Dusty Chalk

Link to thread on Slim Devices' forum.

Bartleby "rabbit on"?

In my case, it's because I am one. Oh, wait, I thought you said, "pianist".

Shiny!

"You got a sister?" has got to be my favourite non-pickup-line. And: thanks, now I have Rush stuck in my head.

I thought it was 60 of the first colour being made, then he was going to move on to another colour.

Ooooohhhh!!! It's so cute. Though I could barely fit my wiener in it. click here to see a picture of my wiener No, seriously, I really like the look of that amp. Nice pics!

Technically, you're not decreasing the bit rate until you chop off the top 8 bits.

No, sample rate is frequency response. Resolution...think of it this way -- if you have 24 bits, it doesn't just increase the range of values from the loudest to the softest, it also increases the number of steps between two very close sets of values -- that, to me, is resolution. Literally. Think this hypothetical example through: if you have a 16/44.1 recording, and the same recording at 24/44.1, what have you gained? Your frequency response is going to be exactly the same (best case == brick wall at ~<22kHz). But the waveforms are still going to be able to be more precise. When I listen to a 24/96 recording (e.g. a "DAD" or DVD-Audio), I don't just hear an increase in frequency response, I hear better separation between instruments. I don't hear different dynamics, because if it's the same recording, the dynamics are roughly the same. There might be a better noise floor, but the real improvements are in the microdynamics, not the macrodynamics.

Anyone else have a pair of L3000's? I wouldn't mind if you tried the above test. Please. Mine seem to have "re-burned in". Hirsch, before you get rid of yours, you may want to try using them again. I'm wondering if it's a settling problem. Or perhaps I'm just using the right tubes/amp. (Switched to Singlepower Supra++ w/CBS Hytrons.)

No, actually it affects resolution as well.

Well if they apply their dither post-upsampling, there's nothing stopping them from providing the digital volume control post-upsampling as well, so there's less loss of resolution (try saying that three times real fast). I mean, if you cut the volume in half after you upsample, you've still lost one bit of resolution, but that's after you've added 8. Sort of (you haven't really added any information). But in terms of pure math it's accurate. But it all depends on the gain of the amp you have after it. If that gain is ridiculous (such as the Musical Fidelity A300^CR, which has enough gain to hear a circuit "shifting" [compensating for something -- I don't remember what]), you're still going to have to turn the volume down a lot, which means you're still going to be back down in low res territory. But that might mean that you're back down in 16 bit territory, so -- no loss, no gain. Well, you will gain fidelity, because then you've bypassed the entire preamp stage(s) -- accomplished entirely in the digital arena. This is all hypothetically speaking -- I need to hear the thing, which I haven't.

He needs to have seen the whole series, first. And you know how long that can take. But yeah, I'm up for it. I'm not saying that G'sI is it's primary reference point, it's more of a secondary one, just like Scooby Do is a secondary reference point for the Buffy series. But I like the Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven analogy, and I agree with it. The whole amorphousness to the question of whether or not they're really in it for the money or not can be directly tied to that one character.

Okay, just doing a rough assessment, based on the Bink audio test CD there appears to be a huge suckout somewhere between 5K and 8K (I.E. track 39 was severely attenuated, compared to tracks 38 and 40). I tried EQing it with just the basic WinAmp EQ (played with the 6K slider), and it did nothing. What region does this represent again? I can't seem to find the page that had all those definitions on it. I want to say "definition". Hmmm...

Anyone know of such a device? Or should I DIY one? And should I do it in digital or analog?

Did you even read the first post? Here's another one: They both have a silly theme song.

That's because no-one wants to pay the price, and they're having a hard time believing it improves on the DAC2.

OMG!!!1! Better than "studio quality"!!!1! How do they do that?!?!?

Dude, whoever you are, we're done. It's old. You're a troll, we've figured it out. Haha, joke's over. Move on. Whither away in the desert like the future vulture food that you are. Or rather, in the lingo of Head-Case: fuck off. My current theory: it's tyrion. >$9 words like "assert", "defraud" and "conspire" and the awkward grammar tells me it's a lawyer.

I don't know, seems straightforward enough. And besides, there's that "inversely proportional to how ugly it is to how good it sounds" myth that needs perpetuating. No, wait, that's headphones.

Well, if you sell the L3000, and then decide to sell the EMP because you don't need it any more, please sell it to me first. (I.E., "Dibs!") (Yes, I know, unlikely that you will sell the EMP -- it is a nice totable amp, and it works well with other headphones. But...you know...just in case -- I want to state that my interest is there.) I'm going to start tuberolling my amps to see which one drives it the best. Any theories on why the EMP works so well with it?

I agree that I don't make a lot of sense -- I'm having a hard time describing this to someone who hasn't heard it for themselves. It's not really a rolloff, it's...it's like a darkness, but without any encroachment on the detail...again, it might just be a reverse plateau, if that makes sense, and I'm not hearing the lowered upper half the way I'd like. And maybe it's not "busy music" that triggers it, but "bassy music". And I'm not hearing it as a midrange suckout, but it does affect vocals. So I don't know...maybe it is...

Okay, I've been listening to these a lot, and I gotta say something. These may have the weirdest tonality of any headphone I liked, ever. What is it with these things? It still has that cleanliness -- it appears to, with almost every amplifier I've thrown at it (I've thrown: the Singlepower Supra++, Creek OBH-11SE, Wheatfield HA-2, and the Radii HAP-02). And the bass appears to come and go -- not really, I think it's more the fact that it's noticeable that comes and goes, depending on the music. And it still has that razor sharp separation/isolation/what's the word for when you can pick out each instrument, but there's no soundstage? But the upper frequencies sound a bit rolled off -- and when I say rolled off, I mean seriously -- I thought the DAC was out of sync again. And I don't think there's anything wrong with them, because I compared them to Hirsch's, and Hirsch's do the same thing. They're a little bit more broken in, so they have a better upper frequency extension, but other than that, they sound the same. So if it was the bass, I'd say there was an impedance dip that I'm hearing, because the frequency response appears to be a function of the music -- I.E. the busier the music, the more apparent this characteristic is audible. But it appears to be in the upper region. Haven't done any frequency sweeps yet, but I have a feeling it won't be audible with frequency sweeps, as that is not busy music. Has anyone done a frequency response of this yet? Tyll? How about an impedance sweep? Does Headroom even do that for other headphones? Does anyone have the capability to measure an impedance sweep of these? Is it possible that there's something touching the drivers from the other side? Would that manifest itself this way? Or do I just need a better amp. Of the above amps, guess which amp drove it the best (so far, without tuberolling): the Radii HAP-02 (go figure). And by "the best", I don't mean "the best overall", I mean "the best with regards to this characteristic". I haven't heard it with the Earmax Pro yet (Hirsch was going to tuberoll it), but I would really like to, since that was the combination I heard it and fell in love with it on. Hirsch, did you listen to yours again on the EMP? Or do I just need to burn it in again? The previous owner didn't use it much towards the end. I've heard from another L3000 owner, and he said that he heard the same thing, and that it took him a year to get used to it. Is there any discussion of this over there at that other place?

Yes, and no.

See, now I know it's not Tuberoller, because he never responds to any of my posts. Maybe it's Marc, with a spell- and grammar- checker. And a hat-checker.