Hello,Premier avis sur le produit physiquea) Les "ear pads" sont insupportables ... vraiment de la me.de. Des parechocs de voiture !b) Le serrage de l'anneau autour de la tête est assez sévère : ce qui rend les "ear pads" standards douloureux au bout de 2 heures (et avec des lunettes de vue ?) En contrepartie le casque ne bouge pas lors de mouvements brusques de la tête.c) Le jack de connexion au casque est propriétaire (câble hors de prix) ce qui ne rend pas service pour le modder sauf à pendre un fer à souder pour faire ses propres câbles.d) Avec un câble court (1.2m) j'ai connecté un récepteur Bluetooth Mpow : ceci me permet de mettre mon smartphone dans une poche de mon sac à dos et utiliser le casque en kit main libre - fonctionnalités musique/réception appel et assistant Cortana sous Windows Phone.Qualités acoustiques :- Première écoute avec album au format DSD128 - Bit perfect sur DAC DSD & Ampli Casque Topping D30 et A30.Album : Jaco Pastorius Live in NYC "Truth, Liberty and Soul" - encodage DSD effectué à partir des Masters Tapes 24 pistes.La spatialité du M40x est très bonne et rend l'écoute presque aussi agréable qu'avec un casque de type ouvert.La profondeur - sound stage- est pas terrible et ne reflète pas le positionnement des musiciens sur scène.Les tonalités sont justes avec je pense avec une atténuation légère des mid-ranges et des aigus - je le compare à mon autre casque à membrane électrostatique même album (Yamaha YH-1) Les fréquences basses ne sont pas omniprésentes et mais sont plutôt concises.Si je reviens à une utilisation quotidienne indépendance faible à 30 Ohms ne pose aucun problème sur un smartphone : le gain volume est plutôt élevé même.Maintenant en lecture Flac ou MP3 le M40X - hors système Hi-Fi - il devient très neutre et selon le genre (trip-hop/hip hop/ beatmakers, ect.) il un peu "anonyme", sans coloration particulière et sans être fatiguant à la longue (pas d'acouphène).Je vais chercher de nouveaux earpads perforés côté interne ou pas, à voir pour l'isolation, juste pour le confort. Même si les drivers sont de bonne qualité ces earpads de base rendent l'expérience négative.Donc il me ajouter 60/70 euros au budget initial pour les accessoires : câble 1.2m/MPow 4.1/ Earpads cuir et carrying case ... cqfd 3 étoiles pas plus.P.s : et voilà 2 photos avec earpads Geekria cuir à mémoire de forme non perforés en face interne et MPow 4.1 smarphone et Windows OS - il me reste à tester différentes épaisseurs de feutre internes pour ajuster le filtrage des fréquences. L'isolation est légèrement moindre mais je m'en fous.C'est le pied, ce MX40X vaut la peine d'en prendre soin pour un coût global de 160 € car les drivers de 40 mm Neodym sont d'excellentes qualités, c'est primordial ;)Edit le 06-08-19Plus 1 étoile pour le prix en baisse !!!!Plus 1 photo : câble court fait

For those of you who were hoping for a thrilling murder mystery you picked the wrong movie. Some however continued to watch and were thrilled in a different way by what they saw.Altman's movie is a study is the British class structure, the upstairs and the downstairs, and how they interact and deal with one another. The movie is told from the point of view of a ladies maid, and the movie concerns itself with the relationships between the hierarchy of the servants, and of the socialites. Small gossip is passed from level to level,...information is gathered about family and money and smart one liners are traded back and forth.But suddenly murder strikes, the head of the house is poisoned and then stabbed, and the bumbling inspector is brought in. He is snubbed by the servants, and scorned by their masters, and the murder is left to stand, with nobody caring enough to do or say anything...What is truly great about the movie however, are the characters that it creates, and how they interact with one another. The movie is brilliantly cast, and the script is very clever. It reveals everything, not through words, but through glances, gestures, alliances, and feelings.

