skullguise

^^^ I thought he was Canada's Jesus Gotta love Grapes! Y'know, what's sadder about this all is that I can't even bring myself to hate the Habs this year.....with the exception of Lapierre and the occasional sleazy cheap moves he does, it's realy not a bad team. There's talk on some Bruins boards about locker room dissention; kind of like what happened in MTL last year. Good on them to clean house a bit (even if it meant getting an overpriced Scott Gomez). Anyway....taking my son and his friend, and meeting one of my friends, for the Rangers game today. It'll be good to see my friend, haven't in a few months. Hopefully the Bruins don't screw up another one, they're 3 points ahead of NYR for 8th seed.

They are completely emasculated at this point, no balls and no heart. They played one of the worst games against a team with a dirtbag who ended the Bruins' best player's season, maybe longer.... They really needed to show unity, toughness, and demand respect from a team that basically walked over them tonight. Turn them over....they are done.... Bummed in MA.

Thank you...be safe, return safe.

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Mine, but the 4 others I have won't miss it.....don't bother wasting the mail money.... Great to meet you, BTW. Still talking about the beer selection you and Al brought back. A woman at work recognized the Opa Opa, she lives near them apparently. Now I want to party with her. EDIT: more......

I've always liked the Silverlines. Very efficient, do well at the low volumes you mention, and have big sound in some small boxes.....only thing I'm not sure of is if they are all rear-ported....

Wow, sorry I missed the after-fest. I got to rush home and see a Temple setup for a Bat-Mitzvah (our son's Bar-Mitzvah will eventually be there). But have to admit, the whine was better there. DID end up meeting up with some good friends for dinner, though, so that made up for it. Nice meeting you all in person, was a great time indeed!

What about the Elipse monitors, with the separate super-tweeter? I had read a bit about them, looked interesting. They have some processing capability IIRC, to correct for room anomalies...... [ATTACH=CONFIG]2776[/ATTACH]

Interesting read on all this....wish I had read earlier, as the T1 was at a Boston area meet yesterday. And while I liked it better than the other Beyer's I've heard in the past, it still didn't wow me. I would have liked to try it on the TTVJ Millet 307 there, using the different output options....

I picked up one of these too, for my bedroom. Agreed with all above: sound is just decent, but functionality and style is very nice. Has a headphone jack, I use that and a Shure 840 for some fun but non-critical listening. Buy.com was selling these for cheap when I got mine, not anymore so it seems. But you can likely find them for < $300, maybe used.

Heard a very bad/good joke the other day, went to the Arabian Nights show in Kissimee, FL (got free tix, thankfully; realized that - aside from some beautiful animals - it wasn't a highlight of my trip). A somewhat nice but kind of trashy guy comes up to us, and asks, "What did the very old horse say when he fell down?" After seeing our blank stare, he replied, "I've fallen...and I can't Giddy-Up!" Sadly, I encouraged him by chuckling.....

I think the 580 has some of the most "fun" for me. I've heard, but never owned, the 600's. I owned the 580's and 650's, twice each. Didn't like the 650's overall until I ran them balanced, then they showed me more of what they could do. But based on your boredom, and the fact that there is no T-Shirt mod for them , I don't think I'll be getting 600's any time soon. EDIT: weird....the word "Didn't" shows up twice for me when I view this post, but only once when I go to edit....anyone else see two of them? Time to stop drinking....or maybe start.....

I believe you are correct, but some folks have mods that will allow this. THIS is one of the better sites I've seen on the tuner.

Agree with all the talk here, it really hasn't seemed very special. That said, that little Sony HD Tuner that's getting decent press is a nice unit with decent sound quality. I have a cheap Rat Shack tabletop antenna on it, and it's getting great reception. The HD quality is so-so, just another background music choice IMO. Adds to the options, but not worth critical listening in any way. (EDIT: of course, I'm talking home audio here, but similar applies to car)

How does this compare to Ask Me Tomorrow, that's the only one I own?

Bumping this older thread with some news. The first batch of DAC's should be shipping over early next week to Bill @ Morningstar. Some folks (myself included ) paid extra to get some of them air-shipped. I'm on vacation the following week, not sure if it'll make it to me before I go or if my neighbor will get the box. But I plan on bringing it to the March 6th Boston-area meet, along with my FallenAngel Buffalo32. Some updates in the Audiocircle thread, with a couple pics. Todd - skullguise

No, it's just that the older version just had more burn-in.....

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I've heard the DACMagic twice (once at a dealer's, and once at a friend's who had borrowed one to try). Never captured me at all..... I also had about a 3 hour listening session at another dealer, to the 840c player. Liked it some, but also thought it had a harshness in the upper mids that was too annoying & distracting. The same dealer had a Primare CD player (forgot model, but around $2300 list price IIRC) that was significantly better than the 840c. I thought the 840c may have been newer, maybe needed some burn in. But dealer said it was several months old, and had plenty of hours on it. He did say afterwards that I wasn't the only one who mentioned that brashness. Just another couple cents...

^^^ I will have trouble sleeping tonight...... :Puke-Smiley:

Wow, a day without visiting, and I thought I was hungover....and I didn't even drink last night! Must be that brown acid I took at Woodstock.....

This seems to be a somewhat well-regarded combo based on a search of this thread. Can anyone concur/comment? I was basically ready to pay the ~$2K for the rig that Stretch got if he hadn't gone for it..... If not this, what phones might go well with a SRM-T1W amp, which I also may be able to get with help from Nate?

See the Sennheiser 380 thread.....that one wins hands-down for me. I tried several Ultrasone's, I realy WANTED to like them for some reason. The closest I came was the 2200HLE and RAL-recabled PRO-900. But bottom line is I don't have them anymore, they ultimately didn't do it for me.... BTW, someone earlier in the thread mentioned the GS-1000's. It was a really odd situation, but to me there was a bizarre but quite nice synergy in my system at a time with the GS-1000 highs and my PS Audio GCHA amp. Extended but smooth, natural sounding; some of the best high's I had heard from Grado phones! Too bad the amp made the bass totally unbalanced and fat compared to every other aspect of the sound....ultimately unlistenable as well

At least tell me it's the SE version. I'd feel SO much better if I only paid 3.5x what I needed to, instead of about 7x....

If that doesn't work, there's several freeware converter proggies that'll do it. SUPER is one of them, it is also a system hog at times, but has a ton of conversion options.