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Get a Blue Yeti and a 10 dollar mic stand off Amazon(Neewer Brand 9.50-13.50 its periodically 9.50 on deal every few months just track it on camelcamelcamel oh you will need prime for the free shipping so either split a prime(you can do 2 accounts with probably 3-4 addresses per account so possibly you could split a prime account with a spouse account also on that prime with 4 addressses each which would be 8 on 1 prime) with someone or use someone you know) and glue the mic stand to the table dont overtighten(the tendency is to overtighten to stop all movement then the clamp breaks the best solution is to just tighten the clamp down on some loctite concrete and metal epoxy or pur glue(2 strongest glues I have found after allot of internet searches super glue may work for some months depending on usage and is ultimately cheaper and readily available at the dollar store loctite concrete metal epoxy is 5 dollars a home depot pur glue requires a special hot glue gun and cartridges but it is the strongest glue I have ever personally used and is flexible and extremely durable for use in shoes super glue is strong but brittle because it is not at all flexible and so its durability and longevity is very low except maybe gluing together broken dc fan blades(because its low weight and ridgid just buy the fan grill guards)) dont get this modmic crap because its a temporary product the wires inside the cable are of extremely fine construction and when they break over time they are so fine it would be extremely hard or impossible to solder it back together. Likely if you try to recable it the quality will be far worse. This mic is totally dependent on the extremely fine wires that have a strange mixed pattern arrangement on the inside thats hard enough to test for continuity let alone seperate and indentify each fine magnet wire with assorted coatings and I just dont think its repairable even if you treat it gently eventually the fine wires will break and modmic wont give you any help other than to offer u 15% off a new one. Sorry but its just not possible to have a high quality headset the headset capsules are weak and poor quality and a good bottle mic with a full capsule is the way to go the ultimate bang for buck is a chinese capsule knockoff of the top mics on earth which can be assembled for 400 dollars(but the mics they clone are worth 1000 to 6000(for real)and they are exact sonic replicas you wont be able to hear any difference). Doubt me all you want but in the end you will end up with a cardiod pattern bottle capsule mic in the long run and when you get one you will wonder why you were so shortsided and fiddled with everything else that sucked and wasted money...........
BrainFlush
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Feb 7, 2017
iCeOL8TRAmnesiaI read this just to feel what it's like to be inside the mind of a mad man. Thank you for the insight.
PS: To those starting to read it, stop. A Yeti versus a ModMic is impossible, they serve different purposes, so his recommendation is absolutely insane. Never game with a YETI FFS.
Vira
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Feb 7, 2017
BrainFlush
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Feb 7, 2017
ViraHere sneaking a look at today's releases before the email gets in? I know that's why I am here. :D
Vira
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Feb 7, 2017
BrainFlushSpot on ;]
BrainFlushSorry your stuck in 10 years ago you need to catch up with 2014. The best is always the most hated and look at these responses therefore Im the winner of this entire thread. When you read a post of a deal genius that is so far ahead of you it is threatening to your ego, then you get this kind of crying. I find you silly turkeys amusing. Have fun with your temporary(those wires will beak eventually) low quality modmic and when Im in a server I'll be yelling over you with deeper punchy bass with my high gain bottle god mic akg c12 clone with custom DHLabs silver XLR cable.
Daed
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Feb 7, 2017
BrainFlushYeah man, Jeez... in 2014 we mount Yetis to our headphones! I have one strapped to my head right now!
Vira
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Feb 7, 2017
iCeOL8TRAmnesia. Highly consider a blog for your explanations and make use of the Return/Enter key, then drop a link.
I don't ever recall one or "the best" needing a 2k+ desk studio mic attached to their head in 2014 or yet any given years to add, just to get their message across the internet to someone. And with the way you sound, pretty sure no one wants to be on a server with a snob yelling down their mic.
BrainFlush
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Feb 7, 2017
iCeOL8TRAmnesia"Have fun with your temporary(those wires will beak eventually) low quality modmic"
LOL Been using ModMics since 2011, version 1 to 4 in 5 years. Had a mic attached to 3 computers, gaming, movies, and video calling. Not once in all these years and thousands upon thousands of hours, has a ModMic cable or even the ModMic broken on me. Not saying it won't break, just saying, 5 years.
BrainFlush
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Feb 7, 2017
DaedWho does that in 2010? I use suppository mics. Duh. How else can you hear me talk shi......?
