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I'm not Billy, but I also have a question for you. Does your penis tingle when you sneeze?

A heathen! Burn him!!

Since you mention that you want a pre-amp out to drive power amps for the K1000, there might actually be another way to do this. I believe 5687 just got his transformer output Singlepower built up, this would allow a low impedance output tap for driving Grados and a medium to high impedance output tap to provide the higher voltage swings required for the K1000. It should be possible since my own DIY amp which uses output transformers and 6SN/BL/BX7 output tubes can drive the K1000 pretty well. I tried out the K1000 on my amp at a meet and I was quite happy with the sound.

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.