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Merica, fuck ya! I always knew redheads were sinister.* *Look up the etymology.

Milwaukee is an absolutely fantastic city that is full of weird stuff and largely has not succumbed to the genericization of America. It has the coolest bowling alleys in the world. And a genuinely creepy cocktail lounge. The art museum is fantastic. And you can visit the University of Lawsonomy.

Was sent to an important zone in Lauderhill for canvassing. The Hillary for President campaign headquarters was a table in the back of a jerk restaurant. I kid you not. Going back there tomorrow. Will report on the patties.

Keeping it classy. Chocolate Pounds now worth more than a real one... What could possibly go wrong? Three-minute long exposure photo of the Antares Cygnus OA-5 launch from Virginia to the ISS. Autumn at a 200 year old mill in France. Pololu, HI. Lakagigar, Iceland. The elevated monorail system in Wuppertal, Germany, 1913. One Minute Around the Bend at Rowena Crest, Oregon. Shipwreck Beach. Perseids and Airbus A320 over Signal Hill, NL. Star-gazing at Tybee Island. Winter in Estonia. Colorado Stream. Colorado Stars Near Boulder Falls. Lower Proxy Falls. 15 Seconds outside a house in Norway. Alhoceima, Morroco. Castle Under The Stars.

The largest airforce in the world is the US Airforce. The second largest airforce in the world is the US Navy. Redheads are more likely than others to be Left handed.

I hate the L3000. To my ears they're bloated fart cannons on par with the Darth Beyers, but with the price tag of an electrostat.

That looks very familiar Jim. In fact I just voted, and am pretty sure I'm the only one to vote Democrat here, as the "Trump" button was all shiny, but I had to use some WD-40 on the rusty "Hillary" button, to get it to work.

Cunning linguist indeed.

Your lingual dexterity is amenable

I accidentally hit the wrong button while trying to type and posted some unintended nonsense (as opposed to the usual intended nonsense). Here's the cliff notes version of what is upcoming ... All of these circuits are fully differential. Everything except the DSHA2 is transformer coupled on both the input and the output and happy with balanced or single ended. All of the output transformers are newly custom designed by Lundahl for me. Available with steel core or amorphous cores for an upcharge. DSHA2 is really tiny, direct coupled, transformer gain amplifier for use with balanced headphones.. DSHA3 is kind of the default amp. It uses transformers for gain, and it is very clean, very quiet, and just works well. Gain is low, but it has the power to push pretty much any headphone. DSST1 (which stands for Differential Solid State Triode) was developed with PretentiousFood. It looks the same as the DSHA3 from the outside, and it uses a circuit that emulates triodes with transistors. It has a bit of a bloomier midrange, can have higher gain, and is easier to drive at the cost of a little more background noise. Copenhagen-S also looks the same and has a punchier bouncier happier more midrangey sound. It is the "Solid State Pentode" amp making it kind of a current source/transconductance amp. (Copenhagen-V, the tube version, is on hiatus.) L3 has tubes in it and costs a little more. Pics to come in about 2 weeks. Ravenswood (DSHA4) is basically a DSHA3 with an additional driver stage, microprocessor controlled gain and input, and is big and powerful and over the top.

Which was it Wayne? I'm ready to withhold biscuits if he made the wrong choice.

My polling site had a large rainbow flag hanging on the wall. Oops. Probably would have been advisable to remove that. The good news is they had an American flag hanging prominently below it Should have waited around for Trump and the KKK to show up.

Grab 'em by the jerky! Good on you, Carl.

Curry With a bunch of Brits

That is definitely not how Massdrop mostly works. I interviewed with them for a job, in 2014, and got the express tour. The business, behind the scenes, is quite different from how it appears, on its face. Keep in mind that Ireland is a big part of the descriptor for these phones. It's not cheap to manufacture things there, anymore, and hasn't been for years. Sennheiser almost certainly produced a big lot of components, and has been doling them out. Also keep in mind that the largest part of Sennheiser revenue is not audiophile products.

I don't think that sennheiser will be dropping the HD600/650 from the lineup. This might be a very smart move from them to get quite a few units to the market and increase brand recognition with millennials and get some of the market away from beats. I bought a pair, I sold my hd650 long time ago and this was a nice opportunity to get a new pair at a great price. Now I just need to build a new amp for them...

This, but mostly because I've already got a pair of 650s which are good enough and sound fantastic with the current dynamic amp, veil be damned.

I took a pass on the HD 6XX. I'll wait and see how prices go on Black Friday... not completely wedded to the Sennheiser sound.

Did a double shift canvassing today. Just about everybody I talked to had already voted. That's a good sign. And the patties weren't bad.

