The Monkey

Happy birthday!

Little Monkey and I stayed home sick.

Love it, Nate.

Happy Birthday, Grahame!

Awesome! Congratulations!

Nice offices folks. I need to get mine in order...it's a sty. Hung out with my son today: went to the tailor, then Toys 'r' Us, then dinner with the whole family. Good.

Ha! I can only imagine. He seemed like a good guy.

^That's too bad re the Cardas IEMs. I was looking forward to those. What was the name of the guy who had them at RMAF?

Happy birthday, John.

I found that part of the article confusing. It's not clear, to me at least, that the 53% of $1B belonged to Beats. It could also be that 53% belonged to Monster, of which Beats is certainly a significant amount. Whatever, they takin' it to the bank, son.

I think it's pretty amazing that Beats is a $600 million company (at least). I had no idea it was that valuable.

Dr. Dre wants to push Noel Lee off his Segway. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/beats-electronics-is-breaking-up-with-monster-01122012.html?campaign_id=rss_null

Yeah, either with the thought that those with cash to burn would buy both, or that the more price-sensitive masses are more likely to want a high-end phone with less audiophile resolution and more bass. I think they'd sell a lot of "Super 650s" at $1000 without cannibalizing 800 sales. All conjecture, of course.

I guess I'm using "complementary" as a shorthand, if clumsy, way of saying, perhaps equally clumsily, "one dark, one bright."

I think Senn sucks not because of the way its headphones sound, generally speaking, but because of the strategic decisions it has made recently. It's odd to me that Senn seeded some forums with proto 700s, but apparently didn't listen to the requests from same about what would be a nice complement to the 800. As for what I've heard extensively: HD 25-1 HD 25-1 II HD 215 HD 280 Pro HD 580 HD 595 HD 600 HD 650 HD 800 Environments: all kinds, including but not limited to my own home. Equipment: all kinds of amps, all kinds of DACs, and my johnson.

I'll wait for iFold.

Yes, among other things. I don't know how much longer this pricing strategy will last given the newly-frisky DOJ/FTC in competition matters. I look forward to resale price maintenance getting a swift kick in the butt, despite the Leegin decision.

Tyll, can you nicely ask Senn WTF they are thinking with the 700? Interesting, too, that they took a price increase on the 800, I hadn't noticed that, and then slid these in. I get that they're in it to make money, but raising price on the flagship so they can also introduce flagship light is REALLY cheesy.

Sennheiser sucks.

Missus Monkey is at the show, Tyll. I'll tell her to watch out for the wild man in the Hawaiian shirt. Tonight, I installed 4 more gigs of RAM in my MB (not pro) bringing it to 8GB. Apple said it was limited to 4GB; OWC said different. It appears OWC was right.

Happy Birthday, Luis.

When Missus Monkey and I first started living together, I decided to show how big a help I could be by washing the pots and pans one night, including the cast iron skillet. She wasn't too pleased about that part. I've tried to avoid cleaning the kitchen ever since.

Nice amp, tmoney.

Indeed! Jeff got me the Black Maple Hill 16 y.o., which I am itching to sample asafp. It was literally next on my list to try, but I never pulled the trigger. Thanks Jeff! January Christmas presents FTW!