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Burn the heathen!! Yeah, I can agree on that. A heretic! Burn him!!

It depends greatly on the enclosure, but chances are you're not going to feel the bass unless you have a fridge-sized speaker cabinet.

Both, but most people build the enclosures themselves since the drivers' been around for ages and there's a million plans & builder's clubs floating around. But take a listen to them first, they ain't for everyone and some people just don't get them. If you want we can meet up at the store after work or something for a listening session, the owner's a good guy he'll be happy to let us drop in.

To me the HP-2 absolute requires tubes, with solidstate it's too sterile & dry sounding, acceptable if for studio use, but no damn fun for recreational listening. Personally I'd lean towards a more tubey sounding tube setup for the HP-2, but that's just my preference.

Lowthers man, Lowthers. My Kind of Music has a set of Lowthers driven by tube amps, they're pretty interesting. They're not going to rock out to Led Zeppelin, but for say Tori Amos' "Little Earthquakes" or the earlier Cowboy Junkies albums, they do something really special.

The age of consent in Canada is 14.

Is there a hidden link or something I'm not seeing?

Actually you have heard the Beyers, it appears that the experience was so traumatic that you managed to repress the memory. Watching you go "the fuck is the shit??!!" right before you ripped the 880's off your head (Hamilton meet with Tyll) was fucking hilarious.

Here's a report for you. I've heard the Bada PH12 and some of the other shit which Artfuck peddles. Here's a surprise for you. The shit don't sound nearly as good as he claims. "Performs far above their prices"? Bullshit. They're decent to good for what they cost, period, and that's when I roll the good tubes through them. With stock tubes, they're crap. Harsh, grainy, painful crap. Go do a search on Head-fi for my Bada PH-12 thread. I clearly state that the Singlepower is a better amp. Christ 909, do some fucking work before sticking up for this shithead. But that's besides the point. The point is that dretardwells is a dishonest shilling asshole. So he fixed some CD players and got you some good deals, whoop-de-do, that doesn't excuse his other actions and he's still a shit-licking asshole.

I watch it for the women. Mmmmm...Grace Park....

She said it was some senior technician guy in the instrumentation division of the company she used to work for. That's all I know.

The fact of the matter remains that the majority of the shit you recommend, I mean SHILL is sold by Cattylink. You're still a shameless shilling asshole whose opinions are worse than worthless. Not to mention your bullshit "reviews" to pimp Cattylink gear. So Head-fi finally got around to slapping a MoT tag on you so you can't shill anymore, and now you want to come here to shill your shit. Tell me why we shouldn't change your title to "Cattylink Shilling Shithead"?

Apparently it sounds pretty good too, it was featured at a Seattle (I think) meet about 5 or 6 years ago and the impressions were quite favourable. I think Eric343 heard it but I'm not too sure.

Unfortunately my friend's in Alberta doing work for the oil & pipelines industry and I don't know when she'll be back in the Toronto area again, I'm guessing Christmas but who knows, I'll definitely let you know if I hear any news. You'll probably want to hear her CD player too, it's an Audio Aero Capitole. I was like "how the hell do you afford that?", then she told me how much they were paying her and I almost shit myself. Damn Waterloo engineers...

As far as I know, there is no commercially available headphone amp which does so you're probably looking at a custom job. The SinglePower Extreme looks quite promising but I haven't heard one yet so I wouldn't know. Biggie's amp uses push-pull EL34's and a transformer output and a friend of mine has an amp that uses push-pull 2A3's, also transformer output. Those two are the best RS-1 amps I've ever heard, they're a few levels above everything else, with the 2A3 amp having the edge. To me it's good, but not great. Dynamics, weight, and control aren't as good as the amps listed above. Slap an output transformer on it and it gets better, but still not as good as a triode wired 12W6 or EL34, which in turn isn't quite as good as a 2A3.

Espressivo Headphone Amplifier, because someone has to build one...

I highly recommend a Pace PRC2000 soldering & rework station. It's only $4500 or so these days, back when I was in the electronics assembly industry they cost something like $10,000. You can solder and rework anything except BGA's with one of those babies. On a more serious note, I find both the Hakko & Weller work about the same in actual use, but the Hakko fits my hand a lot better. The Weller feels kinda awkward and I never felt comfortable with it. I'd be fine with it for most soldering, but not for surface mount parts or other small things.

I didn't really like it, to me it was like Grado made a hi-fi non-Grado-like Grado. It's wood and it looks like a Grado, but it doesn't have the Grado soul & magic.

Of course they all need work with equipment matching, but let's recall the adage of polishing a turd. When the sound is fundamentally flawed, no amount of tweaking and equipment matching is going to fix it. You can shine a turd all you want, but in the end it's still a piece of shit. Nothing you can do to a stock iPod earbud will make it sound like a Shure E4. There's no way to fix the sound of a CD3000, R10, or W100 so that they'll sound good to me short of ripping them apart and rebuilding everything from scratch.

Haven't heard the L3000 yet, but of the rest, they all have terminal flaws except for the K340. R10 - Speed, detail, & soundstage, but not nearly enough bass and weight to the sound. I'd have to reserve it for my violin & acoustic guitar music. Highly specialized & limited, like Quad 57's but even worse. CD3000 - Smiley face EQ, lots of slow yucky bass, crappy mids, and painful treble. It's like a boombox with bass boost. W100 - Brutal midrange colouration & resonance, violins & acoustic guitars are unlistenable. For female vocals only, and looking pretty on a shelf or stand. The K340 will do almost everything well, I don't think there's an area where it's the absolute best, but to me there aren't any glaring flaws either. There might be a bit of a midrange colouration and it may be a little "closed" sounding depending on which version you end up with, and that's about it. But it takes work to tune it right and amp the damn thing.

Yeah, we al know what happens when you get loaded with booze.

Hmmm...how about meeting at the Audio Circle Meet which also happens to be on March 18th?

Yup. That's right.

To be honest I don't know. On my pair the amount of bass can be slightly adjusted by changing the amount of stuffing, there's less bass with no stuffing and more bass with more stuffing, but only up to a certain point, after which it just kills the treble and sucks the life out of music. Never dealt with a bass lite pair myself so I don't know how it would be affected. Personally I think the bass heavy ones have more room to play with, the backs can be taped off to tighten & reduce bass, there's stuffing f& damping mods, and of course wiring mods. There's more things which can be played with while still having decent sound. However, I don't think it has a much potential as the other pairs, for whatever reason it just doesn't have as much detail, openess, and finesse as the bass lite & neutral pairs.

To me the K701 & GCHA are both on the dry & sterile side, and the problems with both would combine to give the issues you're having. The K701 is already a sterile sounding headphone which lacks dynamics & weight, it will not do bass slam unless you turn on the bass boost button on your music player or crank it up to some obscene volume, and even with the full & rich sounding RCA grey glass 6SN7 tubes it still doesn't have midrange life & tone. The GCHA is kinda like a "studio sound" headphone amp, it's "accurate, flat, and neutral" and does the "hi-fi tricks" but it doesn't have the fullness & tone of a good tube amp. Put the two together and you get the worst of both, call it negative synergy or whatever. I'm guessing that of current production 'phones, the Senn 650 would probably be the best match for the amp. It should clean up some of the 650's bloatedness and add some crispness & extension to the treble.