Marco Arment

There's so much delay and everything is laggy and you have to wait for things to boot or wait for things to sync up digitally.

And it's so much less responsive than it used to be, even though we have all these new features and capabilities these days.

To me, speakers largely have not benefited from becoming more digital.

If you want things to be able to connect AirPlay or Bluetooth to them, you can do that with these little amps or desktop input kind of products and still just feed regular passive speakers through a regular passive amp, and that's usually better.

And all these little tiny ways.

I don't like all these paper cuts with the new products when they go to sleep or have latency or whatever.

To me, that just makes it work worse.

And it's a constant irritation to me.

And as much as I loved

how the the sonos speakers sounded on my desk like the a pair of era 300s on a desk i've never found anything that sounded that good in for in most ways um but it was just too annoying and there was no like i even got the little adapter for both of them so they both had ethernet in they like i was like i had it on the lowest latency settings it just it was still too much latency and still too irritating with the stupid auto sleep and auto wake up thing

um all right and then ask for the actual headphone amp going back to the question that we were actually asked uh sorry zipline for being this far um i use uh the brand um i i'm a big fan of their products and i use the uh well i'll the way it's said by americans is the jottenheim two i believe they're now up to the jottenheim three what americans say that no one says jottenheim

I mean, not no one, but certainly no one in New York probably.

Okay, there you go.

So it's probably KEF.

But I love KEF speakers.

Anyway, yeah, so I use the Jotunheim headphone amp.

And the reason I use that one, not only does it have enough power to power the HE6, which the vast majority of headphone amps do not, but also it has a really nice little switch input thing and volume knob on it.

So as I'm doing things like switching between podcasting input and computer input or switching between speakers and headphones,

The front panel controls on the Jotunheim are very nice for that.

And it has a nice big analog metal volume knob that I like a lot.