ViraIm sorry your twitter reduced attention span mtv gen y brain cant handle educational complete answers, but alas I dont care either and I dont teach people like you....... but a lesser intelligence always mirrors a greater one so even tho I will never get credit to my face, if I lurked you, I would see my viral information spreading across the internets..........
I would have nothing but praise for modmic if they would make it repairable, but it is also a fact that boom mic capsules are inferior(overall). The Yeti is not the pinnacle either and doesnt have full size capsules its just the cheapest access point that doesnt require an audio interface(80$ for any of the older color options including blackout actually I got mine for 70$ the AT2020 is probably a little better in overall quality(and will also cost more than a Blue Yeti on deal) but not yelling over people in games(some people crank that mic gain and so you have to crank back)) and is a good jack of all trades with several polar patterns and decent bass. It is also heavy and the stock bass is annoying heavy and takes too long to pull out and put back when you need it thats why you have to get a mic stand but the build quality is solid. I tried to sell mine 3 times on ebay but chargeback thieves, and abusers of ebay return policy broke it so I RMA'd it and Blue has great customer service and once I found out there were chinese stands for 10 bucks ever since it was on the stand I have never looked back. For a decade, I told everyone buy a headset cause back then everyone was using desktop mics not pro capsule condenser mics with cardoid polar patterns(only picks up what is infront of the mic capsule and little of anything else) the problem with old computer desktop mics(cause computer audio manufacturers suck and never do their homework) is they were all omnidirectional and so they would pick up the wife or mom or the family washing dishes across the house and it would sound like the person was talking from inside their ac vents or(especially back then) hideous loud computer fans. Cardoid pattern bottle condenser capsule mics were the wave of the future probably 100 years ago(lol just looked it up The condenser microphone, invented at Bell Labs in 1916 by E. C. Wente,[18] is also called a capacitor microphone or electrostatic microphone—capacitors were historically called condensers. LOL I knew I was in the right ballpark but damn I nailed it. Did not know capacitors were called condensers tho.) and it took all the computer weenie(audio geniuses?..) 30 years to figure out(they still havent) what pro audio and mic engineers have known forever. Looks like there is predrop AT2020 Vote up right now thats also an amazing cheap mic. With AKG and Neumann reduced and effectively dead(no more advancment as the austrian r&d is shut down) you would think all mic makers would be looking to jump and design the next god condenser mic OO.......
Vira
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Feb 8, 2017
iCeOL8TRAmnesiaEducational answers? You're here dropping an instructions essay about a desktop mic over a flexible attachable/detachable boom mic. I'm not asking nor did anyone need a so called intelligent snob like you to teach anything, or, mirror. You're better off working up a blog then linking it. I wish you good luck on that.
ViraI provided the informed opinion of a deal master that has owned the various options and thus has experience and you have fanboy'd buyers euphoria and attacked an informed supported undeniable argument that has pointed out the pitfall of the modmic. They should make some soundcard that is attached to it to increase the quality and maybe a higher quality capsule that way after the soundcard it wouldnt need fine magnet wire for 8 feet or however long that cord is for passive transmission because its the weakpoint and thats awfully long for fine mic magnet wire to be. I realize passive as it is now if the wire was made heavier it would hurt the sound quality thats why they use that fine wire but if it were processed by some kind or circuitry or soundcard they could then use heavier stranded litz wire and the sound quality would not degrade(it would also be easy to switch out the litz wire if it was broken) and you wouldnt have 8 feet of extremely fine wire that can break and make the entire mic useless. Cmon who wants to buy that thing with that delicate wire(and permanent hard to disassemble vulcanized connectors that cutting them apart and sourcing replacements would surpass the value of the mic itself in the bill of materials) and be worrying about 8 feet of delicate wire around a computer terminal with a caster chair and where you get absent minded working on the pc. You gonna tell me not every gamer in the world hasnt run over their headphone cable(headphone litz wire is easy to repair and or upgrade) with their computer chair? Seems like a fatal flaw of this product if you ask me no durability in a high durability requirement usage and careless young gamers is just a recipe for disaster, or maybe they are counting on that cause they will give you 15% off(another sale). The wire isnt even encased in some high durability sheath and with wire that fine it probably wouldnt do allot of good anyway...... When a mic is on a stand you can route the wire because it doesnt move often unlike when it is connected to someones head thus it is always out of the way and should never be an issue. Also XLR cables and usb cables are cheap and easy to replace.
