Dusty Chalk

Well, then they're not balanced cables. "Floating" the ground is just a fancy way of saying I "disconnected" the ground. I'm not saying that you shouldn't do it in the circumstances that mandate it -- absolutely you should. But most roadies would keep their truly balanced cables separate from the ones that had the ground disconnected, use the balanced ones first, wait for the ground loop, find it, then replace the balanced cable with the floated one. I'll address your first paragraph later, I need to get some more work done before I go home. To be honest, I was kind of hoping that KG would explain that part better. I'm not sure I can, but I'll try and give it a go later. I mean, think about it this way -- you don't call them balanced speakers when you drive them with separate + and - connectors, do you? They're just speakers. The whole thing about using three connectors was a design decision made early on with headphones, because headphones were so much easier to drive, they just used a common ground and single-ended topology to drive the two drivers. You don't need to go balanced just to go to the four-connector topology -- you could very easily have dual-monoblock, single-ended amplifiers driving the left and right drivers. Would you say they were balanced then? I would say no, but what I'm getting from you guys is that you'd still say the headphones were balanced, but that the amp is not. I don't get that.

See question. See question be asked. Be asked, question, be asked. Answer. Answer the question.

I didn't like the way Phil dismissed Steve Hackett's inputs during the press conference announcing the world tour, so he doesn't get a happy birthday from me.

I would just like to bump this suggestion, I would think it would be fairly easy, although I have no idea. It'd also be nice if, when the topic is emailed out to people, it got converted to true HTML -- would that be possible? So that they got the text obscured as well.

Chipotle has chips? I have one right across the street from me, here at work. How many do you want, jinp6301 -- I got PM'd some good info, so this may happen sooner than later.

I changed the name of your "so-called" amp.

Yeah, but the damage is done. Now that I know the Doritos ones exist -- and I did see elsewhere that some people thought the Hint of Lime Doritos were as addictive as crack -- I have to try some.

In general, I'd agree with you, but I think the context was the US$2K & up headphones, at which point a well-chosen pair of speakers are competitive. Which is funny, coming from me, Mr. Headphone Evangelist. My big thing is that speakers and headphones are such different listening experiences, I wouldn't trade one for the other.

So from the headphone's perspective, "balanced" means nothing. One of the drivers from a pair of headphones doesn't "know" if it's being driven by a bridged amp, or one single-ended one. I will admit, "faux-balanced" is not an accepted term, but I don't think "balanced headphones" is anything other than "mixing up words that mean nothing", either. I mean, turning that middle sentence in your post around, this one: you're saying that balanced headphones are the same as unbalanced headphones with separate grounds (what I would prefer to call returns). That's not truly balanced. That's the headphone equivalent of "dual monoblock" design, whatever the correct terminology for that is.

Guys, don't post snuff films, okay? I didn't watch them all, because the ones I watched were making me uncomfortable, but it seems like we're heading in that direction. If anyone wants me to go back and delete anything from any of their posts, let me know.

We need details. Details like: Where. Did. You. Get. It.

PM Hirsch, he got one that he's pretty happy with. It's not an uber-high-end model, but it crested some threshold for him. Do y'all have Circuit Cities and Best Buys down there? You might just want to go in and look at the screens, see which one you're happy with. And what do you mean, your old laptop is on its way out? Are you going to be replacing it?

No, there is actually a "hint of lime" Doritos. And yes, I've had the Tostitos -- they're very good, but I prefer Garden of Eatin's Chili & Lime corn chips. I still want to try the Doritos ones, but I'm not sure it's worth pitting the weak American dollar against the British pound right now -- I'll wait until the exchange rate is not so bad.

Exactly.

I don't know, my Japanese master of Garbage sounds better than my domestic issue.

Watching Deadwood season 3 right now, just got past the fight (Jesus!), and this happened a while ago, but in the scene between Alma Garrett/Ellsworth and Hearst, in the scene where he blocks her way, leans into her and she turns her head, was that a reference to Alien?

Anyone over the other side of the pond want to buy me a case and send them to me? I'll pay expenses.

Maybe you won something. Or it's a microphonic tube -- try swapping the left and right channel tubes.

Follow-up: apparently these are only available in Britain. :rock: and

They didn't have it downstairs, so I searched for it, to see if maybe they were "test-marketing" it. Google: "lime doritos" Over on the right, 10,000+ Home Security Choices So I clicked it. It "fuzzy searched" on "live dominos".

Wait, there's a "Hint of Lime" Doritos?!?!? (darts out the door)

Warmed up Quizno's something-chicken sammich.

I found this beautiful winter poem and thought it might be a comfort to you. It was to me, and it's very well written. "WINTER" a poem by Abigail Elizabeth McIntyre... "SHIT, It's Cold !" The End

No, you've actually been pretty good so far, I think Dan was just being pre-emptive.