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I am going to guess...A Turntable.

I guess I will give a serious listen to the new and improved version on the 25th as the one at CanJam was not impressive but maybe he has turned the corner, and the price doesn't seem too bad.

What an uncanny resemblance. I actually went into the other room to make sure my HF-2s were not playing on the Internet.

Okay, in an effort to avoid the ban hammer, I am still enjoying mine and I am listening to Dave Brubeck Castilian Drums (Live at Carnegie Hall) right now and the HF-2s nail the percussion virtuoso performance on this recording. Bass is big but fortunately none of that one not lower register and the some headphones give on this song. The dynamics are also top notch and when it really gets down to it, soundstage is not bad as are ambient cues, though the space seems to have shrunk a bit. My only complaint at this point is the short cable. With the 10 foot 4-Pin extension Nate made me I can still not listen to these from my listening chair without moving it up a foot. Minor but a bit more length would have been great.

I have both and if I were forced to choose I would definitely keep the Omega II. While I do not have the BHSE, yet, I have heard it many times with my Omega IIs and this is my favorite headphone set up. With my KGSS I still prefer the Omega II but the margin is not as large as the HD800s do very well with the Balanced M^3.

Looks like the CanJam Blur edition will be even more special. Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio - View Single Post - HF-2

No the F1 batch is the first batch besides the 24 we picked up at CanJam.

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I got an e-mail response about 5 minutes after registering but I have not seen the mailed documentation yet.

Happy Birthday Justin

Spinning Thriller here. Always one of my guilty pleasure albums, I must have bought a dozen $1 copies of this album over the years.

Great Minds...

Sony R10 Balanced Stax Omega II mk 1 Senn HD-800 Balanced Ultimate Ears UE-11 Pro Grado HP-2 Grado HF-2 Balanced Senn HD-600 Balanced AKG K-340 Balanced Grado SR-60 Yuin OK3 (I assume as I have not taken them out of the box yet)

Cleaned out my refrigerator and freezer when I got home and found that my year old GE Profile Arctica high dollar fridge was dead.

Mine have bowls on now and I think that is the way they will stay. I have not listened to them since Ari balanced them for me but I assume I will still prefer bowls.

Happy Birthday.

I will have to check that out this weekend. Thanks

Good to see you. Now I can bother you with RS-1500 questions on three different boards.

I will listen to them until some other shiny new toy grabs my attention and then I will forgot all about them.

HD-800s from Headroom.

I was under the impression that he was using a portable amp with the HD-800s and I also was hoping to get a more in depth, than the few minutes I spent with Tyll's, review of the HD-800s with the M^3 before putting in my order.

I listened to the UDAC quite a bit at CanJam as it was on my list of potential DACs for the Squeezebox. I thought it was quite good on our begged, borrowed and stolen rig at CanJam. I call dibs on Dinny's. Dinny if you want to borrow the M^3 to use with your new HD800s let me know. I got a few minutes with this pairing and Thrice's Buffalo DAC at CanJam and thought it was great.

I really had no intention of buying these as I so rarely listen to headphones anymore but the HF-2s have worked as a gateway drug as I have really enjoyed listening to them. Maybe I need to call up Tyll and get some of these for myself. Dinny, if you would like to borrow the M^3 for the HD-800s let me know. It is still in the Pelikan case.