial-ct-airpods-pro-macbook-magsafe-charger

I see Qualcomm announced their next gen chipset for TWS and bluetooth headphones. And it includes something called Micro-Power WiFi which according to their press release can support lossless streaming up to 192 Khz...

Seems like Apple have added a custom wireless protocol to allow lossless audio on the new AirPods Pro 2 (only the ones with the USB-C). And in a very Apple move initially this seems to be only limited to the Vision Pro devices - the reason is both devices will need a custom chip. Seems like this...

This video might be interesting for the community - I think Darko was so close to an understanding of what is wrong with measuring the dynamic range of a vinyl ripped via the Cosmos ADC and DROffline MKII but then jumped back to his subjective opinions :rolleyes: Basically for those not...

I thought the Verge did a nice job with this video about ANC headphones and the future of ANC: I do agree that the future will be smart adaptive noise cancelation

While obviously he is selling acoustic treatments (and the end of the podcast especially seems more like an advert for some products) - I did enjoy the earlier parts of this podcast and hearing about the technology involved in Dolby and THX especially. Worth a listen in the background for those...

FiiO kindly sent me pre-release versions of 2 of their new IEM’s, the FH11 https://www.fiio.com/fh11 (1 DD + 1BA drivers) and the FX15 https://www.fiio.com/fx15 (1 DD + 1BA + 4EST drivers). Of these the FH11 is a very bass heavy IEM at roughly $50 with, in my opinion, an odd tuning (I asked FiiO...

Another Speaker that Erin likes :D

I think there is a reasonable chance now that this format will take off: Behind paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/arts/music/dolby-atmos.html For those without the subscription I believe you can use: https://archive.ph/

So, Andrew Jones questioned by Darko at the Munich Highend and lots of questions about Measurements:

So, here is the big reveal video about the Project Red: Seems like it will be a great IEM - less distortion - not harman tuning (but with an impedance adapter to make it very close)