Chi-Fi IEMsWhat Hi-Fi · 2026-11-12
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- AI Tools & Local AI What does Qwen3.6-35B-A3B look like at Q8_0 and BF16 on datacenter GPUs?r/LocalLLaMA · 2026-11-12
- AI Tools & Local AI Anthropic says it has met its own threshold for AI-accelerated AI research — days before its IPOr/artificial · 2026-11-12
- AI Tools & Local AI guardrail in qwen4-max-preview thinking tracer/LocalLLaMA · 2026-11-12
- AI Tools & Local AI New Model "Ernie 5.5 Flash Preview" hits strongly at a low parameter count (280B, 14B Active)r/LocalLLaMA · 2026-11-12
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23 STORIES- Master AI (Artificial Intelligence) Discussion/News Thread
- The Soundcore Q31i falls to a record low of $64.99 on Amazon
- HiBy FD3 II Review
- Review: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition with Page Turn Cover
- Saccater Aera IEMs Review Sounds Like Its Own Name Airy
- Hidizs AP80 PRO MAX Titanium Edition Review
- The Hi-Fi Maker That Once Warned Against Music Streamers Now Claims to Have Solved Their Biggest Problem
- Kobo OS Beta and Send to Kobo Launches in US
- First Look at the Kindle Paperwhite 2026 e-reader
- Noble Audio Astrid: A Three-Driver TWS With a Planar in the Mix
- Kindle Colorsoft 2026 Review and Video Demo
- Amazon Black Friday Sale runs from November 19th to the 30th
- Barnes and Noble NOOK GlowLight 4 on sale for $99
- Softears Edge Review
- New Metalio E Ink 4 Plus has 4.7 Screen with 297 PPI
- FiiO QX11 DAC AMP Review Technically Overcharged
- FangSound NEREUS Review
- Lotoo S3
- iBasso Klee Kiseki IEMS Review KiSEKi 2 WonderWorker Earphones
- Juzear Light Shuttle
- Shanling UA6 II DAC AMP World s First 8-DAC Dongle Review
- iBasso DC Tonfa and KLEE 2 KISEKI
- NiPO A200 Pro
PC & Gaming
38 STORIES- Solved High CPU usage when model fit in GPU, beware of -ngl -1 llama.cpp layers offloading to GPU and llama-fit-param
- MoE and expert offloading on llama, exllamav3, strata on 9070XT
- How Amplitude ships product improvements in 1–2 days with OpenAI
- Google s Gemini 4 Hydrogen outscores the bigger Argon just four weeks after its launch
- 2.8 hours of inference for 30 seconds of simulated walking: do robots still need dedicated models or will frontier multimodal LLMs handle it?
- Google s latest Search upgrade promises better answers to your most complicated questions
- Google rolls out Gemini 4 Hydrogen, finally replacing 3.8 Flash
- Nectar launches an AI agent to automate creator discovery and outreach for brands
- LLMON: An LLM-Native Markup Language, now in Granite 4.1 3B and 8B
- Will Claude Fable 5.2 and GPT-6 Astra make specialized robot models obsolete, or do robots still need their own VLAs, tactile encoders and world models?
- Jensen Huang’s exit puts Nvidia’s support for open source in question
- Google Search gets a major upgrade with Gemini 4 Hydrogen
- Hugging Face CEO vows to keep fighting for open source AI after Jensen Huang s exit
- United Airlines blocks AI agents from booking flights, citing cybersecurity risks
- update: a user says claude code moved 11gb in manual mode and logged approvals they never saw
- AI chatbots are recommending fake retail websites, study finds
- More game developers are starting to use generative AI
- OpenAI’s data suggests that frontier models are hiding their thoughts because developers optimize for capability and compute
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned. What happens next?
- Google pushes privacy angle as Gemini-powered smartglasses debut starting at $395
- ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live uses conversational context to stop voice agents from cutting off callers mid-sentence
- Google Deepmind shifts genomics AI from bulk tissue predictions to single cell type resolution with AlphaGenome 2
- Australia s proposed AI safety bill would force frontier model makers to open up to independent testing
- Holiday Extras is rethinking what it can build with Codex
- [AINews] D-Day (Decision Models Day)
- The Jev Revolution: What Engineers Are Already Building with System One Models
- Kiosk Satellite turned my Home Assistant tablets into a one-stop smart home dashboard
- New OnePlus update gives phones and tablets the ability to auto-unlock PCs
- Hachigo74
- Beelink Me Pro Modular NAS, Alpine Linux For The Kindle Paperwhite, and an ultra slim Panther Lake PC: Liliputing News Roundup
- Best-selling keyboard switches of October 2026
- Zotac s new fanless Wildcat Lake Mini PC, A new RISC-V Compute Module, repositioning the Windows 11 Taskbar: Liliputing News Roundup
- TheKapCo PLAY1800 x Hot Wheels review
- A new computer-in-a-keyboard debuts, Apple brings M6 chips to MacBook Pro and iMac, and Acer s handheld gaming PC with Intel Arc G3 Extreme is coming next month: Liliputing News Roundup
- iPad mini goes OLED, iPhone Duo gets torn apart, Logitech s new mouse converts from horizontal to vertical, and an open source modular keyboard platform debuts: Liliputing News Roundup
- Behind the scenes #218
- Phenom Mini review
- The Wolf keyboard
Chinese-Brand Value
24 STORIES- Christopher Ward and Mr. Jones Launch the New C1 Bel Canto Lucia
- The Best Trail Running Shoes of 2026 | Best in Gear Awards
- The Best Men s Climbing Pants of 2026
- Now you can dress like Norda's Trail Team (And fuel like it too)
- Traveler's Notebook Card Size 20th Anniversary Set
- Camera Traps Catch Newly Discovered Howler Monkey Crossing Rope Bridge
- The Director of Knives Out Has Just Released a $13 Camera App
- Revisiting Zeiss ZM Lenses Part 2: Learning to Like the 35mm Lens
- Leica’s legacy-inspired “hammertone” finish is available in analog and digital flavors
- Ride1Up VORSA e-bikes at Black Friday lows, EGO Power+ cordless snow blowers $220 off, Bluetti + EcoFlow power stations, more
- The Seiko H601-5480 “Upside-Down Arnie:” A Twist on the Legendary Silver Screen Seiko
- TAG Heuer and Time+Tide Reunite for the Aquaracer Sundowner II
- Marathon sustainability has its toughest test yet: Elite runners
- Sigma FP2 review: modular camera’s capabilities expand to fill more niches
- Horologically Unique Reintroduces a Cult Classic with the New HU-02
- Review: The Albishorn Voisin Aérosport Imagines an Art Deco Watch That Never Was
- Adobe’s best new photo features aren’t AI after all
- Lectric Releases a Limited-Edition XP4 750, New Details on Honda s RN0 eMTB, RockShox Issues a Stop Ride Notice for Zeb Forks │ TWR Ep 108
- PHOSGO Go5 Prototype Review A Useful Solar-Powered E-Bike?