Varholiaglimp
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Feb 8, 2017
BrainFlushFor the love of Klaus Kinski, why are you discouraging him? I really want iCeOL8TRAmnesia to post photos of his setup. I want to see that YETI glued to various objects in his room, and everything else he might have modified with cheetohs, bicycle spokes, hospital tape and/or ham! Besides which, his writing reminds me of the main character's monologues in Thomas Bernhard's *Concrete*, and I happen to love that novel!
I want to hear more about "extremely fine wires that have a strange mixed pattern arrangement on the inside that[']s hard enough to test for continuity let alone sep[a]rate and i[]dentify each fine magnet wire with assorted coatings"!
What's not to like about this?: "When you read a post of a deal genius that is so far ahead of you it is threatening to your ego, then you get this kind of crying. I find you silly turkeys amusing. "
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iCeOL8TRAmnesiaThere is no reason at all for a larger gauge wire to have poorer sound quality than a thinner one. As a matter of fact, larger wires have lower resistance than thinner wires do, therefore it would make far more sense for Antlion to use thicker wires in the ModMic. The idea that they chose thin wires because the electret mic element (yet another word for condenser mic) requires thin wires to 'sound good' is not in any way backed by science or engineering. By the way, the desktop mics that people used to use back in the 90s were also condenser mics. Condenser mics come in all manner of shapes, sizes, and qualities.
Quote: "...but if it were processed by some kind or circuitry or soundcard they could then use heavier stranded litz wire..."
Litz wire is a method for braiding wire to reduce the "skin effect" of high-frequency electrical signals, and they purposely use extremely fine wire strands to create it. It wouldn't make any sense to use a heavier gauge wire in a Litz braided cable because heavy gauge wire is what suffers from skin effect. Google should be able to explain this, so I'm not going to type the whole definition of "wire skin effect" (which is the search term for which you should google) out here in the comments.
Litz wire WOULD NOT be "easy to switch out if necessary". Litz wire is made up of anywhere from a few to several hundred individually insulated strands that are woven or braided in such a way as to reduce the overall inductance of a cable as a whole. If you wanted to maintain the benefits of the Litz wire, you would have to individually reattach every tiny stand and then re-insulate the connections. Otherwise you are creating a break in the braid and shorting all the stands together in the middle of the wire. Litz wire generally uses magnet wire, and each strand has an enamel coating that you would have to either burn or scrape off of each strand if you wanted to make sure that all the conductors were actually being connected in the blob of solder you're trying to use to repair the Litz wire. If you don't scrape each individual strand, then you risk losing conductivity in some of the individual strands, which gives you a higher resistance and lower sound quality.
...Unless you are talking about those "Litz wire" cables you can buy on ebay that are nothing more than a few wires that some Chinese child was forced to braid in some sweat shop. Those are a complete joke, even if they can "technically" be called "Litz wire."
The best way to enhance sound quality in the cabling is by using wire with an overall lower resistance per meter, such as "Ohno Continuous Casting” (aka "OCC") copper wire. It is very unlikely that the sound quality of frequencies that human being can hear are affected in any way by skin effect resistances. At 20kHz, the highest frequency a human being could conceivably hear, the skin depth of copper is 461.0023 micrometers, or almost half a millimeter. In the case of wire, this would be the radius of the strand, so any wire that is smaller than almost 1mm wide isn't going to benefit from Litz braiding. That covers all wire 20AWG or thinner. I don't know about you, but I don't want two 20AWG wires running down from my headset mic.
If you really care about sound quality, a high quality microphone like the ones you suggest is a great choice. If you care about nothing more than being heard by your gaming buddies you don't need one. That said, the ModMic has highly favorable reviews everywhere I have looked (for example, 79% of the 485 reviews of the ModMic 4 on Amazon are 4 or 5 star, with an overall average of 4 stars). You don't get that many good reviews if there is a rash of broken mic cables or the mic sounds bad.
I ordered the ModMic 5 from their website, so I'll get to see first hand soon. As it stands, though, I'm not worried in the slightest that I won't be understood in the heat of battle.
BrainFlush
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Feb 8, 2017
TipsyMacScotchslurpenI feel like a war of the wire world's is going to happen and we the human race might be the only casualties.
And stop drinking Scotch, makes you sound sophisticated. My small wired brain can't handle it.
