Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?

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Post by user_7832 » Wed, May 01, 2024, 12:31 PM UTC

user_7832 wrote: post #440

debug-desperado wrote: post #375

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Can you actually outperform the KEFs and Perlistens of the world? They seem to have so much engineering put into their designs I don't believe a hobbyist can realistically match them. I will admit that stuff like "speakers with quasi-active noise cancellation behind them" sounds intriguing. That's probably a good reason to get into this rabbit hole!

> Can you actually outperform the KEFs and Perlistens of the world? They seem to have so much engineering put into their designs I don't believe a hobbyist can realistically match them. Absolutely . Don't forget, these guys are: a. Humans, and b. Operating for a company to make a profit. When you're DIYing you're (generally) not concerned about the latter part at all. There's a few more reasons why DIY is so capable:…

BTW Perry had made another comment about how his speakers sounded better than almost all other speakers at AXPONA and his kids agreed, but I couldn't find it right now. And many of those speakers were high 5/6 figure speakers.

Re: Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?

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Post by user_7832 » Wed, May 01, 2024, 12:34 PM UTC

pyinstallwoes wrote: post #407

user_7832 wrote: post #320

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How much are you willing to spend? Troels Gravesen has many builds on his website and I'm sure some/many of them would be better than the HS8s. You could also search for "hs8" on diyaudio.com and see posts of people in a similar position.

I mean, hopefully less than 2k for something that’d be worth 3k for a pair of barefoot03’s ?

Do you mean the barefoots cost 3k and you'd like to beat it by spending around 2k? You could see if there's any design you like from Troel's page, though you could also make an account & post the question on diyaudio.com. Unfortunately I'm not very familiar with DIY studio monitors, I know speakers like the Hitmakers (by Paul Carmody) exist but I'm more aware of domestic speakers.

Re: Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?

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Post by hasbot » Thu, May 02, 2024, 9:21 PM UTC

sevennull wrote: post #438

hasbot wrote: post #342

Man, I envy the dedication and energy y'all have. I retired 10 years ago and have completely lost motivation and the ability to stick with anything.

interesting, why did you loose motivation? I saw my grandparents go through 10 years of doing all the retirement things(beach, hobbies, social hour etc) to keep them more than busy. Then they kind of did it all and just started having social hour earlier and earlier every year into their 80s. Cocktail our started about 11:30 am in the end. I'm starting my retirement and have so many interest/subjects I want to learn…

Dunno. I just have little motivation to put hours and hours into a challenging project that I probably won't complete. When I was working, I never had any side projects.

It's not like I'm sitting around on my ass all day. I walk the dogs, bicycle, rock climb indoors, and travel. I'm starting Tai Chi and just bought an e-drum kit. After I retired I spent a year renovating one house and have spent a lot of time this winter on another. Also lived off-grid in a forest for three summers and am doing it again this year. Off-grid ain't easy. Can't just turn on the faucet and presto hot water.