TMoney

Have a wonderful birthday, Dan!

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I met up with some buddies and did a little comparison of the 800S against a modded 800. I liked the 800S better as I thought the mod took a little too much away from the stock 800. That being said, the 800S it's still on the bright side of things and might benefit from a bit of lighter modding or some careful EQ to reduce the treble energy just a bit. The 800S is a damn impressive headphone. I wouldn't buy them if I already owned a pair of modded 800s, but if I was choosing between a new 800 or 800S the S is the easy winner.

Damn, Umberto Eco too? Goodness, horrible day for 20th Century Lit.

RIP Harper Lee. "Mockingbird" is a hell of a book.

I gave this a try after a few people here had it rated in their top 5 desert island albums lists. Boy am I glad I did! The musicianship and instrumentals are incredible. The growly vocals feel like an acquired taste, but that didn't hurt my enjoyment of the album.

They are legit, man. Your loss.

In preparation for his new album. Kanye has a golden ear and can put together a musical soundscape with the best of them. In all other respects the guy is off his friggin rocker.

It is a marketing expense. If you keep selling everything you make at the prices you want then no reason to give them any deal off retail. If they want to hear it, they can buy one themselves or borrow one from someone who has one.

Happy Birthday, C-dawg!

I think Tyll has generally walked the right line on this. He tends to only do full reviews of products that review well. If he doesn't like something he generally limits his comment to a little blurb on it. The Ultrasone and Beats reviews are notable exceptions, but in general he seems to stick to this. You start putting up negative reviews and your industry connections dry up in a hurry.

Oh, hello there.

Happy Birthday, Steve!

When you make your living off advertising from manufacturers you are going to be compromised by definition. If he wants to stay in business he basically can't ever public rip a product or sponsor even if the manufacturers are frauds and the products are snake-oil. For that reason I don't ever expect true criticism from Jude and I'd never take anything he says as gospel. I've also only been around the hobby since 2008-09 so I don't have nearly the history with Jude as most members here. That being said, I've agreed with a number of his product assessments in the past, particularly his love of the 009s. When he LOVES a product it is a data point I take notice of (among many others) in deciding what gear I seek out for a personal evaluation. I'm never going to buy a $10,000 electrostatic headphone, but after the video posted I have to say I'm a lot more interested in hearing it than I was a week ago.

Fresh 4-factor chart from the guy in the Houston stats department. Always interesting. Defensive eFG% seems far and away to be the stat most correlated with positive point differential.

Happy Birthday, EW!

Jude says its the best headphone he has ever had in his office. Regardless of what everyone thinks of him, the guy has heard enough gear that I'm at least a little intrigued.

NBA All Star Saturday. Great show this year! Loved seeing the Splash Bros face off again in the 3-pt contest and boy did Zach Levine and Aaron Gordon ever bring the rain with their dunks. Some of the dunks Gordon threw down over the mascot were flat-out incredible. Dunk contest highlights start about 2 minutes in to the following video: http://www.nba.com/video/channels/nba_tv/2016/02/14/20160213-gt-lavine-gordon-talk.nba/

Wow, big news! While I often didn't agree with his conclusions, I respected the hell out of Scalia for his intellect. RIP

Just posted my review in the TTVJ thread on HF. http://www.head-fi.org/t/795255/pass-labs-hpa-1-loaner-program/15#post_12334992 TLDR: The Pass Labs HPA-1 is a solid debut from Pass Labs. It sounds clear, punchy and neutral. It was a very nice pairing with the Sennheiser HD600/650/800 trinity. I could live with the HPA-1 as my only amp. Biggest con is the price, which is just too darn expensive for what it is. That being said, fans of solid state amps should definitely give this one a listen.

It is absolutely shameful that more of them don't get in trouble for insider-trading.

Amazing! Looking good, Brent. You can already see the weight loss.

It's the bottle head crack-a-two-a.

The fact that the landlord responded so quickly at least tells me they took my concern (and their law-breaking) seriously. As well they should. If they don't acquire the proper business license and remit TOT taxes to the City then they've got bigger problems. A random violation every now and then won't bother me that much. Its more that every time I walked by the apartment next door to mine there were different people sitting in it. It is in their economic best-interests to get the apartment rented back out to another long term tenant. Rents out here in the SF area have never been higher.