u/Left-Cap29

I bought a new laptop stand. It looks like this:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71wzinoPjgL.\_AC\_UF894,1000\_QL80\_.jpg

It arrived clearly used and badly scratched up, rusted, etc. so I have to return that and get a replacement. But having seen it up close, I have a question regarding this type of stand in general.

Do all of these have the non-slip pads stuck on by default? Other brands' product descriptions for the same type mention having non-slip padding. Like I said, the one I bought was already used so I'm not sure if this supposed to be stuck on from the factory. The unit I have has them stuck on very unevenly so the sticky edges are exposed.

My problem is that the material off-gases pretty heavily and I'm really sensitive to that kind of thing due to health issues. There's a different type of stand that's more expensive and has a bunch of screws and joints which I don't want, but it doesn't use foam padding. It will be worth the higher price for that reason, but not if there are identical options for the one I bought that simply don't have the padding pre-attached.

Hopefully that makes sense.

I recently posted a question about a different issue with hi-fi mode. I made some discoveries while trying some things.

I thought I had correctly done the cable swap trick to trigger high impedence mode for low impedence headphones before, but it turned out that I hadn't. I accidentally triggered it now when I switched from a more sensitive headphone (48 ohms) to more basic earbuds. There was a noticeable difference in sound quality and a huge difference in volume level.

After that, I tested my new desktop amp with the more sensitive headphones. This provided a fix for the hissing problem this pair has when only connected to the G8 on hi-fi mode. Again, much lower volume than before while sound quality is noticeably better.

Does that mean I had never experienced the quad DAC before this point? Before today, when I toggled on hi-fi mode, the volume would go bit lower and change from increments of I think 6 to increments of 1. The quality changed slightly too but there wasn't a clear difference. I thought that since there was a definite shift from normal mode (toggled off), including a slightly lower volume, this was the quad DAC activated.

Also, I came across an old comment that suggested the cable swap trick triggers "aux line mode" as opposed to high impedence mode. Isn't that what normal mode is called? That comment suggested "aux line mode" enables lower volume while high impedence mode enables the hi-fi sound quality.

It feels like I didn't understand anything about the quad DAC until today.

Laptop stand question

Hi-fi mode question