Seriously that was a fun read. No hemorrhaging brain cells when learning because of formatting. Thanks.
Do we need another round?
BrainFlush
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Feb 8, 2017
VarholiaglimpMad genius I tell you. I'm just too stupid to get it. My wires must be coated.
That picture though. lol
tooitchy
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Feb 8, 2017
VarholiaglimpJust leaving this here.
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Daed
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Feb 8, 2017
VarholiaglimpThis whole thread is literally the best thing I've ever read on Massdrop.
Varholiaglimp
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Feb 8, 2017
tooitchy
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TipsyMacScotchslurpenLOL every stain from the entire site is here now spouting utter nonsense. Sorry buddy you are assuming headphone levels of voltage and current babbling about occ a passive mic capsule is different and does benefit from fine wire and I'm sure thats why they used it on the modmic and often on IEMS(they dont do it to save money on copper genius or weight for comfort as you assert). TipsyMcScotchRetard you are a completely offensive turkey posting nonsense and just because you type a long post doesnt make you right even tho you think thats what I do. No, Im just right, and Im sure modmic went through allot of evolutions and I doubt they settled on that wire just to make the mic unrepairable. I have made many posts on MassDrop about OCC so you throwing in an OCC "education lesson" to try to make your false arguments more valid means absolutely nothing. AND YES LITZ WIRE IS EASIER TO SWITCH OUT THAN FINE MAGNET WIRE CAUSE ITS EASY TO SOLDER GENIUS LOLOL EVERY ASSERTION YOU MADE IN YOUR POST IS COMPLETELY WRONG(AND YOU KNOW ITS WRONG AND YOU WANT ME TO COME OVER THE TOP AND GET MODERATED THEREFORE YOUR ENTIRE POST IS OBTUSE WUSSY ATTACK TO HIDE BEHIND MODERATORS WHICH IS AN EXTREMELY WEAK TACTIC OF FATTIES). NO, COMPUTER DESKTOP MICS ARE CHEAP OMNIDIRECTIONAL CRAP I DIDNT MAKE ANY MISTAKES AND YOU KNOW IT YOU CLAIMING I MISSPOKE IS UTTER BS. YOU SPOUT BS YOU SAY I MAKE MISTAKES WHEN I DIDNT THEN YOU GO INTO SOME LONG EXPLANATION OF LITZ AND OCC AFTER YOUR FALSE ASSERTIONS TO LEND CREDIBILITY TO YOUR BS AND ATTACKS THEN YOU ENGAGE IN BUYERS EUPHORIA BECAUSE I OWNED YOUR SECOND RATE 10 YEARS AGO STAPLE MIC WITH LOW QUALITY THEN YOU BABBLE ABOUT YOU DONT WANT 20AWG WIRES GOING TO YOUR BOOM MIC TRUST ME THE CABLE AND BOOM ARE THICK ENOUGH TO STICK THICKER WIRES IN THERE ITS NOT ABOUT WEIGHT SAVINGS ITS ABOUT SOUND QUALITY YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE ALLOT TO RESEARCH WHEN IT COMES TO WIRING AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT AT EXTREMELY LOW POWER PASSIVE LEVELS OFF A MIC CAPSULE THE SIZE OF THE MODMIC YOU HAVE TO USE FINE WIRE FOR QUALITY BECAUSE IT CANT PROPERLY DRIVE THE MASS OF A LITZ WIRE(SURE IT WILL PASS THE SIGNAL BUT WILL IT BE CRYSTAL CLEAR AND NOT BLURRY ON THE OTHER END? ITS NOT JUST ABOUT RESISTANCE ITS ALSO ABOUT SIGNAL DIFFUSION.... EXPLAIN TO US THEN HOW IN SPEAKER WIRE SUPER THICK GUAGE WIRE DOESNT MAKE SPEAKERS BLUR) LOLOLOL YOUR ENTIRE POST IS COMPLETE AND UTTER FAIL(ITS ALSO KNOWN IN SATELLITE SPEAKERS THAT MUCH ABOVE 12 GUAGE THE SOUND GETS BLURRY THATS WHY NO ONE RUNS 00 OR 0000 COPPER WIRE FROM THEIR AMP TO THEIR SATELLITE SPEAKERS BUT ACCORDING TO YOUR LOGIC MORE COPPER MASS AND LOWER RESISTANCE ALWAYS SOUNDS BETTER WHICH IS FALSE). OF COURSE, EVERY OTHER HATER IS GOING TO LATCH ON YOUR OVEREXTENDED BS AND CLAIM VICTORY BECAUSE THE BEST IS THE ALWAYS THE MOST HATED AND TO EXTRACT THESE KINDS OF POSTS I MUST BE GOD.
