kiltedgreen

Our so called government is the most useless ever in my lifetime (and I’m getting on!) but conflating them with the Labour Mayor of London is odd to say the least. I don’t know what power Mr Khan would have in this area at the kind of national/global level being discussed.

As for editorialising, the media does it every single hour of every single day. Every article you read has an angle - some state it up front whereas others (the BBC comes to mind) claim to be impartial. There is no impartiality from the majority of the world’s media and I personally find it refreshing to have the complete incompetence and stupidity of the current shower occupying Number 10 listed. The UK media let them get away with an obscene amount, allow them avoid answering awkward questions and not pulling them up on their never ending stream of lies. One of the main reasons we are living with the nightmare of Brexit is because the media are so supine and never questioned any of the rubbish being spouted at the time. Media behaviour has real world consequences, but when it’s owned by billionaires, what do you expect? They might just have a point of view …

I can definitely imagine why I wouldn’t install macOS beta in order to use Xcode 15 - it’s my only Mac!

I’ve installed Xcode betas multiple times over the years and never installed a beta macOS to do so and it’s worked fine for my apps.

I listen to lossless audio through my iPad Pro using USB-C to connect to an iFi-Audio headphone amplifier connected to a pair of QUAD ERA planar headphones. The sound is superb and the better the recording the better it gets. However, when I’ve listed to the Dolby Atmos version where available I invariably prefer the standard stereo version as the DA version seem to lose detail and imaging and gain bass which I don’t like at all.

However, I did listen to Moby’s “Reprise” from 2021 on the Deutsche Grammophon label in Dolby Atmos and thought it was notably improved over the stereo performance, but to date that’s the only one where I prefer the Dolby Atmos version. Probably because I’ve listened to so few DA versions due to disappointing experiences to date, Moby excepted! Maybe time to try a few more …

The iMac looks beautiful just as it is - sleek, minimal, elegant and unique.

Talk about a solution in search of a problem …

jeffharris said:

Wired headphones just sound better. Period.
I use Etymōtic (ER4SR and HF3 headset) and (Grado RS-1X and SR325) headphones.

I found dongles that let me listen AND charge simultaneously, so no problem with no headphone jack.

Yes, I have AirPod Pros which I HATE. Mediocre sound and they never feel comfortable and constantly fall out. 

The real question…
Why does the iPhone still have a Lightning port instead of a USB-C port?

Agreed, but I don’t use my QUAD-ERA1s via a dongle (or a 3.5mm Jack if it had one) on my iPad/iPhone as I use them fed from a separate headphone amp - so even if you had a 3.5mm jack I can imagine you’d use it anyway, not with RS-1Xs!