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Hesse is cool. Goethe is a bit too old-fashioned for me. Faust is great though.

Mann is fucking great. Best German writer ever. Well my favourite at least with Kafka a close second and then either Nietzsche or D

Actually, the Ultrasones aren't too bad if you like piercing treble. Some people do and they're also quite good for gaming.

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Happy Birthday guys!

What kind of job are you looking to get after gradation? Two good friends of mine are studying / studied molecular biology; one of them just decided to start a phd at Berkeley (and he would have rocked the business world, I'm sure) and the other just signed with BCG. And the cancer research institutes in Germany for instance have the most money among most scientific institutes.

Year of the stats, eh? Contrastique, let me know if you guys decide to organise a small meet and I'll be happy to bring the Stax along. Anyway, I can't wait for the Pico, so I can stop using the Macbook's headphone jack.

After a lot of back and forth with Dutch customs, I got lucky and didn't have to pay any customs nor tax after all. Maybe they got annoyed with my constant phone calls or just started to pity this fool. Either way, the Stax sound great.

Probably/hopefully just for CanJam.

Man, new users have it too tough. \

It'd be surprising if all the negative publicity didn't get to him and he has already done his share of twisted back peddling. If I didn't know better, I'd feel sorry for him.

We once tried to buy grass in SA and it almost turned out to be the biggest mistake of our young lives. The price is low because it carries a 50% chance of getting robbed or killed.

If they were to weigh the numbers for quality, it'd be a great time to be working for the UNODC.

Looks like a great meet. Too bad I missed it. How was the HE60?

Uh yeah, typo

You're probably right. The buyer was also kind enough to pay half of the tax and custom fees. Really decent guy I must say since he has no obligation whatsoever to do so.

I think I'm just gonna show them the paypal receipt of the purchase. Still a lot of tax and customs though, around 400 Euros. By the way, what's the fine for altering an invoice? It would have the proper VAT number and everything, only the buyer address would be altered. Anyways, if somehow possible I'm never buying expensive stuff from abroad again.

Ok, I cannot grasp the ridiculousness of this situation: I was sent the Omega II (used obviously) from South Africa, and now Dutch customs want to charge me VAT and customs for the new retail price in Europe even though the system was originally bought from the UK Stax distributor Symmetry Systems (stickers on the box). Now, VAT and customs are close to what I paid for the system to begin with, something around $2000, and there's no way I'm going to pay that. First of all, it couldn't possibly be new even if it looks new. It's not like I let my agent buy a new Stax system from the UK in South Africa and then have it shipped to my place. I called the customs guy several times today and his point is that even if it was sold by a UK company, I still have to pay VAT because the Omega II could have been bought from a buyer in South Africa (which is the case). So because it was sold from Europe but not sold to an European buyer, EU tax could have been circumvented. So he insists that I produce an invoice that the thing was also sold to an EU buyer. An invoice that obviously does not exist. But I thought there is no possibility of the item being bought new in the UK and shipped to South Africa without EU tax being paid. It is made in Japan only, so taxes would have been paid upon arrival in the UK when the UK distributor imported it. Is that not the case?

The old HFIs were indeed quite good for gaming. Pinpoint accuracy in shooters. I think the whole movie argument is killed by the fact that you couldn't wear them for more than 30 minutes without oversweating or overclamping your ears.

I had the older HFI 650 and 700 (the latter just had a bit more bass), and didn't really like either of them. Pretty severe treble spike in a rather uncomfortable region (somewhere around 5-7 KHz) giving the impression of being detailed, and often made me cringe with certain songs. So my expectations for the 780 are rather low. But I'm really looking forward to hearing the HE60 at the meet and see how close they are to the HE90.

Welcome to head-case btw.

Reks, that's what you get for e-stalking.

For all the stalkers: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f45/mini-meet-maastricht-june-3rd-2007-a-241484/ Looks like the Pico will arrive just in time for the meet, which should be fun with all the huge amount of portable amps present. DBT with SR71 and Pico or something like that.