Outstanding work, Tyll. My chapeau, had I had one, would be off to you.
For those who stopped reading, Jude posted later in the thread. I initially got angry, because he was criticizing "personal" attacks, while not saying anything else on the topic, but then he made that "out there" comment, and realized that he was just understatingly reinforcing the "nucking futz" comment. Either that or he is high. "think he realized" -- Jude really doesn't read his own board enough if ( a ) he honestly thinks this, or ( b ) he honestly feels that saying that will have anything other than a reinforcing effect on his (iPodPJ's) completely delusionally egocentric perspective of the world.
Okay, okay, but in all seriousness -- wouldn't a slight microscopic delay (one cm (?) / speed of sound ~= 0.03 ms?) take care of combing effect? Or would the diffusing nature of the external shell of the internal headphone cause the effects to be more chaotic? Also, what would the effect be if one were to wear an outer headphone in the form of a passive radiator? (Realizing that one doesn't exist of headphone size.)