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bah humbug - sorry to hear this ..dB

stumbled on this thread while "procrastination browsing" - good luck there , had I known earlier I wold have made sure my data was backed up for when the lights on the west coast went down Seems you bypassed that important step . Hope the rest goes together smoothly - not sure why the leds are night lighting up if everything is measuring as expected though..dB

you mean I am not a dynamic person they will have to pry my HP50's off my head when I die ..dB

vaguely recall them mentioned in the past ...... great - they have them for $570 shipped . Thanks ..dB

this makes good sense , might just have to suck it up then ..dB

Anyone have an idea where I can get the AD2000 at the "best" price. The average I have seen it retailing for is $700 but some of the older threads refer to the cost being closer to $500 a few years ago. thanks..dB

soooooo very well done ..dB at least i will get to hear them before they ship

yeah but you like holding your head between a thousand volts with those membrane thingimebobs, something's gotta give ..dB

well some folk have misinterpreted and listed both hd600 and ad2k - I guess as editor I could err in favour of my preferred choice -- that would be the full cost of eagle - iirc $550 I am not convinced that everyone will ever be happy ..dB

That maple burl finish is just incredible - I think I need some basic lessons in wood. excellent work on the fostex smegman ..dB

: just gorgeous ..dB

yep , not all have shown a preference for tier 2 HPs ..dB

To give you an idea where we sit with the voting Tier 1 eagle 16 HD800 12 Tier 2 HD600 10 K701 2 RS1 5 AD2000 9 ..dB

Final updated tally : $1385 Contributors : dB / Batman / Pabbi / Forsakenrider / NoNoNoNoNoNo / guzziguy / cfcubed / wiatrob / smeggy / headphoneaddict ferrari / amphead / germania aka childofthehorn / digger945 / postal_blue / nikongod MrMajestic2 / adamus / tacitapproval / Alcaudon / nmaher / anon / ferrari / moodysteve chobint / fishski13 / fordgtlover / linuxworks / vixr / MrSlim / jp11801 / kklee / balderon krmathis / AMB / MASantos / MisterX / TomB / sacd lover / scompton / Uncle Bob / ericj / holland Elephas / V-DiV / Hayduke / naamanf / jrossel / rds / user18 / willisv / pars / tintin47 / zkool448 OK Folk, I am going to start wrapping this up and thus the final decision time is near. I am going to send all involved a pm with a voting option. The Primary vote is going to be between HD800 and Eagle + HP , the second tier vote is going to be between HD600 , K701 and RS1. To be clear we have the choice between the HD800 or Eagle and another headphone. The way I am going to tally the votes is via the 2 tier approach - first round goes up against the HD800 , if this has majority vote, it stops there. If not, we move on to voting between the HD600 / K701 or RS1. I will count the first vote listed and post results once available. I have cleared space in my pm box and will conduct all voting via pm ( or e-mail ) , feel free to spat it out publicly but the tally in my inbox is what will finally decide the choice. Thank you to everyone for participating ( and feel free to join in if the desire strikes you still ) , perhaps smeggy will grace us with an update of his mighty fine work. ..dB

I use Katie Melua's Piece By Piece as a test track for sibilance - really scrapes the chalkboard with some headphones / cables..dB

I had been hoping to plug the K1000 into the EHHA at the meet but the one Ken brought along didn't have the adapter and had been "tuned to the stingray" . Kev never made it with his , perhaps one day the smegman will head south of the river I remember reading about the prima luna when it was released and it read very well back then. Looks like a fine combo..dB

I could always charge more of it makes him feel better , thanks for the kind words and pleased you all liked what you heard..dB

too true - and it tells me all as the tkd is still favoured ..dB

just curious - anybody ever compared a shunted RK27 to one of these TKD's? I don't want to start a (potentially heated) shunt debate here so a simple y/n will do ..dB

Thanks Pabbi - sure hope you get the PM sorted I thought I would quote from the other forum as Ferrari doesn't hang out here

Well we are nearly there so I think I am going to start making some inquiries about time line for availability..dB

allow me a quick jig I will wait for the stew to mature ..dB

we could swap weather - real dreary up here , real PIA waiting for packages tho ..dB

[breaths sigh of relief] not that I was truly concerned but ya never know how things get exaggerated in your own mind. glad it made it and has made a good impression. now here's hoping JP's gets the same delivery treatment and not an HD2 repeat ..dB

good ol f2d - saw this the other day in a link and cracked up, wonder if the seller has even checked his listing , who knows - may get even more attention as a result. ..dB