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I am, but the K340 is not current production and has been discontinued for ages. Tube amp's done, but I recently thought up a new idea that I'm building. I first heard the RS-1 about half a year or so after I got my Senn 580's. They made the Senns sound like a broken piece of crap. I've since heard the RS-1 quite a few times and the first impressions continue to hold up. If I didn't have a K340 and a Grado 225, I'd likely have an RS-1 by now.

Appealing to the "neutral hi-fi" crowd.

Out of all the current production headphones I've heard so far, the RS-1 is still my favourite. Senns, meh, AKG's, snore, Beyers, fucking painful treble, Sony, see Beyer, Stax, nice but not really my thing, Grado, that's where the music's at. IMO, most other headphones play hi-fi, Grados play music, and the RS-1 to me is still the best current production Grado.

Proving once and for all the superioirity of easy clean pleather earpads.

I haven't, but I know someone who has. She had the 'phones playing some bass-heavy beats and then put'em up against her clit.

Read this By the time you get to the end of all 5 or 6 pages, you should have it pretty much figured out.

If I had to take a guess, there's a crapload of EQ in there to make the response that flat, plus they did a whole bunch of smoothing on the curve to make it flatter yet.

Considering that we have horse racing, show jumping, and rodeo events which are hardly kind to animals and are pretty much animal olympics, it would be pretty hypocritical for us to complain about China having an animal olympics circus.

Stax have no bass, and therefore suck.

I respect what Jude has done in the past for the headphone hobby, key words, done, and past. What he's been doing in the past year or so and what he continues to do now has pretty much used up that bank of prior respect and will soon put that respect into negative territory. And that's sad and unfortunate, but life goes on.

Going by what I heard at the Hamilton meet the Senns definitely respond better to balancing, and between the 600 & 650 I prefered the 650. However I've heard a bunch of 650's now and every single one of them has sounded different to varying degrees while the 4 or so pairs of 600's have been pretty much identical. Puzzles the hell out of me.

I suggest the Zen Cable recable, "what is the sound of no cables?"

I love you too, dickwad.

Let's just say the reason you don't see idiots posting here is because we abused them until they left. Here, you can call a jackass a cocksucking donkey fucker and not have the sentence get censored. It's great.

There's conflicting research on this, in recent years some studies have shown that a bit more fat in middle to old age can be good thing, but the jury's still out. What they're also doing is using the exceptions to prove the rule, and confusing cause & effect, or rather, ignoring & deliberately confusing the issues. Of course that's about par for the course for what is basically a fat-ass sympathizer site. In any case, if you're overweight but otherwise healthy you're probably fine, if you're overweight and suffering from health problems it's probably a good idea to drop a few pounds. If you're a 500 pound lardass who's confined to a bed, then losing a few hundred pounds will save your life.

Every sizable city will have an escort service of some sort, and failing that, there's always the brothels in Nevada. If you can afford headphone gear, you can afford a trip to Nevada for a good suck & fuck session.

Let us never speak of this again, and instead move on to discussing the joys of receiving wicked blowjobs from a hot naked woman.

It should say "time", smartass. My hands don't have names, but my penis does, but that's besides the point.

If your amp has limited power, you should get these dinky little mediocre efficiency bookshelf speakers which have no bass. I've struggled for years to figure that one out, and still can't. Small bookshelf speakers tend to have mediocre to half-decent efficiency which doesn't really help if the amp has limited power. I don't know about you but if I got stuck with a 10W amp I'm getting a big pair of horn speakers so I can fill my room with big badass sound.

Well, knock yourself out then, it's your right to do so. I'm going to go fondle my GF's tits because frankly it's a much better use of my tim.

