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It certainly is a very crude filtering process. Reminds me of a set of shapes where you fit the square peg in the square hole and round peg in the round hole. The trouble is that if the pegs are substantiaiiy smaller than the holes, then any shaped peg would fit any shaped hole.

Therein is the rub. True high fidelity is getting as close in the reproduction of the source material as possible. If the source material is sub-standard, it should sound sub-standard, and vice versa. It seems that a lot of the criticism of a sound system is misplaced and should be directed at the source material.

Interesting summary of the flagship headphone landscape. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wi8M-HSeK0JF33P-5ypydQjQ4OshRQhvWM0IX2h0NQ8/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p

You've just gotta love the brutality of the HD800.

http://www.head-fi.org/content/type/61/id/934324/width/500/height/1000/flags/LL

Try harder. The problem is usually the amp and source.

Yours is pretty much like mine except it has more bass from that step up at 225Hz going back to 100Hz. Mine gains about 1dB to 100Hz in 3 slight steps whereas yours gains about 3.5dB in 3 more pronounced steps.

The new Jecklin float with bass boost?

Starving student run from an iPod using basic MP3 downloads.

I feel both your pain and joy in successive instalments. I have never sold a headphone, but have given some away.

You should really be thinking of this as having one less Grado to offload.

Seems like it never left the drawing board.

But.... but.... Stax has been running underspecced tubes from the start...... It sort of works. I guess that if Stax had done their amps right in the first place, there'd be no need for the KGBH, BHSE, DIYT2, KGSS, KGSSHV, etc.

Yeah, you need to differentiate between the different Philips sizes, and also using philips screwdrivers to screw pozidrive or Torq-set screws. http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CEgQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FScrewdriver&ei=lRGPUqDsDcT-iAeNuIGgDQ&usg=AFQjCNGTvcN8acdkBOEuXPabdRCjNRpbOA&bvm=bv.56988011,d.dGI http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CEoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTorx&ei=eBKPUpnRPKmtiQfcyYHYBg&usg=AFQjCNEN_sTOiU_IqmDcF_PVIXQhiaFkqw&bvm=bv.56988011,d.dGI

This just seems so wrong....................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAzQ7Pn0Bbc

So, do you think thelostmidrange lost it?

How about one on the new "Dupont Freon" amp that sounds cold, but significantly adds to global warming?

Why nmot an Alpha pot?

Watch them chemtrails and nuclear power stations, dude. They add to the sonic pleasure of your listening. thelostmidrange may be the full quid, but is he a counterfeit?

A new take on the Faraday cage, perhaps?

The Cavalli Liquis Gold thread on the other site has been locked after some posts about build quality concerns. I know at least one post was deleted from when I last saw it and it being locked. Just sayin'

As far as looks go, it looks like an audio mausoleum. Needs the Abyss headphones for the contrast.

Impedance matching can cure a multitude of audio woes.

If it is inconvenient, you can count on it.