Dusty Chalk

Ghetto speaker stands FTW. I'm using 3 reams of paper per side.

Yeah, I haven't concluded it sucks, but I can still laugh and point. Those are my thoughts as well. It's B&W, forpete'ssake -- I bet it sounds at least competent. But I can still laugh and point.

Sweet, congrats, welcome to the club, glad you're happy with them.

Quoted for appreciation. [me=Dusty Chalk]makes a mental note -- if ever offering to clean someone's grout, where the women's clothing underneath the more manly clothing.[/me]

OMG, I thought you guys were pulling my leg. This really exists! I thought it was a photochop or something. [me=Dusty Chalk]laughs at self.[/me] Huzzah for Stax. It's called the SR-007BL: No, wait, the US version doesn't have the black rims. Dagnabit... All the same, now they need to do the 4070.

Click on the image for more information. It's the B&W "Zeppelin".

Alternate thread title: Fourth down, time to punt!

Dang! How long did that take, less than an hour?

...and gross. Boomana -- oh, so when you said "addicts" you meant literally "drug addicts", not like net.addicts (like me) or sexual addicts (as I originally took your meaning).

Can I ask what you do for a living? I can't imagine dealing with deviants without having run into them before.

First of all, that's why I asked for examples. Because I used to have an animated face (CG, but kind of anime-y) as my avatar over there. Let's see if I can find it again...yeah, here it is: Now, admittedly, it's from hentai, but I liked it because of the art involved. Too much of CG (and anime) was cold and lifeless, and this particular pic had a certain spark/sparkle in her eye that seemed to bring her to life. It was more out of art appreciation that I used it than anything else. Secondly -- no-one said anything about jacking off. I said, "look at". If I jacked off every time I saw a pretty or hot or sexy or underdressed woman or a little more breast than usual, I'd have to be jacking off several times a day. I'm too old for that shit. That said, I do like hot and sexy women, be they real, animated, or artfully drawn (Sorayama calls his art "hyper illustration" [although I have to admit I can't get into anything but his pre-Penthouse days]). And I have gotten laid. Married even. Heck, I've even had strippers proposition me, and they know that I'm a pervert. Finally -- if they really bother you, you can turn avatars off. I think of it as a challenge -- I'm on another board where people change avatars and even monikers more frequently than I do. Sometimes it's impossible to recognize someone, except by clicking on their previous posts link.

The reason guys like to post pictures of half-naked (or all-naked) women is because they like to look at half-naked (or all-naked) women. It's really not any more complicated than that. Could you expand on this, please? Why would it creep you out? (And for perspective, I haven't frequented Head-Fi but occasionally, so if anyone wants to post some examples, please feel free.)

Can I toss my cookies as well?

Lies! Hmm...seems contradictory. Welcome to head-case, sorry about your thin skin!

I think they only need to go in deep if that's the only way you can get a good seal -- I think it's the good seal part that's important. Everyone's ears are different.

Is that balanced or single-ended?

Well, it's not so much about impedance as it is sensitivity. So list all your headphones, and we'll see if we can dig up all their sensitivities. Also, how loudly do you listen to your headphones? And please, no "blow fool head off" statements. If you say that, I'll refer you to the ex-tank-drivers/all-Cerwin-Vega forum and stop helping you.

Wait...Billy? Point? Reason? No way! Seriously: the "sound" of your system isn't just about frequency response. It's about the time domain as well as the frequency domain. Aerius had a particularly good point with #3 as well as the others. The simple answer to that is to pull the amp out of the speaker, but as soon as you do that, you know that audiophiles are going to want to "roll" the amps anyway.

No way, dude, I'm keeping them! Blow my fool head off, yo. And yes, if I do decide to sell them, thrice gets first dibs...but that's not likely to happen any time soon.

Since when has "need" had anything to do with anything we do here at head-case, in the headphone world? I just had the following conversation with a co-worker: Co-w: What does a two thousand dollar headphone get you that a one hundred dollar headphone won't get you? Me: Uh...uh...um... (Didn't want to explain prat and all that to him.) Also: I agree that thrice's balanced Beta-22 is the best solid state headphone amp I've heard besides the diamond buffer balanced dual- monoblock max. And I've heard it with my "ahem" W3000's -- that would the the headphones that I will be getting it for, eventually.

Nice. Unfortunately, I'm out for this round. I've been buying too much stuff. Maybe next year.