I confess to being a Robert Altman fan. I love most of his work (but not all). I found this to be a thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable film and I recommend it to people who enjoy non-linear, non-Hollywood films. This is a dream cast of the best of British actors, going through their paces in a delicious satire/social comedy/mystery delineating in great detail the different lives of the different classes in 1930's England.This is Upstairs/Downstairs with attitude! These Downstairs servants are neither in love with or in awe of their social "betters" Upstairs. Far from it! They find their Lords & Masters for the most part silly, stupid, vain, dull and penny-pinching cheapskates ( especially when it comes to paying their Serving class, at any rate).We get to observe and contrast the two classes throughout the course of the film: the Upstairs at play, busily screwing each other both literally and figuratively, while, the Downstairs lot work like the devil to keep these precious Aristos in ease and comfort. All of this done in typical Altman understatement and casual, almost throwaway observation & dialogue.I found the period detail wonderful, and the wit droll and precise. As I said, it is a dream cast of the cream of British acting so everyone is spot-on.I will admit the dialogue and sound can be difficult to catch, what with the accents and all. Here's a suggestion: it's a DVD, put on the hearing impaired captions. I did, so that I wouldn't miss a single bit of dialogue.And finally, I am glad the murder mystery resolved itself the way it did. A nice bit of ironic justice, and a nice bit of final revelation of character(s). I changed my rating from 4 to 5 just to offset all the terrible reviews this film did not merit. I would give it 4-1/2 actually. For Godsake if you didn't get this film, then stick with Spiderman and leave Robert Altman alone!

I actually managed not to hear about this movie at all before I saw it. The title sounded dimly familiar. I know it won awards, but so do most movies starring Tom Hanks, and I'm sorry, but if that's the official arbiter of excellence, I'll just stay home. Anyway, I read the back of the DVD and figured it would be one of those films that I'd find boring on first viewing, yet gradually begin to appreciate if I bothered with it any further.Well, it IS rather "dry." I found it odd that Altman claims that the "F-word" was deliberately insinuated into the script a sufficient number of times to secure an R rating - supposedly to keep teenage boys with too much testosterone from seeing "Gosford Park." I should think the testosterone itself would do the job. Nothing explodes in this film, there's nary a lick of that crazy rock music the kids like, nobody gets killed...oh wait, somebody does get killed, but even the murder scene is impossibly dull and boring. Bloodless, antiseptic, British.This is an "adult" film in the true sense. This is a film about adult social politics and intrigue and gossip, about the strange edgy relationship between these indefatiguably haughty upper-crust aristocrats and the ever-complacent servants they depend upon for every least personal function, yet whom they openly revile as congenitally inferior. It would be rash to presume that the plush and pampered "Upstairs" life is really any easier psychologically than the cramped and calloused "Downstairs" life, however. "Gosford Park" is an interesting investigation of what happens when the constraints and tabus of this sort of caste system render the lives of everyone involved practically intolerable. The servants have been just as thoroughly conditioned to automatic submission as outright slaves. Their entire existence is drudgery; their only dignity is vicarious; they acquire the pretensions and snobberies of their masters and often turn viciously and hypocritically on one another. Yet the aristocrats themselves, who never have to flex a muscle for the most trifling amenity, have been driven by inevitable boredom and inertia to likewise ruthlessly intrigue against each other purely to while away the time and maintain the status-quo. Their insanely regulated and mannered lifestyle is as nigh impossible for them to embody as it is for their servants to set up. As such, everybody all-around is miserable, conspiratory, two-faced, paranoid, vindictive, jealous, insecure, chasing after an ideal which can never be realized. This social climate is the perfect breeding ground for every sort of moral dis-ease.Nice craft on everybody's part really nails this home. Each actor - from Maggie Smith as an excruciatingly pompous, impudent, willfully-helpless old mummy of a Lady, to Sir William McCordle as a fat, nasty, overbearing slob, to Kristen Scott Thomas as a harsh, withering, jaded, manipulative Marlene Dietrich doppelganger - was fitted with an individual mic so that multiple simultaneous conversations in a scene could be recorded and then mixed to allow salient bits to come through in the final cut. This invests "Gosford Park" with a certain realism and allows the viewer to feel like an invisible voyeur wandering amongst these complicated proceedings and catching both relevant and irrelevant snippets.Am I recommending it? I suppose I am. I did enjoy this film precisely because I'm the type that tends to get caught up in the minutiae of period customs and conventions, which are evidently rendered with exacting accuracy in "Gosford." The documentaries accompanying the DVD are very interesting and informative in this vein.