I'm siding with tkam and Grawk on the "censorship" issue. If you want to argue semantics and technicalities, yes, locking a thread is censorship. Fine, big fucking deal. I admit like ripping into the Head-fi Nazis and assholes as much as anyone else, but let's face it, it gets repetitive after a while, and when you're down to whining about low-grade morons like Skyline889 you are definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel. Yes he's a worthless twat, but he's just another one of the 1001 dickwads at the bottom of the pile, do you really think it's worth it to cry about every last insignificant twat on Head-fi? There really are more important things to do than whining & crying about dime a dozen idiots and arguing about your rights to bitch about said idiots.

Unfortunately my only experience with under $1000 speakers is the Energy C3 & C1 bookshelf speakers, and it was also quite some time ago so I can't remember them all that well. But in terms of room setup, you're not nearly as badly off as you think. The Decware site has an article on setting up crappy rooms, and strange as it sounds the diagonal setup really does work. Do a search on Head-fi using "room" as keyword, "gopher" as the user, and select "amplification" in the forums to search. The thread you're looking for was started by Gopher with 14 replies, it's about setting up a room.

Actually I don't think you'd even need an UHB cable, I find that stock Grado cables are a lot worse than popularly accepted and even something like Cat-5e or Cat-6 network cable is a big improvement. I briefly had Cat-6 cable on my 225 and it was a big improvement in treble smoothness, yes it's still a bit on the bright side but it's no longer sibilant. But since I needed that cable for my K340 I ended up putting Biggie's old PS-1 cable on my 225. It's somewhere in between, but closer to the stock 225 cable. Cat-6, some heat-shrink tubing, teflon tape, and techflex (or shoelaces for the cheap) and you're good to go. Might as well do them balanced while you're at it. Another possibility is to get a used RS-1, they're best with tubes IMO and since you already have a bunch of those you should be good to go.

I admit that Ass-raping the head-fi morons is starting to get old, which is why I haven't done it in a while. RSA however, deserves every bit of abuse he's getting. His designs, if we can be generous enough to call them that, are flawed at best and a goddamn safety hazard to boot. Combined with his questionable business practices he deserves to be exposed and ridiculed at every opportunity. I can't speak for others, but I know we're better than Head-fi, the content is there and it's slowly building itself. It'll take time though, Rome wasn't built in a day afterall. The bitching stays in the Casino and RSA threads and most of the rest is pretty much good content. Take a look through the Headphone forum, the Amp forum, Speakers, DIY, Sources, it's all filled with good stuff. Now go look on Head-fi, same fucking threads for the 10 millionth time, over & over & over, getting worse with each day. "Best $50 headphone", "I just got a XXXXXX and it's the best shit ever!", "I want an amp for my HD-650", "I need a $200 DAC", "where do I get OPA627's?", same shit every day for the last year or two. Not to mention the fucktards & shills. Great signal to noise there. I'm lucky if I can find a single worthwhile thread on the first page over there. I'm working on it. I like to think I've contributed some good stuff, but there's always room for improvement.

Or the myths which people like to parrot to the point where they've become accepted "fact". 1) Grados don't really need an amp and don't benefit all that much from one. While it's true that Grados will sound pretty decent straight out of a PCDP or iPod, they improve a hell of a lot when driven off a good amp. A 225 is pretty listenable out of my Walkman, but gets a fair bit better out of my Gilmore Lite, and it's better still on Biggie's pimped out tube amp. I'd argue that a Grado will scale as nicely as any other headphone. 2) The "tube sound" myth. Tube amps have rolled off highs & lows, rounded off transients, lacking dynamics, fuzzy imaging, but great midrange. Congratulations, you've described the typical shitty design of 95% of production tube amps. I can't blame people too much though, since not too many have heard a properly designed tube amp. Like the one I have which is +/-0.5dB from 10Hz-40kHz, and which has all the best attributes of tube & solidstate. 3) It'll be better once it's broken in. Maybe, maybe not. I never tire of bringing up the Senn 650 case, where people complained that the damn thing got worse after it was broken in. So what are your favourite myths, favourite as in everytime you hear someone say it you feel like beating some sense into them with a ball bat.