justin

he looks like boomana's UE11

The Westone ES3X isolate about as well as Etymotics w/ triple flange tips for me

What is inappropriate about the cable?

I also saw that yesterday

i get it now, HD800 mods are next

i like the part about competing with Sennheiser. stuffing the cups with cotton balls + adding a Jena cable != designing and manufacturing HD800s

i am on the damn plane

Well, I can take comfort in knowing that there is nothing that has more than 255 steps and 0.5dB steps (undetectable by the human ear). No hiss with ES3X, so good to go there. And it won't blow up if you plug in the USB "charger" and a USB DAC at the same time.

You're not even warm

I gave this one a try before buying it. I'm probably unable to fully appreciate it. I found it boring. One I'd put in the 3 Fat Guys on a Couch Swapping Power Cords Collection, and I don't pay $30/disc for that. I can see how with speakers you might feel that you're in the same room as the performance. All my full size headphones are in transit, so I'm only using the ES3X IEMs. I feel like I'm unable to hear the area around the room due to the lack of detail & compressed nature of the headphones. Just 3 guys floating in space

Virgin America does have 115V outlets at each seat...

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i just shipped it, to be delivered to the hotel along with my demo BHSE, Sony SACD player, and a couple pairs of Stax headphones. Total bill for 3-day shipping = $400 :facepalm:

It's only around a mile to the In-N-Out, i think Can you find out if the hotel will honor the rate for a few days past the Monday after the meet?

I was looking for something in the 'World' category and came across this Analogue Productions release...is anyone familiar with it? Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt - A Meeting By The River - Hybrid Stereo SACD

I have a MFSL SACD of The Planets, I forget which one it is. I think collecting different recordings of The Planets could be its own hobby

i'll take a look but the words audiophile and sampler appear too many times. I already have the Alison Krauss, Massive Attack, Portishead (and Beth Gibbons solo album which has been in my top 10 for several years), and Sigur Ros

you didn't think all of those amp comparisons were made using the same source, headphones or even music did you?

The past couple years just before the CanJam I've placed an order for ~10 CDs at Acoustic Sounds to have some more high quality stuff to show off the gear. And it never fails that Norah Jones is still the only CD anyone wants to put in. So, I'm looking for some suggestions this time. Really well recorded stuff in a variety of genres, must be good music and not just impressive sound, and SACD is a major plus

PCM1704 should have a power dissipation of 175mW. A SOIC-20 package will heat up about 200F/watt. That's an increase of 35F so if you have a room temperature of 75F, and the PCM1704 is sitting in open air, it would be 110F. It's reasonable if you have an enclosed case and other components increasing the ambient temperature inside the case that you would get 127F

MOTs that weren't asked to organize the event?

can MOTs go?

We could just make portable amps the same size as iPod Shuffles. To save money, we can just buy the shuffles and disable the DAP functionality and add a line-in jack

Heh. Well that provides some valuable info. It means his battery is much smaller than the one I am using - so he can't be using the same volume control or it would never get the 10000 hour battery life required. It also means it will be push buttons or toggle switches, which I don't want to use mostly for 2 reasons: can't tell where the volume is without a display, and it loses the analog feel. I could probably shave off a couple hundredths of an inch by going with a weaker & harder to produce extrusion, but anymore than that and I'd have to start reducing the size of the battery and every mm will probably take 10 hours off the battery life. Why dont you ask how many steps and how much attenuation Looking at diameters of 3.5mm plugs, one of the thinnest is the Neutrik at 0.35". Grado 1/4 to 1/8" adapters are 0.435", and ALO uses some that are up to 0.5" diameter. Which means any amp that is thinner than the plug is potentially going to have issues stacking with a DAP.

yeah, in that case, i guess im mostly interested in seeing the measurements.