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That is absolute gold. I think I might have a new favourite saying.

Hmmm, I think we need to get a built in spellchecker because MJG's posts are driving me fucking nuts. Sov - Nobody means you harm here... except maybe aerius ... so just relax, take a deep breath and pretend that little drama didn't happen.

Is it a hybrid? Are those mosfets that are attached to the side heatsinks?

The leatherheads have grado-esque bass impact? I look forward to hearing them at the national meet.

I can't wait to compare mine to yours again. I'm not sure if it is burn-in or the elastic readjustment that I did, but these things have BASS now.

I would open it up and make sure it is firmly seated in there... I dont think my LED's move, though I will double check when I get home. you just need to remove the philips screws on the bottom and rear plate and it just slides out.

Well, I haven't heard the K701 yet, but I do know that I prefer the K340 to the K1000. They both do things that the other can't, but in the end I like the things that the K340 does better. Still, if my resources were unlimited I would definately own a pair of K1000's. Great headphones.

I've got no bass complaints over here... except in the area of impact my K340's beat my HF-1's in every way. And nothing does bass impact like a Grado.

They aren't in the signal path on the headphone output... but we're pretty sure they are on the XLR output. If they aren't, I would be interested in knowing how we are getting amplification. There are only two transistors in that area of the board and they are used for the relay's from what we could see.

Welcome.

I'll post some close up pictures that I took of the innards of the Lavry tonight. The balanced outs are not discrete... they use OPA275's. It is also not balanced straight from the DAC, as the volume control is definately not balanced and affects the XLR outs. That said, they sound amazing, so regardless of all our audiophile notions Dan Lavry has worked some magic here.

Get those K340's modded buddy, they sound amazing.

Never had a problem buying blind so far... then again, I can see where I would have had a problem [sA5000, DAC1]. So I think it has been more luck at this point.

Still, I am glad that I got my K340's terminated with male XLRs... as I will be pluging them into a SDS-XLR at the national meet.

If we do go with little child forums for every manufacturer, I'm going to have to start making something... I think I could whip up some rainbow foil or something of that magnitude. Do they get to name their forums too? Hmmm, Philo's Playhouse... has a nice ring to it.

LOL, that episode was hilarious... especially the 'dolphinoplasty'

Does Merton still post on Headwize? He did back when I was there... before I found Head-Fi.

Oh god... someone invite Merton. I'm not gonna do it, but that would be a riot. He might be the first banned headcase.

Where's the impressions? Pics? What do you have to compare to it?

My plans amount to staying home sick.

I'm not a Sennheiser man, but I would think it would be an excellent match. The Headphone out doesn't sound all that great with high impedance headphones... better for Grado's and the like. The XLR outputs are another story.

I picked option 2 because I don't really like the Senns all that much... but option 1 is great as well if that is your thing.

I wish I wasn't sick, but I won't pretend that I'm not enjoying having the day off and getting some listening done.

hehe, yeah, he loves being in the office with me... usually [as he is now - I'm home sick] he curls up on the base of one of my speaker stands.