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It makes a novel doorstop.

I think my ESP 950's are better than my Stax 404LE, but that's my take. Your MMV.

Was Gamera the parent of the teenage mutant ninja turtles?

They're as rare as hens teeth.

You would be greatly informed on the subject if you got in touch with chinsettawong and/or went to that other nefarious portal of all things headphone and look in their DIY section on building your own electrostatic headphone thread. I saw a doco recently which featued the red faced turtle. I represent that...!

Should have held out for a pair of VAF DCX gen IV.....

Horse feathers.

I'd recommend the JPS Abyss or Sennheiser Orpheus. The Sony MDR R10 or Qualia O10 if you really want to compromise..... The choice is yours.

http://seanolive.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/the-perception-and-measurement-of.html?m=1

Exracts bass and detail that's not in the original program material. That amounts to digital eisegesis.

And, there were no Black Gates....

At least the dude tried........

Interesting read..... http://www.humblehomemadehifi.com/Cap.html

I got mine by email.

Looks like an Orpheus on a vegetarian diet. Makes me feel Jaded.......

I'm a neo-luddite, and I don't see much Kaizen in the changes I've seen in the last half century.

Need it to drill the holes in the bread to put the raisins in for raisin toast....

The real answer to the JPS Abyss. (which looks abysmal).

But, but, they look better than the OEM cables. ergo, performance improvement.

I was disappointed that Sennheiser didn't have a top line new offering at the show. I guess we will have to wait until later in the year for a supposed answer to AKG's K812.

Bakery becomes small metal workshop?

Guilt by association?

There's also the problem that some who haven't heard a live orchestra/band have no real point of reference to guage what it should sound like. Hearing recorded material through cheap coloured headphones/speakers will set that as the standard of what things should sound like. I have a nephew who is a Beatles nut and he used to listen to his CDs through a cheap piece of musical furniture. One day he came over and I demonstrated some of my headphone collection for him. He remarked that the music on my system sounded very different to what he thought it should sound like. I told him to bring one of his Beatles CDs nex time he came over. He showed up with a Beatles CD, and I let him hear it through the HD800s and the expression on his face was priceless. He checked to see that the right CD was playing because he could hardly recognise the songs with the extra dynamic range and detail. The next time i saw him he said that he took the CD to a friend's place so that he could hear it on his friend's father's hi-fi setup because he couldn't believe the difference he had heard between his system and mine. He said that this friend's father's system sounded a lot more like mine than his. Eventually I got him a pair of reasonable speakers which transformed his low-fi unit into something more realistic and within his budget. The takeaway lesson here is that some peoply think that what they have is realistic, and it is only when they hear another system which is substantially better do they realise how deficient their present system is. Whether they are prepared to shell out for something better is a different matter.

... and so they should. In saying that one shouldn't be under the delusion that the whole set-up is high fidelity. Enjoy it for what it's worth, but remember what it is. At the moment, my most used headphones are:- Sennheiser HD600, AKG K702 and Beyerdynamic DT531. I specifically use these because I can listen to them and not be distracted and drawn into critical listening. I just want to hear what's there in broad brush strokes. If I want to pore over the "Mona Lisa" I pull out the HD800 ot the SR007 Mk11. Horses for courses.