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Yesterday, I did a motorcycle ride on the ridge road in the hills (3200') behind Santa Barbara. It was cold here in SB the night before and we got a little rain. Still, I was very surprised to see some snow on the north-facing slopes along along the way. I was about 40 during the ride and a balmy 60 back in SB.

It would help if Mr. Darko wrote in English.

Or worse, cut him off from cheeseburgers.

... but audiophilia nervosa has taken hold!

Was: John Fogerty Revival Forgot how much I enjoy this album. Now: Neil Young Decade

Dinny is quite the accomplished drinker!

I understand. But the person with which I was mostly conversing said it was his opinion. He deserves credit for that. I don't disagree that the TP mod makes purrin's headphones sound better, I was just complaining about the hyperbole. "Night and day difference" may be the most poorly and overused description in all of audiodom!

Our conversation is slightly better than those at the other site. At least we agree that it's opinion, not etched in stone fact. Anyway, it seems to have run its course.

Noticeable yes. Night and day no. It won't make a good headphone out of a bad headphone. That would be night and day.

I heard them as is. I have no idea whether the mod is there or not. Is this typical "night and day" audio speak as used by reviewers? You know: "subtle difference" = I could hear no difference. "night and day" = There might have been a subtle difference, but I'm not sure. I'm not trying to put you down, but I've heard a lot of things modded and unmodded and at all times, the mod produced at best a subtle change, sometimes for the better, sometimes not.

I heard Purrin's pair at Frank Cooter's house last Tuesday. I used the Burmester CDII demo disc for my listening. The setup was a CD transport (older model, can't remember the brand) running into an AudioNote DAC into Frank's 45 tube-based amp. The headphones sounded nice, with the best bass I've heard from any headphones. I thought that maybe, just maybe, I occasionally heard a "resonance" in the left channel, but it easily could have been my imagination. Neither Frank nor I thought that the sound was veiled. The only real negatives I have to say about the LCD-3 are that it's really heavy and it clamps way too tightly. Oh yeah, the price is too high. Frank listened to both the LCD-3 and my HD800. He liked both quite a bit. I didn't have time to listen to my HD800 in this system. Hopefully I'll have another chance soon.

Happy Birthday Naaman! Have a great one with your family.

$190 each. Hold me back.

What? He doesn't have a hammer?

I suspect that Audiogon considers "no-reply" to be a feature, not a bug.

Indeed! A Tice-sized congrat to Ryan and family.

Or many little ones.

I was joking, you almost certainly interpreted Ben correctly. Congrats on the PS900. Good tools are good investments.

Happy Birthday, Dan! Have a great one! Hmm, same birthday, same name. Has anybody ever seen Dan and DannyB at the same time?

What solder did you use? I have recently been using Kester 44 and Kester recommends a 600-700 F temp for it. I took the halfway point of 650 and it seems to be fine. I haven't tried to solder a heatsink yet.

Sounds like adult Disneyland to me.

Wasn't Ben talking about Animal Husbandry?

Happy Birthday!

Did she say that she was a law student at FSU?

"I can resist everything except temptation" - Oscar Wilde Be like Oscar.