Dusty Chalk

Community, "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design" -- this show rules.

Geccat! Who said the cat needed help? Maybe it wanted to be up there. I know I'd want to be up there if the alternative was an ass-Brazilian.

Hirsch had the...DAC3? I think...I remember it being really good. I don't remember it being non-exciting, but I also agree that it wasn't 'exciting', either. So...this sounds about right. But to me, non-fatiguing is more important than anything, so I was more willing than normal to forgive it anything else.

I ate Chinese again -- my fortune cookie fortune said, "Find some release." I was alone. You're looking at it all wrong -- they're headphones.

Have you heard the demos? Either Is This Desire? or Dry, depending on whether or not you want mature, or raw, respectively. MHO.

That actually sounds good -- CPK?

OH COME ON!!!1!

Kenna, New Sacred Cow -- one of my favorite, most repeatably listenable hard pop disks of all time.

(ponders this)

That first one could practically be transformed into a 3 Wolf Moon -type shirt.

I've seen them several times in person, and...yes. Yes she does. Let's put it this way -- she looks friggin' airbrushed in real life. I skipped Epica when they came through here earlier this week, because I wasn't feeling well. But at least I didn't get her sick this time. Did you get to see the original keyboardist this time?

Loved the turrets scene. Very Warner Bros. The rest of the book isn't as Warner Bros., but that was like Fifth Element meets Film Noir. I'm actually picturing Bogey playing the lead -- his face, uncolorized, digitally superimposed on Bruce Willis' head.

Nothing a good stiff drink can't fix. Here, try plugging in "Carry On by Fire Theft":

Thank you, you have just rendered the rest of my weekend worthless. Right up there with texts from last night.

This, coming from the guy with the shovel. Still gay. Still gay. Still gay. ... Ummm...at the same time? Doesn't matter, yes, still gay. Letmethinkabouthatforasecondyesstillgay. Nope, not at all. I mean, if you read it with the understanding that full sarcasm was on, then it completely undermines your point you were trying to make. And thank you atothex, that was exactly my point. And for the record -- I don't really care -- I mean, I did, but I'm over it now. It's not like I designed or made or even own the headphones, I just get real tired of being able to predict how this crowd is going to respond to certain things, plus or negative, irrespective of whether or not that opinion is well-founded. And yeah, it's the disagreement right there -- the fact that we can't all agree on whether or not other headphones from this company sound good -- that makes me believe that the question, is or isn't there just plain good sound? The answer is no, there isn't. People hear things differently. I mean, if it's justified, like the next Headamp amp (that would be one of the "plusses"), then yeah, sure, I'll be right there with you. But if you really don't know -- I mean, does AKG have a house sound? I would dare say, "no". How many headphones would you have to listen to then, before you can start predicting what the next one would sound like? I would dare say, you wouldn't.

Custom fit, as well. Long-throw driver.

I've been eating Pho all week. Comfort food. Yum.

Yello by Yello, The Anthology -- I love these guys so much. Best. Rhythm section. Evar.

Incorrect.

And my point is -- you're wrong. I think more thought needs to be put into it than this. I'm going to buck the head-case groupthink on this 'til my dying breath. I'm not saying I'm not going to fall for it once in a while, but I'm going to point it out and mentally fight it every time I can. Specifically with Beyers -- my memory of the DT880 does not fall under that description. So if they can make one that falls outside the house sound, they can make others. And extrapolating this to other headphone companies, what if all you ever heard from Grados were John Grado's Grados? And then something like the PS-1 came out (before it was heard), and you'd say -- just like every other time a Grado came out -- "oh, great, another grate-o". And they would have been correct every other time, but they would have been wrong this time. You only need to be wrong once to be wrong. I'm not saying you're wrong (that's directed more at Jacob, but also at you for defending the ability to be wrong like that) this time, but I am saying you're jumping the gun to make generalizations like that without having heard it. And with regard to me sure that I'm straight -- let's put it this way: I'm sure. The 90's was a fairly interesting time for me -- 'nuff said.

This was my first thought as well. (Well, actually, I thought the carcass fell out of the car, but that was my second thought.)

Didn't you just get accepted to MIT or something like that?

Without hearing it, really? Yes, I saw Jacob's post about synopsizing the article -- don't care. I'm going to call people on it every time they do it...as long as I'm not too lazy not to care. It's stupid, and we should be above that here. We've proven over and over again that one review is not sufficient data to describe a headphone/amp/source component/whatever. And that said, you know as well as the rest of us, if you post anything, you're just as likely to get a response of the caliber I posted, as well, so be prepared for that as well. I like it here -- doesn't mean I have to like each individual post. How about never? The difference between making generalizations and prejudice is that, with generalizations, you're not applying the generalization to an individual based on the group they're in -- you of all people should understand that. I'm not saying that on a personal level you can't decide you never need to listen to another Beyer in your life, but you don't need to post that every time a Beyer thread comes up. Jesus Christ, I don't, and there are a lot of brands that I'm prejudiced against. I do once in a while, but not every. single. fucking. time. It gets old.

Foetus, Hide -- first release of all-new Foetus material* since 2005's Love, which was a great record, so expectations are fairly high. *Yes, I know, he did: a soundtrack, a live album, a remix album, the J.G. Thirlwell/Manorexia album for John Zorn's Tzadik label, that documentary thing, and an album of remastered/reworked material, but those don't count.