aardvark baguette

pffft. typical hate mongering from an egg basher.

Happy B Day

I just have the Thermaltake single drive holder, aka BlacX. But I'm thinking of getting one of these for work. This one covers less of the drive, which should help offset the extra heat from two drives close together. Hopefully it offers a good lock so the drives dont slip though.

fucker

I think part of the charm of HC is its size of active posters. Its just much easier to identify reviews and comments that are more aligned with your preferences and way of thinking, whereas HF is more of a catch-all, and you have to boil it all down to a few meaningful posts. Particularly the music section. You wont find 10,000 threads on the new guns n roses album here, or the same 10 nu metal bands discussed ad nauseum. Thats my take anyway.

32GB SSD $79 patriot

Surfed the internet while my lamp was flickering. Started wondering what that god-awful stench was. Looked over at lamp, found found the CRL bulb was smoking. So thats what mercury smells like Hopefully it was just the fixture. If I stop posting next week, I guess we'll have our answer.

Its not a deal breaker, its just a pita. I'd rather have S.E. if it could be worked out. Its a petty charge on top of the phones, but the phones themselves are already at an astronomical price, that anything above that would still be a pain.

yeah, but that would be more money on top of the phones.

It seems like all the L3000s for sale are balanced these days.

I wanna buy like 10 extra pairs.

what about this one then.

yup.

I'd still like to get my paws on an L3000 some day, but this is probably the closest I'm going to get. Maybe these approach them in quality, maybe not. At least this time I've gotten a chance to get them while affordable to mere mortals.

I'm very tempted to put off a few things I need to buy and get a few more of these. One for home, one of office and one to keep sealed up for safe keeping. I'm bringing them back home this weekend and I'll hook them up to my dac and amp and try to see if they scale well. If they can sound better than how they sound now, its really going to be something else

I've been using my 10JPNS in the office the past few days. I'm really impressed with them so far. No special burn in procedure, just listening to music on my ipod. No external amp. In one of my reference recordings/favorite recordings, This One's For Blanton, I noticed faint talking from Duke Ellington in the background in one section. I dont remember ever picking this up with properly amped HD650s before, and I've listened to this album many, many times. Its my favorite album. So far I think my HD650s go a bit deeper in the bass, and are far more comfortable for long sessions, but I think I may actually prefer the 10JPNs with jazz. The bass is very well controlled straight out of an ipod, which just amazes me, and they are so neutral, but exciting at the same time. I dont know if its the fact that they're closed, or just the drivers, but they seem to offer up more detail and possibly equal the separation of the HD650s I have. I'm curious to see what they can do with a good dac and amp, but they make the ipod a much more enjoyable source + amp than my HD650s do. I could live with this setup as is for my office. If I were using these as truly portable headphones, I'd skip an amp entirely. The ipod drives them just fine. I dont know what burn in will do, but I think people tend to get a little to emphatic about its effects. All I know is it sounds terrific straight out of the box.

put it in a blanket.

You say that as if its a viable option.

Thats giving me wayyyy to much credit

blasted thing is really tempting me.

Not in a pizza kitchen straight to the freezer in the summer