Ok TipsyMcGenius take one of your many old modmics(that are inferior anyway cause you have 5.0 oooooo) and solder some occ 20awg on there or 28awg(the tiny wire used in usb this would also be easier to solder) and record before and after samples of you saying the same inane thing over and over and then post it to soundcloud and lets test it. Does mic wire have to be ultra fine in a passive boom mic or does it not?
Boognish86
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Feb 8, 2017
iCeOL8TRAmnesiatl:dr /r/iamverysmart
Daed
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Feb 8, 2017
BrainFlush
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Feb 8, 2017
iCeOL8TRAmnesia@AntlionJoe can you guys try this? Tell Jimmy I say hi.
BrainFlushWhy are you dragging me into this? ;) I am not sure I have anything to add here that hasn't already been added in all caps and no line breaks.
But... I will ask Jimmy just to see what he says about wire gauges... which very well be that we don't share that information.
Edit: Also I can assure anyone who manages to make it this far down the thread that we do not focus on making our product unrepairable. In fact, one of the design priorities of the MM5 was to ensure the modular cables wouldn't fail (which admittedly, cables are the #1 fail point on the 4). We achieved this by adding Kevlar reinforced wiring and the very nature of modular cables. Most of the failures occur in two places. First, at the mute switch (now a separate module). Second, by damaging the cable through what I like to call "Chair Guillotine" - AKA: running the cable over with your chair one too many times. This is partially solved by the MM5 cable wraps and being able to use a shorter cable (plus you can just replace the cable if you do).
I certainly understand that the above poster apparently had a negative ModMic experience, for which I personally apologize. While no product is perfect, at the very least I want the world to know we do our absolute best both before and after your purchase to ensure you get the most of your product.
BrainFlush
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Feb 8, 2017
AntlionJoeMy mistake man! I only wanted to know if you have tried or would try and then I understand keeping it to yourself. Toothbrush companies did it for years, well every company that wants to stay ahead of their competition does it, so....respect. But if you can offer any insight, do so without compromising your company values or goals or IP.
"cables are the #1 fail point on the 4" FK ME and THEN "Second, by damaging the cable through what I like to call "Chair Guillotine" - AKA: running the cable over with your chair one too many times."
I knew it wasn't an issue of the cable being weak, it's user error. I feel like at times, I am lucky but the reality is, I care for my stuff.
And as boss man can attest, I have been sloppy AF with my ModMics.
Anyways. People seem to enjoy this thread, let's see where it goes. :D
Thanks for responding.
BrainFlushThe cable failure is caused at strain points almost universally, so either where the cable turns into the mute switch or at the mic base where it goes from the "ModMic" into the cable. Normal wear and tear can cause these to fail after several years (We estimate 3-5 years), but to clarify, we did not design it to fail after 3 - 5 years, that's just our best guess at how long it will last under typical use and we are working hard on improving the design of future ModMics to last significantly longer. We even have some hopes of redesigning the lower cost 4 with some of these features.
I have't heard from Jimmy yet, but I am pretty sure the failures have nothing to do with wire gauges, but rather the failure of the connection points caused by strain (basically the wire doesn't break but rather the solder point fails). I personally have no idea if a thicker wire would cause it to fail slower because it would have more surface area on which to solder or fail faster because it would be less flexible and place more strain on the joint. I'm just the marketing guy :)
BrainFlush
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Feb 9, 2017
AntlionJoeFair enough. In this case of gauge, I am looking at sound quality as the guy above suggested. He mentioned wire failure to be a Dbag. But the real topic is sound.
And your 3 to 5 years is still a great number. I already broke past both of them. And even if it hadn't, 3 years for $50 is about 5 pennies a day. Imagine if mine lasts for 10 years how cheap my investment is.
Here's my 4.0 used daily.
