Working minimum wage or struggling with money for any reason shall not mean you cannot have nice things in life, never. So I do the thing. Sometimes. Normalizing spending money into things you physically cannot touch is one thing i could get over with, like buying GOG (DRM free) games i’ll actually end up playing, but licenses to play a dang video game that is valid for god knows how long? This is where I draw the line.

Your friend is right: when them corpos suck us dry, we gotta suck em back. It is easy as that.

Furthermore: It’s not piracy when paying for it is not owning it.

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A little late, but thank you for (although indirectly) leading me to the Kiwi Ears Dolce. This is definitely something I’ll plug to a TRN or KZ adapter.

It just sucks that I’d have to order the 30 dolls TRN across the pond, shipping and import duties are expensive. Hell, I’m glad something niche like Kiwis happen to be readily available next doors on Amazon de without much markup. However they have the KZ AZ9 Pro and AZ15 for 50€ and 62€ each. Not really a great buy as there ain’t any ANC and Transparency, don’t you think? I’m happy with my Dolce wired. :)

Do you mean perchance this ? :D

Having options have their uses. I take my P2 minis to places where I’m a bit spooked to lose my Libertys, and my Earpods aren’t new. But hell if I knew you could plug IEM into TWS adapters I would of done that first.

Whether to go for closed or open is a tough call, so I’m like why not both and lean towards DT 880 (Pro). :D

It’s a bit of a bummer that there’s only 250 Ohm. I know my DAC handles it but I’d like to use it with other devices as well. Correct me if I’m wrong, high Ohm is just there to filter out static noise, but not any of my tinnitus I don’t think.

Yes… I made double sure to mention ‘encoder’ between that.

Xiph really won the lossy codec scene with Opus and I transcoded all my junk to that format. Hitting (my personal) transparency on 128k vbr is flat out impressive and it warms my heart that corpos won’t have a reason to collect taxes for basic things like audio codec. However it’s a different story with bluetooth audio codec in which I hope will change.