TMoney

Yes. I'm on there too. My acct is TMoney58. Right now I'm working on three different lines. I'm doing US Mediums and German Heavies and TDs. I tried arty, but its just way too frustrating.

Happy b-day!

+1 to this thread. Classic Albums is a great series and I've enjoyed watching most of the episodes. That being said, there are some episodes that are a cut above the rest as far as quality goes. I thought the Bob Marley, Paul Simon, and Nirvana episodes were all excellent and standouts of the 15 or so episodes I've seen. IMO some artists are just more articulate when it comes to talking about their music than others. An intelligent guy like Paul Simon is able to tell a compelling story about his singing, songwriting and composition and it makes for very entertaining and educational viewing.

Hey Monkey, Do you think you are going to make it? If you can are you going to bring your KGSS? I'm dying to hear one and I think I remember you posting pictures of one a while back.

Just bought the game today. Should be a fun weekend. If anyone wants to team up, my tag is TMoney58#1360

I really wish I hadn't just watched that.

Yup I figured it would make sense to wait a week to give Blizzard time to even out the kinks from their end. I'm thinking of doing a Witch Doctor. I used a Demon Hunter in the beta and they are pretty cool as well.

Any HC'ers want to meet up to crawl through D3 together? Lets use this thread to coordinate. I plan on getting the game sometime next week and I should be good to go if others are interested.

Oh no. So sorry to hear this. I used to carpool to school with Booker T.'s Daughter and I've always been a huge fan of the band.

^ This

Wow, John. Thats one sexy amp you have there.

Wow. I'm surprised they announced so far ahead of when they were actually ready to launch. I would guess they have lost a substantial amount of the buzz they had generated at CES by waiting this long.

So... how quiet is quiet? Sub 70dB?

Happy birthday, Ari! Have a great one, and hopefully I'll see you in a few weeks at the big meet.

Happy Birthday, Kevin. This site (and the headphone community at large) wouldn't be the same without you.

Wes Montgomery and the Wynton Kelly Trio at the Half Note

Very cool. I'll check it out. Thanks for the link.

Aspergers going once. Aspergers going twice...

A "memorial" viewing of the Last Waltz on bluray is in order for this weekend. In the meantime, there is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceRg_rxXQ_E

It was a friend's rip so I'm not totally sure. I'll have to check on that. Next time we will have to buy a few more albums on HDTracks to compare. You can get around this problem by using the computer to down-convert the 24-bit track into a 16-bit version. That should take the "different mastering jobs" problem out of the equation. Thats what we tried doing for this test. Agreed with the better hi-rez files usually having a better mastering job. That being said, a few of the SACDs I own have much less dynamic range in their mastering jobs than the original CD pressings. For some reason many of the best sounding CDs I have are older pressings from the mid/late 80s. Maybe its because mastering engineers didn't screw around as much with the mastering back in the old days? Based on how close our "hi" and "low" rez tracks sounded during our test I'm incline to agree with you that the differences are mostly psychological as well.

As someone who thinks standard 16/44 redbook sounds fantastic, I'm pretty skeptical about this whole hi-rez 24-bit movement. I did some blind testing with a buddy and I thought our results were worth posting. I'd love to hear what people think. TL:DR Folks: Just read the BOLD stuff. So my buddy and I conducted a few blind tests to see if we could hear a difference between 24 and 16 bit versions of the same tracks. We used two albums, the 24/96 version of Alison Krauss & Union Stations Paper Airplane from HDTracks and a 24/48 rip (using dbPoweramp) of Tool's Lateralus HDCD. Obviously using the same tracks but with different mastering jobs from different versions of the album can make quite a big difference in the overall sound. To combat this issue, we created our 16-bit tracks directly off down-sampled versions of the hi-rez tracks. I used iTunes to down-convert copies the 24/96 and 24/48 tracks into 16/44 versions. Our test gear was: DAC: Antelope Audio Zodiac (the basic version) AMP: KGSSHV PHONES: SR-009 For our tests we first listened to the hi-rez and low-rez versions of the tracks sighted so we could see if we could hear a difference when we weren't blind. Once we had listened to both the hi-rez and low-res version of the track enough to familiarize ourselves we did a number of blind test trials where either the hi-rez or low-rez version was randomly played. The listener had to identify which of the hi or low rez track they were listening to. We didn't give the listener any feedback about right or wrong answers until after the last trial was complete. A number of trials on were performed on each track before moving to the next track. Our Results: Even though the hi-rez and low-rez versions of the Tool tracks sounded very close, we were able to consistently identify which track was hi-rez and which track was low-rez well above the level that would occur by random guessing. It follows that there probably is "something" lost in down-coverting tracks from 24/48 into 16/44, even if that "something" was pretty damn subtle to our ears. The fact that we consistently identified the hi and low rez tracks indicates that we definitely heard a difference between the two. When it came to the Alison Krauss album, we were not able to consistently identify the hi-rez and low-rez version above the level that we'd get right simply by chance guessing. I really have no what this means, but I'd guess that not all 24-bit tracks are created equal. Either that, or maybe the differences between 16-bit and 24-bit is only apparent on certain albums? Honestly, without more testing I don't feel confident in making any conclusions about this. Next time we'll test more albums. Anyways, I'd love to hear other's experiences/opinions on this 24-bit hi-rez stuff. Does this sound similar to your experiences?

Another INTJ. Welcome to the club, I guess.

Ooops. I meant to say volume, not gain.