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  1. Hmm...well, that killed my curiousity about the Darths. I like DT770's but the mods actually made it WORSE? Or was it because you had to spend extra moneyz that really didn't do anything? Is there a smaller tip I can put on the mallows and keep the same sound? I have 7 year old girl sized ear canals, and the diameter of them when pushed in, while it doesn't hurt it's a slight relief when I'm done listening after even an hour of listening...
  2. Whoa...Darths FAR below MARSHMALLOWS??? I love my mallows, but that's a statement. I haven't heard Darths, but it's even far below the normal DT770... Can I ask why? Especially given the response people have on them over that head-fi....or, is that just head-fi? lol.
  3. I personally don't think you can count a DIY as high end. I know it may be expensive, but the whole doing it yourself thing doesn't really ooze "hi end" as much as something from from a manufacturer. I dunno, it can be just as high quality, and in many cases, HIGHER quality, but meh...I dunno...hard to explain. I also think aesthetics play a fairly decent part in it's consideration, a you could have the most rediculous parts, if it looks like ass or 'meh', it's grouped as so. To give an analogy, it's like Karting. I dunno how many of you kart, but a homemade custom made Kart frame/parts, even if it performs better, it's looked at as custom, not "high-end", even if made of Ti or whatever. Whereas the guy down the pit has an expensive manufactured frame, and everybody looks as his parts as high end, and yours as just custom. Even if it's clearly better, in both QC standards, contruction, and performance, they're not quite in the same "class", even though they compete against eachother directly. Personally, I could care less what it's "classified as"...lets face it, it's nice to brag to friends or other people that "this is high end"(or just knowing yourself), but if they're not in the hobby, ESPECIALLY with headphones, they'll just give you a look like and think you're an idiot for spending so much money on "headphone stuff" regardless, lol.
  4. I thought I was the only guy with monkey for thier av...for a sec I thought you were talkin about me...there's no way in hell I'de be a mod there. I'm not cool enough and don't suck enough sponsor wanker.
  5. Is there any way to keep artist title info of the tracks as I rip them to my computer? Everytime I rip a CD I just get, Track 01, Track 02, etc. I want to condense my CD's onto my computer, but this is tedious as hell to have to do each time, especially if using iTunes to organise my music, I have to do it AGAIN when I import the files to assign the meta tags. Otherwise, it just arranges it by the name of the file as "Oasis - Wonderwall", not sortable by artist, or album, etc. Suck ass. Even on the CD's that display text in your car CD player(most all of them), still don't rip with artist and title, just as tracks. Is it the program(s) I'm using? I'm using iTunes, Foobar or CDBurner XP Pro and neither of them rip titles. Is there a program that does? Suck ass....
  6. Next time I should sprinkle on a little more sarcasm, lol.
  7. This place is the result of all the built up asggression that you can't say/do on Head-fi, lol.
  8. It's a story of sorts. If you like poker, you'll dig this. If not, you won't have any clue of wtf I'm talking about. You'll prolly give me a look like this: Before I start with the story, I knew tonight was going to be odd, cause a couple games before a lady got dealt Q, 10, 2, 5 in BOTH of her hands...that's astronomical odds there. Anyhow, on with the story. I was in class staying fresh till I get an audition. And the class that's in there now is learning/playing $2 Omaha 8 or better (hi-low). For those that like poker, but don't know how to play Omaha, it's Hold-em, but you get dealt 4 cards before the flop, but you can only use two cards, and HAVE TO use three on the board. Basically, it's hold-em, with more cards in your hand. Anyhow, we have to play two hands, so the dealer in the box has to read/deal out more hands/more practice. Also, nobody is allowed to fold, cause you're there for the dealer (it's dealer school) it gives them more hands to read, and more actions to do. So I call the blinds. So along comes the flop: There will be no low...so we're playing strictly a high game of Omaha. Yaya, no split pot possibility! Since I'm the last two hands at the table, I get to see everybody's action, and they all check, so I give them a bet of $2....everybody calls and think I have trip jacks....heh. I call with my other hand (which has the dealer button). Along comes the turn: So there are people with kings in thier hand, cause why else would you raise when everybody checks and I bet $2?....But that's still nothing like what was about to happen. Along comes the river: The guy accross the table bets $2 he has something. He still thought I had trip Jacks, but obviously thought he had me beat. Bluffing is stupid, since you can't fold in the class. All bluffing does(in this class atleast), is show what kind of player you are...you don't want that. So he had something. Remember, you can only use THREE on the board, and TWO in your hand. Naturally, he capped it out, because people were curious and kept rerasing, and got to show his hand 1st. Damn....trip aces....there's only a couple hands that beat that, because I know an Ace is in my hand....there is no Quad ace possibility. MAYBE somebody has pocket kings to make the Full house...but I know they don't, there was no check betting or anything. But he