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I voted.

Actually he has every right, if someone’s stupid enough to pay the price so be it. I don’t have any issue with the asking price as I will never in a million years contemplate buying this crap.

Side view - two power JFETs per side

Your response says a lot about you. You seem to have the sense of humor needed to do well here. Well played Sir!

They are called K'nex my good sir. And yes, i finished my homework before posting ofc, My mother doesn't let me play with my computer before homework.

Secret is now a relative term, when 50,000,000,000 Russians know how you voted before you exit the voting booth. So you snapped some Turkish Legos together and hung some headphones on them? Gold star Timmy! Did you finish your homework before posting on Head Case?

I made this today along with many things:

^ I'm Dr. Wood, and I approve this message!

who cares?

I have read that the Chinese market is even more ready to part with disposable income than the US market and very often people just ask for the most expensive crap regardless of what it is. If that's true, Fang releasing this is simply capitalizing on an opportunity, regardless of what people may think about it ethically. That, or maybe he just doesn't want to be left behind in the prestige wars with Sennheiser, and if they're willing to abuse the good will of enthusiasts to release a pointless marketing statement, then he needs to do it too or risk falling behind. Shit like this infuriates me because even though it is a pointless gimmick to most people, it changes the expectation of how headphones should be priced, and it makes it far more likely that manufacturers are going to position their high-performance offerings at a level where less and less enthusiasts can afford them. Though at this point it's too late to start bemoaning the trend of making high-performance headphones luxury goods, since aside from a few value propositions like the HD650, here we all are. In other news, I heard Focal's next headphones will have plutonium-coated drivers - the warmth of radioactive decay gives them a lovely midrange tone, and the mutations they induce in your eardrums improve your perceptual capabilities by as much as 20%! Only available to the most discerning customers, of course. Now, I'm not that discerning a customer, all I have is a vintage 40 year old HD650, so I'm not as good of a man as a customer that has a new Orpheus. But I long to improve my lot in life, so that someday, someday I'll be the sort of man who listens to a Shangri-La, has a set of Focals for his Astell & Kern, and drives to Monaco in his Lamborghini. I can't afford anything that anybody makes at all anymore, but I'm just happier knowing that this hobby exists for better people, and somebody somewhere is enjoying the beautiful, beautiful music (with his happily mutated set of golden ears). P.S. Is there a market in magnetic levitating blocks to elevate your cables?

Back at Chicago Hyatt O'Hare for a conference. A lot fewer headphones than I remember being here last time. Must have redecorated. I will see if any of you guys are still banned from the Hotel before I leave. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As a US Lawful Permanent Resident, I get to "enjoy" "Taxation without Representation" . Cheers \s. As an ex-pat for over 15 Years, I'm currently disenfranchised, but Brexit may have changed that https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/07/expats-given-vote-for-life-uk-elections-government-says.

Leonard Cohen - You Want it Darker free first listen at NPR. First tune reminds me of Nick Cave.

The local graham slee importer is closing it's doors and is selling off the remaining stock with a 40% discount. Naturally i picked up a reflex M and psu1. only problem now is i feel compelled to upgrade my lowly DL160 PU as well! #1st world problems also, this is the daintiest piece of hi-fi hardware i have ever seen!

I very much doubt it.

"The beautiful, cantilevered Shangrii La amplifier..." Jesus H Christ!

So, the white portions here are the four heatsinks with the rectifier diodes on them, in the above picture.

I should have worded that better. Moral right vs legal right. Yes - legally you can sell turds for a million bucks each if folks are dumb enough to buy them. Understood. I was setting the bar a little higher than that.

Possible speaker porn Wireless , Active, KEF LS50's, pre-order from tomorrow! http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2016/10/future-fi-now-kefs-ls50-wireless-active-loudspeaker/

RIP King Bhumibol Adulyadej

I'm Thai and I appreciate your condolence very very much. He was truly a great king...someone who I greatly revered. I'm now even more worried about what to come next as most Thais don't share the same level of respect toward the crown Prince.

Tonight I made a strawberry balsamic chicken and some garlic oven roasted asparaguseses. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As a gay man I'm given a secret packet that greatly expands my abilities on certain skill sets. One of those being interior design. While I'm not supposed to impart any of that knowledge to heterosexual America, I will go so far as to suggest that some strategically placed artwork could marry these sound transducers to your living room.

Salad and a little sushi. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is Lance and Nikolay Kovalev after fencing practice. Nikolay is a five time world champion, three time olympic fencer for Russia. Nikolay did not fence Lance this evening...

Fear not, and did you not see the 3.5lbs of carnitas I made the other night? I also had Paseos last night After a couple hours with a friend at an event at Westland distillery

Finding myself in need of a stand for my Lambdas and being unwilling to pay the $75 that Stax wants for the HPS-2, I built my own interpretation for free using of scrap lumber from a previous project. In recent years I've developed an allergy to simple butt joints, so dados and rabbets abound in my version.

We all knew this was going to happen but I've taken the SR-507 I got less than 24 hours ago apart. Stax does warn about any and all tampering voiding the warranty so don't try this at home kids. First off, lets remove those driver housings from the arc assembly (they just pull out like on the two other Lambda designs). Here are the 507 name plates: Now lest lift up the four corners of the earpads and remove the screws which fix the baffle to the back grill. The baffle just pulls out and we are greeted with this: Now this is very different from the other Lambdas, gone is the aluminum baffle with the driver glued onto it and now we have a molded plastic baffle with a cradle for the driver to sit in. I'm not sure what plastic it is but it is very stiff. Like I said above, Stax warns about the warranty being void if one tries to tamper with the headphones which would explain this: Now this just confirms what I thought as soon as I opened up the headphones, the drivers are not glued together but rather just stacked together inside the shell. This is how the SR-Omega is assembled, also the SR-007 and the SR-003. Throwing caution to the wind I remove those 4 screws: Here we can see the silicone o-ring used to seal the back of the driver and the new chrome look of the metal plate used to hold the dust cover in place. Now it's time to put my hunch to the test and see if the dust cover is glued to the stator: Indeed it is not though there is some compound used between them. This gives us a direct view of the stators which appear to be coated metal plates, similar to the newer stator design introduced in 1994 with the Lambda Nova Signature. Since I don't happen to have a clean room to do stuff like this I tried to keep the drivers uncovered for as short a time as possible. There are glue pads on the end of the driver so I decided not to mess with them and try my luck exposing the diaphragm. From the side view offered where the connections the diaphragm is still mounted to two solid brass rings like on all the other Lambdas. Now we take a look on the other side of the driver. With the new earpad design this is quite simple, just use a knife to lift up the cloth cover and you can see the protective mesh: This is the same silver colored material found on the post 2004 models. The arc is also new and very substantial if a bit uncomfortable for somebody with a gigantic head like me. They need a lot of parts to make this one work and plenty of screws. None of the cost cutting seen in the post 1994 arc assembly here. Now they are back together and needless to say, they work perfectly.