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Because it concerns a country you don't want to hear something potentially positive about? If I posted that a US company was aiming to create new gaming platforms, or that some Western country was overcoming challenges to successfully grow their tech industry, would you still claim it isn't...

I don't think that's the plan, and that it's more like the government wants to get Russian companies working on infrastructure for those things. If they can produce a Russian game delivery platform, Western and other publishers can then directly choose to list their games on them, rather than be...

Putin's ordered his government to look into creating Russia's own Steam Deck, SteamOS, and basically Steam itself The government instruction Google-translated from http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73305 I'm curious to see what people think about the actual timeframes it might take...

deal: https://2game.com/ca/jagged-alliance-3 Jagged Alliance 3 on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1084160/Jagged_Alliance_3/ The coupon code CPT5 gave me an additional $0.91 CAD off. In total, after the site's service fee, it was $17.40 CAD. Jagged Alliance 3 is a sequel to the...

The Klipsch ProMedia and HiVi-Swans M10 Plus are a couple of 2.1 systems suggested in this thread. There may be others. I didn't try out many 2.1 systems, so I can't really comment. The Edifier s351db 2.1 setup I tried didn't give me the clarity I wanted, and the bass was too soft for my liking...

Russia has launched a new annual sporting event, called Games of the Future, combining digital and physical sporting activity. It began on February 19 in Kazan, Russia, and will run until March 3rd. It is being participated in by over 100 countries, apparently including some Western states, such...

I've had experiences that make me think I should always have a camera recording when people are working in my house, or being left alone in room with valuables in them. It's prudent to do. Better safe than sorry.

I will add, with the 1st amp connected and its wifi disabled with an ethernet cable, the amp, monitors, and sub are sounding great together, and practically inaudible in terms of white noise when no audio is passing through. The amp automatically goes to sleep after it's been idle for maybe 10...

I'm currently using the amp with an ethernet cable plugged into it, to stop the wifi noise. If I put my ear right next to the subwoofer, I can still hear some extremely-faint activity sounding in the speaker, but I need to have my head immediately next to the sub to hear it. So, it's not an...

The amp is connected to the same power strip as my PC, monitor, subwoofer, and some other stuff. The good news is that connecting it to an active ethernet cable stopped the noise. The bad news is that I have to be running an ethernet cable into the room, from outside of the room, to do that...

The amp makes the noise even without a sound source connected to it. So, the only wires I could shorten are the stereo wires coming from the amp. The sound plays in both my monitors and my subwoofer. The sub has a well-shielded RCA cable connecting it. I tried hooking a dummy cable (a short...

As you might've seen in another thread, I recently got a Martin Logan Forte stereo amp, which has wifi functionality. It takes maybe 40 seconds or so for the wifi to initialise after the amp is powered-on. And until the wifi initialises, the amp is appropriately quiet, except for any audio I'm...

Nope. It's CCA, but it could be good. If I order more wire, I'm probably going to get this stuff, and hope the stuff I get isn't oxidised when it arrives and doesn't oxidise on me later (like a bunch of the reviews say happened to theirs). This CCA stuff looks promising, because it's 14 AWG and...

I've decided to keep the Kanto YU6s. They sound really good and are a nice contrast to the KRK 7000s, which, being mixing monitors, don't try as much to flatter the sound. Both are excellent. The KRKs sound a bit meatier and more natural, with lots of detail in the low-mids, and the YU6s make...

I also have one of these keys to give away. PM me if you want it.

Maybe. I was told that they expected they would eventually have some more in stock, and that they would be sold at the same, previous discount. So, most "copper" speaker wire sold is fake garbage that underperforms, and I was unaware of this. Speaker Wire: How to Choose the Right Gauge Type...

Something to add about the Presonus Sub8: When I tried it, and it was overpowering compared to my monitors, I was using it with powered monitors. Before packaging it to return it, I tried it out a bit with my ML Forte amp and passive speakers, and it was much more balanced and manageable then. I...

Thanks! Yeah, it's time to enjoy... and to look into repairing the KRK's tweeters (the foam seal around them is largely disintegrated - there are repair kits available), while looking for some backup speakers for the KRKs at as reasonable a price as I can find. I had to make some speaker wire...

So, I haven't stopped trying out monitors. After I received my Martin Logan Forte amp, I ordered passive Kanto YU6 monitors. And I like them. They're a bit bright, and overall I still think the Edifier MR4 has my favourite frequency response, but the Kantos YU6 are 5.25" and the MR4s are 4", and...

