skullguise

I picked up the Utopia recently, echo John's comments regarding sound. This weekend I was at a local dealer's, they had the Elear and Utopia out for listen. Indeed, not exactly the same sound signatures. Elear is still quite good at $1k, but Utopia is definitely more refined, better highs, more balanced overall, and more transparent. The bass on the Elear seemed fuller, but the Utopia is MAYBE as deep but definitely a bit more controlled IMO. EDIT: BTW, driven by an Arcam CD player, so source wasn't up to snuff. Told them they should put in a new source or set up a good DAC. So my observations could even be understated.....

Happy Birthday Tom! May it be filled with wine, women and song.....the latter two with Noo Yawk accents!

Love this album! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

RIP to all our pet friends, condolences to all.....

^^^ This....losing lives sucks....losing childrens' lives sucks BAD

Happy Birthday! And what Dusty said....miss you!

RIP to many of the Brazil Chapecoense soccer team.....such a tragedy..... http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/plane-carrying-brazils-chapecoense-soccer-team-crashes-colombia-n689416

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Thanks all! We're pretty damn proud of him. Now if he'd only clean his room

Happy Birthday! We'd love to see you more, and not just on Mike's avatar!

RIP Sharon....great clip Antonio!

The new Elac UniFi series should be really good for relatively cheap $. I had the Debut B6 from the first series designed by Andrew Jones. A little soft up top, but good deep bass and otherwise lovely sound, all for $280/pr. The new $500/pr UniFi UB5 bookshlves should be more extended up top, with a 5" mid-bass driver and concentric mid-tweeter combo. The UF5 is a floorstander for $1k/pr. The Pioneer models he designed I thought were very good, but the Elac Debut B5's and B6's were leaps and bounds ahead IMO. They also make a sub and center if you want to try to go 5.1+

You take care of stray animals, to a degree few of us here would. That says a lot about your character and humanity. I and I'm sure others recognize and commend that. Don't worry about getting our hopes up for the future of our country and world Off politics for a bit: my son got his first acceptance to college 2 days ago, along with $22k/yr scholarship award offer! BUT....the letter said it was Early Decision (binding). We confirmed we had sent Early Action (non-binding), so Andrew talked with admissions. New letter to come, still accepted right away, still the $22k/yr, and non-binding. It's too bad this is 3rd or 4th choice for Andrew. It happens to be closest to us and the only school in state he liked. But I think it bodes well for other schools......

Sorry to hear that, hope the others are OK......

Happy Birthday Alex!

Yeah, even Chinese replicas of the 212 aren't cheap! BTW, I like the view outside the windows Nice area in which to listen

No other words.....RIP Leon.... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

That's really awesome! I'm afraid, though, you're teaching those impressionable cats the habit of smoking.....

Very cool....and it's in the new (to be) garage space.....!

Mr. Death seems to want to end 2016 with a bang. Fuck you.....really..... RIP Victor Bailey, Robert Vaughn, and again Leonard Cohen....

Wow.....I had read he said he was near the end.....but fuck.....wow...... RIP, to a legend and a human.

Happy Birthday!! Awesome cake pic, Steve!

Happy Birthday!!

I was waffling after all since I own the HD-600, ended up trying at around 10am anyway. Same result. Someone will eventually sell theirs, as Doug just said....

Yeah, don't like Gibson, don't want to support him/his projects. Cynic in me thinks this is his way of trying to get back in good graces of the public who cares.... But if it's a good movie, I'll see it....