CarlSeibert

It is big news. You've probably got to say something, even if only that you're not reviewing them and you're talking to AKG to find out what the eff's wrong.

Me too. All good. Thanks Todd!

Antonio wasn't kidding about the inflatable doll part ;-)

Have we been hornswaggled by another Tapatalk upgrade? Maybe just on the client side? I can't get a PM thread to load in Tapatalk on my phone. The newest version of Tapatalk Pro on my S4 won't load regular threads either. The older version will do regular threads. The really old version on my ancient iPhone seems to be working.

Didn't Linn just do something with whiskey?

That works )

Happy Birthday Todd!!!!

Shelly, I have a 2012 Nexus 7 and it's been absolutely flawless. FWIW, YMMV, etc.

I must say that I'm impressed that the company spokesman in that video depicts himself as a cartoon character, wearing underwear on his head. they're not all self-serious.

Good heavens. At $150, it's a steal.

Actually, the Belroy was $90. and the fifteen-ish year old Tumi that preceded it was about the same. So I'm with Jacob here. $6.70 a year for something you touch as much as a wallet doesn't seem too bad.

Necrobumping to report back. I've had the Belroy for a couple months now and can report that it's a peachy keen wallet. It's thin. It's well designed. It works.

Took the Smart to the dinosaur for four very tiny but shockingly expensive new tires.

For no good reason at all I suspect that there is some sample to sample variation or batch to batch variation.

This gizmo has popped up like one of those after-the-rain mushrooms in other threads, so I'm doing the taxonomy thing and giving it a thread of its own. Three of us have one. We have each used it in different ways. So here's my experience: First off, my copy changed character in its first hours of operation, enough so that trying to figure out what was going on with it was frustrating. I think it's odd for electronics to "break in" much. If they change at all, they just seem to get "a little better." This thing sounded yucky and differently yucky every time I picked it up. I'd recommend a few days in the picnic cooler before listening. Once I got it figured out, I concluded that it drives IEMs pretty well, but it drives headphones really badly, and not in the usual amp-can't-drive-these-headphones way. Usually, I would expect weak dynamics and maybe a roll-off at one end or the other, but from the Fiio, I got huge FR bumps at, oh, about 200 Hz and maybe 8 or 10 KHz and absolutely nothing beyond those points. The midrange was screwed up in ways that are hard to describe - flat, dimensionless, messed up harmonics, or maybe something else altogether. But it wasn't musical or nice. I tried every headphone I have that I would use with a portable. None were pleasant. Line out to an amp was a completely different story. It's certainly not as convenient as a single box, but this way, it's musical - a pleasant FR curve (m-a-y-b-e a bit of brightness, but I'm something of a brightness hypochondriac) good to really good resolution across the band, great, really tight bass and a pleasant, if slightly rolled treble. It's way better than my iPod Classic, and I don't have to fuss with transcoding ALACs. It works for me. The interface seems adequate to me. Battery life seems fine. At our SoFla meet a couple weeks ago, we had this, the HiFIMan 801 and 901, and the AK 100 at hand. It was interesting. The AK 100, through a Pico Slim, showed a magnificent clear treble and loads of resolution. I've never liked the AK 100 amp-less. The Pico Slim made a big improvement. It didn't like the RSA Tomahawk as well, but it was still very good . The 901 was very PRaT-y and weighty. It was musical. It had great resolution. Didn't try it with an outboard amp because I didn't feel the need. The 801 was cut of the same cloth, but less of it. The 901 was my favorite of the four. The Fiio leaned in the 901/801 direction - musical, maybe a tad warmer than the AK 100, but not quite as satisfying. The Fiio seemed to like the Ray amp better, but it was lovely with the Pico Slim, too. The interface of the AK 100 was in a class above. The 901's was OK and better than the Fiio's. The Fiio's was perfectly adequate. (Most of the listening was done with my, formerly Shelley's, formerly Miguel's, ETW-9s.) John summed it up by saying he thought the Fiio/Pico Slim was "70 to 80%" of the AK 100/Pico Slim. At 25% of the cost. (20% of the cost of the 901). So there you have it. It was a rocky romance at first, but now I really like the thing, given that I don't use a portable enough to justify a kilobuck DAP. Todd?, Jeffy?

Happy Birthday Gene!!!!

Oops. Missed the thread. Happy belated Birthday John!!!

Glad for Dusty and wishing Ozzy the best of times in the time that's left.

We have been adopted. This is Donut. He walked into our yard out of the clear blue whatever about three weeks ago, just like Enigma did fourteen years ago. We asked around, posted found cat posters, checked the internet, had him checked for a microchip, put a collar with a note on him - all the things we did with Enigma - and nobody stepped up to take responsibility for him. Apparently, the poor guy was just dumped at the end of our street. He's moved into a guest kitty suite in the garage now and we took our second trip to the vet today. He passed all his blood tests and is cleared to move into the house when he is ready. So I guess now he's officially family.

Fencing might be good on TV because they have slow motion. I find fencing to be like listening to bluegrass. I'm always saying "what just happened".

When I was re-doing the cueing mechanism on a tonearm I learned that knob feel can be all about the lube. (Indirectly, of course) Take a floppy and sloppy knob, slap on a little of that number four-zillion grease and we're talking high-end.

Happy Birthday Alex!!!

Sorry about that. Tapatalk moment.

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I have a headphone cable made of w2893 and it's not too heavy or cumbersome. Sometimes working with factory cables can be less than fun. They tend to do things like making Litz out of really really fine strands, leaving you with the challenge of getting the varnish off without melting the bejesus out of the insulation. My vote is grab the Mogami from Nate.