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My biggest qualm with the high price of the iMod is that, in my experience and the experience of my immediate group of friends (which, given, hardly is a representative sample of all iPod users, but FWIW...), iPods tend to die quickly relative to other electronic gadgets. The first two iPods I owned died in the first year, but I sold my 2g Nano a month or so after I bought it. Now I have a 1g shuffle and it is great.

Also please note no one gets more enjoyment and information out of this forum then I do. Per your's and Earl's concerns in my FS thread I have abstained from creating any unnecessary humor in the on topic forums.

In no way was I starting this thread as a mockery of Head-Fi. I was just making a joke. Please don't search for any deeper meaning or relevance in anything I post. I'm just bored at work and hoping to garner a few laughs through silliness. In no way is this intended as a mean-spirited jibe at anyone at HF.

Review of: Cary CD 360 Downstream components: I called the president of Cary in Boulder, CO and found out he is a swell guy with a great philosophy on making fantastic audio gear and cd players. We hung out and had coffee and he shared with me his philosophy. From Pres of Cary: "Basically I make audio cd players for people who love music. I don't use any trickery or craziness in my CDP. Here in Boulder this is how we do things, very good work and then we go skiing". From the first note I knew the CD 360 was a revelation. It has a bold, rich sound like a hot cup of french roast on a cool fall day in Boulder, CO. SACDs were even better. Awesomely enough the Cary CD 360 has a digital input so I can run an optical out from my MacBook iPro and listen to MP3s via iTunes. I had downloaded the new Modest Mouse album and it sounded amazing, lilke layers of goodness like I was seeing into the music. I put on a cd of "bang bang maxwwell single hammer" and it was like I was hearing the Beatles for thefirst ime. The timpanis were crisp and clear but not overly bright. The drum kicks were very intense and meaty, full. I heartily recommend this player to anyone who wants to stop listening to their gear, and start listening to their music again. Its like I was 13 listening to the beatles for the first time.

Review: Moon Audio Luna Headphone Amplification Associated Gear: headphones, cd player, cables Imagine a world where music is excellent, and one can have a transformer coupled tube amp from Moon Audio to power your HD650 or Grado. Well stop imaging, your world has come true! The Moon Audio Luna is a true high end experience in audio gear. I powered my Grado headphones with it and turned up the volume and it got very loud while still having that famous Grado prat and midrange. Imaging was outstanding. I stand up and applaud Moon Audio and their achievement. The soundstage was still small like it normally is on my Grado but it was bigger then it had been previously. Highly black.

This is an excellent question Nanoho. The best part about any background when it comes to speakers OR headphones is how black it is overall, darkness etc. Oftentimes you can get the background blacker with a better power source or a more resolving driver.

Anyone care to review some gear they haven't ever heard? The HE90 is a great headphone, especially paired with the Orpheus headphone amplifier. The Orpheus has the power in wattage and ampules to move the electrostatic weave band very quickly creating beautiful transient response and superb imaging akin to the best speaker systems ever made. Its like being there with the musicians when you listen to it. I was listening to jazz with it and it is like Miles Davis is alive and in my room with me blowing horn. Its like finally i stop listening to my gear and start listening to the music. After all, isn't that what this hobby is all about? Also the HE90 has a blacker background. Its like the HE90 company took a Sennheiser and Grado and combined them into the ultimate headphone. Go ahead, give it a shot.

lol, this is the best shit ever.

Hey Peter, don't you have a 3910? Have you listened to any HDCDs on it?

bump, price dropped to reflect poor condition. \

Back to watching DS9 season three. I'm in the middle of an episode where Jonathan Frakes makes a guest appearance!!

After spending a couple of weeks with the Aqvox and comparing it side by side with the Modwright, the 999es still comes out on top. In redbook, the Modwright has a slight edge because of greater warmth, darkness, and a truly massive soundstage. The Aqvox doesn't have the sony hardness of the 999es, meaning its a bit softer in the higher frequencies, but it has a smaller soundstage and isn't anywhere near as warm as the 999es. The softness, detail, smoothness, and intimacy of the Aqvox are all attractive attributes, and thus choosing between the two sources when it comes to redbook is more a matter of personal taste. Of course, throw an SACD on the Modwright and it blows the Aqvox out of the water, but I expected that.

subterranean press limited edition Steven Erikson "Gardens Of The Moon". Thank you so much for turning me on to subterranean, grawk. Malazan is my favorite fantasy epic ever.

True. I've never heard an sacdmods modded player, but the 3910 has always struck me as one hell of a deal.

hungrych, I really appreciate the write up, that was an excellent read! I will also add some later, but I admit your question has thrown me for a whirl. My musical interests have changed so drastically over just the past two years that I'm hesitant to call any album an absolute favorite. Some of my favorite albums of all time I may not even own anymore due to the great CD dirge of my "college" years.

Like, where do I live? Mobile, AL, on the coast.

Yeah, I've definitely been through my fair share of gear. My first headphone rig in September 2006 was an Echo Indigo DJ -> Headfive -> K701. I've gotten a lot of good advice though. Specifically I was directed here via a phone call from sacd lover/5687, after I expressed mild interest in possibly purchasing a raptor over on HF . Everybody here was really mean and angry about something but they seemed to know what they were talking about. I've sold a bunch of pens and sale is pending on my Melos, so after I sell the W11JPN I should have enough cash in the paypal account for an L3000. We'll see...

Damn you people, I thought I had firmly removed the L3000 from my wishlist. Looks like the possibility of potentially pondering a purchase continues. Thank you for your responses. This is great news! No, I definitely don't think the W11JPN has any graininess at all. Perhaps "haze" is too strong a word. What I'm trying to say is that even on well recorded/mastered music, all of the instruments don't seem to have their own space. They all sort of spill over into each other's areas a bit around the edges, which, while not untogether unpleasant, does take away from the great joy of transients, attack/decay, etc. I think I'm just picking at the can's resolution again using different words. I'm still a newb in this hobby, but I am fast approaching the one year anniversary of my first headphone amp purchase.

i've got the audioscrobbler.dll plugin in my components folder, but I have to have the little "last.fm" program started if I want my tracks scrobbled.

Okay, some more L3000 questions. Sometimes with the W11JPN, the upper midrange/highs can be downright shrill. The best example would be Geddy Lee's vocals. This isn't hot or weird like the W5000, but straight up shrill and a little headache inducing. Does the L3000 do this? Also, the W11JPN seems to have a great deal of what I've read is called the AT "haze". The W5000 has zero haze. Is there any haze present in the L3000? Thanks again for all of your time.

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nevermind, it works fine so long as I start foobar FIRST. the last.fm autostart must be squeezing into kmixer before foobar gets a chance to do whatever asio does.

I've never been able to get last.fm to work with foobar when using ASIO4All. Basically last.fm starts up when foobar does, but I get an an error message similar to when another program has been opened before foobar. I'm sure the answer is simple, but google provides no solution. Computer as source folks, help me out?

[me=postjack]looks for where he described the W5000 as "transparent"[/me] nope, can't find where I ever said that.

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