- Pedego Ridge Rider 2 Review Versatility, Power, and Precision
- Tarran L1m Review A Smart, Savvy, Strong Cargo E-Bike
- Lectric XP Lite3 Review More Features Options Than Ever
- Misfill, La La Land Edition
- 2026 BunguLA - A Brief Sunday Visit
Home & Lifestyle
33 STORIES- 3D Printed Racks: Is KWS v2 or LabRax v2 sturdier in the 12-15U range?
- SAS Controller in MiniRack
- M720q Tiny as a DIY NAS + homelab: most reliable SATA expansion for 4 drives?
- My homelab repo runs services two ways: Docker Compose to try things out, then k3s + ArgoCD + SealedSecrets once I trust them
- BrickLink is back online: ‘cyber incident’ responsible for downtime
- Full LEGO Star Wars 50th anniversary poster tiles series confirmed
- LEGO Star Wars A New Hope Movie Poster’s scale was set by its logo
- Hands-on with the LEGO Star Wars January 2027 sets
- LEGO Epic Battle: Doomsday is the best Avengers launch set… ever
- LEGO Star Wars Movie Poster concepts reveal the set s evolution
- Rack Monitor
- No device left behind: Home Assistant Connect AUX-2
- Charging Up Istanbul! ChargerLAB s 2026 Meetup Is Almost Here
- MGEX 1/100 Mighty Strike Freedom Gundam - Release Info
- Teardown of the OnePlus SUPERVOOC 67W Pocket Charge Power Bank 10000 (PBSV15)
- Teardown of the HONOR CHOICE 15W Power Adapter (CP015E)
- P-Bandai: HGUC 1/144 Rick Dias Quattro Bajeena Custom [REISSUE] - Release Info
- P-Bandai: HGUC 1/144 Ball Type K (08th MS Team Version) & Ball (Shark Mouth) [REISSUE] - Release Info
- Bissell FlexClean Robot Vacuum Review: Excellent Pet Hair Pickup, but Some Trade-Offs
- Camsense: The Little-Known Company Supplying Robot Vacuum LiDAR
- P-Bandai: HGUC 1/144 Rick Dias [REISSUE] - Release Info
- P-Bandai: HGUC 1/144 MS-08TX Efreet - Release Info
- 10 Smart Soil Sensors Tested and Compared
- Dyson R2 Nurovi Wash+Dry Review: We Expected More
- Sonoff Matter Presence Sensor SNWF-06P24
- Ecowitt WH51 vs WH52 Soil Sensor Comparison
- Everything Smart Home joins Works with Home Assistant
- Graywind Matter over Thread Roman Smart Shades
- Formlabs dropped the Raspberry Pi on the way to a $699 SLA printer
- Scouted: September 2026’s Most Interesting Carry
- Kingrinder P2 Manual Coffee Grinder
- Option-O Lagom Casa Grinder
- Best Budget Coffee Grinders for 2026
Collectibles & Deals
10 STORIES- Heeley Chiris ~ new fragrance
- Thursday scent of the day 11/12
- Today s Apple Books and audiobook deals up to 80% off
- Best early Black Friday Apple deals: AirTag 2, MacBook, AirPods, Apple Watch, more
- Get an AI assistant built into your browser at $55 (Reg. $619)
- Grand Theft Auto VI deliveries arriving today, secure a boxed copy now for your collection
- Today s Android app deals and freebies: Agent A, Swim Out, The Mutiny, more
- Loewe Moonlight ~ new fragrance
- Prestige-led
- Aveda Ritual Bloom ~ new perfume
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Today's min-max
CHI-FI · REV 2026-11| Metric | Moondrop Chu II | Moondrop Blessing 3 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMX score | 84 | 90 | 93% retained |
| Price | $19.99 | $319.99 | 6.2% of the price |
| $ per point | $0.24 | $3.56 | 14.9x the rate |
Verdict: the extra $300.00 buys 6 points. $50.00 per point. Full sheet →
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