I returned the Sennheiser MTW3 after not being impressed with the sound quality and astetics vs. the L3P. Shortly after returning the Senns, I started having more lagging issues and problems with the left earbud on the L3P's, along with other quirks. Don't get me wrong they sound tremendous when they decide to function properly. With the pricing of premium earbuds not exactly having glowing reviews, I am hesitant about dropping that kind of money to only be disappointed based on many not so good reviews on brands like Sennheiser, B&O, Masters & Dynamic, etc. Staying with a mid tier priced or budget friendly earbuds is the better way to go.If you have a Samsung phone these are the Buds for you with having a matching ecosystem. There is no lag when you open and close the charging case, unlike the soundcore. The sound quality is fantastic and they are comfortable to wear for my ears. I will admit I have eartips on order to get a better seal, but the stock tips are ok for now. The only downside with the Galaxy Wearable app is you can't customize the EQ. But, you do get plenty of bass when you select the preset, with no distortion. You also get to select automatic transparency and volume reduction when you start talking to someone, and once you stop it resumes normal listening volume. It has adequate noise canceling and a better transparency mode than the Soundcore. Now the price has dropped to about $140, they are absolutely worth it. Lastly, from an astetics standpoint; I've gotten turned off to the pencil style and overly large bean type of bud, and went to the more sleek and stealthily type, and these have you covered along with a compact case (just wish it felt more premium), but it's not a deal breaker. It is definitely worth getting!!! Just a quick update, the I ordered the Spigen fabric case cover and it looks great and stays in place. It makes the charging case look and feel more premium.Generally speaking, the premium brands need to take their game up to meet what the mid tier priced earbuds are offering these days. The Galaxy Buds Pro are the ones to get.

Gosford Park feels like one of those all-star Agatha Christie mysteries of the seventies and eighties, and one half expects Peter Ustinov to make an appearance at any moment. This is far sharper and more involving, however, than any other films of that genre. As usual, Altman's concentration is on the intriguing characters, and the suspenseful and charged atmosphere stems from observing the interplay between them. The mystery is palpably present from the very beginning; we sense something malevolent looming in the atmosphere, but are watching every move in order to see just how it will be manifest. Every word spoken and action made is laden with potential significance; therein Altman provides the audience with a fascinating and gripping look into a world of believable characters where any moment conflict might erupt into something deadly.Altman spends most of the film building up to the main crime. Thereafter, everything is brought together convincingly and dramatically. Stephen Fry provides by far the film's most hilarious moments in his turn as a grossly incompetent police inspector.Part of the film's fascination lies in its period setting, which has a feel of authenticity, and also in the clashing of two worlds, that of servants and masters. The veneer of distance between the two worlds, contrasted with the reality of the complex interrelations between them, lends the film a certain ironic undertone.This is a film that requires repeated viewings, since there are subtle nuances that may not be noticed the first time around, not to mention such a wealth of characters and situations that one might well miss some of the plot details.

Rooster here...scored this baby for my desk because the old lamp/lampshadeA. Took up way too much roomB. Wasn't quasi-futuristic enough, andC. I needed to free up some desk space to hold top-secret documents, motorcycle parts, crochet materials or whatever.Anyway...I invested two whole hours of my life shopping for a desk lamp on Amazon. Then I took a deep breath and pulled the trigger on this little model. I may have lost two nights sleep waiting for this to arrive..."Would I get my $14 worth?" I fretted.Build is solid and the design is quasi-futuristic enough (at least $21 worth of value here in build/design alone).I appreciate the various lighting settings, allowing me to dial in just the right ambience in my executive office suite (aka, our spare bedroom).The "warm" settings are ROCK SOLID for paper & computer work. The brighter settings are super-helpful for when I'm working on guitars, refurbishing priceless oil paintings by the Old Masters or building emotionally-charged dinosaur battle dioramas.(hey, you do what you like & I'll do what I like, K?).Highly recommend this, it saved me having to fight off the ill-tempered hordes of holiday shoppers at local retailers and was Wallet-Friendly, always a plus.Until next time, Rooster is signing off.