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squidler7s
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Feb 9, 2017
iCeOL8TRAmnesiaYour mic works good with your mum too
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BrainFlush
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Feb 9, 2017
squidler7sCome on man. I like talking smack but that's just so basic it felt childish. At least be crafty about it.
squidler7s
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Feb 9, 2017
BrainFlusha narcissist snob like him, no need just let him sit there combing his hair with his shoe
Varholiaglimp
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Feb 9, 2017
BrainFlushHow's the Death Wish Coffee, GreenFlush, and whereever can I get some, h-m-m-m? I've a soft yet ossified spot for eyelid-crinkling brew. Looks as though you savor said bean oil while sporting a pair of V-Moda M80s and fondling more artisan caps than I've glimpsed outside a Tiki typing class.
BrainFlush
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Feb 9, 2017
Varholiaglimplol https://www.deathwishcoffee.com/ Subscribe and die happy.
Those are v.2 of the M100 Otherwise, my desk is a barren husk of it's originality.
BrainFlushThe problem with going for the strongest coffee is its expensive and boutique and then it ruins you for all other coffee. Thats why I never go for the strongest of the strong I go for the bang for buck stronger than starbucks. Right now I'm drinking Cafe La LLave and Lavazza Crema E Gusto half cup per French press. Its decently strong without being extremely expensive. Which I pay 11 for 2 lbs of Crema E Gusto and 9 bucks for 40oz(4 10z bricks 2.5 lbs.) so 20 bucks for 4lbs with .5 left over and its plenty strong for anyone and doesnt completely ruin your tolerance so you have to keep buying Death Wish which Im sure is far stronger and likely(actually I looked it up on subscription discount it costs 3x more Im sure you could get away with drinking less but I would rather build up to really strong coffee and try things along the way instead of ruining myself for everything else and be tied to one thing I like to try variety(but I need coffee on the stronger end of maybe double the strength of average(maybe its triple but not stratospheric)). I plan to move onto my own custom blend sourced from green coffee but I want a full on professional roaster first(Ive done some cursory research and the prices are right but you would have to nail the roasting yourself otherwise its all for naught). M100 is good for EDM but they are very blurry(they dont seem blurry listening to EDM tho which is odd) and make poor gaming headphones because its hard to understand people on voice.
BrainFlush
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Feb 9, 2017
iCeOL8TRAmnesiaSee man. I had faith you could have a normal conversation. Let's work on formatting next. Not being rude.
As to the coffee, honestly, I am not addicted in the sense that I need to find a stronger and better tasting coffee, DWC suits my taste profile far better than everything else I have tried. And I don't know the numbers but the acidity in DWC tastes way lower than the rest. Also it's super tasty brewed cold. Lastly, I collect their coffee cups that Deneen Pottery makes, I have a prototype unreleased to the public, kind of a special gift. So yeah, not addicted just a fan of what I think tastes great, sure it's pricey (maybe?) but that subscription plus discount codes and random giveaways, makes them a cool group of people.
Oh VMODA, bought my first pair 5 years ago. M80. M100 came out bought one, new version came out bought another. Got bigger pads that make them sound better and feel even more so. From them. My ears are ruined from my youth, so sound quality is whatever, I like the fact I can be rough with them and they don't break, plus that lifetime trade in value, how can I not love them?
Hope I gave you some insight to my mind.
taswyn
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Feb 9, 2017
BrainFlushTo be fair, I agree, that post made my head hurt, for a number of reasons. And having tried to use a Snowball in Windows for teleconferencing and gaming, and being frustrated with the lack of gain controls, inadequate cardoid pattern, etc, I doubt a Yeti is really any better even for the price. I've tried at least 3 different USB condenser mics and they all sucked to use in Windows for anything live: they definitely needed post editing.
But I do feel like I have to add that a cheap, low latency (key here) USB audio interface/preamp (for gain control) with 48v phantom power and XLR, a cheap condensor mic with cardoid/super-cardoid pickup pattern (a shotgun mic would be ideal here, but I have a cheap $19 POS from China that sounds great and does quite nicely directional pickup), and a cheap mic boom arm are pretty amazing for everything from teleconferencing to gaming.
But it's also more work, requires more research, is more stationary, and more expensive than something like this. On the other hand, I can leave my speakers on and people aren't complaining about hearing my keyboard overly (which they always did with my headset mic, it used to be a running joke of "she's typing again!" in my old guild, whenever I accidentally left it on voice activated) or hearing echo, and I sound a lot clearer than with my headset mic, even when I have to jack up the gain with the preamp. All of those made it worth it to me, and in all I spent about $65. And that's just with a cheapo (and bought on sale) Behringer UMC22 audio interface (which has a MIDAS mic pre-amp vs the XENYX ones at least).
