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My new headset audio technica ATH-A990Z arrived, in combination with my dac amp it is very good as I never owned anything better. Some flacs feel very immersive without being too loud yet precise. Almost too real.

I am thinking on conditioning my dad to this audio quality, to bring dac amp and headset and my thinkpad to his place and let some flacs play. He does not even use a headset so I wonder how much he would be blown away by modern and easily available electronics. I am in still relatively cheap area of around 600-700$ total.

I bet I will use mostly touhou arenji that I like. I will get him lyrics in a slideshow and manually move them for him to enjoy lyrics as well.
I will show him touhou, get him lore of a given stage before I begin it, play through stages and after each stage get him some of arenji. I like to compare how much they deviate. I hope it will be fun.

My favorite touhou is cherry blossom. I will force him to watch me play and listen to the original, then a few arenji from the game. I bet he would be lost in how I navigate through it, even youmu did not touch me in my most recent run

I have no friends in college but I was once asked what I play and I responded that I play some old singleplayer games from 20 years ago, I feel shame to admit to liking japanese entertainment because I am still used to it being associated with the fattest nerds. In highschool when I had a few friends and they once asked me what other games I play so I showed them touhou as I play it. There were two notable opinions, one asked how is it possible for me to enjoy this epilepsy inducing mess, and another one who was a musicfag went full monkey over the sudden shift in this song at this point https://youtu.be/NpJD2MecgJw?si=hfrXwbi_YX6xa-li&t=48 and he could not calm himself down for like 15 seconds.

I could sum up dad's reviews for heyuri if anyone is interested on what regular people half a century old who don't chase modern things would react to touhou and its music. I wonder myself. </blog>