NikT

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Uses scissors. Sings in tune. Loves detail. Speech very clear. Uses voice variations for his toys.

WFH in Nelson NZ, making cool stuff cheaper.

New #father
#smartphones
#headphones
#audio
#android
#cyberpunk
#transformers
#music
#books
#poetry
#puns
#nz

@billbennett Perhaps the more interesting question is, have you tried any of the newer form-factors like clip-ons?

See: Huawei Freeclip, Bose Ultra Open, Baseus MC1 / MC1 Pro / XC1 (a lot more going on there than you might expect including a Bose collab), Anker's Soundcore C50i / AeroClip, and the fairly mundane me-too efforts from JBL and Sony. Clip-ons turned out to be a fantastic form factor, work perfectly with glasses, the only headphones you can genuinely forget you're wearing.

@billbennett Beats still exists, goes well with Powerbeats for premium sports (Sports AirPods, in not-just-white!), Sennheiser trucks along despite a few missteps with battery issues a while back, Shokz did well to pivot bone conduction success into premium 'air conduction' models, of course Samsung's Galaxy Buds enjoy being the AirPods for Samsung...Bose is Bose.

I feel, until we get user-serviceable battery replacements, premium TWS are a hard sell. Great ANC earbuds exist for $50 today.

@billbennett nice one - to be fair you can still buy the WF-XM5 where the 4 cleared out a year+ back.

Did Sony send you the WF-1000XM6 or nah? Curious space that 'premium true wireless earbuds not made by Apple' - of all brands, Panasonic's Technics AZ100 are doing well, and deservedly so.

@billbennett G'day Bill, review is for WF-1000XM4, image is of the successor model, WF-1000XM5?

when we were kids

the internet was a place where leading experts in every field would hang out with penniless teenagers

we were the latter

it was pretty amazing

nostalgia should never be purely backwards-looking, but that seems like an important thing to try to build again, somewhere, somehow

i asked them if they had speaker cables for "post apocalyptic sludgecore" and they just looked at me funny. #audiophile

"I would love to give The Blood-Cooled PC to my children someday."

I sort of admire the fact that the Aftermath staff describes the 2023 period when Blizzard gave away a human-blood-cooled PC as a prize in a contest as "a more innocent time". They're not wrong, but damn when you put it like _that_...

https://aftermath.site/email/11604f47-4a3b-411f-ad62-fc61d4fa7f6b/?ref=aftermath-bonus-blog-newsletter

Aftermath Bonus Blog: Diablo IV PC Cooled With Real Human Blood Is Still Going Strong Two Years Later, Says Guy Who Won It

"This genuinely has been a life-changing experience"

Aftermath
Well, this is way too real.