I've come across some vids looking at the difference between gen-1 and gen-2 Presonus Eris monitors. It turns out they changed the sound of them a bit, giving them more low-end and increasing the mid-range a bit. I like the gen-2 difference in comparison clips of the Eris 3.5s, and it temps me a...

This one is pretty blurry. I almost figured that out. I'm not familiar with the upscaler names, and I thought that could either be the case, or it could just be a funky misspelling of "upscale". I opted to assume that it was just funky typing for "upscale". :ROFLMAO: But that upscale job is...

In the wake of Ubisoft shutting-down the servers for single player The Crew, rendering it unplayable (and directly debunking Ubisoft's claims about the safety of not owning games), Ross talks a bit about Ubisoft's streaming hopes in his latest video on games being killed by publishers. He also...

I just placed an order for a gen-2 Presonus Sub8 BT. Looks like inventory is low in Canada and it was tricky to find one, but found a basically-hidden Amazon listing with 5 left in stock. For people in the US, there's a big sale on the 2nd-gen Sub8 BT here - 38% off...

I also recently picked-up Kanto speaker stands during a sale. It is a bit nicer having the sound come-out at ear level, and probably not reflect against the desk as much.

I sat on the closeout sale for this when it was posted by silentcircuit and originally missed out on it. But I periodically messaged Martin Logan, asking if more had come in stock, because they'd told me they might be getting more in a few weeks, which would also be sold at the closeout price...

I think that 4k image on the site is just stretched to 4k. I got what I think is an identical-looking result to the second image in your first post by stretching the original 1080p image to 1440p. That seems perfect, as if it's an actual original 4K version of the original artwork. Which tool...

Nope. I haven't looked into that yet. That looks neat. Though, it's different from the original. Cool. Did these use AI, or just are these just stretched to 1440p? The first one has a bit of a colour adjustment, while the second looks like it's the original image just stretched to 1440p. It...

Thanks! Some of that image looks better than the first image I posted, while other parts look worse. But what I might try to do is cut the parts that look better, and blend them into the first image I posted. That should make it look pretty good!

Can someone do this for me? I want to use a better-looking version of this 1080p image as a 1440p desktop background, but I don't know how to ask the AIs: https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=566586 I tried a few free online upscalers, and they keep blurring parts of the image, or even nearly...

I'll be using my 10GB 3080 until the 5000 series releases. Then I'll likely get a 5080. Does anyone think that more powerful GPUs are going to become obsolete in the nearish future, as technologies like Epic Games' nanite become more prevalent, which could possibly make a visually-unlimited...

This has strong Wind Waker vibes to its appearance.

I have an EVGA mechanical keyboard. I've tried a bunch of different mechanical keys and haven't found any that particularly feel better to me than the K-0168's... just different. But the main issue I have with my mechanical keyboard is the shape. Like I said in my first post, I prefer using the...

I'd also cleaned my K-0168 keys many times. The issue was that the clips that form the resistance mechanism that pushes the key back up finally broke from too much wear.

I actually have one of those, still basically unused. I got it to try after the spacebar on my original K-0168 finally collapsed and wouldn't spring up again, after over 15 years of use. The shape is nice, though the keypresses feel not that great, IMO, and I had issues with inputs lagging, and...

I hope they'll make a modern keyboard with the shape that the Digital Media Pro and MultiMedia KB-0168 have. The shape of these, with the thicker bottom lip, works great for me when lounging back in my chair with my feet on my desk, and the keyboard sitting in my lap while playing a game...

Cool! I had no idea any of the Katamari games were on PC.

I'm running RCA out from my sound card. The white noise level is different with each speaker system I've tried: Cambridge SoundWorks - medium amount of white noise Eris 4.5 - high amount of white noise Edifier MR4 - very-low amount of white noise until the volume knob is >55%, then the white...

The Outer Worlds is an interesting offer. Maybe I can pretend I bought it instead of Starfield, and it'll help me nurse my financial wound.

I've been using the same speaker system for the previous 25 years, so I'm crash-coursing myself on what home-stereo speaker systems even are, lol. Haven't started looking into a receiver setup, but I might do that. Does a receiver setup = no white noise? The MR4s were so cheap ($110ca, regularly...

The Edifier S1000MKII arrived tonight, a few days ahead of the scheduled delivery date. These things are huge, heavy, and they don't sound as good as the MR4s. Their sound is smoothed-over, lacking sizzle, grit, and definition in guitar fuzz, lacking the attack of notes and chords, and lacking...