The Monkey

Nikongod's K1000 was the highlight of the meet for me. For some reason, until now I had never really been into the K1000.But I really liked them this time around. Perhaps the relatively quieter meet conditions helped. Regardless, now I want one.

Used HD 25-1 gets my vote.

happy birthday to you both!

Sorry all, I can't bear to go through all the pages right now. Here's my situation. Every time I go to a meet, I end up loving the Stax phones. The O2 is among my favorites, but way WAY out of my price range. That said, what would be a recommended sweet spot to enter the Stax lineup?

Here's what I ended up doing. I went with 2 of these enclosures: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/usb/eliteclassic. I put a 500GB in one for music and a 750GB in the other for backing up both my internal iMac drive (250GB) and the external music drive.

Happy Birthday, Nate. Have a good one!

Cool, thanks.

Have you heard the A5? I am kind of interested in the A2 for my iMac.

Word.

DVR'd The Wire

I use iTunes to manage my music collection. Its tagging capabilities leave a lot to be desired. I'm playing around with fixtunes to clean up some of the tags, but I was wondering if folks have any other suggestions about a good tagger that works with Mac and iTunes.

I've been listening to my HF-1 the last few nights and to me it sounds good, but a bit congested, which is frustrating.

Celebrity Apprentice. Please shoot me.

hurray grawk!

I'm also so damn tempted by some Stax cans.

Thanks guys. And you're absolutely right, CanJam is the perfect place to start. Nate, I would love to build, but it still just isn't feasible with the little guy around these days. I am also frustrated by my lack of casework skills. John, I forgot to mention that the Zana was among those in which I am very interested. I spent some time with it (yours?) briefly at one of the NYC meets last year (I think it was near Tom's setup?).

I have been very pleased with Vienna Acoustics.

My gear is in my sig. I am very happy with it, and should probably just leave it at that. But that's no fun. So I could use some help focusing on what my next amp will be. This purchase likely is well in the future, but I'd like to start the search now. My first thoughts are either a balanced b22 or something real tubey since I don't have much experience with tube amps. I guess the sound sig I am after would be on the warmer side. Budget needs to be south of 2K. Any thoughts?

I'll take SE impressions, too.

I'd appreciate impressions from those of you who have heard a balanced HF-1 compared to a balanced RS-2 or RS-1. Basically, I'm trying to decide if I want to move on from my HF-1.

How much leakage (out) is there with the ESW9?

I always come back to the HD 25-1. Not a sexy headphone, but it gets the job done.

fuckin' Lost

last season's finale of "Lost" with the bubbles explaining what was going on. Pretty entertaining, actually.

Yum, placebo!