shellylh

Graded more final exams and submitted my annual report on my NSF grant with minutes to spare. (For those who care) I hate submitting reports on research.gov (fastlane, however bad it was, was so much better/easier).

I'll be coming into town on Thursday evening, talking to people and giving a talk on Friday at Georgia Tech. At some point, I will be making my way to that direction on Friday evening. If anyone plans to be in town on Thursday night and wants to get together for dinner, let me know. I am staying near GT, a little north of downtown. I might try to make my way over to Antico Pizza http://www.anticoatl.com/. My flight doesn't get in until 7pm though and so I probably won't be able to get there until after 8pm.

@CJ - Wow!

Maybe Hyde Park has changed a lot in the past few years but I never found it all that exciting. I would vote for downtown... but I'm no expert.

I somehow missed this. I'll donate later today.

Giving a final exam. I am not sure who was the joker in the registrar's office who decided to give me an exam on Sunday.

Luther is great, wish there were more seasons. We've been watching The Wire season 4 (the school season), it is fantastic!

I want short rib sliders too. I ate dinner but it was all healthy and vegetarian.

^Manhattans are approved!

Happy Birthday Ryan!

Interested in your opinion. I am thinking of getting one myself.

Sorry for Emily.

Argh, I may have to put off getting new DACses for a bit.

Happy Birthday Kevin!

Upon inspection, I see that there certificate expired 5 days ago so they probably just didn't update it yet. I am not too worried, just trying to be cautious nowadays.

No, we are not. One should still be able to use it as a preamp, as long as you are using the DAC, right? I like having $200. I was hoping you were going to buy one and then sell it to me cheap. I went to Benchmark to order one however, I got a security warning (expired certificate) when I tried to check out. Since I am paranoid, I decided not to continue (and email the Benchmark people about the problem). Sigh. I guess I'll wait until BH/AudioAdvisor or someone else has it or they update their certificate. By the way, if people are interested, I emailed Benchmark and asked them if one could use the RCA and XLR output simultaneously. They replied very quickly with the following. "All 3 set of outputs can be used simultaneously without any loss of quality.. Each output has its own output stage, independent of the others."

I just noticed that Benchmark now has offers the DAC2 D which is the same as the DAC2 HGC (as far as I can tell) but without the analog inputs and 12V trigger. It cost $200 less than the HGC. http://www.benchmarkmedia.com/dac/dac2-d I think I am going to buy one sometime soon.

Oops, I meant the PK3, not PK (not as good).

@Larry: I tried and don't like the D7000. Yep, this is the problem I have with a lot. The hang below my jawline so I cannot get a fit even by bending the headband. These are way too long, they go far below my jawline. Too bad because they were great. Thanks Dusty, but I think I am going to pass on these, especially since Tyll says they are not as good as the D2000 and they tend to be very large (they will probably hang too low for me). That is something I may think about. I'll try out the gym PK1s to see how they do.

Thanks Dinny, but that is too open for my needs. I think I will probably just try the K271 and if I don't like them, stick with IEMs.

Yeah, but they probably will be too big for me. Could never get anything but the AD2000 to fit my head.

And I would need a giant rubberband to keep them from falling off. Plus the 840s sound is too soft for me.

Audio Technicas are out. SR4070 are great (I borrowed Al's at some point) but they do not touch my head unless I hold up my arms to clamp them to my head. That might be kinda tiring (to hold up my arms for hours). I suppose I could also get a big rubber band to keep them on my head as well.... I'll take a look at the Sennheiser HD250

I have a pair of K701 but they are open. I have plenty of great open cans.

I am assuming that the 940 would fall off my head (the 840s were too big for me I think). They also didn't look very comfortable (very Senn 280 pro or Ultrasone) . For reference, the HD800s are too big for me and the HD650/600/580 fit me great. Otherwise they sound like what I am looking for.