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It's 2006 ...

Flux by Alison Goldfrapp (2025) https://album.link/smrhsjppkm4kz Example: Much needed goodness...

That's never going to happen and interesting to see the headband on what was probably a prototype.

Thank you, Alien Earth, for reminding me to listen to this again.

Alec's been on a big 90s alt rock kick and has been sending me some stuff I'd honestly completely forgotten.

Said À bientôt To Ms. Chloe (Bananas for scale)

@spritzer great post! We need that picture of you wearing them!

Time for a necro bump but this arrived a couple of weeks ago: Naturally I bought them used as I always wanted to try these and well... they are some of the worst headphones ever made. Seriously... this is so fucking bad it isn't even funny. Now they barely fit my head so that might be a factor but they are somehow very peaky and dull sounding at the same time. Open baffle and all that but the sound is just all over the place. I'm sure these would benefit greatly from an adjustable arc setup and some earpads to close them up. Maybe something like the PMB units, an L-shaped pads at the back of the ears. At the same time I got these, I refurbished what might be the most disgusting SR-Sigma I've ever seen (though the drivers were fine), and they are much better in ever way. Super soundstage, nice extension at both ends of the spectrum and they just sound lovely off a SRM-313. Now I naturally had to rip the Transdyn box apart and well... It doesn't start well, this is the power switch. Yeah... one trace of something conductive and all hell would break loose. Bia Bias supply and why they have it half populated for 230V and then add more parts for 115V is beyond me. Just throw a transformer on it (also for safety). Speaking of which... Gotta love it seeing this trash in there. Rifa caps known for going bad and blowing up right on the mains. This set is fitted with a motorized RK27 but I didn't get a remote control with it. The sensor underneath the front panel. This is actual Transdyn module and I can't say it made much of a difference to me. Another angle. The actual power amp driving the transformer: Not sure what Icepower model that is, haven't looked into it yet. This is certainly a way of doing this... It's hard to tell but no insulation on the mains wiring here either. I don't know what to think about this setup but it does work but looks very silly indeed. I'm tempted to design something long the lines of a 4070 arc setup which would carry the weight and be adjustable as this is not comfy for me. The space between the arcs just isn't wide enough for me. This cable is super thin, roughly 5mm in diameter and to think of the voltage in there... I hope it is made out of something very insulated. Genuine Fischer plugs though these are not the special HV ones used on the HE90 Just normal pins and 12mm across so a S104 plug if I remember correctly.

After around 7 years away from DIY, I got back into it a few weeks ago and finished this KGST. It’s been nice reconnecting with the bench. I still have a Carbon and a BH waiting to be finished (PCBs are populated, just need to design proper enclosures). Hopefully it won’t take me another 7 years this time...

I had a pair that I bought and listened to once or twice for maybe 5-10 minutes, and then posted about them at Head-Fi, Bunch of people were interested in heading them so I came up with this brilliant idea of a floating pair of Jecklin Floats. First 10 people to sign up got on the list. Idea was that I'd send them out to the first person on the list, who could them listen to them for 2 weeks or less, and he would then send them off to the second person and so on. Had all of the names and addresses of the first 10 people who contacted me. Might have been a minimum number of posts requirement, or something like that to ensure that these were all honest and legit people. They were asked only to pay the shipping cost to send them to the next person, and to post their impressions on the thread. All good to go. So I sent them out to the first person, then forget to follow up on it to ensure that they were being passed along as agreed... And that was that. Gone in 60 seconds. Or 60 days, or however long it was until I got my head out of my ass and tried to see what happened. Never made it past the first guy. No idea now of even who that was. Should have started with known people. Oh well. Whoever it was is a royal cunt.