aerius

So basically he wants to sell you a $4150 power cord for $1500 or so...

Heh, nothing like free stuff! Reminds me of the time I got a free Bolder Cable power cord just for showing up at a meeting of the local audio group.

Yes, the RSA Stealth. An active pre-amp which has a higher output impedance than a simple passive pot, truly a breakthrough in circuit design.

Well, other than killing you dead and blowing up your speakers there's not much of a problem...

If you're referring to Trose, no doubt. But that Tmij dude has some seriously good stuff.

Yep, you'll need 32V or so to run the amp at full volume with a gain of 11 from the iPod line out. Whether you'll ever crank it up that much is a whole other question...

Thinking of ways to damp my turntable platter and keep it from ringing like a bell.

I know that tedious feeling all too well. A while back I walked into one of my CD racks in the dark and CD's went flying everywhere. A bunch of CD's were badly scratched up so I had to copy them onto CDR's, it took me days and I never want to do it again.

In my experience to date there isn't, and there can actually be a gain in sound quality in some cases. Rip the CD with EAC on secure mode, then burn the CD at between 4-16X depending on your burner and the quality of the CDR's. I've found that burning at full speed can sometimes result in read errors for my older CD players, and some newer CDP's have issues as well.

This is clearly a euphemism for something, though I'm not sure what that something is...

In this topic, we talk about lesbians.

Unfortunately not, it's closer to golden brown than dark red, and the cable "Y" looks pretty shady. Buh??

Own them. 5 years after hearing them for the first time (thanks Biggie) and I finally decided to buy them.

Remember, she lives in Florida, everyone in Florida is weird.

As of 3 hours ago; RS-1 --->K340 --->SR225 --->Senn 580 --->Senn 495 RS-1 with vinyl is fucking awesome beyond fucking awesome. There are no words to express the sheer fucking awesomeness.

For me it's not the Grado forwardness which makes them great for metal, it's the Grado tone, they just get crunchy electric guitars & pounding drums right in a way which I haven't heard in any other headphone.

As I suspected, it's actually better than quite a few of the reviews from those who have heard the Denons. It's also about as honest and fair as my Sennheiser Orpheus review on April Fools day a few years back.

If you've noticed, it's a brilliant parody of the Stereophile Recommended Components List. The non-parody evaluation can be found here.

Comedy gold!

Talk about half-ass assembly procedures. The sad part is you could probably write a better and more accurate review than some of the people who actually own them.

This greatly confuses and upsets aerius' worldview on audio. aerius will have to go meditate and devote much thought to this latest development, and he can't shake the feeling that he's going delusional and seeing things.

I still say the best solution is to have 2 headphones. There are some things which my K340 can't quite do, which is why I have the Grado 225. If I'm going to have a Slayer-fest, I'm reaching for the Grados.

I have a Sony Discman and a Sony Walkman, surprisingly, both of them still work.

I believe they're called passive-aggressive shitheads. I've long given up trying to have useful discussions with them on the 'net as it's practically impossible. I find it's far more productive for me to just abuse the whiny little shits, afterall, I might as well perscute them if they automatically presume that everyone who doesn't get in line for the circle-jerk is persecuting them.

It's possible, but it takes a hell of a lot more than the markl mods, which is just sticking a sponge in it and filling out the earpads. You're going to have to use blu-tack or plumber's putty, felt pads, cotton stuffing, and possibly make physical alterations to the headphone housings or even the driver itself. Markl claims the following: IMO, they're all plausible except for the one I bolded. From my experience with my K340's, sponge doesn't have significant vibration damping properties and I very much doubt it's going to remove a bunch of vibration from the headphone. The only way I can think of it working is that the D5000 rattles like a sumbitch due to loose assembly, and the sponge provides enough spring tension to keep things from moving.