I've toyed with soundcards that claim to have better mic input circuitry, different headsets, etc, and this so far has been the best solution I've come across. Even with a cheapo Behringer audio interface, the pre-amp is NOTABLY clearer than any gain increase I've tried through a soundcard's windows drivers, even on somewhat (~$100) more expensive soundcards claiming to be better for mics. But it's a fundamentally different solution from the product being sold here, even if it speaks to a similar set of needs. Given that this drop is for the omni directional AntLion, though, people may be actually looking for alternatives like this.
squidler7s
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Feb 10, 2017
BrainFlushReading this thread brought to you in gif form as acted out by Shia: http://imgur.com/gallery/5zalV
BrainFlush
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Feb 10, 2017
AlexPkSo good!
OT I like his energy. We need more of that.
Varholiaglimp
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Feb 10, 2017
BrainFlushIn other words, you own the M100s with the shadow color scheme, which is what threw me off my Gator Golf game. Shadow was the only style choice for the original M80s -- that, and the moo-hanking True Blood version, which was shadow with branding and shiny-lipsticked cables and accessories.
I should have clocked the hinges in that clickshot, B. (The '90s will never die.)
My M100s are matte black, but I do prefer them to the M80s, since I don't listen to vocal music unless it's sung by restrained castrati tenors (but enough about Mr. Amnesia's hospital mods). I sport my M100s whenever I tire of other sets and crave extracurricular zest.
Varholiaglimp
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Feb 10, 2017
iCeOL8TRAmnesiaYes! "Every stain from the entire site" is "spouting nonsense" about the "EXTRACTED POSTS" of "THE BEST" and "ALWAYS . . . MOST HATED . . . GOD"! That's what I'm talking about!
iCeOL8TRAmnesia
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Feb 10, 2017
taswynChiclet keyboard is superior for gaming..... mechanical is good for typing and annoying people. Chiclet can get stuck and will be too trigger happy when you first get one typing but fps or any rts or any game really it is superior and its near silent. Even with half keypress depth triggering thats not how the human mind works the fact you have to press the key in further(your mind will want full presses its less work you wont always stop the keypresses after trigger(people try to justify why mechanical is superior everytime I bring up Chiclet IS GOD and I have no doubt we will see it once again(not many been on the net as long as me to see all the right answers) aka midway into the press and all that extra pressing distance adds up between alternate keys etc etc and that all ends up to lag. Chiclet has less travel distance speeds up all ingame movement actions greatly you will have the juke advantage on everyone in FPS or whatever u play and it doesnt sound like the Budweiser carriage clacking down a cobblestone street. I would like to shoot the person that brainwashed everyone on the internet they had to have a Cherry switch(and all the knuckleheads I had to listen to clacking on voice, infact in the future I think Im just gonna ban that and instead of forcing them buying a headset Im gonna force them to get rid of their cherry keyboard) because nothing could be more wrong or retarded. Cmon guys havent you noticed I always pick the best arguments...... see, how could I know all these things??? Only one can inside your soul as I do.......
taswyn
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Feb 10, 2017
iCeOL8TRAmnesiaIt's funny that you assume I'm using Cherry switches. Much less that I would be using Cherry blues.
Obviously you're clueless when it comes to keyboard switches, or you'd be extolling the virtues of a capacitive touch board over scissor switches, as they have 0 key travel distance, which *obviously* means they're *infinitely* better. By your skewed standards, which you didn't even get right in how you tried that particular line. But keep going, you're getting somewhere.
Given that I type at ~100 wpm (and originally learned to type on typewriters and Apple II keyboards), pretty much any keyboard I type on has a certain amount of noise even just from key motion/rattling. Honestly my MS Ergo 4000 at work is probably one of my loudest keyboards.
BrainFlush
6860
Feb 11, 2017
taswyn "or you'd be extolling the virtues of a capacitive touch board over scissor switches" Once you get a dome, everything else is trash. (opinion but fact for me) So yes to this!
Vira
4117
Feb 11, 2017
iCeOL8TRAmnesiaYou're purely spouting theoretics. You clearly haven't gamed long enough to know anything. If one wanted chicklet actuations, o-rings and silicone balls are available.