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I agree-- he is a wottaguy! It's great fun to see actual measurements on these old dinophones that we've all been tuning by ear. I get a particular kick out of the square wave tests-- back in the day, square wave testing was one of the most rigorous tests... and one of the most fiendishly difficult to interpret usefully. But if you stare at it long enough... Since we know the Telefunken TH 700 is basically an OEM clone of the Peerless PMB 8, do we know whether the 8 had the two different drivers the Telefunken had?

Didn't we find that Micro Seiki (or its OEM) used polyurethane diaphragms, as Koss used in the ESP-9? The smaller Martin-Logans look to me like some chairs designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Goes without saying, I'd very much like to audition the LCD-2 and would certainly bring its direct ancestor T50 along to compare.

I'm just wondering if any of the younguns have even heard of Virgil Fox. Interested? Try this link and sample the Joseph Jongen Symphonie Concertante. Since you have one of the good HE-5s, I'm very much looking forward to your opinion of the LCD-2.

There's a reason I'm asking: The test goes beyond the "but hey, whuddiffeye wanna headbang, huh?" and points to how well the makers did their work designing the magnetic structure of the 'phone.

That brings up one of the Continuity of Plausibility tests for headphones: how well does the LCD-2 handle high SPLs? ie, does it stay clean when it plays loud enough to elicit bitching?

Ah yes, the Allegri Miserere. I still have my 1980 Tallis Scholars LP.

Are you speaking of the T50RPmkIIn in its native dress or in a custom Smegclosure?

Hmmm.. You're a good candidate for Team Ortho. Prepare for a late-night visit from three spectral ortho ninjas. They wear the chains they forged in life. Or are you a former member?

Advice? buy BOTH and feed your wallet the painkillers.

In everyday nonpicky use, the affordable Pana and Canon P&Ss (less than $200 and preferably less than $150) are roughly equivalent-- if you had to buy them sight unseen you'd be able to get good photos from both. They're just not that different. They both take AA cells and SD cards. One will have a slightly wider-angle lens. The other will weigh less or be more compact. Once pickiness enters the picture, things change. If you take a lot of time exposures longer than 8 seconds, go Canon. If you've seen one too many purple halos around bright objects and can't stand to see another one, go Panasonic. If you like shooting indoor video clips of your cat, go Canon. If you value sharpness over smoothness, go Panasonic, and so on.

[looking at collection] Oo! Lutoslawski!

Har! You figure he'll soon regret getting into this Neo-Ortho business? He might! Thanks for the furthurr impressions, NoNoNoNoNoNo. Puts it in perspective nicely.

This is sounding... well, semi-promising. Don't forget to try the open-palm test and the binaural recording test.

Truth or Fail.

...bass head, bass head, nya nya nya nya bass head... [runs away] [comes back, grabs microphone] Extremism in the pursuit of strong, well-controlled and clean bass is no vice! [runs away again]

And even if it was, and it is, there's nothing wrong with that.

Hard to argue with that. But do take every precaution: keeping in mind Spritzer's caution, don't ever look at your ET 1000 wrong.

Reeeeeeeelly? That's.. that's... [trails off, mesmerized] What happens when you crank it up? or don't you?

My own head is far funkier than the LCD-2, so no worries here. Who's the Audeze guy in the photo? or is he just a model from the local agency?

Same here! if it works, it works. Can't argue against that. I only want to point out that it's difficult to say whether one has reduced midrange or boosted bass and treble, and the latter is always preferable. If the smeggifelt was being used as a damping adjunct, then I'm sure it reduced any bass-centered resonant peak which undoubtedly brought down some midrange as well, which goes without saying. Is that how you were using it?

Don, it seems to me that your mids didn't so much suppress the hump in the mids as raise up the bottom and top ends. Which I applaud.

Hey! Those are Sonigistix/Monsoon panels being used for midranges! I'd heard about that but didn't believe it. Thanks for the link!

If you want to get started for cheap and don't mind a little DIY, used MiniDisc sounds good (avoid Sony and its cheap MD mic preamps), and if you can't find a pair of A-T's ATR-35S for cheap, you can build your own mics using Panasonic capsules from your local friendly electronics parts stockist. Another way to go binaural cheap is to use your own dummy head. Works great.

DC, I like what you've done with this Ortho Weirdo thing, sweetheart. Now, we're just waiting to get Mike, Peter, Davy and Micky to ink this thing and hand it off to Don Kirshner to punch it up and sweeten it a little and we're off to the races-- oh, Harry, could you get your friend Tipton to arrange this? Harry?... [runs down hallway, knocks over Sir George Martin, killing him instantly] Hey, that Hamhocker Schlepper looks pretty good! I don't know that I'd put the T50RP drivers in there, since they don't start out with a great surplus of bass. A couple of NAD orthos that someone's given up on, maybe..