This website is well-known for it’s non-prepaid nature, which reflects my personal real life conclusions without any fear of being unpopular, because of the fact that i’m not sponsored by any organization and i don’t care about people’s opinions.
I always counted that cable reviews are just a placebo thing, but now i’ve changed my mind. So, without further ado, let’s get into the reviewing process.
▀ TESTBED Cable was tested on [HiBy R8 II]
digital audio player running [Neutron]
software.
UPDATED ON: 2026-01-19
Aside from Windows 7 obsession i have another passion called high quality portable audio, especially IEMs. Here is a couple of recent awesome findings with outrageous prices, i’ll surely bought them if i was a millionaire.
[MYSTICRAFT HEX]
► 13 drivers first Hex-brid IEM [DD + BCD + BA + Planar + EST + Piezzo] ~9000 USD
[SUBTONIC STORM]
► 9 driver IEM [7BA + 2EST] ~5200 USD
Awesomely good clone of [Contra]
from Russian developers called [Iron Meat]
GAMEPLAY
SOUNDTRACK
Soundtrack by well-known in narrow circles [Darkman007]
.
In the game there are two options for the music selection: classic metal and 8-bit chiptune. Choose yours!
SUPPORT THE ARTISTS & DEVELOPERS!
Accidental find of extremely kick ass soundtrack and [arcade game]
!
GAMEPLAY
SOUNDTRACK
Extremely neat soundtrack by [Savaged Regime]
MAIN THEME
DO YOU HEAR AWESOMENESS THROUGH 8-BIT ARTIFACTS? DON’T YOU? MAIN THEME ARRANGED
ONE MORE THING
You can support developers by purchasing the game on [STEAM]
During ChatGPT investigations i find out that my DAP [Hiby R8 II]
can be described as 88% of one of the most quality audio board on PC: [RME ADI-2 DAC FS]
. [Empire Ears Raven]
scored around 90% of [Sennheiser Orpheus HE-1]
top of the crop electrostatic hi-end earphones. Not a bad result for portable devices considering substantial difference in the price and size!
I totally understand that it is a synthetic comparison, but at least now i have understanding approximate audio quality of my setup versus top-notch professional hardware.
Full-fledged cameraphone benchmarks are aimed on screens > 1280px width.
So almost any desktop or laptop should be fine. Smartphones are not supported, in favor of pixel-peeping convenience.
CURRENTLY TEST IS NOT OPTIMIZED FOR MOBILE VIEW! IMAGE WIDTH > 1280px IS RECOMMENDED! ▒ DIRECT COMPARISON Today’s rival is [Huawei Pura 80 Ultra]
, equipped with nearly the same sensor size on its periscope camera as found in Nokia 808. Despite my earlier promise that [no more photography benchmarks]
would appear on these pages, it seems I’ve broken that commitment.
Previously i was quite satisfied with the [iBasso DX240]
/ [FiiO FA9]
conjunction. But after some evening conversations with [DeepSeek]
and [Qwen]
, I decided to purchase the [FiiO FA19]
. The main problem is that I did not stop there and decided to go completely crazy and dive into the [HiBy R8 II]
/ [Empire Ears Odin]
configuration.
Now to the main essence of things.
FiiO FA7 has lots of bass and quite lush, mushy mids and trebles.
I am mostly used to my triple screen desktop configuration and was wondering how this idea could be implemented in the laptop realm. The result of my internal discussions was the purchase of two portable 14" screens. They come as a single unit.As for branding it is [KEFEYA 14" S3]
. Despite the rather low price of ~250 dollars for a pair of displays, they have a very good quality.
¶ INTRO WORDS Numbers, numbers, numbers … i say NUMBERS!!!!
It’s been a while since i ran into the craze of pointless benchmarks. And now I’m back with the absolute procrastination stuff. Are you happy with this?
Take a note that 3DMark 03, 3DMark 05, 3DMark 06, 3DMark Vantage [2007], 3DMark 2011 and 3DMark 2021 are not marked by ▒ sign, showing the fact that these programs lost the soul of demoscene and just providing comparison numbers, nothing else.
Simply the best video on whole YT regarding the history of computer graphics.
Top-notch voice narrator, text scenario and material delivery Most important facts, no ranting at all Atmospheric backdrop music What else do we need? CHAPTERS 1] Pixel Pioneers 2] Sprite Supreme 3] Polygon Realm 4] 3dfx Voodoo Boom 5] Future Crisis [YT PLAYLIST]
COMPLETE VIDEO
Tired of boring-linear-dumb movies without proper atmosphere at all? Today i’m suggesting another underrated gem of film industry. Mystical detective thriller [IDENTITY]
. No more about it, just watch.
IDENTITY TRAILER
Today’s reality is a quite harsh and fast-changing landscape. We’ve got outbreaks, diseases, constant price increase, wars. On top of that there is insane autocrat shaking his suitcase with red button. What else do we need to feel alive?
