deepak

March 3 I think

I would actually really like to hear the RS-1 + Extreme. I somehow doubt it would be lacking in power. Another amp that you should consider is the Melos SHA-1. One on Audiogon right now for $500. But I've seen them sell for as little as $250.

The Extreme can use 2 6080s

Yeah I agree, it wouldn't be the first time the Academy did that either. I actually liked The Departed more than Iwo Jima, but they were both great.

I'll catch it on On Demand. The Oscars wasn't worth it, but it was cool to see Scorsese win.

Damn missed tonight, still watching the Oscars. Last weeks was ok. The Woman King was one of the worst episodes in all the 3 seasons though. The two part episode before the mid-season break was amazing.

If you think SR-225 + flats = bass machines, you should hear HF-1 + flats (I use bowls too)

Maybe thats why so many people that haven't heard any better like it

I know even the salesman at NYC's Sound by Singer commented that the new ones were yellow compared to their old gold letter demo RS-1.

Hope your Zana can tame them

So about 2 weeks for that modding thread right

So far I've found that the HD650 is actually very slightly more enjoyable for classical (in my setup). Both my unmodded K340's are unable to offer the immediate slam of tympani drums, but they carry the sound over distance better than the HD650. On all other accounts they are both pretty much neck and neck. The K340 offering a brighter presentation, the HD650 darker.

Thats bullshit if Sony is still stamping the CDDA logo on them, since it's not Redbook standard If you're using Windows, try holding the shift key when you put the CD in the drive. It disables auto-run, works on some of my CDs...

TheSloth: I know they aren't a closed pair, but if you can audition a properly fitted Qualia I would try and do that (if you're still in NYC it shouldn't be too hard). IMO they were incredibly resolving and got out of the way of every genre of music. I hope I can say the same about the Grados that are on the way.

My impressions with the Original setup wasn't too far off from the real high end... Every high end headphone is sensitive to downstream gear (in my case I feel the K1000 is most sensitive with amp and source). But I feel with the time I spent with the L3000 I was able to get an idea of what they sounded like. It's not like evaluating subtleties in amps and sources, differences between headphones are very large IMO. I had a chance to snag a pair for $1800 which sat around for a couple of days. Mostly because the owner attempted repair on the drivers himself when the bass defect presented itself twice. I was still tempted to get them just based on their looks, it's certainly a very nice conversation piece.

If I had to sum it up I'd say it had the AT house sound with much better quality bass.

909 it was the Meridian that Mikhail uses to demo his amps. Also heard it on an Original tube output CDP, but it was paired with a cheap Original amp (so I'm not posting my impressions on that setup) A few of us grabbed food after the meet, and all 4 of us agreed the L3000 wasn't worth the cost of admission given the price and glaring flaws. It seems we were all impressed with Mikhail's R10 and HE90. On the same SP amps I really enjoyed the R10 and HD650.

I didn't think they handled all genres of music effortlessly. I had a demo CDR I put together using all lossless files, which composed of prog metal, jazz, orchestra, trip hop, and industrial that I had at the Boston meet. I heard the L3000 on a PPX SLAM and a Balanced Supra (but the L3000 used single ended). They were pretty sweet with the trip hop and jazz. Really nice intimate sound. But when it came to the fast prog, it seemed to smear the sound, this was pretty obvious and we had a few people that confirmed it as well. Also I heard some HF graininess in the treble. The tonality for the Star Wars and LotR sounded really off as well (for what it's worth I think the HD650 & K1000 handle these OSTs best). And the headphones were too "closed sounding" to make it very enjoyable. At least at the time I thought my HD580 was able to image better. For $2000 they were just too genre specific, a shame since I was close to buying them just based off looks. edit: oh yes I also had a few tracks off one of my favorite Swedish psych rock albums Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt. The groove factor was great. The electric guitars sounded wonderful with the L3000, but again things like cymbal hits sounded completely artificial.

I wouldn't recommend the CD3000 to anyone I liked And I can't say I was a fan of the L3000 either.

I might actually "downgrade" (if you can call it that) down to the Stello DA100 soon. I just got an opportunity to get an amazing headphone at a very attractive price so I might move my whole setup back to single ended with a separate preamp. Iron_Dreamer I see you own both you really feel theres no difference between the DA100 and DA220 sonically?

No comments on HE90/KGSS (never heard it), but I really enjoyed your HD650/SR-404 review. If you got the HE90 I'd really like to read another review of yours

Depending on how much it cost, if I was in your position I would buy it. Since it looks like we won't be seeing a new flagship electrostat from the usual suspects you probably wouldn't have any trouble unloading it. Look at neilvg's sale, it got a pretty good response.

Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third

Might as well start it up. This last week: Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (previously damaged) Kaki King - Legs to Make Us Longer Kaki King - Everybody Loves You Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

Not to sound cliche but would you say it sounds closer to analog?