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Caught a fish yesterday So we decided to buy a house on the water nearby: [emoji2]

Nah. Private island

Myabe I should try to get a job at Georgia Tech so I can fly Delta instead of United.

So by inference the next purchase is a submarine?

Got the Oppo finally (they were supposed to be here yesterday, damn Fedex or weather). I like the packaging, very Apple-like. They feel very solid and are very comfortable on my head (although I have a smaller than average guy size head and my ears are pretty tiny). They are really light compared to the last two pairs of orthos I owned (LCD-2 and Thunderpants). Also, so far, they don't suck like most closed headphones (listening with Tidal + ECP DAC + DSHA-1).

As a WRX owner, I can attest that it is not a refined car. It is more on the "raw" side of the spectrum than it is "polished." That being said, the rawness of it, coupled with its 4-door practicality is what drew me to it.

I'm not sure what you mean when talking about Jeff's budget. I've never seen any indications he even knows what the word means...

but then you'd be in atlanta, which is one of the few american cities worse than houston

Perhaps fly to a Delta hub and hope you will get reticketed from United to Delta

Nice Chris. A Peninsula house? I am waiting to board a flight to Dallas. My third United flight in three days, and every one of them has been at least an hour delayed.

Just received the STAX socket PCB from luvdunhill, perfect fit for Justin's teflon sockets

Lots of stuff here http://www.shars.com/products/toolholding-workholding/vise?limit=30&p=2&price=-100

I did 7 or so with 250 ft of climbing. I'm out of shape.

My parents ISF is a fantastic car, but it's so perfect it's simply numb and boring to drive.

Busy, no time for a full Slow Post, so this: Also available in a handy "reacting to high end audio manufacturer's claims" size:

And it's not mine For those who don't want to deal with HF, picture of mine with today's new earpads : Love them, indeed Ali

No station wagons. I thought I had already established it is the Blue Audi S4.

Peter (Iron_Dreamer) and I did a nice side by side shoot out between these two. I honestly thought it would take a long time and scrutinizing to declare a winner. But the HE-1000 hands down wins in just about every category, Detail, Imaging, Texture, Soundstage, Frequency Respose, Phasing, Transparency, and Comfort. Maybe the SR-009 would win on Build Quality if it wasn't for it's shitty plastic headband and sling attachment that breaks easily. HiFiMan is not exactly known for stellar QC either, so it remains to be seen how well the HE-1000 holds up, but the build quality so far is a huuuuuuge improvement over it's predecessors. Notably the headphone cable connector is no longer that ultra crappy micro coax, it's now a 2.5mm mini plug on each side. Transparency is probably the #1 crazy huge difference with the HE-1000. I thought the SR-009 was amazing with transparency, but the HE-1000 is just on another level. With the SR-009, when music is playing, you can still "feel" the sound emanating from the sides of your ears. Best way to describe in an exaggerated manner, is if you were to listen to music, and then put flat palms of your hands near the sides of your ears. With the HE-1000, that effect is nearly completely gone. Major gripe is the headband size. In the beta test model, it's way too big. I have a huge noggin, and I have it one click away from it's smallest adjustment. That one definitely needs to be addressed, as I'm sure it will. The EF-1000 amp is kind of meh for me though. It's way overkill, suffered from hums and ground loop buzzing too easily. And runs extremely hot. I know it's supposed to be a speaker amp too, but I'd just want a dedicated headphone amp. I don't run a speaker rig and headphone rig together. The EF-6 Amp is perfectly fine. Even better if someone like Justin at HeadAmp made a high end UberAmp designed specifically for Magneplanar Ortho headphones like this one.

Personally I prefer triple blind. In medicine, that's where the subject doesn't know what he's getting, the doctor doesn't know what he's giving, and the investigator doesn't know what he's doing.

I don't know if they ever asked if they could use it or not. Maybe Jude felt that since the real CanJams were head-fi supported events, that he automatically owned the name... still funny that the last one (CanJam Chicago 2010) was run entirely by HeadCasers

Thanks to the NYC Spring Meet yesterday, I was motivated to finish casing up my KGST. I'm very happy with the result. The chassis is 7" x 12.8". Perfect for my night table Here's the beast in it's intended home: Still need to do the finish and put a respectable knob on it. Here's the back of the amp. Because of the size I wanted to use a single 5 pin mini xlr. Had to build a cable as well. I Put the DAC behind the night table to keep a clean look. I'm just spent the last couple of hours listening and just love it.

Sony TA-A1ES http://store.sony.com/hi-res-integrated-2-channel-amplifier-zid27-TAA1ES/cat-27-catid-All-Res-Audio Class A with variable bias tied into the volume control.