NationalPark

5 年前discuss

Are you seeing the salaries at these smaller companies keeping up? When I was changing jobs just before the pandemic I also saw a ton of interest from small/med companies, but none with competitive offers. Big, publicly traded tech companies were able to offer more than double total compensation in some cases, and that's with equity you can actually sell for cash.

NationalPark

6 年前discuss

You called me ingenuine after you misread my comment and assumed I didn't understand the fidelity implications of audio over bluetooth. In fact, there is no inconsistency, I simply prefer convenience to marginal quality improvements.

(Actually, I prefer live performances to chasing after audio quality, which I think is really more of a gear-geek hobby than a musical one)

NationalPark

6 年前discuss

Ah you got me, I'm a paid Apple shill, here to spread lies. When I woke up this morning, all I could think of was fooling hackernews user bitcharmer, but it seems I have failed, probably due to your exceptional intellect and commitment to talking about products you hate.

Could it possibly be that I'm actually just a rich guy who owns both fancy audiophile equipment and fancy Apple products, and happens to have his own opinions about them? Is such a thing even legal?

NationalPark

6 年前discuss

Maybe I'm not as discerning as some but I grew up with music and a lot of hands on experience listening, writing, and producing it, including some professional training. I dunno, I guess for me, the bluetooth experience + noise cancelling + transparency + phone integration all just adds up to being worth more than the marginal quality improvement from the prosumer alternatives people have been mentioning.

After all, anyone who really cares about audio quality is listening on monitors in their sound isolated home studio /s

NationalPark

6 年前discuss

Same boat here. I've already spent thousands of dollars on fancy audiophile stuff. Can you guess what I use to listen to music most? My Airpods, because everything about them is so damn convenient. Can't wait to get these, even if they don't sound quite as good as the ideal set.

NationalPark

6 年前discuss

Were you an investor?

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