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I wouldn’t dismiss the XM5’s so quick; these are a form-factor departure from previous generations, so if it’s fit, they might be OK. and if you have a portable device that can do Bluetooth LDAC (ahem, not Apple stuff… ), one of the best sounding wireless alternatives.

here’s hoping. waiting on some sites that do actual measurements to see where these sit. oh wait, some are out already.

while Sony’s "app" is better than nothing, kind of, I rely on plugins (VST/AU) or Equalizer APO to actually tune headphones.

don’t get too excited. read somewhere they are keeping the XM4’s at just $50 less. How very Apple of them.

Find a pair of XM3’s. EQ’d (via AutoEQ etc.) they can sound OK.

yeah, the tone curve of the XM’s has been pretty off if one wants anything close to accurate. for one, the bass rise from about 60-160Hz is bloated even beyond Harman standards. It’s like when Beats first become popular, Sony went "this is what people want???" OK, we’ll cave…

Fingers crossed they’ve flattened some of their peaks to come at least a bit closer to some of their studio cans.

yeah, I dunno. my watches are on a first name basis with the doorknobs in my house. So, my Galaxy Watch always has some Spigen or Supcase prophylactic on it.

that "bubble" face wouldn’t last long being unscathed for me.

Why are people even talking about M1? It’s so not relevant here.

been to The Verge before? Editors here (and hence many readers) spend a lot of time in the reality distortion field.

I was told they might have to swap out copper for fiber in the process. it’s an underground run to the house and they would likely pull the fiber by way of attaching to the old copper line and yanking that out. Comcast did something similar here about 7-8 years ago when they replaced old erratic cabling to the house.

anything to avoid the costs of having to dig a new trench. (Not that we’d be keen on that either)

hear you.

yes, I was referring to Kwan Ha. I wouldn’t be surprised if she turned out to have some connection to either MC directly, Makee or being "blessed" as well. But would that really be a surprise?

Frontier recently installed gigabit fiber in our neighborhood. I think it’s around $45 for 500Mbps and $65 for gigabit speeds. I haven’t switched to it from Comcast yet because I like my power-failure-friendly copper land line (boomer! ) and was told I would have to lose it for a digital voice line as part of the fiber installation.

and back to the government trough Elon goes. Rinse, repeat.

So long as you’re not expecting Halo game compatible lore because it’s pretty different

that was entirely intentional I hear. I think the show runners didn’t even want to know the game story lines.

I don’t hate it, but there is one character for me they could easily jettison entirely. If they did, from chatter I read, I think much rejoicing would ensue.

the question is, why have manufacturers settled on OLEDs as the norm?

I don’t have a problem with them, as long as measures are taken to minimize burn-in.

ditto. I was looking at Dan’s Twittering about his GW4 life and was like huh, I get two days on my 44mm.

Always-on-display is broken though: sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, or it ambles along for a while only to turn off when it feels like it. Sometimes on AoD, depending on the face, auto brightness goes full blast even indoors on the entire face or even just parts of it. I blame Google for this more than Samsung though as they’ve thoroughly messed up 3rd party faces and one has no way to discern what’s truly compatible with Wear OS 3.