thought he had me beat, because I bet on the jacks on the board when everybody checked. Here's what I turn over in one hand: I flop over the quad jacks....table goes crazy, cause even with the amount of hands dealt at school, quad anything doesn't come up often, let alone ON THE FLOP. Let alone jacks, let alone, when he has a trip Aces... And here's what I got in the other hand: It was like straight out of a damn movie....two of the worst beats you can possibly have, I had two bad beats in one hand. But I had the two best possible hands in BOTH of my hands.....absolutely rediculous...the room was called over to watch cause I told Chaz, the instructor to come over, put his game on hold and watch this hand. It went nuts...the most rediculous ending you could have sans the unreal crap like quad aces getting beat by a royal...but this was pretty unreal as it stood. I'm still floored by the fact that I really pulled one of those hands, let alone BOTH.... --------------------------- For those that don't play poker, the odds of getting EITHER of the hands I as holding are astronomical.Even more Astronomical having the Royal of SPADES. The odds of having BOTH of those hands AT THE SAME TIME, you're odds are better getting struck by lightning THREE times...maybe I shoulda played the lotto last night. Or went to the poker room or Jasper. The jackpot in Jasper for a Royal Flush right now is $18,000....In the Poker Room, it has to be of spades, and is I think at like $30,000. I would have given the dealer a crazy tip if I won either of those jackpots....hell, I'm just lucky I had enough luck left in me to make the drive home without dying, lol. Moral of the story....tip your dealer, GOOD. You never know what you'll get dealt.
  9. Appears mother Russia tried to shut me down: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?p=3413563#post3413563 "end speculation" WTF? My question hasn't been answered, fired back and it appears I'm now getting ignored as it was infact a valid question/point to be made present and answered. Nice one...
  10. So why the hell would you put a gain that high? Bragging rights? Nobody is going to brag about a distorted signal. Given the lineararity of his pot, you couldn't turn it over 50% as it's approaching clipping voltages. Is he just hoping nobody uses high resistance cans at high levels or is powering small speakers(some people actually do that, lol)? Also, given the battery life he claims, with it running on high gain, wouldn't the battery life drop CONSIDERABLY when the volume is at anything past 20%? Why would you shoot yourself in the foot like that? The more and more I look at it, the more it seems like a hokey design....
  11. I can head over to Audiokarma and tell you that, I'm just saying as far as having two seperate rooms and TWO high end tables, amps, phono's etc, that's pretty fucking elaborate for TWO rooms...meh...
  12. Meaning that's a serious amount of money spent...I guess it's all in context.... I said the same thing about this guys rig: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=246541 more specifically, the link in that thread pointing to here: http://66.48.80.139/~idemonor/ws/newrig.html Same saying...different context I guess...meh...
  13. I did rip the DRM out with hymn, but about 75% of the tracks get "damaged". Meaning, it sounds like somebody is hitting a mute button at times, or more closely, like CD skipping. Besides the fact regardless of what option I use (copy to folder and back up folder, or just to back-up) I get the duplicates showing up in my iTunes list/folder....so you can imagine how much of a PITA it was to clean up 5 gigs worth of music that had to be decoded.
  14. Is there a plug-in so it can play DRM files? i.e. I had some iTunes files purchase on iTunes, and is there anything I can do so i DON'T have to use iTunes to play those files (m4p)?
  15. Hah...I have no thin skin...infact, last night I just read the reasoning behind how this place came about...pretty funny, lol. I guess not everybody can let things roll off thier backs, or have an unbiased opinion without getting the "smackdown" from mods who protect certain vendors... Meh, I was curious, it was an amp I was CONSIDERING, but after researching a bit, not so much.
  16. Heh...I JUST found this place. I had a uestion about the predator, and there hasn't been an answer. I'm thinking it won't be answered because my suspicions are right. That and any negativity (even if contructive) towards RSA is frowned upon over there. Apparently not so much here, so I'll ask here, lol. Here's the post I made, and it hasn't gotten a response yet: -------------------------------- I have a question about the gain. You say the gain is set at 11 in high. An iPods line out is 1vRMS, which is 2.8vpp full scale(volts peak to peak, according to Vinnie on various threads). Wouldn't you need ATLEAST 32 volts to have a gain of 11 on an iPod so you don't have some serious clipping or distortion when the volume is cranked really high? ESPECIALLY on high load cans like 600 ohm DT880s? Gain was something I was mulling over when I was looking at some DIY designs to power 250ohm Darths, and there was a design that utilized a gain of 11, but it had a powercord/dedicated PSU. When I saw gain of 11, I thought "Predator" and then thought I'de ask if this is the case with the Predator, since I can't see 34+ volts coming out of that LiOn battery. Can you shed some light? This is partly the reason I'm not in bed yet, lol. -------------------------------- Is this the case or am I missing something?
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