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I don't think it's a question of 'proper' sound stage, of course no headphones can do that. It's fair however within the context of headphones to critique the Utopia's (really any Focal for that matter) for having a smallish sound stage. It's just not a focus of the sound they are going for and that's perfectly fine. They excel in detail and dynamics and are fantastic headphones in those regards.

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Keeping w/ the different for me theme tonight:

Something a little different for me tonight.....

I believe the Soekris dac1541 is discontinued now and has been replaced by the dac2541. I have the Denafrips Venus II and it's an amazing dac.

Happy Birthday Al!

It's pretty common for dealers to not have stock of something like replacement pads. If you don't want to deal w/ ordering directly from Senn I'd reach out to Justin and he should be able to do it for you.

RIP Marvin Hagler

I've been enjoying the Stevie Nicks playlist on Qobuz tonight.

Happy Birthday Nate!

Not a song, but just came across this album: Sampha - Process

If nothing else it'll be interesting to see what Sennheiser has coming out the next few years. Jude certainly hints at there being something coming out that he seems pretty excited about. An actual successor to the HD800/S would be a good place to start. If they were smart they'd also cut down on the line up, they have way too many products.

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RIP Daft Punk - they are splitting up: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/22/entertainment/daft-punk-split-intl-scli/index.html

Happy Birthday old man

You might want to look at the NAS options from Qnap & Synology that have space for using SSD's as cache drives. That's becoming more common and can be a nice little performance boost.

Sure they can be driven by most amps pretty easily. Typically I'd recommend something like an OTL tube amp for them.

Mojave has 32-bit support it's only Catalina that went 64-bit only. I doubt you need a 2T external drive, 1T is more than enough and you definitely want to go with an SSD. Unfortunately you will have to start looking into replacements for any of your 32-bit apps that haven't been updated. Mojave is end-of-life with Apple and isn't going to get any further updates and means it won't be supported by most apps going forward either.

Drop makes it pretty clear that you can cancel and get a refund at anytime before shipment. No real risk to end-users here. Here's their page for this: https://drop.com/buy/drop-sennheiser-hd-8xx-headphones The FR graphs are interesting - clearly more bass output and a much less of a roll-off in exchange for the dip at 1.5 khz being more pronounced.

I think he was terrible enough to celebrate his death: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rush-limbaugh-mock-aids-gays/