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Well, sounds like homeowners may help pull my bacon out of the fire. At least a claim is going, hopefully it will help dampen the blow of that crap.

When I was twelve years old, I was riding my bike around the neighborhood. Suddenly a van pulled beside me and Stiller and Meara jumped out and forced me inside the van. Yes, I was abducted by the comedy duo. They took me back to a rundown house, where another abducted child named Ben was being held. That's right, he's not their real son. I was held for three years before escaping. I spent my time training the rats in the basement, and was finally able to overthrow the comedy duo by a rat coup. My rat leader, also named Ben, after the other abductee, was able to talk the other rats into cornering the comedy duo, but I couldn't talk Ben, the child, into leaving with me. By the time I was able to call the cops, the house was empty, except for Ann's bra, a small amount of rat fur and the John Denver 8 track we had been forced to listen to daily. During my captivity I always told myself that if I ever were able to live a life of my own, I would buy some better audio equipment and assassinate John Denver. I was able to accomplish both goals, and even made the assassination look like an accidental plane crash.

Hopes it works out Peter. I flew back today and now testing new home theater rig.

Thanks for the kind comments folks! The good news is that it passed the wife test. That she likes the look of these is more a statement of what outrageous speakers I've inflicted on her over the years. But even better she is blown away, in her own terms, by the sound quality "It sounds so involving - you just get drawn into the music". If it had sounded like a bag of hammers she'd certainly have said so . I remember a couple of years ago I hauled her along to an audio show in London - a showcase for British high end. Anyway, we walked into some room or other, and they were playing a Marc Cohn track that we know very well. I did sound absolutely dire (a mate describes that effect as being like having the back of your eyeballs scratched), but Carole started to laugh out loud - I had to shoo her out with the comment that the guys in the room had actually worked very hard to design a product that sounded so awful, and were cloth eared enough not to notice, and you had to respect that particular talent with quiet decorum.

It's not like you can't get good chocolate here. Like everything else, the national brand that sells cheap isn't going to be the good stuff.

Burger. Ground chuck, oxtail, and sirloin, with melted tillamook raw flagship and pepperjack, comte, and a tiny bit of vasterbottenost, and bacon on a brioche bun.

My parents’ Zenith furniture console with built in automatic turntable and 8 track tape, and ‘high fidelity stereo, letting you experience music as if you were there.’ So cool. My all in one Sharp console with automatic turntable, lit up tuner, cassette, and two speakers that I had to connect to the console. Then my upgrade to JVC ribbon tweeter speakers hooked up to said all in one console. So cool! Going to the library as a kid and recording (pirating) many records onto cassettes. Luckily the RIAA didn’t come after us for A MILLION DOLLARS (in best Dr. Evil voice). Normal, Chrome, and … Metal. Later, DBX. Very cool. Subscribed to Stereo Review and Audio magazine and read them cover to cover every month. Visiting Audio Consultants in Evanston in college, wandering around with no money, and pushing the auto reverse button on the Nakamichi Dragon, making the cassette pop out, flip around, and go back in. So very cool. Subscribed to Stereophile Magazine and read it cover to cover. I remember enjoying an ad for a place that sold headphones and headphone related stuff. I couldn’t understand why people would spend that kind of money on headphones, but the ads were so funny and self-effacing, that I’d look forward reading the ads just for the fun of reading the ads. ‘Because we’re headphone people!’ (That’s not quite right, someone help me.) Getting an NAD receiver and KEF bookshelf speakers as a med student. Still have them today! A little cool. Visiting a high end store in Columbus, OH and seeing/hearing a four tower speaker system, the Infinity Beta. Two towers of tweeter and midrange ribbons and two towers of dynamic bass drivers. Life changing cool. Having a small salary as a resident, and mastering the art of finding high quality used equipment. I bought a 15 year old Krell amp from Saturday Audio Exchange and drove to Wisconsin to buy a pair of out-of-business-old Apogee Centaurs off the newspaper classifieds. Fantastically cool. Ah, memories!

Shit like that just annoys the hell out of me. First time I ever signed an online petition..... We don't do a lot of candy anyway, but certainly won't buy Hershey's brand anymore if we can help it. http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/protest-hersheys-lawsuit?source=s.tw&r_by=12343362 And what does Hershey make: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_manufactured_by_The_Hershey_Company

This is headcase, entry level is giant, cannondale, fuji...

Plus hd800s don't sound like knives jabbed in your ears

Totally disagree that SA5Ks -- which I have owned previously -- are similar to HD800s in performance or "sound traits." Besides, most people here have heard both so I'm not sure who your advice is directed to.

Greetings to the entire collective of Head-Case.org, this is my first post and I want to take this opportunity to introduce myself. I write to you from Spain. Long time ago I use headphones, but just three years I have serious devices, the same time that I am a member of the best forum headphones in my country. In fact I see some familiar faces here . I have academic background in electronics and electricity and have interest in DIY projects developed in this community, especially the electrostatic headphones amplifiers, in fact want to start building a KGST. I ask you to forgive my English, is very bad and I'm sure many will say stupid things, I hope not to bother too much with them. Also take this opportunity to thank Remolon for discover me this project, Jose for encouraging me to build and especially to Headinclouds for providing me purchase of the material. To all of them thank you very much friends. Nice to be here with you. Fernando

So, in addition to poor photography skills, the guy has poor vision. Come to think about it, maybe all his pictures are out of focus but they look right to him....

I hope the power doesn't go out. I still remember 2011 all too clearly.

He shot it with a Canon. That's the whitest they can do. Jk

Impressive work, Craig. If you want to make them a bit more "idiot" proof on top of the already excellent color coding it wouldn't be a horrible amount of work to change the jacks to use 3, 4 and 5 pin XLRs so that truly one cable only works with the correct jack.

Made Alton Brown's Enchilada Lasagna tonight. It was very good and bonus, the kids ate it too (mostly without complaint).

What I just built. Linkwitz LX521's. Electronic crossover built, just finishing the second four-channel power amp to drive 'em

Wow, that photo of mountains in France -- Pyrenees I assume -- looks a lot like my brother-in-law's painting of Zabriskie Point in Death Valley but with vegetation and snow. Photos of Zabriskie Point