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Finally got around to trying out my Lodge cast iron cookware. I need some practice, but it's steak, and I needed some steak. **BRENT**

Agreed that HFM is charging too much for the sound and build quality of their products. I liked the HE1000 while I had it but it's probably twice as expensive as it should be selling for. The build quality for a $3k product was a joke...fake wood, fake chrome, fake leather, etc. HFM has serious issues with quality control regarding variability from unit to unit - I've heard huge differences between different pairs of HE1000s. These companies (mainly HFM/Audeze) will keep getting away with this price gouging as long as there are fools around to stuff their pockets for sub par products.

Stuff like this is all about the markup so one would have to layer it on thick! I have plans to make a set of headphones one day but who knows if it will ever happen... As for the topic at hand, I can't see anything here that would warrant such a price. I have fond memories of the Jade and there they showed zero clue what makes this stuff tick. When they were gone there was naturally the usual "OMG these were great" bullshit but they are still awful.

Grand Budapest Hotel Soundtrack

A BHSE is north of 5K$. My KGSSHV's are all around 3k$ but I will probably be throwing a moving sale soon for some of them. Just to try and thin the heard a bit before I have to move the entire lab to the other peninsula here. The KGSSHV Carbon is the latest development of these circuits and for Kevin and I it matches or even surpasses the BH. We have a tube version too but I prefer to build solid state amps.

^^ The Prisoner is a good wine. Todd Rundgren 1974 Todd

A fantastic Magnum 46. Need more room in my tuppador.

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Let's just look away that 300B's are in no way compatible for electrostatic use. This has audiophool written all over it... Me thinks Mjölnir Audio is up to the task of making a 80k$ amp/headphone combo. I wonder if I can cryo freeze some ice and use it as a part of the chassis....

So is decider.com a legit site?

Crap, I just remembered what I want to ask for Christmas: a Thermapen. Oh well.

Pictures of the amp over there, 4 X 300b and a very large internal heatsink. who knows what the fuck is in there, transformers, current sources, given the lack of quality on the previous hifiman solid state amp, an overpriced piece of crap for sure. for the longest time I thought that a all dht fully direct coupled amp with an $18k parts cost was so out of line that no one would ever build it. Now we have 2 companies trying to sell $40k+ amp and headphone systems. stupidass

Entire concert film of Talking Heads in their 1980 prime has surfaced BY FACT, JAN 9 2015

Replaced 2sj79/2sk216 with ksa1220/ksc2690 on one Blue Hawaii and one DIY T2. No negative surprises so far.

I had dim sum yesterday. It was very tasty. http://imgur.com/a/8XeVP Possibly the best sushi of my life tonight at Sushi Kashiba, including the four meals I had within Tsukiji.

Julie trying to hang herself with Robyn's hair on New Year's eve. Not a fancy picture but especially dear to me because Robyn wasn't doing the infuriating duck face or fake smiling or whatever stupid crap teenagers do these days when taking a photo. That and I really liked the read background for some reason - the particular shade of red looked very pleasing to my eye.