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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7104421.stm I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

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If you like it that's cool, no one's telling you that you're not allowed to like it. I can't say that. Sometimes I can understand why a person would like a certain headphone even when I don't, for instance the Ety ER4. Too often, I'm left at a complete loss as to how someone could find something appealing when IMO, it has no redeeming qualities. Black & white fallacies and false dilemas are cool. Let me rephrase the above for you, "no headphones sound 100% natural anyway, so who cares if the Ed.9 ain't natural? Modern music isn't natural, so who needs a natural sounding headphone?" Some people still listen to these things called symphonies and orchestras, and this thing called live acoustic music, and they want their headphones to sound as close to the actual event as possible. If you don't, whatever, I don't care, and I don't think anyone else here would either. You're free to listen to and like whatever music you choose, and to have it sound the way you want it to, again, no one here is telling you're not allowed to do it though we may question or poke fun at your taste.

They're exactly the same, yet completely different. It's like the Senn 580 & 600, exactly the same, but totally different. Or like the K340 & K340, same, yet different. Or crack & cocaine, same, but different. Or...

Basically, you count the resistors. For each channel, a series attenuator will have a resistor for each step, a shunt will have a resistor for each step plus one resistor as the series element, a ladder has 2 resistors for each step. Thus a 24-step stereo series pot has 48 resistor for series, 50 for shunt, and 96 for ladder. Shunt may have 48 as well if they simply short out the contact for zero volume.

Ultrasone is the new Sony, I haven't heard one which I can tolerate, let alone like.

I don't remember to be honest. I know someone contacted me and told me about this place shortly after the Ohio meet fiasco, but I can't remember who that person was.

Cheapass beancounter who doesn't learn. Head-fi has gone down more times than I can count, and he never bothered to spend the time & money fix it right. Rather, it was one half-ass patch job after the other until the whole house of cards came crashing down. I have no sympathy for him, a crash like this one was inevitable and he took no steps to avoid it, which is completely inexcusable given the past downtime and bug history of Head-fi.

I'm surrounded by stoners!

Or you could just get a sheet of metal and a shotgun...

Speaking of which, you must download this file! http://www.danleysoundlabs.com/Finale4.ZIP Fireworks with full dynamics and no compression. Crank it up and wait for the big booms at the end.

Piano, organ, acoustic & electric bass, tympani, bass drums, reggae beats, synth lines, and of course cannonfire. Example. Tori Amos' Bosendorfer Imperial Grand piano, it has the sub bass keys that go down to 16Hz IIRC. Even if she isn't playing those notes, the strings will still vibrate and contribute to the sound when she plays any of the lower bass notes. You'll hear this quite a few times on her "Boys for Pele" album, without the low bass her piano sounds completely wrong. My RS-1 and K340 can do it at times, but not often, and only with the right music. That's why I do drugs, so I can trick myself more often.

Setup some Bouncing Betty's and concertina wire around your property. Don't forget the warning signs.

Really odd, my pair doesn't start rolling off until you get below 30-35 or so, but once it does it drops like a rock, pretty much nothing below 26-27Hz. There's another pair I know of that's been measured to go cleanly down to the low 30's, but it doesn't roll off as sharply as mine.

For some reason I read the tread title as "George Harrison", and I was like isn't George dead? And since when did he play drums? I think I inhaled too much solder fumes today.

And now for something completely different. A push-pull design using directly heated pentodes. Puts out around 4 watts per channel.

Get a can of bear spray, which is basically extra strength pepper spray. Give the cat a good dousing of the hot stuff the next time you see it.

You're not going to get the G-Strings?

A little thought exercise: Which makes more sense, test driving a Ferrari on a test track or doing so in the middle of a rush hour traffic jam? How about testing out a farm tractor on a racetrack or on an actual field?

That's why I have Armani glasses, well, ok, the real reason is my health insurance covers them. Seriously, these ones have the nice low-profile arms that don't pinch into my ears do stupid stuff when I wear my headphones, whereas my old glasses were a serious pain with any one of my headphones.

It's pretty sad when the pictures from my digital camera and the porn I've downloaded off the 'net have more redundant backups than head-fi does.

Nottingham Dais. See if you can get a listen to one somewhere.

Compared to the "good version", my K340 has the following shortfalls more midrange colouration less treble can't play as loud slightly less speed & resolution In any case, even with a fully "healthy" K340 the points noted in the opening post remain true. The margins won't be as big, but that's about it. Or to put it another way, it would be like comparing an Alessandro MS-1 and a Grado 225 to an RS-1, with my K340 being the MS-1 and a good K340 being the 225. It closes the gap a bit but it ain't gonna turn the tables around.

I'm thinking about it. Sorta. The treble's nicely tamed with the right tubes and doesn't bug me so I'm not in any real hurry to get flats, but it's something I'll likely do eventually. Which translates to "sometime in the next couple years. Maybe". Mine's the one with lots of bass. I've tweaked it a lot to even out the midrange and get more treble so a lot of that extra bass is gone, but it's still more bassy than my Senn 580. I know it's not my amp since my amp will cleanly drive K1000's to deafening volumes, and it has enough power to run speakers. My pair of K340's just doesn't like playing loud for whatever reason.

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