Trust me I'm an electrostatic guy all the way and would take my Lambda Pro over them too sound wise. I just don't think they were Darth Beyer bad. BTW, they are not bad value given how collectible they are. They are worth between $4000 to $5000 easy on Yahoo Japan.

Looks good, but are you eating it Left handed?

I miss the L3000. Mulveling has mine now. They are a work of art. I also miss my W2002...those wood cups were gorgeous. Oh...I managed to get one of those Massdrop Senn HD-6xx. Spent 20 mins trying.

Well, Trump and Tayyip Erdoğan can do really good things for World together... They can fulfill Bill Burr's idea of wacking half of the world's population.

I'm actually not sure who the last two are. Louis Clyde Stoumen - Self Portrait in the Mirror (1956) Isle of Skye, Scotland. Lake Minnewanka, AB, Canada. Na Pali Coast, Kauai, Hawaii by Howard Ignatius. Split rock at night, Mt Sproatt, Whistler, Canada. Maroon Bells, CO. Siilinjärvi, Eastern Finland. The 2016 National Geographic Photo of the Year, by Hasan Baglar. Milky Way and Stars over Nederland Colorado. Along the East River in NYC. Big Bend National Park, TX. 30 second exposure of Moulton Falls Bridge outside of Battleground, WA. Moon Shine- Nags Head, NC.

And I've heard there will be a second "drop" for these coming down the pipeline.

I was waffling after all since I own the HD-600, ended up trying at around 10am anyway. Same result. Someone will eventually sell theirs, as Doug just said....

I'm sure there will be more than a few "used" pairs available in a few months.

I'm running a table at my polling place for the libertarians. It's been a huge turnout and people are in a good mood. It's 90% trump around here.

Where did you see that posted, originally? I know that Justin would be interested in knowing where a pic of his amp was published!

What about left over pudding, cake, curd and toffee?!

I think you're the one that convinced me that they're like a "more fun" L3000, but I think I figured out on my own that they're easier to drive.

Are redheads actually people, though? That's brilliant. **BRENT**

I was going to leave it at sinister but thought some left handed and/or redheaded people might be offended.

Yeah, at first I thought you were joking but then I remembered you had done some double-blind tests back in the day. I wasn't sure about the details of the tests so a Grado pad test seemed plausible. Anyway no harm, no foul.

Given that I like RS1s a lot...

they're like a less precise l3000.

these conversations always remind me how happy I am I stopped with W10VTGs and JH13s

I like vintage RS-1s.

I don't know anything about the Luxman. I own the HD800's and do not own the T1's, which should indicate which I prefer. I am just saying that the T1's can sound OK. Pleasing, even. I didn't hate them. Reks should listen to whatever he likes.

Dusty I thought you might appreciate the flamboyant purpleness and (eventual) guitar chop-erey.

You are a very creative man. Plus, it would be a great product given the smaller desktop footprint...just sayin'.

I'll take one of each.

Guns N' Roses – Use Your Illusion I I haven't listened to this CD in a while... I had it first on cassette years ago. Now I think I understand this album a lot better, having had more life experience, relationships, broader musical knowledge, etc. It's an incredibly ambitious album, putting together larger-scale and more complex arrangements than their first hit album, Appetite for Destruction. I prefer the second album, Use Your Illusion II, because it has a bit more depth and emotional range. The first album is more straight ahead, showcasing a bunch of straight-up rockers with minimal filler. There is a bit of variety – Spanish guitar on Double Talkin' Jive, blues-rock piano on Bad Obsession and Dust N' Bones, and, of course, the symphonic strings of November Rain. Listen for the complex rhythm and accompaniment guitar parts going in an out in November Rain – they are often lost in the mix against the overwhelming vocals, lead guitar, and strings. Overall, it's an exhausting, intense experience, just the way it was meant to be. There aren't many slow or quiet songs other than Izzy Stradlin's laid-back You Ain't the First. The overall tone is aggressive and combative, often feeling conversational, as if Axl or the band was telling off a series of exes. There is a bit of sweetness in my favorite of the bunch, Don't Cry and November Rain, but the majority of the songs are unrelentingly in-your-face, until the album ends, appropriately, with Coma. The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long and all that...

Pudding!

I have been using my Twisted Pear Audio Buffalo II DAC with a Volumite digital volume control for a few years. Earlier this year I decided to expand it to a dual-mono setup. In the process I also added the Amanero/Hermes/Cronus/Rhea USB-i2s adapter with isolation and re-clocking. I used two chassis I have purchased some time ago and house the PSU in its own, separate chassis. A Placid HD powers the digital section and GR LV powers the Legato I/V converter and "The Wire" balanced headphone amp (the small module on the left side of the chassis).

Awesome! That amount of horsepower and that speed result (while impressive) also explains why the Veyron looks like a well-used bar of soap!