[Leave The World Behind]
is a loooong suspense thriller with unusual cinematic style. I like such things, which stands out from the grey crowd of mainstream sh#te.
The main features:
Enough of technical computer rant. Here is some pure video art. A short film by [Denis Villeneuve]
.
What i love in these short films is how the essential essence is compactly concentrated in a such small video footage.
NEXT FLOOR [PLEASE?]
Need a really gooood detective movie? Here is one: [Zodiac]
. No weak acting. No dumb computer visuals. Very long, detailed, quite linear, but solid. Film is watched without any interruptions in one single breath.
OFFICIAL TRAILER
Surfing through meaningless tier lists on YT dedicated to various Unix graphical user interfaces by home-made experts without even showing them in a proper way and doin’ subjective ratings, i’ve stumbled upon on “obsolete” [CDE]
environment and was interested in it’s 90’ish looks, despite the fact that “expert” narrated that it is in a “yuck” category and not worth even touching.
After jogging through comments i’ve noticed that some wise man mentioned about modern reincarnation of CDE project named [nsCDE]
.
Full-fledged cameraphone benchmarks are aimed on screens > 1280px width.
So almost any desktop or laptop should be fine. Smartphones are not supported, in favor of pixel-peeping convenience.
UPDATED ON: 2023-12-17
CURRENTLY TEST IS NOT OPTIMIZED FOR MOBILE VIEW! IMAGE WIDTH >1600px IS RECOMMENDED! ▒ DIRECT COMPARISON In the very beginning of the test I underline the fact that we are comparing only resolution and not the dynamic range. In this category older FSI sensor is an outsider, for sure.
For those of you. You, SPACED OUT people. Enjoy leftovers of the weekend.
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If you are a long term reader/visitor of my site you may already know that i am using following keyboards:
Japanese [Topre Realforce RGB]
[rubber-dome capacitive key switches] Chinese [Vortex Race III]
[clicky blue Cherry-MX key switches] Chinese [Vortex Tab90M]
[clicky blue Cherry-MX key switches] Thailand [IBM KB-8926]
[quite good rubber-dome key switches] Note: board from 1996 in mind condition, using it on my job. And now i’ve decided to give a shot to top end keyboard of Keychron brand.
One more day in a stagnation manner. On the bright side some pixelated retrowave goodness is here. So enjoy resolutely!
WARNING! 10MB OF DATA WILL BE ACQUIR†D CSS & SCRIPTING MAGIC ARE ALSO HERE!
CARPENTER BRUT ▀ DISCO ZOMBI ITALIA
Not long ago i’ve decided to upload my personal OST remixes to various games/movies/events of 80s/90s era. Hope you’ll find such idea interesting, [drop me a line]
if you have any thought on this.
Today’s upload: calm backdrop music was played during [Horde]
gameplay.
trackerninja808 · Riku Nuottajarvi - Horde Building Tune
Live chiptune remix of well-known Children track by [Robert Miles]
.
ROBERT MILES ♫ CHILDREN [LIVE REMIX BY YERZMYEY & PINOKIO] Aldo, make sure to check out [Yerzmyey YT channel]
!
I thought that zombie horror comedy was already dead genre, but it looks like i was mistaken. Meet the [Final Cut]
. It is a European adaptation of Japanese movie [One Cut of the Dead]
. Just give it about 40 minutes to warm up and reach it’s culmination.
FINAL CUT [2022]
So you want to do a deep dive into the best RPG game of all time and don’t know how do it in a right way in 2023? You’ve come to the right place, coz unlisted slacker knows precisely what you need to do in the first place.
Here is a breakdown list of what you need to do to run Fallout 2 buttery smooth:
grab original [Fallout 2]
distribution from GOG [latest version 2.
Main highlights of [6th generation]
over [previous one]
:
very good keyboard for ultra-compact class [same quality as in 5th gen]. By the way, 6th generation is a last one to support such luxury. Generations 7th and 8th come with [crippled apple-like keys]
with reduced key travel. noticeable quality increase in terms of color gamut, even better than in 5th generation. sRGB gamut: 95% [Gen6] vs 85% [Gen 5]. multi-core performance [increased around 80%]
over 5th gen.
► QUICK LIST ON WHY I THINK SO:
made in golden time of game industry [late 90s] TOTALLY NON-LINEAR INSANE REPLAYABILITY immersive post-apocalyptic setting and overall vibe impressive concoction of RPG and quest genres best soundtrack in game industry, thanks to incredibly perceptive [Mark Morgan]
► HOW ABOUT SOME CONS?
Franchise is pretty buggy due to it’s complexity. But we already have [FIXT]
mod for [Fallout 1]
and [RPU]
for [Fallout 2]
.
Tired of crappy holywood detective action stories? Here is a couple of really decent ones. Swedish at this time. Quite boring at the beginning, but surprisingly intense in the end. Good acting is also here.
[The Hunters]
[The Hunters 2: False Trail]
THE HUNTERS [1996] FALSE TRAIL [2011]