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If this track is anything to go by, I'm seeing the film and buying the CD.

If the consensus for most members who've heard Ultrasones is that they don't like them and that they're overpriced. It's only natural for this to carry forward from those "most members". Is it better to be wary and then defer to a positive report, or to wax lyrical and defer to a negative report? Over here, if we are wary, and then someone posts that "actually, they're rather good" that'll earn far more traction than the other side, where everyone will wax poetic about how fucking good these things must be, and will ride right over the top of any report that says otherwise. FOTM power. I look forward to whatever you have to say, good or ill, if you get the chance to hear these. However, they hold no curiousity for me personally either way.

Running production and the shop all alone? Or have you got someone on the counter? Why the flying solo?

Cool. I may investigate.

I've got some dynamat somewhere, but not enough to line both boxes. I also forgot to take away the interior foam so I'll ring Frank tomo and hope he hung on to it (and the front grilles). Took forever and a day to rebuild the bass crossovers, most of which involved removing the parts from the old chipboard block. Now they're on bits of scrap pine. Haven't glued them in yet in case something goes tits up, but the speakers sound pretty good now that I've hooked them up (last ten minutes). Pots for mid and treble are crackle free. Now I need to knock together some nicer (and taller) stands. Unless I try putting them on my desk...

You obviously don't get the right type of potatoes for good boilers.

Dinner tonight was fresh lobster with salad. Fillet steak, carrots in honey, waxy boiled potatoes, green beans in garlic. Cart

Indeed. Have some pics. Laying: Drivers: Needs scraping out: Been scraped: Didn't re-mount the bass crossovers this evening. Hopefully finish everything tomo. In case anybody doesn't spot it, the room has been repainted red.

Not gonna bodge the crossovers back in like this, so i'll chisel out all of the splintered chipboard, remount them on a bit of wood and glue them in fresh and sturdy.

They're rear ported, so the first picture is a varient, maybe the DSS-10E. Also I know why there was a good price on these now. They are in pieces. Screwing the drivers back in and rewiring them up is simple enough but the secondary crossovers had been torn out of the chassis and are on splintery bits of chipboard. One is fairly intact but that other I had to reassemble a bit. The tweeters and mids are wired in and I'm waiting for the glue to cure on the crossovers before I screw in the woofers. A selection of minor physical flaws on the cabinets but nothing dreadful. I'm also lucky that I had a pile of grub screws the right size as the originals were tossed except for one which was stuck inside a cabinet.

I never used calipers while I studied anthropology. Obviously my tutors weren't up to speed on things.

SO BE IT!

Just had honey baked sausages with a bit of mustard and rye bread. Most satisfactory.

There's a pair turned up just down the road from me, in full working order but the woofers have had the original carbon composite cones replaced with polypropylene. Price good and less than the going rate for a pair of the midrange drivers or tweeters inside them. Internet opinion seems positive all-over. It will be the first piece of audio gear in 2010 I'll buy which will cost more than 3 pints of lager and a packet of peanuts. I need someone here to tell me to do it. So I can diffuse my self-indulgent guilt.

There is more than a small amount of "We wanted it to look like the HE90 in every way we could get away with." to this headphone. A good tactic if you are to charge as much as this i guess. However if they follow the pattern of all Ultrasones I've heard, they'll be uncomfortable in some manner, have a huge wobbly bump in the frequency response, and after ten minutes make you think "well these are nice enough, but for this money I could have $something^better."

Finished repainting my room. Mmm, red.

Interestingly though, ELITE replaces 99 in a modus which continues the Quad broad history of very very long product cycles compared to most other companies. The exception being 66 to 77 series in the early to mid 90s. Don't expect ELITE X / ELITE 2000 / ELITE Pro / ELITE N / iELITE / ELITE-Q / ELITE 2G / ELITE* / ELITE Carbon until 2020 on this basis. But I would expect an L-3 series, an electrostatic 10,000 series, a II-120 or II-150, multiple cable options beyond count, a self branded hi-fi stand, power cables, a basic range (including an integrated amp), and a DAC-only product based on the CDP-2 family within that gap the way the brand is being unrolled as part of a larger corporate identity.

I'm interested in the choice to produce a TOTL analogue tuner when the uk government is planning to switch off FM and AM transmission within 5 years. (They'll never ever do it, it'd be bigger electoral suicide than publicly hanging Kylie minogue and Stephen Fry) Also, no ELITE 909? shameful. As for the looks, they'll never beat the 77-Carbon range for loveliness.

Hope they get you sorted out in jig time Ken.

Yesterday evening went through to Edinburgh and met up with Dave (Mercuttio) and his wife who were on their honeymoon. Absolutely lovely people. Toured a few pubs and met with a friend who lives in the city. Missed my train back to Fife at 23:xx so met up again and bantered until the pubs closed at 1. Wondered around the streets freezing my ass off and trying to find a loo until the train station opened again. Got the 5:30 train back. Went to bed at 7. An awesome night. Now the young couple are away to Glasgow, trying to stay ahead of the Pope.

Biggie old stick, if you don't have an SRM-717 (which you might not have anymore) and want one for a direct comparison, let me know. *wondering whats so bad about the -2-*

Repainting my room. It's now red instead of the light blue its been since I was 12 and this is the first proper CTRL+F5 it's had in 13 years. The woodwork is next. Also set to meet up with Mercuttio in Edinburgh tomo. I wish that circumstance hadn't been so poor for when Mike was over this desolate part of the world, so it'll be good to finally meet a US HC/HF chap on my home soil. Hopefully I can get the good chap to chime in here more often.