CornflakeDog
Once in a lifetime… As in you can do it once.
Dear Mister D. Foxcoon,
I can see that you have pondered rather deeply over the matter, an inquiring mind seeking to understand the greater philosophical significance of the turdumpen. Although a dish like this is best served with stuffing, I certainly had not been expecting any ham for the Thanksgiving feast. May this masterpiece quench the appetite of a voracious audience, and may we all be thankful for dat booty.
Truly yours, Cornflake Dog.
Any chance we can get an NSFW tag? I’m getting stared down by turkey cheeks in public 💀
I’ve had a pair of the K240s for a while and I have to be honest and say they are my least favorite headphones in the collection. The soundstage is good, but they are totally bass-anemic. Vocals are clear on the AKG K240 but I feel like that’s all they really have going for them.
I don’t know which particular version of the K240 you have, I’m talking about the newer “AKG K240 Studio” that are rated at 55 ohms of impedance. It’s possible that older sets rated to be less sensitive have better tonal balance, but I feel these Studio ones are simply not it.
I will say, however, I used the K240s when I was hosting a radio show and they were phenomenal for that application. Being able to talk into a microphone while also monitoring levels and not getting that awful feeling of speaking while wearing closed backs was great.
At this point, I feel there are simply better, more balanced options that can offer even better soundstage with tonality that excels magnitudes beyond the K240. Sennheiser HD 6XX and Hifiman HE400SE most immediately come to mind.
I do have some offerings from Sony and Sennheiser, namely the MDR-7506 and the HD 6XX, and I have to say those are both amazing pairs. I’d have to give AKG the edge over the Sony ones though, if only it weren’t for the awful seal with the stock pads. I’m gonna give the Dekoni replacement pads a try and see if I’ll get better results. I’ll likely come back with another post afterwards.
My personal op-spec mostly includes partitioning my personal life aside from my professional life. Like most people, I have a job that relies on privacy-invasive software, so I do my best to keep that separate and containerized away from my private stuff. This mostly means using different web browsers for different things (i.e. Librewolf for personal browsing and Brave for work-related internet). My job uses Gmail, but I personally use Proton. Depending on one’s needs and available resources, you could even have separate devices for these uses (work phone and personal phone, work computer and personal computer, etc).
I was really hoping you’d say it was Foobar2000! You can run Foobar2000 using something like Wine/Bottles, but the UI gets all screwy. Recently, somebody released a Foobar-alike called Fooyin and I love it! Here’s how I styled my layout:
Fooyin definitely has some growing to do, but I think it’s the best you can do on Linux if the goal is the ability to play bit-pefect music with a similar setup to Foobar2000.