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Awesome fried chicken at my favorite, and the only good restaurant in south hill, VA. Chef stopped me as I was leaving with a few extra pieces to go. also a good seared tuna appetizer. not pictured, about 6 glasses of diet Pepsi. /me is fat and happy

I compared the two for several days before handing my original 13s off to a friend for reshelling. Here's what I found: 1. The Roxannes are largely brighter. That's not to say they're bright. But the 13s seemed almost impervious to sibilance. I think the Roxannes give it to me when it's in the recording. I did hear some hi hat type noises that were louder on the 13s. That surprised me, and suggested that not all of the treble range is more pronounced on the Roxannes. 2. The Roxannes' bass reproduction is clearly superior. When set to neutral, I haven't yet noticed a frequency bump. When comparing it to the LCD-2 bass, I found performance to be equivalent. That's quite an achievement. 3. Relative to the 13s, there's an added sense of impact. Perhaps this is a freqphase enhancement? There's a softness to the 13s. I don't know how else to describe it. The Roxannes don't have it though. They sound relatively sharp and focused. 4. Front and back layering is the most significant improvement for me personally. The Roxannes separate "in front" and "behind" sounds the 13s couldn't. 5. As expected, imaging is improved. The soundstage is surprisingly coherent. 6. The previous five points add up to a significantly more detailed set of IEMs. Before the 13s came out in 2009, I had UE10s. The performance gap between those two was enormous. I don't know that the gap between the 13s and the Roxannes is quite as large. But subjectively, I'd say it's fairly close. In other words, it's a big enough jump that I didn't feel any buyer's remorse after hearing the Roxannes.

^I'm sure that having that in 24/192 FLAC (or whatever PONO format is) will make all the difference during playback...

So I missed this. You guys rock.

What Al said. Why is it that when i think of the tough things you have to do/face Iain, I'm reminded of that joke where the punchline is "...yup....standing up in a canoe...." Hope you and the townfolk stay dry and safe

Not even remotely silly. I was responding to the idiot Tumblr post with a blank page entitled "original designs by Samsung." Apple's claim that all of its designs spring forth full-blown from the head of Zeus Steve and/or Jony is even more bullshit than the idea that Samsung has no original designs. Here's another example that you can call silly. Sony Ericsson's W950 was released in 2006 when the iPhone was in the form of a larger iPod Mini. This is the Sony phone: It got their attention and they tasked one of their famed industrial designers to make an iPhone design like a Sony. Here is what he came up with compared to the extruded iPod Mini design: It just took them awhile to get it right, but below are the original CADs of the Sony design next to the "purely original" iPhone 4.

Fair enough. As long as I still get that late night chicken when I'm up in TN.

Stop fondling it you perv. Just listen.

Fitz....we miss you man...glad you are still around.

That could be arranged later on...

Chicken stir fry