Everything posted by aerius
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This is an interesting forum
The software does indeed do word substitution. I propose that asshat extraordinaire be known as palmfucker.
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This is an interesting forum
In this forum, we talk about pornography. And we can type the word "porn" without having it censored by the fucking bad word filters.
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Avantgarde Duo 2.1, vinyl, good music
Interesting...I've been wanting to hear the Duos for a while but can't find anyone who has them. I heard the Unos a long time ago and was quite impressed by them, except for a bass integration problem and a bit of a gap between the horns and bass module. But that was a couple generations of horns and bass modules ago so a lot has probably changed. What impressed me the most about the Unos was speed and dynamics, those suckers were every bit as fast as electrostatics with the effortless big dynamics that only horns can do. Really cool stuff.
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This is an interesting forum
Do you like large breasts?
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Better than those other Electrostatics and not hard to drive!
I remember when you could buy'em for half that price...
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Moon Audio Luna
Electrically, the 6BZ7 is nowhere close to a 6922 except in gain. Half the transconductance, twice the plate resistance, a bit more gain. Given that the input & output tubes are direct coupled, I wouldn't drop in a 6BZ7 without seeing the full schematics of the amp.
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Post the last thing you bought!
That's the icepick grip, also known as the serial killer grip.
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What are you smoking right now?
As a health conscious person who does not want to end up with emphysema, lung cancer, or any of the other shitty diseases associated with inhaling toxic carcinogenic smoke, let's just say that I don't smoke. So the answer is nothing. But I do eat magic brownies.
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not my day...
I've had days like that, I fried the PSU on my KGCA when I went to adjust a trimpot and ended up shorting it out when I sneezed at the wrong time. Surprisingly the amp itself survived, but I had to make a run to the surplus store to pick up more PSU parts. Then there was the time I blew up the probes on my multimeter, I was measuring voltages in a rather tight space on my tube amp PSU. I found out the hard way what 500uF at roughly 350V can do when I accidentally crossed the probes while they were both in contact with the caps. The probes were vapourized, and my ears rang and I saw spots for hours. I had to get a new multimeter after that one. I've come to accept that blowing stuff up is a part of DIY.
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holy poo
Or conversly, he has all that bandwidth because he is or is planning to host porn.
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Happy Birthday Tyll
Happy birthday! Without Tyll, we'd be a lot further behind in the headphone hobby, he's the key that opened up the headphone world.
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Need help with an important life decision
Yes, she is. Unfortunately, for myself and Dusty Chalk, she's married.
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Need help with an important life decision
Y'all are just jealous 'cause I actually get out and have fun with hot chicks.
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AKG K340 modding thread
Well, for starters I have to say that I'm against the screen mod, and as far as I can tell I'm the only one. I've made a replacement screen assembly out of sheet aluminum, cardboard, plastic, and various types fabric & foam. I haven't like any of the results. Yes it can be a more open and extended sound in the treble, but I found it did bad things to the overall tonal quality and sometimes the imaging as well. The headphone ends up sounding "whiter" and somewhat "washed out", and ultimately I found this fatiguing. To me it just ain't worth it, the original screen works just fine as far as I'm concerned and strikes the best balance for overall sound.
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Need help with an important life decision
Well, you can't argue with success, and I've had quite a lot of success with women.
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Need help with an important life decision
New option added. Chick #3
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what are your opinions on the super.fi 5 and the denon ah-c700?
Conclusion IMO, AKG took a wrong turn in its pursuit of "neutrality" and flat frequency response, the K701 sounds like it's been resistored down and way overdamped, giving a dead sound that's lacking in weight, warmth, and dynamics. I find it to be dry and boring, and anything but neutral, real music is not this lifeless and bland. I can't remember who mentioned it, but it's as if AKG sat down and built a headphone such that it wouldn't offend anyone, and came up with a product which is average or mediocre in every respect, it doesn't have a single outstanding or compelling quality which would convince me to forgive its many shortfalls. I can forgive a Grado's small soundstage since it's got a wonderful tone as well as being the most addictively fun headphone I've ever heard, I can forgive my K340's slight midrange colouration & rolled-off highs thanks to its soundstaging, imaging, level of detail, and spooky real female vocals. The HP-1000's analytical sound is offset by its high resolution & precise soundstaging & imaging. I can't say anything like that about the K701. To me the K701 is just another headphone in the crowded $350-500 segment where it faces stiff competition, and that's the level it performs at, it's a Senn 650 level headphone at best. It's not a giant killer, it's not going to match an RS-1, K1000, HP-1000, or anything else in the $700-1000 range. Postscript: This was written some time ago, after further thought I've concluded that the K701 is a flaming piece of shit. This has nothing to do with the OP, but that's besides the point, the fact of the matter is that Merton's a fucking moron, and should go play chicken with speeding freight trains.
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New Grado RS-2
My middle school shop teacher would've flunked me for finishing wood that badly. They also need to replace their tooling since every single Grado cable gets pinched at the Y on the same side in every single headphone.
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Need help with an important life decision
I'm totally serious, it came down to either flipping a coin or asking the members of Head-case, I decided on the latter since it would be more entertaining. In all seriousness, I'm clearly, I repeat, clearly not being serious, so it puzzles me that there are serious replies, especially considering that this is the Off Topic forum of Head-case, where we usually make a mockery of seriousness.
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Last minute mini-meet
Well, there's the slight problem of my K340's drivers never coming apart again since I had to epoxy them after making repairs to the solder tabs and voice coil wire connection to the drivers... As for doing the EnABL process, my friend says she ain't doing it again, ever, since she came really close to wrecking her RS-1 while taking them apart and doing the mod, and doesn't see the next time being any easier. Bud Purvine, who owns the patent would probably be the best person since he's done a whole bunch of speakers and headphones.
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Need help with an important life decision
Might I suggest a vacation in Nevada to enjoy the brothels? If I lived in Quebec, I'd be celebrating my 10th year of legal drinking. It's also the age where women stop aging, and start lying about their age.
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Need help with an important life decision
Hi, I'm not sure which chick I should marry, and call upon the wise men of Head-case to aid me in this most difficult of difficult life decisions. Chick #1...............................................................................Chick #2........................
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Looks like Mike Vick is facing some new allegations....
Latest update, A Michael Vick chew toy for dogs.
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Last minute mini-meet
I think both pairs of RS-1's were older ones. They're not the really deep red ones which some people here have, but they're significantly darker than the current production RS-1's. On a deep-reddish scale of 1-10 with 1 being current production and 10 being the really old ones, these would be around an 8 or so.
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Last minute mini-meet
Applying a pattern to control standing waves and reduce resonance to both the driver and the wooden housing. Also recabled with copper litz wire and driven balanced, along with rounding off some corners and sharp edges in the internal parts. All listening was done with flat pads, as they were the only pads we had.