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I remember these from the sixties. Chessmen of Mars started me off in Sci-F-i books when my father bought it home after finding it on a train.

"You've got the big mouth part covered... " I only open my mouth to change feet. The only academics I have a gripe with are those who are educated beyond their intelligence, and hence won't listen to anyone who steps on their pet paradigm.

My bad... as in puns......

Solution: Small sandwich & big mouth......

I bet they would sound wooden too. Or, maybe, the just wooden work.

That rings a bell...... Must revisit the episode....

"....not dealing with a full deck. " Oh, dear. BTW it was not a personal barb at your august self. I was being too terse and concise. Most people don't deal with the full deck because they take out one or two of the jokers supplied. "You may want to take a long, hard look in the mirror." I do, and all I see is a balding old fogey. My invective is against the academics who are totally impractical. Reminds me of an episode of the TV series Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy where they put all the academics in one ship and sent them in a different direction to the rest of the fleet. When the academics landed on a habitable planet and realised they were cut off from the others they died out because every time they had to make a decision they had to hold a meeting to discuss what had to be done. You know the type.

....not dealing with a full deck.

I ratiocinate all the time and it leads me to the solid conclusion that it is not a ubiquitous practice, and if done improperly leads to the obfuscation of the subject of ratiocinated. All academia should be lined up against the wall and shot with reality pills.

Good post Leonardo. Don't let the jaded Head-case ensconsed denizens mortify you with their blase comments. It could be they are mortified by your not-so-succinct erudition. The other forum would be severely miffed, unless you posted it in the Sound Science forum. In that case you would have to run the gauntlet of all the pseudo-intellects who believe that their brand of reality is the only valid one for human existence. At least here you only have to put up with veiled jibes, polite raspberries and off-beat attempts at humour.

The person who buys these phones will be in for a surprise when they try them on their normal bias socket. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/STAX-SR-007-OMEGA2-HEADPHONE-SET-/200751032787?pt=UK_AudioVisualElectronics_HomeAudioHiFi_Headphones&hash=item2ebdb1a9d3

sillysally can be a trip at times.

Yay... Good point.

http://www.pawel-acoustics.ch/pdf/hp-1_german.pdf Anyone know about this?

I'd be a bit more interested if the Anaxilus mod wasn't so effective in squelching the treble.

Make some more.....

Is that the one for sale over at H-F?

Taket H2

For the newbie's sake, it's better to keep it simple than to flabberghast them with science.

Didregard all the above. It's all specious rubbish. The real reason is the same reason people like valves in preference to solid state. The problem is that people like even harmonic distortion. Even harmonic distortion causes sympathetic vibrations in the auditory canals as the cilia vibrate in harmony. This fools the brain into thinking that as the distortion augments the primary note, it sounds like musicality. DO NOT BE FOOLED. Distortion is DISTORTion. Purity is High Fidelity.

Happy Birthday, you young whipper-snapper. May all your pleasures be high voltage and amplified.

Johnwmclean's B22 and HD800 were wonderful driven off his buffalo II Dac. One of the cleanest and detailed systems I've heard. In clean, I don't mean it had the life sucked out of the music. Sparkling presentation. Like a fresh morning view of the countryside on a clear frosty morning..... When the air almost sparkles, it's so clear.

I'm waiting for Spritzer's incarnation of the volcano. He could call it Bardabonga after the volcano that blew in 1477AD. I dont think Schiit will steal that name as they did Mjolnir. It doesn't have the same ring to it.

Trouble here is if they only sell a whole batt or roll, and you only want/need a half a square foot.