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I hope someone makes a better K340 for cheap, but I honestly doubt it'll even happen. I look at the way companies are voicing their headphones these days, and it tends towards blandness instead of having character like the classic 'phones. The musical fun just ain't there these days, and I don't know if it'll come back.

One thousand of the above, filled with West Texas Intermediate crude oil.

Pretty smooth highs, but the midrange & bass is pretty thick and syrupy, and dark. Oil will indeed become quite costly in the near future, read up on Peak Oil and then head over to The Oil Drum with their wealth of technical articles, then be prepared to be seriously depressed and angered. Step 1: Find about $75k-80k in spare change, depending on the current price of oil Step 2: Open an account at ICF Holdings or other such securities company which lets you trade oil & gasoline futures Step 3: Research the shit out of Peak Oil, oil reserves & production, and politics in oil producing & consuming countries Step 4: Wednesday is the magic day, that's when the DOE oil inventory report comes out each week at 10:30am Step 5: Make a shitload of money Step 6: Remember to set aside a bunch of money to cover the capital gains taxes Moving back on topic, the GS-1000 just didn't agree with me. I'm addicted to the RS-1 midrange and the GS-1000 unfortunately doesn't have it.

Given that it's in the form of an oil futures contract, and the way oil prices have been going up this year, it basically sounds like $$$CHA-CHING!!$$$

I have been on a buying spree, I currently own an olympic-sized swimming pool's worth of crude oil.

Is it just me or is everyone here going on a major buying spree lately?

Putting some heavy books on top of them to smoosh them down.

That's deep. I'll have to go meditate on that or something...

Clearly, we are all victims of a grand conspiracy. Either that or we're all suffering a mass delusion.

We had punch? I don't remember drinking punch, but I vaguely recall drinking beer. Or maybe that was another time.

I guess the W100 I held in my hands and had on my head was not a W100...

Actually I'd say this latest one from Machina Dynamica takes the cake. http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina60.htm Just read it, seriously.

Nope, the largest I've seen around here is either 1" or 1.5" diameter.

Go to Canadian Tire or Home Depot. They should have some large diameter clear vinyl (I think) tubing. Grab some of that, grab some foam pipe insulation to go around it, then get some PVC or ABS pipe that fits over the foam. Glue it all together & paint it and you'll have one of those swanky cable doo-hickeys.

I is reading some threads on head-fi where ignorant fanboys are getting owned. Someone just compared an amp to mung, that is probably the funniest thing I've read all day.

I seem *cough cough* to have come down with a *cough cough* cold *cough* I'm going home now...

Good transformers cost major money, plus there's no designs around for people like you-know-who to copy. But there is this. I think KG mentioned there were something like $600 in transformers alone in there. http://www.moon-audio.com/MoonHead.htm

Build this. It's beyond my skills at the moment, but I'm pretty sure someone on the board can build one.

Look where the keys are on his keyboard, I think the trackpad is the least of his issues.

So it costs about as much as an R10, therefore this is the new R10 killer!

I know that feeling, I have my parents' old Dual turntable which is also a direct drive record spinner with the original Shure V15 TypeIII cartridge. I don't even have a separate phono stage, I'm using the phono input on my Technics receiver along with its headphone output jack to drive my Senn 580's. If I put my good LP's it's still fucking awesome, it makes my Senns not suck which is a small miracle in itself, and something which my CD rig with the full out tube amp can't do. The CDP/tube/K340 rig can still beat my vinyl rig in most areas and in terms of enjoyment they're about equal, but when we're talking about value & fun for the money there's no contest here, vinyl rules. I suspect that once I get an up to date cartridge and build a nice tube phono stage, my turntable will end up crushing my CD rig in practically every aspect. I recently heard the Apollo and I'd have to say probably not. It doesn't have the big real sound of good analog, the only CD player I've heard which does is the Audio Aero Capitole and those ain't exactly cheap.

Ok, I took off my record mat so it's now all rubber. The shiny orange lights are also working, but I'm still not getting any music, only the same horrible scratching sound. I think these silver records are defective. I'm going to return them and buy some proper LP's and 45's.

Hi, I bought some shiny new records for my vinyl collection but they seemed a little odd. These things are like shiny silver on one side with graphics and stuff on the other, and they're smaller than my 45's. I put them on my record player and tried the 45 RPM setting, but it didn't work, and I couldn't get music out of them, only a horrible scratching sound. I tried the other side and got the same thing. What am I doing wrong?

If headphones could talk, I wonder what they'd say about being passed around the tribe like the village bicycle...

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