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WRONG. This thing looks FUCKING BADASS. You go ahead and buy the SissyPantz BJ1 (with DAC!) for $299.95.

Please, elaborate on your vast experience designing, building and distributing high-end electronics.

Thanks. Chicago has been awesome this week. One of my favorite cities.

The K1000s were the main reason I joined Head-Case a while ago, so I reckon I’d post a summed-up version of what I posted on my blog after selling mine and borrowing my cousin’s AKGs. When I sold them I was really unsatisfied with what I heard as a wrong tonal balance, with extremely harsh mids (very different from Grados), impactful but dry bass and somehow subdued treble response. But now my system has been through a complete overhaul – deepak’s old GS-X, Abrahamsen V6.0, M2Tech HiFace and some fancy power cables and interconnects (I’m not a cable guy at all, but they were just sitting in the living room, so hey...). It’s interesting to see how different it sounds from what I remember. All the aggressiveness is now gone. It’s still not what I’d consider sweet and mellow, but it’s far better now. It all seems better balanced and integrated, with mids going slightly backwards, and bass and treble a bit forward. Bass hits really hard (it’s a bass heavy version BTW), but with surprising texture. The highs, however, which were what I considered to be the Achille’s Heel of the K1000s, for sounding as if they were somehow within the mids, now have their own space in the spectrum. They have presence, extension and a very very good timbre. It really comes to life now, and these headphones finally sound right! It’s very nice to hear how the AKGs can really sing when given a proper system. Thumbs up for the GS-X and the V6.0! Here's a nice picture BTW:

is posting pictures of your own speakers frowned upon in this thread?

i got a flight last night and just reserved the room. i get in thursday and will be visiting some companies in orlando then will come to sebring

I'd argue that the amp in question is attractive.

No pictures but last night I had what will probably be on of the top 10 meals in my lifetime. Maura and I (along with her brother and his wife) took her parents and their two best friends out to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. We picked Grill 23 in Boston which is historically rated as the top steakhouse in Boston and has made other lists like Maxim's top 10 and so on. We started with drinks and fried calamari, moved onto salads where I had the Baby Iceberg (stuffed with bacon and gorgonzola w/ ranch dressing) and for the main course I selected the Kobe cap steak (10oz) which was the best cow I've ever eaten. The table finished things off with caramel profiteroles and chocolate layer cake, both of which were extraordinary. It's the better part of 12hrs since I finished that meal and I still am not hungry. My wallet may never recover either but it was worth it.