I started a journey last year when I decided to buy an AMT, or Air Motion Transformer headphone (again). After enjoying it so much, I toyed with the idea of buying other unique driver headphones. Maybe... starting a collection focused mainly on different driver technologies, and trying to obtain one of every kind..? It's not like there are tons of them, so it should be pretty doable, right?
Enter the RAAL CA-1a — my first ribbon driver headphone.
Last year I wrote about content creator burn-out, which was a deeply introspective piece about my own journey with making videos for my YouTube channel. And in what is perhaps an interesting coincidence, over the past several months some very high profile channels have announced their closure. Perhaps my thoughts were just echoing an overarching cultural malaise that myself and millions of others were simultaneously experiencing. Or maybe my hobbyist experience has nothing in common with the experience of those living the life of a career YouTuber pressed under the weight of turning videos into food on the table.
But my expression on the topic tapered off into a somewhat dour, depressed tone. That's no longer how I feel now.
